"Florida Street..." "Artery, market, the fair that you want." "A luxurious and miserable carnival where everything is confusing and everything is known." "Narrow street of wide vanities." "Nervous artery where nothing stops and everything happens.." "And, yet, among that neverending crowd that walks and walks..." "There is somebody that carries a seal, a denouncing scar." "Among them... the girls of Florida Street..." "the joyful little birds of those golden cages among people between silk, brights and colors frequently bury the blue illusions, dreamed the previous night in mother's home in the sad neighborhood" "A seller..." "Her name?" "like many!" "Her Soul?" "Like a few...!" "ALCIRA... ..." "Lidia Liss" "Another seller." "Elsa... ..." "Leonor Alvear" " Hey, Elsa.. here is Roberto" "Amancio Lamberti, the manager ...CESAR ROBLES" "MANAGEMENT" "Mr. Jaime Lapadul, the owner ...AUGUSTO GONSALBES" " Go to Management" "DIRECTOR's OFFICE" "I don't think that you will be a good lover..." "What do you intend..?" "To do with her... what you did to me..?" "And later, as in all afternoons, the goodbye of the fellow workers..." "the reunion with the boyfriend..." "And even later, the modest dinner in the humble pension house, the silly talk of the things of the day." " I don't have time mom..." "The manager asked me to go earlier..." "We are delayed with the job..." " My poor daughter!" "She works even at night so I will have everything." " Madame..." "Your daughter has arrived!" "And in the new day... again the return to the cage." " Don't worry..." "I'll see and talk to the manager" " Sir..." "You can't ignore that Pedro is the only income of his poor mother..." "That's why I would like to ask you a favor." "Don't forget that it is upon you any request..." "At first I didn't want to let her know..." "I simply thought that it was only a pastime for your son." " But these girls have so many tricks, and I fear that your son Jorge will forget the class difference..." "And that same night" " I'm deeply sorry Miss Alcira, but it is an order of the owner... and you understand, I..." "However, I could do something for your." "It depends..." " That's despicable..." "You would have done the same with me if I..." "TREASURE DEPARTMENT" " I was fired" "I don't know; according to the manager by your father's order..." " Is it true that Alcira has been fired..?" " Why?" "Are you interested in that employee?" " That employee..." "is my girlfriend..!" "And you dare to say it, at my face?" " And do you think that after my sacrifices to give you a social position, I will allow you to marry one these vulgar girls?" " "Vulgar girls"." "No, dad!" "She works..." "and somebody like her, orphan and free, works from morning to night to have an honest living... is not vulgar!" "And, perhaps, do you know her past..?" " I don't care for her past." "I see the present and I want a future with her." " Enough!" "..." "For now, you must know that I will never allow such crazy thing." "And that same night..." "In the humble bedroom of a distant neighborhood, a soul, a good soul, was crying in the silence." "The following morning" "Dear father:" "A painful duty of conscience forces me to leave you to go with a good lady that for loving too much, for being good and honest, has been placed in desperation and failure." "Your son that will always love and respect you." "Jorge" "Sunlights also reach sad houses." " Me!" "You see..!" "Now and forever..!" " Oh, no !" "It can't be..!" "Your father..." "all... all would regret this..." " But you silly fool..." "Don't you see that on top of all complaints there is something more important, and that is "love"...?" "Love... mother of jealousy... of that regretful jealousy that could make us feel erroneously selfish." "And so, among love, selfishness, jelousy and regrets many days passed by" "It is too difficult to get a job..." "You know, I'm rejected everywhere because I have no recommendation." "It was useless..." "In all places the same: "No jobs!"" "And for the very first time in his life he was scared to that life that up to that point had provided happiness to him." "And since then, long nights, very long ones..." "And one morning, one of those mornings in which tempers are weakened due to a bitter night..." "Jorge decided to look for his father's help." " We have to have and need an excuse to keep Jorge..." "After all, you know, he is my son." " But, do you think that he will agree to leave that woman..?" " What I think, is that that lady shouldn't be so bad..." "It seems that she loves my son." " Precisely..." "I think that you are right... and if you allow me, I will personally try to resolve the issue." " Tell me Miss Juana... if I'm right you live close to Mister Jorge's home..." "Good will raises mountains... and shortly after, Jorge Lapadul was useful working man." "You will be surprised with this vist..." "Right?" "But issues related to Jorge forced me to come." " Dear Alcira..." "You won't ignore that Jorge..." "He can't continue this unconfortable life of misery and depravations for which he was never prepared." " Haven't you thought that tomorrow, when Jorge realizes that he had easily sacrificed his life and career... will hate and leave the guilty one?" " And not because of his sacrifice, but also because of his father's... that old man who is sadded to learn about the miseries of the son that he loves so much." " And don't forgert that when this son has understood that he has insulted his own father, he will never be able to forgive and excuse the guilty one of his misery..." "Alcira, Alcira!" "..." "Jorge is brought injured..!" "You..." "What are you doing here?" "What evil do you pretend to do nor..?" "When things annoy or make you tired, have to be eliminate." "That's what Amancio Lamberti may have thought because the following day... when Juana arrived into the office..." "He won't be able to work for awhile." "He is very weak and needs to be attended and, if possible, a good stay in the country." "Dear Alcira:" "Touched because of this afternoon tragedy, because of his will to do good, Jorge has suffered an accident." "I ask you, in the name of his father, to leave him alone before something painful happens." "He is not ready for this kind of life." "Come to see me to put an end to this; you are the responsable of all his misery..." " Sir..." "It seems that..." "You know?" "Jorge was working this afternoon and then... an accident..." " I'm going to the manager's home and with that to spoil my life... it is fate... there is no option..." " My son!" " I had to tell you that she went to the house of the manager." "According to him, she was the responsable of breaking the relationship with you... the cause of all Jorge's miseries." "For that reason..." " Yes;" "I knew something... she is willing to leave Jorge forever... to make him happy and make him go back to you..." "Sir..." "It is necessary that tomorrow, tonight if possible, that Jorge goes back to his father." "But... for that... definitively, you must abandon Jorge..." "I'm ready..." "I can take the sacrifice..." "The important thing is that Jorge is safe." " And what will happen to you now..?" "Alone in the world, without money, without help..." "I don't know..." "I'll go anywhere..." "far... quite afar..." " You see... you are my prisoner." " I did it!" "..." "That man has spoiled my life..." "He made a toy of me, for his whims." "That's why I killed him... for me..." "for all of us... for her... whom he wanted to spoil." "Like me." "Now..." "God will have to say if I did right." "And a long time later, after new springs arrived..." "I have the pleasure to introduce to you our new manager." "And this lady, the future secretary." "THE END English version by Jorge Ruben Finkielman"