"Subs and Sync by Marly" "(wind whistling)" "(goats bleating)" "(cows mooing)" "Photographer:" "Caleb, you look right at me." "No, Caleb, stand up on that stump." "That'll be a very nice picture." "Very nice." "All right." "Everybody, stay real still." "All right." "Everybody, look right here." "Right here." "(dog barking)" "(all laughing)" "Your aunts will like that picture." "Ah, they hardly know what I look like anymore, the aunts." "I hardly know what they look like anymore." "It's, uh, Maine you come from, isn't it?" "Yeah." "She lives here now." "That she does." "Hey, you know what I bet?" "I bet Maine is green." "Ah, we could sure use rain." "Jacob:" "We sure could." "You know what I remember?" "Those can go right in that box there." "I remember back when I was a little boy" "And you remember this, Jacob" "It didn't rain for months." "Months!" "And, uh... then the winds came." "All the crops dried up." "Leaves of the corn just felt like dust." "That goes right next to the camera." "My grandfather packed up his family and just left." "Caleb:" "Did he ever come back?" "Never did." "Could be rain." "Now, young man, you want to come with me or you want to hop down?" "Thanks." "No, sir." "No, no, no, no." "You pay me when I bring the pictures back." "Thank you, Joshua." "Thank you." "See you soon, now." "Sarah:" "Bye." "Ma'am." "Papa, will you worry if it doesn't rain?" "Yeah, but we'll manage." "We always have." "Imagine having to leave." "That won't happen, Sarah." "We'd never leave." "We're born here." "Our names are written in this land." "I'm writing Sarah's name here." "You can't even spell." "Papa, your boots." "(sighing):" "Thank you." "Could be the last washing for that floor." "That's a mixed blessing." "Don't feed her too much, Caleb." "She's getting fat with your food." "I think she's something more than fat, Sarah." "What?" "What does Papa mean?" "Kittens." "He means kittens." "(cat mews)" "She ever had kittens before?" "No." "Never." "Could we keep them all?" "When will she have them, Papa?" "I don't know, Caleb." "It'll be just like having a baby." "Like Maggie." "Onlylotsof babies." "Kittens." "Anna." "(gasps)" "(laughs)" "I didn't mean to frighten you." "Someday I will marry and move to my husband's land." "That's what Papa says." "Oh, he does, does he?" "Well, that's what you did, Sarah." "You came from Maine to marry Papa." "Yes, I guess I did." "You fell in love with us." "Oh, I did that." "Your letters, then you." "Did you fall in love with Papa's letters, too before you knew him?" "Yes." "I loved your papa's letters." "But it was what was between the lines that I loved the most." "What was between the lines?" "His life... that's what was between the lines." "Sometimes..." "Sometimes Papa is not good at words." "(chuckles)" "Yeah, sometimes." "But when I read your papa's letters" "I could see the farm and the animals and the sky and you." "You know, sometimes what people choose to write down on paper is... more important than what they say." "Jacob:" "Caleb!" "Anna!" "The cows!" "(children groaning)" "(meowing)" "You." "You rascal, you." "(bells chiming)" "Woman:" "So, how are you all?" "Any news?" "Caleb:" "Seal's having babies!" "Lots of them!" "Woman:" "Oh, big news!" "Come to think of it" "I've seen Seal at our house." "With Sam, in fact." "The orange cat." "So it's Sam, is it?" "(both laughing)" "I'm surrounded by motherhood." "The calf is due, then kittens..." "Caleb!" "Anna!" "Time to go!" "Church well's down a foot." "A foot?" "Yeah." "That's more than ours." "(baby crying)" "Tom... are those clouds... in the west, Tom?" "Right there." "Maybe." "Maybe it'll rain, eh, Tom?" "Hush, hush, hush, hush." "We'll be home soon." "What if it doesn't rain, Papa?" "It will rain." "Yes, it will." "Sometime." "It's just the time before it rains that is hard." "It always is." "Sarah:" "Bye." "Bye-bye!" "Good-bye." "Come on." "(clicking tongue)" "(rooster crows)" "Jacob:" "Sarah!" "I need you." "Hurry." "Jacob?" "(cow moos)" "Over here." "(cows moos loudly)" "It's the calf." "It's turned." "Mame." "What can I do?" "Try and keep her quiet." "Okay." "Good girl." "That's a girl." "(cow mooing)" "Shh..." "Shh..." "There now." "There now." "Shh..." "Shh... it's okay." "Is she all right?" "Mame's all right." "Can't tell about the