"That's right..." "like that, lift your arm... that's ok... it's done." "Give me a comb, how does it suit me?" "Very well." "Put the veil on me now." "The veil... yes... it's very smooth, touch it, it's smooth, isn't it?" "Yes." "It's smooth, yes." "Do you like my hands?" "I like your hands." "And my hair, do you like my hair?" "I like your hair, of course I like your hair." "Do you speak the truth?" "Am I well groomed?" "Yes, yes." "This white dress fits you very well." "Hmmm, hmmm, leave me alone." "Don't touch me." "Get your hands away from my body." "I will never again be as I was before the fire, when my legs weren't burnt and my body attracted men." "Now I am rubbish and you lock me up here only for yourself." "You better take your gun out and shoot me." "I don't want to live anymore, locked up in this house, surrounded by memories." "I don't want to listen to your dirty stories." "I don't find consolation in any of these things." "I don't care if there are more young people in other places." "Young like we were before the forest was burnt." "No, I don't want to know what they do." "I will never do it again." "I just want to forget what happened. I want you to kill me." "I cannot live in this darkness anymore, among these burnt trees, listening to what you've seen in secret." "I wish the lightning that burnt the forest had killed me." "I wish you hadn't saved me from the flames." "How's it going?" "Fine." "Fine... fine?" "Fine, fine, fine. I've never felt so good." "Thanks." "And you?" "Me, what?" "And what about you?" "ahhh, mental." "Completely mental." "Hopeless?" "Hopeless." "Thanks." "Fill it up." "What are you singing?" "Don't you remember it?" "Of course I do." "Wait, we'll record it." "Come on, sing." "No, not now." "Does it embarrass you?" "At first sight you don't seem a very bashful just married woman." "Did you notice how that young boy looked at you at the gas station?" "I'm sure he's still thinking about you now." "God knows what things he'll imagine." "That poor bastard is doomed never to have a woman like you." "He'll have to resign himself with other things." "People are obsessed, full of complexes." "They don't think of anything else, sex, sex, sex..." "And you?" "I'm not repressed." "Aren't you?" "Well, I am." "You?" "You could have fooled me!" "Do you think I'm as frigid as your previous motel experiences?" "And how do you know they were frigid?" "That's what you told me." "Me?" "The first night you swore to me that no other woman had been as good as me." "Susanna included." "Don't be silly." "I was never really interested in that woman." "She was always giving me her stupid reproaches." "For her, marriage was the climax of a spoiled girl's dreams." "She wanted me to share with her those ridiculous hopes of a teenager." "She was jealous of myjob." "We soon exhausted all topics of conversation." "She's a mediocre human being." "No entry." "I'm hungry." "Country air whets your appetite." "Country air and an empty stomach." "We haven't had a bite to eat all day." "Do you know what I would eat now?" "Listen, I'd eat, I'd eat... raspberry cake and a vanilla ice-cream covered with hot chocolate." "But before that I'd ask for baked sea bass or perhaps duck Ã l'orange." "Or both." "And then, cockles, mussels, oysters and locust, locust with mo sauces." "And a sirloin steak, juicy, bloody, rare and golden fried potatoes." "And mustard." "That's enough!" "Give me the keys." "Take them." "I'll be back soon." "Hey, come on." "Where?" "Come on, come on." "Come on?" "Come on." "Your writing's slanted." "Put it straighter." "It's not so easy." "I see." "Can we draw the heart?" "I think it's fine like that." "Let me try to draw it." "Be careful, don't cut yourself." "Now you'll see." "Where is it?" "Round here." "It's impossible to find it." "Continue searching if you want." "Look what I've done." "Why?" "It took my fancy." "Just for that?" "Yes, why not?" "I don't understand." "It seems to me completely gratuitous." "I don't know why doing what I like has to be gratuitous." "And that pleased you?" "Do I have to justify myself?" "Of course not, but it's always important to be able to explain why you do things." "And you can explain everything you do?" "I don't think so." "Let me see..." "Answer me honestly." "Why do you caress me?" "Why do you kiss me?" "Come on, tell me, why do you kiss me?" "Why do you talk nonsense words when we are together?" "Why are we here and not at some other place?" "I'm going to explain to you why we are here and not at some other place." "Look, I'm here to say to you nonsense..." "to kiss you... to caress you." "Uhh, still more presents?" "They were there, in the caravan." "Eh, take a look at this one." "Who gave it to us?" "Let's see." "Dammit!" "This one is from Aunt Marta." "Who?" "Aunt Marta, my mother's sister." "Oh, yes, the one who likes to show o_ her hips. I should have known it." "It's exactly like her." "Oh, God." "Let me see this