"I knew I would only find peace after their disappearance." "Their presence was an omen of evil, of death." "No, not this, I don't want...not this!" "No!" "Anna, is something wrong?" " No, they came back this time." "I'm sure." " What are you saying?" "You only had a bad dream, dear, it's obvious." "No, I swear!" "It wasn't a dream!" "Come on, get out of here, it's all over now." "Calm down, don't be afraid since I'm with you now." "I assure you, there was a dead body next to me and my hands were covered by his blood." "You're telling me it's all over, but I will never forget!" "Those hands were covered with blood!" "Come on, calm down, darling." "Stop it, Anna." "You need to understand." "Listen this is what we're going to do." "Lie down and relax." "I'll be right back." "Hi, Paul!" "Careful with the suitcase!" "What's new?" "You know, I'm very worried." "The bad news is that her hallucinations are more frequent." "And did she take her pills regularly?" "Well, I have a strong feeling that her pills don't help." "We may have to get her into a psychiatric ward under observation." "This would be terrible for her!" "This may be the only way." "Here, I can treat her nerves, give her sedatives, nothing more." "But, from what you're telling me, it could be a mental disease which requires specialized care." "You mean Anna is crazy?" "I don't know." "She needs to be tested." "I have to go." "I'll be back tomorrow." "In the meantime, she has to take this tranquilizer every two hours but be careful, two drops at a time with warm milk." "Call me in case of emergency, or I'll see you tomorrow." "Doctor!" "Wait!" "Doctor, wait!" "What are you doing here?" "Go back home immediately!" "I must have a private conversation with you." "No, not now!" "Impossible." "Go back home!" "Wait!" "I want to see you at the hospital tomorrow." "No." "Why not?" "Uh, because I won't be there but if you want we can meet at the Saint Agnes chapel at eleven." "Be on time" "I'll be waiting for you inside." "I'll be on time." "Have you finally relaxed?" "Have you?" "Hello, doctor!" "If you want, I can wait outside." "No, I'll only be a minute." "Are you a believer?" "I would've preferred thinking the opposite." "People generally misjudge me." "It's true." "And do you know, I know you better than you know me." "It's normal because I'm your doctor." "Shall we go outside?" "Calm down, please, calm down." "What's the matter with you?" "It's the first time I've seen you in such a state, Anna." "Come on, that's enough, Anna, please calm down." "No..." "Anna... no, listen!" "My name is not Anna at all." "Do you understand ?" "I have never been the Princess of Istria." "I have painful memories of my childhood because I've never met my father and I don't know who he is." "What's the importance of all that?" "What matters is your personality." "What's important is that you exist!" "Don't say that!" "On the contrary, you don't understand." "It's more important to believe me." "I want to know what you told Cynthia yesterday." "Tell me the truth." "Am I crazy?" "No, not at all." "Are you sure?" "You need to take care of your nerves." "You're overexcited and you need to find emotional balance and tranquility." "It's easy!" "Calm down!" "Chase away the ghosts in your pretty head!" "It's a lie, but I know why!" "Because... because I'm really mad and you don't want to hurt me." "No, don't be stupid, you just need..." "You don't want to understand." "Forgive me." "I can't explain why but I need to tell how I feel and you're the only one who can understand." "Beside you, nobody understands me!" "What about Cynthia?" "Cynthia!" "No!" "No!" "She's not a woman but rather a statue." "She's always cold." "Nothing touches her, moves her or reaches her heart." "She stands proud, beautiful, indifferent, like an ice statue." "Not a peep; not a move, nothing." "How did you meet her?" "When did your friendship start?" "You mean our love affair, huh?" "Don't think I've got a reason to hide it." "You don't know everything about me, nor my life." "Before I met her, I did a seedy strip-tease at a club in Zagreb." "But now I don't know who I am or where I'm going." "It's horrible, the sickness starts with my dreams and everything turns into a nightmare!" "So, I told you everything." "Tell me the truth." "Am I really a murderer?" "A sadist?" "Or is it only a horrible dream that obsesses and haunts me in my sleep?" "I can't find the answer on my own." "My dear friend, if I understand, it's more serious than I thought." "I must speak to Cynthia." "Speak to her!" "About what?" "I must explain to her that with your condition she can't heal you." "You must have a treatment, with specific care and you can't go on living with her." "And why!" "Well, to be able to diagnose your case, it would be better that you should be in a hospital." "And if you stay with Cynthia it could be dangerous." "Dangerous?" "How?" "Do you mean a physical danger?" "Exactly, I'm sorry, but it's better for