An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who write letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the father he never knew.

This is a Brazilian film Central Station in the city of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , is the meeting point of the dozen subway and dozens of buses . Dora illiterate people in the station waiting hall door , write for a living. On this day Anna with her nine-year-old son, Joshua , to the father he never met , but a station accident killed . Originally the human reality of Dora in motherhood driven , agreed with Joshua to the northeast to find the father . The scenery along the way more and more strange , the two have become increasingly close . Joshua finally get to find the father of Dora also found .