"Do not touch." "Danger." "MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE" "My Grandmother's House" "I've lived here for fifty-two years" "Fifty-two years, ever since I got married" "I've lived here at Jacinto Benavente n. 10, in San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante" "Get out of here..." "My husband built the house." "We got married came here to live we were happy for many years, very happy." "Then his company closed down." "My husband got sick," "He was sick for three and a half years, disabled." "It was bad, very bad." "Doctors..." "and then we went to Madrid and what do I know..." "But then there was nothing anyone could do" "Santalma's husband left her when she got sick." "She's been here for fifteen years and her daughters have never come to see her." "This is totally off." "and Marita?" "That's it." "You've got two cents left." "I haven't done anything and I'm already tired." "One, there's fifty and there's ten, sixty-five... and the euro and the tip I gave it yesterday." "But I'm tired, Anita, tired..." "I don't know what's wrong with me." "You've charged me very little, so..." "How much is it?" "I don't remember..." "Then what can we do?" "This is for you..." "Alright, then, we'll settle up later." "I'm not going to charge you for the eggs and the lettuce cost almost nothing" "Do they give them to you for free?" "They don't give them to me for free but the other day you paid" "Come one, come on." "No, not like that." "The other day was the other day and today is today and tomorrow is tomorrow" "Oh, Lord!" "Rat droppings everywhere!" "I must change my girdle everyday I sweat too much" "I'm going to put a muzzle on you!" "My name is Marina Pastor Zornoza and I am six years old." "I'm in the first grade at Miguel Hernandez school in San Vicente del Raspeig, a very big village where lots of people live." "Don'tjump, the mattress is going to give!" "Don'tjump on the bed, you'll break it, That mattress isn't like yours" "Put your slippers on, Put your slippers on!" "I live in a very high flat next to the train tracks." "I've got a lizard, two birds and a cat named "Pitu"" "I love horses." "The thing that I love the mostis horse's shape" "My grandma told me that when my birthday arrives she's going to buy me a white horse." "Stupid fly is sucking my blood." "From there to there, from here to there.." "here..." ""our" on the mouth... our..." "enemies..." ""deliver us from evil" here." "Deliver us." "Father ." "Father." "The Holy..." "Spirit." "And now like this ...Amen Jesus." "Amen Jesus" "Come here or we're going inside" "What a girl!" "Get on the sidewalk!" "I'll open the door and we'll go inside" "You're just asking to be taken inside" "I'm not so sure about that" "And once you go in you're not coming back outside then you'll be crying." "Don't cross again." "Marina, I'm going to lock you inside." "Come here." "Don't cross" "Stop..." "Give me your hand" "You're sweating like crazy sweating and half naked" "Marina I'm going to break your arm" "Get in, get in!" "Leave me alone!" "You're hot It's no wonder you're hot the way you've been running around" "And you're sweating like crazy ...look at yourself!" "I can't wait until this week is over and your mother is finished working" "My village is very pretty." "It has a train station, a church, a park, a cemetery, a siding, a factory and a beggar." "My grandmother always gives him money to buy food." "THE NEWS" "Come on, open up!" "Give me a kiss." "Since Grandma is old she has some really long hairs" "Do you have hairs?" "It stings you in the face." "Bunion, hammer, chicken's eye." "I go into the bathroom and she comes in behind me" "She says: "Why are you wearing two pairs of knickers?"" "That must be the girdle and the knickers she wouldn't be wearing two pairs of knickers, Marina" "Someday I'll show you Grandma's flower." "Do you know what the flower is?" "Huh?" "No?" "Did you know the contractor called us about the house?" "And?" "Since the neighbours are going to givetheirs to build flats they wanted to know whether we wanted to give ours" "That's all..." "Oh, Mother of God!" "You've really screwed me now, Elena you've really screwed me now" "I didn't want to leave here, my child" "Juan Carlos says whatever I want to do, because the house is in a shambles." "Well, look, I don't know," "I'll think about and I'll let you know..." "No, you don't have to say anything, We've already said yes" "Of course, how clever of you" "You've already said yes and that's it." "And what if I tell you that I'm not leaving." "What will we do?" "Well, if you're not going to leave, then...." "Just leave me in here, with all my things and the machine will just have to tear the thing down with me inside" "Your poor father, all the hard work that went into building this house." "Working, building the drawers building the doors." "But if he were alive he would see that the house is in ruins and that it would be better to turn it into flats and to have a brand new house." "Now what are you doing?" "Does it sting?" "When I stretch it." "I'm really upset" "Can you believe it?" "At my age and with all this furniture and I have to leave here?" "My children