Eek, now I want to try this.
Two things.
1) The two girls holding hands are the main characters of
Heavenly Creatures. The image is meant to reflect the intensity of (a, their) bond, not to showcase hand-holding.
2) The girl with the snow in her hair is a servant with a very meager life who imagines herself as the mistress whenever she is not serving the true one. Her hopes and dreams were her driving force.
She steals some of the red lanterns to light in her room (strictly forbidden), and when her crime is discovered, she is left out in the freezing winter with only her lanterns for warmth -- lanterns which are being burned as part of her punishment. She is on her knees as she watches her dreams go up in smoke, and rather than ask forgiveness and return to her now hopeless life of servitude, after the fire burned out she stayed in the cold to die. Her image is there because I related to her very much.