Bogdan is escorted from the train to the Glavnjača prison, where he is interrogated by Svetozar Vujković, an inspector who investigated him several years earlier. Vujković, pressed by an order from the ministry, that is. on Bora's initiative, he must not resort to torturing Bogdan, but he intends to confront him with his son Vladimir, who despised his father because of Bogdan's disagreement with Stalin's principles. Humiliated and broken after Vladimir's rejection by the police, Bogdan went to Valjevo to work in his father's wax workshop. Peter manages to get up after the attack and goes to Nezir's helper. Disappointed with Milena's absence, he decides to return to Belgrade. Bogdan comes to Valjevo, his sister and son-in-law who live in the family house reject him, as does Mirko Čekić, an old friend from the KP. Vladimir is being released from prison, but no one believes him that he was not released without intervention.