01x02 - Dream

[bunniefuu]

[emotional music playing]

[man] Holy Father,
do you remember who took this photo?

[Pope Francis] I don't remember.

The day of my First Communion.

That's me
standing next to my brother Oscar.

October 8th, 1944.

[man] When you were young,
what dreams did you have?

I was a dreamer. That's true.

I even wrote poetry that I would rip up
because I didn't like it enough.

That's… That's how I expressed my dreams.

We all have a need
to dream of what could be…

whether consciously or unconsciously.

-[woman 1] So good to see you!
-[woman 2] Yes! Yes!

[Pope Francis] A person who cannot dream

lacks… poetry.

He lacks life.

He lacks smiles.
He lacks… the sparkle in his eye.

The elderly, with their dreams,
can reach horizons you couldn't imagine.

["Dali's Salvation
(Everything Everywhere)" playing]

♪ If I wanna doo-doo
Doo-doo-dn-doo-doo, I will ♪

♪ I shall, I can ♪

♪ You see a face
But I see butterfly wings ♪

♪ A song is time that sings ♪

♪ I want a place in the sun
That shines in the rain ♪

♪ A song is time explained ♪

♪ I can get everything everywhere ♪

♪ I can get everything everywhere ♪

[inspirational music playing]

[woman] We are on a road trip
to Front Royal, Virginia,

with my husband David,
and Gabriel, my granddaughter.

We're going to meet my friend Phoebe,

traveling to the old farm

that was once owned by Phoebe's ancestors,

where my family was enslaved.

My name is Betty Kilby Fisher Baldwin.

I am 76 years old.

It was my case

that brought about the first desegregation
of the schools in Virginia.

-Gabby!
-[Gabby] Yup.

Hit that second, third button
up over the door, please.

Ready?

Okay.

I have always known that my family
descended from sl*very.

I knew that there was no honor
in descending from sl*ves.

So I kind of tuck it away in a box

and just leave it,

until Phoebe reached out to me.

"Dear Betty Kilby Fisher,

my name is Phoebe, and I am white."

"My family once owned sl*ves."

"I suspect that our families had
some kind of relationship in the past."

"Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream,

that the sons of former sl*ves
and former sl*ve owners

will be able to sit down
at the table of brotherhood."

"Perhaps, we as daughters

can contribute to fulfilling that dream."

"I hope to hear from you and hear that
you are interested in conversing with me."

I have always longed

to do something significant.

Everybody was so full of hate,

and I couldn't do anything then,

so I believe
that Phoebe and I have the power,

through our meeting,

to bring about change.

I believe in you.

[engine starts]

[inspirational music playing]

[man] My whole life,

dreams have been
very, very important to me.

As a climate scientist, I've watched
the atmosphere degrade over 50 years.

And the report that I'd been working on,

had received the Nobel Peace Prize.

I am David C. Lowe.

I dream about making
the planet a better place.

-[woman] What do we want?
-[crowd] Climate justice!

-[woman] When do we want it?
-[crowd] Now!

-[woman] What do we want?
-[crowd] Climate justice!

-When do we want it?
-[crowd] Now!

-What do we want?
-[crowd] Climate justice!

-[woman] When do we want it?
-[crowd] Now!

[David] One of the things
that's giving me hope and inspiration

is the actions of young people.

-[woman] What do we want?
-[crowd] Climate justice!

-[woman] When do we want it?
-[crowd] Now!

-[David] They are really angry…
-[crowd cheers]

…and they want action.

We demand that the government invests

in the retraining and upskilling
of workers in unsustainable industries,

which produce high levels of emissions.

[crowd cheers]

We demand that climate change be taken
more seriously in the education sector.

[David] A long, long time ago,

when I was a… a student,

I was doing physics and chemistry
and maths here in Wellington,

and I didn't really have a goal in life.

I was a teenager. I was a bit of a mess.

But I met Rosemary,

a young woman, a 19-year-old.

She was a psychology student.

Like many of the other students,
we wound up getting married.

In terms of wealth, I had a guitar
and a surfboard, and that was about it.

[groovy music playing]

-Hi, everybody, I'm Dave Lowe.
-[crowd applauds]

I was the first person
in the Southern Hemisphere,

over 50 years ago,

to discover the awful truth

that carbon dioxide
is increasing in the atmosphere,

and I support 100%
what the young people of today are doing.

They are the future.
Good on you for what you're doing.

-[crowd cheers, applauds]
-[joyful music plays]

This was 1972,
eight o'clock in the morning,

I was at home,

and I'll never forget the phone call.

"Good morning.
This is Charles David Keeling."

Beautiful American accent.

