"Hello, I'm the opening shot of this movie." "I'll tell you what the opening shot could possibly consist of." "The opening shot has to make it clear that the movie's set in Amsterdam." "You could make that clear in several ways." "You could do that using an aerial shot." "You could shoot it from a helicopter that's flying over the city." "You could also do it in a more spectacular way." "You could use speedboats that race down the Amstel River." "You could also be more realistic and use a moped with a camera on it." "You'd go across the Utrechtsebrug, into the Rijnstraat." "Preferably on a Sunday afternoon." "When it's not raining." "You could also go for a walk... with beautiful music." "Nineteenth century music, romantic, with lots of violins." "I'd start with the Vondelpark, even though that's in the city centre." "And then you arrive at the Leidseplein." "Which is a controversial spot because of the mayonnaise culture." "But that's one of the most authentic cultures in Amsterdam." "And if you want to be more commercial and aim at an international audience... you'd have to go to the red-light district." "Then you could show the windows although someone might... hit the camera out of your hands." "There's one thing that makes this opening shot a bit difficult..." "I remember the first time I was in New York... and I was disappointed because I already knew the entire city." "I saw apartment buildings I had seen in Rosemary's Baby." "I saw a skyscraper from King Kong." "I saw Central Park." "I knew all those places." "I belonged there." "So I belonged in that city." "And Dutch movies have never - although it might change now... made such an impression on me that I felt at home in Amsterdam." "By the way, am I also supposed to be the final shot?" "I'm getting fed up with all the bullshit about relationships." "Let's talk about something else." "Let's talk about pigeons." "I've invested in a pigeon." "I won't say how much." "With Mr Gisbers, a famous pigeon fancier." "He and I picked a beautiful female pigeon." "Bonita." "And Bonita will be a champion, no matter what Willie says." "Bonita the pigeon Doggie the dog" "The weather forecast for tonight:" "cloudy, ro rain." "The pigeons have been released against a light south-westwind." "dedicated to the city of Amsterdam" "Willie receives a phone call" "Hello, Mr Merkx." "Of course I knew it was you." "No, no matter what they say at the stock exchange, I wouldn't risk it." "Don't buy it." "General Tassotti, that's the way to go." "Yes." "By the way, if you want to go sailing, it's force 9 at the IJsselmeer." "I got it from the newspaper." "Ok, bye, Mr Merkx." "Henk receives a phone call" "Apples, apples..." "Henk speaking." "Twins?" "What am I going to do with two twins?" "Listen..." "If I ask for a bread at the baker's, will they give me two croissants?" "Good." "Laura receives a phone call" "Peter." "It's for you." "Someone called Max." "What does he want?" "He's going to prepare Yugoslav food tonight." "Whether you like that." "Sounds delicious." "She thinks it sounds delicious." "Now all I need is my toothbrush." "I don't mean to be rude, but did you clean it up a bit?" "The little table?" "It's outside." "The mirror?" "It also belongs to me a bit." "Everything that belonged to you a bit, is outside." "Max receives a phone call" "Within two years, they'll break down because the rubber crumbles." "The synthetic pipettes that we sell, last forever." "I'm offering you 14 cents per pipette." "That's too little, sorry." "I want to pay less than my colleagues." "You have to help me obtain a competitive advantage." "What about 1,000 pipettes for 160 guilders?" "140." "Absolutely not." "150." "No, 160." "Ok, I knew I could count on you." "Just this once." "You're a good guy." "Only for you." "So this afternoon, I'll get 1,000..." "Pipettes." "Pipettes." "Tomorrow afternoon." "Veronica?" "Do we need any pipettes?" "No, we still have 3 boxes." "Oh dear." "Sorry, I have to cancel my order." "We don't need any pipettes." "Ah, Mr Gisbers." "How is our pigeon, Bonita?" "Imagine, Mr Max..." "No pigeon can handle force 9." "Did Bonita lose again?" "We should be happy she made it home." "The last time, I saw a small wound under her left wing." "She doesn't have a wound under her wing." "But you promised me Bonita was a champion pigeon." "She's a champion." "We have to enrol her for Avignon." "Avignon." "We'll give her two young pigeons... straight from the egg." "We'll let her raise them." "Then she'll be motivated to come back fast." "I understand." "We'll need the enrolment fee." "I completely agree." "I think she has a big chance." "Max?" "Yes." "A phone call for you." "Who is it?" "Willie." "Tell her I'll call her back later." "She wants to drop by." "She can't." "She just hung up." "What a silly girl." "She's coming over." "Thanks for the business." "Try this, a new sedative. 