The night is stormy. Junta, walking on a trail, sees a piece of broken crystal and other signs that the villagers have engaged in some heavy-duty crystal mining. She climbs up to the grotto, and finds it completely ruined, stripped to the bare rock. In despair she starts to climb down the mountain, but loses her grip and falls. The next morning, after Vigo has sobered up, he finds her body.
Junta is a virginal child of nature.
Her resemblance to the wild, virgin nature goddess Diana, associated with the forest and mountains, and the full moon, is inescapable. Junta has no Nazi characteristics at all. The villagers are the Italo-German types that one actually finds in the Dolomites. The male lead is a gentle man, an artist, and does not force himself on Junta, though he could obviously do so. There is nothing fascistic about him.