"Don't you think sometimes..." "you'd like to be taken away by..." "Aliens?" "Yeah." "Just meet some dude with a super brain...or something." "Super brain?" "Jesus!" "You're starting to talk really weird, you know." "The galaxy, come on." "Jupiter, Mars, the rings of Saturn..." "Explosions in solar nebulas." "Black holes and Orion nebulas, supernovas..." "Really, Sputniks and five other dimensions." "There's nothing out there, man." "There ain't no Super brain." "They've known that for a long time." "Hey, Leen." "Thanks." "Drop by again some time." "Sure will." "Look at the crazy Belgian going on his three wheeled-moped..." "He finished his jenever again." "What do you mean crazy Belgian?" "He was my father's best friend." "What do you know about that?" "The bikers ball in Ostend." "That's what I really need." "Just to get out of here." "Yeah, I'd like that too, some partying and racing." "And that race..." "I'm gonna win it." "Then I can come too for a change." "You just wait till you have your own motorbike." "I'll get a motorbike for sure." "Yeah, a Moby Letson 500 cc I suppose!" "Great guys, thanks, too cool." "To let me come along, just like that." "Beer?" "Leen, what do you want?" "I'll have a beer." "Beer will be beer." "That's what's good about it." "Mom..." "Another hard day at the office, as usual?" "Leen, come home for dinner soon, okay?" "Rinus would like that too." "Oh, I've got something for you." "Cool woman, your mum." "She ain't that swell." "Have you heard about Volkert?" "He wants to jump the lock on his motorbike to practice for Ostend." "Really?" "Over the lock?" "You know how wide that lock is?" "I can do it easy." "I'll do it twice if I have to." "We'll see." "You always have to do things twice to make sure you really dare." "It's gonna be a long while till the next mussel-feast." "Yeah, you can say that again." "Gonna be a long, long while..." "Just as long as last year." "From today then, ey." "Where are you going?" "Hey guys, you don't only think about touring the island, I hope?" "I mean, when we've made a CD, I wanna do gigs everywhere." "Yeah, everywhere." "Well, let's go!" "If he'd been born anywhere else, he'd have been a champion, for sure." "Jumped the lock on your bike?" "Shit man, I wish I'd seen that." "Why didn't you take us with you?" "Shit." "My frame is fucked." "How can I go to Ostend without my bike?" "I can give you a ride." "A ride?" "That sucks, you know that." "Who are they now?" "Foreigners, can't you see." "I heard they came to live here." "From Irak." "Iran." "I ran from Irak?" "They're from Iran." "How do you know?" "I just know things too, you know." "Elsie, Lidwien, Betsy, Sabien." "I'll settle for Jeanine." "Hottest babe in town." "I think this Iranian girl was something of a desert-Princess." "To me she's more like a..." "filly with thunder calves." "How did my father manage to get there, then?" "He won a race there once." "In Ostend." "Won twice even..." "Hey, Leen." "You look terrible." "Is it the wharf?" "No, my motorbike." "Don't do anything foolish." "What did you do to your hand?" "Nothing special." "Nothing special, right." "Rinus..." "Heads off at lunch and I'm the one who..." "I'll catch up, really." "Listen, if it weren't for this accident, I'd do it all myself." "Your mother is so insistent." "But I can see you've had enough." "At least you could try your best for her." "Enough guys would love to take over." "Damn it!" "Go on then." "I can't wait untill I'll find something else." "Happy now?" "Tactful, as usual." "You could say something, he's your son, not mine." "How do you translate that?" ""Her red hair, like a flame I saw it, and I came."" "I haven't seen you for a few weeks." "Been to the city again?" "I don't become a nurse just like that." "No, it'll take a while." "I've come to earn some money at the butcher's here again." "Shall I come and see you in town?" "Do you think you should?" "You'd have to give me your address." "Well, I don't know, you know." "What?" "Doing a CD in dialect." "Always that bloody English." "We're from around here." "Well, you are for sure." "What are you wearing under that dress?" "Say what?" "Just eh, you know..." "Well, maybe nothing." "Well, show me then." "My oh my." "How does he do it?" "You're as mad as a hatter too." "What do you want from me?" "Why are those mussels hanging here?" "You just smoked them." "Didn't know that, did you?" "The best invention of the year:" "Dried mussels." "Grind them up a bit..." "If