"Come on, do it!" "Jump!" "My last attempt to join a group... led me to a leap into the hospital." "It's not so easy, to form group" "In every group of friends there are always six types of people:" "the leader, the hansome one, the smart one, the indispensable one, the 2nd leader who would be leader if there wasn't a leader, and the girl." "And for now, who are we?" "I'm the leader, and you're 2nd leader." "The most difficult thing will be to find the girl..." " What do you think?" "She's a bit thin." "If we could get her to join, she'd be the perfect girl for the group." "It'll be the first year that I don't receive a rose." "Jordi told me you're already in the group." "Yes, it's nice, thank you." "Now you just need three more, to find the rest of the group." "What's your name?" "Move on, kid." "I have a full gang of mates." "I don't want any more friends." "Where did you find this asshole?" "in a pack of idiots?" "If for a leader like Lleó, it'sdifficultto make friends in hospital, imagine how difficult it must be for a child in a coma." "Therefore, I have to take advantage of the visits from those who are like me," "Between life, and death." "Hello!" "Hello." "They're trying to bring me back..." "Yes, and they attempt it with many people, eh!" "Do you want to join me?" "Within 2 seconds of meeting Jordi," "I already knew why Lleó chose him as the 2nd leader of the Bracelets." "Jordi was one of those boys who everybody wanted to be friends with." "See you around." "Goodbye." "We have him." "Thank you for helping me get back." "I want you to be part of our group." "You must be the indispensable one." "I really like the hospital, because the day begins very early." "You never have the feeling of wasting time, the other way round, the day escapes from you." "The only downside..." "is that problems also come sooner." "I do not know if you've noticed it, but there are people in your life who communicate with you, in a different way." "as if they were a spiritual soul mate." "Ignasi, what do you need?" "Ignasi..." "Ignasi..." "Ignasi!" "Ignasi...!" "Ignasi!" "What's happened?" "Ignasi?" "What's wrong?" "Ignasi...!" "Please, ma'am, wait outside for a moment." "Please, wait outside, we need some room." "I'm going to put in a line." "Have you called the doctor yet?" "Yes, I've already informed him." "What's the matter." "Charge the pads..." "He's in fibrillation." "Stand clear... charging... now." "Ok, he's stabilized..." "Alright, bring nitric AC urgently, please." "Urgently, come on, go, go, go..." "Ignasi..." "Hey, look at me, Ignasi." "Please, wait here, we'll keep you informed." "Now, tell me the positions that we've filled and those still free," "You're the leader, I'm co-leader..." "What balls!" "You're the most egocentric guys I've met." "Are you sure you don't need anyone else on your staff?" "Maybe... the leader's assistant, or the co-leader's assistant's assistant..." "Gavina, what don't you understand..." "It's clear, we're the best for the positions." "You were saying, leader!" "Continue, co-leader." "Thanks, leader." "Cristina is the girl..." "Sure, that's only because you couldn't assume this position." "Otherwise, one would be the girl, and other the co-girl." "Ignore her, she's jealous because she's not "the girl"." "Go on." "And then we have the lastest signing." "Ah..." "Roc, who's the indispensable one" "Uhhh!" "Damn phantom pain!" "Ignore it." "The less attention you pay to it, the faster it'll go away." "I'm trying that, eh." "But it doesn't work, it hurts." "It doesn't exist, so don't speak to me about something that doesn't exist." "Right, tell me who's missing" "What is he?" "Your secretary?" "It's quite clear who's missing, I can tell you myself." "You lack, the handsome and the clever one." "Two adjectives that clearly you can't award yourselves." "Can you?" "Holy shit!" "There is phantom pain, like I said!" "Oh, yeah, just like my sister." "Ok, we'll sort it out this very day, eh?" "we must choose the remaining members." "Which do you want to handle, the handsome or the smart one?" "Let's look for both, perhaps this way we'll have more luck." "Or maybe we could make a bet, to see who finds them first." "Right, 10 euros." "There's no doubt you need cash for the leg... but alright then, it'll be fun." "I don't know what you're planning, but whatever it is, it'll have to wait." "You have to have a CT scan." "Who?" "You, Lleó?" "Dammit, isn't it possible to have a business meeting," "I want privacy, I need a screen." "A screen?" "Let's