Love brings a heart back

Yvonne 2022-04-23 07:03:30

On a Brazilian highway, an old woman and a boy set off on a hot trip. Before that, the old woman Dora was selfish and indifferent, with many letters in her drawer that she sent for help but would never be sent by her. She even sold the boy for a big color TV. Later, a friend's reminder made her conscience find out. She took the risk to get the child back, and thus embarked on an unknown and long journey.
The trivial time and the long journey brought their hostile hearts closer, until the boy gave Dora a long dress, until Dora gave the boy the food. Dora's icy inner world is slowly thawing and resurrecting, she tries to reconcile with her unhappy childhood memories, and finally forgives her father who abandoned her many years ago. Dora stopped throwing away letters begging her to send, and she eventually learned to be compassionate and helpful.
When the old woman Dora sent the boy back to the boy's brother's house, at dawn, she quietly changed into the dress the boy gave her and walked out of the boy's brother's house. At that moment, she looked noble and beautiful. It is a nobility that manifests only after the blessing of commitment and love is fulfilled.
On the coach back to Rio de Janeiro, Dora wrote the boy a letter. In the letter, she said that leaving the boy to his brother was the best choice, because she could not give the boy what his brother could give. Dora also said that she actually misses her father very much. Eventually, she learned how to love. A long journey has brought a boy home, and a once withered heart has gained the warmth of love. Love is such a thing that can make a person's soul abandon the nature of selfishness and greed, and become pure and beautiful little by little.

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Central Station quotes

  • Dora's Client: [dictating a letter] I want to send a letter to a guy who cheated me. Mr Ze Amaro, Thank you for what you did to me. I trusted you and you cheated me. You even took the keys to my apartment.

  • Dora's Client: [dictating a letter with her son] Dear Jesus, You're the worst thing to happen to me. I'm writing because your son Josue asked me to. I told him you're worthless, and yet, he still wants to meet you.