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In a desert dystopia, a modern Ulysses wakes up with no memory of his past in the arms of a shamanic Calypso. As his memories resurface, he struggles to understand if she is helping him or keeping him captive.
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00:00:00I'll see you next time.
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00:01:44You're home
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00:05:56Yeah, it's just a few hours and I'll be home.
00:06:01Yes, I am.
00:06:03I know.
00:06:04I have my cell phone.
00:06:06It may be old, but it works everywhere, even in the middle of the ocean.
00:06:10Okay.
00:06:11I'll see you soon.
00:06:14Bye.
00:06:15I'll see you soon.
00:06:22I'll see you soon.
00:06:24I'll see you soon.
00:08:03You're safe now.
00:08:06Where am I?
00:08:20Hey.
00:08:22Please.
00:08:24Please.
00:08:28Help me.
00:08:30What the hell is going on here?
00:08:34Calm down.
00:08:36I just had one of your things.
00:08:38What things?
00:08:40What things?
00:08:48What things?
00:08:50One of your seizures.
00:08:52You faint.
00:08:54And when you wake up, you don't remember anything.
00:09:00It usually lasts a few hours, and then everything comes back to normal again.
00:09:06But...
00:09:08You're awake now.
00:09:12And that's all that matters.
00:09:14Where am I?
00:09:16Where am I?
00:09:18You're home!
00:09:28It will be ready moments.
00:09:30Are we in the desert?
00:09:32We are.
00:09:34What desert is this?
00:09:38Everywhere we go is the desert.
00:09:42Why am I here?
00:09:44This is where you belong.
00:09:48What are you talking about?
00:09:50Your seizures?
00:09:51This must have been the strongest one.
00:09:52You went out to look for water.
00:09:56And I saw Condor's passing.
00:09:58And I wasn't far from there, so I came to see.
00:10:00And there you were, in the middle of the desert.
00:10:30So you hungry?
00:10:32I am.
00:10:34So you hungry?
00:10:38I am.
00:11:00I know you're starving.
00:11:02You must feed yourself.
00:11:16There's more if you like.
00:11:24I can't remember anything.
00:11:26Don't worry.
00:11:27It's just a matter of time.
00:11:28It's a big blank.
00:11:30I keep trying, but I...
00:11:34I can't even remember my own name.
00:11:36Ulysses.
00:11:38Ulysses.
00:11:39That is your name.
00:11:44And what is...
00:11:45Calypso.
00:11:50You were gonna ask me about my name, right?
00:11:52I have no memories of anything.
00:11:56You.
00:11:58Me.
00:11:59This place.
00:12:00It's...
00:12:01I didn't even exist until the moment I woke up.
00:12:04Maybe it's better that way.
00:12:06This way you can choose to be here.
00:12:08And be you.
00:12:10Instead of wandering like a castaway out looking for answers in the desert.
00:12:22If you'll excuse me.
00:12:24If you'll excuse me.
00:12:34When it first happened I was afraid to lose you.
00:12:36I cried for days.
00:12:38Even after you came back.
00:12:44Now I just wait.
00:12:48And see if our love is true.
00:13:08little point doesn't sound like a man.
00:13:10If you'd see me, my love is really sad.
00:13:11I need you to be afraid to have the best.
00:13:13If youged my love is true.
00:13:14I'm afraid you could take a lift...
00:13:16I'm afraid to have to walk.
00:13:17I'm afraid to have to.
00:13:18You got to walk.
00:13:19My name is really sad.
00:13:20You're like, please.
00:13:21You're like, I'm afraid to find my wife.
00:13:22I don't know.
00:13:23I've been hardest ..
00:13:24I'm afraid to have to.
00:13:25You're not so sorry..
00:13:26You're definitely not so sorry.
00:13:27You're not so sorry..
00:13:28If you're not so sorry.
00:19:31Come dance with me.
00:19:35No, I don't think I'm much of a dancer.
00:19:37You don't remember anything, so how would you know?
00:19:40Come on.
00:19:42Come on, have some fun.
00:19:44Yeah, I know this song.
00:19:47See?
00:19:48It's something you remember.
00:19:51What if I step on your toes.
00:20:00What if I step on your toes.
00:20:00What if I step on your toes?
00:20:01It's still not a song I can dance alone to, so...
00:20:03First time I met you, first time I met you, first time I...
00:20:33All day long, it's all day long, you know, it's all day long.
00:20:35All day long.
00:20:35All day long.
00:21:03Good morning, you know, it's all day long, you know, it's all day long, you know, it's all day long, you know, I'm not a little bit of a guy.