you smoke that, believe it or not then you'll be spaced as a bull." "If I smoke this before we start playin', I drum like Animal." "Hey Leen." "What are you doing here?" "Sometimes I have to see what a beautiful son I have." "For instance, I didn't know you had such muscular arms." "Act your age." "Surely I can say that to my own son?" "As you could say something about my new clothes." "Nice." "Not very enthusiastic, are you?" "Anyway, I like it myself and that's what counts." "At least it's something different than..." "Listen." "I'm working." "It has to be finished." "Or Rinus will start complaining again." "Rinus has nothing to complain about." "You know, I was thinking recently..." "You should be your own boss." "I really don't wanna be the boss around here." "Why not?" "You know we can arrange it easily." "I've heard that one before." "I just wanna do something else." "You know you can't get a steady job." "So what do you want then?" "I don't know yet." "Just work." "Other work." "Maybe somewhere else." "Somewhere else?" "So, you mean you're gonna leave your mother?" "You left me once too." "Pretty childish to start that again." "It wasn't that nice, and I came back." "I did it for you." "What about Rinus?" "He's just a roof over my head." "I love you and I always will." "Hey, you know this." "Come on, mom." "I have to finish this." "You shouldn't say such cruel things anymore Leen, promise?" "We used to be ring-tilting champions." "Did I tell you that?" "Yes, about six times." "Really?" "I really should stop drinking." "Isn't the stallion taking this one?" "He won't climb on." "Did my father do that too?" "That tilting at rings?" "No." "Your father was different." "Your father was more of a wild one." "Listen did you come for me or to nag about your father?" "Well eh, you just know more about him than I do, don't you?" "Your father only wanted to race." "You know that." "And not for the money." "At a certain point, he mixed with men who were only in it for the money." "Money, money, money." "They were bastards, but I let them know." "I let them know..." "Your father would have been better off tilting rings too." "Wouldn't you dig it?" "Ring tilting!" "Whatta?" "It's not as fast, but..." "Not for me." "I'd do it on my motorbike anyway." "You people from Dieleman, you're all the same." "Hey, Bobby." "Where is Jacob?" "In his room." "Can't you hear, loser?" "Hey, maestro!" "Sounds pretty good." "Yeah, practice." ""Admission demands, first stage."" "That's pretty far away." "That Music Academy." "You can't drive there every day?" "No, then I'll have to live there." "But the admission demands are so tough, I'll never make it anyway." "If you ever find the love of your life you should fuck her in there." "In there?" "I suppose that sissy thing is his bike?" "Get lost." "He's a friend of mine." "He plays in the band with Daan." "They practice here." "If you didn't know that, you must've been sleeping." "Within a year he'll drive a chopper too, okay?" "I'll bring my sister too next time." "She looks too much like you." "You think it will run again?" "I'll bet it starts first time." "Hey Jacob, wanna fly?" "She's all yours." "Damn, pain in my belly." "You want me to rub your little tummy?" "Dublin?" "Yeah, where else?" "What's to find there?" "Dublin, the fuckin' greatest city." "What do you wanna do there?" "You know, live work as a mechanic." "Start a garage." "Or race." "Man, you're full of plans suddenly." "Dublin?" "If you'd said New York, Okay...that's a wild city." "Have you ever been there?" "No, but my brother has." "We've got everything here, no?" "Polders, saltings, sea, the beach, the motorclub." "It's beautiful here too, don't you think so?" "It's okay." "Another new tourist park." "People are coming to us." "So why would you leave?" "A load of tourists, what's the use?" "They've come to see the fishing museum in the village." "Someday I'll catch a big starfish, and I'll sell it to the museum." "They'll hang it in a little glass case, with my name on it." "There she is." "Go after her then." "Get off it, man." "Come on..." "Just fill it up." "Weird wack." "What did she say?" "She said that here, it's she is from the city and she's a dancer." "She thinks it's quiet here." "That it's pretty boring..." "that's what she said?" "Something like that." "That there isn't much to do." "How would she know?" "She's just moved here." "My oh my, tell me why all hard work, and then you die" "A spade of sand and you're done