go, I'll accompany you." "No, stay here with Jordi, until his mother comes." "I'm okay." "This phantom pain, it's nothing." "I know, but look, I'm the leader and I give the orders." "She'll take care of you, come on, see you later." "Good luck co-leader!" "Good Luck leader!" "Goodbye Gavina." "Bye, leader!" "Is he always in such a good mood?" "Yes, Lleó is Lleó." "I like him." "Me too." "Being roommates, is like getting a new brother." "It's difficult to explain this relationship." "But when you live through it, it becomes something special." "I'll get the contrast." "Don't move, eh?" "Bring me red." "That way it'll seem like having a Caribbean cocktail." "Okay." "They didn't have red, but this one also looks like a powerful cuba-libre, right?" "Yes... it looks like it." "What's wrong with that guy?" "Who?" "It's the "lip" from the other day, isn't it?" "The petulant one." "Yes, yes, yes." "He had a cardiac arrest this morning." "I think it's the second one." "Now they'll give him a CT scan." "Earlier I heard the doctors talking, and if it's the ventricles, he's screwed." "Do you know if he's clever?" "I've no idea, what I do know, is that he's a bit of a bad sort." "Yeah, yeah..." "Can you drink it all?" "Yeah, sure." "There's nothing I like more, than a good green contrast in the early morning." "It looks like pure Kryptonite." "Eeugh..." "Come on, Superman!" "Does it hurt?" "No" "Hey, are you sure it's alright..." "Is it possible to remove it?" "Yes, yes, this way he'll be able to go in the wheelchair... and the hospital corridors." "You'd like that eh, Dani?" "Toni..." "I'm called Toni." "Are you a doctor?" "No, not exactly, I am a Resident." "What's a Resident?" "A Resident is like a starter doctor." "And why don't I have a real doctor?" "Because I'm different?" "No, no, because I take charge of the minor things." "And this is minor for a doctor, but for me it's important, understand?" "Don't mind him, he's only kidding." "Just kidding." "So, how did the accident happen?" "The police came yesterday, didn't they?" "Yes... yes..." "I don't know..." "They want to take custody from me 'cos of all this with the bike, but..." "I don't know exactly why." "In addition, Toni manages very well, even better than me." "Isn't that so, Toni?" "When will you bring the wheelchair?" "Does it have a motor?" "Will I be able to do 200 on it?" "Sometimes it takes me a while to understand these jokes." "Hello." "Hello." "Come on." "Are you still eating breakfast?" "Yes, looks like it." "How are you?" "Well, with the phantom pain it hurts a bit, but I try to ignore it." "What phantom pain are you talking about?" "Nothing, it's just that..." "I feel the leg without having it." "But it's a strange thing..." "because I don't feel the leg," "I feel the big toe, knee and foot..." "It's as if I was feeling it in pieces." "And is this normal?" "I don't know." "but it hurts, it's like It's demanding attention." "Also, I can't let anyone sit down where my leg would have been." "I know it's silly, but, I can't help it, it hurts." "Lleó says, in order to stop it hurting, I have to forget about it." "Well, Lleó knows a bit about this, doesn't he?" "Yes... but it's strange that something hurts you that isn't there." "Well, not so strange." "I feel that I'm overweight but people say it isn't noticable." "But I don't know, I see myself as fat." "You're fat?" "But how can you say that?" "Look..." "you see something that doesn't exist, and I see things that people say don't exist either." "We're the same, it's like an apparition." "Aren't you eating the apple?" "No, do you want it?" "Don't you have to eat it yourself?" "Until I eat it, they won't allow me to go." "Where did you want to go?" "To search for two more, to finish forming the group." "Well, until I finish it, we're screwed." "Thanks." "Are you new to this club?" "Very funny." "You're the bald cripple from the other day, aren't you?" "How can anyone drink this." "Yeah, goddamn contrasts." "I've always wondered what colour it should actually be." "I don't believe it's this colour." "I think they change the colour to make us drink it." "Well, maybe the colour is cool, but the taste is horrible." "And..." "what's it for?" "It's a contrast for when they do the CT scan on you." "To illuminate the areas they want to look at, or something like that." "I've already tried four different colours, and I think I'll write a book:" ""How to drink a contrast and not die in the attempt"" "What happened to you, this morning?" "These morons