"Lori, what's wrong with you?" "I don't know..." "You're all white..." "Tell me what's wrong." "Are you feeling sick?" "I don't know... something's approaching..." "What's approaching?" "I don't know ..." "I'm afraid." "Paul, can we go back?" "Back?" "How...?" "I don't know, but I have to go back somehow, ...otherwise everything's going to go wrong." "Help open this door!" "If I tell you, will you help me?" "Leave the fucking door alone!" "Don't touch me, Paul!" "Leave me alone!" "Hello!" "I'm fine." "Change my plans, you know." "I'll stay here for a few days more." "How are you?" "OK." "I'll let you know as soon as I get the tickets." "I love you, love you." "Bye." "That way?" "No, this way." "Hello, I'd like to get a massage." "Yes, in my room." "Is it possible?" "Sure, sure." "How much?" "OK.Four hundred and if I change my mind ...then it's one hundred." "No, no." "I won't change my mind." "All I need is a good massage." "Right now." "OK." "Half an hour." "Great." "Thankyou." "AMAYA" "He came in with a huge backpack full of clothes..." "And threw that all on the counter." "Who was the person?" "A strange man came to my laundry this afternoon." "He resembled some being from the jungle." "Foreigner with a strange white hair- ...like shortly cut grass." "It was late for washing ...but he insisted he would pay double ...if everything would be ready by morning." "I took everything home." "We'll wash later." "I can't understand why..." "Sometimes we meet very strange people." "Let's go to a restaurant this weekend." "We could invite some friends?" "I'm too tired from all the people" "I meet at work." "I want some rest at least at weekend." "By the way weekend is still far." "Tomorrow is Friday already." "And then there is Saturday when you work, ...so what's left?" "Just one day and you may work then again... like it happened two weeks ago." "I had to sit alone in front of TV entire Sunday." "Do you know how hard it is?" "To watch TV alone?" "When you watch TV," "I always watch it with you." "Weekend..." "You talk like we have a free month!" "This clock hangs on our wall for 23 years." "Remember when I was in hospital you and Tao brought it and I wound it up." "Could you oil my bike?" "It squeaks." "I will." "What a great wedding present your parents gave!" "We got money- not the clock." "And we bought the clock next morning." "We can call it a present, can't we?" "It is a bad sign to give a clock as a present." "Don't you know?" "Who are you talking with?" "There is a strange sound." "Can you hear it?" "I can't..." "How can't you?" "Listen!" "Tick-tack-tick and after the third one some kind of noise..." "I hear nothing but your talking." "OK!" "I can keep silent!" "It seems I can hear it..." "I told you!" "There is a noise!" "I have to oil it." "Perhaps the wheels became dusty." "It could start from the smallest dust, even from the sweeping." "I don't say you're guilty, but it's possible... ?" "What did you say about the bike?" "It squeaks." "Can you oil it?" "Strange, it's almost new." "What could it be?" "Perhaps you went through puddles and it got rusty." "It is more than twenty years old..." "Oh, that's why." "Throw it away!" "Nobody rides bicycles now." "I got used to it." "when we worked together and I delivered laundry to clients." "I can't stop it the same way you need the clock." "My life would stop if I throw it away." "Can't you see" "I am doing an important thing?" "Wrong time to turn it on!" "I lost the wheel, where is it?" "Check first before you disturb others!" "We always wash at night, why an exception today?" "It's night already." "I will certainly mend your bike." "What are you planning for the weekend?" "Perhaps we could all go to some restaurant or elsewhere?" "Your brother says he's is tired and would rather watch TV than chat." "That's not bad either." "Sometimes just TV is better." "For example they show something important and you are in a restaurant." "You can miss it and never find out." "Two days ago I wanted to leave." "But then I turned onTV." "Can you imagine?" "They showed fishermen returning to China." "They had full boat of fish big and small." "The boat was small but it had a mountain offish." "Just take the skis and ski down." "Tao... why are you still alone?" "Why do you live near us?" "I remember how you arrived - you had almost nothing..." "I got a couple of chairs from the neighbors for you." "I gave you a TV set." "Why don't you have a family?" "I am used to it." "You are my family." "Why?" "What kind of massage would you like to have?" "I would like to sign up for massage courses." "I read the ad." "Yes, we had one." "Lots of people signed up, we can't take more." "Perhaps other time..." "Couldn't you accept just one more?" "One more?" "Me." "Didn't you hear what I told you?" "I've lost my job." "The courses might be my rescue." "I could learn massage in one week and work for you." "To work here?" "Where did you work before?" "What are your advantages?" "I worked as interpreter but the new department manager who comes from