"Can you calm down?" "Go ahead and repeat the song's lyrics again." " Daddy, what's the first line?" " Silent Night, Holy..." "Silent Night, Holy night." "What are you doing there for so long?" "What's this?" "Where did you put the gifts?" "In the wardrobe." "On the shelf." " I already looked there." " Did you look under the sheets?" "Listen, you hid them, so you search for them yourself." "Oh, I got so scared!" "Quick, get ready!" "What are you doing in there for so long?" "I'll be right away." "Mommy, we know the song." "Mommy will be ready soon." "She got stuck in the bath." "Now you will be able to calmly sing this song." " Are we ready to go to grandma's?" " To grandma's?" "Will there be presents?" " And cakes?" " You'll get cakes." "And grandma and grandpa, and presents." "Just give me a break." "I have to look after you, get everything together and..." "Stop m" "Because your mom got stuck in the bath!" "Mommy!" "There's no reason to use so much water." "That's it." "Let's go." "Daddy, why did you switch off the water'?" "Damn, what the hell!" "Those fucking perverts..." " What happened?" " Have you read this?" "The event of the year is a gay parade!" "What the fuck?" "!" "Event of the year?" "You see where democracy is taking us?" "Today those gays march, tomorrow they will be able to get married in a church." "Fucking fags." "We shouldn't protect them, but rather shoot them instead." " Can you please shut up?" " Don't interrupt me!" "If a gay is a human, then who am I?" "And people have to read this crap..." "Stop torturing yourself." "If you don't like it, don't read it." "Pick up a potato instead." "What potato?" "And now pick up everything that you teared-up." "Those fucking fags." "Imprison them behind barbed wide and shoot them up like rabid dogs." "Please don't mention dogs." "I'm sorry, Nijole..." "I was insensitive." "Sorry." "So soon?" "I didn't manage to pack the presents." "You'd better help me, not yelling." "Fine, I'll open..." "You?" "Merry Christmas, Richard." "Turn around and get out of here." "Dammit, now!" " Richard, who's there?" " Shut up!" "Hello, Nijole." "Is that you, Elvyra?" "Please, come in!" "Bitch." "Merry Christmas!" "Yesterday I remembered, how we used to imagine how we will be after some twenty, thirty years." "Back then it seemed impossible." "Like an eternity" "Back then we were less than thirty years old, we had our own dreams about who we will become." "It looked like we had so much time." "Where can I wash hands?" "The sink is over there." "You'll find a towel there too." " And soap?" " Then go to the bathroom." "What is she doing here?" "Did you invite her'?" "Me?" "Think, whatever you want." "She was less that thirty, an entire eternity..." "Do you remember, how we broke up?" "Our friendship came to the end, that's it." "Dammit Nijole, if I find out you invited her..." " There wasn't any soap." " How can that be?" "I left it there in the morning." "I definitely left it." "It wasn't there, but that's fine." "My hands weren't very dirty." "The most important thing is that Nijole called me..." "Nijole?" "!" "Don't pay any attention to him." "He's in a bad mood today." "And only because he had to go to the market." "Imagine, what an act of heroism - to buy herring, onions, cabbage..." "Listen!" "You need to shut up, alright?" "Talk about yourself whatever you want to, but be quiet about me." "I can explain myself why I'm so agitated." "If you'd read such crap, you'd also be pissed-off." " Richard, don't start!" " Listen, did you read?" "What should I have read?" "Are you pretending or have you honestly not read it?" "Don't pay attention, he is in a very bad mood today." "Don't pay attention?" "Thanks a lot!" "Thats it!" "Something is pressing against my heart for the third day in a row." "I took my morning medicine, but I don't want to be a walking drugstore." "The damn doctors want me to drink so many pills, that one can go insane." "For an extraordinary event." "when will that extraordinary event come?" "I understand that at my age I need those pills, but not so many." "I don't want to become a laboratory mouse." "And I don't want to financially sustain those pharmacies." "Do whatever you want." "When you'll be buried, well all feel better." "Sure, try getting some sympathy from you." "Burying me." "Dammit, where are my afternoon pills?" "Wait, I'll get them for you." "Don't bother." "Sit down." "I'll find them myself." "Maybe I should go?" "I'll spoil the holiday." "You know what Richard would say?" "You already spoiled it." "He still blames me." "Nijole, do you need some help?" "Did you take your pills?" "Listen, stop lecturing me about those pills." "I asked, do you need some help." "Yes." "If you want to help so badly, you can slice the onions." "L hate it when my hands smell like onions." "Lemons get rid of all odors." "Listen, Elvyra, I hate lemons too." "Did you turn off the water?" "You already did it." "Even if I didn't, it still won't run." " I turned it on when we left." " What for?" "Don't you understand?" "To circulate it." "Did you turn it off or not?" "I don't remember." "How is it possible to forget such simple things?" "I don't understand..." "It's either yes or no." "Well, maybe I didn't." "There was no need to turn it off." "There was no need for you to disappear in the bath." "Snow White..." "Daddy, not Snow White!" "There was a princess in a fairytale, who..." "Children, can you please shut up?" "I beg you." "At least fora while." "I beg you." "Don't talk to the kids like that!" "We can go home and check, whether or not the water is switched off." "It's not a big deal." "After all, it's Christmas Eve, can we stop fighting for one evening?" " What stinks in here?" " What?" "Smell your hands." "Why are you so surprised?" "I haven't found the time to wash-up." "Did you manage to do anything at all?" "Put your hands in your pockets." "That smell annoys me." "Fuck off!" "She buys all sorts of crap, except for some soap to wash the hands..." "Nijole, where's the soap?" "Look, there's the herring with beets." "Look." "Behind the peas." "Well need the peas too, even though I don't count them." "Some people even count the salt to get twelve dishes." "Lazy people." "It's also fine having nine." "No, no." "Our family always makes twelve dishes." "Today I heard the reason for this on the radio." "It's twelve because Christ had twelve Apostles." "Or maybe ifs because there are twelve months in a year and people would have more happiness." "Why nine?" "My