The Snow Girl ending explained: What happened to Amaya?

Find out what happens at the end of Netflix’s new thriller series The Snow Girl. What happens to Amaya and Miren? Spoilers ahead. A Spanish crime series based on a mystery novel by Javier Castillo, The Snow Girl is a dark and suspenseful show sure to become your next binge.

Spoilers ahead for The Snow Girl

When five-year-old Amaya is abducted during a parade in Málaga, Spain, a journalism intern catches wind of the case and becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to the girl as her parents do everything they can to get her back.

Whether you’ve watched the entire season and still have questions or you’re just ready to know what happened to Amaya, keep reading to find out how The Snow Girl ends.

The Snow Girl ending explained

What happened to Amaya?

Amaya was kidnapped by one of Ana’s patients, a woman named Iris Molina. She took Amaya during the parade and coerced her husband, Santiago, into helping her with the kidnapping. For nine years, Iris kept Amaya isolated from the world and brainwashed her into believing she was Iris’s daughter. Iris even changed her name to Julia. Miren ultimately figures out that Iris is the kidnapper.

A panicked Iris crashes her car, planning to kill herself and Amaya so the authorities cannot take her away. Luckily, Amaya survives the accident and is later reunited with her parents. But the years of captivity with Iris make it hard for Amaya to understand who she is and what happened to her, so the ending is somewhat ambiguous as to the happiness of Ana, Álvaro, and Amaya’s reunion.

Who raped Miren?

We don’t learn the identity of Miren’s rapists in the show’s first season.

Did Miren kill James Foster and David Luque?

Yes, it is heavily implied that Miren is responsible for James Foster and David Luque’s deaths. In the season finale, Eduardo discovers Miren’s camera in her car, and on it are several photos of David and James meeting at James’ caravan. Miren used those photos to imply that the two men were collaborating and snitched on the users of the illegal porn site Slide.

In reality, the show infers that Miren leaked the list of user names James supplied her with, but she frames the two convicted pedophiles. It’s not clear exactly who murdered them, but it was someone seeking retribution for believing they snitched. Even though Miren didn’t physically kill them, she orchestrated their deaths.

To protect Miren, Eduardo takes the memory card out of the camera before the police find it, making it impossible for them to connect Miren to the incident despite some of the evidence leading to her.

Who is the girl in the polaroid at the end?

The end of The Snow Girl season 1 shows Miren two years after the case is solved. She is performing a reading for her new book. At the event, Miren receives an envelope from someone containing a polaroid of a young girl bound and blindfolded with the caption: Laura Valdivia, 2012. It looks like Miren will have another missing girl case to solve soon, which makes sense because that’s the same way the second book in Javier Castillo’s “Miren Triggs” series begins.

Why is the show called The Snow Girl?

The “snow” in The Snow Girl‘s title does not refer to the weather phenomenon but the static or white noise you see on the TV screen after a videotape stops playing. At the end of the finale, Miren says she found Amaya “in the snow,” referring to the white noise that played after the tapes Iris sent that Miren spent so many years obsessing over.

What did you think of how The Snow Girl ended? The Snow Girl is now streaming on Netflix.