"VIGOUR" "You keep driving but we're not getting anywhere." "No, we're not." "What's all that doing here?" "We'll have to push, Jeu." "The corpse can't wait any longer." "You'll push and I'll drive." "You hang off the back of the car, to make it heavier." "I'll step on it and we'll get out just like that." "Yes, we'll get out." "But my gloves will get dirty." "Take them off." "It's way too cold." "You said the corpse can't wait any longer." "One of us has to drive and I'm the only one who can." "With a driving licence that's been expired since the war." "And you still drive." "Since the war?" "There was no war here, Jo." "The Germans were offered cake and coffee here." "The more the land becomes hilly, the more people sided with the Germans." "My father used to say that." "We're not from here." "Go push." "I'm starting to smell her." "Thomas, come in." "Put something on your head." "It's no time to play." "You should be mourning." "Bert!" "Bert!" "Yes, I'm coming." "I'm telling you she worked herself to death." "That young and that sick, she wasn't strong." "Leave the graveyard married." "Only then the pigs and cows can stay." "She did the books." "She bought and sold." "Those two only worked." "Also on Sundays." "On Sundays, they worked to pay off the stables." "To pay off the bank." "And now he's on his own, all on his own." "Tons of debt, he has tons of debt." "He might sell the lot." "It's no life without a woman." "Leave the graveyard married." "Yes, you have to be married." "Never mind, mother." "Let me." "You can go." "She's having a nap." "You're too late." "We agreed on a time." "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." "Amen." "May she rest in peace." "And may the eternal light shine upon her." "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." "Amen." "The Lord wanted it this way." "It's the doctors' fault." "Come, go to work." "You'll forget faster." "What's the point?" "Without a wife, I won't get a new loan." "Without a new loan, I don't have a business." "What are you doing, mother?" "Everything has to go." "Cleaning up is best for you." "the business and Thomas." "Leave it be." "Bert, soup." "Daddy, I want to come." "Well, Thomas." "It's cold." "Quiet without your mother." "It's become quiet." "My mother isn't dead." "She'll always be my mother." "And I'll survive you all." "Then you'll all be in jars." "There'll be ten jars on the mantelpiece." "Good afternoon." "Bye." "Bye." "He's here." "Go to work." "Your animals are starving." "Self-pity." "Cut it out." "They're killing each other." "They've been doing it for twenty years." "There's the priest." "Yes, time goes fast." "It's been two months already." "How are you now, Bert?" "I still don't understand it, father." "Why, why so fast?" "Because the Lord wanted it." "He decides that." "Not us." "He." "Yes, it's not up to us." "Bert, you need a break." "No, Father, I don't leave the property." "That's a lot of ironing work." "Yes, for Gerard and for Huub and now also for Bert." "You like to iron." "Yes, I do, Father." "Nice shirts for everyone." "Imagine you don't feel good... and your shirt's not been ironed either." "That would be awful." "There's an agricultural fair in the big city... in a big building." "In..." "Yes, that big building." "What do you think, Bert?" "It's two hundred kilometres, Father." "That's impossible." "I have my animals." "I have Thomas." "No." "But that's what family's for." "Yes, we can look after the animals for a change." "No." "I have to think really long about that, Father." "I can't sleep." "I know, son, I know." "Don't worry anymore, just don't worry." "Will you join me?" "No, your father has to go away for a short while, tomorrow." "Just a short break." "You have to look after the animals." "Where are you going?" "To the big city." "To the agricultural fair." "Your father's going to buy a new plough." "Take me with you." "Is this one available, madam?" "Yes." "Do you have a cigarette for me?" "Yes." "How was your day?" "Busy." "I could see that." "Could you?" "And how was your day?" "Not too busy." "I'm a stranger here." "I'm always a stranger in this city and I live here." "Where do you live?" "Around 200 kilometres from here." "Ah, the countryside." "What did you say?" "The countryside." "I remember when I was a little girl, standing on one of those poles..." "My father was standing in front of me." "Open arms." "I jumped, stepped backwards and fell on the hard ground." "Camping at the farm." "I don't understand why you laugh