England, fired me and others." "He didn't explain anything nor checked how we work, if there was any reason to fire us." "Sure he had a reason to fire you." "It won't work." "Don't bother us!" "We have no vacancies nor we plan any." "Courses are fully booked." "That's it!" "was sending money to my parents in Shanwei each month." "And now if I stop, it will be hard for them." "They'll understand that I have no job they will be worried." "They are old..." "I've heard hundreds of stories like yours." "Everyone has problems." "There are other places where you could find job." "Why here and now?" "Why do you want to be a masseur?" "A cleaning lady- maybe." "But masseur..." "Hello!" "One moment!" "Did you work as interpreter?" "Can I sign up for the massage course that starts on Monday?" "Sorry, sorry." "Hold on." "What happened?" "Why don't you speak?" "What did you tell?" "He wanted to sign up for courses, but then the door bell rang." "He asked me to wait." "Of course we will wait." "We have time." "Tell him courses are available." "He will be admitted." "Courses will take one week." "The price for the courses, for five days..." "Tell him 1000..." "Better put it this way there are no places left but if he pays 2000 we will find one." "Yes, 2000." "Clear?" "No, something is wrong - one hour of massage costs 300." "So it means he will pay for courses as for six massages." "Seven with a discount...?" "No, wait..." "Did he really want to attend or was just interested?" "Sorry, I'm back." "So what about the massage courses?" "Is it possible?" "Yes, they start on Monday from early morning." "Five days, 6 hours daily." "Mainly practical learning and for you, as a foreigner, special price for all courses, demonstrations and certificate -5000 HKD." "Thank you for calling." "So whatd id he say?" "Did he agree...?" "Yes, he's going to be here on Monday." "He agreed." "Good!" "I think I can find you a place." "No thanks needed." "I changed my mind." "Thank you but no." "Why not?" "A moment ago you wanted the courses more than anything in the world!" "Yes." "But not anymore." "But what about job and your parents?" "You told yourself I can find plenty of other places and that's what I am going to do." "Please don't be angry about things I told you." "I didn't appreciate you, but you proved your good qualities." "Exactly what we need." "There will be a foreigner in the courses and you will translate." "And later you might working the saloon." "I promised myself I won't have any business with foreigners." "I was looking for job four days without any results." "Finally when I find something I like" "I am not admitted and later..." "Forget it!" "You are admitted!" "No, I will not work together with a foreigner!" "This isn't the end of the world." "I'll find something." "Why did she refuse?" "It would be a good business - she would pay for the courses." "And translate free of charge." "Maybe I should offer her to pay less?" "What do you think?" "Here she comes!" "I'll make that offer..." "What offer?" "I would take anything from you, son..." "I'll do it." "Next time I come, you won't escape." "I will never learn English." "But you do speak English!" "I heard myself how you helped tourists to find the way." "I couldn't do that." "I don't remember." "There are times, when I can talk and talk." "But sometimes I can't finish a sentence." "When you speak face to face, you can gesticulate." "But on the phone or beside others..." "Why are you talking about it now?" "I'll start teaching massage for a small group on Monday." "And one foreigner has applied." "Don't think about it." "It doesn't mean he comes." "Yes, but..." "It's nice to see people who are in town only a few days." "How can you tell that?" "By their look." "Sitting near the window, watching people passing by, following every person, the view beyond the window changes and they watch it like a movie." "So simple?" "Yes." "But that's just my point of view." "Hi." "My name is Kitty." "Hi, Kitty." "My name is Paul." "How do you recognize the people who've been here longer?" "Those two..." "They comes here for perhaps two years already to drink espresso so they can start their day." "Or that man, he feels like he's at home." "He's reading Dickens and he doesn't even care what's happening outside the window- daily boredom." "Who is Dickens?" "If I'm not wrong he's a central forward in LA Lakers." "Kitty, don't listen to him." "He's just joking." "I know he is a writer." "What kind of books has he wrote?" "Do you have your favorite writer?" ""About three things I was absolutely positive." "First," "Edward was a vampire." "Second, there was a part of him - and I didn't know how dominant that part of him might be- that thirsted my blood." "And third." "I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him."