grandmother said, the sun was brought on a reindeer's nine horns." "Sounds like something from a poem." "Twelve, and only twelve in our family." "And I always prepare those twelve." "Last year, when I washed the dishes, I counted twenty three dishes!" "It's good that Tomas came with his family." "Otherwise, we would have had to throw a lot of it away..." "According to statistics, people decide to divorce most often during the Christmas holidays." "Its because people don't pay attention to the traditions." "They celebrate like they want to, but not like they should." "Maybe." "But maybe they also understand whether they need each other or not." "Nonsense." "Traditions should be cherished." "For example, I am so happy that Tomas, Ana and the kids is coming today." "Finally well all be together at one table for the first time this year." "Eleven." "Eleven what?" " Eleven dishes." " That can't be!" "Herring, beets, stuffed carp..." "There is no carp." "How could that be?" "It's not here." "Richard!" "I'm here." "Where is the carp?" "Where should it be?" "I went and bought it." "I chose the most lively one." "Don't play games." "I'm asking, where is stuffed carp?" "I wrote 'stuffed carp' on my list." "Then eat your list!" "If it says 'stuffed'." "Who's guilty, if your mouth is wide open?" "Where is the carp?" "Is it alive?" "How should I know?" "It's good that we came back." "It would have been better if there were no need to come back." "Look in the mirror." " Why?" " Theres a superstition." "When you return, you have to look in a mirror." "Otherwise, some bad luck might happen." "Do you believe that?" "OK, lets go." "Lets stay at home with the kids." "After all, it is a family celebration." "Don't forget, my parents are family, too." "Well go tomorrow morning like other years." "Well stay the whole day, go to the city." "Ok, Tomas?" "We would have come earlier, but we couldn't remember whether the water was turned off." "I usually speak out loudly about what I do." "It helps." "Say what you want, but for example, an iron won't switch itself off." "'Ambit, you left the iron switched on?" "It wasn't switched on in the first place." " This is Elvyra." " Ana." "My daughter-in-law." "Leja, where is your other glove?" "I can't find it anywhere." "Grandma, can I take a cookie?" "Well all eat at the table together." "So where is your other glove?" "Just one cookie, in half with my sister." "I don't want only half." "Mom." "Listen, give them those cookies, otherwise they wont stop nagging." "Mommy, if I tell you my glove is in the car, will I get a cookie?" "Stop spoiling the kids, ok?" "We have to stick to the same principles." "No means no, and yes means yes." "Son, don't be so strict during the holidays..." "Okay." "Leja, please come over here." "Why?" "Grandma, Leja and I learned a song." "I don't want to." "You're right." "Lets sit at the table and sing together." "Alright?" "Silent night, Holy night..." "Didn't you hear, what mom said?" "Where are the utensils?" "Tom, bring them from the closet in your room." "Did she really call and invite you?" "She can hardly walk." "She needed help." "She doesn't want to walk." "If only I could see how I destroyed her life." "A real performance." "Surgery is also a like a performance?" "If I'd count all of her steel joints, it would costs as much as my car." "Do you understand, she is even able to dance?" "It's a performance for me." "Honey, what did you bring me?" "Ana, what's wrong with you?" "Grandma says that lemon gets rid of the smell." "We agreed a long time ago that we'll spend Christmas Eve with the parents." "We agree a lot of things." "I'm talking about today." "They prepared, and are waiting for us." "There aren't a lot of celebrations left in their lives." "I doubt your mother is going to be happy to see me." "Grandma." "Where are your glasses?" "Why?" "Your eyes are fine." "Who is that woman?" "I don't know." "It's disgusting to see how your mother drools over our kids." "She had never loved them before." "She feeds them candy like they were little puppies." "She wants to tame them." "By the way, did they lock-up their dog?" "That beast?" "To you, everything is bad." "Even their poor innocent dog is like a beast for you." "But do you remember your words when you first came here?" "'I feel like I'm in some kind of romance novel'." "Did I really say that?" "And nothing has changed since then." "Then I've changed." "I felt comfortable here only when you were beside me." "When we were together." "That sounds better." "When I'm beside you." "Look, ifs for the kids, not for me." "It's only until tomorrow." "You saw how happy they were." "This is like their second home." "Alright?" "I'm here!" "I turned around." "Yes." "Show me!" "Juggle again, okay?" "Do we have any candy?" "Yes." "Show me." " I'll show you." "We have... three." " Who wants some candy?" "I do!" " I do!" "I do!" "Ok, wait." "We need to put the balls in." "We can..." "It seems you're not quite happy." "Don't scare me." "L'd like to offer you a drink." "Me first?" "No, I was the first." "Would you like something?" "No." "I don't want anything." "But women always want something." "Don't start." "Fine, we can change the topic." "Tomas was a boy, Nijole wasn't so happy with him." "She was very strict." "As strict as a kangaroo." "What's the point in talking about this now?" "I want to understand why some things in life happen like they do." "I feel she never loved Tomas, or me." "I'm getting sick of your complaints." "Sweetheart, I'm not complaining." "Especially since my son got such a wonderful, beautiful, young wife." "A man can only feel like a real man when he's beside such a woman." "Do you understand, sweetheart?" "Stop calling me that." "A spoon might help." "Two years after our wedding, I was forbidden to enter this house." "The first invitation came only after Kajus was born." "Ana, we are one family." "We all have to love one another." "After all, we're not like a pack of wolves." "I think it's clear what I wanted to say." "By the way, did you lock-up your dog?" "Lets not talk about the dog anymore tonight." "Especially to Nijole, alright?" "I only want to know, whether or not he's going to scare my kids." "How I miss your femininity, and I..." "Drooling?" "You know, you could be a great couple with Nijole." " Like two women?" " Don't humor me." "Like witches." "For the past twenty years you can't forget your offended manliness?" "Don't start, ok?" "You wanted to have a threesome - me, Nijole and