He first made this dreadful discovery

that carbon dioxide
was increasing in the atmosphere,

in the Northern Hemisphere,

and that more data was desperately needed.

They needed to know whether the same thing
was happening in the Southern Hemisphere,

encouraged me to find a site

where you could sample air

that was representative
of a whole part of the Southwest Pacific.

For the first time,
with him, I was really challenged.

But what he asked me
was a huge responsibility.

We learned very quickly

that we live on a fragile planet,

and we needed to act very soon.

[Pope Francis] I believe
that we have to accompany young people

to guide their way to a dream.

I remember being in my grandmother's
garden the day Prokofiev died.

I was 14 years old.

I started to dream,

"I would like to be
a genius like Prokofiev."

"I wish I could do something like he did."

His music was beautiful, creative, right?

I remember like it was yesterday.

I told my grandmother
my dream, and she said,

"You have to work hard and study a lot."

She planted a seed
to harvest later, right?

And that was good for me.

[inspirational music playing]

[Montserrat] My Spider-Man gloves!
[chuckles]

I wear a helmet because I jump alone,

freestyle and all that.

I don't want to crash
into anybody during the…

the formations.

Oh.

That's it.

My name is Montserrat Mechó Cunillera.

I'm going to be 88 years old.

This was my life's dream, to skydive.

I was in the Arizona desert,

over the ruins of Ephesus,

a famous site in Kusadasi,

over the forests of Finland.

No one can take this away from me.

I've done over 900 jumps.

[inspirational music soars]

I was in a book called
Catalan Women of the 20th Century.

If you go to the sports section, it's me.

Photos, so many photos…

Summer of '65.

Oh, this is me.

I've been to
the World Championships for swimming.

I was the Spanish champion
in springboard diving.

I don't know if it's because
I was too free doing all of that,

but my husband asked for a divorce.

At that time, women who played sports
weren't kindly regarded.

I have to thank my husband,

mostly for the two children I have,

or had.

Eduardo and Ignasi.

When I walk by here,
I say, "Edu, good morning."

Eduardo loved land, sea, and air,

that is, the land was snow,

the sea was diving, sailing, windsurfing.

He was a windsurfing champion.

He called me once in August and said,

"In half an hour
I have to be in Empuriabrava."

"I'm doing the skydiving course."

"You've been dreaming about it
all your life, so come jump."

And then he taught me how to skydive,

before he died.

After, nothing was ever the same.

[Betty] If you don't know
where you've been,

you don't have a clear idea
of where you're going.

When I think about my
great-great-great-great grandmother,

working and toiling as a sl*ve…

as tough as my journey was for me,

it was not near as tough as her journey.

I believe that if Gabriel

can hear and see my journey,

that it will help her to be strong

in her journey and the journey
that she has in front of her.

I lived in Front Royal for about 20 years.

We're making a stop before
meeting with Phoebe.

-Hey, Betty!
-Hi!

-What's going on there, sister?
-Oh, not much.

-I have Gabby with me today.
-Hey! Hey, Gabby!

You know, Gabby has been right there
with me for a very long time.

I feel that it's important

that the things that
we haven't shared with her,

that we share with her.

[emotional music playing]

If you realize
what happened after sl*very,

history is just repeating itself.

We are losing lives today,

but I think those lost lives
is gonna bring about a change.

Black lives matter.

My daddy's number one rule was
that you had to get an education.

When my daddy learned that it was ill*gal

for us not to be able
to go to school in our own county,

we went to court,

and the final judgment came down

that they had to desegregate the schools.

I was going to go to a white high school.

Rosa Parks changed
the way we do transportation.

I changed the way we do education.

[Pope Francis] The idea of the sower…

The sower without hope
would not sow seeds.

What leads him to sow is hope,

the dream that the seeds will grow
and bear fruits someday.

I don't store the seeds in the barn.

I sow them.

I don't keep my skills,

my wisdom.

Instead, I share them.

I keep working, giving, giving, giving.

[uplifting music playing]

[David] In 1970, almost no one knew
anything about dangerous climate change,

that CO2 was increasing in the atmosphere.

What Dave Keeling was looking for

was a site where you
could get baseline data,

where you could sample air

that was representative of
a whole part of the Southwest Pacific.

So, you can see the trees there.

They're kinda
bent over for the prevailing wind.

It's a pretty tough environment
for plants out here.

And people.

They couldn't… [laughs]

Quite quickly I found Baring Head.

It was a lighthouse station,

a lighthouse keeper
actually living out there.

There was a locked gate
at the bottom of the property,

and he said, "By the way,

the key is under
the second rock on the left."

The place that was exposed to the south.

