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The House of Sand (2005) on Netflix

R20051h 55mDrama

In 1910, pregnant Áurea and her mother Maria follow Áurea's husband Vasco de Sá to a remote part of Maranhão to start a farm. When he dies, the two women are stranded.

  • Netflix3.8/5
  • IMDb7.4/103,548 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes79%

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Áurea leaves São Luís for a remote, desert-like stretch of Maranhão, where her husband Vasco de Sá has brought her and her mother Maria to start a farm beside a lagoon ringed by dunes. Settlers descended from runaway slaves live nearby at a fertile spot called The Island. Vasco's madness leads Maria to offer the settlers money to carry the two women away; they take the payment and do nothing. The workers abandon the farm, and Vasco dies in an accident at the half-finished house. With no way back to the city, the two women are helped by Massu, a local fisherman, and learn to keep goats to survive. Áurea hopes to return to the capital.

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