The Well (2025) Movie Script
1
[sound of ocean waves]
[sound of waves continues]
[dark, atmospheric music]
NEWSCASTER: Academics
and scholars calling
the decades-long shift
towards privatization of water
a re-feudalization of the state.
A new report
is sounding the alarm
about the access to water
around the world.
NEWSCASTER 2: Humanity's
lifeblood, water,
is increasingly at risk
around the world,
due to vampiric overconsumption
and overdevelopment.
NEWSCASTER 3: Privatization
by companies like Tru Water
is categorically
anti-democratic.
NEWSCASTER 4: Breaking news
out of Philadelphia,
city officials are monitoring
the water supply...
NEWSCASTER 5: Scientists
have now isolated
the waterborne virus...
NEWSCASTER 6: Dizziness,
shortness of breath,
high fever, followed by
respiratory failure...
NEWSCASTER 7:
[speaking in French]
WOMAN: He's got
black marks on his chest.
I don't think he's breathing!
NEWSCASTER 8: ...the waterborne
virus that has spread
across the globe...
NEWSCASTER 9: Countries
around the world
are rushing to secure supplies
as panic buying and hoarding
over fears...
NEWSCASTER 10: World Health
Organization warns of
medical system collapse
across the globe.
Record number of deaths
reported today...
NEWSCASTER 11: Water refugees
crowd borders seeking asylum
to newly-established blue zones.
MAN: They keep talking about
these "blue zones,"
but they're not telling us
how to get there, you know?
NEWSCASTER 12: This is now
the largest mass migration
in human history.
MAN 2: Where are we
supposed to go?
They promised to take care
of us; everybody promised.
[helicopter and sirens]
NEWSCASTER 13: Chaos
in the streets.
Protestors resist orders
to report to the controversial
new refugee camps
as access to
"blue zones" is suspended.
[sound of crying]
WOMAN 3: They call it a camp.
I call it a prison.
WOMAN 4: We got no water!
We need help! We need help!
[water dripping]
[metal creaking]
[rope creaking]
[insects buzzing]
[water sloshing]
[birds chirping]
-Oh!
[Sarah giggles]
-Sarah, how would you like
if I threw this at you, huh?
SARAH: You won't.
No, Dad!
[laughing]
[birds chirping]
[water sloshing]
[creaking]
[bell ringing]
[crows cawing]
[wings flutter away]
[crows cawing]
[stream rushing]
[flies buzzing]
[fire crackling]
[sighs]
-How many days would it take
to walk to the ocean?
-A long time.
-You don't know, do you?
Have you ever
even been in the ocean?
-What's a long time for you?
[cutlery clinking]
[fire crackling]
ELISHA: Eat your food, please.
-I'm not hungry.
ELISHA: I'm not asking.
[owl hooting]
[night creatures calling]
-Quit it.
SARAH: How do stars work?
PAUL: I dunno, you're gonna
have to ask your mom.
-'Cause she's smarter than you?
-Funny, but true.
But I do know that
from the closest star...
it takes light
four years to reach us.
-So...
when the light was made,
Ben would've still been alive.
It would've been easier for her
if it had been me.
PAUL: Hey.
Hey.
It's not like that.
[owl hooting]
[coyotes barking]
[leaves rustling]
[laboured breathing]
[mumbling under his breath]
[birds chirping]
-Let's start it from there.
[crow cawing]
[birds chirping]
ELISHA: We work our way
back from here.
East or west?
-East.
-[metal clinks loudly]
-[man yells in pain]
-Mom!
SARAH: Mom?!
-My foot's stuck.
I just wanna get it out.
-Behind.
ELISHA: How many are with you?
-Uh...
I'm on my own.
I've...
...been looking a long time.
-Don't touch it.
-Mom...
-I said leave it, Sarah!
-But Mom, look!
ELISHA: Go get your dad.
PAUL: Where did you get this?
-[exhales]
My dad.
My dad gave it to me.
-What's your name?
-Jamie.
Guys, please...
My foot.
-Do it slowly.
[Jamie breathing heavily]
[grunts in pain]
-Uncle Paul, I'm not sick.
[lock clicks]
ELISHA: It's not him.
It can't be.
-And if it is, 'Lish?
[birds calling]
You took this picture.
-I remember.
PAUL: Look at Tim, huh?
Always the great dad.
-[tearfully]
Ben looks happy.
He looks happy.
-Jamie...
He's the right age.
[birds calling]
JAMIE: Can I have some water?
[dark, atmospheric music]
-Hands up.
-[slurping water]
[crickets chirping]
-Is he gonna stay, Mom?
ELISHA: I don't know.
[dark, atmospheric music]
[dreamlike, happy voices]
[sombre music]
[chickadee calling]
[dark, atmospheric music]
-[grunts]
[door unlatches]
ELISHA: Show me your skin.
-[sighs]
ELISHA: Turn around.
We'll wait 24 hours to be sure.
[water sloshing]
[birds chirping]
ELISHA: It's okay.
It's safe.
JAMIE: I thought it was
just a story he told.
I thought he made it up.
[water trickling]
[sniffles]
[cutlery clinking]
SARAH: How come
you never came before?
-Oh.
I was in a camp.
[clears throat]
Got picked up after
the reservoir got hit.
-And your parents?
ELISHA: How'd you get out?
JAMIE: I walked out.
ELISHA: They let you?
-Someone, um...
someone helped us.
-Who's "us"?
Does anyone know
that you came here?
No one can know.
You understand?
-I thought they made it.
That's why they never came.
-[humming]
[ominous music]
[water sloshing]
SARAH: Mom! Dad!
PAUL: Maybe it's the filter.
ELISHA: We'd have to
get down there to see.
I'll do it.
-No, no, no, it's too heavy.
What about the boy?
ELISHA: No.
-She's strong.
ELISHA: It's a good
40 feet down.
You're looking for
the well screen.
It's a pipe, upright,
buried in the foundation.
That's gonna be gravel.
-What do I do with it?
ELISHA: You might
have to dig it up.
It's probably
blocked with debris.
And then pull it up with you.
PAUL: It's gonna be heavy.
SARAH: Okay.
PAUL: Focus on
what's in front of you.
-You alright?
-Yeah.
Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
-[straining with effort]
SARAH: [screams]
Stop!
ELISHA: Stop, stop!
-Okay...
Okay, go down a bit!
SARAH: Okay, down, down...
[Paul grunting with effort]
-Okay!
[water sloshing]
[water sloshing]
Okay.
Fuck!
-Sarah!
-What happened?
Are you alright?
SARAH: I'm okay!
[stone clunking]
[water sloshing]
[grunting with effort]
-Okay! Okay, okay, pull up!
ELISHA: Up, up...
[Paul grunting with effort]
-[breathing heavily]
[Paul straining with effort]
ELISHA: You alright?
-I'm fine.
I'm fine.
ELISHA: Good girl.