you." "Like almost everything else in your life, you succeeded." "If you take me in front of your wife, is it not cheating?" "But you liked it so much." "I did." "But I had to leave and you stayed together." "You could have married." "You could have." "Only now are saying this." "You know, I haven't been able to get aroused with Nijole for quite a long time." "Do you want to lick off that chocolate?" "How about you?" "Oh, prodigy son!" "Hello everybody!" " Hello." " Oh, Ernestas!" "Merry Christmas!" "Why are you alone?" "Where are Asia and the kids?" "L'd rather leave Asia far away from you, you dirty man." "Oh, don't say that." "I can give a woman some precious advice." "Afterwards you'll be happy, and very grateful." "Dad, you really don't have anything normal to wear?" "Are you going to stay in that robe all evening?" "This is my holiday robe!" "It's a Christmas present from Nijole." "I always put it on during Christmas to prove her respect for me." "Don't listen to him." "He bought it himself." " What do you mean, myself?" " But the shirt I gave you for Christmas, you have yet to wear." "Even though the shirt was so beautiful." "Why 'was'?" "It is." "Believe me." "Because you've never put it on." "I bought it looking at a photo of the President." "He has the same shirt." "What President?" "Has this old bear with the robe and badger socks worn you out already?" "He definitely has." "See, I can hardly walk." "Well, come in." "Well, just for a moment." " Mommy, we are going to Inga and Luka's." " What do you mean, going?" "Uncle Ernestas, will we get some presents?" "Of course!" "Ana, smile." "It's the holidays!" "You're right!" "My dear, I told you the same." "It's Christmas!" "Mommy, did you hear'?" "There will be presents." "And perhaps the real Santa Claus." "Do you remember that old man with the white beard?" "No, I don't remember." "Do you remember the presents?" "The teddy bear with a sleigh?" "I want a teddy bear without a sleigh." "Mmm, delicious." "You have great taste." "Stop being so courteous." "I already know it." "So where is Asia?" "With the kids?" "No, she's not with the kids." "She felt the responsibility to visit her aunt." "Although that woman is worse than a small kid." "And what about you?" "My friends invited me to 'Oslo'." "Which 'Oslo'?" "It's some new bar designed in a Scandinavian style." "With antlers, Eskimo drums and Lithuanian traditions." "Are you kidding?" "Ernest, take these souvenirs." "Nijole, you shouldn't have..." "Take them, take them." "Take them and be careful that those deer don't take you to somewhere in Norway." "Can you explain what's happening here?" "Don't raise your voice." "There's no need for my parents to hear." "Don't hush me!" "Let them hear!" "Why didn't you tell me were going to celebrate without the kids?" "We spent all evening with them and now its getting late." "I agreed to come only because you said that this Christmas is a celebration for our whole family." "It's not enough that some woman feels like herself at home, the kids won't even be there." "Sometimes you're so engaged with yourself that you can't see what's going on around you." "I've agreed with kids that they will spend all evening with Ernestas' family." "Asta's parents have prepared some sort of entertainment, with Santa Claus and presents." "You saw how they were happy." "Of course, you knew about this earlier and agreed on everything without me, right?" "Ernestas told me that they're going to celebrate with Asta without the kids." "I thought its a great opportunity." "Why cant our kids spend some time with them?" "Their house is huge." "There will be a lot of kids." "Leja asked me three times, when we will go." "Exactly, when will we go." "When we will go." "Its wrong to leave them, especially tonight." "They are too small." "I don't want to be here without them." "Too small.." "When you spent the weekend by the sea, you easily left them with your brothers family." "And when we took our summer vacation, kids stayed with Asia and later with their grandparents." "No problems." "But that's was completely different!" "I thought you'd say so." "We even prepared a surprise for you." "The kids wanted to recite a poem for you." "They were looking forward to stay awake during Christmas night." "Ana, we'll pick them up tomorrow morning and spend three days in a row with them." "I'm not talking about that now!" "My parents will get irritated." " Let's get out of here, okay?" " Are we still waiting for somebody?" "Maybe Christmas carolers?" "No." "They start to sing before the door is opened." "Maybe Ernestas has returned, forgot something?" "Yeah, forgot." "What does that surprise you?" "Played with the kids and forgot something." "Mom, ifs my guest." "Son, will we have more guests?" "Hold on, I'll explain." "Come in!" "This is my mother..." " Hello, Karolis." " Karolis." "Our family friend." "His family didn't manage to return from their trip, sol invited him to celebrate with us." "We can't leave him alone on such an evening." "Of course, my son, you're right." "I brought something, so that it will be twelve dishes, as it should be." "Interesting." "The only thing on your mind is food." "Invite him in." "It's so nice and cozy here..." "and the smell!" "I've been cooking for two entire days." "At least once a year I enjoy cooking with all of my heart." "Even though my legs are weak." "Even father came to help me yesterday." "You wont see him in the kitchen on any other day." "Well, unless he's eating." "You know, I hate to bother others..." "I know, how awful that is." "Are you talking about me?" "Who else?" "You bothered me three times yesterday." "But I needed some water." "And the other two reasons?" "You called me to show you where the salt is." "What should I do?" "I couldn't find it." "Everything is hided." "The salt has been in the same place for ten years." "Oh, see how many Christmas biscuits Karolis has brought!" "Hume-made'?" "I bought them on the way here." "But Karolis enjoys cooking." "He owns a restaurant." " A restaurant?" " Yes." "But we don't really make simple dishes." "More sophisticated dishes." "You know, our desert cremes..." " Richard, where is your jellied-meat?" " We'll only be eating it tomorrow." "But where is it?" "What?" "You didn't bring it in?" "I thought you would bring it in the morning." "Listen, Nijole..." " I'll do it." " Mom, wait, I'll go." "Where is it?" "No, I'll go myself." "I'll help you Nijole." "Just show me where it is." " You made the jellied-meat