made all the decisions and you can either leave or you can stay." "And then the new flat." "We'll all have to be have like little ladies" "We'll have to clean our shoes before we go inside." "Do you really think I'll live to see it?" "Of course you will." "Sure, it'll take the mat least four years to build them." "No it won't." "Not four years!" """ "Don't get yourself in a tizzy, You won't have to move that much..."" ""...because most of the furniture isn't worth saving..." Hold it, hold it."" "What do you mean, throw everything away?" "." "A new flat and old furniture just doesn't make sense." "I wish they could make a new me..." "Yes, brand new!" "The prettiest girls in the village!" "There you go." "It's better than nothing..." "I don't have enough." "I don't have enough What am I going to do?" "I don't even know what to buy," "I go out for a couple of things and come back with four or five" "And that'sjust not on." "A ten, a five... and some loose euros and I've got nothing left." "Not only that." "What have I bought?" "If you could say to yourself "I don't have to buy anything else all week..."" "I've got the bills straight but the coins the cents and all that I'm not so sure about..." "I don't know as wellas I knew the pesetas" "This month, I'm not even going to make it to the 20th and that's that" "The twentieth isn't far off" "Not too far..." "Do you want the change?" "Okay, Marita." "Grandma, are there any rats?" "What?" "No, not now." "LITTLE RATS" "Grandma, is this for the rats?" "Yes" "Come on, let's go outside, your grandma is sweating in here" "What's the cheese for?" "For the rats?" "Of course." "But there aren't any!" "Little rat!" "Don't let me hear you sayinganything else about rats, or I'll break your chops" "Bloody rat" "Grandma!" "What!" "Doesn't the toilet flush?" "No, it doesn't work." "This house is a mess and so are you, Grandma" "Shut up..." "Close the door!" "or my bum will be showing!" "Your bum..." "What a clown" "Here..." "Give it to me..." "Let's see if I can find a rat now" "Here's some water" "Are you pooping?" "Yes." "Does your stomach hurt?" "Watch out, here comes the water." "Boy, does it smell like shit." "Move, move." "Smells like shit, really like shit." "That door, you heard what your father said." "Move away." "you've got a dead donkey in your stomach." "A donkey!" "The blonde is fantastic, the blonde is fantastic, and the brunette isn't bad either..." "What kind of girls do you like?" "Let's see." "Describe your prototype of the ideal women." "I like pretty ones that fall in love." "And I say pretty, because the first think you notice, let's be honest, is what they look like." "He's got a beard..." "He shaves his beard, he's a real man now" ""And he says: "Father, Mother, I want to look for a girlfriend!", tell them"" "Don't you want a girlfriend?" "Well..." "But the most important thing to me is really the person," "What good is a girl with a 90-60-90 body if there's nothing inside." "And what does she have to be like inside?" "Five and seven, now take away three." "I'm one metre, fifty-two or fifty-three cm." "with honey brown eyes." "Very nice." "She's mine." "She's mine, says Jose Mari!" "Well, we'll just see about that." "We'll give Vanesa your telephone number and see if its true love" "Okay?" "I hope so." "And receive a free travel bag... and a set of 64 bobbins in a variety of colours valued at 10 euros, with "Jensi" easy sewing." "Hello, gorgeous, I've brought you..." "BUILDINGS COMING SOON" "We will notify you..." "No, no Fifteen days of notice is enough I've already removed a lot of stuff." "I didn't think this would ever happen." "Do you know how long I've lived in this house?" "I got married 53 years ago," "I moved here and here I am." "And like they say, no matter how long I live..." "I can't live much." "How old are you?" "72" "You could live another twenty or thirty years..." "Who, me?" "You or anyoneand I could die tomorrow." "Miguel Hernandez Buildings." "Twenty." "Twenty flats two bungalows two, three, four bedrooms from fourteen millions one hundred five hundred eighty" "That's what you have to find out because it says there flats" "and they look really small." "Ten more makes twenty and the two bungalows, twenty-two" "You have to go tomorrow and find out" "He who sows hope and the earth will smile, alleluia!" "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I in him, says the Lord..." "It's all falling down, everything." "How revolting" "Follow the path of providence," "he who sows hope shall sing and the earth will smile, alleluia..." "The word of God." "The word of God" "He has sent his servants to announce it all over the city" "They've prepared a banquet," "We believe that that banquet is the bread" "We pray to the Lord." "Lord, hear our prayer." "He is seated at the right hand of the Father" "He will come again to judge the living and the dead..." "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Roman Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal life, amen." "So that we may eat this heavenly bread, which will give us everlasting life and the strength we need to serve our fellow man let us pray to the Lord." "We pray