Before Malarkey and Liliana return to Citrus City, Liliana makes a visit to the gravesite of her husband, Massimo. She goes alone, with a bouquet of white lilies, kneels at the graveside located beneath an isolated medlar tree whose drooping branches, contorted by the winter winds, shrouds the tombstone which reads:
Massimo Verga
1971-2009
Beloved Husband, Dutiful Son
Liliana recites a prayer, heard only by Liliana, kisses the marble headstone and leaves the cemetery to the accompaniment of the wind whistling through the meager, yet melancholy, medlar leaves.