"When you first come to the hospital, you feel weird." "like a bird to whom cancer, a motorcycle... or a damn diving board, has clipped its wings." "You change the time in the yard for batches of medical tests." "The sneakers you loved, for a wheelchair, and a Coca-cola, for a medicine of suspicious colour." "But one day, this universe of pyjamas and white coats, becomes your world." "Here you have your room, your friends..." "Everyone, Bracelets for ever!" "the girl that you fancy." "Who are we missing?" "The smart and the handsome ones." "And can't you be the handsome one?" "Even an adult who you love as if he was your father." "I want you to sign the papers as legal guardian at the hospital, please." "You've spent hours and hours wanting to get out of here." "And when you finally go out..." "It's strange to walk the streets again." "You realize that everything is still the same." "...except you." "This doesn't mean we're now better or worse," "Simply, that we're children who have to learn to live with our illness." "Are you okay, Lleó?" "I was until a second ago." "And above all, with our surroundings." "He's..." "I'm what?" "Special?" "I think he's just as special as we are." "What are you doing?" "You know this is Cristina's food?" "If you don't eat it's strange, but on the other hand," "If you don't love, or you don't speak or sleep... nobody worries so much." "I do, I'm a Red Bracelet." "And the duty of a Red Bracelet, was to help each other to move forward." "...Has a theory that if you eat patatas bravas four days after chemo, and can keep them down without vomiting, then you're okay." "To eat patatas bravas of the hospital, one has to have a stomach of steel." "You've recovered quite well from this round of chemo." "So..." "I have three good weeks, and then a ghastly one, right?" "I was going to put it another way, but yes, that's right." "Can you give me a sun permit?" "What's a sun permit?" "They allow us to use a basketball court, here outside the hospital." "Can I go out in the sun?" "I don't know, you ought to stay in bed a day recovering." "Please doctor, I need to go out." "Please, Please, Please" "Okay, morning and afternoon, but don't catch a cold." "Okay." "What do we have here..." "It still hurts a little." "You have a bit of an infection here, have a look Dr Josep." "Mmm, it's a bit infectioned this." ""infectioned"?" "You mean infected, don't you?" "I wanted to downplay the issue." "Well, it sounds worse." "And... couldn't you give permission to Jordi to go out?" "You've a bit of fever, for the present we don't want you out in the sun." "Go on, please, he's never been out of here." "The sun will still be there next week." "See you, guys!" "That's a bitch, they won't let you go." "Do you want to forge one?" "No, relax, it's ok" "Hey!" "I've got a sun permit." "Me too." "Cool." "Any change in the hospital may be important." "Remaining alone on a Sunday, when they all go out, can be the biggest shit in the world... or the best thing that could happen to you." "Are you sure, Jordi?" "Yes, go, go." "Come, let's go, everyone to the sun." "And the fact is Sunday's at hospital, are full of surprises." "You only have to want to discover them." "Come on, let's find Cristina, and then off to the sun." "I don't know why you're so excited by the sun," "I'm sure it sucks like everything else here, man." "I imagine it as an amusement park." "I'm like Toni here, expectations must be high." "Cristina, this afternoon we'll weigh you," "You know that this week you need to have gained weight, if not, we'll remove privileges." "What privileges?" "We know that now you meet a lot with the guys downstairs." "And we've turned a blind eye, but we have to be sure that you don't bring up the food." "I don't throw up, why don't you trust me?" "Cris, the doctor isn't saying you do, she's saying she doesn't know." "but she trusts you when your weight is rising." "Exactly." "but if this afternoon there's some variation, we'll take measures that nobody likes." "What measures?" "We'll no longer turn a blind eye." "Yeah, but that won't happen, I'm sure I've gained weight." "I