In the encounter after Begoña's return, the couple visits Mikel's domineering mother, Doña Maria Luisa, a widow who lives in the same small town.

They go out to have supper to the home of a pair of friends: Martín, a doctor who has arrived at the town fleeing the Chilean dictatorship, and Martin's wife, Arantza.

The calm of town is disrupted with the senseless death of two young people, who failed to stop in a nocturnal control and were killed by the Civil Guard.

Mikel attends a political meeting where he is offered a seat in the next local election for the Basque independent party to which he belongs.

The next day Martín, takes cares of Begoña's wounds inflected in the attack and as a friend and mentor to Mikel, he recommends him a therapist in Bilbao.

Realizing what he has done, humiliated and confused, Mikel embarks on a suicidal drive down the wrong side of the motorway, but swerves aside in time to avoid a crash.

His death is not explained, but the cinematography points clearly to the mother, who has already stated that she will not accept the public humiliation of Mikel's homosexual relationship.

[4] Like The Crying Game (1992) and Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), La muerte de Mikel juxtaposes revolutionary politics with homosexuality to examine ideological suppression of difference.