"Tieta from the forest" "I start by warning..." "I'm not responsible for the accuracy of facts." "I don't risk myself, only a fool would do it... mainly because each one has its own truth and reason." "In this case, I see no perspective of agreement." "I thank anyone who could explain to me... when we reach together the end, the moral... if there is a moral, which I doubt." " only half of it?" " That's what the judge said." "Once Tieta is dead, we, her family... are entitled to half of all she had." "And what are we waiting to ask the heirloom to come?" "The other half belongs to the widower... who may be hiding her death so that he can keep it all." " Who said Tieta is dead?" " Of course she is, elisa!" "Dead, completely dead, absolutely dead!" "D-E-A-D!" "For 11 years and 7 months... since she married this rich industrialist..." "Tieta has sent us a letter..." "No, I want to put it away, Dona Perpétua." "She has sent us a monthly letter... with some money to help the family." "She has never failed." "Now, for four months, we haven't heard of her." "Maria da SaIete gave birth." "I saw this girl when she was so little." "She'II be a mom." "Dona MiIu will be happy with the news." "Imagine that, Dona MiIu, a granny." "Damn it!" "I told the judge that... as Tieta only gave us a P.O. box for her address... we only know she lived in Sao paulo... and we can not find out what happened." "Tieta never told us not even the Iast name... of her husband." "Afraid the family would abuse." "The judge then advised me to go to Sao paulo... to hire a lawyer, to look for the widower... and to try an agreement." "Are you going to do it... alone?" "Excuse me?" "A letter from Sao paulo." "What?" "The check." "Let me see..." "It should be higher, to make for the delay." "There was a death." "But it was her husband's..." "FeIipe..." "FeIipe CantareIIi, my unforgettable husband... almost a father, whose death makes me a miserable widow." "Thank God, the holy Virgin and Lady of Santana... my sister is alive." "Tieta is alive, mainha." "And you are going to meet her within a few days." "How come you know?" "Intuition." "Looking for comfort, Tieta has decided to visit us." "She'II spend some time to recover from the shock..." " in Santana do Agreste." " A place she left long ago." " Because she wanted." " Because she wanted?" "We'II stay at Ieast until Christmas." "I take Leonora with me, my stepdaughter... the daughter of my late husband's first marriage." "FeIipe CantareIIi." "Wait!" "If she inherited the stepdaughter... she must have inherited all the rest as well." "Even though we didn't know him, FeIipe was a relative." "uncle, son-in-Iaw... brother-in-Iaw." "When our beloved sister arrives... she'II find us suffering with her, in a painful hour." "In deep mourning." "I hope the marineti hasn't come yet." "That junk is always late." " What time is it?" " I don't have a watch." "If she were here, we would hear to the music." "And the mess in the square." "Everybody in town knows..." "Get away, get lost!" "The thing I wanted most was a watch." "But no Christian gives me one!" "You don't spend a cent you receive from Tieta." " You're richer than us." " Me?" "More than the daughters here who look after you." "Looking after me?" "Who?" "No one looks after me!" "I'm the one who looks after me!" "Pedro!" "You could hide your tits." "Tieta gave me this dress." "Before his death." "This dress is for balls, not for mourning." "Even in Sao paulo, mind it." "Long live Mr. José Esteves, father of our noble citizen." "They want her money." "Are you sure she comes with the marineti?" "Nobody says marineti, Ramiro." "The word is bus." "And how would she get here?" "By boat?" "It's her!" "They all say she was beautiful." " Who?" " Tieta, our sister." "Was she really beautiful?" "This is the goat Inácio, Lucas." "Come, Lucas." "You come with the wind of this vast raging sea... morning star with a glimmering magic..." "This marineti is always late." "But not today." "It's her, elisa." "It's our sister!" "It's too early, my daughter." "Save your tears." "Perpétua told you because she's angry." "Because no man looks at her." " What do the men give you?" " Nothing!" "I Iove Lucas." "Mr. Esteves!" "For heaven's sake." "She's just a girl." "Painho, will you allow a domestic to interfere?" "Don't you interfere, Tonha." "Happy is your mother who is no Ionger with us... and won't suffer the shame of seeing you with men..." " with any male around!" " I Iove him!" "Repeat it!" "Stupid!" "Get out of my place!" "I don't want to see you any more... because I'm not the father of a whore!" "But I'm your daughter." "Whore!" "What the hell?" " What's that?" " A boat." "Wasn't she brunette?" "With black hair?" "Aunty..." "I mean, Mrs. Antonieta CantareIIi?" "Who are you, my love?" "The aunt is not mourning!" "Tieta!" "Carm." "Gregório Eustáquio de Matos Barboza!" "Barbozinha, my poet!" "Sis!" "Perpétua?" " Perpétua, how are you doing?" " AII right?" " EIisa!" " And I'm Ramiro." "He is cute." "Hi, Tonho." " Your blessing, father." " My daughter!" "God gave me this happiness that I don't deserve... to see you... alive before I die." "Forget it!" "Those cars don't know the roads here." "I'm better off." " Jairo, what's up?" " Nothing, Dr. Ascánio." "They