hope so too." "We'll see this afternoon." "Finish breakfast, Cristina." "Now that you know, can I go out with my friends?" "I think they're going outside, could you give me a permit?" "You can't go." "You're punishing me without proof!" "I've eaten everything I've been set." "Punishment?" "I think the doctor is too lax, you shouldn't ever leave this floor." "Sure, you're always against me, typical Carol!" "It's always food in every conversation, food all the time, I'm fed up!" "Cristina, eat up." "Also, today we're putting another girl in your room, you'll have to help her." "She has a problem similar to yours, will you do it?" "Hi Mercero!" "Hello." "Right, do you have permits?" "Yes" "This looks like a disco, and you look like the door man, eh?" "You want to watch that sauce, you?" "Don't pay him any mind Mercero, he always antagonizes everyone." "Is everything in order?" "Yes, you can go out" "Don't you put a stamp on us so we can re-enter?" "I'll give you a stamp, right here." "I've never been in a disco, but I think this is very similar." "Are you ready?" "Yes." "It's gorgeous." "And the sky..." "I love the sky." "Like I said, it sucks." "A shit heap." "Will we be long in this toilet?" "Eh!" "Ignasi, you like it?" "They didn't give you a sun permit either, eh, Roc?" "I need to talk to someone about something, but it's a secret." "And... you look like a person who can keep secrets." "It's about Cristina." "Hello." "Hello." "Where's Ignasi?" "In a basketball court down below, they have permits to go outside." "Ah, that's good," "I'm sure you're glad to be able to get out." "And aren't you going?" "No, I can't, I have a slight fever." "Well, time I was on my way, eh?" "No, stay a while, and we can keep each other company." "You dance don't you, are you a ballerina?" "Well, that was before." "Now I paint." "Do you like to paint?" "Sometimes I make drawings, but I've never painted." "If you want, I can teach you the basics, I have some materials in the car." "Not, thanks, because..." "I have to..." "Really, I'd love to teach you." "I'm not very good at such things." "Do you have anything better to do?" "I'll bring them up." "What a drag, Roc..." "It's not necessary to memorize it, why does he look at it so much?" "It doesn't look very good." "He wouldn't be here on a Sunday if he could get out of it." "My elbow is worse, is that it?" "Look, what I have to say, sometimes..." "let's face it, it's hard to accept." "No doubt my elbow's in bad shape." "No, it's not the elbow." "The bones of the right leg?" "My leg's been hurting me for days" "I already told him he works too hard, he's not as young as he thinks he is." "How old are you?" "70?" "?" "80?" "Not 90." "It's Alzheimer's" "No, no, I can't have." "The tests we did on Wednesday confirm it" "What now?" "I mean, what now?" "Now you'll have to do gymnastics for the mind, as well as for the elbow." "But there are no medicines for it, I mean to fight it..." "No, there's no cure." "I'm sorry, now we have to wait and see how everything evolves." "Can it be rapid?" "It depends on the case." "I don't want lies eh!" "I want the truth!" "From what we know, it's very advanced." "I'm sorry." "I thought there was nothing more boring than being in hospital." "But there is something worse:" "being out." "That's because you don't enjoy it like me." "when you spend so much time in hospital, a little sun is life, man." "Stay here a while and tell me if this place isn't like heaven." "I'm with you." "Do you have any sunscreen?" "I have very sensitive skin." "Hey!" "Dope heads!" "Off the court!" "No, now it's our turn in the sun." "Doing what?" "Sunbathing?" "A moron and a bald kid?" "Hey, who do you think you are, kid?" "Nothing special, man!" "We just want you to clear off so we can play." "The sun belongs to everyone." ""The sun belongs to everyone"." "What's that?" "your motto?" "We won't go, eh?" "Eh, eh, It ain't gonna happen." "Even less in front of you, since you lack intelligence." "My grandpa says that those who don't have intelligence, always accuse others of not having it." "Just so you know." ""Just so you