." "To figure all this out, you must have lived here for a long time?" "It's only my third day here, but I've traveled so much - all places are the same- people just get inside to reconstruct their Western biosphere." "But you didn't tell me where you're from?" "FromTaiwan." "Strange, but you look like you're from Europe or the States." "Is that so?" "I came here from Taiwan." "What about you?" "I came last week." "From London." "Lori, let's go to Taiwan." "I haven't been there yet." "I know it's not far from here." "Lori..." "So, what you are planning to do while you're here?" "Perhaps you can suggest something?" "No." "In every city each person must find what inspires them." "So why are you asking?" "Oh, there is one interesting place-Avenue of Stars for famous actors and directors." "I was really surprised that Wong Kar Wai's star is so near to Bruce Lee's monument." "So the plan is?" "On Monday I will go to see the Big Buddha, if you want and have time we can go together." "Why Monday?" "Why not the weekend?" "On the weekend there are so many tourists, you'd need to spend the entire day in a queue- it will take more time than a traveling to the Buddha." "Very well, I'm free on Monday." "OK, if you really want to, then on Monday come to this station 10 a.m." "If you don't... then have a nice life." "OK." "See you...." "Our son sent us a letter." ""Mum and Dad, I'm leaving Shanwei today." "I got a job in the port- sorting fish." "Small ones to the left, big ones to the right." "I'll spend six months there." "I will get a room and a good pay."" "The sea was his dream from childhood." "And look at him now- he did it!" "What a success!" ""I left my apartment neat in case you want to come." "The place is beautiful." "The guard has the keys."" "He is so caring." "I can feel him through each sentence." "He's grown up -do you see?" "I'd like to go there." "At least-for a week." "Without me." "I spend too much time traveling to and from the job." "I prefer staying home." "Leave now?" "Courses start on Monday." "Tao will need your help, didn't he tell you?" "!" "He did." "Fine!" "Discussion is over." ""Small ones to the left, big ones to the right..."" "Well said, few words but what a deep meaning!" "Our son's future!" "Think about it- big and small..." "I didn't realize - for me fish was just fish." "I do massage for 5 years but I still don't know how to do it." "Maybe it's impossible to learn these kind of things." "Either you have it or not..." "I don't..." "The only person I communicate with is Tao, he always supports me." "But when he is away..." "I would feel much better if I had a friend to talk to." "I spend whole day in silence... and the bike is still squeaking." "Tell me where the oil is." "I will oil it myself." "Perhaps I can use the same oil you use for the clock?" "I don't need much..." "Anyway, can I leave for one week?" "The first day of courses..." "You know what it means?" "Beginning of a new life!" "There somebody came for a massage and I..." "Have you forgotten?" "No clients before lunch!" "None!" "My courses are in danger now." "The foreigner will come." "One who pays lot of money...." "He may just go away if something is wrong!" "That man is a foreigner too!" "Yes, nota local..." "And he is the first client of the week." "I can't kick him out, otherwise the luck will turn its back..." "Good morning..." "Good morning..." "She will make a massage and" "I will go to trainees." "It's even better- he will see lots of people." "He won't know they came to learn, will he?" "Great that you changed your mind and came back!" "I was sure we would sort it out." "I will work..." "I won't work..." "You told me you would take me as a cleaner." "I agree to that." "OK." "You can work!" "Go and look at things." "Start from windowsills." "What's your name?" "Lang." "We have Lang already." "Which one don't you have?" "OK, I will be Jasmin." "Jasmin." "OK." "Show her everything!" "Come with me." "It's good you are all here on time." "We still miss one." "OK, we won't wait for him, let's start." "Before the massage we have to relax the feet." "We'll do it by stroking." "Bonjour!" "Merci!" "When is the course going to start?" "I've agreed on everything with someone on Friday by phone." "It was a mistake to have that foreigner in my courses." "The courses were full already, but the money..." "Why did he come earlier?" "And you?" "Can't you see who is coming for massage and who comes to learn?" "!" "And how will you understand who comes for what?" "Those foreigners will ruin my life!" "And this one looks so confident!" "And this one looks so confident!" "He wears such shabby clothes." "Most likely he has no money." "Should I translate it for him?" "While feet are soaking, each of you can tell something about yourselves." "I did a lot of different jobs before." "And it was in the news that more and more people are into foot massage these days." "I decided to try." "I worked in a factory that has gone out of business last year and I was jobless for almost a year now, I would like to try this." "My children are all grown-up and I want to find a job and learn some skills." "That's why I am here." "Hi, my name is Paul." "P-A-U-L." "Paul." "I am from Europe, from a country no one's ever really heard of." "It the same wherever