[Sarah breathing heavily]
[ominous music]
PAUL: It looks like
it's cracked.
-Let me see.
-If we don't get something
back in there soon,
it's gonna start
filling in itself.
We need supplies,
something metal.
ELISHA: We've maybe
got a week's reserve
until we run out.
Fuck.
Leave it.
JAMIE: Uncle Paul, there's
nothing left in Blind River
but snipers and rats.
I know another place.
Please, let me take you there.
ELISHA: Where?
PAUL: Just take care
of these two, okay?
-We don't need taking care of.
Why can't I go with you, Dad?
-Sarah--
JAMIE: I actually know
what's out there.
Why won't you just listen to me?
-I'm not a kid anymore!
-I know you're not!
-There's nothing there
but death!
ELISHA: Enough.
-I'm trying to help you.
[Paul sighs]
[crow cawing in distance]
[crickets chirping]
[water trickling]
[metal clinks softly]
[sound of Sarah breathing]
-[quietly]
I know a place.
Sarah... I'll be back.
Promise.
[Sarah exhales]
[bird calling in distance]
JAMIE: Go home!
-Wait!
It's not our land past here!
-It's the best spot
to cross the river.
Go home.
[birds chirping outside]
[blows air]
PAUL: Elisha...
Have you seen the kids?
Elisha...
-Sarah!
[birds chirping and calling]
PAUL: Sarah!
[birds chirping]
[dark, tense music]
SARAH: We shouldn't
go down there.
[sound of stream flowing]
SARAH: Jamie!
[bark cracking]
SARAH: It's dangerous!
[wood creaking]
[unsettling music]
[sound of stream flowing]
[unsettling music]
[wood creaking]
[sound of stream flowing]
[singer vocalizing]
ELISHA: How could
we be so stupid?
-He was family.
-I can't go through this again.
-'Lish, 'Lish,
we will find her, okay?
We will find her.
He was hurt;
he couldn't have gone that far.
-We know he came from the west.
We should start there.
-And-- and if she comes back
and nobody's here?
-I'll go myself, then.
-What, you can't trust me
to do this-- this one thing?
-I can't just sit here!
-And I can?
-You'll need supplies.
You're no good to her dead.
[emotional music]
[singer vocalizing]
[singer vocalizing]
-Where are we going?
-Place I used to live.
-The camps?
-No, another place,
uh, a day's walk from here.
I know someone there
that can help us.
But when we get there, just...
do what I say.
-What do you mean?
-There's different rules
out here, different protocols.
-Like what?
-Like just do what I say!
SARAH: Do you remember me
from... before?
-I try not to remember before.
-What happened to your brother?
-There was a family that came...
and... they needed help.
My parents let them stay...
but then Ben got sick.
We didn't even
get to touch his body.
My parents don't like
to talk about him.
-I understand that.
-I don't.
Your parents...
they got it too?
-My mom, she did.
-And your dad?
-I wasn't the sick that got him.
[dark, atmospheric music]
[leaves rustling in wind]
[sound of knife scraping]
JAMIE: It's alright,
it's alright.
Yo, why you poking me
like that for?
-Where've you been?
Who's she?
-Who's asking?
-[sniffs]
We're about the same size, eh?
[loud crunch]
-What're you doing
this far out?
-I was worried
I'd find your body.
-I was just on my way back.
-Where'd you find her?
-She got turned around
in the woods.
She's good, though.
Don't worry about it.
[Jamie grunts]
-Don't look so good.
Gabriel's been worried sick.
[sombre, mysterious music]
[sombre, mysterious music]
[distant, dreamlike laughter]
[sombre music]
[exhales]
[Jamie grunts in pain]
MILLY: Hey, girl,
you got any water?
-She doesn't have any.
MILLY: A couple days
without now.
JAMIE: So why'd
you come out this far?
MILLY: You didn't come back.
She was worried.
[takes lid off]
Thinks you're
walkin' in chaos in here.
JAMIE: She ain't got
nothing to worry about.
[sombre music]
[flies buzzing]
[ominous music]
[underwater ambiance]
[baby coos]
WOMAN: [softly]
Yeah.
[baby cooing]
[baby cooing]
[woman humming]
WOMAN: That's it?
Okay, okay.
Took a couple stitches
to sort you out.
-Where am I?
-We never agreed
on a name, but...
I call it Maine 'cause
I always wanted to live there.
[chuckles]
-[chuckles]
[birds calling outside]
-You gave us a bit of a scare
coming in like that.
Do you mind holding onto
this guy while I clean this?
-Oh...
-It's okay.
There you go.
Nice and easy.
Yeah.
[baby cooing]
-Infection is not our friend,
so you'll need to keep this nice
and clean as much as possible.
I was training in herbalism
before the breakout.
The medicines we used to
manufacture were based on plants
from the natural world.
-Like nettles?
-You know how to spot nettles?
That's good.
[baby fussing]
WOMAN: Hm...
Open up.
It's for the ache in your head.
It's alright, love.
Come on.
There you go.
I'm Wanda.
That's Beau.
He likes you.
[bird calling]
-He should be down there.
[bird calling]
[wind chimes clinking]
[sound of woman humming]
[humming gets louder]
[humming continues]
[fire crackling]
[humming stops]
-Would you like to sit down?
Whatcha making, Mill?
-A bear.
For Beau.
-Aw, that's nice.
It's lookin' good.
You must be hungry.
MILLY: I'm hungry.
-You're always hungry.
[chuckles]
-Where's Jamie?
MILLY: Jamie!
[wind chimes clinking]
-You were gone
a long time, Jamie.
I was worried for ya.
-I know. I'm...
sorry about that.
-Well...
it's alright.
You're here now.
That's all that matters.
-Found Sarah in the forest.
-Is that right?
All alone?
JAMIE: Her family was killed
trying to get to the blue zone.
She ran.
She got away.
-Oh, that's an awful thing
for a child to bear.
Sarah, have you managed
the chaos in your heart?
[mysterious, unsettling music]
-Hm. That's alright.
Go find something to do.
Dinner won't be long.
[resumes humming]
SARAH: Why'd you say all that?
JAMIE: Don't mind what I do.
Just keep your head down.
We won't be here long.
I know where to look.
[dark, atmospheric music]
[water trickling]
-Didn't think we'd see you back.
JAMIE: I said I would be.
-Mm-hm.
Mm-hm...
Who's she?
JAMIE: Sarah.
She's good.
WALTER: Anyone check her?
JAMIE: Yeah, I checked her.
-Did anyone else check her?
-I checked her.
Wanda checked her.
-What exactly
are you looking for here?
JAMIE: How's the level?
-Take a look for yourself.
We'll be drinking
piss water soon enough.
[bell rings outside]
-Well, I guess that's dinner.
-[baby fussing]
-WANDA: Come on, baby, please.
[baby fussing]
-Why won't he drink?
