The recent Saudi Arabian creation is now available on Netflix. The movie is inspired by a true and tragic incident. From the Ashes: Netflix series ending explained! From the ashes ending explained
So if you’ve watched this movie and still have doubts about its ending, then take a look because in this article we’ll analyze every detail.
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From the Ashes movie ending explained
Hayat is in the process of investigating Amira’s death by interrogating the bullies, Heba, Mashael, and Mona. Hayat continues to interrogate the three girls and learns that Mashael sells cigarettes to students. When asked about it, the girl says she only did it once.
The principal further asks if she knows who drew Amira on the chalkboard to upset her a few days ago. Mashael blames Heba. Images of Amira crying as a result of bullying are shown. Mrs. Seham takes her out of the classroom. Mashael follows them to see what’s going on and then discovers Mrs. Wedad hugging Amira and giving her a kiss on the forehead.
This raises suspicions in her mind about the teacher’s intentions. However, as she narrates the incident, Hayat clears her doubts by calling the hug a simple consolation offered by Mrs. Wedad. After the bullying made Amira cry.
Instead, she blames Mashael’s reservations for her hatred towards Amira, something Mashael vehemently denies. The principal reshuffles her memory and asks her about the time when Amira reported them to the three of them. For cheating during a test in class.
At that moment, when Amira asked the trio to stop cheating, Heba sarcastically told her to shut up. Or else she would glue her lips shut to silence her. When the teacher found a cheat sheet under Mona’s desk, she ordered her and Heba to stand by the chalkboard.
She then asked Amira if Mashael was also involved with them. The top student in class nodded. Therefore, because of Amira, the teacher punished Mashael. Hayat uses the incident as bait to get the truth out of her.
Mashael denies the accusations against her
However, Mashael denies her accusations. She describes herself as a kind-hearted person without grudges. Hayat scolds the girl angrily, saying they only hated and bullied Amira because she was an excellent student.
Before Mashael can respond, the principal tells her to leave the office. Then, we see a dream in which Rana is playing with Amira in the classroom. And the stickers they are playing with suddenly catch fire.
Soon, there is fire everywhere, and that’s when Rana wakes up. She gasps as her grandmother sits beside her to calm Rana down. The grandmother asks if she’s worried about something. While the granddaughter responds by asking how long she has been asleep.
The grandmother replies, saying she fell asleep right after taking the pill and makes her go back to sleep. Heba argues with Mrs. Wedad and disrespectfully yells at her. Hearing the commotion, the principal approaches the scene. And scolds Heba while instructing Mrs. Seham to write a detailed report.
Rana wakes up and sees Amira’s father walking out the front door of her house. She goes to her grandmother and asks the reason for his visit. The elderly woman unwraps a painting he had brought as a gift for Rana. Before passing away, Amira had asked her dad to paint a special drawing. For Rana as a birthday gift.
After seeing the beautiful picture, Rana becomes emotional and breaks down in tears. She reveals to her grandmother that it was she who locked Amira in the storeroom on the day of the fire.
Why did Rana lock Amira in the storeroom?
She was worried that Mrs. Wedad might choose Amira’s essay as the winner and write her name on the honor roll. However, she wanted to win the competition to meet her mother’s expectations.
On the day of the fire, she heard Amira asking Mrs. Wedad for the keys to the storeroom. To get a math book from there. Rana followed her friend to the place. And noticed that she had left the key in the lock after entering the storeroom.
She seized the opportunity to her advantage and locked the girl inside. Rana never intended to kill Amira. All she wanted was her mother’s validation. If Amira wasn’t in the classroom, it meant she couldn’t submit her essay. Which would automatically take her out of the competition.
However, Rana’s grandmother considers her confession as a mere hallucination. Caused by sleeping medication. The girl dismisses her words and says she lied to the police because she was scared.
Now, she feels guilty for causing her friend’s death and wishes her hands to be cut off. The elderly woman warns her never to repeat those words in front of anyone else. Realizing the significance of the confession.
