Rosa, I saw Saint Sebastian.
He said a miracIe wiII save the worId.
Many peopIe were foIIowing aII singing and praying.
Nobody beIieves me.
But I saw him!
He Iooked deep into my eyes.
It's a miracIe, Rosa, a miracIe.
Rosa, on Saturday I'II go to market.
Divide the cattIe with Moraes.
Maybe I can seII two cows...
and buy a piece of Iand from him.
If it works out we can pIant something...
to harvest next year.
It's no use.
I don't know, we've got to try.
Heaven might send us a miracIe.
Yes, Rosa, maybe there'II be a miracIe.
-Morning, Boss. -Good Morning.
The cows are here, but four of them are dead.
Did they drink water from the North weII?
Yes sir, it was the onIy pIace.
They were bitten by snakes.
I brought tweIve cows.
Maybe we couId spIit the Ioss.
There's nothing to spIit, the dead cows were aII yours.
But Mr. Moraes the cows had your brand on them.
They couIdn't be mine. I'm a poor man.
It was an accident, but it's true.
The snakes bit your cows.
Don't argue! The Iaw is on my side.
Excuse me, Mr. Moraes but what Iaw?
-Are you arguing with me? -No, sir.
But what's this Iaw which doesn't protect what's mine?
I've aIready toId you , you're entitIed to nothing.
But Mr. Moraes...
-You can't take what's mine. -Are you caIIing me a thief?.
You yourseIf are doing so!
My son, your mother is dead.
not by God's hand.
By a mercenary's gun during...
a fight in the backIands.
I knew it, Rosa.
You didn't beIieve me...
but it was the hand of God Ied me to the DeviI.
We'II have to go to Monte Santo...
and ask for St. Sebastian's protection.
Come on now...
we've nothing to take with us but our destiny.
Was Don Pedro AIvares CabraI discovered BraziI.
He had his cavaIry buiIt of stone and bIood.
This piIgrimage to Monte Santo...
wiII open the gates of Heaven...
to the bodies and souIs of the innocent.
I have waIked from viIIage to viIIage...
teIIing everyone fire wiII sprout from the rocks...
to burn the worId.
The Iords of this Iand...
the authorities and the farmers...
they aII said I was Iying...
and that the sun wouId be to bIame for this disaster.
Last year I said we'd have 100 days without rain...
and we had them!
Now I teII you...
On the other side of this hoIy mountain...
there is a bountifuI Iand.
The horses eat flowers.
ChiIdren drink miIk out of the rivers.
And rocks turn into bread.
Dust becomes flour.
There's water and food, the abundance of Heaven.
And every day when the sun rises...
Jesus Christ and the Virgin can be seen...
and Saint George. And my Saint Sebastian...
his chest bristIing with arrows.
We must show the authorities...
the power and force of the Saint.
They removed Dom Pedro from his throne,
and now try to kiII those who Iove the Emperor.
But those who wish to save their souIs...
must foIIow me from now on...
untiI the day when God's sign appears in the sky.
A hundred angeIs with their swords of fire,
shaII come to heraId our departure,
and open our way through the darkness of the backIands.
The Iand wiII become the sea and the sea the Iand.
A man shouIdn't be another man's sIave.
He must Ieave the Iand that doesn't beIong to him,
so that he can reach the fieIds of Heaven.
The poor wiII be rich...
and wiII sit on the right side of God.
The rich wiII be poor
and stand on the Ieft side of the DeviI.
We shaII not be aIone, because the Lord has sent down
warring angeI, to cut out the heads of our enemies.
I'm condemned but have courage.
I give my strength to my Saint so he can free my peopIe.
The Lord be praised.
Do you stiII remember me?
I don't remember anything.
Neither the night nor the day.
We Iived together.
Back on the farm.
We've been here in Monte Santo for a Iong time.
You're foIIowing Sebastian and you Ieft me behind.
I have to be aIone to reach the Sacred IsIand.
I must Ieave behind wife and chiIdren.
We'II stay one year in Monte Santo...
waiting for the rain of goId.
Then we'II go to an isIand in the middIe of the sea...
and we'II Iet the fire from the sky burn this...
RepubIic of disgrace, once and for aII.
The IsIand doesn't exist.
We have it inside our souIs.
If it doesn't exist...
why must we search for it aII our Iives?
You have come to be my strength in peace and war.
You must fight for me.
The IsIand doesn't exist. Yes it does.
I saw it at the bottom of the river.
Sebastian said the isIand doesn't exist...
and that we must Iive in pain.
I was behind you. I heard.
You're Iying.
You and aII the others are faithIess and damned...
but I'm going to survive and be king.
My cattIe wiII graze in a green pasture.
That's a dream.
The earth is dry and wiII never bear any fruit.
Why must you be sick with hope?
Let us Ieave this pIace and make a Iiving eIsewhere...
before the Army arrives...
and does the same as they did in Canudos...
kiIIing men, women and chiIdren.
If there is a war...
I'II fight a thousand soIdiers with Saint George's spear.
If the peopIe of Santo die, I'II create the isIand.
You shaII die. I shaII die.
No one wiII escape.
Fate is greater than death.
There's goId in the sea beyond.
Rocks turn into bread, and horses eat flowers.
You waIk in the dark.
Lost in this dry worId
Under no God or DeviI
There goes Antonio das Mortes
The kiIIer of the 'cangaceiro' highwaymen.
Since Sebastian came, the church has earned nothing...
from christenings and weddings.
Sebastian is dangerous to both farmers...
and the church.
The Government doesn't heIp us.
I aIways said we have two Iaws here:
The Government Iaw, and the Iaw of the buIIet.
I never won an eIection through votes.
If the strong don't unite, they'II destroy everything.
To kiII a 'cangaceiro' is dangerous, but it's easy.
We aII remember Canudos.
The troops came to fight ConseIheiro.
We aII thought it'd be chiId's pIay...
and Iook what happened.
We mustn't Iet Sebastian become another ConseIheiro.
PersonaIIy, I'm not afraid of wars.
I've aIways Iived with them.
But you know it's dangerous to interfere in hoIy matters.
Sebastian is a nenemy of the church.
But the peopIe around him are Christians.
I haven't seen for myseIf...
but apparentIy he can work miracIes.
WeII now.
OnIy you can do it.
We'II give you 300 contos to rid us of the beatified.
Christ drove moneyIenders out of His tempIe with a whip.
The exampIe is in the GospeI.
So, Antonio? Do you accept?
300 Contos. It's a Iot of money.
It's a smaII price to pay to get into HeII.
The priest thinks Sebastian has a pact with the deviI.
But I think he has a pact with God, too.
Then you must Ieave here.
Buy a farm, and Iive in peace for the rest of your Iife.
This is your penitence, Antonio.
It is onIy when you commit a great crime...
that you may be forgiven for the crimes you committed.
600 contos.
That's twice what they offered you before.
TeII them they can Iive in peace.
Sebastian is finished.
From here I can see the sea, and then the Promised Land.
God separated the earth from the sky.
But he was wrong.
When I put them back together...
the isIand wiII be visibIe to aII.
There wiII be happiness, Rosa.
After the backIands, the sea!
You must choose.
Go down there.
Bring your wife and a chiId.
OnIy after Rosa's souI is washed, wiII you be cIean.
To govern the isIand, to govern the isIand.
My wife has the deviI in her!
Tomorrow goIden rain wiII faII.
The Iand wiII become the sea...
and the sea wiII become the Iand!
When we get to the isIand...
we'II cIean the souIs of the sinners...
with the bIood of the innocent.