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After months of travel, Aurea and her mother finally arrive at their destination. More precisely, they arrive at a desert locale in the middle of nowhere that passes for a piece of land purchased by Aurea's husband, Vasco. You should also know that Aurea is with child, Vasco is quite daft, the year is 1910 and that we're just getting started.

Over the next 60 years, the sands of time will stir up many plot threads, but absolutely nothing of any significance will happen. Aurea gives birth to a daughter, Maria, but mostly she will try in vain to escape this godforsaken sand dune. (The viewer, on the other hand, can simply get up and leave.)

For those who choose to stay, matters will only be made worse by the decision to make real-life mother and daughter Torres and Montenegro completely interchangeable. Every decade or two, they will swap roles to signify the circle of life starting anew. Mother will become daughter, daughter will become mother, and you just might snap and kill anyone sitting near you in the theater.

If you make it to the end, the year will be 1969 and Maria (who managed to escape with a soldier) comes back for her mother. Aurea, who has no sense of time or technology, and is understandably surprised when Maria tells her that man has landed on the moon. What did they find? "Nothing," Maria replies, "just sand."