calf." "But it'll happen soon." "It's okay." "It's okay, girl." "Hold on to her." "(cow mooing)" "(Sarah grunting)" "(cow mooing loudly)" "Shh..." "Shh..." "It's all right." "Okay." "Shh, shh, okay." "(Sarah panting)" "Shh, girl." "Shh, girl." "It's okay, girl." "It's okay, girl." "It's all right." "It's all right." "(calf bleats)" "(bleating)" "Jacob:" "That face... pale as the winter moon." "To think..." "Anna says sometimes you're not good with words." "Sometimes... words are not good enough." "Shall we wake the children?" "Not yet." "Why didn't you wake us up?" "When was he born?" ""She." Eat your breakfast." "(groans)" "Ah!" "Eat your breakfast." "(groaning)" "Does she have a name yet?" "No." "Anna:" "Hurry, Caleb." "Eat faster." "I'm eating as fast as I can." "What does she look like?" "She's small." "Brown." "Got some white on her face." "Your Papa says her face is as pale as the winter moon." "Oh..." "like... like a moonbeam." "She's lively." "We had a terrible time trying to get her out." "Moonbeam..." "Let's call her Moonbeam." "Maybe." "Is Mame excited?" "Does she like the baby?" "I'm not sure I've noticed." "What do you think, Sarah?" "Excited cow?" "Well, I'd say she likes her calf." "Finished." "Finished." "But... was Mame excited?" "(chuckles)" "(sighs)" "I'd say she was pleased." "Where are you?" "Here." "No, Jacob, you were faraway." "I was thinking..." "about when I was a boy." "I miss that-- your being a boy." "What sort of a boy were you?" "I was a bad boy." "When I was little my brothers and sisters and I used to... dream about a good life-- riches and fine horses and buggies, but... mostly... we dreamed about the land." "My father used to dream about the sea as if it owned him." "It did." "Anna:" ""And there was this storm," Aunt Mattie says" ""and the shingles from the port went to sea." "My hat went to sea."" "What does that mean?" ""Went to sea."" "Means they blew into the sea." ""My hat went to sea, too" ""the one with the bird on it-- in two inches of rain." A real bird?" "Stop it, Caleb." "Oh, Aunt Mattie will miss that hat." ""Two inches of rain by the glass measure."" "A glass?" "A glass to measure the rain?" "What about your letter, Sarah?" "Oh, just about the weather." "Painting William's boat." "Read it." ""The grass is green" ""growing so tall" ""that we've mowed it many times already." ""The trees are lush." ""Autumn will be beautiful." ""Come visit, all of you... soon." "Love, Mattie."" "Beautiful sunset tonight." "A glass to measure the rain?" "Caleb, I thought you'd gone to bed long ago." "I had something to do... for Papa." "All right." "Upstairs." "Come on." "(crickets chirping)" "So?" "I put the glass there." "AH." "To measure the rain when it comes." "Thank you for that." "You're welcome." "(chickens clucking)" "(hammering)" "(thunder crashing)" "(horses neighing in distance)" "(thunder crashing)" "Jacob." "Jacob." "It's just heat lightning." "Try to sleep, Sarah." "I can't without you." "Is it below the mark?" "Yeah." "How much?" "Almost a foot." "Caleb:" "Here's the last of it." "Sarah:" "Thank you." "We have to carry river water for the animals." "We can do that." "And watch for fires." "Yes." "I have to measure out our own water." "We already have." "Have to use less." "Anna!" "Come on!" "Jacob." "Morning, Jess." "How are you?" "Seen better days." "Not much work." "Gonna change soon." "Man:" "Hey, Jacob." "Caleb and I want to walk around town." "All right." "I'll be in the store later." "Caleb:" "Going to watch the blacksmith." "And see if our bridal bed is ready." "(car engine chugging)" "(horn honking)" "Ben." "Jacob." "Good morning, Mrs. Parkley." "(woman crying)" "You'll be back... sooner than you think." "Please don't cry." "Maggie." "Their well is dry." "Caroline, what can we do?" "There's nothing to do." "Joseph says we have to pack up." "Pack up?" "Where will you go?" "They have family." "Mrs. Parkley:" "No, no." "I won't take money, Caroline." "I won't forget." "Thank you." "Joseph says we'll come back." "But we won't." "I know it." "Well, there must be some other way." "We could help haul water, Maggie." "We could all work harder." "I mean, you just don't leave everything you've-you've worked for-- your home." "I mean, I don't see how anybody could." "How can anybody just give