say that I've had a heart attack." "At your age?" "That's a bit early, isn't it?" "Afterwards one of the doctors told my father, that maybe it's a problem with the ventricles." "And if it's that... it's not too good." "Well, the CT scan will find out." "but I'm sure it's not that, eh?" "Let's drink to it being nothing?" "Do you want to be part of a group?" "Of a what?" "Of a group that we're forming in the hospital, want to join?" "I told you the other day that I wouldn't be here very long, furthermore... if everyone in the group is like you..." "I'll pass." "What's wrong with us?" "Cripples." "You son of a bitch!" "From him with the fucked up ventricles." "Hey, that still isn't known." "Besides, I just wanted to know whether they're like you." "Then yes, there's another one like me." "Then I'll pass." "Very well, we don't want you either, eh, jackass!" "Yeah, whatever..." "Come on boys, you can come in now." "I do not know if you've ever noticed, how some people communicate with you in a different way, like a spiritual soul mate." "Hello." "Hello." "How can you talk without opening your mouth?" "Yes..." "You have a really cool voice." "I really like people who speak in such a serious manner." "What are you doing here, Tony?" "I'm talking to... what's your name?" "Roc, he says his name's Roc." "That's a nice name." "When I was little, I had a hamster called Croqueta." "They don't sound much alike, but I like it all the same." "Come on, leave Roc to rest." "Even more?" "but he says he's had enough of resting." "One moment..." "He says, that I have to look for a certain Jordi or Lleó... who are looking for people in hospital to form a group." "Do you know where they are?" "How do you know there names?" "Have you met them already?" "No, Roc told me." "Roc?" "It's a long time since I've talked to anybody." "It felt great, and good, to communicate again with someone alive." "I realized what I was missing." "What are you doing?" "What?" "She's my sister, don't take any notice, Jordi." "Nurse!" "Now I'm glad not to have brothers." "Do you know this is Cristina's breakfast?" "Do you?" "Do you know why she has to eat it?" "Carol, He only wanted to help me." "Quiet, Cristina." "I'll speak to you later." "Look, I don't know who you are and I don't know what you want, but if I catch you again eating any thing from Cristina's plate," "I'll speak with your parents and you'll be punished like never before." "It was just a piece of apple." "Cristina is sick and apple is her medicine." "You're eating her medicine, can you understand this?" "I hadn't thought of that..." "Well, think before you act." "I'll never again eat anything more from her plate, I promise." "It's not that you don't eat," "It's that you have to try to get her to eat too." "She's been ill a long time and..." "my parents don't know what to do." "Look, if you really want to be her friend, you have to undernstand that on issues of food you can't be flexible." "Can I go back to her?" "Yes, but if I catch you eating again, prepare yourself, eh?" "But if it's my food I can eat it, can't I?" "Yes, if it's yours you can." "Hey, I'd already eaten some, this isn't fair!" "You already know why Cristina, because you were giving it to him." "We're ready for you now, Lleó" "At last." "What up?" "Let's go man!" "Now lie here, and put your head there." "Now I'll put this on you..." "Excuse me..." "are you my son's doctor?" "Who's your son?" "Ignasi Riera." "This morning he had a heart attack." "Are you his mother?" "Yes, I married his father." "Ignasi's mother died when he was little." "Ah..." "I'm sorry." "Yes, so he's now your son." "By the way..." "Don't you dance?" "Haven't I seen you in the theater." "Yes, I was a dancer." "Excuse me, but there's something I don't understand." "How can such a young boy have heart attacks?" "This is what we want to find out." "They're doing a test on him now to see if it's a problem related to an anomaly in the ventricles." "And if it is?" "If it is, your son should avoid any exertion until we operate on him, otherwise he might have another attack." "But it would be operable?" "It's a risky operation, but let's hope it's not that." "I'd prefer that it wasn't." "Yeah... and if it's not that, what could it be?" "I don't know, we'll do more tests." "we'll speak tomorrow when I pass by his room, to discuss the test result." "I have to go to theater now." "Very well..." "Wait five minutes, Lleó, and we'll give you..." "Joana!" "One day you'll catch me naked!" "I've seen you