"On top of that damn dive platform, it didn't cross my mind, that after jumping, that pool would become my private place to sleep, where I'd only receive visits from those who were between life and death." "Look, my name's Roc, and for 2 years I've been in a coma, and this is my daily life." "Jordi, came to visit me the day they took off his leg, thankfully, everything worked out ok." "And on returning to life, Jordi decided that I had to be one of the Bracelets." "Then I met Toni." "How can you talk without opening your mouth?" "You have a very cool voice." "And today, I'm very much afraid, that I'll meet another of the Bracelets." "What's wrong with me?" "Can you operate?" "The percentage of risk is high." "How high is it?" "About 50% chance." "About 50% chance of what?" "Possibility of living." "And a 50% chance of dying?" "Yes." "Swear to me you won't say anything about this operation to the Bracelets." "But, why?" "They'd support you." "I don't want them treating me differently," "I want everything to stay the same." "Ignasi was about to face a life or death operation." "He didn't want to share it with the Bracelets." "Because, although he tried to look like a bastard," "What are you doing?" "That's foul play!" "Ignasi was a great friend." "Will you help me?" "Only on one condition." "You can't tell anyone." "A Bracelet able to live in silence, the most difficult moment of his life." "Four... three... two..." "Bracelets for ever!" "A life... that hopefully doesn't end today." "I see you're feeling better, how many yogurts have you eaten?" "Eight, and if I get to the ninth, it'll mean that I'm officially recovered from the hell of chemo." "Your measure of whether you're cured is really weird." "I couldn't even deal with two." "Yeah, but I need to be well for tomorrow." "What's happening tomorrow?" "It's my birthday, I'm fifteen tomorrow." "Is it?" "That's great." "It'll be fun." "Don't tell anyone, eh?" "Why?" "I don't like celebrating it in hospital, people don't know what to say." "And they feel bad about saying happy birthday, knowing you're in hospital, so they don't say anything to you, they just stare at you with a sad face." "But that won't happen this year, we'll have a party, it'll be really great." "No, I don't want to." "It's about celebrating at home instead of here." "When I return I'll celebrate." "And... nine." "It's official, I'm fully fit and fully recovered from another round of chemo." "Good night, Jordi." "Good night." "In hospital, no one knows what could happen." "Both fears and dreams, are things that go on inside." "(We will begin again.)" "(We'll fight again.)" "(We will win again.)" "(We'll go out again.)" "(We will begin again.)" "(We'll fight again.)" "(We will win again.)" "It is difficult to talk when the challenge is so personal." "It is difficult to ask friends for help." "At times, it's even hard to say anything." "Let's see if I understand correctly, Jordi," "Lleó doesn't want a party but you still want us to have one for him." "No, not exactly." "Oh no?" "Well, yes, but..." "Lleó will be 15, and you're only 15 once." "So I think the Bracelets should give him a party he never forgets." "Any ideas?" "I disagree." "If Lleó doesn't want a party, we should respect his opinion." "Wow, the couple's first tiff." "Would you stop talking nonsense?" "Look Cris, Lleó is Lleó, I'm sure he wants it, that's why he says he doesn't." "If he wanted one he'd have said so, Jordi, besides, they operate on me in 2 hours, I'm not ready for parties." "But you said it was only an MRI?" "Later on you'll be fine and can come to the party." "I said that I won't make it, so I won't make it." "Any more ideas?" "No need to raise your hand, Toni." "I like to raise my hand," "It's like a meeting, it makes me feel more important." "Okay, tell us." "What was it?" "With all the excitement of the hand, it's gone right out of my head." "Any more ideas?" "Look Jordi, this is a hospital, and having a party, won't stop it being a hospital." "So?" "We have no decorations, and for gifts, the only shop is crap." "If we trade our food for them, we'll give away all of our food for crap gifts." "I think it's best to do as Lleó says and give it a miss." "This relationship's already on the rocks." "Look Cris..." "Toni, don't raise your hand or you'll forget what you want to say." "I won't forget, because it's not my idea, it's Roc's idea." "So speak, Roc." "It's the best idea in the world, come here." "What are you doing?" "Nothing." "I don't want a party, I'm warning you, eh?" "No, no, no." "Hey!" "Did you hear me okay?" "Lleó, They operate on me in 2 hours, I'm not up for parties," "I don't know what you're talking about!" "Yeah..." "Yeah..." "Lleó..." "What?" "What!" "?" "Congratulations..." "Thanks." "Stylish