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We should probably go.
Yes?
Do you remember what I explained to you last week?
Yes, why?
I need to draw as many candidates for
this activity that the board is organizing.
So I'm asking you if you want to help me?
Of course. Why not?
What is it?
Have you ever heard of Pen Pal or friends-by-mail?
Ping-pong?
No, Pen Pal or friends-by-mail.
No, first time.
It's when you start writing letters to someone.
You can write about your life, your ideas
and it helps your literacy.
It's commonly used to connect different nations and cultures.
I would like...
you to help me.
By connecting with someone.
Write about yourself, whatever you want,
and he or she will do the same.
Sure.
I have one with me.
Do you want this one?
Fine.
Where's it from?
It should say in the letter.
Hello, my name is Ana,
I'm eighteen years old.
I live in a small town and the city is far away.
My favorite thing is being with my friends as much as possible,
I like art.
I'm an only child.
The reason I entered friends-by-mail is that
I had an invitation to participate in this
and I said "why not".
So here I am.
I hope you receive this, goodbye.
Ana.
Hi,
I'm happy to hear from you.
I live on the outskirts of Rivera Costa Norte.
This is also the first time I do something like this.
The reason is my brother.
He's the eldest and works as a community organizer.
He has recently begun.
He never thought to do this,
but he realized that the world will not change on its own.
I always feel like he's trying to find that.
I know that it will take time,
but I know he's in the right direction.
Well, enough about him.
As I was saying, he's participating in an activity there.
Therefore, at the moment he's trying to find places
like schools and institutes,
where they want to do this.
So, I helped him by participating in this.
It's how I got into this.
This is a bit long,
but I'm nineteen years old approaching twenty.
I live with my mother and brother.
At the age of sixteen,
I had an accident that paralyzed me from the waist down.
I jumped off a cliff
and I accidentally landed on some rocks.
I was told that I will never walk again.
It was hard to accept the news.
I couldn't believe it.
It's a sad story, but that's how life is.
I will have to slowly adapt to this problem.
Sometimes, I still can't believe it.
Well, that's how things are for me.
I go from here to there in my wheelchair,
but mostly for the fact that I have a limited freedom.
The only good thing about this
is that now I appreciate every moment of my life
as I never did before,
the simple things in life for example.
Well, enough about me.
What about you? Where do you live?
Where are you from?
Anything you would like to write to me.
Goodbye, Paulo.
Hello, Paulo.
I truly don't know how you must feel,
but I hope I can help you from now on
since we're now writing to each other and have become friends.
I have a cousin who was born blind.
Sometimes I feel that God has put me on this earth to be her eyes.
I'm happy to hear that your brother is a community organizer.
I wish him the best.
Unfortunately, the teacher has told us not to write anything personal,
such as my location, only for the time being.
Just my name in the letter.
In school, my favorite class is art.
Art relaxes me.
To touch the brush and draw, it's truly my passion.
Sometimes I draw seas, animals
or anything that attracts me.
The best part is when your imagination finds a vision
that can create a unique painting.
Perhaps that's the class I'm most passionate about.
I like to do that when I grow up.
I don't know, I would like to.
I hope so.
Sometimes I think what I'm going to do in my future
like everyone else.
That's my current life at the moment.
On another note, I guess I'm little shy to talk to men,
however, I don't feel that with you.
I spend most of my time with my cousin.
She's seventeen. She's my best friend.
Well, I think I wrote enough. So write me back.
Take care, goodbye.
Dear Ana,
thank you for letting me each day get to know you better
and get to know more about your life.
I started to feel that we have chemistry and we get along just great.
Like I was saying...
Dear Paulo,
I also feel very lucky to have you as a friend
even though we are not very close.
Dear Ana, I'm happy to hear from you.
I always wonder how you are and where you live.
I think you should know
that talking to you is one of the things I enjoy the most.
Paulo, thanks for those words.
To tell you the truth you're someone very special in my life.
Ana, each day I look forward in receiving a letter from you
to light up my day.
Paulo, I imagine the day when we can finally meet in person
and talk without interruption.
Ana, I also imagine the day in which we can finally meet.
You still haven't told me where you live.
Goodbye and take care, Paulo.
Goodbye and take care, Ana.
Your eyes are beautiful
I love you
Dear Ana, I haven't heard from you
nor have I received any letter from you during this month.
I hope all is well.
Ana, I hope all is going well.
I'm still waiting for a response from you.
Each day that passes I miss you more.
Ana, I hope you will write to me soon.
I'll be waiting for your response.
Take care, Paulo.
You think something happened to her?
I think that maybe she forgot. I don't know.
It's strange.
Maybe she won't write back.
There are...
There are two possibilities.
The first one
perhaps she left her school or moved away,
and the other one is that something has happened to her.
Don't be foolish.
So then what? What else could have happened?
I don't know.
Has it ever occurred to you
that she might be busy
or just letting time pass until
she can write something interesting?
I don't know.
All I know is that I have sent her three letters.
The first letter may have been lost in the post office.
I understand.
With the second one probably the same thing.
But the third letter? She must have received it.
Damn it! Where is she?
I dream about her constantly.
When...
I dream about her,
it's so real.
We walk through the streets,
together,
and I watch every move she makes.
It's so beautiful.
I'm sure you're dreaming too much.
How would you know?
Do you think she will write to me again?
I don't know.
What's the matter?
My head hurts.
You know?
sometimes people stop writing
for different reasons.
Are you tired?
No more than yesterday.
Do you know who I dreamed about today?
Ana?
Is it that obvious?
It's easy to realize.
So I dreamed about her today.
What did you dreamed about?
I was sitting in my wheelchair...
at the beach.
I'm there with no particular reason.
Suddenly, I have the urge to stand up
and walk across the sand.
There's nobody on the beach.
Just me.
Out of nowhere, I see someone far away.
I try to go closer.
It looked like a young girl.
Ana.
I couldn't see her face.
I keep walking towards her.
I get close to her.
Step by step.
I'm about to touch her.
That was some kind of dream.
Yeah.
Is there...
Is there any way you can find something about her?
Anything?
Paulo,
I already told you no.
Those things happen.
They don't care to write back or they just forget.
What are you telling me?
That something has happened to her? That she won't write to me anymore?
No, not in that way, Paulo.
I don't know.
I feel like something is happening.
And what bothers me the most is that I don't know...
I don't know what it is.
I don't know what's happening.
Look,
if you want tomorrow I'll go and see if there are any new letters.
I'll assign to someone else?
I don't want someone else, Nicolas!
You don't understand that, that...
There must be a place,
where they keep the name of all these people,
or something similar.
I don't know.
I don't know if there's a registry place or something like that.
I can't promise you anything, but I'll do what I can. Got it?
Do you know what your problem is, Paulo?
Not that you miss any Ana, but rather that
you need to continue to give life to that person you've created in your mind.
And with every envelope that arrives you get more obsess.
You know what I think?
That you have created your own Ana.
What's wrong?
Paulo?
This is Ana.
After the last time we spoke,
it took me few weeks to get to this conclusion.
Look, I...
I tried to...
I tried to find her.
Some friends helped me.
So...
A few days ago I found her information.
Paulo...
Paulo, Ana...
Ana...