you to know." "I'm not sure yet, but as your doctor, and since you asked I wanted to be frank with you." "Yes you're right, I asked for it." "I must talk with Cynthia." "I'm ready to follow your advice, tell me what I have to do." "Only a few months ago, I was still in a second rate night club in Zagreb." "I had to focus the spectators' interest as long as possible with a strip that lasted forever." "But the boss wanted me to last most of the evening and he thought that I was always going too fast." "Anna, he said, I don't care how you do it!" "Show them all you've got, but little by little." "And when they think it's over, do it again, make it last longer, it excites them and then they drink, that's essential." "So I did what I could, I invented lascivious gestures, eccentric pauses." "In short, day by day I was feeling more and more seedy." "Then, one day, I started noticing her." "She was in the joint, staring at me with a chilling attention." "Despite the smoke that was fogging the room, I felt her heavy stare penetrating me, and it didn't leave me for a second." "It made me feel strange, I would only see her eyes through the night." "For the first time, I was feeling almost good doing this show I slowed down every move, every pause was with an attitude." "And those eyes didn't leave me." "I didn't know exactly what I felt." "A pleasure but tense, almost discomforting like a disease." "The next night, she came back and still wouldn't let me out of her sight." "Her eyes were shining like diamonds in the pale light of the room." "Those eyes, I would only see them." "To me, they seemed unreal and obsessive at the same time." "On the dim stage, I went on with my show without knowing what I was doing since I was under a spell, dominated by those shining eyes in the dark." "One day, she surprised me visiting back stage just before the show." "I want to make a deal with you!" "She came to make me an offer." "At first I was defensive." "But her voice warmed up, she wasn't trying to argue too much she was tempting, insidious, bewitching." "Yes, that's the word, I felt I was under her spell." "An invisible force was drawing me to her." "I couldn't resist, I didn't know what was happening to me." "She told me she would make me a star, she would train me that I must have success, but to me it was all a dream an endless dream." "First thing, you must come live with me, I have a big house." "I think we are going to get along fine." "Are you interested?" "I followed her home, and she made a long speech in the same mood." "She was trying to persuade me, maybe with too much insistence." "Because you think it's only about getting your clothes off." "I was passively listening to her, but her spell suddenly broke." "Maybe it was my will fighting against her or my lack of courage the inertia of everyday habits." "I thought that I had to stay the same, to keep my life as it was." "Before making a move, I had doubts, and despite myself my subconscious was fighting Cynthia's tempting proposal." "Instead of attracting me, this time she made me step back." "It was like feeling of vertigo." "The next day, I found myself back again on the sleazy cabaret stage but I was worried, tormented, and I had every reason to be since for the first minute of my strip, and like every other night I found Cynthia's eyes piercing me." "I was vanquished, I knew it was over and I had to accept it all." "Anna, listen, I won't get upset." "Tonight, you must understand me." "This time the tone changed, she was hard, ironic, bitter." "I became the guilty one." "Guilty of not having understood sooner." "I had to be punished, brutally tamed!" "Since then I think I am only existing through her and by her." "Anna, don't you know I'm with you?" "I wanted, yes I wanted you to be what you became." "Obedient, as you are now." "That's when the strange dreams started." "Cynthia would often appear in my dreams and talk to me." "Then came the silent flight of heavy birds." "Always this silence around me softening my steps through this big house a feeling of living somewhere else in a strange world." "At every moment, this feeling to delve in a dream not knowing if I was asleep or still awake." "Hello, Doctor?" "This is Cynthia ROBIN speaking." "Could you come here right away, please?" "Hi, are you Anna d'Istria?" "I'm Doctor Lucas." "How are you?" "Fine and you?" "You're not sick?" "Not at all, who told you that?" "You're Cynthia's friend, aren't you?" "Yes, that's me... why?" "Cynthia called me earier, she was very worried because of your nerves." "I didn't know she got so worried." "I only had a bad dream last night, that's all." "Then there is no need to worry." "No need." "Anyhow, I'm happy to..." "Paul!" "Hi, Cynthia, it's very nice of you to invite me but next time try not to do it during visiting hours." "I deserved it and I apologize, since I heard your conversation." "What do I care, it was only natural for me, I thought it was more serious." "I would