I go, when I try to explain...." "Paul." "From Europe." "Well, my story is ... Several years ago my fiancee left me because I cheated on her." "And since that day," "I am traveling around the world." "I worked my ass off demolishing the old buildings in Manhattan during the nights for a few months, and then wasted all the money in Vegas and stumbled like a beggar thru the streets." "With just a backpack" "I crossed the entire country of Chile." "I've since been to massage courses in India," "Japan, and Thailand and finally ended up here." "The first day of the courses was really funny." "That guy came early." "Lang thought hew as a client..." "Did anyone notice that you came here?" "No..." "I guess." "That's good." "I thought about you entire weekend." "Your parents live in the same village my son lives." "He sent us a letter." "I miss those places and my son..." "Why did you remind me of my parents...?" "What happened?" "Today I must send money," "Today I must send money, otherwise they might suspect that something is wrong." "They will start worry." "My previous employer didn't pay the money I earned." "didn't pay the money I earned." "Honestly it was a bit different." "I was given the salary." "But I left without taking it." "Then I thought it was brave, but now... How much?" "2000 HKD..." "I don't have so much with me." "You don't have to give me anything." "...another one comes for massage" "I started teaching him." "Can you imagine?" "I pressed him to the chair with both hands so he couldn't stand up." "so he couldn't stand up." "He couldn't understand a thing!" "So funny..." "That second one was not English, he didn't understand a word in English." "Can you imagine?" "A foreigner and didn't speak English!" "Money." "Give it to Tao." "Send it to your parents." "Paul gave me money for the courses." "But I gave..." "What money?" "He already paid me for entire week and for the morning massage too." "By the way- here are your 100 HKD." "I hate taking pictures." "Why waste all those megabites on photos which are seen only by relatives and only out of politeness." "And if you look at them - what is that glance at the past really for?" "The emotions and feelings have already vanished." "Usually the people in the pictures are not even friends anymore, or they live completely different lives." "When a partner changes there's always the question of what to do with the pictures." "You won't show it to other friends, and how can you explain it if you look at them?" "Then don't change partners." "But what if she leaves?" "What then?" "Did you think I'd come?" "I thought it'd be nice if you came, and you did." "Take a picture of me!" "That's how I got to Beijing where I learned Chinese massage." "Most of the masseurs and my teachers were visually impaired or blind." "Their entire world was their hands." "It was very touching how they were massaging children." "They don't hide their emotions." "There is great excitement in their faces when they play with children in order to relax them." "They hear and feel the child." "It's lunchtime." "We will continue after the break." "Paul, lunch time." "Continue after lunch." "Ok?" "Tao, can I stay and practice during the lunch? As I missed the beginning I'm not sure what to do." "Of course you can stay." "I had a boyfriend who was good enough for my parents, but I left and he stayed there." "Thanks God, time passed and he forgot me." "I was seeing other guys but all they cared for was sex." "I like it too but I need something more." "Do I look like all I can give is just sex? Maybe that one who stayed in the village is the best?" "Perhaps it's a big city problem that people need just it?" "It is not so." "You can live without it." "I can't live like that," "I need it every other day." "Can you imagine it's been three months for me without sex!" "I don't like the guy." "What kind of woman could possibly like him?" "He's not good enough for sex, an empty place, and that tattoo on his leg." "I have a small butterfly between my breasts." "There was one guy with whom I fell in love so much." "I heard once" "I heard once that a woman of his dreams should have a butterfly between the breasts." "I made that tattoo for him." "It hurt so much," "I couldn't undress for sometime." "But when the pain was over he managed to sleep with my bestfriend and go abroad." "Hi, mom." "How are you?" "I'm good." "That's howl have memories from his love." "No, no, I'm in Hong King right now." "Yes,just like I told you." "As soon as I get the tickets." "Why do you look at my hands all the time?" "Sure." "But you should see what I see here." "I love it." "It's beautiful." "Great." "I try to remember your movements." "Here is everything I like." "The hills, these a, the skyscrapers." "That's why I didn't go to lunch." "Is that bad?" "Great food." "Nice people." "Sit down instead of me and try." "It means you don't want it that much." "Perhaps you want to practice massage?" "What?" "Practice massage?" "Where you get that idea?" "I haven't a slightest desire." "I