Grandpa!" "Where are you going?" "I've an appointment with the court today, to do with the accident." "You'll do fine, you just have to tell the truth." "Yes..." "I'm afraid if I tell the truth, I'll lose custody." "They won't do that grandpa." "They won't like knowing that I let you take the bike whenever you wanted." "And why I can't I take it?" "I ride it very well." "Yes, but they think that..." "Anyway, you already know." "It makes no sense what they think." "And since it doesn't make sense, you don't need to tell the truth." "I think it's best that you make up something." "If you make up something, you'll be fine." "Yeah, maybe I will," "I'll do both, tell the truth and on the other hand, I'll make up something." "Excellent." "Toni, here's your new roommate." "At least he hasn't got a broken face, or looks as if he can see the future." "Alhough this one's very white, he looks like a vampire." "No, he's not a vampire, he's pale because his defenses are bit down, he doesn't have a good kidney." "He's called..." "Bruno?" "That's what you say, open your mouth, so I can see if you have fangs." "Toni..." "vampires don't exist." "He hasn't... he must hide them, thank you Bruno, you can enter." "If you don't give vampires permission to enter the room, they always remain at the door." "Doesn't the vampire speak?" "He's been a bit on the quiet side, for the last two months." "When they did the first transplant, that didn't go very well." "You'll have to take care of him a bit, eh Toni?" "You can count on it, I always take care of my roommates." "Sometimes I don't feel like talking either." "Say goodbye to my grandpa, he's going to court to make up something and tell the truth at the same time." "Goodbye." "Have a good day." "Bye." "Bye." "Ok, Bruno, you can settle in at leisure." "Toni, I entrust him to you." "Ok, see you later." "So you have kidney problems, and they'll give you another so you don't have to do..." "Dialysis isn't it called?" "I think they should also give you a new tongue." "Do you know I've a friend who's like you?" "He doesn't speak, but I hear him." "Maybe as you don't speak, you could talk to him." "Ignasi, it's good that you haven't gone yet." "No but I'm about to." "What are you up to?" "I am collecting clothing that could be useful." "You don't have any black cloth to make a cape?" "Well, actually, no." "I thought so." "Well, I'm going to negotiate with Mrs Herminia, good luck with the MRI." "Cris?" "What?" "Can you stay awhile with me?" "Sure, what's up?" "Nothing, I'm just, a bit scared." "Of an MRI scan?" "Well, everything..." "But I've never kissed a girl." "So?" "Well..." "I'd like to do many things in life, but..." "What if something happens to me?" "What if I get never get to do it?" "What do you mean?" "Am I missing something, Ignasi?" "Will you give me a kiss?" "Are you winding me up?" "Please..." "Not a chance!" "Only a small, tiny one, a peck..." "Just to know what it's like." "You'll do it with a girl you really like." "But I really like you," "I think you're very pretty." "This isn't a wind up..." "No, really." "I just want to know what it's like." "No tongues." "No tongues." "And tell no one." "I know you." "No way, I swear." "Close your eyes." "You do tell some stories." "Cris!" "See you later Ignasi!" "Hello!" "Hello." "What are you doing here so early?" "Your mother told me that they were operating on you today, so I asked my dad to bring me here before school." "Really?" "Thanks." "I've brought..." "a couple of games, a DVD, and a chocolate cake for after the operation." "It wasn't necessary, but thanks." "It's nothing, that's what friends are for, because we're friends, right?" "Absolutely." "But that's not all, I brought a football signed by everyone." "I spent two days to getting everyone to sign it." "The truth is, that I treated you so bad at school that I can't understand... why you behave so well with me." "I'm sure you'd do the same if I were in hospital." "No I wouldn't, I treated you terribly at school, I loved to ridicule you." "I'd never have gone to see you, just as the others did with me." "Instead, you come to see me, you bring me gifts..." "What's important is that we're friends." "Yes, Rodri." "It's the first time you called me Rodri!" "I promise, that if I return to school I'll ensure they treat you differently." "How do you mean, "if you return?"" "Time to go to theater, Ignasi." "Hasn't your mother come yet." "No, not yet." "Well, you have to go down, everything is ready." "Can't we wait until she comes?" "I'm sure she'll arrive any moment." "We're ready, Ignasi." "Are you ready?" "Is she here?" "Ignasi!" "Lourdes!" "Dad!" "Champ, how you doing?" "You're not nervous, eh?" "No." "No, of course not, everything will be fine." "We'll