What Happens to Mia and Her Baby? – Beragampengetahuan

• Nowhere is a thrilling Spanish drama on Netflix about a young couple trying to escape oppressive military rule and find a safe place for their newborn child.
• Mia, the protagonist, shows incredible resourcefulness and survival skills after being marooned in the middle of the ocean in a metal crate. She even manages to give birth and keep her newborn alive.
• The film’s final scenes reveal that Mia and her baby are rescued by an Irish fishing boat off the coast of Ireland, providing a hopeful and heartwarming ending.

The latest Spanish movie to shoot up Netflix’s top 10 list, following in the footsteps of Phenomena and Infiesto, is the thrilling drama Nowhere. Directed by Alberto Pinto and written by a team of five writers including Ernest Riera, Miguel Ruz, Indiana Lista, Seanne Winslow, and Teresa de Rosendo, the film stars Anna Castillo as Mia as she and her partner Nico (Tamar Novas) seek to escape an oppressive and dictatorial military rule in Spain in order to find a safe haven for her to give birth to their first child. The story of her struggles to survive and keep her newborn child alive in the most dire of circumstances is both harrowing and tragic. After being marooned for so long by herself in cramped and inhospitable environs, does Mia ever make it out alive with her newborn in the end?

Set in a country that is never specified, Mia and Nico are two young lovers looking to stow away in one of the containers at a storage yard that is being placed on an ocean liner set to sail. They are having a child together, and Mia is very close to giving birth as the story begins. The pair is seeking to get out from under the murderous military rule of their home country so that their newborn can know freedom. It resonates with some of the refugee crises that we are seeing today, as the oppressed people of countries similar to the one portrayed in Nowhere head out of their homeland in search of a better life. You get to see just how brutal the regime is when an entire container full of dozens of helpless people trying to escape into an adjacent container is gunned down by a cruel and detached soldier who relishes the opportunity to kill innocents. Somehow, the pregnant Mia manages to keep quiet after the deplorable slaughter but suddenly finds herself alone inside a freight box armed only with her phone. But once the ship leaves port and begins its journey, it’s hit by a massive storm. This causes the container that Mia’s hiding in to be swept overboard and into the middle of the open waters. She is stranded inside a metal box and left to her own devices to survive.

Within days of being marooned in the middle of nowhere in the Atlantic Ocean, Mia is alone when she goes through the agonizing process of childbirth. Things are no longer about her own survival, but she now has a newborn girl to keep alive as well. The proverbial adage, “Necessity is the Mother of all invention” becomes the order of the day very quickly, and she proves to be incredibly resourceful. The first thing she must tend to is the holes in the crate that allow the container to take on water. Fortunately, one of the many crates that are in the container has some duct tape that she immediately applies to keep the container afloat.

The next necessity is food, and Mia proves to be even more clever as she rigs a fishing net alongside the crate once she finally manages to escape and get outside and atop the floating metal box. Perhaps fittingly, one of the containers within the one she’s inside of is loaded with Tupperware containers. That’s right- it’s a very large box that holds a bunch of other big boxes. These, in turn, hold many small plastic boxes (one of which is filled with small rubber duckies in a nice touch to symbolize the deadly oversized bathtub that Mia is in.) She uses these Tupperware containers to store fresh fish so that there is never a threat of starving and not being able to produce enough milk for her newborn daughter. Castillo brings both heavy emotion and believable physicality as the only player throughout most of the film in a viscerally powerful performance that rivals other marooned stars like Tom Hanks in Castaway, Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi, and Robert Redford in All Is Lost.

After several days turn into weeks, it appears as if Mia and her precious newborn will be left to drown inside the container that is slowly taking on more water from places she cannot patch up. After, she and her daughter (whom she aptly names Noa — a nother nice touch by the writers) are forced up and out of the crate as it has filled with seawater and is slowly becoming submerged. She creates a very small makeshift raft that is big enough to hold Noa before she is finally engulfed; the audience is led to believe that she does not survive and little Noa is left to slowly die atop her small floating vessel like Moses being left to float down the river in an unmistakable allusion to the well-known biblical tale.

Before Mia seemingly succumbs to her harrowing predicament and goes under, she has made one last brilliant move. As she holds on to Noa’s small makeshift raft, she brings a small Tupperware container of dead fish that she places in the water one by one in what we think are her final moments. She does this to both draw a flock of circling seagulls as a signal to any nearby boats and to give Noa extra time before they go after her baby. The final sequence of the movie shifts to a small fishing boat out for a fun day of deep-sea angling. The boat is named “Mickey” and onboard are a father and his daughter who are speaking in distinct Irish accents. It becomes clear that Mia and Noa have drifted all the way from the beaches of Spain to somewhere off the coast of the Emerald Isle. When the two notice the gulls flying above Noa’s small raft over the starboard side of the vessel, they immediately pull it in and are astounded to find a newborn baby swaddled in a small blanket.

They are gobsmacked yet again by discovering a twine rope attached to the tiny raft that leads beneath the level of the water. It takes all the strength of both to lift Mia’s unconscious body up and into Mickey. She is pale and is not breathing, but the young woman is undeterred in delivering CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The Irish woman looks at her father as if to say, “There is no way I’m going to let this child grow up without her mother!” and she continues to pound at Mia’s chest. After what feels like an eternity, Mia coughs out lungs full of seawater and begins to breathe on her own. She is alive and is reunited with her precious baby in the final scenes.

Nowhere is currently streaming on Netflix in the U.S.