-I don't know, hon.
MILLY: Maybe you're dry up.
-Could be.
MILLY: He looks skinny.
WANDA: You think so?
-What did you give me before?
-Uh, just a little weed oil,
hon, for the pain.
Okay...
SARAH: What's the deal
with Gabriel?
MILLY: What do ya mean?
-She seems...
different.
-She is.
[mysterious music]
[bird calling in distance]
[breathing heavily]
[mysterious music]
[breathing heavily]
What's the plan here, Paul?
What's the plan?
[sombre music]
ELISHA: [in a whisper]
They can't stay.
[distant, dreamlike laughter]
Fuck.
Fuck!
[wind chimes clinking]
-Not a drip of waste,
as my mother would say.
-Did he build that?
-My brother was always
mechanically inclined,
even when he was a child.
Jamie, can we talk?
[wind whistling]
[indistinct whispering]
[fire crackling
and crickets chirping]
[inhales]
[baby crying]
[baby crying]
MILLY: Tell us
somethin' new, Gabriel.
GABRIEL: Something new today...
Well, we talked before
about the river of Hades.
How it circled the Underworld
seven times,
separating itself
from the land of the living.
But there's not just one river.
There's five...
each with its function.
But I've always found the most
interesting to be the fifth one.
Lethe.
The river of oblivion.
Upon entering the Underworld,
the dead would drink
from the waters of Lethe
to forget
their earthly existence.
-But why?
-Why?
Why forget?
MILLY: Shame?
-A-ha!
Our shame.
Our regrets that tie us down
to our earthly bodies.
But to drink from
the waters of oblivion
is to loose
the ties of the past,
and ease our transition
into our immortal existence.
[laughs]
To... let go!
Ah, imagine the freedom.
Of all of that...
pain and...
suffering.
[sighs]
-And the good parts?
Do we lose those too?
[fire crackling]
-Everything comes at a cost.
-But it's just a story.
[crickets chirping]
I'm just a poor,
wayfaring stranger
Travelling through
this world below
There is no sickness,
no toil or danger
In that bright land
to which I go
I'm going there
to see my father
And all my loved ones
who've gone on
I'm just going o'er Jordan
I'm just going o'er home.
GABRIEL: Where would we be
without beauty like this?
WALTER: Well, that's all for me.
[fire crackling]
-Is... Walter the father?
-No.
The camps were
a difficult place.
GABRIEL: We were
test rats to them.
Used us as they saw fit.
[fire crackling]
-It was no place
to raise a child.
It's not so easy
out here, either.
MILLY: But we're free.
[dark, intriguing music]
[baby fussing]
-Come on...
He's losing weight.
-I brought you some extra.
Maybe it'll... help.
But it's all we can spare.
[baby fussing]
-Thank you, Gabriel.
[baby fussing]
GABRIEL: I'd like you to
come see me, Sarah, alright?
I'd like to speak to you.
-Okay.
[baby fussing]
SARAH: Is he gonna be alright?
-I don't know, hon.
I don't know.
[wind chimes clinking]
GABRIEL: [exhales]
Are you nervous?
There's no need to be.
-What did you do with my rifle?
-You don't trust easily, do you?
Where'd you learn that?
If you want to know
what it's like to be free,
you're gonna have to
learn how to trust.
Do you want that?
-I am free.
-I mean in here.
I put it somewhere safe.
-But it's mine.
-What does that mean?
-It belongs to me.
-[chuckles]
You know, I have
a tree in my yard,
and it's over a century old.
Does it belong to me?
-I-I don't know.
-There's no ownership here.
There's no mine,
there's no yours.
Where are you from, Sarah?
-South.
-Oh.
-We moved around a lot,
and then...
then my dad heard rumours.
-What rumours?
-That the checkpoint
was abandoned.
But...
it wasn't.
-Well, you survived out there
for a long time, then.
All alone?
You must have been so afraid.
-Yeah.
-Honesty is very
important to me, Sarah.
I take it very personally.
[unsettling music]
[unsettling music continues]
[plastic rustles]
[unsettling music intensifies]
[gun cocks]
[ominous silence]
-I don't mean any trouble.
I'm just looking
for my daughter.
-[gunshot]
-Aah!
-[gunshot]
-Oh!
[gunshot]
[dramatic music]
[baby fussing]
SARAH: I wanna give this to you.
It's clean.
I swear.
[baby fussing]
[tense, atmospheric music]
[footsteps]
[insects chirping]
-Don't touch that.
[Sarah gasps]
WALTER: That's the only thing
keeping us all alive.
-Sorry.
-What are you doing here?
-Just looking.
-Looking for what?
-Nothing.
Just looking.
-Secrets are dangerous
around here.
-What's all this, Walt?
-Caught her
rifling through the shop,
looking for this.
-Hm...
How odd.
-[slap]
-[Sarah gasps]
-[slap]
-[Sarah gasps]
-Um, you got some...
[emotional music]
[Sarah crying]
[crying]
ELISHA: Shh... it's okay.
[breathing heavily]
[grunts in pain]
[groaning]
[door opens in distance]
[fire crackling]
WANDA: How's that leg of yours?
Pain getting worse?
-It's fine.
-You got something to say?
-Who gave that to you?
-Sarah did.
I need it for him.
I'm sorry.
Jamie...
what's going on?
Let me help you.
[fire crackling]
[humming]
[sound of someone crying]
[drops logs]
MILLY: Gabriel!
Gabriel!
[stream flowing]
[boy crying]
[stream flowing]
[crying]
-Hello, there.
What's your name?
BOY: Sam.
-Is it just the two of you, Sam?
-My mom.
[crying]
GABRIEL: You shouldn't
drink from the river.
It's sick.
-She didn't mean to!
It's just...
we were so thirsty.
[crying]
-Hey...
It's okay.
-She won't wake up!
-I'm sure she'll be okay.
You must have walked so far.
-[crying]
-[sighs]
We know what we have to do.
He's a danger to all of us.
-We don't know that!
GABRIEL: We're short
of water as it is.
SARAH: He's just a kid!
GABRIEL: Whose only thought
is to be with his mom.
Each of us will someday die,
and one life is not
more important than the other.
Do you think your life
is more important than his?
-No.
-And his yours?
[Sam crying]
[tense music]
WANDA: Gabriel, don't!
-No!
-[gunshot]
MILLY: Was he infected?
Could you see?
SARAH: I couldn't tell for sure.
-Murder.
That's what it is.
-We'd all be dead
if it wasn't for her.
WANDA: That's not enough.
It never was.
[insects chirping]
[dark, atmospheric music]
SARAH: You all act like
nothing happened.
-How are we supposed to act?
-You could make her leave.
Why are you all
so afraid of her?
-Okay, it's not fear.
-Then what?
Jamie, what?
Talk to me!
-She was the one
that made us believe
there was only one way out.
And I dunno, maybe there was!