yourself?" " Yes." "The best cooks, gynecologists and clothing designers are men." "Gynecologists as well?" "Did I say so?" "I heard it so." "Once somebody ordered mango cream with wild strawberries..." " Tom, wheres Ana?" " Nowadays people use strawberries a lot." " Yes, but this was in January." " Where is Ana?" "I'm guessing that these are my favorite dumplings with mushrooms." " Yes." " You put a lot of effort." "They're delicious only because Elvyra helped me." "I barely helped." "You made them all by yourself." " Elvyra, would you like to try my favorite?" " Sure." "The beet salad looks delicious." "Please, eat." "So please eat, we definitely have enough." "The refrigerator is full." "On Christmas Eve everyone must taste all twelve dishes." " You probably don't like the food, right?" " No, ifs delicious." "Karolis, eat!" "Richard, stop drinking." "When my husband and I travel, people are always asking us, what is a real Lithuanian national dish." "When did you go on a trip?" "At the beginning of summer." "We drove to Croatia." "The kids really wanted to go." "Even though we have our own sea." "I think people should travel and spend time together more often." "Otherwise it's possible to become distant." "Then we argued with Tom, what the Lithuanian national food is." "Italians have pizza." "Austrians - schnitzel..." "Vienna has schnitzel, not Austria." "Zeppelins are Lithuanian." "Zeppelins." "Yeah, real Lithuanian word." "Zeppelins." "You can also call them 'didzkukuliai." "Linguists created 'didzkukuliai'." "Zeppelins." "Maybe potato sausages." "Or potato casserole." "Potato casserole?" "Another Lithuanian dish." " Dad, don't raise your voice." " Potato casserole?" "It is 'kugelis'." "Ku - ge - lis." "And why everything made from potatos?" "I don't understand." "America with its fucking potatos wasn't even discovered yet, but Lithuania already was." "Prospered." "Then what dish do you think is Lithuanian?" "Beaver stuffed with buckwheat." "Buckwheat and mead." "Dad, maybe you'd like some Lithuanian cranberry drink?" "Why did you have to talk about Croatia?" "Didn't I tell the truth?" "I've asked you a hundred times not to discuss our private matters in front of strangers." "And who here is a stranger?" "Karolis?" "I think he's also a family man, who also travels somewhere with his wife from time to time." "Besides, I'm not talking about the really private things, like your peeing in the sink because it is more convenient, because you can wash-up immediately and you don't splash the toilet." "Or that you iron your socks." "Why do you want to ruin the entire evening?" "Why do you want to ruin my entire life?" "One evening we met a couple from Australia." "He is an artist who paints miniatures." "We even went shopping with his wife." "We watched the sunset, drank wine, talked..." "Could you please pass me that fish?" "Haven't tried it yet." "You are still young." "Every moment spent apart from your children is worth gold." "Judging from their appearance, they looked over sixty." "But since they led a very healthy lifestyle, they could have been even eighty years old." "You're exaggerating." "After the sunset, a cold breeze came." "They brought us some beautiful old- fashioned blankets." "We sat there like some kind of Croatian Indians." "That is, if Indians live there." "There aren't any Indians there." "We drank wine and talked." "Those blankets were so warm..." "I'll go ahead and take one more piece." "Karolis, would you like more cranberry drink?" "Is it tasty?" "On Purpose?" "I see your pleasure in trying to hurt me." "I just can't understand, why?" "Maybe we should all sit at the table in silence?" "Or constantly listen to your fathers escapades?" "I'm simply trying to keep the conversation going." "You're talking so much that nobody can get a single word in." "Maybe we could ask Karolis to tell us something about his family?" "Leave Karolis alone, ok?" "I'm starting to regret that we came here." "And what did I say when we returned home to turn off the water?" "I'm starting to regret that we came together." "And if you dare say something again..." "Will you please calm dawn?" "People abroad know almost nothing about us." "I mean, at least something positive." " Do we even have something positive?" " Sure, everybody does." "Its just that they only know our bad side." " Sorry mom." "Like those crimes in Ireland." "Nobody can be sure if it's the work of Lithuanians." "We got tired trying to prove to those Australians, that we don't walk around with daggers and we don't eat live dogs." "Dogs?" "Did you read what was announced as one of the events of the year?" "Third place - the faggot parade!" "Gay pride." "Can people respect us, if we don't even respect ourselves?" " Richard..." " What?" "I'm politely asking our culture-rich company:" "since when is a Lithuanian faggot parade an event of the year?" "We've sold ourselves to the Europe Union." "With our dignity and conscience." "For a bottle of beer, you know?" "For a bar of soap." "And what is that Europe Union anyway?" "Tell me!" "A gay Masons project." "You don't believe it?" "Then don't." "Wait, you'll see." "I'm calm." "Totally calm." "Maybe just for once you could try and understand me?" "Why should I always have to understand you?" "You are a good husband, a great father, but you know, this double life..." "I might not be able to control myself, and tell your parents." "You want me to beg you?" "To entreat?" "Maybe once you'll need my help." "Fine, I beg you." "Can you stay in the kitchen or living room for an hour'?" "Later you can come back." " I won't come back." "And why especially tonight?" "Christmas might the only evening of the year when we could be together." "If not as a husband and wife, but at least as close ones." "When we arrived I trusted in your kindness." "But as it turns out it was only because..." "Karolis will have to leave early in the morning." "Fora very long, long period." "You do understand nothing, don't you?" " I understand." "Indeed." " You understand nothing." "And you'll never understand." "Better look after your dad." "It seems he overdosed." "Fine, I wont intrude." "Where is other blanket?" "Check in that one." "Ann, why did you grow silent?" "I've been always curious what kind of woman can be a muse of an artist?" "If she is solely an inspirer doing nothing, or a housekeeper taking care of kids and household allowing her genius to create?" " They invite us." " To Australia?" " They have a villa in north of the France." " My dream land." "Elvyra, would you like something?" "No, thank you." "There will be a desert, right?" "Certainly!" "And fortunetelling." "Fortunetelling?" "Otherwise we won't get to know what the new year will bring us!" "Nonsense." "No more nonsense than Christ's birth." "From the immaculate conception." "Then why do you sit at this table?" "Why do you cross yourself and say your prayers if you don't believe in God?" "And you?" "Do you believe in both Christ and horoscopes?" "When was the last time you visited church?" "Father, stop." "Ten years ago during an excursion to Warsaw?" "It's not your damned business." "I'm not the fucking slave having nothing apart from that silly fairy-tale about the kingdom of heaven." "Here I have something to drink and to eat." "I have reasons to be happy." "Father, sit down." "What do you want?" "Sit." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "It's a pity we have only five forms." "I didn't know Karolis would be here." "What's that?" "Luck forms made of lead for fortunetelling." " A Latvian tradition." " Yes, Latvian." "I was born not far from Latvia." "Relatives send them to me every year." "Sure." "You are a true Latvian." "Didn't you think about having some spare forms?" "What would you do if all the grandchildren had arrived?" "Then you and I wouldnt guess our fortunes." "Perhaps its for the best." "What kind of luck waits for us anyway?" "Can we stop all this fortunetelling this evening?" "No, we can't break with tradition." "We'll use the five." "We could pull straws." "The one who'll get the shortest wont get his fortune told." "Thats the difference between Lithuanians and Latvians." "Latvians conjure who'll be the happiest, and we guess who'll be the least happy - who'll be the first to kick the bucket." "Thank you." "You're welcome." " Pity." "Our guest doesn't get a form." " Karolis has no luck." "Stop." "This is just a game." "I'm only here as a guest." "We could have one form for us both." "Rubbish!" "You can't see the future anyway." "You can see it, but it doesn't mean it will come true." "Every year my luck looked like money right, mom?" "So what?" "Nothing!" "Stop it." "Stop it, really." "Do you have a camera?" "I could film the process." "Id be more useful." "Richard, you have a camera." "I have it somewhere." "But I don't know if I have any blank tapes." "You have hundreds of tapes." "Check, erase one and..." "Fine, don't be so bossy." "I'll try to find one." "Don't just try, find one." "Richard, hurry!" "Fuck you." "Maybe more fire?" "You want to burn my hand?" "Have you watched the late movie recently?" "We sleep at nights." "Does anybody watch them at all?" "I do and I like them." "Sure, sometimes they are a bit strange." "They're not normal." " What was it about?" " About guessing the future." " Clearly, another piece of shit." " Dad, let him finish." "The mans talking." "About guessing the future using sperm." "What?" " Sperm?" "Did I hear that right?" " Yes." " Sperm, seriously?" " Yes." "One woman... could guess, how many children she will have?" "No, no." "About the future." "So that woman worked in a laundry." "Once somebody brought in a black shirt with obvious sperm stains." "Film this!" "Well, maybe the guy was jacking off..." "Its not important." "That woman began to look at those white stains and images appeared in her mind." "Look, what your luck looks like - like a bird, a pheasant." "Have you ever even seen a live pheasant?" "Yes, on a a box of candy." "Who cares about the candy." "That's my future!" "Karolis, continue." " Son, maybe not on an evening like this." " Mom, come on..." "So that woman found out that the guy divorced his wife." "And then he left his small town." "It means, there is a road in his life and a fork in the road." "Everything is just like the sperm stain pattern." "Nonsense." "No!" "She told her friend about this and the next day she came with her husband and said:" "'Tell us our future. '" "That scene was very powerful." "An empty laundry, only the couple and the washing machines going around." "First the laundress refused, he felt ashamed in front of the man and tried to make a joke of it." "But the friend had problems with her husband and did not tell anyone about them." "They were very sensitive." "They needed to get some answers." "And then the laundress finally agreed and can you imagine?" "The husband pulled out his..." "Look, this is totally obscene." "Stop this nonsense." "No, no, let him finish." "I liked it." " Mom, its a movie." " Until the end, ok?" "What are you filming?" "Darling, play your music." "Oh, its Darling now, is it?" "I was angry about the drinking only because of the others." "You can drink as much as you want." "I like you even more then." "This is a surprise." "I remember the day when you bought my mother, may she rest in peace, a fur coat." " What fur coat?" " Have you forgotten?" "That day we listened to music, drank wine, and suddenly you say - lets go." "You took us both by the hand and we went to the shopping mall." "Did you forget?" "I am just amazed about the way in which you tell the story, its as if I bought you an airplane." "I wonder what this is?" "A pheasant or a kangaroo?" "I don't know." "See, Elvyra." "Did you notice that portrait of a dog?" "Our dog Leo." "He was a fantastic dog." "Had to be put to sleep." "But he was our second dog." "The first was a bitch." "Named Elvyra." "You're lying." "No, I don't lie." "She was such an bad-mannered, stupid Dalmatian, she couldn't be trained." "And Leo?" "Brought you newspapers and licked your feet and hands?" "Leo..." "Leo was the only one with whom I could talk to man to man." "Understand?" "Sorry." "Sorry, Elvyra." "Lets see, how did we do filming our luck?" "Richard, hurry!" "We're starting." "I'm coming." "Stop filming." " Why did you cover up?" " Stop filming." "It's the first time it went so well." "What happened?" "What if somebody sees it?" "What if your wife sees it?" "My wife doesn't go through my belongings." "You have been living together for so many years." "It's impossible she doesn't suspect anything." "I've never had the feeling that she knows." "Relax." "What would she do, if she found out?" "I don't know." "If Tomas saw this, he would kick me out." "And would demand a divorce." "Oh, ifs better not to think about it." "Maybe more fire?" "You want to burn my hand?" "Have you watched the late movie recently?" "We sleep at nights." "Does anybody watch them at all?" "I do and I like them." "Sure, sometimes