got that dragon tattoo in Chile." "One day I had a strange pain in my leg and after I got the tattoo - a fire-breathing dragon - the pain disappeared." "Everyone has their own tattoo." "I don't." "I feel these things." "I can feel where you have one, or where you should have it." "You are too confident, but OK." "If you guess where it is, then..." "Then you will show it to me." "OK, only if you have one, if you don't, don't worry, ok?" "You have a tattoo... between your breasts." "No!" "Your guess was wrong." "Stomach." "No pain, no good." "Maybe your dragon can't protect you all the time." "Why are you so late today?" "Tao left without any dinner..." "I saw him downstairs eating with others in the canteen... The bike is really broken." "Perhaps you are right" "I should throw it away." "But what's wrong? Didn't I oil it?" "How could you ride a bike which gives such a noise?" "You see how it goes - if we didn't have the clock we wouldn't have oil to oil your bike and we would need to throw it away." "Everything in this world is related." "Everything." "You - bastard!" "Do you think you can do everything?" "I don't understand what you are saying." "You don't understand?" "Where did you lose your language skills?" "Earlier you understood everything what I told Amaya." "What I told was not truth at all." "Do you hear it?" "!" "Calm down!" "People must find a common language, doesn't matter which one." "You are so angry..." "Why did you pretend when you understood all the time?" "But nobody asked me if I spoke Cantonese." "How did you realize?" "A friend warned me." "He told me that it happens sometimes." "Alright..." "But how did you learn?" "I just wanted to learn another language, but when I was studying, my plans changed and my life took another turn..." "For woman?" "I like Chinese poetry the most!" "I remember one of my favorites:" "I wake up with the sun up high." "Birds chirp everywhere in the sky." "Last night a rainstorm passed by." "Flowers must have fallen down" " I sigh." "You know, I think I've heard your voice somewhere before." "Where?" "Here.In this room." "Shame on you!" "How can you say such things?" "Wasn't it you I talked to when I first called to the saloon asking about massage courses?" "IsA maya all right?" "Yes." "Is she really ok?" "Sure." "Do not misunderstand me," "I just wanted to ask, just that." "Give me that light bulb...." "But get me that towel first, see... there..." "Good that we understand each other from a halfword." "Yes, for brothers it is important to understand each other." "Is Amaya coming home soon?" "No." "I allowed her to visit our son's house to have some rest." "She has not been any further than the noodle shop for last years." "That's why she did not come to work today." "How could she if she is gone, think about it!" "Perhaps you could screw in one of them, and..." "No, I have the right one." "You see, there's a little dash, over the thread." "Only the light bulb which has never been screwed in can look that way." "Through away the other." "Never mind." "We'll turn on TV." "We'll watch it anyway, it will be our light source." "I'll buy a new one tomorrow." "No, two." ""Mom and Dad!" "I love you very much." "Your sailor."" "Everything is shaking inside of me." "I feel like I won't survive." "I thought it wouldn't happen again, but suddenly it's come back." "I was really scared of heights as a child..." "I want to hear your voice." "I need to hear it." "Tell me anything, please." "I remember one evening in Bangkok two weeks ago, it was a Monday as well." "I went out for a walk;" "I like to walk in evenings, when it's not so hot." "You said you came from Taiwan." "Yeah, from Taiwan...." "But before that I was in Singapore," "Kuala lumpura, and Bangkok." "I passed Wat Po, going down to the river on a narrow street and saw the lights swimming around the boats." "Carefree tourists were sitting around the tables on deck, while fragile girls with extremely long nails danced among them." "I could hear the music." "And when these boats passed each other, their music mixed into a strange noise." "My eyes then slowly got used to the darkness." "And then I heard a child crying, but I couldn't tell where it was coming from." "Then I noticed these cardboard boxes by a nearby fence- it was a slum." "Its own little world where this kid was crying just as loud as kids verywhere, not knowing that nothing in life will ever change." "And then I understood why children around the world cry the same way..." "You didn't want a wedding..." "I told you I wanted to be with you and that we would be together," "I just needed time..." "Hope is needed, not time..." "When I saw you in the cafe, I was so excited." "That's what time can do." "We talked and" "I didn't feel any pain." "Like an old acquaintance with no real ties to the past- someone I could easily meet and talk to, before going on my way." "So I thought I could meet today and nothing would happen." "Why did you come...?" "I guess I just wanted to be sure..." "I'm glad you came." "No!" "I