naked, Lleó." "When?" "When I do X-rays and CT scans." "We see you up to the esophagus." "And my esophagus?" "Is it big?" "It's okay." "You like it, eh?" "When you get older, you'll become a danger." "I am a danger." "And what were you saying?" "Ah, that you need to wait a moment because they'll give you the results and you take them to the oncologist." "You're wrong, Joana." "They told me there'd be three more weeks of traumatology before returning to oncology." "No, I don't think so." "If the mass that you have in the lung has grown, you'll have to return this week to oncology." "Dammit, you're not shitting me?" "I'm Sorry." "When they bring you the envelope, you give it to the doctor." "And don't look at it before because I know you." "Perhaps the mass is stable and... that'll leave 3 more weeks to you without chemo, understand?" "Can you tell me if the tumor has grown?" "It's just that..." "I haven't done the report." "They're doing it now." "And you know we can't say what's in it, those are the rules." "Yeah... rules." "Wait a moment." "If you had an envelope like this, you could open it and then close it." "Of course... you'd have to find an envelope like this..." "Thanks." "Thanks for what?" "Do you know what to look for?" "Yes, it's very easy." "You always make it very clear and in boldface." "I just want to ask you for one thing in return, Lleó?" "It may be a crime, eh?" "Don't open the envelope for the moment." "Why?" "Because after years of giving results," "I know that if you open it now, you'll only want to know what's there, on the other hand, if you wait half an hour there's less anxiety... and what rises are the forces to fight." "And whatever it maybe, it'll affect you in a very different way." "Half an hour?" "At least." "Will you do that, Lleó?" "Yes, but only half an hour, eh?" "By the way... you're not a multimillionaire who'd like to help a boy to obtain a leg?" "No, sorry." "Too bad!" "Hey!" "How did your first time go?" "Fine." "Here, give it to your doctors, and don't open it, eh?" "Yeah..." "Now I'll ask an orderly to take you to the ward." "Phew!" "What's that whiff?" "You haven't shit yourself have you?" "No, I think what you smell is your own shit." "What an idiot, man." "Look who's talking..." "Hey man, I'm not staying around, all bloody day waiting here!" "Hey, where are you going?" "you can't go alone." "We're not allowed to go on the floors in the daytime." "Oy, going to tell on me or what?" "Of course not!" "Look, you wait for whoever you want but I'm gonna split." "Don't think that you're going ahead of me." "You have no idea how to drive it." "I drove my father's car." "And I, my grandpa's tractor." "But this isn't a tractor." "Of course not." "but you need to practice, and know the circuit." "What are you doing?" "That's foul play, man." "Use both legs!" "If you don't have two, It's not my fault." "You'll give yourself another heart attack, idiot!" "Dammit man, you've overloaded the elevator." "Me?" "It was you, you came like a madman, I was first." "Please, can anyone hear me?" "!" "We're stuck." "Help, please!" "Is anyone there!" "?" "Are you okay, man?" "Holy shit!" "What's up wih you?" "Dammit!" "Perhaps they'll put you..." "in jail for provoking a heart attack." "Dammit, man..." "Breath slowly, deep breaths." "Come on, man." "Come on Ignasi, please, man!" "Come on, okay." "Okay, man." "Now it turns out that you're a doctor?" "No, but I've been here long enough to have learned a few things." "Is that better, man?" "I guess it's working, quack doctor." "Were they very late?" "No, I hope not." "If... it's this thing with the ventricles, I'll be screwed for a long time." "Okay, man, calm down, I'm sure it isn't that." "What are you doing, man?" "Man, are you going to open it?" "I'm dying to know what it says." "No, no, no." "Will you let me tell you something before opening it?" "Do I have any alternative?" "No." "I have a friend and I think she likes me." "who thinks that if you open the envelope too soon, and there's bad news..." "Hello." "Are you lost?" "No." "Are you sure this is your room?" "No, of course it isn't." "I know what my room is, 123." "So what are you doing here?" "I'm waiting for Lleó and Jordi." "Do you know my son?" "No." "And my brother?" "No." "But Roc told me to come here, because they're looking for a "Red Bracelet"." "A what?" "How do you mean?" "A Red Bracelet, Are they very late?" "No, I suppose that..." "Jordi's been out for a spin but he told me to come early." "Great, then I'll wait for him here, if