one." "What rubbish." "How amul." "Ah, look." "Another centerpiece." "A wonderful silver frame for a wedding picture." "Wait, wait, let's see here." "A luxurious whiskey bottle." "Empty." "Empty?" "Oh, how lovely." "At last, an iron." "We have five already." "Go to hell." "Look, take a look at this parcel." "A wonderful imitation china co_ee set." "Oh, a genuine Leonardo Da Vinci." "That's enough, what can we do with all these things?" "I'd like to hang it on the chimney in our country house." "I didn't know we had a country house." "We don't have it yet, but I'd like to have one." "Will you buy it for me, Diego?" "But when did you get this idea?" "A long time ago, before we met." "I see it as if it already existed." "I know it perfectly well." "You have to pass through a door which leads to a lush garden." "The branches of the trees touch the ground." "Next to the well, there are big iron railings." "At the end, you can see the house." "It's big, with balconies." "There's an old stone and wooden mill inside." "The staircase leads you to a big room." "Let me remember we're both there." "There's a chimney, and on it we'll hang the Mona Lisa." "Everything will be clean... tidy full of mirrors." "Mirrors?" "Once, when I was a child, my father took me to an amusement park." "I didn't dare to enter the castle of terror." "I started crying and we went back home." "I couldn't sleep that night." "But the next day, little by little, I realized that if I didn't enter the castle I'd be afraid every night ...that it would be best to be as afraid as possible just once." "I went back alone to the amusement park and entered the castle." "There were only mirrors." "Should we take a stroll?" "I'd like to take a look around, there must be water near here." "No, you go, I have many things to do here." "Ok." "What about the walk?" "We've been lucky, we're surrounded by nature." "It's a wonderful place." "Wild." "And the water?" "Don't worry, I saw a house." "Far away?" "No, not far away." "Well, it depends." "You don't have to worry." "I'm not worried." "It's always good to know there is somebody around." "Just in case we need something." "Listen, are there any bugs here?" "Bugs are all around." "Diego?" "Yes?" "Happy?" "I like it to be like this." "Just you and me." "What were you talking about?" "Nothing." "Come on, say it again." "What for?" "To listen to it once again." "No." "Why not?" "Because I don't want to." "Diego." "What?" "Come here." "What for?" "Don't be silly, come here." "What do you want?" "You know?" "I like it to be like this." "Just you and me." "No, leave me alone." "Come here, what's the matter?" "I don't know, I feel uneasy." "Let me go, please." "Come here." "Leave me alone." "What a stupid idea." "Who in their right mind would leave this here knowing that there are bugs?" "And why did you take that rubbish out of the fridge?" "It was on my books." "I've already told you I don't want useless junk." "Get this away from me." "All right, don't shout at me. I'll thrown it away." "But, please, pick up all those useless presents." "What's up?" "Look, I stuck that into my foot." "What is it?" "A hairpin!" "is it yours?" "No, I don't use them." "It's weird to find a hairpin out here." "Come, let's disinfect it." "Diego, we are running out of water." "Did they have a well?" "Diego, are you there?" "Are you listening to me?" "What were you saying?" "Do they have a well?" "Where?" "At the house you saw." "Ah, yes." "You will have to go tomorrow without fail." "Ok." "I cannot wash the foam o_ my back." "Use the water from the containers." "And what are we going to drink?" "There are still some bottles." "What about your foot?" "Diego, please, would you mind pouring some water over my back?" "Don't be so thick." "Look what you have done." "Be quiet." "Sometimes I act foolishly, sorry." "You are a child and I love you so." "And why are there people who enjoy it when someone is watching them?" "I don't understand it." "It seems as if they like to be watched even in their most intimate moments." "It'd be really disgusting for me if someone had seen us when we were together." "As though a stranger touched me." "I have always been disturbed by those who watch other people's pleasure." "It must be really sad." "I don't know, but I like to tell you things." "Tell you what comes to my mind." "It's fine here." "I never had anybody to talk to like this." "It smells good." "What are we going to do today?" "I will have to take a look at the books to prepare for work." "Do you want?" "Work here?" "Yes." "Why not?" "It's your honeymoon." "Economists don't have honeymoons." "So boring." "And how long is a honeymoon?" "It depends." "It depends on what?" "It depends on if your husband is a boring economist." "So, let me see, what do you want to do today?" "Aren't you comfortable here?" "Yes, of course, yes." "I just wanted to know what we are going to do today." "I am going to work." "What are you doing?" "I