wouldn't bother to see me at the power company." "He said there was no answer for you, Mr. Mayor." "I'm not the mayor." "close your mouth, Dr. Ascánio!" "Won't you help her?" "What about our order?" "What a help for our weakness has come to Santana!" "Here it is." "This is to feed the cultural level here." "Ascánio Trindade, Secretary to the City hall." "welcome to Santana do Agreste, miss." "Don't mind the lack of progress and comfort." "I never imagined the city would be so cute." "Who's that over there?" "Tourists from everywhere will find this someday." "I'm sure, it's our destiny." "mel!" "mel!" "Go ahead, Mr. Mayor!" "mel!" "mel!" "That's it." "Time is up." "Now it's your turn." "No!" "Thanks!" "It was wonderful." "It's beautiful, sis, thanks." "I really needed a new one." "And this shawl..." "Perpétua, ask me the time." " beautiful!" " Come on, ask me the time!" "What time is it, father?" "I don't know." "So much gold is setting fire to me." " What did you get?" " It's none of your business." "What is the smell?" "Is it the leaves on the floor?" "They are pitanga leaves." "people use them as a perfume when they have a famous visitor." "Leave it!" "Leave it!" "well, I never imagined you had such a big house." "In your letters, you used to complain so much." "But...!" "This little house is everything I own." " Except for the rest." " I inherited from late husband." " The captain!" " No, the major." "A shame I didn't meet him." "A big idiot!" "Idiot?" "No, a hero!" "A very big hero!" "elisa!" "Turn it off!" "Turn off the noise!" " I'm sorry for all the joy." " I didn't want to disturb." "We're sad for your husband, but happy with your return." "My daughter, you inherited your husband's money, right?" "Dad!" "FeIipe's heir is Leonora, his only child." "He left a couple of things to me... but I Iive from my business, opened a Iong time ago." "Which I still have." "When FeIipe met me, I was a seIf-made woman." "After having gone through the worst days of my Iife." "But there's something left, right?" "Thank you." "Try it." "It's delicious." "Try it, my darling." "It's home made with bananas." "A whore's sweet." "What?" "It's the name!" "Whore's sweet." "It's true, dad." "I had forgotten." "Every whorehouse carries some." "It's almost nine." "It's four to nine." "Tieta from the wilderness, a prodigal daughter returns." "You come with the wind of this vast raging sea... morning star with a glimmering magic..." "Thank you very much, my poet." "Give it to me." "I'II read it before going to bed." "Is everybody going away?" "The lights go off at 9 p.m." "My Goodness!" "You still use generators?" "Santana do Agreste is the only place not included... in the electrification plan for the state." "Ascánio is working hard to bring electric power to us." "Since Mr. Artur gave me the authorization..." "I've been many times to EspIanada to discuss this." "But so far it was in vain." "Mr. Artur da Tapitanga?" "Is he still alive?" "Tieta, my sis... what is this business you have in Sao paulo?" "Your blessing, aunty." "Ricardo, my son, open it, it's a gift from your aunt." "Is this Ricardo?" "You could help Ascánio to bring the energy." "I know." "call the senator." "You're really interested in helping this mayor." " Ascánio is not the mayor." " What civic awareness!" "The senator is always at home, when he's in Sao paulo." "Who is it?" " Did the uniform fit you?" " It did." "Quite well." "I made a mistake." "I didn't imagine you so grown up." "You will sleep here?" "You are brunette!" "I'm sorry you and Peto had to give me your room." "It doesn't matter, aunty." "I liked it." "In Mangue Seco, I always sleep in the hammock." " Do you want to be a priest?" " My mother promised God." " What a waste!" " What?" "My back is aching!" "I almost died in that road!" " I couId massage it for you." " Can you do that?" "I do it always for mother." "She's got problems too." "It must be a family problem." "There." " Rub it hard onto my back." " Leave it to me." "Rub it really hard." "When I asked a husband, my Lord..." "I promised you our first son, in exchange." "I fulfilled my promise." "To the line!" "But I gave you my son for the rest of his life!" "And the major lasted so little!" "You took him away so soon." "Six years and one month lasted my happiness." "And your part on our deal." "Therefore, my Lord, today, I can say I'm your creditor." "My Lord!" "I'm a poor widow, thinking on the future of my kids." "That's it!" "Hard!" "Have you considered if my sister dies now?" "Everything she owns may go into the hands of that girl!" "That idiot!" "That's why I wanted Tieta to adopt one of my children." "And she would take him away with her." "If it's Cardo, Peto goes to the seminar." "I will not give up my promise." "If you give me this bliss, I can't pay you." "I'm poor, you know, I am." "The major left very little." "But if you bless me, I promise to go as far as Bahia... with the two boys and there I will walk to the Bonfim." "I will order a mass in the cathedral... and I'II put their pictures in the miracles museum." "If Tieta adopts them both... there'II be a choir in the mass!" " What are you doing?" " What?" "It looks like you're praying." "To massage your aunty's back is not a sin." "It's not