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Set in the scorching heat of a Spanish summer, the film follows Rose (Fiona Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey) as they travel to the seaside town of Almería to consult Gómez (Vincent Perez), an enigmatic healer who may hold the key to Rose’s mysterious illness, which has led her to now use a wheelchair. But in the sun-drenched town, Sofia, trapped till now by her mother’s condition, begins to shed her inhibitions as she is drawn to the magnetic charms of a free spirited traveler, Ingrid (Vicky Krieps). Sofia’s increased freedom becomes too much for her controlling mother, and as the hot sun beats down, their relationship simmers with pent-up resentments and bitterness, threatening to tear the fragile threads that hold them together.
Transcript
00:00What would you do if I could walk and be happy?
00:18Is anyone else in the family?
00:21There's no one else, just me and Sophia.
00:23I waited a long time for my only.
00:25What are you going to do?
00:26You can't be a nursemaid all your life.
00:30Look at all this blue, Sophie.
00:43I was waiting for a long time.
00:48She'll be listening out for me.
00:53What has your mother told you about her family?
00:57Something happened to her.
01:00I can feel it in her body.
01:02As a child, you hated change.
01:04You were always fearful.
01:06You were never brave.
01:07I'd rather be dead than shackled, wouldn't you?
01:11What you are contemplating is quite brutal.
01:17Sophia?
01:18Sophia?
01:19Sophia?
01:19Go, go, go!
01:21Sophia?
01:22Go, go, go!
01:25You're so much of me!
01:27So much!
01:31I can't walk.
01:33You don't believe me, but I can't.
01:36Sophie.
01:38You're a monster.
01:39Yeah.