was just thinking how weird all this is." "All that the other day in the car seemed so normal to me." "Now it's so rare." "I don't recognize myself." "It's as though they were other people." "But nevertheless, they are us." "We are as real now as at that time." "It seems as if you don't like it." "No, of course I like it." "But everything has its time and place." "Why can't we always be the same?" "Why does a thing which seems so natural now, seem wrong some time later?" "What makes us change so many times in a single day?" "It scares me." "Many things are not up to us and I don't know why." "We should be as we were in the car, with no disguises." "But it's not like that." "Now, here, you and me alone, everything is in our favor." "There are no excuses, no family, no work, no friends." "Nothing is stopping us from doing what we want." "And what do we want?" "I thought we knew." "Now, I know nothing." "Everything is stranger than before." "Perhaps you have false expectations about marriage." "We must accept things as they are." "I think you have been thinking too much since we came here." "You see?" "Some time ago you didn't treat me as a child." "You took more seriously what I said." "Well, now you have what you wanted, let's talk." "No, if you wanna work, work." "Don't you remember when we talked only about what separated us, now we have nothing to tell each other?" "But what else do you want me to tell you?" "I don't know, something." "I guess so." "All this is amazing, healthy, we are together, we love each other..." "But said in that way it seems like an inventory." "Well, I have things to do." "Why don't you go for a walk." "You'll soon change your mind." "You send me on an excursion as if I was at school." "I'd prefer you to tell me to do the washing-up." "Well, it isn't a bad idea." "Diego, Diego, Diego..." "DIEGO, DIEGOOOO." "Come here, please." "Diego, right now." "Run, please." "Alicia, what's the matter?" "There, in the cage, one of the hamsters." "It's dead with no head." "The other one has eaten it." "Calm down, calm down." "Damn stupid." "It has devoured its fellow." "But why has it done it?" "Its head is destroyed." "We shouldn't have brought animals." "But they seemed harmless." "Even children play with them." "How might it have happened?" "We have to get rid of them." "They may be sick." "Are they rabid?" "I don't know, but I don't like it at all." "What can we do?" "Kill it." "Kill it!" "I don't want to touch it." "You don't expect me to do it, do you?" "They can't stay here." "You must do something." "But how can I kill it?" "Finish it soon, please, I can't stand it." "I can't." "Give me a plastic bag." "Take this." "Come on... be quick." "Diego!" "Diego!" "You must go to that house for water." "Look at the mess." "Yes, yes. I'll go." "Pour me a whiskey." "The bad thing about nature is that everything is excessive." "You never know where the problem is going to be." "When I was a child I hated excursions." "I once went to the mountain with some classmates." "We had always been friends." "We had never argued in our lives." "And there, on the middle of the mountain, we acted like animals." "We did things we had never dreamed of." "Perhaps it was in our human nature, but in town, we'd never have dared to do it." "Diego." "Diego, you must go to fetch some water." "Yes, I will." "Will it be drinkable?" "Of course, I hope so." "And how will you know?" "I'll ask." "Don't take long." "What's the matter with you?" "These containers..." "I went to look for you and I didn't find the house." "Did you fetch the water?" "No, there was nobody there." "And what are we going to do without water?" "Take a look at this." "But, wasn't there a well?" "Yes, but I didn't dare to fetch the water without the owner's permission." "I don't think the well would run out of water just by filling mo containers." "I didn't dare." "What foolishness." "Calm down, I'll go tomorrow." "Tomorrow." "But, let me see, why are you so nervous?" "Aren't we on holiday?" "The pots and pans can wait." "I cannot take a shower." "Oh, what a problem." "Come on, don't be silly, let's take a stroll." "No, I don't wanna take a stroll." "Listen, those people, the ones from the house." "Are they coming back soon?" "I don't know." "And if it was unoccupied?" "It doesn't seem to be unoccupied." "It smells of food." "You'll have to go tomorrow without fail." "And very soon." "This place looks like a pigsty." "Of course." "Where have you been?" "It looks like coal." "Well, it doesn't matter." "Diego." "Wake up Diego." "Wake up Diego, Diego!" "What's the matter?" "Can't you hear?" "It's nothing, let me sleep." "Wake up, Diego." "What do you want?" "I heard a noise, listen." "It's outside." "What is it?" "Wait, I'm going to take a look." "Listen Alicia, before going to bed, did you do something with the car?" "No, I didn't." "Hmmm, it's strange." "What happened?" "Nothing." "The windshield wiper." "What?" "The windshield