like that." "Back then I cried." "I've been sitting here for too long." "I'm very busy." "Can I ask what you're going to do with those pictures?" "What do you mean?" "Can I get one?" "Sure, I can do that." "Where will you be tonight?" "In which hotel?" "I don't have a hotel." "Then I'll have to find you a hotel." "A good hotel." "Yes, please do that." "I'll pick you up and I'll show you the city." "I'll wait here for you." "This is what I mean when I say that I'm bored." "If you look around here, it's all terribly boring." "Why do you go here then?" "So as not to be alone in my studio for a while." "I don't know you, but it looks like you have enough people to talk to." "Not that many." "Hello, darling, how are you?" "You look good for a change." "I'm Sjors." "Bert." "Enjoy your meal." "Everything alright with your work?" "Working on new material?" "The thing is that Roos doesn't really know what she wants." "She thinks she's someone else." "A disagreement with the arts." "But I always say there is no good art and bad art." "Something's art or it's not." "Bad art doesn't count, so that only leaves good art." "I thought you were playing pool." "You're busy." "Non-figurative 1:" "Man with kale." "And plate." "And fork." "Are you leaving?" "Are you coming with me tonight?" "Come." "Bye, Sjors." "I'm sorry, it's taking me by surprise." "I'm a simple man." "I have to get used to you." "Do you often go to a hotel with a man?" "You think I'm a prostitute." "Yes." "You look a bit like those women you have to pay." "Ok, see me that way." "Just for tonight, just for you." "As long as it doesn't become too expensive." "If you're happy, you can tip me." "Good, money speaks more clearly than love." "But it's confusing with you." "You may mean more than just money." "There's something sad about you." "You're a beautiful woman." "Not more beautiful than you." "And as sad." "Aren't you with someone who loves you?" "You." "Are you here so you don't have to go back home?" "That's true." "Are you single?" "Yes." "Where do you live?" "On a very big boat." "I almost drown in it." "Are you with someone who loves you?" "She's disappeared." "Do you have children?" "A 9 year old son." "A real asshole." "Aren't you cold?" "I should make love to you, shouldn't I?" "I can't right now." "Tell me what I should do." "If only I didn't think so much." "That can kill you." "Never think too much." "I can't." "I can't touch you." "I wonder who you are." "I can't make love that quickly." "People who are alone too long do that." "Too long alone with themselves." "They're always way too fast." "And then they're alone for a long time again." "Hello, Sjors?" "I'm bored." "Are you coming?" "Roos?" "Hey, man!" "Sorry." "I just wanted to say hello." "You did it on purpose." "New subject?" "Walking men." "I see." "Walking smiling men." "Bert speaking." "Roos here." "Oh, it's you calling." "It's night here." "The pictures didn't work." "Oh, your voice." "How are you?" "Not bad." "When are you coming over?" "Soon." "I look forward to it." "Alright, tomorrow then." "That's fast." "I'll send Jeu and Jo." "Yes, ok." "Bye then." "Bye." "Too much grass between the pebbles." "That's a beautiful animal." "A very good pig." "Why, boys?" "We're having a party tonight, mother." "Why?" "Bert should tell you that himself." "Why, Bert?" "We're having a visitor, mother." "Who is it?" "A new lady." "A new mother." "Shut up." "That's good news." "Someone from here?" "Why not someone from here?" "She's from the big city." "I thought you bought a plough there." "Stop it or I'll hit you." "And where will she sleep?" "There's no room here." "It'll be alright, mother." "Leave the graveyard married, to someone from here... that would have saved you." "Get out or I'll pull your intestines out." "It's only for a short while, mother." "Then it doesn't mean much." "There's work to be done." "Thomas needs to be taken to school." "There's cooking to be done and cleaning." "She's our guest, mother." "Yes, for a short while." "My new mother's coming." "She's going to see the brass band with me." "With me alone!" "From the city?" "That's quite a change." "I'm glad I'm here." "So are we." "Are you going to help Bert?" "If he'll let me." "Time to roll up your sleeves." "They don't have a mother anymore." "What did you say?" "Didn't you know, Miss?" "Or Mrs, you tell me." "Just call me Roos." "I'm Roos Rozemond." "That's a good one." "And you do have a bit of a rosy mouth." "No jokes, gentlemen." "What did you just say?" "She worked