that." "I pray when I do some work." "If the monster comes, I'II call for you, right?" "What a good breakfast!" "With tapioca, canjica..." "I don't know why but whenever I get up early..." "I'm not feeling hungry." "Try something, my darling, before he eats it all up!" "She'II try if she wants to!" "hello?" "I want to talk to the senator." "tell him is Tieta, from the wilderness." "Senator?" "I'm Tieta!" "How are you doing?" " Have you been in Sao paulo?" " How come she has a phone?" "I was here already." "How did my girls behave?" " Weren't you the only child?" " I am." "What about these girls?" "The girls?" "They work with her." "Santana do Agreste!" "My home town!" "It's the only place here not included... in the electrification plan for the state." "An absurd!" "Are you going to read in the beach?" "Barbozinha's!" "Poems from the wilderness." "Ascánio gave it to me." "You've missed the mass... and are about to miss the transport to Mangue Seco." "If I don't send Peto, you'd sleep all Sunday through." " What about Cardo?" " He asks for your blessing... but could not stay, because it's Sunday, and he works at the church." "That's a disrespect with his aunt." " Sis, I didn't think you'd..." " Who'II look after us?" "I will, aunty." "Com." "Dário is waiting for us." "He'II look after us." "Did you hear that?" "One can sin in thoughts too, Carmosina." "Not only the virgins are pure and virtuous." "Are you still a virgin?" "Amen, you sacristy serpent!" "Sometimes virtue is nothing more than lack of options." "But it's beautiful, mommy." "This doesn't exist!" "It's so beautiful that I couId die here and I would die happy." "What a bad omen!" "Stop it!" "You know, Nora, when I was a little girl... we used to spend the weekend here, under the palm trees." "We could build a summer house here in Mangue Seco, Nora." "This land belongs to Modesto Pires... owner of the tannery, tobacco warehouse and others." "And he's a Ioan shark too." "Com." "Dário owes him a Iot." "Dona Antonieta, I must go back for the others." "tell me, this business of Tieta is a luxury shop?" "Mommy doesn't like us to talk about it." "It must be." "Very elegant, very rich... selling to the high society in Sao paulo." "The story of girls working for her is that." "sales clerks." "beautiful young girls, parading across the shop... forcing the customers to buy." "So?" "Is that right?" "If it's not a luxury shop, what is it then?" "It's a luxury shop, all right." "But don't tell anyone, please." "That's why Tieta never told the family... nor gave her address." "Can you imagine them all showing up?" "Imagine painho beIching among those elegant people?" "And Perpétua in the cash register." "She's right." "What a beautiful Iobster!" "I know what business you have in Sao paulo, end of mystery." "The luxury shop, mommy." " The luxury shop!" " Perpétua guessed." " There comes someone!" " It's Ascánio Trindade!" "Look at that!" "Did you know?" "I swear I didn't." "So what?" "I had to come and tell you, Dona Antonieta." "I have been fighting for long." "And you called up a senator... and within three days..." "It looks a miracle!" "Are you telling me you rented a boat, came down the river... crossed all those dunes on a donkey, legs aside... on a Sunday... just to tell me that?" "Thank God I arrived at the City hall in time." "The men were almost giving up talking to the mayor." "They'II start the work right away." "We'II have electric power till next year." "Thanks to you." " I just helped a bit." " Care for some liqueur?" " The work was all yours." " Tieta is our guardian angel!" "And Ascánio Trindade our captain of the dawn!" "You know, Nora... it was here, in these dunes, that I lost my virginity." "My goodness!" "A peddler." "SmuggIer." "And it was here too, in these dunes... that Lucas taught me the Y." " The Y?" " I can tell you, pauIista." " You?" " Cupertino Batista Júnior!" "I have never practiced, but I have been taught." "Look at that." "Com." "Dário has a chess board at home." " Can you play, Leonora?" " Chess?" "Nice, isn't it?" "It is." "Africa is on the other side." "On the other side of the sea." "Yes, it is." "Africa." "Some years ago, my ship had a technical stop in Bahia." "And they brought me here, to know the place." "Within few days, I decided to stay." "After that I retired and never left Mangue Seco." "Tieta." "That's the way I'm called." "What an honor to do business with you." "Just tell me how much you want for the land, Mr. Pires." " I pay cash." " There's no need of money." "If you agree, I exchange it for your car." "My car?" "My love, that's an imported car!" "It's worth much more than a plot of land in nowhere." "Mr. Pires can assume salaries and construction material." "And I give you the change you consider fair." "And you will forgive Com." "Dário's debt with you." "Due to a Ioan at too high interest rates." "deal." "A house in Mangue Seco!" " Perpétua will say..." " It's an absurd!" " Madness!" " A waste!" "Money put away!" "For God's sake!" "Don't throw the cigarette away here." " I never saw mommy so happy." " It's pity I can't stay." " Do you have much work to do?" " The usual." "It's been a Iong time I don't look at the sky." "As the Secretary to the City hall..." "I've ordered Saint George