it's no problem." "No, no, of course not." "Can I keep the magazine?" "Yes." "Yeah, sure." "Please continue, as if I wasn't here, if you have anything to do, of course if not, do nothing." "Where can we find the Red Bracelets, that we're missing?" "I believe we'll find them in the school downstairs." "All the kids in the hospital go there." "Yeah, but they don't all attend." "At a minimum, they have to stay a few weeks." "And why's that?" "Because, what's the point of having someone who'll be gone in two days, because he grazed himself skiing or by a fall?" "Being a "Bracelet" is a bonus for staying longer in hospital." "Pedigree." "Yes, thats it, pedigree." "Who are we missing?" "The smart and the handsome one." "And can't you be the handsome one?" "No..." "It was a joke." "You haven't told me what my sister said to you." "Next time we'll do it differently." "Will you help me with my yogurt this afternoon?" "No..." "How does that help me?" "I'm helping you find the two missing Bracelets." "You're also a "Bracelet"." "You also want to complete the group, don't you?" "It's Lleó's idea, isn't it?" "And mine." "and Roc's, and yours." "We're all "Bracelets"" "And what is to be a "Bracelet"?" "I thought they were friends who helped each other." "I won't eat your medicine." "My medicine?" "Yes." "You're already starting to talk like my sister, and you're not my family." "Cristina don't get angry, I only want to help you." "No, you're like the others, judging me..." "What?" "Did I say anything to you when you told me you didn't want anyone to sit where you're leg was?" "Maybe I should've told you to allow that person to sit down?" "No, don't say that." "So, you think you can judge me?" "I don't have a problem with food!" "Cristina... are you okay?" "I'm sorry, Cristina." "Don't hurry me, question me if you want, but don't judge me." "I can't stand people judging me." "If you don't eat, you're strange." "But, if you don't love, if you don't speak, if you're sad, if you don't sleep, nobody worries very much." "Yes I do, I'm a Red Bracelet." "Let's go into the elevator, We have to look for two more." "I don't think I can, it smells too much of food." "Let's hold our breath." "They're are five floors." "It'll be fun... after three?" "After three, what?" "We count to three, then enter the elevator." "And we hold our breath." "One... two... three... and the fact is that..." "every area of the hospital, ends up meaning something in your life." "It's as if you baptized it." "Areas where you found a yourself a friend that you weren't expecting." "And the place goes from being an enclosed space... to one where there's always a sense of trust and friendship." "Hospitals end up making sense of many stories." "Because of this, I'm always deeply spiritual." "In order that they all come to me." "They're much too late." "A little." "If you want to return to your room, tell me where you'll be and they'll come." "No, I'll wait." "Are you sure?" "Yes." "If I go away, perhaps they'll find another "Bracelet" for the group." "And I want to be one." "I've never been in a group." "Well, my grandpa says that he and I are a group." "But a group of two is very small, isn't it?" "Lleó and I are siblings, we are two, and the truth is that it seems that we are more." "You have beautiful names." "I'd like to be called Eagle." "That's nice." "Yes, but my name's Toni, I also like Toni." "It's also nice." "Are you afraid that your brother will die?" "Where would the seagull be without the lion?" "Have I upset you?" "No..." "You just said something that I think about a lot, but haven't spoken about with anyone." "Yeah..." "But sometimes it's good that someone's politically incorrect." "Am I?" "Quite a bit." "And is it good?" "Yes." "I don't know what I'd do without my grandpa." "And now they're separating me from him, it also makes me very sad." "I'll wait one more celebrity magazine, it's a good unit of measure." "That okay with you, Gavina?" "Yes of course, Eagle." "Half an hour." "Already?" "Dammit, the truth is, it doesn't matter to me." "Yeah, eh?" "It works." "In the end, you just forget about what's inside." "You're not such a case as you seem, eh?" "You neither." "You're... not very clever, right?" "What if I'm not, why do you ask?" "Because as I already told you, We're forming a group, and we're missing the handsome and smart ones." "You're looking to sign up good looking and smart people?" "This is stuff from a friend of mine at the gym." "And neither of us is very handsome, eh?" "Forgive