"How long has she been in there?" "Almost three days." "Did you have an argument?" "No, Grace, it's a positive decision." "I wouldn't be surprised if she came out a changed woman." "You have to die a bit first to be able to make a new start." "I'd call a doctor." "Don't disturb me." "Everything has to be more and more eccentric." "This is quite normal in India." "Tibetan monks..." "It's also normal in the Netherlands." "It also happens in catholic convents." "But Eva has a family." "A baby even!" "We both look after her." "Right, darling?" "Do you miss mummy a lot?" "She'll come out again." "She won't last." "She hasn't got the stamina." "She's living off her pregnancy fat." "You're all so quick to judge things you don't know." "Do you think she shits in there too?" "Go home!" "Go home!" "When we sit outside late in the evening, watching the stars... and we're all quiet, how does that make you feel?" "Nice and quiet." "Yes, nice and quiet." "I think mummy wants that a couple of evenings in a row." "Can you change her diaper?" "I have to go to the course." "Don't forget to turn the compost and feed the chickens." "Does 'Caesarean' get a capital?" "Were you born through a Caesarean?" "Yes, mummy was afraid she'd tear open." "It was a cold winter's day when the doctor stuck his hands in mum's belly... and pulled me into the world." "Mum was glad to be rid of me." "Isn't it a bit obvious to start your autobiography with your birth?" "Isn't it obvious to use your mother's death as a reason to clean the place up?" "Maria, could you empty this cabinet?" "That Caesarean holds the key to my career." "Choose a partner and decide who's A and who's B." "Are you A?" "Alright, we can start." "And now..." "Yes, Wiebe?" "You're forgetting something important, Carla." "It's very important never to abandon your partner during the exercise." "Yes, thank you, Wiebe." "It's very important that, after you've started..." "That Caesarean was the gateway to the stage." "I've always hoped that one day mummy would be in the audience." "Her face among all those anonymous..." "Maria, don't stomp around." "Walk properly." "I'm not supposed to say it, but I'm relieved mummy's dead." "Eva would say "my inner child's over the moon"." "She has to walk properly." "I'll work upstairs." "Maria, darling, you have to walk properly, it's not that hard." "You're heavy, but you don't have to be inelegant." "Hold yourself upright." "Do as I do." "As if your tied to the ceiling." "Let the pressure roll off your feet." "Go practice." "Can you help me take this cabinet outside?" "No, I have to meet a deadline." "Maria, can you..." "Make your body heavier..." "and heavier." "Wiebe!" "And heavier." "Am I interrupting?" "We're trying to move a cabinet and we both have back problems." "Could you give us a hand?" "Keep relaxing." "And while you get even heavier..." "I count to three." "And at three, you're completely..." "Sorry," "That used to be my great-granddad's." "Careful with that lamp." "It used to belong to my grandmother." "Beautiful lamp." "Did we reach the step?" "Yes, almost." "Wait a moment." "You go first, Marie." "Careful with that chair." "Hold it lower." "Come... very good." "The cabinet smells nice." "It smells of the past, doesn't it?" "A la recherche du temps perdu." "You remember so much when you do these kind of things." "Memories from when I was really young." "Pat!" "That's exactly what I'm doing in the garage." "Then you realise that it's a memory." "But that in reality you have an adult body." "And that you're laying on the floor of the garage." "You let the memory fade away... into the past." "I'm 4 years old and I'm tiny... and mummy told me to see if daddy was coming." "So I go on the balcony... and I don't see anything at all." "So I want to go inside again." "But the balcony doors are closed." "Mummy closed the balcony doors." "But I want to go inside and it's cold." "So I bang on the door." "Mummy!" "Mummy!" "Mummy!" "Let me in!" "Obrigada... si." "Si... obrigada." "Fernando, no, no, no." "Well done, Patty." "But now you have a magic wand." "Now you can change anything you want." "I'm very big." "I'm very big and..." "I also have really big shoes." "And I kick the balcony door open!" "Good." "Bam!" "There's mummy and there's cake." "And she says you that you can change this bad memory... to a positive memory." "You give yourself a new experience... that can be as wild, as positive, as fantastic as you want." "Exaggerate it as much as you can." "And we have cake." "Beautiful." "And we never run out of cake." "The cake's really good." "Now you float slowly along." "And you become completely relaxed." "Your feet become heavy." "Your calves." "Your thighs." "And you sink slowly into the ground." "Go ahead." "Heavier and heavier." "Come in quickly, Wies." "Come, I'll be a little bit longer." "You sink further and further into the ground." "You've