In Netflix’s adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Rebeca Buendía (Akima Moldonado) frequently ate dirt, and there wasn’t a very clear explanation why. One Hundred Years of Solitude is, as the name suggests, a tragedy that follows several generations of the Buendía family and their time in the Colombian town of Macondo. It also features a literary style known as magical realism, so there are plenty of moments in One Hundred Years of Solitude that are both hard to explain and extremely sad to watch. One such moment is Rebeca’s penchant for eating dirt.

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