Central Station

Dora is a retired schoolteacher who works at Rio de Janeiro's Central Station, writing letters for illiterate customers to earn a living. Embittered by life, she usually shows a lack of patience with customers and sometimes does not mail the letters she writes, putting them in a drawer or even tearing them up instead. Fernanda Montenegro plays Dora, a jaded middle-aged woman who takes in a young boy named Josué when his mother is killed in a bus accident.