-From the camps?
Tell me.
-The guard.
He was just a kid.
Barely older than me.
-She killed him?
-When my dad found out the plan,
he wanted us to stay.
I couldn't stay in there.
So I did what she
told me to do, and...
I left with the group.
She got us out,
and I left him behind.
-So he's still in there?
-There was a spot in the fence
where'd leave notes.
I'd go there at night.
And he told me
what he was gonna do.
He was done.
[hawk calling]
[Paul breathing heavily]
[unsettling music]
[gasps]
[sombre music]
[dreamlike voices
and laughter]
ELISHA: Mommy's here.
[Gabriel exhales]
[fire crackling]
We hold...
we hold up our pain.
We hold onto it
and allow it to define us.
It matters to us
more than anything.
All this...
suffering.
We can't see...
We can't see...
all this...
suffering and suffering.
We can't see it,
we can't see it.
All this suffering.
For what?
For what ?
[mysterious, atmospheric music]
[whittling sound]
[approaching footsteps]
[stops whittling]
What do you want?
SARAH: I need your help.
-[sighs]
With what?
-Can I trust you?
-[sighs]
That's not up to me.
[whittling continues]
WALTER: Why did you come here?
What is that?
Where'd you get this?
[slams counter] You want me
to help you or not?!
-It's from my family's well.
I've been gone too long already.
My parents...
We're running out of time.
We need to get back.
Please...
I'll do whatever you want.
[metal clinks]
-You know she had
a family once, too?
A husband.
A daughter of her own.
She was a good mother.
I'll need a couple of hours.
Come back for it
after nightfall,
when everyone's asleep.
She catches you with this...
you won't be going anywhere.
[sombre music]
[chandelier creaking]
[baby cooing]
[emotional music]
[stream flowing]
[crickets chirping]
SARAH: [softly]
Jamie...
Jamie...
JAMIE: Walter?
You gotta keep going.
-We better.
-I need to stay here.
I can barely walk.
I'll just slow you down.
-But I want you to come.
-Sarah...
Please, Jamie,
they won't be mad.
I-I promise.
-Head to the tracks.
Follow them over the bridge
and through the town.
You remember from there?
Don't worry.
I'll come when it's safe.
[blue jay calling]
[sighs]
[baby fussing]
WANDA: I know...
You're up early.
Did we wake you?
-Wanda?
-Mm-hm?
-I know a place with water.
Clean water.
And we have a garden, and we
take really good care of it.
And the water I gave you,
it's from our well.
-What do you mean, a well?
-It's my grandpa's.
It's on the other side,
but that doesn't matter
because we have to go right now.
[door opens]
-Go where?
WANDA: No one's going anywhere.
We're just talking nonsense.
Jamie...
Oh, you're feverish!
Sit down.
[Jamie groans in pain]
[baby crying]
-Aw...
[baby crying]
WANDA: Sarah, hon,
run and grab me some nettles.
Mind you don't get stung.
Use a cloth, okay?
-[baby crying]
-Oh yes, come.
[ominous music]
GABRIEL: [laughs]
Oh... hi.
What were you saying before?
WANDA: Gabriel...
-Wanda?
[baby crying]
GABRIEL: Oh no, it's alright.
What's the matter?
Oh, come here...
Oh, yes.
WANDA: Give him to me.
GABRIEL: It's okay.
[chuckles]
We've been good to you here,
haven't we?
SARAH: He wants his mother.
WANDA: It's okay.
-GABRIEL: Oh, no, no, no.
-[baby crying]
-Give him here.
Now, Gabriel.
[baby quiets]
-It was his idea, you know.
All this.
WANDA: What idea?
GABRIEL: To find the well
his daddy spoke of,
then bring us there.
-They're all just stories.
None of it's real.
-Stop lying!
-I'm not!
-You're lying!
You see how we suffer?
-[baby crying]
-Stop crying!
JAMIE: I found it!
[baby crying]
Our family has a well
on the other side.
And it's clean.
But it needs to be fixed
before it fills in.
[baby crying]
[baby quiets]
[swigs water]
[baby coos]
[unsettling music]
GABRIEL: Mmm.
[Paul breathing heavily]
[insects buzzing]
[knife unsheathing]
[mysterious, atmospheric music]
PAUL: I'm sorry.
I couldn't find her.
-It's okay...
It's okay.
Let's get you home.
-I just need to rest a minute.
[coughs softly]
[Paul winces]
-It went clean through,
at least.
That's good.
-I'll try again in the morning.
-You need to stay here and rest.
-When Ben was born...
I couldn't imagine
he'd disappear.
And love turns around
on you into hurt.
So bad you can't even breathe.
[crying]
-We'll find her.
We'll find her.
[sombre music]
GABRIEL: This train is
bound for glory
This train
This train is
bound for glory
This train
[Milly joins in]
BOTH: This train
is bound for glory
Carry nobody but
the righteous and the holy
This train is
bound for glory
This train
This train don't
carry no lies
This train
This train don't
carry no lies
This train
This train don't
carry no lies
No hypocrites,
no midnight fliers
This train...
[sombre music]
WALTER: Looks like we're
on foot from here on in.
[Gabriel sighs]
[bell rings]
-[sighs]
-You don't look so good.
-I'm fine.
I'm fine.
-This is as far as you go.
-[scoffs]
Put down the gun, please.
Don't be selfish.
We've come all this way.
-Just you.
You're not coming.
-[scoffs]
[Elisha panting]
-Sarah...
JAMIE: She's right, Gabriel.
You're a danger to us all.
[unsettling music]
-[gasps]
-Both of us are.
-[exhales]
WANDA: Open your shirt.
[sombre music]
[Gabriel sighs deeply]
-[crying]
No...
-Milly, no.
MILLY: What did you do?!
[crying]
-Oh, Jamie...
[Milly crying]
ELISHA: Sarah!
[panting]
ELISHA: Are you hurt?
[emotional music]
-How could you be so stupid?!
-Comes naturally, I guess.
I remember you, you know?
I always did, 'cuz.
GABRIEL: I see you.
You think you deserve more
because you've always had more.
We all end up
in the same place.
[chuckles bitterly]
[emotional music]
SARAH: Dad...?
[emotional music]
[sombre music]
[exhales]
[emotional music]
[leaves rustling in wind]
[sound of ocean waves]
SARAH: My dad told me
weight is like
the Earth pulling
you down against it.
That the bigger you get,
the harder it pulls,
and that's what
keeps you on the ground.
[soft, peaceful music]
SARAH: I wish it could be
the other way around.
SARAH: I asked him
what happens when you die.
Where does the weight go then?
SARAH: He said some of it goes,
and some of it stays behind
with the people you love.
It goes down into the soil
and makes all kinds of new life.
SARAH: I think someday
things are gonna change.
Life will be better.
People will be free.
And we'll go see the ocean.