all that was, is gone" "That's what your dad said." "I've always kept that in mind." "Well, that's all long ago." "I was still married then." "So what do you think...of my plan?" "God, you call that a plan?" "Jump on your motorbike and go." "What a plan, man!" "You want me to lend you some money or something?" "Go, jump on the thing and go." "Can't be that difficult." "Go boy, go." "Look I think it would be a shame if I'm not gonna see you anymore..." "You got to do what you've got to do." "I did it as well." "I've been everywhere and ended up here." "But you've gotta be ready for it." "Whatever it is." "And you're not." "What do you mean?" "Arrange everything?" "Not really." "Yes, that too of course." "Here." "Be sure." "That's not easy." "Got to show you something." "Once I had..." "And then I saw it all so clear." "I knew it then." "I have to show you, it's here somewhere." "Maybe it's under here somewhere." "It was for your father." "I was so young then." "I was...." "Incredible, I have to show you." "But where is it now?" "Maybe here." "I have to set fire to this dump." "Spring cleaning." "I have to clear out this damned stable." "Goddammit..." "Ah here, here it is." "A stone..." "Hey Leentje." "You scared me stiff." "What are you doing here?" "Nothing thinking." "I've got something for you." "I hope you like them." "And, that's what you wanted, eh?" "Yes, they're good." "But I've got something to say to you." "You really have to like them." "Otherwise I'll take them back." "They weren't cheap." "Come here." "Show me." "Yes, beautiful." "Good." "Beautiful?" "Well, give us a kiss then." "Thanks." "It's been so long." "It's looking good, isn't it?" "I'm still working on it." "It still got to look better." "See how useful it was to have money?" "Can't do anything without it." "Don't go on about the business again." "Well, I keep thinking about it." "You must understand that." "I just want the best for you." "I know what you want." "But what if I want something else?" "Listen kid, you keep talking about something else." "But what?" "I want to get out of here." "I'm going to Dublin." "Dublin?" "What a ridiculous plan, Dublin?" "Dammit, let go of me, bitch." "Swearing at your mother, that's what you're good at." "You just wanna get your own way." "What the hell are you thinking?" "What are you thinking, toddler?" "If you keep on acting like this I'll never do anything for you anymore." "Maybe, I don't need anything from you." "You just wait." "Then you'll be sorry." "Because then it'll be too late." "I don't need your bloody boots." "They're new!" "Damn it, Leen, stay." "I need money." "Money!" "I don't have much either." "I thought mussel fishers were loaded?" "It all goes straight back into the cutter." "Board computers and shit." "Spunky thing, this bass player." "I wanna lick her pussy." "What the hell were you doing, man?" "Those are really weird animals." "It looks straight at me, doesn't run away but just sits there." "Yeah, it could have jumped away easily." "He is bleeding pretty bad." "We have to kill him." "Leen?" "Yeah right, do it yourself." "No, man." "Wait..." "Maybe it'll get better." "That's what they always say about life too:" "It will get better." "What did you say?" "Nothing." "I'll take it home." "Come here, come." "You don't look too good..." "One hundred." "Two, three..." "twenty-five and one guilder." "There you are." "Is that all?" "Yes, I can't make much more of it." "Anything else?" "What?" "No..." "Yes." "Do you always work alone here?" "On my own, you mean?" "Well, normally there are Tom, Dick and Harry..." "You can see I'm alone, can't you?" "I'll come and see you later then." "Okay, Esmeralda?" "Damn it!" "It's time to remember the breaks, okay?" "Hey, relax man!" "Does it really make a difference?" "Of course it does!" "You also..." "I don't know." "We should have some fun too." "Why, don't you wanna move on?" "I'm doing this for fun..." "You wanna record something or not?" "Yeah, sure, yes..." "Then play the songs right." "We can't afford a month in the studio." "Guys, stop whining." "Play, from the last chorus." "Yes!" "Not bad at all." "Well, I don't know." "If we get caught..." "That won't happen." "I can feel it." "Yeah, I believe I can feel that too." "Sure." "Real sensitive guys!" "But if we get caught..." "What then?" "It'll get us even further away from home." "The further the better, or not?" "But if you disappear after a raid they might link it together." "Who?" "The police!" "I