Thousands of kilometers of open ocean,

all the way to Antarctica.

This is exactly what we need.

No one else was doing anything like that.

Where I'm standing now,

was where I first stood,
literally, almost 50 years ago.

The color on the walls is still the same.

The ceiling looks the same,

but the interior is completely different.

I set up the first-ever CO2 measurements

ever taken in the mid-latitudes
of the Southern Hemisphere.

[chuckles]

This is amazing! Yeah.

It was an incredibly exciting moment.

It was beyond my wild dreams.

Yeah, so, um, what we've got here

is what has become known
as a Keeling flask.

This is a low-tech way
of getting an air sample.

[wind whistling]

[David] But…
our excitement was short-lived.

The conditions
at Baring Head are pretty extreme.

It's a very, very windy place.

I worked day and night.

Quite often you'd wind up
having to sleep out there.

We were exhausted.

There was nothing left in us
when we got back to the house.

And this was not great news
for my marriage with Rosemary.

She made it clear to me
that it was all over.

And I was absolutely devastated.

I just had nothing left in me.

[sentimental music playing]

[insects and birds chirping]

[metal scraping]

[man singing in Spanish]
♪ Beautiful León, Guanajuato ♪

♪ Where you bet away your life ♪

♪ Where you bet away your life ♪

♪ And respect the one who wins ♪

♪ That's why in this town ♪

♪ Life is not worth anything ♪

[in English] My name is
Danilo Mena Hernandez.

I'm a Puriscaleño.

I'm 76 years old.

The last time we came here
was about 15 years ago.

In this stream,

Ilda said, "Danilo,
would you look for some shrimp for me?"

I said, "No way.
There aren't shrimps in here."

She came over and saw something move.

She said, "Look there."

I said, "What?"

I went over. I was sure it was a snake,

but it was a fish about this big.

[emotional music playing]

Poor Ilda!

We were together for 57 years.

She was the one,

the love of my life.

One day, she said,
"You know I love you very much."

Now it's just me
with our two sons, Abdelino and Uriel.

Ilda said to me,

"Danilo, the only thing I ask is
that you take care of Abdelino and Uriel."

"Take care of them because they're blind."

[rain pattering]

[radio static hissing]

[Danilo] Abdelino is a person
with a great memory.

He's like a computer.

Especially songs. He knows a lot of songs.

[romantic guitar plays over radio]

Urelito, he has other virtues.

Like at work, he is very gentle, Urelito.

["Eso Es Imposible" by Ray Tico plays]

[Danilo] I would like to
make my children's dream come true,

to take them to the sea
because they've never been.

They want to see it with their hands.

[song continues]

-[Montserrat] I need to see the sea…
-[song ends]

…to know that it's there.

My son Eduardo, I probably taught him
to play every sport there is.

Mountain climbing, skiing,

and deep-sea diving,
to the bottom of the ocean.

That's where he stayed.

[water gurgling]

He died while he was spearfishing.

He was underwater for a long, long time.

[gurgling intensifies]

[Montserrat] If you pass out underwater,
even only ten feet under,

the weight of your gear
will pull you down,

and, well, he fell asleep.

[emotional music playing]

[Montserrat] When I skydive,
I always dedicate the jump to him.

"Eduardo, I'm over here. Give me a hand."

[music continues]

[quivering] Up there… I have my son

who's already saving
a place for me up there.

It's touching.

[sobbing]

[Pope Francis] When pain makes you cry,
tears can bear fruit.

The elderly need to dream.

If not, they fall into nostalgia.

Nostalgia is not necessarily negative,
as some say.

It can be positive.

It makes you recall affectionately…

the beautiful… things in life.

Don't forget that old age…

either pulls you forward
with new imaginings

or leaves you arteriosclerotic.

That is if an old man does not dream,
he doesn't look forward.

He stops caring, right?

That's why
he needs to be slapped, encouraged.

Who can encourage him to dream?

Young people.

That's why it's important
for young people to speak with the old,

so they wake up and look forward.

[Betty] On February the 18th, 1959,

23 African-American students

walked up this hill
and integrated this school.

-[crowd clamoring]
-[Betty] And there was a crowd of people,

some policemen.

I heard this big, fat, white woman yell,
"I'm gonna k*ll all y'all little n*gg*r*s."

Now, you gotta remember,
at this point in time, I'm 14 years old.

As I was… getting up here to the corner,

all I could imagine was that
this was the day I die.

[crowd clamoring]

[Betty] This was gonna be
the last day of my life.

[sobbing]

Everything looks the same.

Everything feels the same.

I don't know why.

I don't-- [sobs]

[sobbing] I don't know why.

I can't k*ll the memories.