[soft, hopeful music]
[singer vocalizing]
[sound of ocean waves]
[sound of waves continues]
[dark, atmospheric music]
NEWSCASTER: Academics
and scholars calling
the decades-long shift
towards privatization of water
a re-feudalization of the state.
A new report
is sounding the alarm
about the access to water
around the world.
NEWSCASTER 2: Humanity's
lifeblood, water,
is increasingly at risk
around the world,
due to vampiric overconsumption
and overdevelopment.
NEWSCASTER 3: Privatization
by companies like Tru Water
is categorically
anti-democratic.
NEWSCASTER 4: Breaking news
out of Philadelphia,
city officials are monitoring
the water supply...
NEWSCASTER 5: Scientists
have now isolated
the waterborne virus...
NEWSCASTER 6: Dizziness,
shortness of breath,
high fever, followed by
respiratory failure...
NEWSCASTER 7:
[speaking in French]
WOMAN: He's got
black marks on his chest.
I don't think he's breathing!
NEWSCASTER 8: ...the waterborne
virus that has spread
across the globe...
NEWSCASTER 9: Countries
around the world
are rushing to secure supplies
as panic buying and hoarding
over fears...
NEWSCASTER 10: World Health
Organization warns of
medical system collapse
across the globe.
Record number of deaths
reported today...
NEWSCASTER 11: Water refugees
crowd borders seeking asylum
to newly-established blue zones.
MAN: They keep talking about
these "blue zones,"
but they're not telling us
how to get there, you know?
NEWSCASTER 12: This is now
the largest mass migration
in human history.
MAN 2: Where are we
supposed to go?
They promised to take care
of us; everybody promised.
[helicopter and sirens]
NEWSCASTER 13: Chaos
in the streets.
Protestors resist orders
to report to the controversial
new refugee camps
as access to
"blue zones" is suspended.
[sound of crying]
WOMAN 3: They call it a camp.
I call it a prison.
WOMAN 4: We got no water!
We need help! We need help!
[water dripping]
[metal creaking]
[rope creaking]
[insects buzzing]
[water sloshing]
[birds chirping]
-Oh!
[Sarah giggles]
-Sarah, how would you like
if I threw this at you, huh?
SARAH: You won't.
No, Dad!
[laughing]
[birds chirping]
[water sloshing]
[creaking]
[bell ringing]
[crows cawing]
[wings flutter away]
[crows cawing]
[stream rushing]
[flies buzzing]
[fire crackling]
[sighs]
-How many days would it take
to walk to the ocean?
-A long time.
-You don't know, do you?
Have you ever
even been in the ocean?
-What's a long time for you?
[cutlery clinking]
[fire crackling]
ELISHA: Eat your food, please.
-I'm not hungry.
ELISHA: I'm not asking.
[owl hooting]
[night creatures calling]
-Quit it.
SARAH: How do stars work?
PAUL: I dunno, you're gonna
have to ask your mom.
-'Cause she's smarter than you?
-Funny, but true.
But I do know that
from the closest star...
it takes light
four years to reach us.
-So...
when the light was made,
Ben would've still been alive.
It would've been easier for her
if it had been me.
PAUL: Hey.
Hey.
It's not like that.
[owl hooting]
[coyotes barking]
[leaves rustling]
[laboured breathing]
[mumbling under his breath]
[birds chirping]
-Let's start it from there.
[crow cawing]
[birds chirping]
ELISHA: We work our way
back from here.
East or west?
-East.
-[metal clinks loudly]
-[man yells in pain]
-Mom!
SARAH: Mom?!
-My foot's stuck.
I just wanna get it out.
-Behind.
ELISHA: How many are with you?
-Uh...
I'm on my own.
I've...
...been looking a long time.
-Don't touch it.
-Mom...
-I said leave it, Sarah!
-But Mom, look!
ELISHA: Go get your dad.
PAUL: Where did you get this?
-[exhales]
My dad.
My dad gave it to me.
-What's your name?
-Jamie.
Guys, please...
My foot.
-Do it slowly.
[Jamie breathing heavily]
[grunts in pain]
-Uncle Paul, I'm not sick.
[lock clicks]
ELISHA: It's not him.
It can't be.
-And if it is, 'Lish?
[birds calling]
You took this picture.
-I remember.
PAUL: Look at Tim, huh?
Always the great dad.
-[tearfully]
Ben looks happy.
He looks happy.
-Jamie...
He's the right age.
[birds calling]
JAMIE: Can I have some water?
[dark, atmospheric music]
-Hands up.
-[slurping water]
[crickets chirping]
-Is he gonna stay, Mom?
ELISHA: I don't know.
[dark, atmospheric music]
[dreamlike, happy voices]
[sombre music]
[chickadee calling]
[dark, atmospheric music]
-[grunts]
[door unlatches]
ELISHA: Show me your skin.
-[sighs]
ELISHA: Turn around.
We'll wait 24 hours to be sure.
[water sloshing]
[birds chirping]
ELISHA: It's okay.
It's safe.
JAMIE: I thought it was
just a story he told.
I thought he made it up.
[water trickling]
[sniffles]
[cutlery clinking]
SARAH: How come
you never came before?
-Oh.
I was in a camp.
[clears throat]
Got picked up after
the reservoir got hit.
-And your parents?
ELISHA: How'd you get out?
JAMIE: I walked out.
ELISHA: They let you?
-Someone, um...
someone helped us.
-Who's "us"?
Does anyone know
that you came here?
No one can know.
You understand?
-I thought they made it.
That's why they never came.
-[humming]
[ominous music]
[water sloshing]
SARAH: Mom! Dad!
PAUL: Maybe it's the filter.
ELISHA: We'd have to
get down there to see.
I'll do it.
-No, no, no, it's too heavy.
What about the boy?
ELISHA: No.
-She's strong.
ELISHA: It's a good
40 feet down.
You're looking for
the well screen.
It's a pipe, upright,
buried in the foundation.
That's gonna be gravel.
-What do I do with it?
ELISHA: You might
have to dig it up.
It's probably
blocked with debris.
And then pull it up with you.
PAUL: It's gonna be heavy.
SARAH: Okay.
PAUL: Focus on
what's in front of you.
-You alright?
-Yeah.
Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
-[straining with effort]
SARAH: [screams]
Stop!
ELISHA: Stop, stop!
-Okay...
Okay, go down a bit!
SARAH: Okay, down, down...
[Paul grunting with effort]
-Okay!
[water sloshing]
[water sloshing]
Okay.
Fuck!
-Sarah!
-What happened?
Are you alright?
SARAH: I'm okay!
[stone clunking]
[water sloshing]
[grunting with effort]
-Okay! Okay, okay, pull up!
ELISHA: Up, up...
[Paul grunting with effort]
-[breathing heavily]
[Paul straining with effort]
ELISHA: You alright?
-I'm fine.
I'm fine.
ELISHA: Good girl.
