Espanhol

On a rainy Friday in May, Julian cooks mole for Sarah, with a little help from Elena on the phone, and finally asks her the question.

At Sunday lunch, Elena reads the news on Sarah's face, and by evening Valeria knows it too.

On Mother's Day, Julian takes Sarah to Teotitlan, the village of weavers where his family lives, to meet his grandmother at her loom.

On a stormy night in May, Sarah is alone on the late shift when a young woman arrives in labour, and the doctor is stuck in a flooded street.

A week after the birth, Rocio and her mother come back to the clinic with the baby, a pot of mole and a surprise, and that evening Sarah tells Julian.

The midwife course is taking applications.

Sarah has her interview for the midwife course with the director of the school, then her degree finally arrives from Boston, and Julian helps her write the director a very formal letter.

While Sarah waits for the school's answer, Julian takes her to a small mezcal distillery near Santiago Matatlan, run by an old friend of his family, who tells stories about Julian as a boy and asks whether her parents know about him.

A huge storm turns the street outside the clinic into a brown river.

On a Sunday night at the end of June, Valeria calls with news of her own.

Sarah's parents land in Oaxaca for the Guelaguetza - her mother with her new Spanish, her father with a few words he has learned in secret.

Sarah's parents meet Elena, Don Roberto and Andres at Sunday lunch in the blue house, and Sarah ends up passing questions back and forth between her two families.

Sarah takes her parents up to Monte Alban, the ancient Zapotec city on a mountaintop above Oaxaca, with a guide in a wide hat.

Sarah's parents visit the clinic where she works, and everyone has something to say about everyone else.