The General Bolivar is waiting in Turbaco, Colombia for his passport to leave. He receives a small pension from the government. He feels free to leave Colombia, the country he liberated. He travels to Cartagena where he is welcomed, but the city is destroyed from the independence war. His health declines and he has deliriums. Despite offers to stay, he decides to leave for a house in La Popa Hill for better health. He receives bad news of Sucre's assassination and falls into deep mourning. Venezuela then decrees its full separation from Gran Colombia.