they are a bit" "Listen, why, why?" "Why you?" "If anyone should be ashamed, then they should be." "You didn't screw her mother, she screwed your father." "And he screwed her." "I need some air, I need to breath." "Look, look at me." "How many time have you told me that she means nothing to you?" "How many times were you angry when I said I do not believe you?" "Were you angry?" "Were you?" " I was angry..." "Get it together." "Think, what are you suffering for'?" "Huh?" "For her?" "I want to go." "I..." "Just fora moment." " How could you, whore!" " You should have looked after your husband." "I know my husband very well." "He'd never look at other woman." "You've been writhing around him like a snake." "I'm not going to listen to this." "Listen." "You took my son from me." "Turned him against me." "Now you want my husband?" "You whore." "My life is destroyed." "Out of here!" "Out, out!" "Get lost!" "All of you." " What are you doing?" " Stay away, mom, ok?" " He's your father!" " I know." " Nijole, help me!" " Mom, stay away." "I won't hurt him." "What are you thinking, huh?" "Can you imagine how I feel right now?" "Don't forget you are my son." "Don't you dare raise a hand against your father." "You should have remembered that I'm your son." "Son, you cant condemn me without knowing how it happened." "How it happened?" "You should ask first, and strike later." "So, how did it happen, Dad, huh?" "Untie me." "Do you hear me?" "And show some respect." "Whats that stench?" "Your hands?" " I helped mother to out onions." " Tomas, untie your father." "Father hasn't answered my question." "How did it happen?" "You should look after your young wife better." "Mom, he hasn't answered my question yet." "What the fuck are you looking at?" "Go to the kitchen!" "See?" "She walks with a hop!" "So I ask you, who is deceiving whom?" "Shut up!" "I want to know, who is the bigger betrayer - me or your mother'?" "Can you shut up?" "Tomas." "She is innocent." "Who, mother?" "No, Ana." "She is totally innocent." "I took her myself." "Every person secretly desires to forget about shame and become defenseless, at least once." " Defenseless?" " Yes." "All of us silently wished that somebody would see us naked." "Do you remember in childhood, the excitement of seeing your parents naked?" "Or vice versa." "You get excited knowing somebody is looking at you." "Have you ever experienced that?" " Yes." "Tell me." "We have a neighbor who usually smokes on the balcony, which faces our bedroom window." "Once Tomas and I wanted to make love, the children were staying with friends." "Actually, there was only Kajus then, Leja wasn't born yet..." "And?" "It was summer twilight." "I opened the curtains." "Tomas didn't even notice anything." "And the neighbor just stood there stunned." "Forgot his cigarette and barely managed to put his hand under his robe." "It was sweet." "I came crying." "It was such a strong orgasm." "L don't like it." "I don't want to and I'm afraid somebody will see this." "Wheres my toothbrush?" "Tomas, forgive me." "Forgive me, I beg you." "I know that there is no excuse for me." "Tomas, don't stay silent." "Say something." "I don't know, shoot, hit me, scream..." "Do what you want." "You have no idea how I want to apologize." "Found it!" "Who puts toothbrushes next to socks?" "Forgive me." "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" "How could I do that with your father?" "It is inconceivable." "What did he say?" "I did not need to hear what he said." "So much has time has passed and only now I realize how all this weighted on me." "The truth, whatever it is, can bring me relief." "Ana, what would you have done if you became pregnant?" "What would I have done?" "I don't know." "I would have killed myself." "L really would have slit my wrists." "I think ifs time to finish this conversation." "You calmed down so quickly?" "I can not judge my father." "I can have my own opinion about him, but he is my father." "That is the only reason?" "No, Ana." "I hope for our mutual understanding." "I'll delete it, if thats what you want." "Really?" "Yes, if it will make you calmer." "I don't want you to live in fear." "You are so sweet." "Ana wanted it." "She came when I was alone at home." "I'm only human." "I didn't have the strength neither to turn her away nor deny her." "You're disturbing my reading." "If you could believe that it happened only once." "Forgive me." "If you could just forgive me." "If you weren't talking to me now" "I wouldn't dare to believe you are going to untie me." "I know, I deserve to be tied up like some mad dog." "I've seen all those tapes." "What?" "All of them?" "Yes, all of them." "You two were fucking everywhere." "In the bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and even in this bed." "How many years has it been going on?" "Years?" "Well, months, days?" "Almost one and a half." "But she..." "Stop making excuses." "You are who you are." "I'm not going to change you." "Are you going to leave me?" "If I didn't leave you thirty years ago, I won't leave you now." "Its good there were only family and friends tonight." "And Elvyra?" "What about her'?" "What kind of relationship do you have?" "Are you friends?" "Remember, when she came from the restaurant drunk on champagne?" "Do you know what she wanted?" "To fuck only me." "Not like were used to, all three of us together." "And you call her a friend?" "After that she left." " Did you have sex then?" " What?" " Did you have sex without me?" "No." "Not then." "Perhaps its Karolis." "He said he must leave early." "That's good that he left so early." "He is a bit shady, you know?" "Maybe gay?" "You need to see a doctor, you know." "You call every more or less decent man gay." "And you just had to get on my nerves with the wrinkled shirt, didn't you." "Anyway ifs good that only have close friends are here." "I'll go to check if the doors are locked." "Untie me." "Untie me!" "My hands and legs are getting numb." "When you come back, I'll tell you something as well." "Have you been with another man?" "Don't ask." "Give me a hint at least." "So, we could tell my fortune now." "There were not enough lead forms for us both, right?" "You are insane." "This is a reason I like you." " Wait until it dries." " OK." "I want to also." "It smells of life." " How did you find me?" " I wasn't looking for you." "So how did you end up at that bar specifically?" "Well where should I go?" "I don't want to be a burden to Nijole." "That man who took your