up?" "You've never been in this kind of trouble before, Sarah." "You don't know how hard it is." "These are for you, Sarah." "Thank you." "Excuse us." "I spoke too sharply." "I'm just used to making things right making things work." "I know." "(laughing):" "I know." "The land come first, Sarah." "It always does." "What do you mean?" "Without the land, there is nothing." "(sighs)" "That's wrong." "Maybe, but that's the way it is." "The aunts... they write to me all the time." "I can count on them, you know." "Like the sun rising and setting." "Like the tide going in, coming out." "I'm going to dry up like the land before..." "Before?" "Any news?" "Some news." "Good news." "Good news?" "Ha!" "What good news?" "Your birthday soon." "Mattie wrote to remind me." "She didn't." "She did." "So, what do you want?" "Silk?" "Jewels?" "Travel?" "(laughing)" "Travel?" "Where would I go?" "Somewhere green." "Somewhere cool." "Do you think I would leave?" "Man:" "Come on!" "(wagon wheels turning)" "Papa!" "Fire!" "Hold on!" "Hyah!" "Hyah!" "(horses nickering)" "Hyah!" "Whoa!" "Throw those rags out." "Soak them in the cattle pond." "Quick!" "Be careful!" "There's a wind coming up." "Don't get too close." "(dog barking)" "(coughing)" "Jacob, over there!" "Jacob!" "(barking continues)" "Jacob!" "(grunting and panting)" "You all right?" "Yes." "I said, "Don't get close"!" "I told you to be careful!" "You can't put the fire out by yourself." "Stop shouting at me!" "(barking)" "Papa, here!" "It's all right." "Put the animals away." "Good boy." "That's a good boy." "We have to keep watch, day and night from now on." "(coughing)" "You're a sight." "You know?" "You look beautiful." "Do you really think I would leave?" "(bird squawking)" "(muted laughter)" "Go ahead, try and catch me." "(sighs)" "Maybe this will be cooler." "(sighs)" "Oh, I dream of my old home sometimes... and I dream of long, cool mornings of sleep without the baby waking." "(chuckling)" "Night dreams or daydreams?" "What's a daydream?" "Well, sometimes, no matter where you are you think of something-- a place, maybe or maybe it's something you wish for and it's so close, you can almost touch it." "Caleb, will you please go out to the burrows and get us some water?" "And take out the baby with you to the girls, please?" "(muted barking)" "(door shuts)" "What's wrong, Sarah?" "(sighs dismissively)" "This talk of dreams." "Oh, Sarah." "(chuckles)" "Before I had my son, I had dreams." "They were the strongest dreams... so real." "I could feel the soft skin of him oh, and that sweet smell of his hair." "I could hear the soft sounds he made when he slept." "It was almost as..." "As if you knew him before he was born." "Yeah." "When I first married Jacob, it was enough." "We were a family" " Anna, Caleb-- but now with the drought the worse it becomes the more the land dries up and the leaves turn to dust" "I have this dream almost every night that everything will be all right if I have a baby." "Have you spoken to Jacob?" "Oh." "Do cats dream?" "(laughing)" "Maybe." "I have dreams at night." "Mmm, bad dreams or good?" "Good dreams." "Every night, I dream of rain." "Do you?" "Do you dream of rain?" "Yes." "I dream about rain." "That's good." "Then, it will come true." "(wind blowing)" "(door banging)" "Some wind out there." "It's magic, isn't it?" "Someone goes away" "There's that picture left behind." "The face stays forever." "It's a fine picture of you." "But I'm not leaving, Jacob." "(door continues banging)" "Barn door." "(door opens, then closes)" "(laughing)" "Sarah... you're a wild thing." "I'm not leaving, Jacob." "I'm not leaving." "I'm not." "I'm not leaving." "I'm not." "Never." "I'm telling you..." "I'm not..." "I'm not..." "Sarah:" "Hello, Maggie." "What will we do?" "Sarah:" "Such happy voices." "They'll know harder times soon enough." "We have to go further for water." "There's water in Waconda Springs." "I don't know if there's enough water there and that's a three-day trip, maybe four." "We'll go together." "Think, Jacob" "We bring water back, then what?" "The cattle..." "the crops?" "There are no crops." "Maggie and I have been talking about other ways." "What?" "I think what Matthew means is, they're thinking about leaving." "Leaving?" "I hate this land." "Sarah..." "No, I mean it." "I