In the movie The Fountain, the female character whom is progressively dying, presents symbolism in the book that she writes. The book contains the concept of abolition of concrete and past time, which is the ending of profane time and beginning of sacred time, as describes by Eliade in Myth of the Eternal Return. This is shown because the female character is progressively dying due to a brain tumor, giving her pain or profane time. In the book that she writes, she symbolizes her death with a new beginning in which she is taken up to a nebula or star representative of the tree of life and sacred time as believed by the Mayan. Ultimately, the female character's profane time ends, and her sacred time begins as she loses to cancer and takes up the belief in sacred time after death.