think you're just too scared." "What are you nagging about man?" "It may not be a question of being scared..." "See you Friday." "You look terrible." "I had to throw up." "It's not a question of daring, it's just a weird plan...a raid..." "Come on, man." "Let's do it." "I like it." "It'll be a kick." "Anyway you wanna buy a motorbike, right?" "Yeah, nice little motorbike?" "We'll talk about it later." "Relax, man." "What the fuck are you doing?" "Jumping." "Hey Bugs..." "It's not very much alive." "Yes, it'll cost loads of money, that's true." "Studio costs, mastering, pressing, a cover." "But to raid a bank, come on..." "Hey, Daan." "Can't your fishing company sponsor us?" "Land-crawlers and body-snatchers, those eels." "They'll go right through the soppy dike to swim in inner waters." "Really!" "And to top that, there's the cemetery in the village they say they slither there underground to tuck from the corpses." "He means to say they can't do that sponsoring anyway?" "Everything goes back into the cutter." "A raid's not just for the kick." "It's not only that I wanna get away." "You just need money." "And so do I." "Look, this village bank." "That's not a raid...it's a tiny raid." "Go after her, dopey." "You have to do something for it." "I'll see her some other time." "She's wants you to come after her." "Go on." "What?" "I'm not going all on my own." "I'm going with Jeanine." "That country frump that's working at the butcher's?" "She ain't no frump." "Sorry." "Is she your girlfriend?" "Yes." "Well, she will be." "Leave the cigarettes." "So...she isn't yet your..." "What?" "Girlfriend." "No." "She will be." "How'd you know she's coming with you?" "I don't know..." "Well, I know." "Only she doesn't know yet." "Awkward." "You and your questions." "What's up?" "Nothing." "Damn it, I can't know everything." "Leen, I'm only teasing you." "Fuck off man, that doesn't happen to Zeelanders." "What, Zeelanders?" "Try to make something up yourself then." "Yeah, I agree on that." "You know what a Zeelander does in the desert?" "Nothing..." "...much too hot." "Thunders." "Look at that." "Yeah, that's what we can do." "Hands off the counter." "This is a raid!" "This is ridiculous." "Have you got a better plan?" "Maybe we should do it differently..." "Differently." "Best would be after lunch break on Tuesday." "Why?" "Monday is after the weekend Wednesday is midweek." "Thursday, afternoon off." "Friday, end of the week." "On a quiet moment, he means." "Holymoly!" "That's quite something." "It sure is." "It's quite high." "Are you ready for it?" "Let's go then." "I'm really not gonna do that." "Where is he?" "Daan..." "See you later." "I've just been to the sollicitor." "He knows all about taxes." "And Rinus thinks it's all right, so it can be arranged now." "Are you deaf?" "I said "no thanks"." "Mother." "Why do you have to be so rotten?" "You know, if it's gotta be like this, go ahead then." "Go on, just go ahead." "You don't care whether I'm unhappy or not." "It's not exactly easy, you know to get older and older." "Especially not, when you're left all alone." "Come again?" "Look, I told you, they are breeding them differently now not only lot mussels but also hang mussels." "They hang vertically at cables in the water." "They open there shells a little bit, so they can take everything from the sea." "Plenty of plankton fortunately." "And are they tastier, the hanging ones?" "Some say they are, others don't." "Anyway tastier than mud mussels." "But the best are wild mussels." "They're good for eh..." "A few years ago we had wild mussels so large they looked just like a pussy." "If you ate those with a girl, damn, that was something." "They went completely wild." "And, did you do it recently?" "Walk with me to the back, I have to show you something." "Hey, Leen, you wouldn't need these wild mussels, would you?" "You were born horny, right?" "Say, actually he looks like a pussy himself with those big lips." "I can't see what's so wild about those mussels?" "They stay in the same place." "Look what I arranged." "Where did you get that?" "That doesn't matter." "No, you just have a gun in your shopping bag." "Tell us, man." "It is a bit of an old one." "Don't be silly, tell me..." "Never mind." "It might come in useful." "Why?" "Daan, die, you motherfucker!" "Fuck off, man!" "Come on." "I'm not crazy." "If I had bullets, I wouldn't waste them on your stupid head." "Anyway, we have to practice in advance." "What do you