very hard." "Very hard." "Very hard." "Yes, she worked herself to death." "She was in such pain." "Terrible pain." "My God, terrible." "What of?" "Brain tumour." "That's malignant." "Death is scary, isn't it?" "Death." "Yes." "Bert lives here." "I could have walked." "You'd never have found it." "You need to be a cab driver to find that." "Are you sure it's here?" "I don't see anybody." "But they see you." "Hello, you're the lady from the city." "I'm Thomas." "We were waiting for you." "We didn't know when you'd arrive." "My father will be back soon." "Where are you taking me?" "To grandma's room." "Who's that?" "Mother." "She's dead." "This is where you hang your clothes." "Have a seat." "I'll unpack." "You can help me." "When did your mother die?" "On New Year's Eve." "Look." "Beautiful?" "Yes." "My room's here." "Look, a beautiful plane." "Yes, beautiful." "How long have you been using those sheets?" "Grandma says I can let them dry." "Look, another plane." "Yes, nice." "Hello." "How are you?" "I'm glad I'm here." "But don't ask why." "Rest a bit here." "It's different from the city." "Better, much better." "Why didn't you tell me about your wife?" "Thomas just told me everything." "Yes, we have to get used to each other." "It needs time." "We're about to eat, at my brother's." "My sister-in-law's a good cook." "Why don't you hold me?" "I'm cold." "Ice-cold, on the inside." "Why didn't you tell me, in the hotel?" "Everything in due time." "Rest a bit first." "Do some drawing." "Maybe you can help us a bit, every now and then." "We're waiting for the new mother." "The new mother." "Are you coming?" "There we are." "My mother, Roos." "Hello, I'm Roos." "Welcome at the farm." "That's Luuk." "Roos." "Gerard." "Roos." "Hello, I'm Roos." "Is she lying there because she's sick?" "That's my sister." "She can't do anything." "But she's very sweet, right, guys?" "Especially for our guest." "You have to eat it all." "Bert picked it." "He had to be cleared anyway." "Ready for slaughter." "I slaughtered it." "Bert doesn't know how." "I can't slaughter, but I can topple a bull." "It's done all through." "Delicious." "What do you do for a living, Miss Roos?" "I paint." "Well, the doors here could do with a bit." "We'll have a nice family portrait soon." "My children are real assholes." "The tubes for artificial insemination... are smaller than my pink." "They cost a hundred guilders." "It's the best semen from America." "The best dairy cattle." "But Bert doesn't want that." "He wants it old-fashioned." "He just puts a bull on top and shoves it right in." "But how long can you keep doing that?" "It's delicious." "You remind me of those, you know... those postcards you can get everywhere, with a... naked girl on them with a big straw hat, on a horse." "She has the same blond hair and the same figure." "Thomas, home." "Thanks." "Have a nice evening." "Roos, are we going to the brass band tomorrow?" "Yes, tomorrow." "Go to bed." "Don't you bring him to bed?" "No, he gets all he needs." "He didn't see much of his mother." "Very friendly of you to come." "You build a business together." "It takes 12 years." "And finally, you've got the money." "We were supposed to start making trips." "Enjoy the colour TV." "The only luxury in the house." "The living room isn't used much." "We had a gas heater put in, but no time to enjoy it." "And then she died." "She died of a brain tumour." "Who knows how long it was there." "I can get so angry with those doctors... from the regional hospital I took her to." "We had had coffee together at 8:30 am." "As I walked out, she collapsed." "She fell as she watched me go outside." "She still said a few things." "My mother saw my wife collapse suddenly." "My mother called me." "I didn't know what I saw." "I said: "What are you doing?"" ""What are you doing?"" ""I don't know", she said." ""My leg's not working."" ""Nor is my arm."" ""I..." "I... can't do anything", she said." "They broke open her skull and removed the tumour." "I brought her there and I had to come back." "I had to leave her behind there." "I had to go back to the animals that we both loved so much." "We worked for the animals." "I had to milk cows." "After the operation I saw the doctor." ""How is it possible?", I asked." ""How can she have had that for so long?"" ""Maybe she was on the pill."" "The pill, the pill." "I went crazy." "I told the vet, right away." "You're the first one who listens." "I couldn't tell anyone." "Only the vet and you." "The vet was better for the animals than the doctors for the people." "The doctors treat us like animals, because we're only farmers." "I'm a simple man..." "I really like you." "I felt really good when I saw you for the first time." "We were happy. 