14 cents each." "A bit lower." "Even lower." "Lower." "Here?" "Lower... and higher too." "Higher and lower..." "what about in the middle?" "No, the middle is fine." "I think you're starting to develop cyclist's legs." "Cyclist's legs?" "Yes." "What are they?" "Just cyclist's legs." "I can't really hear what Max and Willie are doing upstairs." "But whatever it is, they do it three times a week." "You haven't talked about Bonita yet." "Wasn't she going to be in a match?" "Bonita's sick." "She has a little wound under her left wing." "Mr Gisbers is looking after her." "Bonita's not a winner's name anyway." "How can she win with that name?" "What's a winner's name then?" "Willie." "That's not a name for a pigeon." "Bonita's a good name for a pigeon." "Bonita." "Willie, who are you thinking of?" "Of you and us." "Of me or of you and me?" "I was thinking of Henk, actually." "Henk again?" "Isn't that allowed?" "Everything's allowed." "You can think of anybody you want." "I was just thinking of Prince Claus." "It's been exactly two years since I've seen Henk." "It's also since almost two years that I see you three times a week." "Yes, that's true." "What if we watched TV tonight?" "I'll make melon with sotto for you." "Tonight's impossible." "Laura called and she's coming for dinner." "I'll call you and I'll see you." "I'll call you and I'll see you." "You don't have a TV anyway." "I believe it works like this in matters of love." "The main thing's you understand each other well." "To understand me, you have to understand I'm really Hannibal." "I'm Hannibal, travelling over the Alps, following the path of love." "I've visited many expensive relationship experts." "Only to find out I have a fear of relationships." "Each time I love a woman, like Willie, I feel as if I'm suffocating." "As if they want to own me." "Then I had the great idea to place an ad for a platonic relationship." "Why not?" "An ad for a platonic relationship." "I've seen crazier ads." "And that's how I met Laura." "Is Max in?" "Max is upstairs, I have to call." "Never mind." "I've been waiting 15 minutes for a prescription." "Please tell him to come down." "I have a great surprise for him here." "Who's next?" "What do I know about love?" "When I look at myself, I see a stuck-up woman." "All my relationships have been very unsatisfactory." "So when I saw Max' ad about a platonic relationship..." "I thought "why not?"" "Let's give it a try." "This is my life so far." "A woman I once loved." "My favourite park." "A little girl that looks at me curiously during a trip in Italy." "A cat that ran off after 7 years." "Another woman that I loved but who didn't love me." "Why don't you pick 5 pictures that tell the story of your life." "Five pictures?" "Yes, 5 pictures." "Difficult." "That tell me everything about you." "Let me see." "There." "What's this?" "You explain it." "What this is?" "Yes." "This looks like a collision between Laura's mind and Laura's body." "And now we're all content." "Willie's not jealous because it's a platonic relationship." "Who could be jealous of a platonic relationship?" "And I'm finally liberated of my fear of relationships." "We understand each other very well and I think that's the main thing." "Willie is Willie, Laura is Laura... and I'm Max." "Who's also a little bit Hannibal." "When I order a bread, you can't turn it into 2 croissants." "That's enough for today, guys." "We'll fax." "I'm here to get the jackpot." "For me, love's an adventure." "The sensation, the passion, the sweat, the coolness." "All combined into one..." "I don't know how else to put it." "I think love's something you have to feel." "Something you shouldn't talk about, but just do." "You can always regret it later." "Willie's ok." "Take that jackpot." "It's been here for 2 years." "And that's where the problems started." "She thought she could influence it." "She could win when she wanted." "That was the start of her paranoid trip." "Irritations, misery..." "On the other hand, you also know when it's over." "For some people that's not doing the dishes... not taking out the garbage... farting in bed." "For us, it was the jackpot." "I'm very simple about these things." "When it's over, it's over." "And when it's back on, it's back on." "If I take the jackpot... there won't be anything of mine in this