[crowd clamoring]

And then one day I was r*ped.

They blindfolded me
and put tape over my mouth.

I tried to, um…

While it was happening…

knowing that my grandmothers,

my aunties,

had children by the master,

I pretended it was them

laying on the floor.

And I sat on a perch up above

and watched.

[thunder rumbling]

[Betty] And after I got r*ped,
I just wanted to die

because I had to continue
to go back to school every day.

I had a nervous breakdown,

ended up in the hospital,

graduated,

grades so bad
I couldn't even get into college.

So it was like,
my life was over. It was all in vain.

[rain pattering]

[thunder rumbles]

[Betty] So I got married, had my children,

and I buried all of that.

I didn't even tell my kids.

That was my story
until I finally got enough strength

to put it in the place in my heart
where I could heal from it.

And to be meeting with Phoebe,

it means to deal with the feelings.
I had buried them down inside of me.

[inspirational music playing]

What we're looking here

are actual values being measured right now
of the CO2 in the atmosphere

here at Baring Head.

And the value is around about 407.

Fifty years ago, it was around 320.

So more than 30%.

Colossal increase.

I've lived
with this horror now, all that time,

seeing that the atmosphere
of the planet being degraded,

every single year.

It gets worse and worse and worse.

There were very few scientists.

We were 300 from all over the world,

working on the IPCC report.

I've spoken out to all sorts of people,

including politicians and policy makers.

I've published papers.

I've spoken and spoken and spoken,

and I couldn't even imagine
how many hundreds of meetings.

[gentle music playing]

[David] But suddenly, we had this message.

The IPCC report that I'd been working on

had received the Nobel Peace Prize.

And then the IPCC itself, um,

then was put in charge of sending out

the… the 300 certificates
to each of the authors.

So this arrived in a special box.

What is the net result?

Nothing.

The emissions continue to increase.

And I'm not alone. There are
now thousands of climate scientists.

Yeah, that one there…

But still, I'm an optimist.

And I still have that spark of hope,

which I want to push through,
particularly to young people.

-[indistinct chattering]
-[David] When you have grandchildren,

you realize just
how precious the environment

and the future of the Earth is.

Yeah, watch out for the rocks,
down the bottom. [laughs]

We have to be on track

to meet net-zero carbon by 2050.

We need a team of eight billion
working together.

We can do that.

[Pope Francis] Sometimes I like
to talk about Mother Earth,

to think of her
like the Indigenous people do,

seeing the Creator as a mother,

in that she takes care of us,
loves us, gives us all of herself.

But… they say that's idolatrous
and a Pope shouldn't say such things.

And, uh, it's a moral sin
to mention Pachamama.

But… Mother Earth is…

God's gift to us,
and we have to take care of her.

It's a gift given without conditions,

seen theologically.

Scientifically, we care for Earth
because God always forgives.

Humans forgive from time to time.

Nature never forgives.

And nature's "revenge,"
in quotation marks,

is the phenomenon
we are experiencing today.

[birds chirping]

[Danilo] How blessed God is, isn't he?

As soon as the sun comes up,

the animals,
they thank God for the sunrise.

Because their song, I imagine,
is thanking God for the sunrise,

and that they can go look for food,

just like we do, you know?

[rooster crows]

[clucks]

[clucks]

Hi, boys, come here.

What do you want?
Do you want food? Come on, come on.

[snorting]

Do you want to eat? Come on.

[Uriel] Papa, when do you think
we'll go to the sea?

Maybe this Wednesday
if the weather is good, God willing.

[Uriel] I dreamt about Mama.

She told me, "I'm bringing you home.
You'll stay with me, in my house."

And I said, "Mama,
when is Dad taking us to the sea?"

She said, "Your dad won't ever take you."

"You'll stay here with me forever."

[sentimental music playing]

[Danilo] There are nights when I go to bed
and start thinking,

when I'm gone, my children…

Who will feed them
and take them to the bathroom?

They can bathe themselves, thank God.

My sons and I are all suffering.

One boy isn't well,
and the other is anxious.

That's just how we are.

[sentimental music continues]

[Montserrat] I come here every year.

This is where Eduardo died.

I had to move past my son's death,

which is the worst thing
you can live through.

The best thing is to want to live.

Because I've done more
than I've ever dreamed of.

In that way, I think
we demonstrate how to love living.

Dídac, hello, how are you?

What are you playing with?
Your little brother?

Where's Alba? Oops! On the floor!

Alba!

Hey!

Look, Alba!

How lucky that you always smile.

Kitty cat!

Kitty cat!