don't have to love it like Jacob... like Matthew." "They give it everything-- everything-- and it betrays them;" "It gives them nothing back." "You know, Jacob once told me his name was written in this land." "Well, mine isn't." "It isn't." "They don't know anywhere else." "You know... you are like the prairie lark." "It sings from high in the air to tell the other birds it's there and then it drops to Earth." "But you have not come to Earth, Sarah." "You don't have to love this land." "But if you don't, you won't survive." "Jacob is right." "You have to write your name in it to live here." "What are they doing?" "All right." "Whoa, oh." "Keeping busy." "How far, Jacob?" "Down that much." "Jacob, I think..." "Don't say it." "(thunder rumbling)" "It's been doing that all day." "It's been doing that for months." "Jacob." "We're leaving." "It's all right, Matthew." "I know." "(thunder rumbling)" "Anna:" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Coyote!" "He'll kill Moonbeam!" "Jacob, what are you going to do?" "Stay inside, Sarah." "Jacob, no!" "No!" "No!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Jacob, don't do this!" "Sarah..." "Jacob, don't..." "don't..." "Sarah!" "Don't do this, Jacob!" "All he wants is water!" "That's all he wants is some water!" "That's all!" "He's not going to hurt anything!" "He just wants some water!" "(sobbing):" "He just wants water!" "He wants water!" "He just wants water!" "Caleb..." "Water!" "he just wants water!" "Put the animals in the barn." "Sarah:" "That's all he wants!" "He just wants water." "I can't..." "I can't stand it!" "(sobbing)" "Anna, get something for Sarah to drink." "Anna, now!" "(Sarah crying)" "Sarah:" "Water... (gasping)" "Sarah, it's all right." "IT'S OKAY." "(gasping)" "Sarah, it's all right." "It's all right, Sarah." "Everything will be all right." "(kids laughing)" "Anna?" "Caleb?" "What is this?" "Happy birthday, Sarah." "Anna:" "And there are presents, Sarah." "But I'm not dressed." "Well, get dressed." "Come on." "Woman 1:" "You're just in time." "Woman 2:" "Hello." "What is that?" "You'll see." "Woman 3:" "Here she is." "Happy birthday, Sarah." "All:" "Happy birthday, Sarah." "A present... from the aunts." "(Italian opera playing)" "(crowd clapping)" "Bye!" "Thanks for having us." "Bye!" "(chuckles)" "Get ready for bed, Anna." "I have a present for you, Sarah." "Sarah." "Come on." "(grunts)" "(lamb bleating)" "Anna, what is it?" "It's a book I wrote about you." "About our family." ""When my mother..." ""Sarah..." ""...came here, she came by train." ""I didn't know I'd love her, but my brother, Caleb, knew." ""Papa didn't know, either, but he does love her, I know." ""I've seen them kiss..." ""...and I have heard the sound of his voice" ""when he talks to her and seeing his hand touch her hair." ""My mother, Sarah, loves us" ""but she does not love the prairie." ""She tries, but she can't help it." "She can't help remembering what she knew first."" "Do you like it?" "I like it." "Thank you." "It was a fine party, Jacob." "I'd almost forgotten music." "Where's the glass?" "Caleb's glass?" "Put it back, Jacob, please." "It should be there when it rains." "I'm sorry to be going and be leaving you." "You'll be back." "I'll miss you." "(sobbing):" "We'll be back." "Put your bonnet on." "We'll be back." "(baby crying)" "Hyah." "Giddap." "Giddap." "Hyah!" "(thunder crashing)" "(dog barking)" "Sarah!" "(horses neighing)" "Grab those sacks!" "Pour water on them." "Hurry." "Come on, get out!" "Go on!" "Get out!" "Go on!" "Get out!" "Go on!" "(cows mooing)" "(whinnying)" "Get the cows!" "Come on." "(mooing)" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Jacob!" "Get me water!" "Get back!" "Buckets!" "(panting)" "Be careful!" "Get buckets!" "I'm coming!" "Coming!" "Jacob, here!" "Jacob!" "Give that to me!" "Give me that!" "It's no use!" "It's our last barrel!" "(dog barking)" "Papa!" "Get back on the porch and stay there!" "Jacob:" "I could have been gone." "I could have gone for water when this happened." "But you weren't gone." "You might have been here alone with the children." "You have to go, Sarah." "You have to take" "Anna and Caleb away from here." "No, Jacob." "Sarah, there's no water." "There's nothing here for Anna and Caleb." "I can't have them here." "They