"Pardon." " Super." "How are you?" "Good, you?" " Fine." "It's fresh." "I just made it." "Ok." "Are they all in their rooms?" "Juat now." "Four forty-six has to be packed up." "What did you say?" "Four forty-six." "It has to be packed up." "Giaelle?" "The family is busy with the funeral and we need the room tomorrow." "Ok." "Papa!" "Yes" "Good evening." " Good evening." "Are you okay?" " Where is my room?" "This way." " I can't find my room." "This way." "It's long..." "Yes, the corridor is long and too dark at night." "It's difficult." "Let's have a look over here." "This is you." "Here we are." "Thank you sir." "Good nisht." " Good night sir." "It's okay Normand." "Everybody's here." "Marjorie's here." "Your ex-wife is here." "Your brother too." "They've come to say goodbye." "You're okay now." "They love you." "You can leave whenever you want." "They love you." "Have you seen Normand's dentures?" "Why?" "He's gone." "I can't find his teeth." "He's dead?" " Five minutes ago." "That's two this week." "The holiday rush." "Serse will be in in a couple of hours anyway." "Don't wake him." "There?" "What happened?" "Robert stood on them." "Do you have any time off for the holidays?" "Yes..." "Two weeks." "Two weeks!" "How'd you get that?" "I've not had weekends for the last two months." "So, the gangs from New York are coming." "Twenty of them." "Twenty?" "Where you gonna put them?" "They'll have to squeeze in." "The house will be like a real zoo." "It's a lot of food." "For sure." "What's your wife say about it?" "She's happy." "Oh yeah?" "She laughs and sings, it's Christmas." "Thank you." "You'll get fired." "Only if you tell on me." "How are you today?" "So?" "My son phoned." "They're back together." "Does she know you are sick?" "But when she finds out," "she'll stay with him until he inherits the house, and then she'll take him to the cleaners." "What about your sister?" "My sister?" "Could you will it to your sister until the divorce is over." "Alzheimer's." "Her daughter's sot power of attorney." "And her daughter's friends with my son's wife..." "The hardest part for me once I stopped drinking, was the huge hole it left in my life." "I mean it's only been six months." "After twenty years..." "What the hell do you do?" "Life when you're sober is so fucking boring..." "People are so fucking boring." "When you've been a couple for a long time, it's normal the passion wears off." "That's when commitment starts." "When you're head over heels in love it's like you're on drugs." "After that's gone..." "Mum's got cancer." "You know how Marie's started to regress?" "And her husband died in the eighties, Henry." "Good." "And I went to save her her suppository at 7:30, but she wasn't in her room." "I found her out in the sun room." "So I got her back into bed, and I roll her over and lift up her sown and push the suppos in, and she said, Henry, is that you?"" "She didn't?" "Henry..." "That's just wrong." "Henry is that you?" " It's nice." " Hmm-hmm." " David!" " Hello." "How have you been?" " Yeah okay." "You?" " Good." "It's been a while." "Ten years" " Ten." "How is Claudine?" "She's...alright I guess." "Yeah?" "Well take care of yourself." "Okay, thanks, you too." "How much for the radio?" "Hundred and fifty." "Does it work?" " One valve doesn't work." "Mind if I take a look?" "Broken valve, and the cord's stuffed." "I jumped down his throat." "I don't know why." "I blew my fuse..." "Told him he wanted to steal my job... that he wants to take my place." "It's my arrogance, I know." "I have many faults." "I tried so many times to fuck people over when I drank that now I think everyone's the same." "I'm convinced." "They've never been apart more than two days in thirty years, you know?" "Put anti-depressants in his food." "He's not eating." "He will eventually." "Or in his drink." "Anyway he doesn't have antidepressants." "You're joking, right?" "He hates shrinks." "Take them from here!" "You're a nurse." "What about your father?" "Is he alive?" "Died, when I was a kid." "I'm sorry." "It's okay." "What was he like?" "A hard worker." "I didn't see him much." "Worked in a quarry" "It's gonna be okay." "Take this one, 1 2 3 4 5, you'll cover it." "Thank you, Jesus, that's exactly what I wanted." "I can't count anymore." "Five..." "I had a Master's student who wanted to do her doctorate in the United States." "I told her Jesus, are you crazy?" "Oh yeah it's expensive." "Thirty grand." "She said, "Don't worry..." "I'll go through the foundation."" "The bloody foundations." "Foundations for the rich." "That's not what I wanted to do." " No?" "But it could work." "Move this five, and with the two, you cover here." "And you can put this on top otherwise there's no room." "You've got too many home." "The foundations, that's the way they control things." "The elites... because they control the students." "who apply for grants, control the subjects of their theses and at the end of the day, they decide who is going to set their doctorate." "and who is going to land an important position." "The bloody system is rotten." "Help me." "1 2 3 4 5, no that's not good." "I just wish they could be here when I die." "I would've liked... them to be with me." "They will be, Lucille." "You never know when you're going to go." "I don't mind you know." "You so." "You have to work." "Go." "Go." "I have..." "I had a daughter..." "Excuse me." "Excuse-moi."