a beautiful moonlight tonight." "A moonlight for lovers." "It's a pity you won't be here." "I had never seen a helicopter before!" " What are you doing here?" " Mainha told me to come." "She told me there should be a person with you always... and I'm the only one strong enough to help." "Peto will substitute for me at the church." "Mainha is always alert." " Take that cassock off!" " Yes, ma'am." "It will disturb you here!" "The young man is Ascánio Trindade." "How do you do?" "I'm Stefano, from the Embratánia Company... and I would appreciate talking to you, Dr. Ascánio." "In private." "Titanium dioxide." "The last word in technology in the developed world." " Won't this cause pollution?" " absolutely!" "almost nothing!" "After all, isn't it worth losing a plantation... to be in the developed world, Dr. Ascánio?" "I'm no doctor." "I didn't graduate." "Our people flew over here and are interested in Mangue Seco." " In the palm trees?" " It's a deserted region..." " it offers less risk..." " Less what?" " mei!" " Sorry?" "mel was the nickname of the mayor's wife, AméIia." "She was much younger and ran away with a peddler." "The problem, my dear Dr. Ascánio... is that we need some discretion presently." " Tourism." " Sorry?" "until Embratánia decides... we'II say it's a tourism plan and justify your interest." "Tourism is a good thing." "It provides jobs.... brings money and makes the land more valuable." "When they get here, not even a crab will survive." "I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt... but crabs don't die that easy." "I never heard of a poison that could kill crabs." "It's getting late." "The men want to go home." "I need to go too." "After dark, the boat cannot cross the river." "Take a ride and go with Ascánio, Nora." "What?" "Cardo will look after me." "My holy Virgin!" "A flying saucer!" "Merry Christmas!" "For you all in Santana do Agreste." "These are the wishes from the Embratánia Company." "Embratánia greets the children the future of our country." "Merry Christmas!" "Get out of there!" "Get hold of the presents, Peto." "Everything!" "The commander told me to look for you." "And why are you standing there looking at me?" "You know?" "I don't want you here anymore." "Go home, today!" "please, aunty." "Don't do that to me." "If I go back, mainha will want to know why." "She might kill me!" "please, aunty." "well then, I leave." "Not even a car, you stupid!" "Not even a damned trumpet, you bastard!" "And I want to know who's going to clean this up?" "What about Ricardo, sis?" "He's in Mangue Seco, looking after the construction." "You parboiI the maturi." "After that, you simmer it..." "with garlic and tomato sauce." "You take the dry shrimp... and the nuts and grind them together." "After that, you add coriander, milk... get the pottery, put a little bit of oil and..." " That's it!" " Hi, mommy." "Imagine that!" "Tieta can cook maturi pot." " How was the funeral?" " Great." "I know what I'm doing, Perpétua." " Give it up!" " Go pray!" " I will." " Pray for me." "Ascánio gave me this gift." "With Mauritonio Dantas dead, Ascánio will be the mayor." "Good grief!" "You're familiar with the local politics!" "col." "Artur will tell the people to vote for him." "He owns almost all the land in this town." "He commands." " You two have already..." " Come on, mommy!" " I don't know the colonel." " No, my girl!" "I mean you and the captain of the dawn." "You made love?" "In the evening, we walk by the square... and before the lights are off, Ascánio sees me back home." "Sometimes he kisses me on the face before leaving." "And nothing else." "It seems some kind of tribute he's paying me." "In my modest opinion, a man's tribute is something hard." "Why should I dream?" "I am what I am." "We'd better go back, before I faII more deeply in love." "You can't go back." "And it was foolish to fall in love... mainly by this guy, who knows nothing at all." "Since I was a child, I never liked young goats." "The good goats are those aged and experienced." "help me, mommy." "To faII in love is something we shouldn't do." "It spoils the life." "We believe we have control of everything." "The heart knows what to do." "Then you realize..." "I'm sorry for you, I know this won't work out." "But there isn't another way." "You didn't decide to come just to help me, did you?" "I don't know." "I was thinking about the trip ever since FeIipe died." "Then your problem came about and helped me to decide." "Excuse me." "I have to show you something before you leave." "Don't tell me you're in love, too." "What is it?" "A dream." "I thought I saw myself here, the day I Ieft in the truck." "How come you break down like this?" "But where are you taking me?" "hold on." "It's close." "What do you want to show me?" "Here?" "But this land was yours." "The land is still the same... but Inácio was much better than that old goat." "The different between this goat and Inácio... is the same between me and the colonel." "Ask Tonha if I don't fulfill my obligation every day!" "almost every day." "When the colonel assumed my flock and my land... it was like a whole piece of me was taken away." "But when you returned... something tells me I will have my goats back." " Trusting my money." " Whom should