have rather said nothing!" "I was wrong to be so altruistic." "Come on, Cynthia, I was joking I'm very glad it was nothing important." "See you soon." "Goodbye!" "I would like you to follow me!" "Do you think it's funny to humiliate me!" "Tell me I acted like a maniac!" "I didn't say that." "It's exactly what you intended to tell the doctor, I heard it all!" "You don't want to admit what you feel." "Oh!" "Doctor, you didn't need to come over!" "Meanwhile, last night you were acting like a raving maniac you were crying and screaming your head off you killed a man with a spear and that blood was dripping all over!" "No, this isn't true." "Okay." "Then I'm a liar!" "Leave me alone, get lost." "I'm going to teach you, you're going to listen." "Cynthia, please!" "Let me out, please." "Have mercy!" "Cynthia!" "Open, open the door!" "Cynthia!" "Open the door." "To escape a dream go to the daylight through the long corridor of the past" "And death and pleasure begging me to join in." "It attracts me. irresistibly." "And to meet some familiar people who I've never seen before." "Is this going to last forever?" "You will get that money, won't you?" "We must wait." "I know, you keep saying that over and over, we stay here waiting." "This is boring." "And you sit here quietly." "How can you do that?" "I'm patient." "It's only a matter of a few days then we'll get the dough." "Yeah, a big load of cash!" "Can you picture us with all those millions." "What are we going to do with it?" "What are you going to buy?" "I want loads of stuff." "Nothing will be too expensive for me." "I hope that when you get the money, you won't drop me." "You are not looking good today." "Are you eating well?" "I've lost my appetite lately." "Do you feel depressed?" "Why didn't she want to share her bedroom anymore?" "You're better off with her in this room." "I think she's afraid of me." "Yes, you are a naughty little girl who with a twitch of a wand can transform her into a pink little pig!" "Seriously, get out of bed and have a walk." "Isn't it dangerous for me?" "Very dangerous." "All the boys'll fall in love with you!" "You will get abducted!" "See you tomorrow." "Paul, wait for me, I must talk to you." "Follow me." "Doctor, wait for me!" "What's the matter?" "Can I go with you?" "Please do!" "Are you going to town?" "Where do you want me to go." "Get in, quick." "What a beautiful day!" "I must confess something." "It's rather funny." "So I think." "I came outside without Cynthia noticing it." "You mustn't get angry." "I felt oppressed." "You are worse than a kid." "I wanted to see people, to talk." "Do you think, I'm completely crazy?" "What makes you say that?" "Cynthia thinks I am, it's stupid." "I know I'm not crazy!" "Why are you torturing yourself then?" "Because at night, I'm afraid." "I have strange dreams." "Sometimes I wake up and, in the darkness, I see sinister people." "And they look like the ones I saw in my dreams." "I don't know if it's real or not but I do terrible things!" "Poor Anna!" "But when the day breaks the sun... the everyday noises the birds singing, the dogs barking everything is like before." "The horrible night slowly disappears." "I finally relax." "At last, I am feeling good." "Doctor, do you think I'm crazy?" "I want you to tell me frankly!" "Am I crazy?" "I see, you don't want to say anything." "You also think I'm crazy." "No, listen it's something else." "You're right." "I won't bother you anymore." "Come on Anna, I think you'll be better off at home." "You must realize Cynthia can get very worried." "I know!" "I have to tell you something else." "You mustn't be afraid of anyone." "We have to talk more often to reduce your nervous tension." "Then, we will find out the cause of your problems together." "Now go back, and stop torturing yourself, go home." "Yes, thanks." "Yes, doctor, I'm going home." "Don't worry!" "So Anna, you don't want to join us." "Slut!" "What are you doing here?" "I was waiting for you." "Why?" "Where's Cynthia?" "She's asleep." "That's just like her." "It's true" "You can give her all the passion the softest caresses the most voluptuous moments." "When you reach the peak, in the next minute forgetting what has happened, she stretches closes her eyes and falls asleep." "It isn't my style." "I adore making love." "Then I feel I can jump out the window and stroll on the rooftops with her hand in mine." "I hope you understand me." "For instance, if you'd like, we could run around in the moonlight, hand in hand." "I didn't think you could be so poetic." "Would you like a role in my play?" "Cynthia told me you are a great artist." "That's not true, I was doing strip-tease." "As you know, it's rather easy." "No need to be an actress." "You forgot that I'm here and can be a magician." "And everything will change." "Everything'll be clear as your eyes." "Follow me." "A wonderful world awaits you behind this door." "Look, this is the Big Dipper constellation." "Around us, this dark