know"" "Come on, kids take a hike." "Go on, go." "We won't take a hike." "Oh yes you will!" " Are you deaf or what, man?" "What's happening here, Roger?" "Nothing, we want to play basketball and these kids won't let us" "We've permits for morning and afternoon sun." "We were first and we also have permits for morning and afternoon sun." "Yeah, sure..." "All permits are in order, so you all have a right to be in the sun." "You see?" "Dumbass?" "But..." "They were first, and the one that comes first can choose what to do in the sun." "Hey?" "What do you say now, idiot?" "But..." "Although it would be fairer, if you all enjoy it, so..." "Why not have a match between you?" "Whoever wins, plays on Sunday morning." "and he who loses, in the afternoon." "Sounds good." "We'll thrash you, it's clear that you haven't a clue." "We haven't a clue?" "We're the best, and I was the best in my class." "And how many were in the class?" "Two?" "Come on then, let's start." "Mercero, we have to train, they're already in shape," "We still have to find our form." "That's right!" "So I'll play the game in the afternoon, so you can train all morning." "Mercero, but this isn't cool!" "Mercer!" "I've spoken, I'm the referee, and that means I'm the boss, any problem?" "No" "No" "Ok." "Come on then." "And this afternoon, we'll give you a thrashing." "Dreamer!" "Yeah, yeah, we'll see." "I thought you didn't like being in the sun." "Look, this shit is ours, and nobody takes my shit away from me" "Cool." "Can anyone play well?" "Damn..." "Come on, check it out." "Damn." "Be in the dining in five minutes, also, your new roommate's arrived." "Great, just what I need, another anorexic to see my reflection in." "It's not anorexia, didn't the doctor tell you about her?" "No, what does she have?" "You know you're in the eating disorders unit, don't you?" "So?" "Now I don't know if I should tell you..." "If the doctor didn't tell you, maybe she wanted it to be a surprise." "For more, you'll have to see for yourself" "And by the way, she doesn't manage very well, so treat her well." "Hey, wait!" "Hello" "This is a joke, right?" "What?" "I'll be back in a minute, I have to talk to my doctor." "I have to talk to you." "Does this mean you've met Olga?" "Yes, you can't do this to me." "What?" "What?" "I can't even look in the mirror." "And you put me beside this!" "I didn't expect this remark from you, Cris." "She's a patient who's also sick, like you." "I know, but put her with someone who has the same thing as her, not with me." "I thought it would be good for you." "Good?" "That it would make you think..." "Think about what?" "About what a fat cow I'll become?" "About all the clothes that won't fit me?" "Maybe it wasn't such a good idea." "No." "This afternoon there'll be an empty bed and I'll make the change." "You can live with it until the afternoon, can't you?" "What do you want to paint?" "I don't know." "What's best to paint?" "Whatever you want." "Just decide what you want to paint, what it is you need to be always in a picture." "I..." "Difficult choice, eh?" "Yes." "Especially because of this hospital, I wouldn't like to keep too many pictures." "You've got it?" "Yes" "And what do you want to paint?" "Roc." "I think that's a very good idea." "But..." "I don't know how to paint." "I'll teach you, trust me." "No one had ever thought of painting me, of course I guess I was the perfect model." "I knew how to keep still, very still." "I didn't mean to offend you." "About what?" "That I'm so fat?" "Or that no clothes would fit me?" "Or that I disgust you?" "I don't know, I think an apology is too small for the things you've said to me." "So tell me, for which of these things are you apologizing?" "I'm not apologizing." "Oh, yeah, thanks for your apology." "I don't want you to stay here." "I don't want to stay either." "What?" "What I said, I don't want to stay, I'm not interested in being with you either." "What do you mean?" "Well, it's not pleasant to be with a girl so thin that you can see her bones." "For me it's nothing pleasant, indeed, you disgust me." "We agree on something." "Yes, we do." "Then