be here when you come out, see you later, eh?" "We love you very much, eh, Ignasi?" "I know." "I'm sorry, we have to begin." "Goodbye." "See you soon." "You really want to go to all the fuss?" "Yes, we think it'll be fun." "Do you expect me to bring everything you've asked for, by tonight?" "If possible, we want it to be very special." "No, it will be special, but I wonder if there'll be time to get home and back." "Maybe I could call my dad, and get him to bring it." "If you could it'd be great." "But... he doesn't want a party, you know, eh?" "Yes, he told me." "You know my brother, the last thing he likes is that you do the opposite." "But you're only 15 once, and I don't think it's so bad to celebrate it here." "But it's not because he's in hospital that he doesn't want to celebrate it." "Is that what he told you?" "Yes." "So why is it?" "What's wrong Lleó?" "I thought you were over the chemo." "Yeah, yeah I am, I've already eaten nine yoghurts." "The thing is that..." "today's my birthday." "And although I told my friends I don't want to celebrate it," "I think they're preparing something for me." "Congratulations!" "Sorry I didn't remember, but you know that lately my mind..." "I know, I know, but thanks anyway." "So why don't you want to celebrate it?" "At my age it's normal to stop doing it, but at yours..." "Exactly 6 months ago today, Mum died." "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know." "And she loved to celebrate my birthday." "Of course, she was your mother." "No, but not just that, she loved to celebrate both mine and Gavina's." "She was crazy, buying gifts a year in advance and we waited months... for our birthday for her to give them to us, it was exciting." "Well I think that if she liked celebrating your birthday so much, maybe you should celebrate it." "It would be very difficult for me, Benito." "Knowing that, it makes little sense to have the party." "I understand." "Jordi..." "I know that doesn't make sense, but I think that he needs it, let's do it." "Didn't you hear what I just said?" "Yes, but the day I arrived, he encouraged me to do a farewell party for my leg." "I didn't want to, because it's a sad thing, but he told me it would help me to overcome it." "And now it's the same, I have to help him to overcome it." "it's only fair." "Okay, I'll bring what you've asked." "I hope you're not mistaken, Jordi." "No, I'm not mistaken, his birthday is important, and..." "maybe he won't have any more." "Will you help me to get his party ready?" "Listen... haven't you thought that if your mother bought gifts, so much in advance, maybe she bought you one before she died?" "I hadn't thought of that, it never occurred to me." "Christ, but... sure, maybe she did buy it." "It would be great!" "Happy birthday, Lleó." "Thanks." "Lleó, was now excited about finding the last memory of his mother." "Meanwhile, Ignasi, knowing nothing, was preparing to travel to where I was, a secret place, full of silence, a waiting place." "Load the atropine, more blood..." "Charging..." "Clear..." "Now." "Hello?" "Hello." "I'm dreaming, right?" "No." "Am I dead?" "No." "Then what's happened, what am I doing here?" "The operation you were undergoing hasn't gone well, you've lost a lot of blood, and they're trying to bring you back." "Hey, listen to the voices." "I'm very scared, Roc." "I know, I often am, as well." "But I feel very lonely." "Wanna go with me?" "I've been swimming by myself for ages and it's a bit boring." "I don't know if I ought to go." "Believe me, you'll be fine." "Hey Lleó, what's up?" "Who are you looking for?" "Dr." "Andrade." "Oh, she's gone to assist in the operating room, there's problems with an operation." "Do you know roughly how long?" "Some time, I guess." "Can I help you?" "Come in." "How are you?" "Well, today's my birthday." "Hey, congratulations, man!" "Thanks." "And I want to go out for a few hours." "What for?" "I want to go home." "Yeah, but you don't yet have authorisation." "I know." "It's not possible, you know that." "It's just that my Mom..." "Yes?" "My mother died a few months ago, and she was always buying our gifts in advance, and maybe, I don't know, she bought it before dying, and I'd love to go home and find it." "So... can't your father or your sister go, and they look for it?" "And that way you can tell them a couple of places where..." "My father takes the death of my mother badly enough." "Ok, what about your sister?" "No, her neither," "I don't want to give her false hopes, she'll start looking for her gift," "And if she doesn't find it she'd feel worse." "Our mother was very important to us." "Lleó..." "I'm sorry, I can't let you go without authorisation." "Josep, you're one of the few who even listens to us, no doctor ever