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It's a story of people who are displaced, of refugees.
And a love story.
And it starts in January of 1939,
when it's the end of the Civil War in Spain.
A civil war that was devastating and lasted
three horrible years.
And the fascists with Franco win the war.
And the Republicanos who were the other side, many of them
left Barcelona and walked toward where
the border was with France.
In 24 hours, there was half a million people at the border.
And in the meantime, Pablo Neruda
the Chilean poet, who loved Spain
and had many friends in Spain and had followed step
by step everything that had happened during the Civil War,
convinced the government of Chile
to receive 2,000 refugees.
So he went to France and he got a ship called
the Winnipeg, a cargo ship, and sort
of conditioned it to transport 2,000 people to Chile.
And these people, they brought ideas.
They were printers, publishers, philosophers, historians,
artists, musicians.
And these people contributed so much
that them and their descendants are
the best-known artists, and scientists,
and astronomers in Chile.
They descend from the Winnipeg.
So that's a happy story of refugees that are incorporated,
welcome into a society.
And they enrich the society.
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I'm always interested in love stories.
Because love happens in many ways.
And at my age, I'm interested the love
because I'm very romantic, I'm very passionate.
So most of my love affairs have been because I fall madly
in lust with somebody.
And it ends well or bad.
But what drives me is passion.
So now at my age, I'm more interested in,
are there other ways of falling in love that is not
this outburst of hormones?
And there's friendship, there's loyalty, there's necessity,
there's survival.
There are so many other ways that I
wanted to sort of explore.
And that's how I came up with that story.
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I think it's because this is in the air.
It's in the collective consciousness.
It is a global crisis that will get worse.
Because as climate changes, it will create masses
of refugees in the world.
They don't have water, there's drought, there's fires,
they have to get out of wherever they are.
And we have to deal with that, the world
has to deal with that.
It's not about building walls.
It's not about separating people.
It's about how we will incorporate this.
How we will make this a global crisis
that it is a global solution.
So in a way because this is in the air
and people are talking about it, and my foundation works
with the refugees and migrants at the border,
I am very conscious of it.
I feel it and I have lived it.
I know what it is.
Nobody leaves their home, everything
that is familiar to them, their language, their customs,
everything unless they're desperate.
There's always a very powerful reason
to leave everything behind.
You don't do it just because.
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