"No, this is Patty speaking." "Your daughter." "That's great for you." "And mummy..." "were you proud of me again?" "Yes, I'm watching it too." "No, it's not on now." "I recorded it with the VCR." "I don't look good?" "I'm on TV every day." "I can't always wear the same." "So the nurses said it too." "Tonight again, mum." "Tonight again." "Write it in your book." "Don't forget." "And what do you look like, Marjolein?" "And do you have big breasts?" "Hello, hotshot." "Welcome to Sabrina's Sex Palace." "Where are you calling from?" "Me?" "22." "Dark curls... brown hair..." "brown eyes as well." "Pretty athletic." "And then she said: "Go to your own country." "It's not a hotel here."" ""You people don't do anything." "Our country's for our children."" ""Not for you, bunch of skunks."" "Are you having dinner here, Toto?" "Wow, you've grown." "You're beautiful now!" "Are you feeling better?" "You're beaming, darling!" "Eva, did you change the appointment with the notary?" "It's absurd, I'll be working less." "We're having a baby, darling." "Hello, I'm Grace Keeley." "I work hard as an actress, which is why I need time to myself." "I can get that in these beautiful natural surroundings." "They're really shooting it in a forest." "Nothing fake about it." "But for how long?" "PART 1 WIEBE'S PRIORITY LIST" "Grace Keeley speaking." "Patty Paltier." "Come in." "Great that you can start so soon." "That's your job, dear." "You're my agent." "This is my partner, Grace." "Because you shouldn't believe that." "Believe me, you can add a thousand guilders." "One more thing: it's 15 guilders per hour, rounded up for the day." "It's 2000 per day." "I mean, I'm about to do a commercial for 30,000." "Tonight I'm having some colleagues over." "Can you stay longer to serve food?" "Do we know who does the catering?" "No, yuck!" "Don't let on that you know these ladies from TV." "That's embarrassing for us." "Do you watch TV a lot?" "Do you watch Eurotalk?" "Then you must have recognized me." "They pour sauce over everything." "Because I won't do a shoot while there's fat coming out of my ears." "I'll quickly show you the house, because I have a driving lesson." "I have to hang up." "Somebody needs to talk to me." "I need to give her my undivided attention." "Sorry." "Grace Keeley speaking." "Yes, she's here." "Your work." "Patty speaking." "No, I'm about to have a driving lesson." "Ok, quickly then." "Who was fired?" "Let me introduce you to the other characters from the modest drama... that we call our lives." "Did you know your name is from Westside Story?" "This is our room." "A bit of cleaning up." "Where are you calling from?" "Me?" "22." "I'm all naked at the moment." "I'm wet from the shower." "I'm about to go to work." "Max?" "This is Maria, our new cleaning lady." "Maria, this is Max." "Maybe you can have coffee or lunch together often." "If you have any questions, you can always go to Max." "You can drop in any time." "Don't drop in, preferably." "Are you coming?" "Have fun, Max." "Max is unemployed." "That's why he's always home." "Better not talk about it." "Eva..." "Not in the plants!" "When it comes to business, you always have to expand." "That's the simple truth." "Can you turn it down, Toto?" "I'm trying to talk to your mother." "Damn, where are those papers?" "Don't smoke here, Wiebe." "I'm pregnant!" "The plants voted against it too, didn't you, guys?" "Did you remember to get the beer for the course?" "No, that course is your problem." "I'm doing the time management." "I've got all these guys coming tonight." "The clothes rack has to go downstairs." "And just a bit of cleaning up here." "That's where our other tenants live." "But that's why I'm doing that course, so everything goes smoothly." "That's what the course is for!" "Don't ash into the plant, dear!" "This is Maria, the best cleaning lady of the global village." "Yes, she works with chlorine and environmentally unfriendly aerosols." "That's because we like to keep things clean." "Any complaints can be sent to me in writing." "Grace, was Patty allergic to chickpeas or was that you?" "Patty loves them!" "And I won't be home tonight, unfortunately." "Don't act all hysterical over one little plant." "I don't