does, eh?" "Let me go, please." "I'm Sorry, I can't, you're sick, anything might happen." "Yeah, what about everything you said?" ""If you ever need me, tell me what you want, whatever, eh?"" "All that, it was just words, eh?" "Look, listen a moment..." "Leave me alone..." "Hey, Lleó, wait." "I have an idea." "How long will I be here?" "I don't know, Ignasi." "I want to go back." "They're trying." "And if they don't manage it I'll be able to stay here with you, right?" "No, you can't stay here, this is transitory, I'm sorry." "But why not?" "This is too big for you alone." "If I have to stay somewhere until I wake up, I'd like it to be here." "But this is my coma, and you aren't in a coma." "So, what's my condition?" "I don't know yet." "Roc?" "Are you there?" "I want to introduce you to someone." "Does Toni really talk to you?" "Yeah." "This is incredible..." "He must be busy talking to someone, sometimes there are people with him." "Do you hear him?" "No?" "How strange," "I thought vampires could hear everyone's thoughts." "I know who can help us!" "We'll get you to talk, "Bruno, the vampire"" "If we get caught..." "What can they do?" "Nothing, they can't do anything to us." "Punish us with no desserts?" "Better, they're all pretty bad." "It wouldn't be so bad to be punished by going without food." "Don't even say that in jest, I want you to get better." "I brought everything I could, I had help from some friends in Canet." "Hello." "Hello." "Lleó will kill me, but hopefully it's worthwhile." "Is that everything he has in the room?" "Yes, I brought everything I could." "I've emptied half the room." "It'll be great." "Yeah." "We'll make it look like his room, it'll feel like home, then surely he'll want to celebrate it." "It's the best gift he could have, when he sees it, he won't believe it." "I'll help." "I don't know how I came to propose this, it's the worst idea in the world, eh?" "It's a great idea!" "It's the best idea you've ever had, and you're the best doctor I've ever had." "Call me when you find the keys," "I'll be thinking of places where the gift might be." "Okay, we'll talk again soon." "Hello, Lleó." "Hello." "How are you?" "Who's your friend?" "Bru, I think he's a vampire, he doesn't speak, and always stays in the doorway." "He can't enter unless you give him permission, give it to him." "Come in." "What do you want?" "I thought you could help him talk." "Me?" "You know everything, you're the one with the most bracelets." "If he doesn't want to talk it's because he doesn't want to... no matter what I say to him." "Anyway, why do you want him to talk?" "Because he's my roommate." "If he doesn't speak, I'll get really bored." "You could try, right?" "Go on, Lleó." "I have to go for a while." "No, I can't, I'm waiting for a call." "Stay with him, he won't bother you." "He won't do anything but stare at you." "He'll keep you company, but, don't let him bite you." "But where are you going?" "Don't you speak?" "I understand, I don't feel like talking much today either." "I wish you'd wake up, we'd be good friends and roommates." "I've never had many." "Neither have I." "They're not succeeding, are they?" "No." "It's not normal for it to take so long to save me, is it?" "No." "Am I dying, Roc?" "Yes, you're dying." "But it doesn't hurt a bit." "Because nothing ever hurts here." "But I'm scared." "It's normal to be scared." "Aren't you afraid of dying?" "Very much, too." "I haven't done very much in my life." "Neither have I." "Are you my friend?" "Sure." "The Bracelets are the first real friends I ever had." "I never get used to someone I love going away," "I think..." "we're never prepared, ever," "But even a miracle could happen, like everything in hospital:" "We had to allow for time to bring all the happiness, or all the sadness." "(you live and you don't struggle,)" "(You do things and they undo them,)" "(You fall down and nobody turns his head,)" "(There's fire and nobody crys out,)" "(There's a sky and nobody looks at it,)" "(And anyway, nobody pays attention.)" "(And therefore, nobody does a lot,)" "(If that's not enough, they try crying,)" "(And anyway, nobody pays attention,)" "(Nobody hurts anybody, but everybody sinks down,)" "(And anyway, nobody pays attention to failure,)" "(But they're very careful of what they say to others.)" " Hello, Josep!" " Hello, Lleó, I'm at your house now." "I made a list of places where it might be hidden." "Are you sure no one's here?" "No, relax, my dad doesn't get back until late." "Wow, what a lot of photos!" "They're beautiful." "Yes." "Okay, so tell me where you want me to look." "Go to my parents room," "At the end of the corridor, take the stairs on your right." "I've come to the room, what next?" "Look under the bed, she liked to