we have no more to talk about." "Exactly." "Go man, I've a rage in me..." "Hello!" "Can I come in?" "Go ahead, come in" "Are you okay?" "Yes, of course." "What, is your Sunday a bit boring?" "No way!" "How's that?" "Some turkeys have challenged us to a basketball game." "And the match is at five o'clock." "Then I hope you're lucky and win." "Today my bones hurt a bit, eh?" "If you want to we'll talk tomorrow, okay?" "The fact is... we need you." "As I am now I couldn't even make half a basket." "But didn't you say you'd coached a basketball team?" "Yes, I trained a second division team, but that's a long time ago." "But we only want a few little lessons." "No, I don't think so, today Im a little busy, anyway, don't you have to eat?" "Yes, we'll eat on the basketball court, we've permission, morning and afternoon." "But what do you mean you're busy?" "A Sunday at hospital." "You have your head in the clouds, eh?" "There's nothing more boring than that." "No, I can't, I have things to do." "Benito, it's important, eh." "Will you go, please?" "You ought to help us." "He'll come in a moment, go, go in the sun, he'll come..." "What have you done?" "What you always say I should do." "Talk with these boys, and give them zest for life." "Today, I don't have time." "Didn't you hear what the doctor told me?" "You won't lose your memory today." "I know it won't be today." "But maybe in a month I won't remember I coached these boys." "So your idea is not to do anything more in life because you'll forget it?" "Yes, that's the idea and if you're so eager to help them, you do it." "Now what are you doing?" "Didn't the doctor say you couldn't smoke?" "Look, I've forgotten." "Worse than a child." "(Me and nobody.)" "(Hidden and tiny.)" "(Making pigeons fly to whence they can't return.)" "(By sipping Vermouth,)" "What I like most about Sundays, is that they are like days without salt." "You don't know if finally someone will add it, or it'll remain tasteless." "You've given me lots, but look, you hardly gave anything to her." "(Torn...)" "What?" "(by all the years...) (of living together.)" "(We agree on moments...) (of calmness and they are sweet.)" "(But it's just a minute,)" "(and we return to the age old game)" "(Of forgetting the moments of fulfillment.)" "Always me and nobody.)" "(One of these days we'll make amends.)" "(Always me and nobody.)" "Hey, in the basket..." "Look, Toni, Toni!" "Come on, man, pass it." "Shut up, man, you're useless, dammit!" "Both of us." "Here!" "Shut up, man!" "Half an hour to get the ball." "Why don't you shut up?" "Are you retarded or what?" "Do you want to stop now, moron?" "Is this a team or what?" "Benito!" "You'll coach us?" "We'll see, first I have to see how bad you are." "First we have to see if you're any good, right?" "Right... pass it here Toni." "Oh!" "Oh!" "bravo!" "Do I have to prove anything more?" "Fine, let's go then, we'll start by seeing what you can do." "Maybe you should go look for him?" "They'll still be in the sun." "They're allowed out, morning and afternoon." "You're doing fine." "No way!" "It looks like crap." "But I'm having a great time." "It's very enjoyable, painting." "It's been some time since I've painted." "Before I painted more." "Can I explain something to you?" "Sure." "Ignasi's father doesn't like me to paint at home." "The smell of paint makes him nervous, so he doesn't like me to paint much." "It's some time since I sold any pictures, so now I hardly do it." "But, if you like it, why don't you do it?" "Because I know he doesn't like it." "But you really like it, don't you?" "Yes, but..." "But what?" "He already has many problems at work and this would be one more problem." "One more problem?" "I don't know how to explain." "Perhaps I worry more for him than for me." "And why do you stay with him?" "Because I love him." "I've finished" "It's looks a little..." "like..." "Well, perhaps..." "perhaps it lacks..." "Don't make excuses." "You've done it, that's what matters." "Now show it to Roc." "To Roc?" "Yes, of course." "The person who's been posing for you." "He deserves to be the first to see