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At the end of May, the first real heat hits Seville.

Lucia and Pablo come home from Japan straight to Manolo's bar, and the news they couldn't send by message is on Lucia's finger.

Julian and Professor Ortega meet a publisher who wants their book about Sister Isabel and Leonor - with conditions.

On the night of Saint John, Pepa takes everyone to the beach in Cadiz, where people write their wishes on paper and burn them in bonfires - as long as nobody says them out loud.

Sarah and Julian go through the wedding guest list on a video call with Elena and Julian's mother, and describe each guest to people who've never met them, while Encarna listens under the window.

Sarah goes back to the dress shop in Triana to have her wedding dress made, and Encarna comes along with a parcel and an offer.

Encarna goes back to the cardiologist for her check-up, with Sarah, and gets good news, and permission to fly to Mexico, which she isn't sure she wanted.

On June 30th, Rosario delivers her last baby after thirty-two years, hands over her keys, and finds out that the ward doesn't obey her any more.

On a July night, the friends go to the open-air cinema in Triana, where everyone cracks sunflower seeds and the film is about a family that sounds exactly like Encarna's neighbours.

On the last night of July, Manolo writes the sign every Sevillian dreads - closed for holidays - and everyone says where they're going in August, including someone nobody expected.

In August, Sarah, Julian and Encarna spend a week in Conil with Rosario, newly retired, and her sister Pepa.

After a week under one roof in Conil, Rosario reorganises Pepa's kitchen in the night like a hospital ward, with a label on every door, and the sisters have the first real fight of the retirement.

In September, Sarah is given a student of her own - Nerea, from Bilbao, on her first day on the ward - and hears Rosario's words coming out of her own mouth.

Sarah, Julian and Lucia write two versions of their wedding invitation, comparing his mother's traditional wording with their own.

The hotel manager in Oaxaca finally answers Julian's March letter.

On Spain's National Day, Manolo's greeting starts a difficult conversation with Julian and Professor Ortega.

The printed itinerary makes Encarna's fear of flying feel real.

On November 5, Manolo's Spanish ham becomes supper instead of a wedding gift.

Four weeks before the wedding, Sarah wears a party veil and tries Lucia's ten challenges.

On December 11, the neighbours share a farewell dinner before the wedding journey.

On December twelfth, Encarna takes her first flight.

The Sevillians arrive in Oaxaca and meet Elena and Roberto.

Elena shows the Sevillians around Oaxaca's market.

In the family courtyard, Encarna and Julian's grandmother compare their lives, try the loom together and admire the wedding rug.

At baby Isabel's baptism, Sarah makes a promise and learns about the family's optional coin custom.

At their privately arranged civil ceremony, Sarah and Julian check their file, give their answers and sign with four witnesses.

On the evening of the civil wedding, Julian's whole village follows a brass band through the streets, with giant puppets of the bride and groom and women carrying flowers on their heads.

At noon, in the red stone church of Teotitlan, Sarah's father walks her down the aisle in Encarna's mantilla, and Sarah and Julian make their vows in Spanish, with the rings, the thirteen coins and the lasso of a Mexican wedding.

At the party in a field in Teotitlan, Sarah's father stands up to make a speech - in Spanish - the toasts go round in both kinds of Spanish, and then Julian's mother announces the dance everyone from Seville has been dreading.

The morning after the wedding, Julian's village wakes up to a second party with yesterday's leftovers, and Encarna, who hasn't slept, says something nobody expected.