know." "I'll have to get used to it." "Yes, bye." "I'm going, darling." "Is anything wrong?" "If anything's wrong, just tell me." "Don't beg for attention." "Alright, I'll see you tonight then." "Your driving instructor's here." "Maria, I have a driving lesson." "I wanted to focus on gear shifting today." "That didn't go too well last time." "Put it in reverse." "Pat, remember?" "Never force the gearstick, but coax it gently." "If you get white knuckles, you're doing it wrong." "Put it in reverse." "Adjust the mirrors." "Can you see everything?" "Is there anything behind you?" "Let's go." "We can go." "Start it or it won't work." "Patty?" "Patty?" "Is anything wrong?" "No, I've been fired." "Have you got a receipt for me?" "Johanneke!" "Hi, darling!" "I just heard it." "So unfair!" "A professional like you!" "You can hang everything there." "Brave of you not to cancel tonight." "Darlings!" "Can I help?" "The time management course." "Time management." "That must be at the neighbours'." "The Vorsselmans family, a bit further down." "Do you mind if I only take the tops?" "Yes, to be honest." "They belong together." "But they only see me up to here." "Patty, you never bought... buy bottoms either, do you?" "Don't be embarrassed." "We can discuss anything." "It's not that bad that I got fired." "I didn't die." "It's still unclear who's going to take over." "I've always seen it coming." "It wasn't her strong suit." "Do you think she has a chance?" "They're really keeping her dangling." "Although she did ask for it a bit." "...productivity in general." "Thank you." "Wiebe, can you introduce yourself in one minute?" "I'm Wiebe Vorsselmans." "I have a store." "Sorry, don't mind me." "Together with my wife..." "Don't smoke too much here, please." "who's also my partner." "Can you move those plants out, Wiebe?" "We want to open a new branch." "Did you remember to get the beer?" "Beer?" "Maybe that's an important point." "If I invite guests, I'll get the groceries myself." "I don't automatically assume my partner will do that." "Yes, she's right, that's a good point." "So I want to open a new branch." "And you know how I feel about alcohol." "Good luck." "Thanks, Wiebe." "Next." "One minute as well." "Simone De Beauvoir forgot to add that... we have to play the game according to our own rules." "De Beauvoir wasn't married." "No, who's married these days?" "Who's that?" "Patty's ex." "Therese's still married, isn't she?" "What a cutie." "She's been divorced for 3 months!" "Patty's into ladies." "Don't do it." "He's a hopeless case." "Unemployed, neurotic..." "You can see it by looking at his ass." "I like weak buttocks." "Did you get divorced, Therese?" "Yes, thank God." "At least I show up at work on time again." "Ladies, can we limit the smoking a bit?" "What are they?" "Vegan snacks." "If I have to eat that, I can smoke too." "Don't eat them then." "We were married, but that was a long time ago." "She's now with Grace Keeley." "And you don't mind that?" "I'd really hate to hear that my wife was a dyke." "You don't notice it." "I only minded that she was always working." "I want to fuck you." "Or am I too direct?" "Sorry, I've got to..." "How long will this 74 year old man have slept?" "27 years." "How long will he have worked?" "10.5 years." "Sorry." "A living example of someone with bad planning." "Did your meeting run late?" "What's your name?" "Max." "But I'm not with this club." "Max is my neighbour." "He's unemployed." "That's interesting as well, but it's not what we're talking about." "How long will he have watched TV?" "7.6 years." "How long will he have smoked?" "2 years." "That's wrong, I never watch TV." "This is the average Dutch man." "Ok, let's talk about you." "What do you do?" "I work." "That's all I do." "Also at home." "That's exactly the point." "What do you want in life?" "Make a plan and stick to it." "There are many ways to spend our time more efficiently." "Vorsselmans speaking." "No, no time." "I'll call you, bye." "How will we spend our time better?" "That's my worst nightmare: that they call you and say they have someone else." "What's so bad about being fired?" "I asked if you had meatballs." "You're all successful women, but so insecure." "Everybody