00:21:12Good morning.
00:21:22Good morning.
00:21:22Good morning.
00:21:22Good morning.
00:21:22Good morning.
00:21:24You know, wolves come out at night.
00:21:26It's not safe to sleep outside.
00:21:27Yeah, I must have fallen asleep.
00:21:28What were you doing out here?
00:21:30I was watching the stars.
00:21:34At this time of the year, the sun has left Sagittarius.
00:21:38So here we are, working unseen behind the layers.
00:21:41It feels to me like we're just stuck here.
00:21:46There's a constellation shining above us, from the darkest corner of the universe.
00:21:56Out.
00:21:57Out into the light.
00:21:59Swan.
00:22:00See?
00:22:01You never forgot how to navigate the stars, Ulysses.
00:22:19What is out there that you can't find here?
00:22:24I don't know.
00:22:27It's just a feeling, like I don't belong here.
00:22:31That's just a voice in your head telling you that we become what we behold.
00:22:36But if you lose yourself in this, you'll notice that that voice goes silent.
00:22:42And instead you'll discover that there is grace here.
00:22:47You'll just have to trust me.
00:22:49I want the answers.
00:22:50Is that what you want?
00:22:52You're not afraid of the unknown?
00:22:56I'm lost here, okay?
00:22:58I don't know who you are.
00:23:00I don't know who I am.
00:23:01It's only when we're lost that we are found.
00:23:08And I found you.
00:23:11I did.
00:23:12In the middle of the desert, close to death.
00:23:15And I keep finding you there every time you get lost.
00:23:18It's in our destiny.
00:23:21You, from time to time, getting stranded in this island that makes you forget everything,
00:23:26and me struggling to make sense out of all this for you.
00:23:30You know, every time you come back, I mourn the fact that it's going to end.
00:23:36How do you think that makes me feel?
00:23:39To know that everything I do just turns into meaninglessness.
00:24:00How do you feel?
00:24:01How do you feel?
00:24:08Help me.
00:24:30How do you feel?
00:24:31How do you feel?
00:24:32How do you feel?
00:24:33How do you feel?
00:24:34How do you feel?
00:24:35How do you feel?
00:24:36How do you feel?
00:24:37How do you feel?
00:24:38How do you feel?
00:24:39How do you feel?
00:24:40How do you feel?
00:24:41How do you feel?
00:24:42How do you feel?
00:24:43How do you feel?
00:24:44How do you feel?
00:24:45How do you feel?
00:24:46How do you feel?
00:24:47How do you feel?
00:24:48How do you feel?
00:24:49How do you feel?
00:24:50How do you feel?
00:24:51How do you feel?
00:24:52How do you feel?
00:24:53How do you feel?
00:24:54How do you feel?
00:24:55How do you feel?
00:24:56How do you feel?
00:24:57How do you feel?
00:24:58How do you feel?
00:25:59I saved it for a special occasion.
00:26:09Is this a special occasion?
00:26:12I don't know.
00:26:14But why couldn't it be?
00:26:22I cheer to your first memory.
00:26:32Oh my god, that's awful.
00:26:50Oh my god, that's awful.
00:26:52Oh my god.
00:27:04Oh!
00:27:12Oh!
00:27:16Oh!
00:27:17Oh!
00:27:20Oh!
00:27:21Oh!
00:27:22Oh!
00:27:25Oh!
00:27:26Oh!
00:27:27Tell me something about me.
00:27:38You know everything you need to know about yourself.
00:27:41I don't know anything.
00:27:43I have no memories.
00:27:44What do you need memories for?
00:27:51Okay.
00:27:53Tell me something about you.
00:27:55Something from your memories.
00:27:57Well, when I was a little girl, there was this big spider
00:28:07that built its nest and a hole behind my bed.
00:28:12I was so scared.
00:28:14I was even more scared to kill it, so I didn't.
00:28:18Every day, I would watch it get out of the hole
00:28:23and build a net between my bed and the wall.
00:28:29It's quite a fascinating process, you know?
00:28:34The architecture of the threads.
00:28:38It's the elegance and the complexity of the structure.
00:28:43It's just a work of beauty.
00:28:46Then once it was finished,
00:28:48the spider disappeared.
00:28:51It's gone.
00:28:52I even looked for it.
00:28:55There was nowhere to be found.
00:28:59So, I take a stick
00:29:02and I put it in the hole
00:29:06and I find an egg as big as a nickel
00:29:09filled with tiny little spiders right in the hatch.
00:29:14I waited for the spider to come back.
00:29:18But it never did.