become really advanced." "I like to help people." "Here I am." "Wies..." "I really enjoy doing exercises with you... as spiritual partners." "You should give courses yourself." "I'd take a course with you right away." "Maybe we should give them together." "As spiritual partners?" "This would be a great course room, by the way." "But it's not possible." "Why not?" "It's her house." "She's very much against change and personal development." "That's a shame." "She should live in the garage and you here." "If you don't use this area, you lose your right to it." "Eva said that too, the other day." "You're very dependent on your partner." "Not at all." "I think it's great that she's in that hole." "It seems quite something to get into that hole." "Very impressive." "But it's much harder to stay spiritual when you're doing housework." "Looking after the children, the animals, the garden." "If I can ever help you with anything, you should tell me." "Have you finished your homework, Toto?" "No." "You're supposed to do your homework." "Yes." "But you haven't finished!" "That's because I have her here!" "Why haven't you finished and why does it stink here?" "Lila shat her diaper and you're supposed to look after her." "I also have to do my homework and turn over the compost." "Patty?" "I graduated in 1979, ten years after that incest affair with the neighbour." "And mummy committed suicide just before that." "Because she couldn't handle my success." "But when did I have that abortion then?" "She was still alive." "She said she'd also wanted to abort me." "But I can't have had an abortion just before graduating." "I didn't just have an abortion when I was playing Ophelia." "Oh, I remember!" "I had another abortion." "When I was 16." "That's it!" "I'm glad I remember now." "I'm coming!" "Yes, darling, wait..." "Max, come down!" "She swore she'd always be faithful to me." "Faithful?" "She was faithful in her heart..." "Faithful to herself." "Uncle Max bought a new buddy." "A sweet little doggie, named Liflafje." "Look..." "We'll sit down here." "Look at that beautiful doggie." "Look at that doggie." "Isn't that nice?" "He'll be very big and so will you." "Wiebe, should I leave the living room empty, as a symbol of my inner self?" "Now that I've let go of the past and of mummy." "That would make a very good course room." "If you ever want to swap..." "Swap?" "What do you think, Grace?" "The asparagus are ready!" "Just get them from the plate." "I don't like those poisoned greens." "They're from our own garden." "Yes, that's why." "This one's for the cook." "There's mummy." "I'm joining a convent." "A convent?" "You're bloody insane, Eva Vorsselmans!" "Can you never act like a normal person?" "You think you're Jesus Christ himself!" "You always have to be better than the rest!" "Sure, Eva, you're the most spiritual of all!" "You're the Saint of Hertenkamp." "You're the Creator's pet!" "Can you at least answer me?" "I'm not talking for fucking nothing!" "Jesus, a convent." "For a week, of course." "No, I think she has a calling." "Who called her then?" "That's not funny, Grace." "I'm not being funny." "Called by whom?" "God?" "Allah?" "Sai Baba?" "She'll probably get some wellness deal at a beauty convent." "Max, go check on them." "She's really going to join a fucking convent!" "Unbelievable how people can change." "That's what keeps me going." "Although I wonder how serious this is." "Have you been living here for long?" "You could say that." "Maybe I should leave too." "I'm getting fed up here." "As if I've been here too long." "As if I've reached the end." "Nice of you to inform me that's it's been too long." "Have you also been with me too long?" "I mean it may be time for change." "Change?" "Destruction!" "Where did you get the idea that it's been too long?" "Patty, if you're honest, it's true." "I thought we were going to grow old together." ""Too long", what the hell does that mean?" "Toto speaking." "Hey, Chan-Chan-Li!" "Would she take Lila with her?" "No, she wouldn't dare." "If she does that, I'll sue all those fucking catholic nuns." "Calm down, Wiebe." "Quiet, Liflaf." "Wiebe, can I have dinner at Chan-Chan-Li's place tonight?" "Chan-Chan-Li?" "Sure, ask them to adopt you too." "You don't have a mother anymore." "Can't you understand her a bit?" "No way, I don't buy it." "If she doesn't try, she'll never find out." "I'd like to know what's so special that she saw there." "She's not going to die, Wiebe." "This is even worse." "She throws away everything we've created together." "She forgets about all our principles because of what she saw in that hole." "But she's already sworn to be faithful." "To me." "Today I have in front of me Toto Vorsselmans and Chan-Chan-Li." "Son of Hendrik Wiebe Vorsselmans and Eva..." "But there will be moments when things go less well." "That is when you have to love each other the most."