While Bernd is traveling with his wife through the Black Forest in Germany he comes to realize
that there are things hidden behind Ellen's mask that he should have dealt with much sooner. He
had not torn the mask off her face for fear of embarrassing her in public and harming their
children psychologically. He was a fool not to have unmasked her he now says sitting in the
office of her psychiatrist and screaming his way out of his poisoned union with her.