can't go alone." "We won't leave you." "I won't go." "I can't go." "I know, but you and the children have to go, you understand?" "Sarah..." "This land is my life." "Like your father, the sea." "I can't go away from it." "But you have to." "But..." "Without you, I..." "Caleb:" "Can you take Nick and Seal?" "What'll happen to them?" "They'll be happier here." "I'll take care of them." "What are you going to do when we're gone, Papa?" "I'll miss you." "We can swim in Maine, Sarah." "Jacob:" "Sarah." "Don't be afraid." "You'll be here all alone." "That's all right." "What will happen to us?" "We'll write letters." "We've written letters before." "(train whistle blowing)" "It's so green." "Anna:" "When Sarah came, she wore a yellow bonnet." "She brought her cat, Seal, to us." "The corn was high and the wheat all yellow roses bloomed on the fence." "We laid down with the sheep in the field and Sarah taught us how to swim." "Then they were married." "My mother, Sarah wore a dress soft like mist and a veil." "I think Papa cried." "Did he?" "Did he cry?" "Sarah..." "Is this the way you came?" "Yes, Caleb." "This is the way I came." "(station bell ringing)" "Sarah?" "It's all right, Anna." "It's just, uh..." "It's what you wrote in your book" "I'm back to what I knew first." "Sarah?" "Chub." "Sarah Wheaton?" "You're still here." "Where would I be except here?" "(laughing)" "I'm Sarah Witting now, Chub." "These are my children, Anna and Caleb." "Pleased to meet you." "Are the hens meeting you?" "No." "Could you drive us?" "Ah, you bet." "Oh, good." "Here, I'll take this for you." "Could you put the trunk in the back, please?" "Is this Maine?" "Yeah, this is Maine." "Can we go swimming now?" "Soon enough." "I've never been in a car before." "Oh, about time you were." "Want to drive?" "No." "And I won't tell the aunts you called them hens." "(laughing)" "Chub:" "Yeah, here we are." "Look at all the water!" "Anna:" "Oh, how beautiful!" "(Anna laughing)" "(birds cheeping)" "(buoy bell clanging)" "Come on." "Let's go see the treasures." "Will they like us?" "They will love you." "They will fall upon you with kisses." "Morning, Mattie." "(Mattie gasps)" "Mattie." "(chuckles)" "We're home." "I'm so glad you came to visit us." "You're such a pretty little girl." "I loved your letters, too." "Look, this is magic." "You like that?" "(laughing)" "Oh, Sarah..." "Sarah, Sarah." "Aren't you hungry?" "Don't you want to lie down?" "Yes." "You thirsty?" "I can't believe you're here." "You better lie down." "Here's a cookie." "Here's another cookie." "Now, that cookie..." "I made that cookie." "Doesn't that look pretty good?" "Are you hungry, honey?" "Oh, I'm so glad..." "I thought about you so much, and your brother." "Want a bath?" "How about a bath?" "Oh, Harriet." "Let them be." "See, I told you." "(dog barks) (Mattie gasps)" "Look who's here!" "Lou." "Mind that beast." "(both laughing)" "Lou:" "The beast's name is Brutus." "An appropriate name." "Lou works with animals." "Lou works with the veterinarian and Harriet may never get over that." "Harriet:" "Oh... (laughing)" "She wants me in silk and pearls." "Oh, please." "Down." "Dogs like me." "I have one at home." "Oh, that's what we've needed all along-- a child." "We must get one." "Looks like we have two." "Anna, Caleb, you can go for a walk if you want." "Down to the water." "Take Brutus with you, if you want." "Harriet:" "He'll run after sticks for you." "He's silly enough to swim in the cold water." "Caleb:" "Come on, Brutus!" "Come on!" "Anna:" "Here, boy." "Well..." "I wrote you a letter, but... we had to leave so quickly" "I didn't have a chance to mail it." "I wrote about the drought... and the fire." "And did the letter say that you are pregnant?" "Sarah?" "Come... come sit down here, darling." "Oh, dear Lou, see what you've done?" "I need my tonic." "Lou hasn't done anything, Harriet." "Sarah, is this true?" "Lou, how do you know this?" "You know, don't you?" "No, I mean, I..." "I mean, I..." "I suppose, um..." "Well, there's a drought and the prairie is all dried up and a... a fire took the barn and all that time when the water was drying and the corn and the wheat was dying, all that time" "all I could think about was a baby." "But there was so much to do." "There was so much to worry about." "I