Tuesday

Zora's 15-year-old wheelchair-bound daughter Tuesday has an incurable terminal illness and Death comes to her in the form of a size-altering macaw to give her final deliverance from pain and suffering. Tuesday realises who and what the talking size-shifting bird is, and asks it not to kill her until her mother arrives home. Zora, on seeing Death and hearing it say that she needs to say good-bye to her daughter because every life must come to an end, at first tries to catch the macaw, and then tricks Death into going into the garden, where she bashes it repeatedly with a heavy book and sets fire to it. On hearing Death's dogged exhortation that Tuesday must die, Zora puts the badly charred bird into her mouth and swallows it whole.