OPHELIA

In the novel, Evidence of a Lost City, Ophelia is an older woman, an actress in Manaus, Brazil. In the movie, she is the animated second guide for Young John, as he wanders through the Lost Cities.

"I am a disarranged woman, she says smiling at her mirrored self. In the street, in her black dress and high heels, she seems a mad figure, an escapee, weaving her way through the aisles of the mercado...."