[Sarah breathing heavily]
[ominous music]
PAUL: It looks like
it's cracked.
-Let me see.
-If we don't get something
back in there soon,
it's gonna start
filling in itself.
We need supplies,
something metal.
ELISHA: We've maybe
got a week's reserve
until we run out.
Fuck.
Leave it.
JAMIE: Uncle Paul, there's
nothing left in Blind River
but snipers and rats.
I know another place.
Please, let me take you there.
ELISHA: Where?
PAUL: Just take care
of these two, okay?
-We don't need taking care of.
Why can't I go with you, Dad?
-Sarah--
JAMIE: I actually know
what's out there.
Why won't you just listen to me?
-I'm not a kid anymore!
-I know you're not!
-There's nothing there
but death!
ELISHA: Enough.
-I'm trying to help you.
[Paul sighs]
[crow cawing in distance]
[crickets chirping]
[water trickling]
[metal clinks softly]
[sound of Sarah breathing]
-[quietly]
I know a place.
Sarah... I'll be back.
Promise.
[Sarah exhales]
[bird calling in distance]
JAMIE: Go home!
-Wait!
It's not our land past here!
-It's the best spot
to cross the river.
Go home.
[birds chirping outside]
[blows air]
PAUL: Elisha...
Have you seen the kids?
Elisha...
-Sarah!
[birds chirping and calling]
PAUL: Sarah!
[birds chirping]
[dark, tense music]
SARAH: We shouldn't
go down there.
[sound of stream flowing]
SARAH: Jamie!
[bark cracking]
SARAH: It's dangerous!
[wood creaking]
[unsettling music]
[sound of stream flowing]
[unsettling music]
[wood creaking]
[sound of stream flowing]
[singer vocalizing]
ELISHA: How could
we be so stupid?
-He was family.
-I can't go through this again.
-'Lish, 'Lish,
we will find her, okay?
We will find her.
He was hurt;
he couldn't have gone that far.
-We know he came from the west.
We should start there.
-And-- and if she comes back
and nobody's here?
-I'll go myself, then.
-What, you can't trust me
to do this-- this one thing?
-I can't just sit here!
-And I can?
-You'll need supplies.
You're no good to her dead.
[emotional music]
[singer vocalizing]
[singer vocalizing]
-Where are we going?
-Place I used to live.
-The camps?
-No, another place,
uh, a day's walk from here.
I know someone there
that can help us.
But when we get there, just...
do what I say.
-What do you mean?
-There's different rules
out here, different protocols.
-Like what?
-Like just do what I say!
SARAH: Do you remember me
from... before?
-I try not to remember before.
-What happened to your brother?
-There was a family that came...
and... they needed help.
My parents let them stay...
but then Ben got sick.
We didn't even
get to touch his body.
My parents don't like
to talk about him.
-I understand that.
-I don't.
Your parents...
they got it too?
-My mom, she did.
-And your dad?
-I wasn't the sick that got him.
[dark, atmospheric music]
[leaves rustling in wind]
[sound of knife scraping]
JAMIE: It's alright,
it's alright.
Yo, why you poking me
like that for?
-Where've you been?
Who's she?
-Who's asking?
-[sniffs]
We're about the same size, eh?
[loud crunch]
-What're you doing
this far out?
-I was worried
I'd find your body.
-I was just on my way back.
-Where'd you find her?
-She got turned around
in the woods.
She's good, though.
Don't worry about it.
[Jamie grunts]
-Don't look so good.
Gabriel's been worried sick.
[sombre, mysterious music]
[sombre, mysterious music]
[distant, dreamlike laughter]
[sombre music]
[exhales]
[Jamie grunts in pain]
MILLY: Hey, girl,
you got any water?
-She doesn't have any.
MILLY: A couple days
without now.
JAMIE: So why'd
you come out this far?
MILLY: You didn't come back.
She was worried.
[takes lid off]
Thinks you're
walkin' in chaos in here.
JAMIE: She ain't got
nothing to worry about.
[sombre music]
[flies buzzing]
[ominous music]
[underwater ambiance]
[baby coos]
WOMAN: [softly]
Yeah.
[baby cooing]
[baby cooing]
[woman humming]
WOMAN: That's it?
Okay, okay.
Took a couple stitches
to sort you out.
-Where am I?
-We never agreed
on a name, but...
I call it Maine 'cause
I always wanted to live there.
[chuckles]
-[chuckles]
[birds calling outside]
-You gave us a bit of a scare
coming in like that.
Do you mind holding onto
this guy while I clean this?
-Oh...
-It's okay.
There you go.
Nice and easy.
Yeah.
[baby cooing]
-Infection is not our friend,
so you'll need to keep this nice
and clean as much as possible.
I was training in herbalism
before the breakout.
The medicines we used to
manufacture were based on plants
from the natural world.
-Like nettles?
-You know how to spot nettles?
That's good.
[baby fussing]
WOMAN: Hm...
Open up.
It's for the ache in your head.
It's alright, love.
Come on.
There you go.
I'm Wanda.
That's Beau.
He likes you.
[bird calling]
-He should be down there.
[bird calling]
[wind chimes clinking]
[sound of woman humming]
[humming gets louder]
[humming continues]
[fire crackling]
[humming stops]
-Would you like to sit down?
Whatcha making, Mill?
-A bear.
For Beau.
-Aw, that's nice.
It's lookin' good.
You must be hungry.
MILLY: I'm hungry.
-You're always hungry.
[chuckles]
-Where's Jamie?
MILLY: Jamie!
[wind chimes clinking]
-You were gone
a long time, Jamie.
I was worried for ya.
-I know. I'm...
sorry about that.
-Well...
it's alright.
You're here now.
That's all that matters.
-Found Sarah in the forest.
-Is that right?
All alone?
JAMIE: Her family was killed
trying to get to the blue zone.
She ran.
She got away.
-Oh, that's an awful thing
for a child to bear.
Sarah, have you managed
the chaos in your heart?
[mysterious, unsettling music]
-Hm. That's alright.
Go find something to do.
Dinner won't be long.
[resumes humming]
SARAH: Why'd you say all that?
JAMIE: Don't mind what I do.
Just keep your head down.
We won't be here long.
I know where to look.
[dark, atmospheric music]
[water trickling]
-Didn't think we'd see you back.
JAMIE: I said I would be.
-Mm-hm.
Mm-hm...
Who's she?
JAMIE: Sarah.
She's good.
WALTER: Anyone check her?
JAMIE: Yeah, I checked her.
-Did anyone else check her?
-I checked her.
Wanda checked her.
-What exactly
are you looking for here?
JAMIE: How's the level?
-Take a look for yourself.
We'll be drinking
piss water soon enough.
[bell rings outside]
-Well, I guess that's dinner.
-[baby fussing]
-WANDA: Come on, baby, please.
[baby fussing]
-Why won't he drink?
-I don't know, hon.