12 years is a good marriage." "And now you're here." "And you listen." "You're the first." "Because you're from the city." "You can think." "The vet could think too." "He said:" ""Take her to the university hospital."" "I got her out." "It was very hard." "They just let you starve in that regional hospital." "First she was at home for two weeks." "With a splitting headache." "God, the pain she was in." "I missed this the most." "Come with me." "I can't hold out any longer." "We shouldn't do it, should we?" "No, we shouldn't." "Can we turn off the light?" "Yes." "A little light then." "Why so many heavy blankets?" "I've felt cold ever since." "Excuse me." "I ran out of steam." "You'd better go again." "Why?" "We shouldn't do it, really, and the little boy's listening." "Goodnight." "1, 2, 3 and 4." "Understood?" "Yes." "Now you." "Right hand." "It won't hurt you." "Come on." "I'm afraid." "Go in and make breakfast for Thomas." "That's nice for him." "I'll finish here on my own." "I've been doing that for the last year anyway." "My wife only helped feed the small animals." "Sorry." "You're better at painting than milking." "Who's that?" "Come in." "Hello, Miss Roos." "This used to be our spot." "We always smoked a cigarette here before we started working." "Smoking was her big passion." "If only she had smoked more." "She'd have enjoyed herself more." "She loved it." "One cigarette after another." "It doesn't seem very healthy." "It doesn't matter." "My aunt lived until 93." "She only ate the fat off the meat and sugar on her bread." "What kills you is worrying too much." "Not the food, the worrying." "Marie-Louise..." "You like talking about her, don't you?" "Because you don't protest." "Because you can listen." "Now I'm talking because the weather's nice." "When it gets colder, farmers talk less." "We talk with the seasons." "When Marie-Louise was still alive, she mainly talked." "We called her Brains, because she thought." "She thought and I acted." "She sold and she bought the land." "But I could topple a bull." "She couldn't." "This stable was her pride." "The television was her pride." "But the horses were my pride." "And the rain installation." "The child was our pride, of course." "In the university hospital, they said: "Your wife died ten minutes ago."" "She was very calm." "There was no agony, they said." "Button." "That one?" "Yes, that one." "Daddy!" "Don't look at me like that." "Rose and I are going on a bike ride this afternoon." "Leave Roos alone." "She doesn't want to go on a bike ride." "I'll go with him." "Thomas, Roos doesn't want to go." "Go play upstairs..." "in your room." "Bloody hell." "Take it easy, Thomas." "After we sleep, we'll go for a bike ride." "Never mind." "Close the eyes for a bit." "We used to live here, when I was little." "A beautiful place for a studio." "What is that?" "It's a place where you can be alone and where you can draw." "I'll come and draw with you." "What are you doing here?" "I'm not bad at school, but my dad thinks I don't need it." "What do you want to be when you grow up?" "A farmer?" "No, never." "A cab driver or a paramedic." "What do you want to become?" "Mother?" "You don't become that." "It just happens." "Do you miss your mother?" "No, I hated her." "She used to work all day." "And your father?" "I don't know." "And your grandmother?" "Stupid woman." "Sometimes I hit her, because she's so stupid." "And what do you think of me?" "Don't ask so much." "Look here." "Rabbits playing cards." "I'll be over there." "Nice work, isn't it?" "Yes, beautiful." "Maybe a nice gift for your wife?" "But what does it cost?" "It's affordable art and it's washable." "Goes well with wallpaper, unless you have a modern design." "But in that case, you can use those white frames." "It's also clear what it is." "It's a farmer with two horses in a beautiful landscape." "With modern art, you think it's a tree and I think it's the sea." "This can be enjoyed together." "Give me a break." "Isn't that what it's made for?" "You wouldn't want to all enjoy the same thing." "Don't you like that?" "Do you want to buy it?" "I can give you one of my paintings." "Don't you like them?" "Yes... yes, I do." "But you can't see what it is." "This here is... no?" "Yes, nothing is what it seems." "East, west, home's