Lola is the one who welcomes Tin and Tina into her family after losing her babies in a miscarriage and learning that she can’t bear another child again. Milena Smit plays Lola.
In the early 1980s, in Spain, María de los Dolores, also known as Lola, marries Adolfo while she is pregnant with two babies. The marriage is a dream come true, but unfortunately, moments after getting married, she starts bleeding in front of everyone.
The doctors reveal that she has gone through a miscarriage due to severe internal bleeding. Furthermore, she won’t be able to bear another baby again. Lola loses faith in God after this event. She questions why she has to go through all of this.
Adolfo makes desperate attempts to cheer her up. She eventually agrees to one of his suggestions to adopt children from a nearby convent, where she meets twin siblings Tin and Tina.
Adolfo finds these two strange, but Lola acknowledges that Tin and Tina need love, and they should give it to them. Adolfo once mentions that even Lola grew up in a convent, and she must have understood what Tin and Tina are going through.
The story behind Lola’s prosthetic leg
Initially, Lola finds it hard to adjust as Tin and Tina are super obsessed with their religion, whereas she has lost faith in God recently. Tin and Tina look different than the other children at their school. They are bullied and called the children of Dracula because of their looks.
When the twins inform their mother about it, she reveals that she is different too. She shows them her prosthetic leg and tells them the story behind it.
When Lola was about Tin and Tina’s age, her parents used to go from town to town to show movies to the people. Lola’s family lived in a camper van. One night, when she woke up, her leg was on fire.
While Lola was able to escape and save herself, her parents didn’t survive. After hearing the story, Tin and Tina say that it was God who saved Lola.
What happens to Lola at the end of Tin & Tina?
Lola and Adolfo face the antics of these innocent twins, who misinterpret the Bible and go as far as to kill someone to set things right. The only good thing that happens to Lola with Tin and Tina around is that a miracle takes place.
The twins had assured her that she will be able to bear a child again, and that happens when she miraculously gets pregnant again. She plans to strictly keep her newborn son away from religion and the atrocities of Tin and Tina.
However, Tin and Tina’s faith in God sees them stealing the baby while Lola and Adolfo are busy so that they can baptize their baby brother. They try to baptize their brother by drowning him in their house’s swimming pool. Lola makes the save in time, and this becomes the reason for the couple to drop the twins back at the convent.
On a thunderous night, Adolfo gets struck by lightning and catches fire while fixing the television’s antenna. He sets the whole house on fire and dies. Lola starts looking for her son. When she fails to find him anywhere, she remembers God the way Tin and Tina used to.
Lola and her son survive the house fire. She suspected that the twins had something to do with it. Mother Asunción from Tin and Tina’s convent assures her that the twins were sleeping at the convent when her house caught fire.
Lola is then convinced that Tin and Tina are just two innocent kids misinterpreting the Bible who need to be taught. By the end of the movie, she takes them by her side during a funeral and possibly adopts them again.
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