00:29:20Meanwhile,
00:29:22the web kept filling
00:29:25with all kinds of flies and bugs,
00:29:29all trapped in that beautiful miracle
00:29:31that it had built.
00:29:36Then one day, the egg hatches
00:29:38and all those tiny little spiders
00:29:43went straight to feed on that feast.
00:29:46And by the time they were finished,
00:29:49that web was completely destroyed.
00:29:53After that, all the spiders were gone.
00:30:00And now I'm not afraid of spiders anymore.
00:30:16Good morning.
00:30:30Hey, good morning.
00:30:32I made you some...
00:30:35I don't know what.
00:30:39That's all I could find.
00:30:41They're wheat berries.
00:30:42I got them from a farmer
00:30:44who was driving across the desert
00:30:45the other week.
00:30:48I helped him find his way.
00:30:50So, he left two big bags of these as a gift.
00:30:53Somebody drove by?
00:30:55He was lost.
00:30:58Many people get lost in the desert.
00:31:04It smells nice.
00:31:15So, how often do people come around this area?
00:31:29They're lost people.
00:31:31It's hard to say when the next one comes by.
00:31:35Why?
00:31:35I just like to think that we're not alone here.
00:31:42I wouldn't mind seeing somebody else.
00:31:56We have nothing to worry about in the solitude.
00:31:58It's hard to tell.
00:33:29I had a dream.
00:33:38What did you dream?
00:33:39I dreamt of a house.
00:33:46A beautiful house and a beautiful garden.
00:33:49And in the garden I could pick any piece of fruit and it was always the most delicious fruit I ever had.
00:33:57And you were there with me, living in that house with our son.
00:34:08And then far in the distance there was this explosion and all of a sudden the wind started to blow so hard and within moments our house was completely covered with sand.
00:34:26Everything was gone.
00:34:32And all that was left was the desert.
00:34:33Well, it was just a dream.
00:34:36It felt real though.
00:34:39It felt like that was my life.
00:34:40This is your life now, Ulysses.
00:34:44It's just up to you to accept it.
00:34:47I know.
00:35:10I know.
00:35:11Let's go.
00:35:41Let's go.
00:36:11Let's go.
00:36:41Let's go.
00:37:11Let's go.
00:37:41Let's go.
00:38:11Ah, yes.
00:38:25This is it.
00:38:26Okay.
00:38:27All right, where's my crew, huh?
00:38:30All hands on deck.
00:38:32Let's go.
00:38:34Batten down the hatches, people.
00:38:36Let's get a move on now.
00:38:38Let's go.
00:38:39Anchors away.
00:38:39Anchors away.
00:38:41I want to go home.
00:38:42Center courts for home.
00:38:43Let's go home, people.
00:38:45Let's get the hell out of here.
00:38:47Keep a sharp lookout so we can make it home.
00:38:51I'm coming back in.
00:38:52I'm coming back in and I want to see you guys working.
00:38:55Everybody, we're going home.
00:38:58Land home!
00:38:59Let's go.
00:38:59Let's go.
00:39:10Let's go.
00:40:20Did you find something in the desert?
00:40:29You're spending a lot of time out there.
00:40:31Are you hiding something from me?
00:40:43No.
00:40:44I just like it out there.
00:40:48Good.
00:40:50Good.
00:40:54Good.
00:40:55Good.
00:40:56Good.
00:40:57Good.
00:40:58Good.
00:40:59Good.
00:41:00Good.
00:41:02Good.
00:41:03Good.
00:41:05Good.
00:41:37No!
00:41:42Damn it!
00:42:07All the traps were empty.
00:42:12Something will fall into it.
00:42:19All the traps were empty.
00:42:22Something is taking our food.
00:42:23Don't worry.
00:42:24The traps are fine where they are.
00:42:25We're not going to have anything to eat.
00:42:26We have plenty of food.
00:42:27We'll be fine.
00:42:28We have plenty of food.
00:42:29We'll be fine.
00:42:30We'll be fine.
00:42:31All the traps were empty.
00:42:35Something will fall into it.
00:42:38All the traps were empty.
00:42:40Something is taking our food.
00:42:41Don't worry.
00:42:42The traps are fine where they are.
00:42:44We're not going to have anything to eat.
00:42:46We have plenty of food.
00:42:48We'll be fine.
00:43:05You're not eating?
00:43:07I'm not hungry.
00:43:15You don't like it?
00:43:18I'm just not that hungry.
00:43:20You just need a short squeeze.
00:43:23I'm just going to put the space in myoke.
00:43:27I'm just going to put it on the floor.
