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Synopsis: Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time. During the month of August, when tropical storms pound the coastline, a researcher registering the sound of the trade winds emanating from the Intertropical Convergence Zone arrives in their village. The high tides and the growing winds mark the following days of the village and a surprise discovery takes Shirley and Jeison on a journey that confronts them with the duel between life and death, loss and memory, the wind and the sea.
 
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Year:
2014
77 min
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- You're welcome.

Good morning.

Good morning.

- Do the mangroves lead down to the sea?

- Yes.

- Is it far?

- No, ifs near. Straight ahead.

- Any danger of getting stuck in the mud?

- No, ifs all sand.

That boy told me I might get stuck.

Only if you go through the mangroves.

If you follow the path, it's safe.

Want to have a listen?

Hold this.

What do you hear?

- She talks a lot.

- She talks a lot, does she?

I'm listening to Lucia.

Point it at her.

Come on, singer!

How do you do?

I'm here recording the Wind.

Could you tell me

of a quiet place around here

to record the sound of the Wind?

- Without any Wind?

- No, a place that's windy.

Where I can record

the wind blowing harder.

I don't know.

- Is there a quieter place around here'?

- I don't know.

- Can I record here?

- Sure.

How is it that they breathe?

I've seen it for myself.

The rocks have lungs.

What do you mean?

Rocks have lungs like a human being.

All living things need lungs to breathe.

I've dived amongst these rocks

and I've seen their lungs.

What are their lungs like?

The lung is made of...

made of rock.

It's several rocks that never

entirely come apart from each other.

They're always opening and closing.

As weird as it sounds,

the rocks have lungs.

Poor man.

There's nothing worse than dying at sea.

- But why bring him to the village?

- This will bring us problems.

The stink will be unbearable

when he bursts.

He should've called the police.

It would've been a lot easier.

The belly's so swollen from the rot,

I reckon he's been dead about five days.

- How do you know it's been five days?

- A fresh corpse sinks in the water.

- He should have left it.

- What about the hole in his neck?

It only floats after about four days,

when gases build up in the belly.

- I reckon about five days.

- It looks like a bullet hole.

It takes five or six days

for the belly to swell up like that.

Sometimes the police

dump bodies in the water.

Hello?

Is this the police?

I found a body at the beach.

I need you to come get it.

My name is Jeison.

The house has no address.

No, there's no door number, Officer.

The face is unidentifiable.

The fish feasted on it.

No. I live by the fourth turn

after the river mouth, on the left.

How long ago do you think he died?

Not long ago. A few days.

There's still flesh on the bone.

I don't even like talking about it.

I get all creeped out.

Are there any bullet holes in the body?

There are holes,

but you can't tell What made them.

- You really can't tell?

- No.

I would never have picked it up.

What if it were family?

Would you leave him underwater?

What the sea claims, the sea keeps.

Sh*t, What if it was you?

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