Robin Williams couldn't save her life. But he could make one of the last wishes of a 21-year-old girl across the world.
Vivian Waller lived in New Zealand and had a little daughter, Sophie, and a partner, Jack.
Then there came a diagnosis that changed everything.
An advanced bowel tumor had already spread to the liver and lungs. Vivian faced several chemotherapy cycles, but the disease continued to advance.
When he understood that time could be much less than he had imagined, he did something simple: he wrote what he still wanted to live.
Celebrating her 21 years.
Marry Jack.
See their baby's first birthday.
Visit Rarotonga.
And meet Robin Williams.
It was probably the most difficult desire to achieve. Vivian was too sick to take a trip to the United States.
But his story managed to travel instead of him.
When Robin Williams learned about the young New Zealander and his list, he recorded a brief personal message for her.
He did not confine himself to a formal greeting.
He joked using one of his accents, sent his affection to Vivian, Jack and Sophie and made her understand, with that lightness that had characterized much of his career, which could finally erase that desire from the list.
The meeting did not take place physically.
And yet, in a way, Vivian got what she wanted: for a few moments Robin Williams had turned to her.
Meanwhile, some of the other points on the list were becoming reality.
In February 2014, Vivian married Jack, shortly after discovering how severe his condition was.
With the passing of months, however, health worsened and in Auckland began to receive palliative care.
Then, on August 11, 2014, another news arrived: Robin Williams was dead.
Vivian's family then decided to publish that video that until then had a private gift.
Jack explained the reason for the choice: they also wanted to show this side of the actor.
Not that of great film productions.
Not the applause.
But that of a man who had known that a seriously ill girl wanted to know him and decided to dedicate a moment of her time.
Vivian died on 28 September 2014. She was still 21.
No message could have changed what was happening to his health.
But maybe the value of that video was just elsewhere.
For a few seconds Vivian was not just a young woman struggling with a terrible diagnosis.
She was a girl who had written a seemingly impossible desire on a list and had just discovered that someone, across the world, had decided to make it possible.
There are gestures that for those who do it only take a few minutes.
In the life of those who receive them, they can occupy a much larger place.