I trust?" "elisa?" "She only thinks of fashion." "Ramiro is worse than nothing." "If I didn't pay attention to my money all the time... he would steal it!" "The one you sent to me." "Perpétua is too mean." "col." "Artur told me that he would sell it to you." "He said it:" "I sell to Tieta, I can do business with her." "Before I die, I'd Iike to have this joy... as God has given me the joy of seeing you... and I didn't deserve." "Stop it, it's not your style." "And don't flatter me." "I'm telling the truth." "I spent my Iife with the goats." "I wouldn't like to die far from them." "Ask the price to the colonel." "AIdair kicks to Baianinho, what a good player!" "Bebeto comes on the Ieft, he kicks to Romário goal!" "Aunty?" " Merry Christmas, Cardo." " For me?" " Is there someone else here?" " You're not angry any more?" "What about mainha?" "Does she know..." " Of course not, Cardo." " Thanks, aunty." "On Christmas e New Year, they have light till morning." "And the people stay out, all night through." " would you prefer to be there?" " Me?" "You sleep outside." "I sleep inside." "Yes, ma'am." " It's heading south." " Shame it doesn't stop here." " What?" " Nothing." "I know I promised." "But it's too expensive." "He's abusing." "If you don't want to give all the money..." "I can help with some savings, a fund." "And I can help with the money I used to send from Sao paulo." "OK, dad." "tell col." "Artur I'II pay him... when I go to Agreste for the New Year's." "AII right." "But, Tieta, if it's not too much..." "I'm desperate to conclude this before New Year's." "What a hurry!" "Are you escaping your grandfather?" "I'm not." "I'm escaping from you." " Do you think I'm pretty?" " What?" "I don't know a woman." "Don't be afraid... neither from me, nor from God." "Can one love God without fearing him?" "Go and come back soon, there's a Iot of work to do." " Yes, Cardo, come back soon." " Yes, ma'am." "Cardo!" "Wait!" "Stop!" "I'm going with you to take painho to the boat." " Right, painho?" " I don't deserve." "My God!" "Aunty..." "Tieta." "And don't mess God with this." "He's got nothing to do." "He and I need you for different missions." "If you set the times properly it will work out." "Don't worry, no one is looking!" "I mean... almost anyone." "It's all mine, Tonha!" "AII mine!" "This land here is mine!" "With a registered document!" "It's all mine!" "The goats are mine!" "This goat is mine!" "Mine, Tonha!" "A male!" "A goat better than Inácio." "This goat is..." "Respect..." "Mommy!" "My son!" " My condolences." "Are you sad?" " I am." "But I have never been so happy." "Mommy!" "We were waiting for you, sis." "I'II be with you soon." "You and Cardo, mommy?" "What about Ascánio?" "He gave me all this." "I wanted to show to you." "I want to know if he has given you something else." "I hope the old Zé Esteves meet a big flock of goats." "Avaricious." " Yes, he was." " No!" "You!" "CouIdn't you buy a better coffin?" "tell Ramiro to buy a luxury one." "I pay." "We have to take care of the inheritance now." " What inheritance?" " Every month, poor man... he would hide his part... of the money you used to send from Sao paulo." "Tonha might know where the money is." "And there's the gold watch you gave him!" "The watch!" "Come with me to the gate?" "I'II say good-bye to Perpétua." "Tonight, I'II take Ascânio to the gate." "I know it's not the time for celebration... but I have a piece of news that I want to share with you." "Today, by unanimous vote, the City hall was authorized... to give the name of Antonieta CantareIIi... to the first public place of Agreste with lights." "I mean, Antonieta Esteves CantareIIi." "I'm taking Leonora back to Sao paulo." "Back to Sao paulo?" "Nora is suffering for you." " For me?" " I don't want her to see you." "You don't want Leonora with a poor man like me." "She must be promised to some elegant man there." " It's not that." " I'II be the mayor here." "I'II bring progress to Agreste and Leonora will be proud." "You will bring progress?" "This will take time." "Nora can't wait." "Leonora is very naive." "She had a big depression that harmed her health." "She was engaged with an idiot who wanted her money." "And she did all he wanted." "Thank God almighty... the police were after him." "And he got arrested." "But the poor one was sad, sick, even anemic." "That's why I brought her here, to recover from that." "Why hasn't Leonora ever told me?" "She was afraid of what you might think." "In my time, in Agreste, a girl had to be virgin... or she'd be finished, a prostitute." "useless." "I think it's still like that." "But in Sao paulo it's different." "I mean, the bastard didn't take only her money." "Do you understand?" "I thought you'd ask me to leave Leonora alone." " I wanted to marry her." " And is virginity important?" "So many men marry widows, what's the problem?" "But a man in Agreste wouldn't marry a girl who's not virgin." "At the most, she can become his mistress." "Like Modesto Pires and carol." "Go to hell!" "Nora is on vacation!" "She has to enjoy herself." "You two should relax." "You have nothing to lose." "Good night, Dona Antonieta." "There, Nora!" "Now I bet you don't go back untouched." "full of glory, he promised..." "Dawn'II shines upon