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Grieving her father's death, Helen trains a wild goshawk and finds healing through the ancient art of falconry.
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00:00You
00:03Dad, I just saw a pair of forks. A pair? Yeah. They were sort of gliding around each other. Beautiful.
00:09My dad, he was a quiet man with a camera. Watch carefully so you remember what you've seen. And he
00:15was the only person who understood me.
00:19And now he's gone. I miss him terribly.
00:25There'll be a time when all this seems like a bad dream.
00:29But Dad wouldn't want us to moop.
00:32You're not mooping now, are you? No.
00:37I do my research and I teach a bunch of undergrads at Cambridge.
00:41Hi everyone. But I'm not dealing with things very well at the moment. Professor?
00:47Sorry, yeah, great. I need something different. I want a gosthaw.
00:52Gosthaw's the wildest and maddest of raptors.
00:59When I call her, then you let her go.
01:04Good girl. I'm gonna call you Mabel.
01:12Helen? Human beings can't live this well.
01:20Are you feeling that you're a failure?
01:23Well, that's just a matter of fact.
01:25Don't be so hard on yourself.
01:27He's just working out your place in the world.
01:31I always thought Dad taught me to be detached.
01:35But being with Mabel, it's an honest encounter with life.
01:40And now I see how engaged with life Dad was.
01:45Life's real.
01:47Serious.
01:48And beautiful.
01:50Remember.
01:52Smile.
01:53I'm not gonna go.
01:54Hello.
01:56Don't be stressed.
01:58I'm not gonna go.
01:59I don't mind.
01:59You will.
02:00I'm just gonna go.
02:00I just know how to be.
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