hide them there." "Okay." "No, there's nothing here, Lleó." "Shit... go to the bathroom." "Under the sink there are towels, she kept gifts there on 3 separate occasions." "Okay." "Hey, what's wrong with that kid Bruno?" "Bruno?" "They have to do a kidney transplant on him sometime soon, it'll be the second one." "And why doesn't he speak?" "We don't know," "He stopped talking after the first transplant, which didn't work." "Oh, they already gave him a new kidney?" "Yes, this will be the second attempt." "There's nothing at all, Lleó." "Damn..." "Then the last place that comes to mind, is under the stairs of the floor above, one step below." "Let's see if we're lucky." "Wait a second." "Lleó..." "Yes." "Nothing at all." "Well, thanks anyway, most probably she never managed to buy it." "I can stay a bit longer and see if I can find something, eh?" "No, no, don't worry," "She was very predictable with the places, never changing them." "She didn't know we knew." "Thanks Josep." "See you soon, Lleó." "Bye." "I'm sorry, but maybe you're wrong." "Sometimes things are where you least expect them." "I had two kidneys, and when they transplanted one to me," "I thought they'd first remove one of mine, then give me the new one, but they left it there inside, so now I have three kidneys." "Maybe your gift is where you least expect, like my third kidney." "You're right, Bru." "I'll keep thinking of places." "You have a very nice voice." "Thank you." "Surprise!" "Happy birthday." "We have a surprise for you." "Yes, we have to take you somewhere." "Jordi, I told you explicitly that I didn't want a party." "It's a superheroes party, you can't say no." "Superheroes?" "Yeah!" "I like it a lot, very good idea." "Hey, this is Bru, he didn't used to speak but now he speaks a little." "Toni, I did it, eh?" "I think he's a vampire, so I guess he also has superpowers." "Cool." "And what's my costume?" "You, The Batman." "The Batman?" " Yes, don't you like it?" "Come on now, let us do it," "I hope you like what we've prepared for you." "Roc, what's up?" "I'm with Ignasi." "Ignasi?" "Toni!" "What are you doing in the pool?" "I'm dying, man." "But..." "Dying completely?" "Completely." "Well that's a bitch, isn't it?" "Yeah." "I don't want you to die, Ignasi." "We'll miss you." "Are you kidding?" "You'll be better off without me." "That's not true." "We love you." "Even if you are a bit of a bastard." "Happy birthday, Lleó!" "Wow!" ", But how did you do it?" "It's just like my room!" "Since you didn't want to celebrate your birthday in hospital, we've moved your room here." "Christ, that's cool, now I have two rooms that are mine in the hospital." "Do you like the surprise?" "Yes, thank you very much, Jordi." "Thank you." "Come on, get started." "Here you are." "Toni, I need you to do me a favour." "Of course." "I wasn't able to say goodbye to the Bracelets as I would have liked." "Tell Lleó..." "I never thought I would have liked being stuck in an elevator, and he's the best leader we could have." "To Cris... not to be offended by that thing about the Kiss," "I just wanted to go away with a good memory, she'll understand." "To Jordi, continue studying," "I'm sure that some day he'll be an important person." "And Toni, tell my father, and Lourdes, my mother, that I love them, and although I've gone too soon, death was very sweet." "Where's Toni?" "No idea, he was behind us, I don't know where he's got to." "And Ignasi?" "His MRI ended hours ago, but we still haven't heard from him." "I don't know, it's a while since I've seen him." "Stop asking, you're a bore." "There's nothing like my little cushion." "You were right Bru, the gift was where I least expected it." "I guess it was for me to find when I returned home." "But... who's it from?" "From my mother." "It's beautiful." "Goodbye Toni." "Goodbye Ignasi." "Goodbye, Roc." "See you soon." "You have to be strong, Ignasi was, right up to the end." "Do you believe it too!" "?" "Lleó, Ignasi has died." "Shit!" "Shit!" "I guess you're happy about Jordi." "What about Jordi?" "We'll move you to the hospital in Andorra." "You can continue your recovery there." "Why are you leaving?" "I want to see my real friends." "So who I am then?" "What's up Jordi?" "Do you want to break up with me?" "No, it's not that." "Does she know you have another girlfriend outside?" "You're an idiot." "And you're a bastard." "I didn't know how to tell you." "And the best way was not to tell me, was it?" "Losing one Bracelet, is hard, to lose two..." "As leader of the Bracelets, I grant 20% of Ignasi's life to each of us." "It'll be cool." "I didn't know what to do with the bracelet." "I think it's up to you to decide." "Roc!" "Eh, Roc!" "Christ..." "Please, someone come!" "Subtitles by Oliver Sanderson"