to the Lord." "Come into your home, my lady this is your real home," "There's food on the table, and fire in the hearth." "Come into my home, my lady this is your real home," "There's food on the table, and a fire in the hearth." "DRIED FLOWERS" "These flowers are for Grandma Marina and this is for Grandpa..." "Here dear." "Here in the door?" "That's what's left..." "What's left of us..." "Is that for Grandma Marina?" "No, that's for grandpa." "This is one of grandma's sisters who died." "What was her name?" "Conchi." "That's her son who died too." "That's her daughter, aunt Amelia, that's Uncle Sento the brother of Grandpa Juan and Grandpa Ramon" "You can't run in the cemetery," "You have to be quiet and respectful." "What are we doing with the water?" "Don't walk there..." "Not there..." "Don't walk over!" "iMarina!" "If you don't behave I'm leaving" "I want to clean!" "Now what, I don't have any cloths" "Not in the wet cloth." "We'll have to go to the niche and get one." "iDon't laugh or I'll slap you!" "Where is that girl?" "If I get my hands on her I'll skin her alive" "I don't know what I'll do if I get a hold of her now" "You can walk up and down the corridor but no running or shouting." "When I die I want to be buried in the cemetery" "That way my grandma will bring me flowers every Sunday" "Shut up!" "I'm going to introduce you to the Lord" "Here he is." "The morning star Pray for us!" "Health for the infirm Pray for us!" "Refuge for sinners Pray for us!" "King of the apostles Pray for us!" "You ask for whatever you want and she'll give it to you." "Gathered around your table, we've come to remember..." "Don't make that noise" "Don't make noise." "...Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil." "Amen." "The peace of the Lord." "None of the channels works none of them... none of the channels works..." "Can you come and see what's wrong with the TV" "I don't know, I wasjust sitting there, and suddenly the screen went all snowy and the picture was lost." "Now there's nothing." "I just can't have this, the TV is very old... of course, because it's the only company I have." "Because without a TV," "I'd rather go without food than not have a TV" "Okay." "I'll be waiting." "Okay..." "Oh, Lord!" "I won't be sitting here much longer" "Not much longer..." "What a face She looks like her mouth is twisted!" "That's her, homely." "Who?" "Aznar and his wife, Botella." "Oh, yeah!" "She's also.." "she's fat, she's fat..." "Aznar looks like a shithead." "There weren't enough women in Spain, he had to go and marry a foreigner!" "Her face is okay, although she wears a lot of make-up." "but her figure... she's had her face operated on and everything else." "No one has every taken a man away from me" "Our Father who art 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 debts as we also have forgiven our debtors." "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, Amen'" "Happy birthday to you" "Happy birthday to you happy birthday dear Marita happy birthday to you" "Maria... what's the matter?" "I ask a girl and she says to me" "Sorry, I'm not from around here..." "Then a girl comes along on a motorcycle and she stops her and says" ""This lady doesn't know her way home"" "I just don't know anything any more." "Her mind goes blank." "Coming back from the doctor and you know it's straight, but it doesn't matter." "I don't know where I am" "Finally, a man brought me home." "Her mind goes blank." "My daughter told me that when I get lost, I should stop and stay where I am until someone comes along" "Someone will come along." "if I don't win the lottery to buy a new television" "I don't know what I'll do." "It's good, Asuncion.-Yea,... really?" "You know I'd tell you the truth" "Anita tells it like it is" "If I didn't know you so well, no but since I know you so well" "I can tell you it needs a little sugar or it doesn't" "But it's good." "Let's drink!" "Cheers" "Cheers" "Oh, Anita, you know I start to feel tipsy..." "I didn't hear what you said." "What do you mean?" "I feel tipsy!" "It's very good!" "I, I think there must be something..." "God... there are so many of us, we've become very bad and God can't handle us" "Because if not, then many of the bad things that are happening" "God wouldn't let them happen." "Everything has changed so much." "If you danced with a boy, that was a sin, you'd go to hell and burn..." "My God!" "You went crazy..." "A year, two, years, a hundred years if you like..." "But never again, burning up at the stake!" "But now the world is changing in so many waysthat you don't know which end is up..." "Just a while ago someone told me that the Pope said there were no angels in heaven, can you believe it?" "Where do we look for them, then?" "But the Pope said that..." "Where do we look for them, then?" "On earth there are only devils because angels on earth..." "Like the ones who leave never come back." "Sometimes I say to myself:" "God, someone must be direct this but other times I say: and what about this." "I don't know." "You know what dishearte ned me a lot" "The flat that I rented to thosestudents, One day they came in laughing" ""We've just been to the church and the priest