shouldn't have tempted the past." "Too dangerous..." "I don't know how I will live now," "It feels like the last three years have vanished." "I feel just like" "I did when you betrayed me, the same sharp pain and despair... black despair..." "The day when I accidentally found those letters... for the last three years I've wondered why that happened, why did I have to see them?" "Sure, you can get mad at me for looking at your private things." "Remember, you said they weren't important to you." "So why did you keep them?" "Why didn't you destroy them?" "If you wanted to be with me..." "Those letters from that woman..." "Lori, please don't." "You were everything to me." "I didn't know how I would survive without you, but I just couldn't do otherwise." "I left, but to not see you, to not know where you were." "I loved you so much, you were to me..." "Let's leave this place..." "I don't want to go anywhere or see anything..." "Take me away from here." "Don't leave me alone." "Please." "Help me open this door!" "If I tell you will you help me?" "It doesn't work." "Batteries are dead." "But I can download pictures to my laptop." "Massage was wonderful." "But I guess" "I'm not the first woman who tell you that." "It doesn't look scary in this picture at all." "It's even beautiful." "Who is there?" "Some Chinese woman." "Maybe the maid." "Maybe she wanted to clean the room." "That early?" "Lang!" "Hey, Lang!" "It's so strange to see you here in this hotel." "Have you find a job already?" "You..." "Why are you even thinking about it!" "?" "I didn't say anything." "You ran from the office so quickly and didn't even take your salary." "Why don't you come to the office tomorrow or the day after and we'll sort something out." "No." "Once I've quit, I won't go back." "Then I'll pay you now." "Here." "It's two thousand dollars, isn't it?" "Take it." "I am sorry about the yesterday." "I'm glad that it's over." "Yes." "I feel much better now." "Maybe I was wrong." "I would like to have a man like you around." "How can you talk like that?" "With whom you've been last night?" "I've secured everything." "You are fine with everything." "You have nothing to worry about." "All you need to do is be with me." "No, you listen!" "You didn't listen last time and she couldn't get out of bed!" "You won't do it!" "Period!" "You have no right to operate her without her permission.And she says NO!" "Pass the phone to her..." "Mom, just say NO." "He can't do anything." "Don't listen to them." "I promise to get you back on your feet." "I know how." "I am your son and there is no one more important to me..." "Just hold on, ok?" "I love you." "Few days ago my mother's back constricted and it won't ease up, it's probably hernia." "And she is in constant pain." "And what her doctor said?" "The doctors say that only an operation would help." "But I don't trust them." "When I was massaged, every muscle in my body tingled then and it filled me with energy." "I've been watching you since the first day you come." "I ask myself one question - why you come to our courses?" "You've studied massage in India, in Thailand." "But you don't work for it." "Just traveling." "No purpose." "Maybe no woman can resist your massage?" "Maybe." "Until now." "Until now?" "You mean something's changed now?" "Yes, I do." "If you really think so, you have to go to Beijing, to the massage hospital." "I learned there." "If you know what you are looking for, you can find it there." "But only if you know what you are looking for." "Thank you so much." "Now I can really get going." "I wish you to find yourself." "And I am absolutely sure that you understand what I am saying." "Few minutes ago you were wondering about the invisible life force or Qi?" "In the first day I gave this lesson in Cantonese." "The first day when I got angry and Jasmin offered to translate." "I saw your eyes, they looked at me and your lips silently repeated the words." "Did you tell it to Jasmin?" "Yes." "I think if a person hides something it's not right in regard to others." "Perhaps it's so." "I wish you always to be a man and behave the way you can respect yourself." "No, but I can send another." "I'm writing it down..." "I know the address, how could I forget it?" "We work together for three years." "Which room?" "Ok, wait." "Go there, tell at the reception that Tao sent you, you will get a room card." "Call me when you come to the room," "I will know when you start." "When finished leave 100 in the reception and bring the rest to me." "And remember- the longer you massage the more you get." "Someone is coming?" "Thanks a lot, bye.?" "There is nobody else, just you." "I am so lucky." "Today I want a full programme, the way you massage men?" "It is good that I met you." "I want to tell you two things:" "first I want to give you back the money that you lent me, and..." "And second?" "You were pretending." "You understood everything she said." "Both of us,we have things we keep too ourselves." "I wouldn't call it pretending ora secret." "Life is too complicated to