children said that it should be a good time at the Oslo bar." "Ernestas." "The children were taken by Ernestas." "Yes, it was really fun at that bar." "Don't hurry." "What?" "What you are doing here?" " I came to see you." " What do you mean to see me?" " Make love to me." " Are you crazy?" "I want you here and now." "I don't care if somebody walks in." "Don't come closer." "When you wanted to we met during your lunch break, right?" "We made love and then you didn't care that somebody could walk in on us." "I pleasured you regardless of if I wanted to or not." "Do you remember that night near the cathedral..." "Be quite!" "Or the intersection by the green bridge when you managed to come in my mouth while the light was red." "Let's meet tomorrow and talk then." "Talk?" "Ok." "Not only talk." "What do you mean not only?" "Will we go to dance salsa or to some museum?" "Or will we have dinner?" "Or that 'not only' means we will have sex regardless of if I want it or not?" "Why tomorrow?" "Were meeting now." "Listen, I wanted to tell you the truth." "I was supposed to celebrate Christmas only with friends." "But at the last moment Asia persisted and I had to take her with me." "Thats how it is." " As it is now?" "Ok." "Let's meet in 20 minutes." "And we'll go wherever you want." "What are you going to say to Asia?" "Lie?" "Whats the difference?" " You know she means nothing to me." " You lie to her and to me." "Step back!" "What if I tell her I got pregnant from you and what I did after?" "Don't you dare." "Are you scared?" "It's too late." "I called her." "You lie." "Go and ask her if she got my Christmas greetings." "No." "You didn't do that." "I'm so sorry." "I didn't want that." "Forgive me." "Stand up." "Come on." "Oh, what a wound." "Careful." "I have some napkins somewhere." "Stop searching." "Theres plenty of paper here." "You know, this has been a really shitty day." "And now my head." "What happened, happened." "But if you don't do as I say, I'll slit my wrists." "Don't do anything stupid!" "I thought you love me." "I thought that eventually things would get better." "You told me you'll be out with your coworkers." " Yes, with coworkers, but." " And your wife?" "I've never seen her as charming as today." " What do you want from me?" " Touch yourself." " What?" " Pull it out." "But its limp." "You know how it can be." "I can't do it like that." "Just do it!" " Ana..." " I said - do it!" "Oh, your wife's perfume is so nice." "I never thought it could excite me so much." "Do it, do it!" "Sometimes it was so limp during our lunch times." "You were asking me to tell you some fantasies." "I'll tell you now." "For example, how we are having sex threesome with your wife." "Is that good?" "You both lay in the dunes, sun-bathing." "The sand is soft and pleasant." "The wind blows the sand on your wife's back and you wipe it off." "Gently." "With your fingertips." "Don't answer!" "Don't answer or turn it off." "Like you did when I've been calling you." "You did that hundreds of times." "when I wanted to hear your voice, when I needed you more than anything in the world." "Ana..." "You have no idea what it means to be rejected and to know your place." " We should finish it, Ana, ok?" " Right, you have to finish." " I'm not talking about that." " Faster!" "Ana, don't." "You wipe off the sand from your wife's back." "She starts to undress and strokes herself." "Lower and lower..." "That excites you." "She undresses you." "Slowly, little by little." "Then she starts blowing you..." "It's me again." "No, still from the office." "You know in the beginning you think you'll do it fast, but when you are doing it, it never ends." "I'm not sure how long it will take." "So, what should I do?" "What do you suggest?" "The end of the year." "We have to finish." "Christmas holidays." "We'll work as much as we have to." "How would I know?" "Early in the morning." "Go to sleep." "Ill be back very late or early in the morning." "Don't wait up." "I went to the hall." "You think I should talk to my wife in front of everybody?" "Think about it." "No, but you suspect it." "That I celebrate Christmas Eve with my coworkers." "Is that what you think?" "What the fuck?" "I slipped on something." "What?" "I can not hear you, I'll call you soon." "Dammit!" "Ana, let me in." "I know you are here." "Ana, let me in." "Let me in, Ana." "Ana." " Has it dried?" " Not yet." "Mine yes." "But your sperm didn't have enough." "It felt wonderful." "It's because I watched you." "Do you do that often?" "And you?" " Me?" "So, don't ask me." "I don't know what I should do since we live separately." "Ana said, she wont divorce me." "No matter, where we go, you're still married." "And we can't start our own family." "Doesn't she have another man?" " I don't know." " Strange." "If we would split up, it would be important for me to know how you are living, with whom." "Not because Id be jealous, but to know whether you are happy." "I bought her a vibrator." "Two." "Cynic." " What did you call me?" " Cynic.." "For some reason, I like it when you call me that." " Want some wine?" " No." "I probably should go." " Why did you leave?" "Because of the tape?" " No." " Will you go back?" " No." "There is no way back." "Stay here at my house." "I'm alone." " Can I ask you something?" " Ask." "What happened at the bar'?" "Why are you intruding?" "We meet for the first time and you are already torturing me with all these questions." "I'm sorry, but it seemed you wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk." "Take off your coat." "It's hot." "What the fuck?" "Hands off!" "Hands off!" "Why did you do it?" "You came back?" " Why did you do it?" " Because you wanted it." "You are awful." "Where is the bathroom?" "There." "Downstairs." "We were once a couple with Ernestas." "We lived together for maybe a couple of years." "I thought it would last forever." "But I got offended for some minor thing, and we got fought." "Are you sorry for that now?" "I really do not want Ernestas, as he is now, to be with me." "On the other hand if we had not split up, maybe he would be different." "And your husband..." "He and Ernestas were childhood friends." "Wherever Ernestas was, Tomas was." "During some party, Ernestas was with his Asta already," "I came and picked up Tomas." "Simply, without emotion." "Emotion?" "Its foolish to think that feelings bring people together." "With those emotions you may remain completely alone and without anything." "You have to take." " You have to