house left." "True." "True." "Why don't you move back in here?" "Are you serious?" "I'll just take that wall out." "Are you serious?" "Why not?" "I do what I want and you do what you want." "I have plenty of room." "Plenty of room." "I have plenty of room too." "We all have plenty of room." "Why don't you get lost?" "Why should I?" "It's our house." "Are you starting that again?" "Stop it!" "You made it yours." "Oh, come on." "I thought you left." "You chased me out." "I remember very well that you left." "I'll take that wall out and that wall and that one." "I'll leave one wall standing and I'll get buck naked... and I'll write on it:" ""See you in hell, whore!"" "Just go to your boring chemist." "Ask him for a pill to put a brain in your fuckface." "The next person who'll tell me what to do will get smacked!" "Here you go!" "And another one!" "Fucking hell!" "I could never resist that about Henk." "When he gets angry, he's so irresistible." "He's so beautiful and exciting." "That's Henk and that's how I love him." "Do you know what I mean?" "Willie once told me that about Henk." "When he gets really angry, he becomes so irresistible... that women faint by the dozens." "It's windy." "Shall I close the window?" "No, that's alright." "I like it here." "What's your earliest memory?" "My earliest memory?" "I'm 2 years old." "I'm sitting on a potty." "My mother walks up the stairs and leaves me with the nanny." "And what's yours?" "Mine?" "Let me think." "I'm a very little girl, maybe 2 years old." "I'm in the garden and it's raining very hard." "I'm playing and then I see a big worm." "And I walk inside to rinse him." "To rinse him?" "Yes." "This is my future." "You can't turn it over until after I leave." "Ask your master if he liked it." "Ask him." "How long a day can be, right Flippie?" "It must be Sunday." "Right, Flip?" "You're tired, aren't you?" "You'll go to bed soon." "The pigeons have been released against a hard northeasterly wind." "This is the woman I spent the most money on." "I think it's beautiful." "It's beautiful because it's so sad." "Do you think?" "Yes." "Do you think that if she had known..." "You mean Modigliani's woman?" "Yes." "If she had know that hundreds of thousands of people would see... her like this, would she have posed like that too?" "I don't know, Laura." "I hadn't thought of that." "Maybe I should." "Shall I call you a cab?" "No, I live really close." "What are we going to do with the jackpot, Flippie?" "Dressed in orange?" "Are you orange between your legs as well?" "Does that happen to you too?" "You feel bad, you're walking... and you meet a very nice man." "Not bad..." "What do you want, fried buffalo cunt?" "Right." "Yes." "Nipple gnawing sucker." "You look like tenderloin with syphilis." "Do I?" "Yes, you do, nipple gnawer." "Well then." "Clap case!" "You're not running smoothly." "Shall I lay you?" "If you're not careful, you'll be laying on the pavement soon." "First I'll replace your points and then I'll adjust your valves." "Major maintenance." "Overfucked asshole!" "It'll feel good." "Yeah right." "It's just what you need." "Not from you." "No, not from you." "Well, well." "Buffalo cunt!" "Willie, what do you think..." "If Modigliani's woman had known... millions would see her, would she have posed for him?" "What do you really want to know, Maxie?" "Do you think that Modigliani's woman... if she had know how many millions would look at her after her death... would she have posed for him?" "What do you think?" "Why do you want to know that?" "See it as posthumous psychoanalysis." "I just want to know." "I have a customer in the pharmacy." "Don't hang up." "LAURA PAYS A VISIT" "Max, I'm so sorry." "I'm so embarrassed." "I really..." "I rang and they didn't open." "I thought maybe I can spend the night here." "Of course you can." "It's very embarrassing." "See that couch?" "I can pull it out and make it into a bed." "I'll sleep downstairs in the pharmacy." "No, I don't want you to..." "You're not going to..." "I'll go downstairs." "Let me show you." "I can pull the bed out." "Look." "Max, let me do it." "You don't have to do it." "I have to offer her a bed." "It says so in the bible." "Make yourself at home." "I'll sleep downstairs." "In the pharmacy." "Max, Max!" "I wanted to ask about..." "that picture." "Have you looked at it?" "Of course, I have." "And what did you think?" "I was very much touched." "I'll tell you tomorrow, bye." "I couldn't call you back before, Willie." "A customer wanted a prescription." "A customer for a prescription." "I'm very tired." "I'll call you tomorrow." "Ok, I'm going to sleep." "Bye." "That's Leberman's theory." "You always have to speak the truth, but not necessarily to your girlfriend." "That's Leberman's theory, philosophy and principle." "And I'm a staunch follower of it." "A 22 year old woman from Nijmegen and her 23 year old partner... both jumped out of a driving car during an argument." "Both had light injuries and were taken to hospital." "The empty car crashed into a wall." "During the argument, the woman jumped out first." "Her partner followed her example almost immediately." "After they arrived in hospital, the couple reconciled." "The weather forecast for tonight." "Periods of sunshine." "Afternoon temperature around 18 degrees." "Bonita, Bonita." "What shall we do with you?" "I don't know what you prefer." "This one has five levels." "I like the vertical idea." "And we also have..." "Nice to see you, Mrs Van Der Laar." "How are the United Rubber Plantations?" "Fine, thank you." "Condom production's very high." "However, this pharmacy doesn't sell condoms." "That's a position we don't deviate from." "Veronica's aware of this." "Have a nice day." "Bye, Mrs Van Der Laar." "Right, where can I sign?" "Here, please." "HENK PAYS A VISIT" "No more bullshit, where does it go?" "I just don't have any room here." "But can you help me with something?" "WILLIE PAYS A VISIT" "Where to?" "That way." "Excuse me, I've come for the minosine." "You'll have to come back tomorrow." "Did you want the minosine?" "No." "No?" "I smell something." "Do you?" "Yes, paranoia." "I can always smell if there's been a woman." "It's just intuition." "We'll fax." "See you." "Can I ask something?" "Of course." "A box of tampons, please." "Did she say which size?" "No, it's for myself." "I'm a painter and I use tampons." "That's 6.45." "Would you have time to be my model?" "Me?" "Yes." "Maybe it sounds strange." "Sorry." "Hello, am I interrupting?" "No, sit down." "This man who just came downstairs..." "With the curls and the blue green eyes." "Yes, that's Henk." "Right, Henk." "Do you like him?" "Henk..." "Who spent the night here?" "That's none of my business." "MAX PAYS A VISIT" "It looks very good." "But I see all these dark spots." "Maybe because it's not a very good print." "He's been here three times and he's in a lot of pain." "But pain where?" "Sacrally." "We all hurt there sometimes." "Really, if this was my X-ray, I'd be happy." "Congratulations, you have a great back." "Can I keep the picture?" "No, it goes into our own album." "Bye, Fred." "Bye, Laura." "Do you know him very well?" "He's a good colleague." "She's not home." "What do you mean?" "I don't know." "Be a man, not a mouse!" "Good afternoon." "Hello." "Hey Maxie." "Who can I help?" "Max, who slept here last night?" "Who slept here last night?" "Veronique, Angelique and Dominique." "A big or a small tube." "A small one." "Don't be a pain." "Who slept here?" "I told you." "Veronique, Angelique and Dominique." "And then their two sisters joined." "I just want to know who slept here." "Do we have to do this in front of everybody?" "I don't care about everybody!" "I want to know who slept here!" "Henk slept here!" "I'd never slept with a man before!" "Is that your grandmother?" "No, the neighbour." "Willie knows that I'm lying, of course." "I'm used to it from him." "I think it's kind of funny." "But the main thing is that you find each other beautiful." "As long as you find each other beautiful." "Beautiful." "Willie, why do you think I'm beautiful?" "Why do you think I'm beautiful?" "I'm not beautiful at all." "I'm an ugly crocodile." "So why does she think I'm beautiful?" "I think you're beautiful because you look like an Australian cowboy." "But why do you think I'm beautiful?" "Because you look like an Argentinian bullfighter." "Yes, but..." "But why do you think I'm beautiful?" "Because you look a bit like Mohammed Ali." "What's wrong?" "Max!" "What's wrong?" "It's that monster." "Get rid of it." "It's a Fatsia, I brought it for you as a present." "Max!" "Hay fever." "Hay fever!" "I can't handle cats or plants or animals with no teeth." "I..." "I happened..." "Are you sure I can stay another night?" "Another night?" "Laura's our guest tonight." "Laura, Willie." "Shake hands." "I'll sleep downstairs, in the pharmacy." "How's Mr Leberman going to talk himself out of this?" "I'm sorry to interrupt, but maybe..." "Maybe I can sleep in the pharmacy." "You slept in the pharmacy yesterday." "That's impossible!" "Max, show your hands." "I need to know if he has it too." "I don't think he has it." "What?" "He's got two, a very long one." "What do I