00:43:29I'm just going to dry the stack down.
00:43:30I'm just going to dry theYA One a little bit.
00:43:31And, so, leave it.
00:43:33I'm sorry.
00:43:56I tried to do everything I can.
00:44:03But it's not working.
00:44:08Why can't you see it?
00:44:33Why can't you see it?
00:44:38I'm sorry.
00:44:42Why can't you see it?
00:44:48I'm sorry.
00:44:52Why can't you see it?
00:44:57I'm sorry.
00:45:01I'm sorry.
00:45:05Why can't you see it?
00:45:22Why can't you see it?
00:45:39Why can't you see it?
00:45:56Why can't you see it?
00:46:12Why can't you see it?
00:46:29Why can't you see it?
00:46:44Why can't you see it?
00:47:00Why can't you see it?
00:47:07All right.
00:47:15What?
00:47:16You're not gonna eat?
00:47:20This is a mistake.
00:47:25Those are the guardians of the desert.
00:47:27That animal belongs out in the wild, not on our table.
00:47:34I hunted this for us.
00:47:37And they will hunt us back.
00:47:40That is the way of nature.
00:47:43You should respect them.
00:47:47I will not have wolves take away our food.
00:47:52This is my land now.
00:47:54And I will fight to the death for it.
00:47:57Nature is like a flame.
00:48:00And it always emerges from the seas.
00:48:03And when it does, it will burn so hard.
00:48:09If I have to, I will take on anything and anyone coming my way.
00:48:15I will pray with you.
00:48:16I will not be coming my way.
00:48:17I will not know the feeling of suffering with you.
00:48:18I am not drinking it.
00:48:19But you are not drinking it.
00:48:20I will not be coming my way.
00:48:21I will not be coming my way.
00:48:22I don't know.
00:48:52I don't know.
00:49:22I don't know.
00:49:52I don't know.
00:49:54I don't know.
00:49:56Where are you going?
00:49:58Come back here!
00:50:00You can't kill me!
00:50:02You can't kill me!
00:50:04This is my land!
00:50:06My land!
00:50:08What is it?
00:50:12It's the wolves!
00:50:14They know where we live!
00:50:16You can't kill me!
00:53:50Did you miss me?
00:53:55Huh?
00:53:56I miss my Ulysses.
00:53:59Whomever you're becoming, I will never miss.
00:54:02This is the real me.
00:54:14This is the real me.
00:54:18This is who I am.
00:54:21This I can understand.
00:54:24The world out there makes sense now.
00:54:27You were right.
00:54:28You were right.
00:54:29You were right.
00:54:30Everything else, everything else was just imagined.
00:54:33That life, that life that I wanted, that I imagined, this is it.
00:54:37This is it.
00:54:38I just didn't see it.
00:54:39But I can see it, but I can see now.
00:54:42I can be now.
00:54:45You're senses are growing sharper.
00:54:58You're senses are growing sharper.
00:55:00Everything you see, everything you see, you see for the first time.
00:55:08You threw a stone into the water.
00:55:12And now you're staring into the ripple effect.
00:55:16You're entering a new place where both your body and your soul knows it belongs.
00:55:23This place is full of magical things, waiting for this moment to happen.
00:55:36You're becoming and transcending into your dreams.
00:55:51Where am I?
00:55:56It's going to get cold if you wait longer.
00:56:19It's your favorite dish, isn't it?
00:56:22It's your favorite dish, isn't it?
00:56:26Yeah.
00:56:27Yeah.
00:56:28Huh.
00:56:29Mm-hmm.
00:56:30Mm-hmm.
00:56:31Mm-hmm.
00:56:33So I like it that chamber is quite theaken.
00:56:40Look.
00:56:42Yeah.
00:57:12See?
00:57:14I'm already gone.
00:57:18Hmm.
00:57:19It's hard to cut this stuff out with the needles, you know?
00:57:35Yes.
00:57:36That's what I find works.
00:57:38There you go.
00:57:39There's a delicate movement.
00:57:41There's a big pile here.
00:57:43And you only need one cup to extract all of the meat.
00:57:48Let me show you.
00:57:49Ow!
00:57:50What's happening?
00:57:51Ah!
00:57:52You okay?
00:57:53Remember.
00:57:54I remember what I did.
00:58:06I remember what I did.
00:58:07I'm a soldier.
00:58:08I'm a soldier.
00:58:09I'm a soldier.
00:58:10I'm a soldier.
00:58:11I'm a soldier.
00:58:12I'm a soldier.
00:58:13I remember what I did.
00:58:14I'm covered in blood.
00:58:15I'm covered.
