Tuesday

Tuesday, a 15-year-old who uses a wheelchair, meets a macaw that speaks of Death and can change size. The bird acts as Death's emissary, signaling an imminent end to pain. Tuesday immediately understands that this is no ordinary animal.

Tuesday asks Death not to take her life until her mother has a chance to come home. The plea reveals Tuesday's desire to say goodbye on her own terms and to have her mother present. The macaw's response remains unnerving and calm.

When Zora discovers the talking macaw, she is confronted with the reality of her daughter's illness and the macaw's ominous identity. She initially lunges to catch the bird, driven by fear and desperation. The moment marks a collision between maternal protectiveness and the inescapable truth Death personifies.

Zora tricks the macaw into leaving the room and leads it into the garden. There she assaults the bird with a heavy book and then sets it on fire, attempting to erase Death's hold over Tuesday. The scene dramatizes her rage and the lengths she will go to spare her daughter.

After Death is badly charred, Zora swallows the bird whole, attempting to remove Death's power from their lives. The act has an immediate, surreal consequence: Death remains inside her instead of acting in the usual way. Tuesday's fate becomes tied to her mother's body.

With Death living inside Zora, people and animals who would normally die continue to roam, injured but alive. News of these inexplicable 'undying' beings begins to ripple through the countryside. The phenomenon complicates ordinary life and deepens the sense of collective fear.

Under stress, Zora involuntarily grows or shrinks as Death is unable to perform its duties. The strange new ability isolates her, highlighting the consequences of harboring the emissary of death inside her body. Tuesday continues to question Death's whereabouts, amplifying the tension.

Tuesday convinces her mother that she can act as Death's stand-in to bring relief to those suffering. Zora reluctantly allows Tuesday to take on the role temporarily, extending the act of mercy to animals and people in pain. The community's pain becomes Tuesday's responsibility.

Tuesday's insistence on relief leads to a shift in the plan: Zora regurgitates Death back to the mortal world and they agree on an endgame. Together they determine a path that will end Tuesday's suffering in a controlled way rather than through Death's direct intervention.

Later the same day, Tuesday passes away, finally free from her terminal illness. The loss pushes Zora into a new emotional reckoning as she faces a world without her daughter. The moment reframes Death's purpose in the story.

Sometime after Tuesday's death, Death returns to see how Zora is coping. She debates whether life is worth living and considers joining Tuesday in death. The visit emphasizes the film's ongoing meditation on meaning, memory, and endurance.

Death reframes its message, telling Zora that if she needs a reason to continue, she should keep Tuesday's memory alive. The film closes as Zora exhales and whispers 'Get up, woman,' a quiet resolve to persevere. The closing image links memory, resilience, and the will to live.