have?" "What do I have?" "A very long one!" "But what you two have..." "This is a lot worse." "What's that?" "This is very bad." "What is it?" "What you have here." "What do we have?" "Women's hands!" "Max, I can't do this any longer." "We have ten customers and the register's open." "The register's open?" "Yes. the register's open." "And get that plant out of the way!" "Clearly another representative of the so-called imitation hype." "Been there, done that." "Blunt imitation, alternating with subtle imitation." "A bit of Picasso, a touch of Wolkers." "A little bit of Gubbels." "Haven't we seen those imitations before?" "I also see a bit of Modigliani." "The various styles speak of a slight impressionist tendency." "Even though the aforementioned artists are expressionists." "A choice motivated by a lack of choice." "Koons' piggie." "No, I can't make much of it." "The only funny thing is what the artist calls his work." "Phenomenism." "I also see Modigliani though." "Which is also imitation." "WILLIE HAS A PLAN" "Laura's moving in for a while." "An undebatable choice that isn't a choice." "My ass!" "Undebatable clichés that aren't clichés!" "Because I've used clichés that can't be criticised." "Sorry." "Sorry." "Sorry, sorry." "MAX HAS A PLANT" "Hello, Mr Gisbers." "I brought you a plant." "How's our champion?" "Can I look inside?" "Pigeons, pigeons..." "Bonita, champion!" "Bonita." "It's a beautiful pigeon, Mr Gisbers." "Are you going to win for us, Bonita?" "Will you win for Mr Gisbers and for Maxie?" "Don't let them walk over you, Bonita." "Never!" "Bonita, champion." "HENK HAS A PLAN" "I have a plan." "We'll do it without a condom." "Don't you know what's going on in Cuba?" "They're putting people in quarantine." "Do you know what they also do in Cuba?" "Let's use a condom." "I'm a doctor." "LAURA HAS A PLAN" "Let's do it again." "As long as Max doesn't become depressed." "Sure, Laura and Henk are having a great time." "What can I do about that?" "Things go the way they go." "I'll just wait." "Two weeks have past in Henk and Laura's relationship." "I don't mind it that much but what I don't like... is that I'm beginning to miss those evenings with Laura." "I wanted to say that." "Henk and Laura's relationship doesn't bother me anymore." "I've even gotten used to not having my evenings with Laura anymore." "I just go for bike rides more often." "It's pointless, but it's something to do." "But what really bugs me is that I can't even call Laura on the phone anymore." "You're not even listening." "Wait a moment, Willie." "Which side of my right hand should I look at, inside or outside?" "Bye, darling." "My conversations with Max were always totally stupid." "But I'm starting to miss them." "I think you can divide any relationship into four parts." "The start, the continuation, where it goes wrong and how it ends." "With Laura, I don't yet know how it will continue." "I'll just wait and see." "When I'm posing for Henk, I always ask him..." "Henk, what is this phenomenism?" "How can I help you with it?" "Maybe if I sit a bit more like this?" "Or like this?" "Like this, the way I am?" "Going from idea to form..." "Can we take a break?" "It's all about form for me." "I know what I want to create." "Henk, I have a headache." "Everything I create sucks." "Henk I have a headache." "Damn it!" "Fuck faces!" "Go to your boring pharmacist, bitch!" "Ask him for some pills for your head." "Chicken cunt!" "Sometimes I wonder if you're not... pretending a bit." "Your anger." "My entire day is about Henk, Henk, Henk." "And sometimes I wish it was a bit less about Henk." "I think something's about to happen soon." "LAURA MOVES IN WITH WILLIE" "Your hand towards your face." "No, your other hand." "And cross your legs." "I can't become depressed." "Henk, stop it." "HENK PRETTY MUCH MOVES IN WITH LAURA AND WILLIE" "Put that book away for once." "Let me read." "I've given it a lot of thought." "I've always been so independent that I don't need to be alone anymore." "I think I'm going crazy." "I wanted to say about these slippers that..." "I wanted to say about these slippers that..." "About these slippers, I wanted to say that..." "They're not just slippers." "They're... special slippers." "I can't become depressed." "But this morning there was another contest and Bonita was Nonita again." "I'll just wait." "Mr Gisbers told me he was a cello player in Enschede." "And that his wife died over ten years ago." "Hello, Mr Gisbers." "Max will be back soon." "That's a shame, I need an advance." "Will 25 do?" "It's not going well, is it?" "Yes." "Can pigeons cry