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I think all of us can agree that His Three Daughters is a different film. It isn’t flashy or pretentious. Plus, it explores emotions in depth.

The rawness of the movie is enigmatic, to say the least. Before I begin to describe its ending, let’s first look at what the film is really about.

What is His Three Daughters About?

As the name suggests, the movie is about a man, Vincent, and his three daughters, Katie, Christina, and Rachel.

Vincent is sick and on the verge of dying. Among his daughters, only Rachel lives with him as the other two have married and have different lives.

But when the news of his deteriorating health reaches them, Katie and Christina return to their bases.

How the sisters live with each other with their only link, their dad, taking his final breaths, is what His Three Daughters revolves around.

His Three Daughters Ending Explained

While trying to survive in each other’s company, the sisters eventually come close. Katie and Rachel bond over the obituary when the former seeks her suggestions.

Rachel rubbishes her draft and suggests a more casual way to write the piece. Her idea is more personal and less formal.

Christina reminisces a memory with Vincent from her teenage years when she was watching a movie with him.

During a scene in the film, where a character died, Vincent got angry. He said that the depiction of death in films and books is nothing more than a fantasy.

According to him, the only way to communicate how death feels is through absence.

Rachel tells Katie that she should go a bit easy on her daughter, Tracey. In return, Katie apologizes to her for not being there when she needed her the most.

Moreover, she requests that she keep the apartment as she wants it to stay with the family. The sisters decide to enter Vincent’s room together.

Vincent requests them to take him out of the room as he wants to breathe freely for a while.

He expresses the desire to sit on the sofa chair instead of his wheel chair and the girls adhere to it.

Vincent throws off the medical equipment and gets up. He brings a beer from the fridge and starts reading his eulogy.

The old man suggests changes regarding the mention of Rachel. Then he talks about Christina and how he was never there for her as the guiding light.

On the brink of death, he opens his heart limitlessly. He says how he would himself become a memory soon enough.

Moreover, he mentions an unrequited love story from his college days.

But after it all ends, he sees himself on the armchair, dead. Some of you might have a question regarding this.

Did Vincent Really Talk?

No, Vincent never talked. He did sit on the armchair but the scenes where he brings the beer and sits on the slab are only his imagination.

It’s what he wanted to do but didn’t have the energy to do so. Therefore, it is Vincent’s soul laying bare his heart in front of the daughters.

Later, the sisters grieve his passing by taking turns to sit on the armchair where Vincent spent his last minutes.

They feel his absence just as he described death to Christina.

The movie ends with the popular lullaby, in Christina’s voice, humming in the background. The sisters leave for their homes with a memory to cherish or rather with a piece of Vincent’s absence.

Rachel lives alone at the apartment and quite unlike her past self, she doesn’t smoke inside the house. This is because she believes there is some part of her dad still in there.

It can also be as a mark of respect for her elder sister.