Fernanda Torres, who first played young Áurea; Áurea now is played by Fernanda Montenegro who first played Áurea's mother, Maria). Eventually, he meets Áurea in person who begs him to take Maria with him. This he does, promising to look after her, while Áurea contently stays with Massu in the desert. About three decades later, Maria finally returns to the house she grew up in. She finds her gray-haired mother, sitting by herself at their old kitchen table. They happily reunite, and Maria brings deep joy to Áurea when she plays a tape-recording of "real music", Frédéric Chopin's Prélude "Raindrops", op. 28, no. 15. Contemplating the moon together, Maria tells her mother that man had landed on the moon (in 1969). Áurea, remembering a conversation she had with Luiz fifty years earlier concerning Einstein's theory of Special Relativity, asks her daughter whether the astronauts, travelling at high speed in a rocket, returned younger than they left. Maria, unlike her seemingly isolated mother not acquainted with the twin paradox (that Luiz attempted to explain to Áurea in 1919, and the latter did not entirely understand), states that they returned older. When asked what they found on the moon, Maria replies: Nothing but sand. Cast Fernanda Montenegro as Dona Maria/Áurea/Maria Fernanda Torres as Áurea/Maria Ruy Guerra as Vasco de Sá Seu Jorge as Massu – 1910–1919 Stênio Garcia as Luiz – 1942 Luiz Melodia as Massu – 1942 Enrique Díaz as Luiz – 1919 Emiliano Queiroz as Chico do Sal João Acaiabe as Massu's father Camilla Facundes as Maria – 1919 Production In this movie Andrucha Waddington directs his wife Fernanda Torres in a sex scene with Seu Jorge. He said the couple was afraid that scene would really end their marriage. Awards This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Footnotes External links Sundance Film Festival award winners Alfred P. Sloan Prize winners Brazilian drama films 2005 films Films directed by Andrucha Waddington Sony Pictures Classics films Films set in Brazil Films shot in Brazil