Shocking revelations
She even tells her to forget she ever told anything to her grandmother and tucks her into bed for another round of sleep. On the other hand, Hayat calls Heba into her office. She talks about her hatred towards Amira. And how the whole school was aware of it, including her close friends.
Trying to sow discord among her accomplices, she reveals something shocking. On one occasion, they caught Heba hiding in the bathroom with Mashael. She thought it was Amira who had informed the teachers about them.
However, Hayat shows her the complaint record, and Heba learns it wasn’t Amira. But Mona, her friend, who had informed on her that day. The principal ignites the flame of provocation. Soon sowing doubts about Mona’s liking for Amira.
This surprises Heba. She falls into the trap and tells everything to the principal. She starts by calling Mona a hypocrite and then claims that she is the one who hates Amira the most. Heba mentions that on one occasion, Mona got into trouble because of Amira for hanging out with Mashael and Saad.
How did Mona get into trouble for hanging out with Mashael and Saad?
Saad was Mashael’s boyfriend, and last year, she introduced Mona to one of Saad’s friends. Soon, Mona started a relationship with him. Afterwards, both girls began skipping school to meet up with their respective boyfriends.
Amira was aware of their antics. One day, when the duo arrived late to school, she became concerned and reported them to Mrs. Seham, who made a big issue out of it. Consequently, Mona’s father married her off to someone else.
When she exits the room, Hayat calls Mona and Mashael back in. She mentions the incident with Saad and says they had every right to be angry with Amira. The principal criticizes Mona’s father, speaking of his action of marrying her off, which didn’t last long as she got divorced in two months.
According to the school records, they only missed a day of school. Hayat says she wouldn’t have known about their actions if Heba hadn’t told her. She has put them under scrutiny, and they are still suspects in pushing Amira to her death.
She questions Mashael about why Heba would reveal their secrets. The principal’s provocation works again. Mashael responds, saying the only reason behind Heba’s actions was that she wanted to deflect suspicion from herself.
Hayat says Heba is not accused of anything in particular, and her hatred towards Amira is the sole motive. There’s no evidence that she went to the storage room on the day of the incident. Possibly, she will be let off, leaving the two of them as the main suspects.
Expelled from the school
Feeling endangered, Mona tells her that it was Heba who tore Amira’s math book. Which forced her to go to the storage room in the first place. However, since Mashael has already stated that Heba was in the bathroom with her, there is no evidence she was in the storage room at that time.
Hayat calls Heba into her office in the presence of the other two girls. She tells them she will present all the information obtained to the police and provokes Mashael and Mona by saying they would be in trouble if the police investigated the motives.
This triggers Mashael and she reveals that Heba didn’t go directly to the bathroom after class. She left the classroom before her and entered the bathroom after a while. The principal asks if that gave her enough time to go to the storage room and lock Amira in.
Mashael nods. This enrages Heba, and a series of accusations begin with the three students involved in a heated argument. Heba says that Mashael should be grateful. That she agreed to be friends with her, as she is the daughter of the cleaner.
Hayat puts an end to their dispute by announcing that all three of them are expelled from the school. Mrs. Seham enters her office after the students leave. Hayat apologizes to her for not taking action against her previous complaints of harassment.
She feels remorseful as, in her opinion, the harassment was the reason behind Amira’s death. She never imagined her permissiveness would lead to such a tragedy. The police arrest Heba while Mona’s father hits her, as she is expelled from the school.
Why was Heba arrested by the police?
Heba was pointed out as the main culprit in Amira’s death, as she not only had the motive but her alibi was suspicious. It was possible that she went to the storage room first to lock Amira before going to the bathroom.
Mona and Mashael were not arrested because their alibis were not questionable. Although they had a bigger motive than Heba. She was charged with intimidation and involuntary manslaughter.
Rana watches the news of Heba’s arrest on TV. She asks her mother for the reason. Her grandmother interrupts trying to prevent them from talking together. She feared that if the conversation continued, Rana would confess to having locked Amira in front of Hayat.
