"He seems like a fish." "Take it." "Defend yourself." "Will you defend yourself?" "You'll always be the same, an idiot." "They've been left alone." "Lucas and Ismael." "Both alone." "Sorry." "Here's again Lucas Mendez." "He wants to see you." "For the job, you know." "Wasn't he a communist?" "No, not him." "Then let him come in." "They said they put ice on his testicles." "And he put up with it." "Even the cattle prod, without complaining." "Talking about Lucas?" "Right." "Who could it be?" "Men matter less than ideas." "I say." "Then I got kicked out of college." "Because I was an antiperonist, they said." "Now they don't want me back, cause they say I'm a communist." "Always the same." "It doesn't seem like the one who cries at you, suggests to exchange tears for votes." "That's cheating." "A frutisi." "He's the only one." "He smiles and we feel complicit in something." "What we want now, guys, is to feel complicit." "Not being thrown cookies." "Lucas is right." "I'm sick of such decency." "So much decency is indecent." "Isn't that too cynical, Lucas?" "Let's not talk about heroism." "We're turning 40." "Crying is always cheating." "Hi there." "So?" "He doesn't want to." "Why is that?" "Ask him." "He won't talk with us." "Why not Ismael?" "Because I don't want to." "Let's not do this, Lucas." "Come on, let's go to your house." "We'll discuss it there." "Come on." "Dora..." "You're later by the day." "It's not me now." "It's them." "Would you make us some coffee?" "Do you mind if she make us coffee?" "Do it Dora." "I'm telling you, Ismael." "Accept, it's convenient for you and us." "What do you think Dora?" "Should he accept or not?" "If he thinks he should, then go ahead." "If not..." "But you Dora, what do you think?" "Yes or no?" "What does he think?" "Nothing as usual." "You shut up." "If he accepts, answers will exist." "His words." "Can you see Dora?" "Easy... or hard." "You have to choose." "But why should I choose?" "Because if we choose..." "We do it and it's done." "And with you..." "Well..." "If that's what you want..." "I accept." "See, Dora?" "He always accepts." "I was joking." "I'm leaving." "I'm scared." "I'm very scared." "You could do it by yourselves if you wanted." "Without me." "If you wanted." "Try to understand that I'm scared." "I can be scared too." "Look at my hands." "Look how they tremble." "They're cold." "I don't need to touch them to know they're cold." "You're the one who wants to be with us." "Let her go, Ismael." "Ladies are afraid sometimes." "Always the same." "I want to get into everything." "Wherever you are." "Then I realize I can't." "Everything terrorizes me." "You know." "It's ok." "Go if you want." "Forgive me." "I'll tell you later." "Leave." "I can't leave." "I shouldn't." "But if I come back, it's because I'm sure." "I don't wanna cause him trouble." "I remember the last summer." "and the other.. and the first." "Lucas wasn't with us that summer." "Someday time will come back." "Lucas will no longer be among us." "Dora..." "What happened?" "Come here." "Come here now." "Tell me what happened." "Get up." "Get up now." "They're wet." "They're very wet." "We'll dry them and we'll go." "I'm thinking that I'm not with them." "Me and them have nothing in common." "And they're good people." "Being good isn't all." "But..." "You promised him." "He was with you." "Then you left." "Understand me, I don't need your help." "What could you do in such case?" "Without you I can't think of anything." "It depends on you." "You're all my strength." "Come on." "Let's go home." "Let's go home." "Come in." "It's late." "Come in." "Tell me." "How long have you been mocked?" "The last time." "Two months." "Hi." "Who's this?" "Oh, Quesada!" "Yes, I hear you." "Oh, yeah." "Seriously?" "How did he die?" "Of course we'll go." "Where's the funeral?" "Oh, ok wait." "Wait, wait, wait, I'll take note." "Look, I can't find a notebook." "Ok, tell me." "Telia... 2400." "Municipal slaughterhouse." "It could've been a mistake." "It's what they told me the next day." "Sure." "But no one died." "No." "It's true." "That I've known." "Nobody." "Have you seen Lucas?" "Did you told him you talked to me?" "So?" "Always the same." "He doesn't want to." "He says..." "He says he also find them repulsing." "But there's no choice." "We have to do it, Dora." "Lucas says it." "And he's always right." "Smoke it." "I don't want to." "Let's go." "And the coffee?" "Let's go." "What do you think Dora?" "About what?" "I'm not sure what I want to ask you." "But I feel that something's happening... and we don't have to be quiet." "We aren't being quiet." "Wanna go dancing?" "Where?" "Wherever you want." "Ok." "Let's go." "Sick music slipping through our ears..." "It's tango." "I can't tell him what he wants to know." "Wasn't he already told?" "No one Lucas." "Who?" "Lucas?" "It can't be other." "He won't know, and he'll want me to tell him." "If he told him he'll hear me now." "So?" "I don't know what's going on, he's mad