had just finished saying mass"" "and there were hosts left over so he gave them to us and we ate them." "That was really disheartening!" "That's serious." "Well, I don't believe in that, Marita" "What is that?" "That's God?" "God is in heavenor wherever he's supposed to be." "But he's up there and those are just snacks" "They make them in a factory." "They're snacks." "But they're blessed..." "And I'm looking at the door of the church and I say well if the King has his bodyguards, and Franco..." "And Jesus is there, if Jesus is really there how can he settle forjust a little candle?" "To me there's something strange there..." "How many gods Are there?" "How many lords?" "There's only one God all our lives we've said there is only one God" "There's Lord of this and Lord of that..." "How many lords are there?" "I don't believe like I used to" "The father, the son and the Holy Spirit..." "That's what I think is the strangest thing" "I can't get a handle on that..." "Is the father Saint Joseph?" "No" "The father is God, the creator who then sent his son Jesus Christ to suffer for us and then save us" "The father and the son." "And Mary is not the mother of God she's the mother of Jesus, but everyone says mother of God" "God doesn't have a mother!" "I don't want to get involved in all that those are very serious things I believe in one thing, in one faith what's inside the Churchare like photographs and that's it" "And the priests are just like other men." "If it doesn't work, it doesn't work..." "Maybe it's the antenna..." "Of course!" "Didn't I tell you?" "Here!" "It was unplugged!" "Eat, eat you little rascal." "...called him a little rascal and it didn't even faze him." ""No, I've got a shopping list"" "look son, one head of garlic, two bottles of milk and a scouring pad." "Rocio came to the programme to see her dream come true." "Her dream was to get married in the church." "SMOKE" "I've never seen it rain in San Vicente that's why the soil is dead." "The rats are very bad and there's one that's very big" "It's the mother rat and if it bites youyou'll die because it has venom in its teeth" "CONTAMINATED ZONE CEMENT FACTORY" "In all the heat..." "To show the plans." "I don't care about the plans." "I just got them this morning." "But you should see them." "But I won't understand anything." "You can see where the entrance is." "I don't understand them." "I don't understand." "I don't care about the plans." "You go through that door it's a separate entrance." "Here's the dining room that looks onto the street" "The bedroom and kitchenlead onto a courtyard" "And where's the corral?" "Okay the corral, a courtyard... and there's a bathroom here and the other bedroom is here." "And where's the other bathroom?" "The other bathroom, here." "I don't want any commotion next week." "I don't know if it's the heat, but I'm tired..." "What are you going to do with all the furniture?" "I'm taking it all with me." "But it won't all fit." "This sofa, the other one in there, that's new..." "All the chairs." "I wish I had never said yes" "When I died you could have done what you wanted with the house" "Because the cancer is not for anyone else but for me." "This has nothing to do with that" "That has nothing to do with the stomach." "I'm not making any more coke." "It's so nice in here." "You feel like drinking" ""Fry me three strips of pork sausage and I won't have dinner tonight"" "THE MOVE" "Did you see how thin I was?" "." "Sweep it." "No, don't clean up now." "Don't start clearing everything up now" "The big sofa from in there." "You've taken my curtains, damn it You don't do what I ask." "You don't do what I ask." "My goodness, everything's out already..." "Where do these chairs go?" "Hi Maria, how are you?" "Awful" "Careful with the legs." "Mother, sit down over there!" "Don't touch anything, damn it!" "Sit down over there and keep still." "Wait, Vicente." "Put the television there." "I didn't think it would come to this and I said:" "Tomorrow, tomorrow" "No, leave the pillows I can put them in myself" "Grandma is worn out." "Give me the pillows, Rosa." "Marita, let me..." "And where do I sit to eat?" "Here." "The table won't reach here." "I'll lend you one." "Too many pillows." "I'm not saying you shouldn't have any but the entire house full of pillows..." "The trains are very fastand they make a lot of noise but if you're very close the train can suck you up" "I've told her that she doesn't have to be alone they take her by the handand put her in the car.." "You, Rosa!" "And she told me to leave the curtain, in case she gets sick tonight" "That coat rack, you could lend me one" "I'm not going to put that anywhere..." "Three pillows on the chairand six on the sofa." "Come on!" "She looks like she's going to have an attack!" "Yes, although you might no believe it, yes" "I hope you never have to go through this." "You don't know what all of this is doing to meat this point in my life" "But they're going to give you a beautiful house..." "I know, Rosa, I know, That's why I did it because there's nothing here" "And for all of us because I know that after they build they won't give you anything for it they won't give you