mean..." "I mean..." "but how'd you know?" "There's a look about you." "I could always tell by a dog's eyes when she's pregnant." "Oh, for heaven's sakes, Lou." "Sarah's no dog." "(all laughing)" "Sarah?" "Where is Jacob?" "Jacob." "Hyah!" "Hyah!" "Come on!" "Ho!" "Ho." "Jacob." "Jess." "Sorry about your trouble." "Come to help." "Can't pay you, Jess." "I didn't come to get paid;" "I came to help." "Thanks." "By the way, what's that glass doing on that post?" "That's for rain." "Boom!" "Mattie:" "Oh, they are wonderful children." "Yes." "It was hard for Jacob to send them... to send us away." "They're his life... after the land." ""After the land"?" "Sarah, it seems to me that what Jacob did was to put you first to send you here." "He had no choice, Mattie." "Oh, my dear... (chuckles) ...he had choices." "How long will you stay?" "I don't know." "Will Jacob come?" "No, Jacob won't come." "Jacob will write letters." "(chuckling):" "Letters again." "It was because of those letters that you left." "And who was it who told me to go?" "I?" "Oh..." "I could never make you do anything, Sarah." "All I told you was that every winter" "I watched the geese fly away to places I've never been... leaving me behind." "I didn't want you to be left behind, too." "Are you sorry?" "Sorry that I left here?" "I miss the sea." "I miss all the green... though somehow it doesn't seem quite as green as I remember." "The sea isn't as comforting." "I was so frightened, I remember, when I left here." "But I'm more frightened now, Mattie." "I never knew." "No one ever told me how hard it is." "To love someone?" "(Brutus barking)" "Oh." "Look." "Woman:" "Hello." "Hello." "Hello." "The water is cold here." "(both laughing)" "Not too cold for children." "Yeah, only children and my Aunt Lou swim here." "And Brutus." "Come here, boy." "William?" "Uncle William?" "Sarah:" "Will!" "Sarah!" "You're home." "For a visit." "Meg, you look wonderful." "(both laughing)" "This is Anna." "And Caleb." "We've missed you." "Two years!" "Anna." "Caleb." "I should've known the moment I saw them." "And Jacob..." "where's Jacob?" "Anna:" "Home." "Papa is at home." "William, did you hear?" "Seal is going to have kittens!" "Seal!" "(all laughing)" "The father is orange." "(all laughing)" "Meg:" "I remember Seal-- Independent." "Independent..." "like Sarah." "Imagine that-- Seal a mother!" "Just shows a change of place sometimes works wonders." "It's all right." "It's all right, Anna." "(calf bleating)" "I'll come tomorrow for the sheep." "Don't worry." "Things will get better, Jacob." "Hyah!" "(calf bleats)" "Samuel!" "Whoa." "Keep this one." "All right, Jacob." "(calf bleats)" "Thank you, Samuel." "Sarah:" ""Dear Jacob, we are here now." ""Anna and Caleb are happy, but they miss you." ""The aunts have taken them over." ""They will, I fear, be loved to death." ""They're going fishing with Lou tomorrow." "Caleb is taken with the sea."" ""Anna is, no surprise" ""spending her days watching and listening." ""We think of you every day." ""We miss you." ""Anna asks about Seal and Nick." ""Caleb wants to know if it has rained." ""I think of Moonbeam every day." "Love, Sarah."" "Are you going to tell me?" "What did the doctor say?" "I'm fine." "The baby's fine." "The baby..." "Mattie... (chuckling)" "The baby." "(piano and flute playing upbeat melody)" "(raindrops falling)" "(laughing)" "(Caleb and Anna laughing)" "Whee!" "(piano and flute stop playing)" "What is it?" "What are they doing, Sarah?" "Sarah:" "Rain..." "It's been so long." "(laughing)" "Sarah?" "Sarah, what are you doing?" "Oh, look." "(dog barking)" "Oh, Sarah." "(laughing)" "Yay!" "Whee!" "(opera playing on gramophone)" "Anna:" ""Seal is happy and busy."" ""Yesterday, she had four kittens..."" "Will:" "Four?" "!" "Caleb:" "Kittens!" ""Three gray and one orange." ""Nick misses you." ""Sometimes he sits and looks down the road" ""waiting for you to come back." ""I am fine." ""Still no rain, but soon." ""Give Sarah a kiss for me." "Love, Papa."" "Caleb:" "He forgot to tell us about Moonbeam." "Will:" "Well, you know he's probably busy with the farm." "But he forgot." "I'm going to tell you, Jacob..." "Come on, get your end up." "Closer." "Easy now." "Easy now." "Watch yourself." "I'll tell you that's a good start, Jacob." "I better be heading