Gabrielle returns to her apartment to find Roger, who reveals that Gregory called him from prison to ask about the violin and to express concern about Gabrielle. He was shocked, believing Gregory was dead, and he is hurt that Gabrielle didn’t tell him the truth. Gabrielle finally confronts Roger about not believing her when she tried to tell him the truth about Max. She takes her house key back and sends him away. She texts Trudy that she’s finally ready to talk to the police about Max.

The next day, she wakes to a flirty text from Devlin and a message from an unidentified caller, stating that Gregory escaped prison.

After Verity’s mother’s death, her father developed a substance use disorder and began to emotionally abuse Verity. Verity carefully hides what actually matters to her, as her father destroys everything she truly loves. When she finds the violin in a new shipment to their antique shop, she sneaks it into her room. She doesn’t know how to play, but she loves the sensory magic of music.

Verity takes the violin to a repair shop, and on her way there, she sees a young man busking. He plays “Rhiannon” by Fleetwood Mac, and she is mesmerized. She waits until he’s finished and compliments his song choice, and he offers to teach her to play for free. Verity happily meets him the next day for their lesson. The man, Gregory Wilding, patiently teaches Verity the basics and invites her to join him and his music-loving friends for dinner. Verity happily accepts.

Verity prepares for her lesson with Gregory, but when she reaches under her bed for the violin, it’s gone. Her father drunkenly enters her room and mockingly tells her that he sold it. Verity swears to herself that she’ll learn everything about her father’s business so that she can take it from him and get her violin back.

Devlin returns home from a night shift and eats the breakfast Walter made him. Walter heads to his salsa dance class in hopes of seeing the mystery woman again. When he leaves his apartment, he finds a stunning woman, Verity, waiting for him. She points a gun at Walter and demands that he get in the car. Walter sees a van further down with the two bikers inside. Verity knocks Walter out with the butt of the gun.

Gabrielle goes to Walter’s apartment to see Devlin. When she enters, she finds Gregory, his prison friend Derrick, and Devlin restraining the two bikers. Walter’s apartment is destroyed. Gregory tells Gabrielle that he sent Roger to get the violin in order to keep her safe from Verity. He apologizes for not protecting Gabrielle from Max.

Verity enters, holding Walter at gunpoint. She demands the violin, saying that it is a “key [that] unlocks something within” (382). Walter tells them not to give up the violin because he has terminal cancer and will die regardless. Devlin gives Verity the violin because it has already opened the door to a new life for Devlin, Gabrielle, and Walter. He pushes it into Verity’s arms, and she drops the gun. It fires, and Gregory jumps in front of Gabrielle to shield her. The bullet hits him. The bikers flee, and Devlin calls an ambulance. Verity takes the violin out of its case and shrieks as it disintegrates in her hands.

Gabrielle holds Gregory’s hand in the hospital as he wakes up from surgery. He apologizes again for not protecting Gabrielle from Max, and Gabrielle forgives him.

Verity escapes and flies back to Canada. As she sits silently on the plane, she realizes that though she lost the violin, it gave her a new life and served as a guiding force. She overcame poverty and her father’s cruelty to build a meaningful existence. She resolves to move forward.

Gabrielle teaches violin, and she and her students prepare for their first recital. Walter and Gregory now work together as private investigators who trace lost property, and Devlin and Gabrielle nearly live together in Gabrielle’s apartment. Devlin writes lyrics and plays guitar again, rediscovering his passion for music.

Devlin and Walter support Gabrielle and her students at their first performance. Roger attends and apologizes to Gabrielle for not helping her when Max abused her. He promises to testify on her behalf to the police. Trudy also shows up, and Walter recognizes her as the mystery woman from his salsa class. Devlin and Gabrielle see the chemistry between them, and Devlin suggests they all get dinner together. Everyone agrees.

Both of Clara’s lives, her human life and her life as the violin, flash before her eyes as Gabrielle plays “Bellezza Nascosta.” The song frees Clara, and when Verity opens the violin case and sunlight touches the violin, Clara knows it’s time to return to William. The violin turns to dust, and Clara stands on the riverbank again, with William on the other side, as young and strong as when they first met. Clara must only step across the stones to reach him. She counts to three.