too?" "No, man's the only animal that vents emotions with moist eyes." "I'd like this." "What discount could I get?" "I don't know, I'd have to ask." "Do that first before you come and bore me." "Hey, Willie." "Hey, Max." "It's your fault that Laura lives with me now." "Let me help this lady." "What would you like?" "I'm already helping her." "But maybe she wants something else." "Unless you don't have that either." "If Laura hadn't moved in, I'd still have had my floor." "I agree, Willie." "Good." "Wait a minute, those are suitcases!" "Suitcases!" "Yes, indeed." "If you move in, I'll leave immediately!" "Come on, Max." "No, I'm serious." "It's just two suitcases." "We're not going to live together!" "Queen Beatrix has baptised the national yacht in Scheveningen harbour." "It's a 59 metre long schooner." "That makes it the largest Dutch sailing ship since many years." "The bottle of champagne didn't break right away." "The Queen needed a second attempt." "General Tassotti did well at the stock exchange." "The weather forecast for Thursday to Friday: periods of sunshine and cloudy." "Hardly any rain." "Afternoon temperature:" "22 degrees." "Max." "What?" "Do you know why I find you beautiful?" "Why?" "You're a little, ugly crocodile." "The little, ugly crocodile leaves the big hippopotamus behind here." "It's not rubber, it's not plastic, it's pigskin." "It's pig's stomach..." "Bladder." "Yes, pig's bladder." "And how much do they cost?" "14 cents each." "12 cents." "No, 14 cents." "13 cents." "No, 14 cents for 10,000 pieces." "You can also use them as a promotion for your customers." "They can put it in their eyes..." "What's going on here?" "I warned you." "I warned you, Willie." "I'm moving in." "Then I'm out of here." "That's a good idea." "Henk's place is available." "You think I'm bluffing, don't you?" "I'm not leaving this house before my place is empty." "And I won't live with your mess!" "WILLIE MOVES IN WITH MAX" "You probably think I won't go." "I'll show you I'm leaving." "I'm not going to live together." "I'm out of here!" "See you!" "Max?" "What?" "Henk's keys." "Of course I'm bluffing, but you can't take shit from people." "Not even when they kick you out of your house." "Let's not fight." "I'm better at that than you." "Admit it." "Whatever you want." ""Whatever you want?"" "Did you have someone last night?" "Where?" "In your workshop." "No, I got fries for dinner." "I just felt like fries." "Don't you ever feel like fries?" "Get lost!" "Get lost?" "Ok, I'll confess." "I got myself some fries and..." "My God." "MAX MOVES IN WITH HENK" "But not for long." "MAX MOVES IN WITH HENK BUT NOT FOR LONG" "My God." "Can I say something?" "The fact that it came to this is because you can't take shit from people!" "Never take shit from people!" "Cheers!" "Cheers!" "At Max' party we were suddenly all together again." "Henk and Laura and Max and I." "Suddenly Henk was gone." "Laura understood right away." "My old bedroom." "I've done some thinking about Modigliani's woman." "I don't think she would have posed." "No, maybe she shouldn't have done it." "And suddenly Max was gone too." "Veronica, you're fired!" "And you, Henk, get out!" "Get out of my house!" "It's my house!" "Max was furious and demanded that I vacate his place within a day." "Suddenly, Max and Laura were gone." "Just in time for me to have a look myself." "A woman goes to the doctor." ""Doctor, I have a big problem."" ""What's the problem, little lady?"" ""Doctor, I can't keep my legs apart."" ""That's not a problem." "Just number them."" "Laura..." "Before I knew you, this was the woman of my life." "Come, I have to show you something." "Look what I brought for you." "The future." "Someone should take a picture of this." "In the end, I decided to get rid of Bonita." "You can't take shit from people, after all." "Hello, Laura." "We have customers, you know." "I'll be right there." "Of course, Willie was right about Bonita." "That animal's not a champion." "I knew that and so did you." "But when you're a real Leberman, you can't admit other people are right." "It's going wrong, isn't it?" "Afternoon temperature around 21 degrees, dropping towards the weekend." "This was the news." "Time for a mail pigeon update." "In San Juan de la Casa, Costa Rica, former Dutch pigeon Bonita... previously owned by Mr Gisbers, has become champion of Central America." "Pigeon Bonita has won an amount of 30,000 dollar... and a red Ford Cabriolet." "We wish Bonita all the best." "And now I'm the final shot." "Which means you're watching night fall over Amsterdam... and its hearts, broken or not."