In old age, Cajal talks in his office with his assistant, asks him for the book he is writing and they review: Cajal obtains a total discharge from the army, returns to Zaragoza, where he visits his parents and his girlfriend Marina, with whom he breaks up. He went to Madrid to do his doctorate and met Don Aureliano, a professor of Histology whose laboratory he frequented and with whom he held talks about Micrography. With the savings from his captain's pay he buys his first microscope. They suspend him in the professorial competitions. During this time he has a persistent cough and finally vomits twice, so he is admitted to a rest sanatorium in the Pyrenees, where he meets Nuria, whom he met in Catalonia. He dedicates himself to photography and reading, but he has great depression and does not want to live. The doctor tells him that the hemoptysis has disappeared and that Nuria has died. This gives him courage to face death.
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Cajal en la vejez dialoga en su despacho con su ayudante, le pide el libro que está escribiendo y repasan: Cajal obtiene la baja total en el ejército, regresa a Zaragoza, donde visita a sus padres y a su novia Marina con la que rompe. Marcha a Madrid para hacer el doctorado y conoce a Don Aureliano, catedrático de Históloga cuyo laboratorio frecuenta y con el que mantiene charlas sobre la Micrografía. Con los ahorros de su paga de capitán se compra el primer microscopio. Le suspenden en las oposiciones de cátedra. Durante esta época tiene una tos persistente y por último dos vómitos, por lo que es internado en un sanatorio de reposo en el Pirineo, donde se encuentra con Nuria, a quien conoció en Cataluña. Se dedica a la fotografía y a la lectura, pero tiene una gran depresión y no quiere vivir. El médico le comunica que la hemoptisis ha desaparecido y que ha muerto Nuria. Esto le da ánimos para enfrentarse a la muerte.
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