mean, practice?" "Were you planning to shoot someone?" "Don't be silly, I mean..." "Christ!" "Shoot someone?" "I didn't say that." "No." "I don't know, all the crap about this bank." "You can't back out now." "We agreed." "What a load of crap." "It's time you..." "Forget it." "So you won't do it?" "No, I'd rather not, no." "No really, believe me..." "It's really better not to speak dialect." "He's right about that." "Then you have to do the talking." "What are you doing, fool?" "In that bag, fill it up." "Hurry up." "Zip it up." "Hey Leen..." "Hey, Leen." "Wake up." "Let's do it then!" "We're beginning to look suspicious here." "Hey, boys!" "Gentlemen..." "Come on, man." "Goddammit." "Can I help you?" "Come on, man." "Can I help you?" "Yes, wait a minute." "Open up, man." "What are you doing, moron?" "Dammit." "Bloody bastard." "Calm down." "Here's some water." "Calm down you." "Stop whining." "Leen, I'm dying." "It's only a graze." "Stop whining!" "Bastard!" "Jesus man, I didn't know it was loaded." "Stupid asshole!" "Shut up!" "You and your stupid plans!" "Let me see." "It'll be all right." "This mussel powder also works against pain." "Imagine it wasn't a graze." "I'm not gonna do it again." "Then you can forget about your CD." "It's strange isn't it?" "Finally you think you've thought about everything then still something happens you haven't thought about." "Mom?" "What are you doing?" "I slept a little." "I don't know what's the matter with me lately." "What do you mean?" "Come lie beside me, like you used to." "No." "When you were little I couldn't keep you away from me." "What's going on?" "Nothing special." "Are you sure?" "I need money." "Oh, you only come here for money." "And you wanted that from me." "Ireland again, of course." "You think you're the only one who wants to get out of here." "I just...someday I have to..." "I really wanted to do this." "It's not much, but if it's got to be like this..." "That's not what I meant." "If I can't stop you anyway..." "You can borrow some, or have it." "It's just, I don't have it here now." "So when?" "You're looking more and more like your father, do you know that?" "Especially your moods." "Just be proud." "He was different." "Special." "Crazy, eh?" "I still miss him." "It's not really the money, Leen." "You know that." "If you really want to, you should do it." "If you stay over there for a while, you can sell your motorbike." "Sell my motorbike?" "Don't know about that..." "You can buy a new one, when you've found a job there." "Look, when you just arrive somewhere, it still seems different." "But if you stay a while, it's all the same everywhere." "A stone is a stone." "If you think like that, you can stay here all your life." "Look at this beautiful sky." "Say, what did you want to say?" "Hello!" "I'm here!" "Yeah, what I wanted to say..." "How shall I say it?" "I wanted to ask if you..." "Look..." "I want to go to Ireland, to Dublin." "I'm ready for it now." "Understand?" "And I thought it would be good..." "if you would go with me." "To Dublin." "You'd love it, I'd take care of that." "Are you in love with me?" "In love?" "I don't know." "What's the point of that?" "It's more just..." "Just..." "Just, just, just what?" "You know...sometimes around my raft it's crawling with silver gulls." "Silver gulls everywhere." "And they steal everything." "Leftovers, but also screws and bolts." "Sometimes they fly straight at you, then you have to duck." "The other day I even had one inside." "It sat there, just staring, at my eels." "And I wanted to kill it, but I couldn't." "Because, they steal your best things, but they're cool, all right." "When you see them fly away..." "You used to be so wild." "We used to be the wildest here." "The other day I saw some wedding pictures, and I thought of you." "I couldn't stand it if you'd become like everyone else in the village." "With nothing left but getting old." "Then I'd be all alone." "I couldn't handle that." "What are you bullshitting about, man?" "Is that why you were after me all the time?" "And then asking me to come to Dublin, what's this all about?" "I don't want to go to another country." "I'm in the big city often enough." "But I did want you, you stupid asshole!" "And you didn't even get it." "That red cassette, did you..." "Thanks." "Help!" "What should I do now, Leen?" "It'll only take a short while 'till it's mussel feast again, ey?" "I suppose I'll do some milling first..." "He can only walk away, if he's able to