wiper?" "It was on." "On its own?" "Where did you go yesterday evening?" "I found a river." "A river?" "Why didn't you tell me before?" "I didn't think it was important." "You are worried because of the water." "You get angry because I didn't get any." "You find a river and say nothing." "Can we take a bath?" "The water is very clean." "Now you'll see." "Do you want more?" "No, leave me alone." "It's cold!" "No." "Why not?" "Not from the river." "It's clean." "There are bugs." "Here we are once again." "What do you want?" "This is clean water, as clean as from the well." "What you really mean is that you don't dare fetch water from the well." "You're a shy person when you want to be." "But if there is no one there, how do you want me to get the water?" "On my own?" "I don't wanna wash the dishes with the water from the river." "Ok, I'll go." "Look, our wedding dolls." "How can they be here?" "What kind ofjoke is this?" "Someone has stuck a hairpin in it." "Who has done that?" "Diego, don't make fun of me. I don't think it's funny." "Are you crazy?" "How can you think I did that?" "Who else if not you?" "It was you who threw the cake away with the dolls." "It wasn't me." "Besides, it's not important." "Don't take this kids stu_ seriously." "Where did you put the water containers?" "I left them outside." "We must fill the tank." "Alicia." "I found them like this." "They are empty." "Did they empty them?" "Who?" "Our neighbors." "No, it's not possible." "Well, I don't think so." "Why not?" "If you haven't even seen them." "But why would they do it?" "You took the water without asking them for it." "That house... that house seems deserted." "Deserted?" "You told me the house smelled of food." "Well, of food, of dampness, of sweat..." "I don't know." "And the windows, were the windows open?" "Was there any washing hanging on the line?" "Any animals?" "dogs, hens..." "There was an open window." "And the door?" "Closed." "Did you knock on the door?" "No." "So why do you say there was nobody at the house?" "Everything was quiet." "No sound could be heard." "So, who is spying on me?" "Who is looking at me while I'm naked?" "Who has been watching us constantly since we came here?" "Nonsense." "What are you talking about?" "I have seen nobody around." "There's someone in that house." "Calm down." "What you say doesn't make sense." "And the windshield wiper?" "And the wedding dolls?" "And the containers?" "You're nervous." "You see ghosts everywhere." "And the containers?" "Who emptied the containers?" "I don't know, maybe the house owners." "Perhaps they are also the owners of this field." "I'll go there once again and I'll fill the containers again." "Come on, don't worry, everything will sort itself out." "I'm coming with you." "No, better stay here." "Country people don't like girls with bare legs." "Are you there?" "I've brought the water." "You see?" "Everything is Ok. I've filled the containers." "Diego." "Was there someone in the house?" "No, it was unoccupied." "How did you know it was unoccupied?" "I knocked at the door and nobody answered." "And did you take the water from the well?" "Of course." "Are you sure there was nobody in the house?" "Damn house." "Don't keep going on about it." "I've been there three times." "Now you have the water." "That's enough, isn't it?" "Leave me alone!" "Diego." "You must go back to the house." "What?" "You must go back to the house." "I don't want water from the river." "I have already told you that." "Alicia, I beg you, please, don't talk about it anymore." "Why?" "Because we're not talking about anything else." "Yes, let's talk about other things, about us for example." "There are many things to say about us." "But who dares to say them?" "I don't know what you want. I don't understand you." "Of course you do!" "You know perfectly well that since we've been living together we are not the same." "Do you want to argue?" "No, I just wanna talk clearly. I wanna say what I feel." "And who's stopping you?" "The agreement was no secrets." "Nothing has changed." "It's you who makes your life di_icult." "Maybe." "Because I'm just now starting to know you." "You only think about your things and don't wanna see anything around you." "Ah, I see." "You're acting like daddy's girl who likes causing problems and feeling herself a misunderstood woman." "That's because you think you know a man just because you have been in bed with him." "That's because I thought a fainthearted executive could become a di_erent man." "The truth is that you cannot let go of your family, your friends and the environment that makes you feel safe." "It's you who needs all that." "Your environment, your books, your work." "You, who hold on to all that because you are afraid." "Afraid?" "Of what?" "Afraid of you, of me." "Afraid of us both here alone." "For the first time alone." "Your performance is turning out to be a really bad taste one." "You are trying to take out on me your complex