Look at Dídac, look. [giggles]

A day without smiling is a day lost,

and I see my grandson,
who's laughing and making a funny face,

and I say, "Okay, let's laugh!"

And we do.

[Betty] Phoebe and I
got to know each other

through writing letters to one another,

and, um, we worked together

to bring not only our families,

but to help heal a nation.

[inspirational music playing]

-Hi!
-Hey!

-So good to see you!
-[Betty] Yes! Yes!

-How you doing?
-Good, good! How was your trip?

It was pretty good.
I know you've been travelin'.

Oh, yes, yes.

You know, when you get old,
this… this is kinda tough. [chuckles]

-Thank you so much.
-You're welcome.

[Phoebe] I've grown up
in the '50s and '60s, city of Baltimore,

and not been…

and… and a white person steeped in
the racism of that time,

and I'm sure it still continues.

My father was a doctor,
and he had separate waiting rooms.

He had a colored waiting room
and a white waiting room.

I grew up in racism,

and I know I have some racism in me,

because I just grew up steeped in this.

I do know that my family was
the one that enslaved your family,

and by that very fact
abused and terrorized them.

I'm the one that should feel the shame,
even though I didn't do it.

I want to express some sorrow for this.

I still have an issue…

[chuckling] …with the sl*very part.

I still have an issue,

but I… I had to come to terms with it is.

-You didn't enslave anybody.
-Yes.

[Betty] I was not a sl*ve.

And it took forgiveness,

and putting that whole
sl*very issue in its place.

-Mm-hmm.
-Meeting you taught me how to forgive.

[both chuckle]

Let the past be the past,
and move forward into the future

because I believe
that there is work for us to do.

Daddy used to say,

"One with courage is an army."

-Now, we've got… we've got a double force…
-[chuckles] You got it.

-Yeah.
-…and we can be an army.

[inspirational music playing]

[Betty] I think that Phoebe and I
are definitely living

Dr. Martin Luther King's dream

of sons and daughters of
former sl*ves and former slaveholders

sitting at the table of brotherhood.

We are going back to the farm
where my family was enslaved.

[Phoebe] There's like an edge.

See that? Maybe an edge of the house.

This may be another little building.
Maybe this was the sl*ve cabin.

-[Betty] These piles of rock…
-[Phoebe] Mm-hmm.

It might be other buildings on the farm.

That old saying, they say,
"Ashes to ashes and dust to dust."

Phoebe provided the scholarship form
to my grandchildren.

My sl*ve ancestors' blood
is paying for it.

I think that education
is what they kept from us,

and I think that education
is what we need back.

-We had a good time. Yes.
-We had a good time, a good time.

-Let me give you a hug.
-[chuckling]

[Phoebe] Ah, sweetie!
It's so good to get to know you.

-You too.
-You'll do great at college, I know.

-Yeah?
-Yeah, she better.

-"Yeah, she better!"
-[all laugh]

You know, yeah.

You got great expectations,
and you got great backing.

-Okay.
-All right. Listen, I'll miss you, but…

-Yeah, you… you drive safely.
-I will. you too.

-See you… See you on Zoom.
-[laughing]

-Okay.
-Okay.

-All right. Bye-bye.
-Okay. Bye-bye.

-Drive safely.
-[Phoebe] I will.

[gentle music playing]

[Betty] I don't know
if we will ever get to the point

where skin color doesn't matter.

I don't think that I'll live to see it,

but I think that Gabby will.

For my grandchildren,

I dream that their journey
will be easier than mine,

that they will be able to have jobs,

make a living,

be happy and be free.

[Pope Francis] The dreams of the elderly

are the wealth of the experiences
that they want to share, to give in.

It's the richness they saw in their lives,

that they offer
to you as a life experience.

The dreams of the young make a prophecy,

that is, they create our ability
to keep going forward.

I want to play with you.

-[giggles]
-Ah!

That's why it's important
to bring together the young and the old.

The old man who gives his dreams,
and the young man who receives them,

and passes them on, looking to the future.

[gentle music continues]

[music ends]

["Azul" by Toña la Negra playing]

[Danilo] My dream is to build
a house, a humble little house,

to live the rest of my life
with my children.

-[Uriel chuckling] Sand feels nice.
-[Danilo] Yeah? Is it crisp?

-So cold. Cold and…
-[Danilo] Yeah, it's crisp.

-[Uriel] And damp. It's not dry, really.
-[Danilo] Yeah?

[Uriel] Damp.

["Azul" continues playing]

[man] Your Holiness,
to achieve one's dreams,

it is sometimes necessary to fight.

So does every ordinary person
have to fight at some point, to struggle?

Let me rephrase your question.

What should you fight for?

["Azul" continues playing]