MILLY: Maybe you're dry up.
-Could be.
MILLY: He looks skinny.
WANDA: You think so?
-What did you give me before?
-Uh, just a little weed oil,
hon, for the pain.
Okay...
SARAH: What's the deal
with Gabriel?
MILLY: What do ya mean?
-She seems...
different.
-She is.
[mysterious music]
[bird calling in distance]
[breathing heavily]
[mysterious music]
[breathing heavily]
What's the plan here, Paul?
What's the plan?
[sombre music]
ELISHA: [in a whisper]
They can't stay.
[distant, dreamlike laughter]
Fuck.
Fuck!
[wind chimes clinking]
-Not a drip of waste,
as my mother would say.
-Did he build that?
-My brother was always
mechanically inclined,
even when he was a child.
Jamie, can we talk?
[wind whistling]
[indistinct whispering]
[fire crackling
and crickets chirping]
[inhales]
[baby crying]
[baby crying]
MILLY: Tell us
somethin' new, Gabriel.
GABRIEL: Something new today...
Well, we talked before
about the river of Hades.
How it circled the Underworld
seven times,
separating itself
from the land of the living.
But there's not just one river.
There's five...
each with its function.
But I've always found the most
interesting to be the fifth one.
Lethe.
The river of oblivion.
Upon entering the Underworld,
the dead would drink
from the waters of Lethe
to forget
their earthly existence.
-But why?
-Why?
Why forget?
MILLY: Shame?
-A-ha!
Our shame.
Our regrets that tie us down
to our earthly bodies.
But to drink from
the waters of oblivion
is to loose
the ties of the past,
and ease our transition
into our immortal existence.
[laughs]
To... let go!
Ah, imagine the freedom.
Of all of that...
pain and...
suffering.
[sighs]
-And the good parts?
Do we lose those too?
[fire crackling]
-Everything comes at a cost.
-But it's just a story.
[crickets chirping]
I'm just a poor,
wayfaring stranger
Travelling through
this world below
There is no sickness,
no toil or danger
In that bright land
to which I go
I'm going there
to see my father
And all my loved ones
who've gone on
I'm just going o'er Jordan
I'm just going o'er home.
GABRIEL: Where would we be
without beauty like this?
WALTER: Well, that's all for me.
[fire crackling]
-Is... Walter the father?
-No.
The camps were
a difficult place.
GABRIEL: We were
test rats to them.
Used us as they saw fit.
[fire crackling]
-It was no place
to raise a child.
It's not so easy
out here, either.
MILLY: But we're free.
[dark, intriguing music]
[baby fussing]
-Come on...
He's losing weight.
-I brought you some extra.
Maybe it'll... help.
But it's all we can spare.
[baby fussing]
-Thank you, Gabriel.
[baby fussing]
GABRIEL: I'd like you to
come see me, Sarah, alright?
I'd like to speak to you.
-Okay.
[baby fussing]
SARAH: Is he gonna be alright?
-I don't know, hon.
I don't know.
[wind chimes clinking]
GABRIEL: [exhales]
Are you nervous?
There's no need to be.
-What did you do with my rifle?
-You don't trust easily, do you?
Where'd you learn that?
If you want to know
what it's like to be free,
you're gonna have to
learn how to trust.
Do you want that?
-I am free.
-I mean in here.
I put it somewhere safe.
-But it's mine.
-What does that mean?
-It belongs to me.
-[chuckles]
You know, I have
a tree in my yard,
and it's over a century old.
Does it belong to me?
-I-I don't know.
-There's no ownership here.
There's no mine,
there's no yours.
Where are you from, Sarah?
-South.
-Oh.
-We moved around a lot,
and then...
then my dad heard rumours.
-What rumours?
-That the checkpoint
was abandoned.
But...
it wasn't.
-Well, you survived out there
for a long time, then.
All alone?
You must have been so afraid.
-Yeah.
-Honesty is very
important to me, Sarah.
I take it very personally.
[unsettling music]
[unsettling music continues]
[plastic rustles]
[unsettling music intensifies]
[gun cocks]
[ominous silence]
-I don't mean any trouble.
I'm just looking
for my daughter.
-[gunshot]
-Aah!
-[gunshot]
-Oh!
[gunshot]
[dramatic music]
[baby fussing]
SARAH: I wanna give this to you.
It's clean.
I swear.
[baby fussing]
[tense, atmospheric music]
[footsteps]
[insects chirping]
-Don't touch that.
[Sarah gasps]
WALTER: That's the only thing
keeping us all alive.
-Sorry.
-What are you doing here?
-Just looking.
-Looking for what?
-Nothing.
Just looking.
-Secrets are dangerous
around here.
-What's all this, Walt?
-Caught her
rifling through the shop,
looking for this.
-Hm...
How odd.
-[slap]
-[Sarah gasps]
-[slap]
-[Sarah gasps]
-Um, you got some...
[emotional music]
[Sarah crying]
[crying]
ELISHA: Shh... it's okay.
[breathing heavily]
[grunts in pain]
[groaning]
[door opens in distance]
[fire crackling]
WANDA: How's that leg of yours?
Pain getting worse?
-It's fine.
-You got something to say?
-Who gave that to you?
-Sarah did.
I need it for him.
I'm sorry.
Jamie...
what's going on?
Let me help you.
[fire crackling]
[humming]
[sound of someone crying]
[drops logs]
MILLY: Gabriel!
Gabriel!
[stream flowing]
[boy crying]
[stream flowing]
[crying]
-Hello, there.
What's your name?
BOY: Sam.
-Is it just the two of you, Sam?
-My mom.
[crying]
GABRIEL: You shouldn't
drink from the river.
It's sick.
-She didn't mean to!
It's just...
we were so thirsty.
[crying]
-Hey...
It's okay.
-She won't wake up!
-I'm sure she'll be okay.
You must have walked so far.
-[crying]
-[sighs]
We know what we have to do.
He's a danger to all of us.
-We don't know that!
GABRIEL: We're short
of water as it is.
SARAH: He's just a kid!
GABRIEL: Whose only thought
is to be with his mom.
Each of us will someday die,
and one life is not
more important than the other.
Do you think your life
is more important than his?
-No.
-And his yours?
[Sam crying]
[tense music]
WANDA: Gabriel, don't!
-No!
-[gunshot]
MILLY: Was he infected?
Could you see?
SARAH: I couldn't tell for sure.
-Murder.
That's what it is.
-We'd all be dead
if it wasn't for her.
WANDA: That's not enough.
It never was.
[insects chirping]
[dark, atmospheric music]
SARAH: You all act like
nothing happened.
-How are we supposed to act?
-You could make her leave.
Why are you all
so afraid of her?
-Okay, it's not fear.
-Then what?
Jamie, what?
Talk to me!
-She was the one
that made us believe
there was only one way out.
And I dunno, maybe there was!
-From the camps?