best." "We're going home." "Cookies." "Must have taken some getting used to, Miss Rozemond." "Yes," "You can't get used to it." "Have you met madam yet?" "Who do you mean?" "That one, in the jar." "The little black jar." "I hadn't noticed." "My God, is that necessary?" "Why didn't they spread her ashes over one of her fields?" "She still wouldn't have any peace." "She's got peace here." "She's fine here." "Yes, I can tell that she's still here." "You should do something about that, Rose." "I'd do something about it." "What?" "Put her out on the land." "She'll start working again." "Sick." "Today, the sun shines." "I love the sun." "Lord, help me." "I'm glad Bert and Thomas are here." "I love Thomas." "I love Bert." "Why me, Lord." "How can Bert go on?" "Headache's getting worse." "Thomas was very sweet today." "Am in lots of pain." "How much longer, dear God?" "Why are you doing that?" "To get closer to you." "Come on, Roos, don't bother." "You're beautiful." "Don't you want to know anything about me?" "Yes, you're just different." "Maybe a bit too beautiful." "Not really practical." "This was our spot." "She'd always lie here." "Every Sunday." "Until she got those terrible headaches." "That goes too fast for me." "I don't get that." "I don't understand it." "They're not from here, clearly." "Funny." "It's just normal Dutch." "What?" "Why don't you read me a book?" "Do you ever read?" "Who, me?" "I've never read a book." "Never?" "No, never." "I can do this." "Watch." "Here, 120 kilos." "Your turn." "Push." "I'm pushing." "Push!" "You can't do it." "You don't get it." "Ouch, my hair." "Boy, such vigour!" "What's wrong with you?" "Come here." "Don't get sick." "Not in this house." "What's wrong with you?" "Talk to me." "Did I do anything wrong?" "What's wrong?" "Did I say something wrong?" "Go and wash a bit." "Shouldn't we talk?" "What kind of talk?" "Just a practical talk." "We've had enough time for fun." "I can get a new loan from the bank, but I need a woman." "To work and pay it off." "Or else I can sell it all." "Just get work with someone or lease out your milk quota." "Marie-Louise and I worked for 15 years to build the business... but you're so unclear to me." "I'm here, ain't I?" "That should be enough for you." "Why are you here?" "I don't know what you want." "I don't know." "Me don't understand." "I'm talking about a child and you about a loan." "I'm pregnant." "Hadn't you noticed?" "Of course you didn't notice." "I guess your wife was never pregnant." "She was never sick." "She was so healthy." "That's why she worked herself to death." "Shut up!" "I already have a child, damnit." "What were you thinking?" "Another mouth to feed?" "You seduced me." "That's it!" "And I can pay for it." "No, don't you dare." "Don't you dare, filthy slut!" "Hello Sjors, can you come and get me?" "Man, it's 12 pm." "Can you come and get me today?" "I'll explain later." "Yes." "Alright." "Hello, Father." "Miss Rozemond." "I thought..." "I have this problem." "There's so much separating me and Bert." "And the family and everything." "Listen, Madam." "Miss." "It's a strange family." "Those brothers together." "Strange?" "Let's put it this way..." "I understand Bert." "It was a one-night stand." "What do you mean?" "I was serious about it." "It's for real." "I love Bert." "If only he didn't always feel guilty." "We've done it everywhere: attics, haylofts, fields." "Real love doesn't happen in places like that." "You made it difficult for him." "Of course it was just a one-night stand." "Besides, in that family, love doesn't amount to much." "Nonsense, one-night stand." "Me a one-night stand." "What kind of term is that anyway, one-night stand." "Go back to the city, Miss." "That's where you belong." "I don't even want to think about it." "Never." "Not again." "You look like my mother, but you aren't her." "Who am I to you then?" "My father's hired help." "It's no good." "It's over." "That's enough fresh air for you." "What's wrong?" "Did you catch a cold?" "What happened?" "Thomas, come." "Roos!" "Roos!" "Oh girl..." "This can't be... my God." "Why?" "Slaughter the animals." "Get lost!" "She was the only one who listened to me." "Hello, young man." "Does Roos live here?" "Hello, I'm here for Roos." "If you're angry Pick a rose" "It's better than in a jar." "Also for the surviving relatives." "She doesn't have any." "Then we should bring here a rose, every now and then." "She's at peace here, she's fine here." "That remains to be seen, Jo, that remains to be seen."