José & Pilar

The universe won't remember us. It won't remember Homer wrote The Odyssey.

An intimate, elegiac portrait of a literary giant and his wife navigating love, mortality, and creative legacy in their final years.

A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his masterpiece "The Elephant's Journey", and how their love quietly sustains them throughout.