it." "You're right." "I hadn't thought." "Look Roc." "I loved the picture." "It's been a long time since I've seen my reflection in a mirror." "Since I last saw my own face, so to see myself, thrilled me." "Would you leave me another sheet?" "I've thought of something else to paint." "Yes." "Are you eating that?" "Are you talking to me?" "Yes, I said, are you eating that?" "No, of course not." "With half an apple I'll burst." "Will you give it to me?" "I don't think they'd like it." "But no one will see, will they?" "Besides, it suits both of us." "What do you mean?" "Then, if you won't eat it, I..." "If you don't eat it they'll punish you, and I'm so hungry I could eat it all." "I'm not kidding, I'm starving, I get very little food here." "Well, they give me too much." "I'd kill for a chicken with potatoes." "I've been six hours without eating anything." "Or a pizza..." "A little exercise." "What do you say?" "Okay, but how do I know you won't tell?" "And you?" "How do I know you won't talk?" "I won't tell." "I'll give you the apple." "You're really hungry..." "Very." "Wow, this really is a novelty..." "Not hiding anything are you, Chris?" "No." "That's good, and are you still hungry, Olga?" "No, I just feel "great"." "Excellent." "Listen..." "Listen..." "You first." "Nothing, I thought maybe you'd want to stay here a few days." "I also thought we could talk to the doctor and..." "Tell her that..." "We've found things in common?" "What we like and don't like..." "Are the same?" "Beni, Beni, eh!" "eh!" "Ok, Ok..." "Beni, Beni, eh!" "Eh!" "Eh!" "Eh!" "Eh!" "Eh!" "Let's see, let's see..." "Eh!" "What time is the game?" "At five." "Okay then..." "Let's go to my room, to prepare the tactics." "But shouldn't we train a bit more on the court?" "To get you playing well, we'd need at least 10 days." "And the game is tomorrow at five." "It's here, in one hour." "That's what I said..." "No you didn't, you said it's tomorrow at five." "That's what I meant." "Come on, we'll prepare the tactics." "Do we have a chance?" "In truth, not much, but I remember 20 years ago," "I coached a basketball team that played much worse than you, and in the end..." "And in the end, what?" "Well..." "in the end..." "Now I don't remember what happened in the end." "You lost right?" "That's why you don't want to tell me." "Hey, you're not taking me for a ride, eh?" "Hello." "Hello." "Hello." "Hello." "You are..." "Fat, right?" "No, I didn't mean that but you aren't..." "Everyone who has an eating disorder comes here, and she also has one." "What do you have?" "Cancer." "Can we talk a minute?" "Sure." "I was about to go and take a little exercise." "No, we're just leaving ourselves." "What is it?" "Nothing, I came to see how you were." "Today's an important day, right?" "All about your weight." "How did you know?" "I've heard, it's important, right?" "Yes, I hope to achieve it, though..." "I don't know if I should tell you, you won't like it." "Tell me about it." "Okay, but it's a secret, you can't tell anyone." "Of course not." "And especially my sister." "I think I've found a way of eating and not being sick." "That's great, how?" "Olga will eat everything that I don't." "She'll be happy and so will I." "Sometimes the world is fair." "But if you don't eat, you won't get well." "I thought you understood me, but I see you're like my sister." "Maybe, but like your sister, I want you to get well." "I'm sorry if that bothers you." "Here, I've painted this for you." "I wanted it to be food that won't make you fat, that you'd enjoy looking at it." "If you want, you can give it to Olga." "(How do you make life look so easy?" ")" "(How do you have so much energy?" "I envy you.)" "Little by little, as always, on Sunday afternoon the hospital shines." "And people start to have fun." "And so are able to face impossible challenges." "Everyone, children and grown ups." "(It's a beautiful song.)" "(I want you to see me as I see you.)" "(I want to change.)" "(I want to feel full of life." "I'm fed up with doing nothing.)" "(I'm very tired of not being part of anything.)" "(I want to see this world and feel I'm