the Agreste like jewelry." "Does jewelry rhyme with glory?" "He took away her virginity." "He took away her virginity!" "And you must be asking yourself if she was taken heartIessIy... fooIed by some bastard... or if in the proceedings of the sexual act... she experienced violence and sweet pleasure... and felt delighted, right?" "Come on, the end of virginity is not the end of the world." "Here's Zé Esteves' money." "He kept in his mattress." "Keep the money, Tonha." " And keep the watch, too." " She's not part of the family." "She put up with Zé Esteves all these years... and she's EIisa's mother." "Tieta's in favor of the stepmother's class." "My sister has a big heart." "Jairo brought a huge box for Ascânio." "Seems like it's a gift from the tourism company." "They say that there'II be light even in jail." "You and Ramiro are taking care of dad's land." "Thank you very much." "But if you really want to do something for me... there's one thing I want in this world go to Sao paulo with you." "Without your husband?" "I don't know if he want's to go, I didn't ask." "But you could get us a job." "Anything, really." "At your store in Sao paulo." "Take me with you, ma." "I wasn't born to live here." "call me aunty, Iike everyone else." "Whatever you say, sis, but take me with you." "And do what?" "Betray Ramiro and become a whore?" "Did you hurt yourself?" "This blue mark?" "I hurt myself in Mangue Seco." "Poor girl." "I wanna do something for my nephews, Perpétua." "They have nothing to do with what you've done to me." "I agree." "I'II pay for Peto's education until he graduates." "As Cardo's seminary is free, I'II open him an account." "I might take one of them to Sao paulo." "He can get his a education there." "hello?" "Does the colonel know you wanna make the plant here?" "And that it'II destroy the palm trees?" "Litter the ocean with toxic waste... poison the air, the river and kill all the crabs?" "I swear I didn't know all about this." "To be honest..." "I never knew what titanium dioxide was." "But the press may be overreacting." "How can we trust you if you lied to us?" "I did that for the progress of our land, for Agreste." "No." "You did that for Leonora." "Leonora has nothing to do with this." "The rich heiress in Sao paulo." "I saw your despair at Zé Esteve's funeral... when Tieta took you to the gate." "She must've said that her stepdaughter... is not fit for a scoundrel like you." "Embratânio must be paying you a fortune... to make this poison plant that everyone despises." "With all this money, you'II propose to Leonora... take her to Sao paulo and screw Agreste!" "That's not it!" "God!" "Let's go, Carmô." " playboy bastard!" " Captain of the apocalypse!" "I've done a Iot of thinking, but I can't forget you." "Why do you wanna forget me?" "You're rich, I ain't got a penny to my name." "AII I'II do is embarrass you." "exactly, you'II embarrass me." " You don't know me..." " I don't want to know." " I consider you a widow." " A widow?" "You'II be proud of me someday." "Our night life gets better by the minute!" "Come in." "Perpétua eating supper." "Don't you want to join her?" "Didn't you go to church?" "Since Mr. Zé Esteves died, Perpétua doesn't let me go." "Want some wine and bread?" "No, please!" "I haven't stopped eating since I got here." "I'm gonna get fat as a whale and have to go to a spa." "Where?" "Forget it." " Happy New Year." " Happy New Year, Tieta." "Leonora's kissing Ascânio in front of everyone!" "Son of a bitch!" "Now he's gonna screw her!" "Sorry." "Don't let this go on." "This will ruin Leonora's future." "Who's talking about the future?" "You look very handsome tonight." "He ordered a dossier in salvador." " About the titanium dioxide." " Sis..." "Good night." "tell me something." "Did Perpétua and the major kiss each other in public..." "like Leonora and Ascânio did tonight?" "Never, but on the other hand..." "Can you excuse us for a minute?" "The major was pretty stupid, a jerk, an ass, a clown... but not totally despicable." "He was quite a man!" "girlfriend!" "I'II talk to you later, commander." "How did it go in church?" "We all missed you, sis." "Me and Tonha." "I'm starting to miss Sao paulo... my girls." "Your store's saIesgirIs?" "I bet they're having a party." "I wish I were there." "What about us?" "We don't count?" "We're worthless?" "You care more about them than your family?" "Of course not." "calm down, he's coming." " It'II be dark soon." " He must've needed the car." "This isn't right." "God can't intrude in my Iife, I don't intrude in his." "A deal is a deal." "Stay here and wait." "I'II send back the boat." "I want him in Mangue Seco today." "I had never seen you before." "I hardly ever go into town." "I always see you in church." " How old are you?" " I have to leave." "Virgin Mary!" "Where did you learn how to kiss?" "Around, by myself." "By yourself?" "No man has ever stood me up like this." "This smells like pussy." "Where is he?" "Ricardo?" "Isn't he in Mangue Seco with you?" " Ricardo!" " Aunt?" " Tieta." " Bug off!" " Tieta." " Fuck you!" "elisa, turn down the radio!" "Why?" "Shit." " Gimme a beer." " Yes, mam." "Water!" "Don't waist time asking for me to support your politics." "I'm not staying here." "I'm not getting