Respira (Breathless) Ending Explained: Tensions rise in the final episode as a storm takes over the region of Valencia. The hospital is swamped by victims, unable to cope. With poor and inadequate infrastructure, including the risk of a total blackout, episode 8 follows how the doctors overcome the dire situation at hand.
Despite being overwhelmed by an influx of victims from the storm, Dr Donoso and Enrique manage to save multiple lives together. Dr Moa on the other hand struggles with providing a safe alternative to President Patricia’s treatment. He first suggests an expensive and experimental chemotherapy technique, with a very low acceptance rate, thanks to the government policies around it. Second, he prescribes a high-risk surgery, supervised by him to treat the tumour which has descended to her liver.
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Patricia pulls all the strings but is unable to secure the chemotherapy, being ill beyond repair. However, a doctor down at Santa Ana, a private hospital extends a helping hand to secure the treatment, on the condition that he would be made in charge of all public hospitals once the privatization successfully takes place. Patricia opts for the surgery, placing all her trust in Dr Moa, whom she starts developing feelings for.
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Leo and Lluís continue to grapple with their son Hugo’s rape allegation as Joana the victim’s psychiatrist and Leo’s friend, Dr Neus must testify for her unless he pleads guilty. Leo’s moral dilemma pushes her away from her son as Lluís claims full custody once the legal battle terminates. On the topic of custody, May forbids Rucío from even holding the child as her lawyer suggests it is difficult to snatch a breastfeeding child from its biological mother.
Furthermore, once she and the child move to Germany, as planned all along, the case would already be won. Meanwhile, romance brews between Biel and Dr Donoso, who confesses to loving him, despite being proposed to by her boyfriend Lluís.
Enrique, on the other hand, argues with Óscar over his addiction, who runs out in the storm to yet another drug party. Out of solutions, Enrique seeks the help of Dr Amaro, Óscar’s mother who reveals how this has been a recurrent trait for her son, and Enrique is not to blame for his addiction.
In the meantime, emergency surgery is undertaken for a critical suicidal patient who ingested razor blades, injuring his throat and stomach. Simultaneously, President Patricia too, undergoes urgent surgery for her liver tumour and Biel, who was earlier conducting the operation with Dr Donoso, moves to Dr Moa. The city goes into a sudden blackout and the hospital generators fail to function. The two doctors now must conduct the surgery in darkness, with limited resources.
At the risk of losing the president, Biel calls on for Dr Amaro, an expert surgeon, whose team effort alongwith Dr Moa saves the president from dying. She tells Dr Moa that he feels more for Patricia than the average patient, and so, feelings overtook his rationale during the surgery.
Post a successful surgery, Dr Moa confesses his feelings towards Patricia. While the latter reciprocates his feelings, their ideological differences take over as Patricia goes ahead with the deal of securing the chemotherapy. Trouble in paradise continues as Lluís finds out about his girlfriend and Biels’s secret romance and threatens the resident to terminate the relationship. As Biel heads out to see Dr Donoso, he finds her injured and bleeding on the floor due to the attack by the suicide patient whom she helped save. On the other hand, May, who left her child unattended to help during the blackout returns to find it disappeared, as she suspects is the doing of Rucío.
The episode, along with the show ends at these plot holes leaving many a question unanswered. Viewers must now await the second season to gain closure, if any.
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