"Yeah, that's good." "Ugh." "Yuck." "Yes, yes." "Good." "What are you guys doing?" "We're cutting in line." "Right, Leon?" "Don't worry about techno and dance,   but dance bands?" "Yuck, yuck." "I'm not sure how much of this gets through." " Hard to say." " Maybe this is better." "I don't know." "Look here." "Boobs." "Milk?" "Yes." "Yuck!" "There's no Santa." "Yuck, yuck!" "Enough research on living beings for today." "Someone has to step up." "Better a record collecting nerd   than a self-mutilating pothead." " Right, Leon?" " Go." "It's my house." "I decide." " It's five to nine." " Five to nine?" "There'll be another lesson tomorrow." "Bye." "Life is for living." "And in the end it dies." " I have a problem with it." "Gimme." " We're paying for this." " You're paying for the therapy." " Can't this be part of it?" "No." " We are the ones paying." " I'm aware of that." " So..." "No!" "Kjersti might be the eleventh most popular blogger in the country." "Not counting those who blog about food, sex and health." "They're just niche bloggers." "I blog about life itself, you know." "You blog about life, do you?" "It might sound odd to begin with." "But each week, a thousand people   read the blog to confirm that they're not alone in their struggles." " Kjersti is a role model." " Please." "I had a good day until now." "Take that literary exhibitionism somewhere else." "Give me the camera!" " What we do is important." " What Kjersti does is really important." "Someone more well read than you once said:" ""We construct our greatest illusions not to hide our cruelty   or shortcomings, but our emptiness."" "The hardest part is covering everything that's not there,   which in your case is a lot." "Give me the camera." "Come on." " Hey, don't do that." " Sit!" " What do we do now?" " I don't know, damnit." "Is there something I can help with?" "Just write that it got pushed back, and then shoot someone else?" "Twitter or Face?" " Twitter first." " Nice picture." "Out!" "Get out." "Your problems can't be solved here." "Come on." "Get out!" "Out, I say!" "Buzz off!" "Bye." "Adieu." "Arrivederci." "Don't come back." "Malin!" "Due within two weeks." " Do you have a dog?" " I've always had a dog." "We need the camera." "Just give me the camera." "Please." "Get the hell out of here!" "Malin!" "We need that camera." "It's important to Kjersti." "Not anymore." "It's empty." "Jesus, it's empty!" " It's really important to Kjersti." " Come on." "Buzz off!" "Wait here, and I'll talk to uncle Dag." "You're good with people, Dag." " Have you...?" " Not." "Here's something to write with." "Sit down." " Is this too close for you?" " You can just sit over there." "One:" "Pay any remaining balances at Ernst." "This therapy thing isn't me." "So you're cured?" " Call him and tell him it's over." " Why don't you call yourself?" "He's really good at making me feel that I'm the problem." "Two:" "If Trine calls, I'm not here." " Even if you're here?" " Never." " Cool." " Three:" "Put this up online." "Was anything not clear?" " That protein shake..." " Shut it." "Call Ernst." "Hi, Benedikt." "I'll be right over." " So Mia is letting you in?" " It's my kid, too." "And I get in regardless." "There's a cease-fire while we get trough this crisis." "Beyond that, God knows." "We can talk about something else." "How is it going with...?" "That's your idea of cheering me up?" "Utter despair." "There's been no sign of life." "Entirely dead." "Tried to jerk off last night." "Pointless." "Like pounding a nail with a shoelace." " I'm going to dinner with Trine later." " That's nice." " No, I'm breaking up." " I didn't know you were together." "Not like that." "We have to end it properly." "Over dinner?" "That's the worst thing you can do." "First, you dread it for hours, then the curtain drops, never pleasant,   and then you still suffer through the main course and dessert   as the mood veers between insane, awkward or weird?" "Fuck it, Dag." "Not dinner." "Just get it over with." " What?" "You're breaking up?" " We can't be together anymore." " I fucked your mom." " My mom?" "Yeah, lots." "Hi!" "Foxy lady!" "Bye." " Did you really?" " Yeah, lots." "Get it over with." "Go for the kill." " Hi." " Hi." " We can't be together anymore." " It's our second anniversary." " It is?" " Yeah, silly." "Anyway, you remember when I talked you into that abortion?" " Yes." " Once I'd dropped you off, " " I went home and slept with the cleaning lady." "Bye." "Not exactly ideal, but the lesson is   that if you're going to do it, keep it short and light." "Part as friends." "That's important." "You never know when you might need them again." "I'm actually really bad at that part." "I don't know." "Should I go around the block before you go in?" "No thanks." " No thanks." " Good luck then, Benedikt." "You too." "OK." "Thanks a lot." "Mia, what's going on?" "He had a fever over 115, and went into convulsions." "The tiny thing was just shaking." " It'll be all right." "There's nothing I can do." "He's stabilized." "The fever is down to 110." "You should get some sleep." "He'll need you to be strong when he wakes up." " I can't leave him." " He's sleeping." "To get through it, you have to take care of yourself." "Do it, Mia." "I'll sit here if you'll let me." "I'll hold his hand." "I promise." " Are you sure?" " I'm sure." "I'll give you something to sleep." "We'll get you when he wakes up." "I'll check in every ten minutes." "If the hearth rhythm increases, or anything changes, push the button on the wall." " OK." " I'm here all the time, OK?" "Great." "Thanks." "Hi, little guy." "It'll be fine." "You're a tough one." "A little warrior." "You know, it's like being afraid of the dark." "When you turn the light on, it's not scary anymore." "Imagine we're in a boat." "We can swim and fish for crabs." "When we're done, we can cuddle up and read comics." "Right?" "And nothing is scary." "Nothing." "No one can get us." "You hear?" "Daddy's never gonna leave you." "Daddy's never gonna leave you again." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hi, you've reached Trine's answering machine." "Leave a message, and I'll call you back." "Hi, it's Dag." "I tried to call you, but there seems to be something wrong with the phone." "Anyway, I wanted to say, dinner's not really good tonight." "The whole week, actually." "So..." " Eva." " Eva Holstad?" "Yes." "This is Dr. Hansvik from Kringslia nursing home." "You're registered as next of kin for Glenn Are Eilertsen." "Yes, that's right." "I'm his daughter." "I'm sorry to tell you this, but he passed away an hour ago." "He tried to get a beer from the coffee machine, and grew upset." "He went to sleep listening to Bjøro on full blast,   and when we tried to get him for lunch, he was gone." "He was in no pain." "It went very quickly." "Are you there?" "Yes, I'm coming." "I'll be there." " Benedikt?" " Dag." " Is it going well?" " No, but it's going." "He's in and out." "Slipping in and out." "I'm so fucking scared, Dag." "What if he doesn't make it?" "Then what do I do?" "That's not even an option." "He's got to make it, right?" "He hasn't done anything." " Neither have you." " That's the whole point." "Perfectly put." "I haven't done a damn thing." " I haven't watched him." " That's not what I meant." "But that's how it is." "I haven't spent the time getting to know him." "All the things we haven't done." "All the things he hasn't done." " Fuck!" " Benedikt?" "Fuck." " Benedikt." " Sorry, Dag." "Fuck it, it sucks." " Are you OK?" "Shall I come down?" " No, I have to do this alone." "Or, with Mia." "Fuck." "Poor Mia, in all this." "I'm in this car, as the worst person she's ever met,   and I've given 50% of the genes to the one she loves above everything." "The one I love above everything." "That's good, Benedikt." "That says a lot about you." "You can't do anything here." "You understand that?" "People get sick, kids get sick." "That's how it is." " You can only be there when it happens." " That's just it." "Being there." "Where the fuck have I been?" "I see you point, but it's not like that." "For what it's worth, I'm very fond of you." "Thanks." "Now I'm going to fucking cry again." "I love you too." "I'll hang up now." "I'm just sitting here like an idiot." " Thanks for giving a shit." " Of course." "Thanks." "OK." "Bye." "Bye, then." "Hi, it's Dag." "Nothing special." "Just wanted to hear that things are good." "No, shit..." " This is where you're hiding?" " This is not a good time." " It never is with you." " Yes, but this is historically bad timing." " You can't keep doing this." " Keep doing this?" "Like a 16-year old." "We're adults." "We don't make dates we don't keep or break up via text message,   or pretend calls get dropped when we're talking." "I've at least outgrown that stuff." " Try to behave like a grownup." " Not now." "OK?" "Why not now?" "What do you mean?" "You can't behave now?" "You can't talk to me?" "Or both?" "You were a very sweet and cute girl." "A girl I could have seen again,   but now you're crazy." "Now you're just totally crazy." " You don't understand." " I have to be somewhere." "Just don't..." "Stop bothering me!" "Hello?" "Mia?" "Yes, of course." "I'll be right there." "OK." "I guess I'd imagined that something would happen when he went." "That he'd be present for a moment, before dying." "Recognize me." "Tell me he loved me." "Might be he had a hard time saying that." "I had expected some sense of relief." "Maybe not relief,   but a sens of an era ending." "Now I can look ahead, in a way." " This is just..." " Sad?" "Stupid, that's what it is." "Stupid." "It's silly." "My dad lived a silly, irresponsible, messy, shitty life." "And then he couldn't even die with style." " How so?" " He was just nothing." "A drunken weirdo who only cared about Kris Kristofferson and fox hunts." "Bjøro." "Yeah, right?" "Now that he had to die..." "It's as if this was his last chance." "He could have made something out of it." "Instead, he'll never be anything other than what he was." "I've hardly seen him since he ran off." "Poof, gone." "And then, poof, back two weeks later, 40 pounds heavier, and his mind is gone." "It seemed a conscious choice." "A way to get out of confronting anything at all." "I was so fucking mad at him." "But now I think it wasn't a choice at all." "It was just how he was?" "That he was sick even then." "Whatever ate his brain had begun even then." "I'm sure that's exactly what it was." "Yeah, I think so." " Are you going in?" " I don't want to." "I'll go with you, but these things are often best on your own." " Come, let's go." " Eva." "You can't run away from this." "Just go in, say goodbye, - and be done with it." "I understand, I just don't want to." "Leon's waking up, too." "I'll handle Leon." "Just go in, and we'll be out here waiting for you." "Then we'll go to my place." "Birger and the band are gone, so I'll sleep there." "Sure, then I'll drive you home afterward, OK?" "He can't hurt you." "This is just for your own sake." "Then you can decide later if you want to close the door." "Come, Leon." "Let's find us a vending machine." "Let's discuss Warren Zevon." "We will, you know." "Hi, daddy."