involved in your war!" "Sorry, but this has nothing to do with the new plant." "It has to with how brazil wants to live in the future." "I don't now about my future!" "How can I know about the country's damn future?" "Why do I have to say something about everything?" "Why can things simply be?" "I'm gonna run for mayor against Ascânio... to try and stop the pant from being built in Mangue Seco." "congratulations, but I don't vote in Agreste." "I don't want your vote." "I want you to ask Artur not to interfere... and let the people choose the mayor." " We'II take care of the rest." " I'm a goat shepherdess." "Do really think the colonel'II talk to me?" "He might listen to you." "I guarantee the world is practically all rotten." "There are few places like Mangue Seco." "Now paradise become sewer." "A sewer is necessary, commander." "Shit must go somewhere." " Are you nervous, sis?" " Me?" "No way." "Yes, I am!" "Very nervous!" "Because your stepdaughter's not here yet?" "I didn't want to say this, I hate gossip... but everyone's talking." "Leonora's been seen every night with Ascânio... by the river." "By the river!" "Son of a bitch!" "Bastard!" "I'm gonna kill you!" "I'm gonna kill you!" "Your dead meat, you son of a bitch!" "Come back." "I'II kill you!" "You pervert!" "Son of a bitch!" "I'm gonna kill you!" "Son of a bitch." " Aunty, I can explain." " Aunty, my ass!" "For crying out loud, what's the matter?" "What are you looking at?" "Ricardo didn't go..." "to Mangue Seco, that's why your mad." "Sure." "He was probably playing ball." "He deserves to be punished." "Did you by any chance notice he was naked, sis?" "It's very hot." "Don't play dumb!" "You know Ricardo's screwing me, dammit!" " What do you mean, screwing?" " The major never told you?" "That means your son, that son of bitch... betrayed me with that little bitch!" "That slut!" "No man has ever done that before, dammit!" "Dear heavenly Father!" "You've mislead the poor boy." "You've ruined his life." "You can't lead astray an innocent boy without..." "What?" " Paying?" " There's no way you can pay!" "There's no way to pay for a mother's broken heart." "No?" "Come here, Iet me show you, bitch!" "Come, you fuck!" " I'm gonna show you!" " What?" " Come on!" " Let me go!" " There's no way to pay?" " The demon's in you!" "Go in, dammit!" "There!" "I'II pay for son's virginity." "There's more than you imagine." "Now, you should adopt both of the boys." "So, you want me to become my lover's mother... so you can get what you want, right?" "Don't say that, sis." "If you tell me something I've always wondered..." "I promise I'II put you in my will." "If I can." "You and your husband, the major... did you just play mommy and daddy... or did you ever get hot and screw your heads off?" "Respect the dead, bitch." "I heard the major was a sex pro in all of Bahia." "Is it true, Perpétua?" "Is it true?" "tell me." "Come on, sis, tell me!" "The major was the only man I've ever known." "God took him away from me soon." "Too soon." "We slept together in the same bed... beneath the same blankets... for only six years and one month until he died." "But the major gave me two sons... and left me 2,220 nights to remember... including the one in the leap year... in which he could make a queen out of any woman!" "Can you imagine?" "We were talking and I cracked her up with something I said." "Good night." "We'II continue tomorrow." "Sure." "We'II continue tomorrow." "Don't bother cleaning this mess." "I'II ask Araci to take care of this tomorrow." "Son of a bitch!" "I'm sorry." "Where did you meet that...girl?" "I liked her, Tieta." "Come on, everybody." "It's time to go!" "The wilderness' Sharon Stone is about to take off." "What are you doing here, you excommunicate?" " I'm leaving." " With who's permission?" "Nobody's." "I'm gonna live in salvador." "Get off this bus." "You have to obey me!" "No, ma!" "I'm not getting off." "You don't look like my son anymore." "Aren't you afraid of God's punishment?" "God has nothing to with this." "Who gave you money for the ticket?" "I never thought Ricardo was fit for priesthood... but I never thought he was in love with that gal." "gal!" "She's a kid." "actually, I thought he was in love with his aunt." "Sorry, but I even thought the both of you..." "Sorry, I know it was silly of me." "Don't worry, ma." "I'm not running away." "I'II come back." "But I need to go." "Give me your blessing." "I'm backing up!" "You know, it's time for me to go back to Sao paulo." "But before I go, I'm doing what the commander asked me." "That newspaper was hidden in the Marineti." "Embratânio chose a beach near of the capital... to install he titanium dioxide plant in Bahia." "We were neglected!" "The plant is not being built in Mangue Seco!" "Santana do Agreste will never move forward!" "And now you tell me you're going to Sao paulo." "It's ma's decision, not mine." " What's that?" " A wedding ring." "It belonged to my ma, and my grandma." "It's yours..." "if you accept it." "I can't marry you." "Why?" "Because I'm only good for a summer adventure?" "Because you can only marry those rich guys from SP?" "Sorry, but I'm not what you expected." " I Iove you." " I Iove you too!" " So why don't you marry me?" " I can't tell you!" "The