reveal everything at once." "Some things have to be told and known." "I would like to know at least one thing about you." "You already know it." "Yes." "I think I do..." "So perhaps we can speak heart to heart." "Each time when it rains changes happen in my life." "It can be a light rain that leaves no mark, and in the morning people wouldn't even notice it's rained, but that rain brings changes- life changes." "I noticed it when I was a child." "I woke up one night after I heard rain hitting the window-sill." "It wasn't a strong rain." "It made only a light noise." "But I had this strange feeling of emptiness inside." "I walked to the corridor and saw the door to my parent's bedroom half open and a light on inside." "And then I came closer and" "I saw my mother crying." "I ran back to my room, hid under the sheets and cried, cried." "I don't know why, but tears ran down my face just like rain drops on the window." "I had this strange feeling and in the morning" "I found out that my father had left for good." "Where are we going?" "I thought I was following you." "I thought the same." "If you can escort me then we have to go to the otherside." "OK." "It's much easier to survive pain when rains." "It seems like the pain is washed away by rain-drops." "The pitter-patter soothes your heart." "Did it rain yesterday?" "For the past few days, it's rained almost every night." "And several days ago I met the woman" "I parted from three years ago." "And we experienced separation once more, but this time it was good for both of us." "It's so strange." "He spent almost 30 years in laundry." "Peaceful work, no stress, and suddenly-death at the work place." "Doctors said it was heart." "Who is going to clean my clothes now?" "I left Hong Kong yesterday and wanted to see a small town and take a break after all the bustle of a big city." "In three days I will continue my trip to Beijing." "After that, home." "Tell me something from your travels." "Two years ago I was traveling in South America and came to Chile, to one town called Val Paraiso." "I've always loved that feeling when you come into a hotel room for the first time and you open the curtains and you see the view." "So in Val Paraiso, looking out my hotel window, I saw the view the entire town, not just town, but the roofs going down to the ocean." "And on one of the roofs I saw the word Amaya." "I read it to myself, then aloud" " AM AYA..." "What a nice sound." "I searched the web for the meaning of that word." "And I found out that in Japanese characters, it means night rain." "It's nice isn't it?" "What was there, under the roof with the title 'Amaya'?" "Simply a cafe." "They served very nice coffee there..." "I have to give back the money." "I won't take the money." "Give it to Jasmin." "She's a charming girl." "I don't know how to tell you..." "Tell me what...?" "Do you know someone named Tao?" "Something's wrong?" "He called and asked me to tell you that your husband died." "What...?" "You could come back to work, we miss you," "things are not going well without you." "We are both alone." "Perhaps it's wrong time and place... but maybe we could live together." "You asked me why I lived all these years near you, didn't you?" "Yes, I did." "This way I could see you at work, hear your steps in staircase, and to be nearby all the time." "All these years from the day you came." "I wanted you and Renshu live here." "I ..." "loved you all those years, and I still love you." "Spring departing-- the birds cry out?" "and the eyes of the fish are..." "I always forget that word." "I remember the rest, but this one..." "It always gets lost." "...are full of tears." "Did you see a foreigner with blond hair?" "He is...that tall..." "No...not really." "Did you see a foreigner with blond hair?" "About that tall..." "I wake up with the sun up high." "Birds chirp everywhere in the sky." "Last night a rainstorm passed by." "Flowers must have fallen down" " I sigh." "Paul!" "It's nice to see you here, but I have to go now." "They told me at the massage parlor you were looking for me." "I wanted to say goodbye." "But you and Amaya had already left." "You can do it now." "Well, you can do it now." "How did you knowl would be here?" "My parents live in this village, and so does Amaya's son..." "You must've overheard when" "I was talking with Amaya." "But here, this place..." "Amaya came to me.She's leaving back to Hong Kong, and she told me you met and..." "OK... did she say anything else?" "No... well yes.She told me you talked." "She told me about you... and about a night rain." "I'm glad you came." "I really wanted to see you!" "Me to!" "So goodbye then!" "See you Paul!" "Bye!" "You are a very beautiful woman." "Know it, and be yourself." "Do not care what others think." "Paul!" "Hello, I'd like to get a massage." "Yes, in m yroom." "Is it possible?" "Sure, sure." "How much?" "OK.Four hundred and if I change my mind then it's one hundred." "No, no." "I won't change my mind." "All I need is a good massage." "Right now." "What is your name?"