part of it.)" "(I don't want to continue...) (seeing life from the outside.)" "(Because I still have time to play this game.)" "(Nobody will do it for me." "I have to make a move now.)" "(And together we'll laugh at life.)" "(Together we'll go out to play.)" "(Together we'll write the game.)" "(Together we'll get out of this hole.)" "(Together we will win the game.)" "(Together again to dream.)" "Come on, move, go over there." "Come on, move, eh, guys?" "Focus yourself!" "Move, come on!" "Go Benito!" "Go Benito!" "I left my cap." "Be right back!" "Full throttle, right!" "Sorry, sorry, I left my cap and it brings me good luck." "Are you okay?" "Yes." "What's wrong?" "Nothing..." "Benito..." "If I told you, Benito would kill me." "What's wrong with Benito?" "No, I can't tell you." "Go on, tell me what's wrong?" "They've diagnosed Alzheimer's." "Is that when you lose your memory?" "Although it will be months, but..." "I shouldn't have told you." "I'll win, I'll win this game for him." "He'll never forget this." "How'd it go with Cristina?" "What do you mean?" "The painting." "It wasn't for Cristina." "Hello." "Hello." "I've never had a picture painted for me." "I'm going to..." "Do you like it?" "Very much." "I've eaten an apple, to make up for giving it to Olga." "Do you want to watch them play?" "I want to ask you a favour." "What?" "I want you to come with me when I get weighed." "How come?" "I always go alone, and it's a bit like your chemo." "Except in duration." "I'd like you to come with me." "Okay." "One!" ", two!" ", three!" "BRACELETS!" "(Behind the trunk of the highest oak.)" "(stands a naked body,)" "(your body full of thorns.)" "(You breathe, take in air.) Come in." "(You sigh, you fear to know.)" "(wounds that are a part of your present,)" "(you hide your feelings." "Look away.)" "(Don't stick to the past." "Don't look back.)" "(struggling all alone in the threshing square." "It takes everything you have,)" "(to never stop walking barefoot, though you may hurt yourself.)" "(There are knots that squeeze your life.)" "(Recollections of words that comfort you.)" "(You embrace it, want more.)" "(You love it, in exchange for nothing.)" "(Your hands sweat blood for a long time.)" "(Troubles of loves, stories that you don't understand.)" "(Look far away." "Run there.)" "(Don't stick to the past." "Don't look back.)" "(struggling all alone in the threshing square." "It takes everything you have,)" "(to never stop walking barefoot, though you may hurt yourself.)" "(Since the deficiencies are virtues.)" "(Since eight errors are eight honors.)" "(I heard it say by sincere men.)" "(that life lends them the play...) (of being just the way they really are.)" "As always, there's nothing like a Sunday in the hospital." "On Monday we'll return to being sick." "(struggling all alone in the threshing square." "It takes everything you have,)" "(to never stop walking barefoot, though you may hurt yourself.)" "(Since the deficiencies are virtues.)" "(Since eight errors are eight honors.)" "(I heard it say by sincere men.)" "(that life lends them the play...) (of being just the way they really are.)" "You'll start to forget about the last things that have happened to you" " So?" "I'll be one of the first persons that you'll forget." "You're unforgettable Lleó?" "Give us back the fireworks!" "You won't get away with this." "It seems fine to me." "I'll duel and show them who we Bracelets are." "I didn't know our group was about that." "I didn't know we were cowards either." "Do you fancy Lleó?" "No way!" "And also Jordi." "You're only doing this to become the hero with Cristina." "Go to hell!" "I can see the future." "Today... you'll be given a kiss." "And who by?" "I'll go with whichever one you don't go out with." "Don't ever again mess with Cris." "She's all yours, the bag of bones." "What's up with your friends?" "Aren't they coming to cheer you on?" "On your marks..." "Get ready..." "At least get up to sign the agreement." "I'd like to, but I can't." "So, Jordi?" "Are you going to make a wish?" "What will you wish for?" "A happy ending." "Subtitles by Oliver Sanderson"