back." "I promised Samuel I'd stop by and help him with his stock." "Someday when times are better and there's money to be earned" "I'll buy a place like this." "My papa used to say a man is rich if he has land." "People, they come and go but the land is always there." "You got the whole world under your feet." "The whole world..." "That's what I used to think." "The whole world, Jacob." "I'll see you tomorrow." "Jess." "Mail this for me in town, would you?" "Man:" "That's it." "(all laughing)" "What's so funny?" "We had a lovely day." "Catch any fish?" "No." "Tell me." "You gonna tell me?" "Tell me." "Uh... it's a secret." "Oh, a Chubb secret?" "Uh-Oh." "I know how to deal with you." "You tell me the Chubb secret and I will tell you Chubb's real name." "You can blackmail him." "What's blackmail?" "A criminal act, my dear." "(Caleb giggling)" "Aunt Lou:" "Come along, Caleb." "Let us go to the porch where I will reveal-- only to you, mind you" "Chubb's real name." "Aunt Lou would make Papa laugh." "Papa doesn't laugh very much." "Caleb:" "Aunt Harriet?" "Have you ever been married?" "Anna:" "Caleb..." "That's personal." "Aunt Harriet:" "That's all right, Anna." "Personal, yes, but like everything else it's also history." "No." "I never got married." "Almost, but not quite." "I didn't meet a dashing man like your father." "Anna's our family historian." "What's dashing?" "That's what I'm doing, right now-- dashing into the water." "Caleb:" "You are?" "You want to come?" "I'm going skinny-dipping." "No!" "Not in front of the children." "Harriet, what is it you do each evening when everyone's in bed?" "Lou!" "No clothes on?" "!" "You mean, you're going to swim all naked?" "!" "(dog barking)" "Everyone goes skinny-dipping." "Caleb:" "Anna!" "Anna!" "Come here!" "In the moonlight, she looks like a big fish!" "Caleb, what is it?" "A dream..." "A dream I had." "A bad dream?" "I dreamed of old Papa." "But that's a good dream." "He..." "He couldn't find us, Sarah." "He looked and looked and couldn't find us." "Oh, Caleb, your papa knows where we are." "(sniffling)" "He does." "I used to dream about rain." "Remember?" "Mmm." "Now I dream about Papa." "Is this our new home" "Sarah?" "(humming softly)" "♪ Don't say a word ♪" "♪ Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird ♪" "♪If that mockingbird don't sing ♪" "♪ Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring ♪" "♪ If that diamond ring turns brass ♪" "♪ Papa's gonna buy you a looking glass. ♪" "Caleb:" ""Dear Papa" ""The water is cold here, but guess what?" ""The aunts swim naked and white in the water at night." ""They call it skinny-dipping." ""But, Papa, Aunt Lou's not skinny!" ""Here's a secret:" "Chubb's name is Chubbers Horatio Umberto Bell." ""Sarah says it sounds like a song." ""I miss you." ""I love you." "Caleb."" "Don't go out on the rocks, Caleb." "The tide's up." "I won't!" "Watch your step on the stairs." "They need fixing, Will." "Uh-yeah." "They always have." "The town's 200th birthday-- that's a fine thing to celebrate, isn't it?" "Yeah." "How many years have we sat right here and watched the fireworks?" "Too many." "(all chuckling)" "Is there anything else to be done, Lou?" "Nope." "This is the last of it." "Will:" "Remember when we were little we used to sit here when Papa..." "Papa fished." "We'd wait to see his boat come and then run up the hill to tell Mama." "Uh-yeah." "William do you remember Papa singing a song about a skylark?" "I only remember the first line:" "Like a skylark, Sarah sings." "You never stayed still, you know." "You were always in the trees-- climbing rocks." "He used to call you his skylark and he said you'd never come to earth." "Papa..." "I can hardly remember when he was happy... before Mama died." "Yeah, then you only had me and the treasures." "Only you?" "Don't you know you were my hero?" "(chuckling)" "And the aunts." "The aunts were like the sea" "Always there." "Always... surprising." "Always different." "Always the same." "Almost like..." "Jacob." "Sarah?" "Jacob could work here with me." "You know, if the farm fails." "Oh, William..." "If you knew Jacob you could see how that cannot be." "(thunder rumbling)" "(neighing)" "(dog barking)" "(people cheering)" "Sarah:" "We should have fireworks all the time, shouldn't we?" "At all