The grandmother asks about her medication and breakfast to somehow stop them from talking. However, Rana laughs at the end when she tells her mother what really happened that day.
The real surprise comes when Hayat responds saying she was already aware. Rana and her grandmother are stunned to hear the revelation. When Hayat went to see Marzouka, Mashael’s mother, at the hospital, she told her that only Rana knew who had locked Amira in the storage room.
How did Marzouka know that Rana had locked Amira?
As everyone was trying to escape during the fire, Marzouka, like most of the school staff, was busy rescuing the students. She asked Rana to come down with her to safely exit the building.
However, in the heat of the moment, Rana told her that they also needed to save Amira, who was in the storage room. Although she didn’t say how her friend got to the storage room or who locked her in. It was enough for Hayat to piece together the clues.
To save her daughter, Hayat threatened Marzouka with Mashael’s future. Her growing problems at school, her friendship with troublemakers, etc. She also cornered her by mentioning smuggling in her room. The boys’ catalog and her precarious financial situation.
Hayat had enough reasons to dismiss her if she attempted anything reckless. She ordered her to stick to Rana’s version of events. Where she told the police she was with Marzouka during the fire. Leading to a girl who fainted.
A disturbed Rana tries to reason with her mother about why she made Heba suffer for something she didn’t do. Initially, Hayat says that Heba deserves to be punished for her other vile, hateful, and vicious acts. But Rana insists she shouldn’t have made her a scapegoat. Since she didn’t do anything to kill Amira.
Hayat leaves the school
Hayat contradicts her narrative by saying that Amira died because her time had come. If it hadn’t been in the storage room, she would have died somewhere else. When Rana further criticizes her for her illogical words. Hayat gets angry and gets up from the couch.
She tells the girl that she covered up her stupidity and her failure. An emotional Rana says she was only a failure in her mother’s eyes. It was Hayat who made her a failure by burdening her with expectations. To justify her status as the principal’s daughter.
She wanted to be the best to please Hayat. Therefore, she made the biggest mistake of her life by locking Amira in the storage room. Her mother forced her to do it. Back in her room. Rana emotionally looks at the painting given by Amira’s father.
Then, she takes off the bandage and calls her dad, who takes her to the police station. Soon, she is booked into jail and Heba is set free. Upon exiting, Heba asks her why she turned herself in.
Rana responds saying her mistake is greater than any mistake made by the trio of Heba, Mona, and Mashael. It was guilt that made her turn herself in to the police. Even when the easiest way was to continue living life as it was.
She says she wants to serve her sentence in jail because she never stood up against the harassment suffered by Amira. The bystander to the crime is as responsible as the perpetrator. The scene cuts to the school, and we see Hayat leaving with her belongings. Mrs. Seham becomes the new principal of the school.
What happens to Mona and Mashael at the end of ‘From the Ashes’?
Since both were suspended, Mona takes up sewing at home, while Mashael likely starts selling illegal merchandise on the streets.
What caused the fire in ‘From the Ashes’?
In the end, it is shown that Mona and Mashael were trying to light a cigarette near the storage room on the day of the incident.
They were caught by Mrs. Seham, who confiscated the lighter and cigarette after scolding them harshly.
She let them go with a warning. However, as soon as the girls left, she smoked the cigarette.
When Amira fell next to the shelving in the storage room, the sound of the collision startled Seham.
She feared being seen by anyone. Hastily, the teacher left the place, throwing the lit cigarette to the ground without extinguishing it.
The flammable material in the environment quickly ignited from the lit cigarette.
Therefore, it was Mrs. Seham who caused the fire in ‘From the Ashes’.
Why did Hayat initiate an investigation?
Hayat knew from the beginning that her daughter was the one who had locked Amira in the storage room.
That’s why she initiated an internal investigation and took charge.
She needed someone with a motive and a suspicious alibi to pin the blame on.
Heba, Mona, and Mashael perfectly fit the criteria. Since she had a deal with Mashael’s mother, Hayat needed to clear her name.
She ultimately chose Heba to bear the weight of Amira’s death.