A post strips the mayor’s regatta triumph of its boat, and Neri recognises a private phrase. The full journal offers context, but its missing blue index opens a more troubling question.

Cora’s three-generation cake recipe turns out to have a hotel pedigree. As the bakery faces its new audience, a mark in the posted photograph leads Neri closer to the missing source.

A photograph of Enid’s dancing past sends a committee into crisis. Neri helps make room for a response Enid chooses, while Della’s memorial loan begins to emerge.

A missing brother returns to a campaign photograph. Amid an unruly memorial rehearsal, Neri recognises the notebook’s repaired corner and learns what Della entrusted to Felix.

The next revelation concerns wages Iris withheld. Neri visits the woman who was owed, finds no easy defence in the journals and presses the publicist about the missing book.

A relief committee’s old exclusion unsettles Iris’s monument, while suspicion falls on Tavi. Neri offers three versions of a true story about herself to trace the account’s source.

Sunday Saint repeats wording supplied only to Felix. Neri follows the clue to a witnessed admission, the recovered index and a choice about the last scheduled disclosure.

The account publishes its own author’s name. At the altered memorial gathering, residents choose how to speak, whom to credit and whether a complicated life should become a simple statue.