our family gatherings." "New Year's, Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays." "Man:" "Yeah!" "Meg loves these family celebrations." "Why don't we retire for a slice of pie before the next battery starts up." "(laughing)" "Watch your step there." "A nice little piece of cake." "Wasn't that beautiful?" "Oh!" "Wonderful." "Yes." "Yes." "You know, Caleb, I'm a very smart man." "You know, I..." "There's something different about you." "I swim better here." "The salt keeps me up." "Maybe." "Maybe." "Could be that." "But I think there's something else." "They told you my real name didn't they?" "Oh, it's all right." "It's all right." "And now you owe me a secret." "I only know one." "Oh, no." "Don't tell me the one about the hen swimming in the buff at night." "You know that?" "Oh, everybody knows that." "But I think the real secret here is... you miss your Papa." "Both you and your sister." "Am I right?" "Yes." "And there is this." "Prairie dirt." "Oh, they're beautiful, the fireworks." "They're like the sunflowers in the fields at home, remember?" "(people cheering)" "I like your name." "Yaaay!" "(station bell ringing)" "Man:" "Over here!" "Excuse me." "Could you tell me where the Wheatons live?" "Get in." "I'll take you there." "I'm Chub..." "Chubbers." "Horatio Umberto Bell." "Jacob Witting." "Jacob Witting, yeah." "About time you got here." "Thank you." "My pleasure." "Mattie..." "Someone's here." "Who is that?" "Mattie, come quickly." "I think..." "It's him." "Harriet, it's him." "Caleb:" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "(dog barking)" "It rained." "It rained." "And there were fireworks, Papa." "Big fireworks." "How big is Moonbeam?" "Big, like you." "Restless like you." "Harriet:" "You want some food, Jacob?" "Harriet's solution to the problems of the world." "No, thank you." "I couldn't eat." "(seabirds squawking)" "(foghorn sounding in distance)" "Those sounds." "The sea." "Caleb." "Where are they going?" "It's all right." "They'll be back." "Caleb said it was cold, but... he didn't say it was so beautiful." "I love you, Sarah." "There are things that can't be written in a letter." "I'm not good with words." "You're fine with words." "I never thought you'd come." "I dreamed about it at night when the sea sounded like wind in the grasses." "I thought about it at night when Caleb had bad dreams." "I saw your face everywhere, Jacob." "Everywhere." "I'd look at the sea and I'd see your face there and in the sky." "When I looked at Anna and Caleb, you were there." "Once in the street, I saw somebody that looked like you and I rushed after him." "Once, I met the train because something told me maybe you'd be there." "But I never thought you'd come." "Here I was like a child come home to my beautiful sea and I should have been happy but I was frightened." "I mean, I am frightened because this terrible love for you is so strong that I've..." "I've never known such a thing before." "I know." "I never thought you'd come." "They're kissing and hugging!" "Of course they are." "Chub." "They're doing it more!" "Wonderful." "Once Mattie asked me how long I'd stay here and, uh, I know now." "I came to stay long enough to say good-bye." "I think, Jacob, our baby should be born on the prairie." "It's the right thing." "And you were right-- some things can't be written in a letter." "You-You said it once." "Sometimes words aren't--aren't good enough." "Jacob." "I see it!" "I see the house!" "Anna:" "And the new barn!" "(horse whinnying)" "(mooing)" "Oh, Moonbeam!" "And Nick!" "(barking)" "Welcome home." "Hello, Jess." "Your new kittens are waiting for you on the porch." "(meowing)" "Kittens?" "How was Maine?" "(laughing):" "Kittens!" "Sarah:" "Green, cool." "I'm envious." "Welcome home." "Thank you." "Jacob." "Thank you for staying." "And thank you for finishing the barn, Jess." "Everything's fine." "We got a level in the stock pond." "Look, Sarah." "Orange." "(kitten meowing)" "New wheat sprouting in the fields." "Can you stay for supper?" "Thank you, but I got a mare that's about to foal." "Uh-huh." "Maybe another day." "It's good to have you folks back." "There was talk you might be selling." "No, Jess." "No." "Won't be selling, Jess." "Good." "I might be interested in one of the new kittens." "Subs and sync by Marly"