secret's not only mine." "Give me one reason to believe you love me... and I'II be happy... with enough strength to fight against the devil." " Even the devil?" " Trust me, my love." "I'm not rich... my father's not an industrialist... and I'm not Tieta's stepdaughter." "I've heard so much about the colonel all my Iife." "I doubted you actually existed." "I remember you as girl... when you herded your father's goats... in nearby land." " That you took away from him." " As payment for his debts." "So, colonel, what's your decision?" "I can't betray my godson nor demoraIize myself." "You don't care if the plant destroys the landscape... the animals, the children, and everything in Mangue Seco?" "Ascânio..." "Com." "Dario... you... me... no one can stop them from building the plant." "Why did you come back?" "I Ieft as if I were a piece of trash." "I wanted to come back like a queen." "You are very beautiful indeed, Mrs. Antonieta." "Tieta!" "Do you know what she is?" "An industrialist's widow?" "Mother?" "Owner of a clothes store in Sao paulo?" "She's a prostitute!" "She owns a whorehouse in SP!" "Do you think she missed the Agreste and her family?" "No, her protégée's lover deals drugs and is in jail." "The younger whore came to hide from the police!" "And FeIipe... is the name of the guy who paid the older whore." " Romantic, don't you think?" " How do you know it's true?" "The young whore told me." "I proposed, and she said she couldn't marry me... because she's a whore and works for that bitch." "Two sluts and a clown." "What did you do with Nora?" "Where is she?" "I offered her a job as the city's whore!" "She can screw all of our honorable citizens... with the City's consent." "I've already spread the news." "Everyone's gonna fuck her!" "Where is she?" "Where?" "She hired a boat." "Must've gone to Mangue Seco... fooIed around with the fishermen." "What?" " The colonel told me to..." " Move it." "Let me drive!" "Is it true?" "Now what?" "Are you leaving?" "What about me?" "You made my son leave me!" "It'II be your fault if I stay here alone!" "How much do you want now?" "Is Nora in Mangue Seco?" "Nothing's gonna happen to us here... in the middle of nowhere." "Nora!" "She was in the water." "I was close and brought her back." "No one can forbid me." "Let me die." "If you say that again, I'm gonna beat you up!" "My God!" "Stay, Tieta." "How, Barbozinha?" "Marry me." "Marry?" "I'm not the same guy as before." "The mileage's pretty high." "But I'm an honorable one." "And must be a great boIero dancer." "Not now... but when I get real old..." "I'II come back... and then we'II get married." "Did you read the newspaper?" "Embratânio is not a threat to Agreste anymore." "The plant'II built somewhere else." "You can come back in peace whenever you want." "Mangue Seco will be the same as it's always been." "That's what you think." "Nothing stays the same." "I'm gonna tell you something." "No one fools me." "One look and I know what they're worth... their character and the size of their dick." "Their character and..." "crazy woman!" "Where are you going?" " Take me with you." " I already said no." "I'II do anything, sis." "I'II be a whore and work in your whorehouse." "The other girl can teach what I need to know." "Take me with you." "Don't leave me here." "Come on, elise." "Let's go." " please, Tieta." " Let's go home." "Why don't you treat her how you treat those sluts?" "She'd be the happiest pussy in Santana do Agreste." "Can you tell me where the City hall is?" "For what?" "We're got start installing the lamp posts." "Tieta, light!" "Your light." "I'm backing up." "Are you crazy?" "Don't be stupid." "Women who share their pussy with all the guys are sluts!" "Sorry, elisa." "Come on." "Don't you Iike the sound of that?" "That fucking Marineti always breaks down... right in the mud." "Sometimes, it barely leaves town, and... it breaks..." "it shatters completely." "And it takes time to get it fixed... my friend." "The lady's sad, right?" "No, she's just thinking." "Pay attention!" "My sweet countess!" " Don't do this to me!" " Is it bad?" "Don't worry." "The damn thing will be OK." " She's playing with us." " Hurry up." "We have to go to salvador to catch a plane to Sao paulo." "It's truly a marathon." "We can go straight to Sao paulo If you want." "The Road Empress can go as far as you want." "Shut up!" "Let's go." "Don't embarrass me, you bitch." "It's captain of the dawn." "He wants to say he loves you." "He wants you to live with him in Agreste." "He's saying he loves you." "Hurry up or I'II miss my plane." "Here, take this." "Thank you, beautiful." "I knew she wouldn't let me down." "See?" "A few kind words and she gets better." "Deep down, she just wants to be loved." "And who doesn't?" "The people from Agreste are actually good people." "I know." "A bit ignorant, but then who isn't?" "They like you very much." "They'II never forget you." "With all the mess I've made, of course they won't." "That's life, Mrs. Antonieta." "Some people were born just to make a mess." "Tieta, Jairo." "call me Tieta." "hall, electricity!" "The blue sign didn't last long." "It was replaced by a wooden one... made by someone's anonymous hands... the people's hands." "TIETA FROM THE WILDERNESS Á Á"