The Impossible Ending, Explained – What Happened to María Belón?

Back in 2012, Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland were among a group of actors to star in the disaster film, The Impossible, now streaming on Netflix. Telling the incredible true story of the Alvárez-Belón family, the film chronicled their struggle to survive the tragic 2004 earthquake-turned-tsunami as it ripped through much of Southeast Asia, killing over 200,000 people within the span of eight hours.

While the family went on to survive the aftermath of the deadliest tsunami in history while they vacationed in Thailand (where over 5,000 people were killed, including tourists), the film doesn’t necessarily reveal what happened to Maria Belón, the matriarch of the family. Though she’s last seen in the film being taken on an ambulance airplane to Singapore to receive medical treatment for the multiple injuries she received when being caught by the tsunami, there’s…