in this room." "Does your self-esteem come solely from your work?" "Little meatballs." "Hard, brown, little balls." "With dead little animals inside?" "No, we don't have those here." "Then we look at the diagram of our daily rhythm." "We're the most alert at 12 PM." "After that we dip and then we peak again around 3 PM." "So when would you make phone calls and when would you be typing?" "What about you, Wiebe?" "I can't work out my priority list." "Why not?" "I found out that my priority list doesn't feature in my log." "How do you mean?" "Pregnant wife, Toto, baby..." "I found out that I spent the least time on my priorities." "21 minutes to be exact." "Isn't that crazy?" "I'm basically exactly like my father." "That's more suited for therapy." "Why didn't you tell me?" "Congratulations!" "It's a bit painful, because the seat is still warm." "Does she know?" "I don't think so." "Who'll take over from you?" "I was thinking of you." "Hey, Patty." "Hi, Pat." "Are you enjoying yourself?" "Must be a big change." "It's hard to believe." "Well, it's not the end of the world." "You're right." "We tend to think it's all about work." "That's how we've been raised." "Pushed away from the sink by our mothers." "Victims of work ethic." "It's a privilege to become aware of that." "What do you mean?" "That I also see it as an opportunity." "That I get to experience this." "We've got to be going, Patty." "What kind of klutz are you?" "You've been a klutz all day!" "I have to repeat everything and you show no initiative!" "If you're unreasonable, I can be too!" "You're fired." "Don't come back to Hertenkamp!" "She fired you because you dropped a glass?" "Well, you're hired again." "I understand Patty's upset, but I can't stand injustice." "Taking it out on the socially disadvantaged!" "Where is she?" "Outside." "I'm sorry, ladies, but the show is over." "Get dressed and go." "Sorry, ladies." "Darling." "There are plenty of other jobs." "I'm 43." "You're good at your job." "Do you also love unemployed people?" "Preferably not." "But if I have to..." "Dear people, Eva and I have taken a decision." "We're going to sell the business and we'll stop working." "Soon all of Hertenkamp will be unemployed." "And if you resign, you won't get an allowance." "We don't need it, Max." "We'll be self-sufficient." "I've figured out my priority list completely." "And Hertenkamp might become an example for people." "Join us, Maria." "An example?" "An educational oasis in our sick consumer society." "Do I have to shoot you or will you join us now?" "You're joking about it, but I'm unemployed against my will." "I find it sick that you want to stop yourself." "What does Toto say?" "He doesn't know yet." "What would you like to drink, little princess?" "They might give him hell at school." "It's a positive decision, Max." "By ourselves, for ourselves." "That's exactly what I'm against." "For ourselves." "What if everybody thought that way?" "And was her mother a cleaning lady too?" "No?" "What did she do?" "She worked in a hospital." "How did you end up doing this then?" "I was unemployed and then I could get this." "You were unemployed and then you became a cleaning lady?" "Everybody's going through their own process." "If you can't accept that, you give yourself a hard time." "I am having a hard time." "You make it hard." "I am having a hard time." "You're making it..." "Leave her." "She's having a hard time and we're having an easy time." "You make things easy for yourself and I'm having a hard time." "You find it easy to be difficult, right, Patty dear?" "You should shut up." "Did you suddenly think of becoming self-sufficient?" "To go and sit on your lazy asses?" "Yes, I suddenly got that idea." "I've been thinking about it longer." "Finally your coin dropped too." "Can I have some attention?" "Maria and I just had a very good talk." "She would like to see a broad-minded and tolerant Hertenkamp." "Where all opinions are respected." "Otherwise she'll resign." "Is that correct, Maria?" "I completely agree." "If you want to smoke, there are cigarettes on the table." "No smoking, please." "Talking about smoking..." "This will be Wiebe Vorsselmans' last cigarette." "Where have I heard that before?"