of being an emancipated young lady." "I know you have an answer for everything." "But our problem doesn't fit as easily as you think in your accounting books." "Outside of your work you are good for nothing." "A callow egoist and even a coward." "Enough!" "You are neurotic." "I don't even know why we're arguing." "You see?" "You never know anything." "It's really easy knowing nothing." "I know for example, that you're fooling me since we came here." "Fooling you?" "Lying to me." "All you say is a lie." "I still don't know why you do it." "I followed you." "You didn't go to the house." "You took the water from the river. I saw you." "You want me to believe the house is unoccupied but I don't believe you." "Someone is spying on us but you prefer to ignore it." "You say I don't know you, of course I do. I know your tricks." "You're driving me crazy with your foolishness." "Who cares about that story of the water." "Who cares if it's from a well or a river." "You lied to me." "Yes, yes, I did." "The water's from the river." "Is it the end of the world just because of that?" "But you lied to me." "Why didn't you go to the house?" "Because the house doesn't exist." "No, it doesn't exist. I made up the house just so you didn't think we were isolated." "Just so you didn't feel afraid." "Just so it's notjust us." "Was it you who emptied the containers?" "We are leaving tomorrow." "Was it you, Diego?" "No, I wasn't." "Maybe they fell themselves." "Alicia please, stop getting obsessed with that kids stu_." "Do you forgive me?" "At the beginning it's always like this." "That's what they say." "What is the name of that beach your mother recommended us?" "It's an amul place." "Where would you like to go?" "Wherever you like." "I'd prefer you decide." "No, better you." "It's all the same to me." "It is for you." "I don't know." "Go back home." "Ok." "If you have a better idea..." "Whatever you like." "The wedding dress!" "It wasn't in the car!" "What are you talking about?" "Now I remember. I didn't see the dress in the car." "Someone had to take it." "Are you sure?" "Of course I am sure." "When I took it o_ in the gas station, I left it on the back seat." "I haven't touched it since then." "Calm down." "I'll find out tomorrow what's happened." "I was never really interested in that woman." "She was always giving me her stupid reproaches." "For her marriage was the climax of a spoiled girl's dreams." "She wanted me to share those ridiculous teenage hopes." "She was jealous of myjob." "Diego?" "We soon exhausted all topics of conversation." "She is a mediocre human being." "Tell me once again how she is." "What else does she do?" "She is pretty, really pretty." "Always naked." "Her clean skin exposed to the sun." "They have crystal chairs." "Everything is new." "The man reads, rests." "Everything is new." "They embrace each other, they are embracing each other." "They are kissing each other." "They don't move their lips away." "They touch each other." "They are alone together." "But I see them." "But I see them. I see what they do." "All they have done since they came here." "I know them." "They say they love each other." "But, but it's not true." "I've seen them. I know it's not true." "They get bored and hate each other." "They have it all but they are unhappy." "They have young bodies as we had before the fire." "They are always arguing, arguing." "They don't know what they do." "They break everything." "Touch the dress." "Feel, it's as smooth as she is." "This is the way she is." "Take the dress o_ me." "It makes me feel sick." "Take it o_ me!" "Who's there?" "Is it you?" "Alicia, it's me." "Alicia, say something." "What's happening?" "They know us." "They know all we do." "She had my dress on." "And they are dreadful." "Calm down Alicia." "Coward." "You are a coward." "We are going back home right now." "No. I want my dress." "The house exists." "You knew it." "You deceived me. I want my dress." "You must take my dress o_ them." "Don't worry, young lady." "I just want to give you your dress back." "No, no." "Don't touch me." "Don't touch me." "I'm not going to hurt you." "No." "Don't come any closer to me." "Don't come any closer." "Young lady, I..." "Don't touch me." "Don't touch me." "No!" "Alicia. I've looked everywhere." "There's no one here." "We must leave now." "I've killed him." "What are you talking about." "Who have you killed?" "There's a woman in this house." "She's blind and can't walk." "She's in a wheelchair." "When I saw her, she had my white dress on." "There was a man with her and they were listening to the conversation we had recorded in our car." "They were dreadful." "They despise us." "The man came into the caravan. I had to kill him." "He kept coming closer to me. I had to kill him." "He had seen everything and he had told it all to her." "They knew us, Diego. I was right." "No!" "No!" "Diego!" "Be quiet." "Don't move." "I am going to switch the mill on." "Watch out!"