walk." "You shouldn't keep alive what hasn't got a life anymore." "Well, kill it then." "No, come on." "I don't know about that either." "What do you wanna do with that brute?" "You shouldn't make a fuss about it." "Jesus, what the fuck are you doing, you moron!" "Yeah, now I've done it again." "It's only a hare." "I've been looking after it all this time, dickhead." "Atash, we have to go." "Wait up." "Do I have to beg to talk to you now?" "We don't have anything else to say." "What does that mean?" "You know." "Leave me alone." "We both have our own lives." "And there's nothing left to say." "Don't be so melodramatic." "Get lost, motherfucker!" "Go hang around in that Scotland of yours." "Ireland." "That's what I wanted to say I'm not going anymore." "Now I'm running the wharf." "It's going well." "I couldn't really leave it behind." "Wait, I wanted to ask you something." "I'm not gonna beg you, but..." "No, you always do things half." "Stop it, Jeanine." "I can change, you know." "I wanted to ask you if you would like to get..." "Leave me alone." "I don't want to see you anymore." "Understood?" "Get lost, man." "Hey, Leen..." "Where did you come from so suddenly?" "What are you all dressed up for?" "I'm at the fairground with Daan." "Afterwards we're gonna take a ride." "Well, shall we go then?" "Leen, come on." "I have to talk to you." "Why?" "Why?" "Come on." "Here, round the corner." "Hey, stay here man!" "Must be a very intimate chat." "Hey, Daan." "You're a horse-dick!" "Why?" "You weren't going with her." "Still you're a horse-dick." "Hey, guys." "What have you done?" "Nothing special." "Hey Daan, I just spoke to Eelco." "We can play at the WoAmmaGommaMomma party." "HowAmmaGonnaGoMamma." "Yeah, that's what I said." "Cool right, a gig there?" "What's even better:" "we can play in Rotterdam too." "Great, hey?" "You have to come too." "Come on man, maybe we'll be a hit in the city." "That'd be fun, wouldn't it?" "What's up, man?" "Great friends." "Jesus." "What's wrong with him?" "We get a gig for once..." "Do up my zip, please." "Such cold hands." "Oh, and my coat..." "Put on some dry clothes..." "you're all wet." "It should have been delivered last week." "It's up to you." "You're Leen?" "That's Bert." "I wanted to tell you before, but I wanted to see which way the wind blows." "Understandable." "A wonderful woman, your mother." "Did you tell your son about our plans?" "No... yes, eh I..." "We're going on a long journey, and if it works out then she'll come and live with me in the city." "Well, we'll see about that bit." "Whatever you want, darling." "Hey, you'll come to see us, won't you?" "We'll see." "Pity that Atash can't see it now." "She's gone again." "She had to go for it, for her dancing." "She gave me a suit, you know." "It's quite something." "I'm thinking of wearing it, but it is a specific style and I don't know what the boys will think about it." "It is a specific style, and I don't know what the boys will think about it." "Hey, what are you doing?" "HowAmmaGonnaGoMomma!" "Our guitar player Jacob." "It's his birthday today." "Hey, Leen." "Jacobus, give me that book." "Why?" "Just give it to me." "Don't mess with it." "I can keep drinking beer." "It never runs out." "Leen, why were you so late?" "I'd already left." "I came back to see you guys." "How come, left?" "To go to the fuckin' greatest city, what else?" "Are you going after all?" "For how long?" "For good." "That's kinda sudden." "Well, sudden..." "That's some kind of city." "You should come by soon, it's all there." "Celtic angels, great babes, girls with red pussies, barrels of whisky." "You can fly there!" "All at once, heaven and hell." "I'm gonna make it." "A garage and bar in one." "You can do anything, if you only dare." "Just like the Irish, they're just like the wild ones." "I'm gonna make it over there." "A garage and bar." "And I'll call it the Celtic Car Company." "Not bad, eh?" "We'll come by with 'Eels Grease' and do a heavy rock show." "Now you..." "Are you a real man?" "Outsiders stay outsiders." "Enough, you know." "Leave him alone." "Our great poet." "Jacob..." "Jacob, come back, man." "Another beer then?" "Here you go." "Now it's your turn again, Leendert." "You always say you have to do things twice." "Nothing can happen to me anymore." "I'll be gone soon." "Dublin, fuckin' greatest city in the world." "Here I come." "My oh my, tell me why all hard work, and then you die" "A spade of sand and you're done ...but I, I'm gone..."