anything." "Everything is nice for you," "what I should have done was stay here" "That's what I should have done but it's always the same with me." "Foolishness, allways nonsense..." "Smile, you don't have cavities." "Now, how do you get out.." "If you hurt yourself, you'll see." "I'm not doing very well today My foot, my leg" "I've got a hole thereand I'm in a lot of pain." "...I can't believe the hole." "When did you have your tooth pulled?" "I didn't have it pulled, it fell out." "I'm going to sleep there tonight." "There?" "Yes." "Otherwise, I'm neither here nor there" "I go to look for something and I can't find it" "Later on I'll move some chairs but most of it is done." "Have you already left, have you moved?" "tonight I'll stay here because last night I didn't sleep" "I can't believe how's my house now..." "because my house was made of plaster!" "And it was perfect, a little hole here and a little scratch there" "My God, that house is old Your father whitewashed it..." "Last night I woke up with a start because I turned over and saw the white wall and I didn't know where I was" "When you live in a house that long then you start to take out things that you didn't even remember existed keepsakes and things" "It's hard, it's very hard." "Happy birthday, Grandpa" "Cool, clear water water of life, healing water" "water of life, cool, clear water" "I'm so tired" "Did you invite Ruben after all?" "Yes, but I'm going to erase him." "But he invited you to his birthday party." "So what." "I didn't ask him to." "I think there'll be sixteen, yes sixteen with Sandra." "But I've erase Sandra and Ruben also" "That makes fourteen." "Didn't you invite Manuel?" "Manual, no, because he's silly" "That tooth is about to fall out." "Don't touch it." "It's loose" "Hands, bum, everything." "The elephant swangon a web of... shit" "Ah!" "That feels good!" "Cool, clear water, water from the fountain that cures everything water of life, healing water" "These nails..." "The bread, don't eat it without bread" "Eat that little piece you have left!" "It's very hard" "The skin is hard..." "You're going to choke, A little boy choked that some kids were leaving schooland a man grabbed one of the boys and then killed him." "They probably took his organs outand sold them" "What are organs?" "The kidneys, the liver, the eyes..." "They're worth a lot of money, that's why the take the children like that." "I think that next week they'll tear the house down" "I can feel ityes, I can feel it." "It's the end of the year" "Do you have a cold or what?" "Of course Grandma has a coldand I'm screwed up" "I have a cold and I've lost my appetite." "Eat that little piece of bread." "Don't cross!" "THE HORSE" "Oh, my God!" "The horse!" "The cake, the cake!" "Come into my home, my lady, this is your real home" "There's food on the table and fire in the hearth..." "Only God knows what I've done for them," "My son was born there, who'll be forty-three next week" "That's where my husband was when he was sick.There are good memories and bad memories." "My husband died at that time there were no funeral parlours..." "I had to go through it all there." "You'll be happy with a brand new house" "I did it form them, I did it form them." "We're going to catch you!" "Poom, poom, poom, a drum is beating, who'll make it stop no one can work come on Miss shhhh" "Don't you have a family?" "Then an adult, it was the father, the mother, or me then an old person, I draw a grandmother on the blackboard..." "You can draw your own." "What about the hands?" "Have you noticed what the grandmother's hands look like?" "Are they more or less wrinkled than the face?" "More" "More wrinkled than the face." "Whose... grandmother lives at home with your parents?" "When you were the princess, when you were my passion only you knew that I was poison, poison..." "What are you looking for..." "Your heart and minego boom, boom, boom..." "They invite you to the party in a sailboat, your heart and minego boom, boom, boom... your heart and minego boom, boom, boom..." "We'll have a good time, being crazy in the water and a pair of hearts will be drawn without words on the shore of the seas" "And you tell me to stop, to stop dancing and I tell you that I can'tI can't stop" "Move your belly, move it..." "Didn't you get the bed ready, Rosa?" "Up, there..." "I don't know how but you two have got to find a solution to this" "I don't see why se should get angry she's been with us for a while and now it's time to go there for a while with our daughter sleeping here she needs her own room and we also need our privacy." "This has gone on much longer than we had planned and it's got to be between the two of you for us and for our daughter but also for your mother..." "The house is fulland we're not comfortable" "I'll go see my sister and have a talk with her but don't raise your voice she's sleeping right next door" "I'm not raising my voice but the days go by and the months go by and we have to find a solution to this and it has to be between the two of you she's your mother and that's thatI don't think anyone will get angry" "I've lived here for fifty-two years at Jacinto Benavente n. 10" "NUMBER TEN"