Tell me.
-The guard.
He was just a kid.
Barely older than me.
-She killed him?
-When my dad found out the plan,
he wanted us to stay.
I couldn't stay in there.
So I did what she
told me to do, and...
I left with the group.
She got us out,
and I left him behind.
-So he's still in there?
-There was a spot in the fence
where'd leave notes.
I'd go there at night.
And he told me
what he was gonna do.
He was done.
[hawk calling]
[Paul breathing heavily]
[unsettling music]
[gasps]
[sombre music]
[dreamlike voices
and laughter]
ELISHA: Mommy's here.
[Gabriel exhales]
[fire crackling]
We hold...
we hold up our pain.
We hold onto it
and allow it to define us.
It matters to us
more than anything.
All this...
suffering.
We can't see...
We can't see...
all this...
suffering and suffering.
We can't see it,
we can't see it.
All this suffering.
For what?
For what ?
[mysterious, atmospheric music]
[whittling sound]
[approaching footsteps]
[stops whittling]
What do you want?
SARAH: I need your help.
-[sighs]
With what?
-Can I trust you?
-[sighs]
That's not up to me.
[whittling continues]
WALTER: Why did you come here?
What is that?
Where'd you get this?
[slams counter] You want me
to help you or not?!
-It's from my family's well.
I've been gone too long already.
My parents...
We're running out of time.
We need to get back.
Please...
I'll do whatever you want.
[metal clinks]
-You know she had
a family once, too?
A husband.
A daughter of her own.
She was a good mother.
I'll need a couple of hours.
Come back for it
after nightfall,
when everyone's asleep.
She catches you with this...
you won't be going anywhere.
[sombre music]
[chandelier creaking]
[baby cooing]
[emotional music]
[stream flowing]
[crickets chirping]
SARAH: [softly]
Jamie...
Jamie...
JAMIE: Walter?
You gotta keep going.
-We better.
-I need to stay here.
I can barely walk.
I'll just slow you down.
-But I want you to come.
-Sarah...
Please, Jamie,
they won't be mad.
I-I promise.
-Head to the tracks.
Follow them over the bridge
and through the town.
You remember from there?
Don't worry.
I'll come when it's safe.
[blue jay calling]
[sighs]
[baby fussing]
WANDA: I know...
You're up early.
Did we wake you?
-Wanda?
-Mm-hm?
-I know a place with water.
Clean water.
And we have a garden, and we
take really good care of it.
And the water I gave you,
it's from our well.
-What do you mean, a well?
-It's my grandpa's.
It's on the other side,
but that doesn't matter
because we have to go right now.
[door opens]
-Go where?
WANDA: No one's going anywhere.
We're just talking nonsense.
Jamie...
Oh, you're feverish!
Sit down.
[Jamie groans in pain]
[baby crying]
-Aw...
[baby crying]
WANDA: Sarah, hon,
run and grab me some nettles.
Mind you don't get stung.
Use a cloth, okay?
-[baby crying]
-Oh yes, come.
[ominous music]
GABRIEL: [laughs]
Oh... hi.
What were you saying before?
WANDA: Gabriel...
-Wanda?
[baby crying]
GABRIEL: Oh no, it's alright.
What's the matter?
Oh, come here...
Oh, yes.
WANDA: Give him to me.
GABRIEL: It's okay.
[chuckles]
We've been good to you here,
haven't we?
SARAH: He wants his mother.
WANDA: It's okay.
-GABRIEL: Oh, no, no, no.
-[baby crying]
-Give him here.
Now, Gabriel.
[baby quiets]
-It was his idea, you know.
All this.
WANDA: What idea?
GABRIEL: To find the well
his daddy spoke of,
then bring us there.
-They're all just stories.
None of it's real.
-Stop lying!
-I'm not!
-You're lying!
You see how we suffer?
-[baby crying]
-Stop crying!
JAMIE: I found it!
[baby crying]
Our family has a well
on the other side.
And it's clean.
But it needs to be fixed
before it fills in.
[baby crying]
[baby quiets]
[swigs water]
[baby coos]
[unsettling music]
GABRIEL: Mmm.
[Paul breathing heavily]
[insects buzzing]
[knife unsheathing]
[mysterious, atmospheric music]
PAUL: I'm sorry.
I couldn't find her.
-It's okay...
It's okay.
Let's get you home.
-I just need to rest a minute.
[coughs softly]
[Paul winces]
-It went clean through,
at least.
That's good.
-I'll try again in the morning.
-You need to stay here and rest.
-When Ben was born...
I couldn't imagine
he'd disappear.
And love turns around
on you into hurt.
So bad you can't even breathe.
[crying]
-We'll find her.
We'll find her.
[sombre music]
GABRIEL: This train is
bound for glory
This train
This train is
bound for glory
This train
[Milly joins in]
BOTH: This train
is bound for glory
Carry nobody but
the righteous and the holy
This train is
bound for glory
This train
This train don't
carry no lies
This train
This train don't
carry no lies
This train
This train don't
carry no lies
No hypocrites,
no midnight fliers
This train...
[sombre music]
WALTER: Looks like we're
on foot from here on in.
[Gabriel sighs]
[bell rings]
-[sighs]
-You don't look so good.
-I'm fine.
I'm fine.
-This is as far as you go.
-[scoffs]
Put down the gun, please.
Don't be selfish.
We've come all this way.
-Just you.
You're not coming.
-[scoffs]
[Elisha panting]
-Sarah...
JAMIE: She's right, Gabriel.
You're a danger to us all.
[unsettling music]
-[gasps]
-Both of us are.
-[exhales]
WANDA: Open your shirt.
[sombre music]
[Gabriel sighs deeply]
-[crying]
No...
-Milly, no.
MILLY: What did you do?!
[crying]
-Oh, Jamie...
[Milly crying]
ELISHA: Sarah!
[panting]
ELISHA: Are you hurt?
[emotional music]
-How could you be so stupid?!
-Comes naturally, I guess.
I remember you, you know?
I always did, 'cuz.
GABRIEL: I see you.
You think you deserve more
because you've always had more.
We all end up
in the same place.
[chuckles bitterly]
[emotional music]
SARAH: Dad...?
[emotional music]
[sombre music]
[exhales]
[emotional music]
[leaves rustling in wind]
[sound of ocean waves]
SARAH: My dad told me
weight is like
the Earth pulling
you down against it.
That the bigger you get,
the harder it pulls,
and that's what
keeps you on the ground.
[soft, peaceful music]
SARAH: I wish it could be
the other way around.
SARAH: I asked him
what happens when you die.
Where does the weight go then?
SARAH: He said some of it goes,
and some of it stays behind
with the people you love.
It goes down into the soil
and makes all kinds of new life.
SARAH: I think someday
things are gonna change.
Life will be better.
People will be free.
And we'll go see the ocean.
[soft, hopeful music]
[singer vocalizing]