He had already died when my daughter was born.
What was he looking for in the sand?
My husband was crazy.
What about you?
Those men are scientists.
I'm just helping them get around.
Scientists?
That's right.
Where are they from?
Some of them are Americans, English. That one over there is Irish.
The Brazilians are all from the capital.
When are they leaving?
In three or four days.
That soon?
I wish I could leave today. I'm joining the Air Force.
Pardon me?
The Air Force. Brazil has an Air Force
with 33 airplanes.
I'll study aviation in Europe
Now that the war is over. I'll go by ship.
What war?
The war that's over. Didn't you know that?
I didn't even know it had started.
But... the war lasted for 4 years!
And I've been here for 10 years. I think.
You haven't told me your name yet.
Áurea de Sá.
My name is Luís.
Look how beautiful!
It looks like a city to me.
I haven't seen so many lights in a long time.
They say this is... the best sky in the world.
It must be. Here, what's not Earth is sky.
That's why they've come here.
What's this?
It's called a geodesic marker,
to know exactly where they took the photographs from.
What photographs?
The photographs they were celebrating.
The Hyades, stars from the Taurus constellation.
During the eclipse, they photographed them.
1919! Why did they photograph them?
In a few months, they'll come back
to take new photos from the same place,
the same stars, but at night.
What for?
When there's an eclipse, the moon in front of the sun,
allows the scientists to record the location of the stars,
even with the sun.
- And photograph them? - Right.
- So?... So, By comparing the photos,
they'll take at night in a few months
They'll prove that the light of the stars
when it passes by the sun... it bends.
- So what? - And that's the proof
that space is curved.
If this... If this experiment works,
they'll prove
a very important theory that will...
revolutionize the world.
It'll be a milestone in history.
They tell this story about
- Two twin brothers. - Twin brothers.
- Two twin brothers, born on the same day.
One stays here on Earth and the other is sent into space.
- One of them stays. - Into space?
In a rocket into space.
When the twin brother Comes back,
he'll be younger than the one who stayed here.
Isn't that amazing?
- Younger? - Would be younger
Don't ask me why, but he'll be younger.
I wouldn't want to be the one who stayed here.
What?
Can you get me out of here? Pardon?
My mother, my daughter and me, Would you take us out of here?
- But... - Until a town.
Just to the nearest town.
My mother is already old and my daughter is...
- I'll speak to them. - Will you?
Why not?
It'll depend on them, but I'll speak to them.
I will.
I speak, I'll speak to them.
I've spoken to them. They've agreed to take you.
Are you serious?
Yes, but hurry up.
- They won't wait. - No, no.
- Want me to go with you? - No. I'll go faster on my own.
- Sorry. - No! Take it with you!
It's cold. Bring it back later.
I'll never forget it. Thank you.
I'll be waiting, Don't be late.
Maria!
Mother!
Maria!
My mother.
Maria.
Mother!
My mother...
Maria.
Mother...
They'll come back, my daughter.
Just wait. They'll come back
Come.
Are the scientists back yet?
Not yet, Maria.
Do you know what I miss the most?
What?
Music.
Sing a song.
No. I mean real music.
What is real music like?
It's hard to explain.
Come on, Maria!
Let's go.
Let's go back home.
Come on, Maria.
Maria.
I'll just stay here and fix things up. You go sleep on the beach.
Go, my daughter!
Maria?
Maria... my daughter.
Sleeping all day, Maria?
Is there any coffee?
There was this morning.
I didn't miss anything.
You've got nothing to miss, Maria.
You're right, mother.
I don't fetch salt, I don't salt the fish,
I don't make babies...
You make them. You just don't let them be born.
But there are plenty anyway.
Mirinho, how many you got?
Massu could make
a little fence for all of Mirinho's kids.
His wife is young;
in no time he'd have a corral... full of them.
Why don't you get up the courage to leave here?
I will, mother.
So go ahead, leave.
You've got nothing to keep you here.
Do something with your life.
What do you want me to do, mother?
The same as you?
I did something with my life.
I have a family.
This family isn't yours, mother.
And you didn't decide to stay here.
Ask Massu.
Did you ask him what he did to hold us down here?
Aren't you ashamed?
No!
I don't know him.
You'd like to marry one of them, right?
Me?
It's more than I deserve.
It stinks!
- What's your name? - Massu.
Massu?
There was a plane crash and we're looking for the bodies.
Have you seen any here?
I saw one. I buried him over there.
Don't cry!
Whose jacket is that?
A soldier gave it to me.
The first time I was here, we could only get here by oxcart.
It took us almost a month to get here
plus the time pulling the carts out of the sand.
Have you been here before?
Over twenty years ago
with group of scientists. I even had a girlfriend.
Maybe she's someone's mother here.
No. She wasn't from here.
She wasn't? Was she white?
Yes.
She came with her husband,
and he died here.
She went to get her mother, and her daughter,
and never came back.
What's wrong?
Nothing.
Something wrong with Maria?
No.
Aren't you coming in?
I'm staying here.
Are you spending the night here?
Miss, miss.
I'm sorry, I... I found this on a dead man on the beach.
- I thought no one wanted it. - No, no. Keep it.
It's cold.
Do you have a cigarette?
In the tent.
Can you get me one?
Sure, sure.
Where's my cigarette?
You have magazines!
What do you do here?
Me?
Nothing. There's nothing to do here.
Aren't you married? Do you have any kids?
Hummm... I'm not stupid.
But you are married.
Where is my cigarette?
Are you afraid?
Come here. You'll enjoy it.
You'd better go home.
No one's going home here.
Are you leaving?
Yes, they're waiting for me.
Are you driving?
Yes, I am.
Where are you going from here?
Back to the base.
Can you take me home?
I'm sorry. Some other time.
There won't be another time.
Thank you.
What's going on here?
Áurea!
Luís.
Massu, here is Luís.
Luís.
Can I talk to you for a minute?
Sure.
Please, come in.
Please.
Thanks
Water?
I waited for you so long!
I went to get my daughter Maria.
I pictured a little girl.
She was a little girl... But not anymore.
Take my daughter away from here.
How?
Take her away from here.
Stay with her, if she... wants.
I'm married.
Drop her off in the city, anywhere...
so she can start a new life, please,
Take her away from here.
She has nothing to do with this place.
She's so unhappy here.
What about you?
You wanted to leave so bad.
I kept for you.
That's worthless by now.
It's money.
But it's too old, it's worthless now.
Take care of her, For me, please!
Ok, I promise.
Go
Maria.
My daughter.
Man has set foot on the moon.
Man has set foot on the moon?
How, my daughter?
In a rocket... a spaceship.
And he came back younger, didn't he?
No, Mom. I think he returned even older.
What did he find on the moon?
Nothing.
- Nothing? - Nothing.
They say... ...he just found sand.
Sand?
Yes, sand.