00:58:16I'm a soldier.
00:58:17I'm a soldier.
00:58:18I'm a soldier.
00:58:19I'm a soldier.
00:58:21I'm a soldier.
00:58:22I'm a soldier.
00:58:23I'm a soldier.
00:58:24You.
00:58:25I'm a soldier.
00:58:26Look at me.
00:58:28No, I'm a soldier.
00:58:29I'm a soldier.
00:58:30I'm a soldier.
00:58:31I'm a soldier.
00:58:32I'm a soldier.
00:58:33You good me?
00:58:34the gods are punishing me because they I sailed here and got lost at sea and they
00:58:42punished me they they trapped me I remember my son is waiting for me he
00:58:51thinks I said you think no I can't stay with you I gotta go
00:59:04you
00:59:34Go back!
01:00:04Hello?
01:02:34We need berries.
01:02:55No.
01:03:02No.
01:03:07No.
01:03:08No.
01:03:09No.
01:03:10No.
01:03:11No.
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01:03:35No.
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01:03:37No.
01:03:47No.
01:03:48No.
01:03:49No.
01:03:50No.
01:03:51No.
01:03:52Oh, my God.
01:04:22You look tired.
01:04:27I got lost.
01:04:32We all do at times.
01:04:35But you found your way back home.
01:04:40Come join me.
01:04:44No.
01:04:45I can't stay here any longer.
01:04:48I need to figure out who I am, and I can't do that here.
01:04:52There's nothing away from here.
01:04:58Who is he?
01:05:01I don't know.
01:05:04That is my son.
01:05:07You've been lying to me.
01:05:08Who am I?
01:05:09You're Ulysses.
01:05:11Stop lying to me.
01:05:12I saw the picture.
01:05:13Where's the boy?
01:05:14Ulysses, please believe me.
01:05:16There's nothing out there anymore.
01:05:18There's the desert.
01:05:20And that's all there is.
01:05:22I need to go home.
01:05:27There's nothing to go home to.
01:05:30This is your home.
01:05:33I can't trust you anymore.
01:05:34If you only knew the pain that is awaiting for you.
01:05:44You can't leave, Ulysses.
01:05:47This is your destiny.
01:05:48There's nothing to do.
01:06:02There's nothing to do.
01:06:04Slept well?
01:06:30What's going on in timey?
01:06:31And then what?
01:06:37Are you going to leave me all alone in the desert?
01:06:42You just don't get it.
01:06:44I don't belong here.
01:06:47Nothing exists anymore.
01:06:51Reality as you know it is gone.
01:06:54This is real.
01:06:58You and I.
01:07:01Here.
01:07:04Forever.
01:07:07You can't keep me here.
01:07:12This desert used to be for centuries the holy land of the indigenous tribes.
01:07:18My ancestors lived in this desert in complete solitude, feeding off of the little things
01:07:28the desert had to offer.
01:07:29And the plants that grow here, they don't grow anywhere else.
01:07:36Oh, Calypso, you have to let me go.
01:07:40Somebody is out there looking for me.
01:07:42Nobody's out there looking for you.
01:07:45There's nobody out there anymore.
01:07:47It's all been taken away.
01:07:52We're alone in this.
01:07:55What about Ithaca?
01:07:59Ithaca.
01:08:00Ithaca is gone with everything else.
01:08:03The gods have punished us.
01:08:08And if you hold on to that memory, it will destroy you.
01:08:14Kill me, then.
01:08:15I love you.
01:08:26Why would you want to die?
01:08:27I would rather die than spend another day here with you.
01:08:42There is no other life for you to live.
01:08:52This will help you forget all those sad memories.
01:08:57By boiling the flower of this beautiful tree, you get what my ancestors would call devil's
01:09:10breath.
01:09:11It was given to people who needed a second chance, and this one's yours.
01:09:20Calypso, please, I don't want to forget anymore.
01:09:26I want to keep my memories, our memories.
01:09:32I want to remember everything.
01:09:35I want to remember everything.
01:09:41I want to remember everything.
01:09:44I want to remember everything I had for you.
01:09:48Tell me you love me.
01:10:12I love you, Calypso.
01:10:14Tell me you love me.
01:10:18I love you.
01:10:22I love you.
01:10:26You're not going anywhere!
01:10:40I just can't leave me to you.
01:10:48You can't go.
01:10:52Please don't go.
01:10:56Please don't go.
01:11:10Please don't go.
01:11:14Please don't go.
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01:12:11Please don't go.
01:12:22Please don't go.
01:16:25Where am I?
01:16:29You're home.
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