mass, those are the mountains." "They dive straight into the sea." "The wave will soon reflect the moon." "The world is ours, nothing can stop us." "Look, stare deeply into this magic world." "A thunderbolt!" "You're not afraid, are you?" "It's only showing us the way to the Paradise that awaits us." "Look, the sun is rising!" "It's so beautiful!" "We're now entering a dark cave." "Don't be afraid!" "We'll find the daylight again." "And the sun?" "It'll shine again." "Only for us." "We're everywhere and nowhere." "We can love." "The whole world belongs to us." "Let me guide you on the way to pleasure." "And the others?" "They don't exist." "Only us!" "Come!" "We must hurry because we're expected." "Eddy Duchin plays the piano." "He looks like Tyrone Power." "You also love cinema!" "I love it when it allows us to escape from the daily routines." "Cause it opens the doors to a wonderful world." "I understand." "It's exactly what happens to me." "You only have to let go trustingly." "You'll unravel ways you'd never have discovered on your own." "I know." "Take me forever." "Now, he's also dead." "Just like me." "Like all of us." "They look like they want me." "Why?" "What do they want?" "And this silence I don't know why suddenly it seems like everything has another proportion..." "..another dimension." "I think it's over." "The final day has come." "We're getting to the last hour." "We're going to get the money." "Then we'll fly directly to Brazil." "Sure!" "And you'll buy me anything I want?" "Yes, of course I will." "I told you so." "We just needed to wait." "Yes, right!" "But what did you do to get all this money" "If you want to know, we successfully robbed a jewelry store." "Ah, I see now." "There were a lot of jewels, we had to sell them and they couldn't surface on the market too fast because of the police." "I'm so happy I met you at the right time." "You're the most wonderful guy I ever met." "No, I don't want to do it." "This is ugly!" "We've gone too far." "We must find a solution!" "Come on!" "Look who's talking!" "You should think it over." "Since you agreed to go that far." "I didn't think we'd get to this." "Well, you're right, but it doesn't change anything." "Cynthia, listen, let me at least give her an injection." "She has to escape this torture." "That's it, then anybody could see she isn't crazy." "It would be obvious that she's committed the crimes under hypnosis" "And then, we'd both land in prison." "On the contrary, let's say she just killed our last accomplice." "So, we don't need to share the loot anymore." "I won't be able to control her anymore." "Don't worry." "You know perfectly well, we don't give a damn about anybody else and nobody'll ever guess the real culprit is Dr. Lucas." "Calm down." "I'm going to make you forget about her." "You'll see, life'll be beautiful again in my arms..." "You'll get the peace and happiness you want." "In one week, it'll be gone forever." "I don't know where I stand." "Come on, darling." "Kiss me!" "Forgive me." "Kiss me!" "I love you." "You're a fool to get such ideas." "I pray to the gods for the ones who die every day." "I pray for the restless souls." "For the souls who never have pity." "For the lost children." "For all the tortured people." "For all the fallen lives." "I pray for all who want justice love life, freedom." "For all who suffer around the world." "You're right, you're my everything." "Kiss me." "I love you." "I love you!" "I love you too." "I weep tears on the ashes of the people burned alive." "I cry over the screams of the dying, lost unto eternity." "I cry over the blood I spilled." "I cry over my impossible dream of happiness, of joy, of sun." "Oh well, that's it." "We just have to call the police." "A perfect death..." "Police?" "Dr. Paul Lucas speaking, come at once one of my patients just shot herself." "Nervous breakdown." "It's at 14 Acacias Street Villa Cynthia." "Yes, of course, I'll be there, inspector." "There's only one more thing to do." "Don't forget what you must do with the bodies if you don't want the police to suspect anything." "The evidence... she was a schizoid pervert who became a murderess." "I'm starving!" "I'm going to grab a bite!" "What's the matter?" "You look funny." "What's going on?" "You are not going to repeat yourself?" "Do you hear what I say?" "She's dead." "We killed her." "The blood is still dripping from her mouth." "The Doctor is being rather sensitive all of a sudden." "You better not treat me like that, since I made up my mind." "What do you mean?" "You think you're always the best." "You decide it all." "But now it's all over because I won't obey anymore." "I'm free now!" "Do you understand?" "So what!" "I believe you always have been!" "When the police get here then everything will be clear." "I've made up my mind." "I'll tell them the truth." "Do you get it?" "The whole truth." "You're nuts!" "Yes, totally nuts, especially when I listened to you!" "Let me go!" "Get out of my way."