take?" "Yes, just do it." "Take without any emotion." "Can I come in?" "I was right, you have to pamper the body." "I feel better." "I thought Ernestas will become a history and I'll find myself happy." "But there was one 'but'..." "I'm exacting in sex and I was not enough with Tomas." "His initial gentleness was noble, but actually there was nothing more - just gentleness and modesty." "I didn't argue and demand, but in the same time I felt edgy and dissatisfied." "Maybe Richard noticed that?" "Acted like a hero saving me or family's honor?" "Until now I can't understand how it could happen." "When we were visiting Tomas' parents, Richard always pierced me with his magnetic look, scanned me and relations with his son." "Tomas was abroad." "I came to their house." "Richard was alone." "That look..." "I sinked in his eyes like hypnotized." "He started to tell about the relations, sex and I just listened to him..." "I didn't even notice how we ended up on the couch." "He was breathing so deeply as he came in me." "It was unpleasant, but I could not resist." "And whats strange is that I got some pleasure from it." "I was sexually abused by my husbands father and I got the satisfaction from it." "L realized that if it won't stop, I really would go crazy." "And I decided to stop it all, just got up and left." "L thought that all this was finally finished and cleared everything out of my conscience." "But today, in a second I was sent back to his embrace." " It means, you haven't let him go." " I have." "I've never though about him." "Sure, I felt very badly whenever Tomas and I went to visit." "That's why." "But it means he hasn't left me either, if he hasn't erased those tapes and still watches them." "You have to forgive him." " I can't." " Everyone should forgive one another." "Its cleansing for both one and the other." "I can't." "Do you feel hurt?" "Yes." "Very." "Especially after todays events." " And that's why you have to forgive today." " I can not." "I also blame myself." "I should not have gone there." "I should not have let this all happen." "Hundreds of times in my mind I go back to that moment when he first touched me." "And hundreds of times I run away from there." "But more often you return to those moments, which came afterwards." "When Tomas returned, I burned with an endless guilt." "He also changed." "He began to ask me to dress in his clothes or any mens clothes." "We had anal sex." "I thought that was just an erotic fantasy." "But it all ended very banally." "I returned home and found him having sex with another man." "The best Christmas of my life." "If you knew how good I feel with you." "Well, now is the best moment to check whether it has dried." " Looks like flowers." " No." "Look, these are waves crashing on a shore." "This is a journey." "No." "I'm sure these are flowers." "The stems and leaves." "What does that thin thing mean?" "There are different types of blossoms." "Fine, flowers." "And what could it mean?" "I don't know, perhaps some sort of achievement?" "You will be given flowers." "Flowers could put give on the grave, too." "Very funny." "Then there should be a drowned man in you sea." "It's not a sea." "These are waves crashing on a shore." "This is a journey." "Why you are so irritated?" " Nothing, everything is fine." "I see it." "I know, when you are irritated and when you are in a good mood." "We didn't need to fuck around with these fortunes." "Relax." " We should have come as usual." " No." "Why didn't you get divorced?" "Because of the children." "I don't want them to see their father with a step-father." "Step-father'?" "Yes." "Once he came to the kindergarten with that..." " Karolis?" " Yes." "The scum." "Leja asked, why didn't you come Mommy?" "I said, it was Dads day." "When its Moms clay, I'll come." "Then she asked, why was Dad with some uncle?" "What could I tell her?" "This is a bird." "Now say it is a pheasant." "But really." "Look, there is the head, the neck, the tail." "A pheasant." "I don't like it when you lie." "When have I lied?" "When you told your parents that my family is away and that's why I'm here." "All right." "What should I have told them?" "You know I don't have a family." "I have only you." "I know you don't have family, but I couldn't tell them:" "Mom, Dad, hello, this is Karolis and we are lovers." "Lovers..." "Sorry." "What is our love worth if we can not tell about it even to our closest people?" "Fine, I'll tell them in the morning." "You'll tell them?" "They won't understand." "They won't." "And let them, but its not their decision." "It's not for them to judge us after what we saw today." "Not for them." "I'll tell them everything tomorrow." "In the morning." "Let them try to say something." "Now there is a question - will we forgive them?" "Do we want to understand them?" "Understand, Karoli?" "Now we are the fucking judges." "How did you get that shard?" "From the cupboard." "That simple?" "Why did you need it?" "Richard was a monster." "Well, thats not news." "He followed me everywhere with that shard." "When I was in their flat, in the bathroom, when getting dressed." "I just picked up a part of my life from there," "I picked up the shard with which he stalked me." " You have to put it back." " Why?" "Superstition." "A mirror without some pieces brings bad luck." "Could there be even worse luck?" "If you look at it that way, even a cracked mirror brings bad luck." "Silent night, holy night" "Shepherds quake at the sight" "Glories stream from heaven afar" "Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!" "Christ, the Savior is bum" "Christ, the Savior is bum" " Nijole, what happened?" " Richard." "He is in the hospital." "He is dying." " What you are talking about?" " His heart couldn't take it." "He went to check whether the door was locked, and never returned." "I finished a book, fell asleep and suspected nothing." "When I woke up, I found him with that mirror shard in his hands!" "And what he was going to do with it?" "Kill himself?" "That damned mirror." "I can not understand why I left Tomas and Karolis and came to you..." "Our Father who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name." "Thy kingdom come." "Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." "Amen." "Silent night," "Holy night" "Son of God, loves pure light" "Radiant beams from Thy holy face" "With the dawn of redeeming grace" "Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth" "Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth"