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A lonely ferrywoman pulls a strange egg from the river on a stormy night. What hatches will feed her village, frighten its elders, and one day decide whether the whole valley drowns.

In the Reedlands, a marsh country of stilt houses and wide grey rivers, Suri, a young widow deep in debt, secretly raises a river creature she names Rill. As Rill grows, so does the village's fear. When the grain merchant Madam Kora and Elder Oshan, keeper of the Flood Bell, come to hunt it down, Suri must choose between her child and her home.

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00:05Oh
00:37Where did you come from?
01:25Stay here, quiet now.
01:44Not rice, then.
02:12You're dead is due at the full moon, Siri.
02:15You will have it, Madam Cora.
02:37You need a name, Rill.
02:41Like the little stream that brought you to me.
02:43Come on.
02:45Come on.
02:55Come on.
03:19Show off.
03:26Come on.
03:32Three full nets a day in a dry season?
03:39The river is kinder than people.
04:01The river is sick.
04:05Something unclean swims in its water.
04:31Whatever they say, you stay hidden.
04:34Come on.
04:53My husband went out on a night like the one that brought you to me.
05:05The river never gave him back, but it gave me you.
05:39The river never gave him back.
05:39Look at you.
05:40You can't hide in a barrel anymore.
05:42You can't hide in a barrel anymore.
06:03Not so close.
06:29Here.
06:30No one ever comes here.
06:32This is your home now.
06:43No.
06:53Slowly!
06:55Slowly!
07:30Three moons without a drop of rain.
07:47Something glows under the ferryman's house at night.
07:54Then tonight we go and see it with our own eyes.
07:58Two moons without a drop of rain.
08:49So it is true.
08:50She feeds the thing that drinks our river.
09:13The thing that drinks our river hides in the reeds.
09:17Bring your nets!
09:42They found you.
09:58Oh!
10:00Oh!
10:16Don't let it reach deep water!
10:32Stop!
10:34It has never hurt anyone!
10:38It has taken our river from us.
10:41Ugh!
11:10At first light, take it down to the salt sea.
11:14The river will thank us.
11:28Go home, Suri.
11:30Your debt is paid.
11:32Don't start a new one.
12:03I'm not going to die.
12:03I'm not going to die.
12:17Shh, hold still.
12:29Almost, almost there.
12:33Oh, oh, oh, oh.
13:27Go now, swim down to where the river is deep, where no one can find you.
13:54Go, go away, I don't want you anymore!
14:30I'm sorry!
14:31I'm so sorry!
14:34I'm so sorry!
14:58You set the unclean thing free.
15:00From this day, your ferry belongs to the village.
15:05I'm so sorry!
15:46I'm so sorry!
15:50I'm so sorry!
16:00You see, the river is at peace again.
16:26Fill every barn to the roof.
16:28When the rain stops, rice will cost twice as much.
16:33I'm so sorry!
16:57I'm so sorry!
17:02The wall will not hold another night.
17:07I'm so sorry!
17:09I'm so sorry!
17:25I'm so sorry!
17:26Just rain.
17:27Only rain.
17:56I'm so sorry!
17:58I'm so sorry!
18:03To the hill! Everyone, to the hill!
18:17Riven Bell, from far across water.
18:33His voice, breathless. The wall.
19:16Help me! Someone, help me!
19:38Take my hand.
19:45It won't be some right.
19:47It won't let it go...
19:47Let's go.
20:18Rell!
20:20Rell!
20:31Please.
20:50Oh, my God!
21:17Oh
21:54Take my hand
21:55Madame Cora, take my hand
22:19Why, why would it save me?
22:24Because it is my child
22:51Forgive us
22:52We did not know you
23:26Please
23:46Face
24:47No one in this village owes me anything.
25:18This bell will never again be rung against the river.
26:14No one in this village owes me anything.
26:25Good evening, my child.
26:47No one in this village owes me anything.
26:52Good evening, my child.
26:53Good evening, my child.
26:54Good evening, my child.
26:54Good evening, my child.
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JUNNI WALKER
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The River Mother

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