me... just to be sure." "Who are you, in the group?" "The leader." "Like shit, I'll be the leader." "In all the groups that I've been in, I've been the leader." "Not here." "Eh, I'll pass being the clever one, the clever one's always take a beating." "Well, here you can be the handsome one." "or "cute one", so to speak." "What do you think?" "If I'm handsome, I'll be "the handsome one"." "And... what do I have to do, to belong to the group?" "Well, a little more." "You're now a Red bracelet." "What does it need to say on yours?" "That the spot on my lung hasn't grown, so I won't have to go back on chemo." "What about yours?" "That I don't have that thing about the ventricles..." "Good Luck." "Good Luck." "Damn, I don't have that ventricles thing!" "And you?" "Well, it looks like I'll have to go back on chemo." "Nothing." "Nothing at all." "And where's Lleó?" "Aren't you going to wait for me?" "Eh?" "I'll get back to the room first!" "Who are you, man?" "Are you Lleó or Jordi?" "Lleó, and you?" "Toni." "We meet tonight at Roc and Ignasi's room." "Who's meeting tonight?" "All the Red Bracelets." "And how do you know?" "Who told you?" "And you're the leader?" "Tonight at 10." "Oh, and tell Gavina I've taken all the gossip magazines." "I'll return them to her." "Listen, since when did you know...?" "Treat her well, she loves you very much." "He beat you by 40 seconds." "What?" "Damn, you'll have to get a hearing aid if you can't hear anything, eh?" "You'll have to get the lead out or you'll never win a race." "We meet tonight in your room." "Hello." "Hello." "Hello." "You... you're the girl, right?" "Yeah, you're not the smart one, that's for sure." "Man..." "I'm the handsome one." "We've started well if you're the handsome one." "Anybody hungry?" "I brought apples for everyone." "Aren't you eating?" "Are you sure he said 10?" "There's 10 seconds to go and he still hasn't arrived." "Yeah, yeah, that's what he said." "I've never felt such companionship, nor felt so cherished." "I knew that Toni would come and the Bracelets would be complete." "Great, everyone's here." "How do you know this is everyone?" "Roc tells me that he's never felt so happy." "and he wants me to tell you." "Hey, you don't fool me, he hasn't said anything to you." "He says can you do him the favour of not looking at him so closely in the mornings." "Because you always end up by touching his nose, and he doesn't like it." "But how do you know this?" "He told me." "Can you talk to Roc?" "He speaks to me." "It's different." "He proposes me to join the group." "He asks who's in favour." "As the smart one?" "I suppose so." "Man, it makes sense, he speaks to Roc and seems quite clever." "I am." "But... he's..." "I'm what?" "Special?" "I think he's just as special as us." "I vote in favour." "Me too." "Thanks." "Roc is also in favour." "How can we verify that?" "I'm also in favour?" "The fact is that, is that..." "Roc Says he wants us to know what you call your mother affectionately." "He heard it this morning." "Shut up..." "He says you..." "Shut up, okay, please shut up." "Finally we were united." "Finally we were a group, and as group many things would happen to us." "We would support each other, and I felt that we would grow together." "Together in a different place, but knowing, that we would always have a Red Bracelet nearby." "You're now a "Bracelet", man." "We should take a photo." "Good idea, Roc." "Come on, places everybody." "Even though we didn't know what the future held for us." "Some of us didn't know how old we'd live." "others, what would our sickness be, if we should finally awake." "We were children, who were living in a hospital." "And we were behaving like children" "Everyone, Bracelets for ever!" "How many chemo have you done?" "Three batches." "I've already done 23." "When you've done more than 10, you can speak to me about chemo." "What the hell are you doing here?" "I brought you..." "But didn't I tell you the other day, I didn't want to see you again?" "He says that tonight we have to go out, make an excursion." "He says we'll need some "walkies"." "I hope they have a lot coverage, don't mess with us." "I see you brought a good negotiator, Lleó." "Where we going?" "They've discovered that you could have an abnormality in the aorta." "A part from not liking the pain of chemo, you can become impotent." "If you don't do it, you know that you'll die, don't you?" "Yeah, I know." "And aren't you afraid?" "No, I've already many friends who've died." "Anything else?"