The Master and Margarita ends with forgiveness and refuge: the Master frees Pontius Pilate with a phrase, and he and Margarita set off for an eternal home. In the Epilogue, the investigation explains everything through hypnosis, and Ivan continues to dream of them.
In chapter 30, Azazello brings the couple to the basement a Falernian, "the same wine the procurator of Judea drank." The two die with the toast, the basement burns, and the Master stops by the clinic to say farewell to Ivan, whom he calls disciple. In chapter 31, on the Sparrow Hills, Margarita looks back and, where Moscow was, sees only fog.
In chapter 32, on a stone plain, Woland shows Pilate seated for about two thousand years in an armchair, sleepless at each full moon, wanting to follow the path of the moon to talk with the prisoner Ha-Notzri, to whom, as he says, he promised to say something. Margarita asks that they let him go, and Woland replies that there is no need to intercede, because the one who wants to talk with Pilate has already done so. The Master shouts: "He is free! He is free! He is waiting for you!" and Pilate runs along the lunar path after the dog. To the Master, Woland offers a house with grapevines and Schubert's music, "what Yeshua asked for you."
In the Epilogue, the investigation attributes everything to a gang of hypnotists. Ivan, a professor at the Institute of History and Philosophy, returns every spring full moon to the bench on Patriarch's Ponds and dreams of the procurator and the Master, who tells him: "It ended this way, my disciple."