with Ismael." "He won't tell us why." "I asked him yesterday." "He said..." "May the devil take you, Quesada." "Everything is fine as it is." "I don't wanna owe you things." "What could I say." "I told him..." "The devil won't take me for this." "Everything isn't so great as you think." "You don't owe me anything, either you will." "You don't know, right?" "What should I know?" "Are you crazy?" "Tonight Quesada..." "Yes." "Everybody must come to my house." "At 9." "Ok Lucas." "I've invited you to something we've been waiting for a long time." "Can I leave?" "You're a part of each one of us, you can stay if you want." "No, no." "I want to go." "You can go if you want." "For the same reason that you can stay." "But..." "We don't want you to stop participating in our fun." "If you want." "Go and wait for me at home." "But remember." "If you stop participating in our games, someday you'll need us." "I don't know what's this about." "But if she wants to go..." "Let her go." "Go dear." "Wait for him at home." "This is such a cold night for ladies." "I have nothing against your fun." "But I'd rather go." "Yes Dora." "Go." "Do what they tell you." "Wait for me at home." "Ismael, I'm glad we all agree again." "I'm glad too." "You can't imagine how glad am I." "Because she wanted to go." "It's better for her and us." "Now we'll be more comfortable..." "and more calm." "But why?" "Don't you think like me, that she is a part of each one of us?" "Sure." "A part of each of one of us but..." "Ismael's entirely." "I know her since childhood." "Her family lived in a room next door." "It's the first time you talk about your childhood, Ismael." "Don't be ashamed, Ismael." "Our childhood..." "Is the most important thing we have." "Always with tears in your mouth, Efraim." "Some day I'll make you swallow them." "Why are you now silently looking at me?" "Let's keep talking about our childhood." "I'm interested in yours mostly, Ismael." "I don't know why I want to hear you speak so much today." "What do you care about my childood?" "I'll tell you if you want.." "But you promised us some fun, Lucas." "I didn't know you knew her since you were a kid." "A kid, yes." "And since then..." "Of course not." "But..." "You liked her then." "For playing." "Am I bothering you?" "Friends never bother, nowhere." "─ What I like most about Dora is her ass." "─ Lucas!" "What?" "Are you telling me you don't like it?" "They're close..." "A door doesn't stop them..." "How can you stop them?" "There's only a way..." "Waking up..." "Ismael!" "A guy like me." "Always dreaming." "Where?" "In the movie." "Why a guy like you?" "You're hard, huh?" "You've convinced us that you don't talk, but you'd rather talk than being quiet." "Why don't you trust me?" "I'm your friend." "Well..." "The others are your friends but it's not the same." "They mock you and sometimes it's harsh." "But you like it, do you?" "Want one?" "─No, no." "─They're american." "─No, I don't want to." "─Ok." "I can offer you cause you never accept." "I get them from that guy, you know." "He still goes, it seems." "Yeah." "─It seems.." "─The last time, a cardboard." "He promised me two for next week." "Two per week." "One for Lucas." "He wants to ask him things too." "If you'd smoke.." "But I don't smoke." "No, sure." "You don't smoke." "You don't like whisky either." "Neither." "There's nothing you like, actually." "No." "Nothing." "If you ever like something..." "Huh?" "I know." "I'll just tell you." "Yeah, just tell me." "Think about it." "Bye Quesada." "What should I do if he doesn't want to?" "He's not into these things." "Yesterday I talked to him and he played deaf." "Unless you talk to him." "─He always listens to you." "─Not anymore." "I think I messed up last night." "He won't look at me." "If that's what you can think of, we don't have cigarrettes and whisky." "What if Efraim asked him?" "Efraim?" "Do you think so?" "They've made good friends lately." "Keeping like that he'll share his woman with him." "Between traces there isn't gore, Lucas." "Of course not Quesada." "More even..." "Because he doesn't really care." "Of course not." "You're weird, huh?" "Weird isn't enough." "You're good with everyone." "We're divided enough as we are." "Not because I want to." "It's Dora who divided us." "To you...not me." "Cause she doesn't even tell you the time." "You seem like a frog." "And women don't like frogs, when they're cold like you." "You're very right." "I'm a frog." "But I hope I don't blow up..." "Like you're going to, if you keep doing what you're doing." "If I blow up, it will be an epic one." "Remember Quesada." "He seems crazier by the day." "Don't think, Luis." "Don't think." "Lucas is a balloon." "He's inflated and we can't lower him." "Efraim, did you know that Lucas's a balloon?" "No, Dora." "I didn't know." "I asked you to come cause you're Efraim." "The most comprensive of all." "Yesterday I was with Lucas." "In his house." "He promised me he won't mock Ismael." "That's why I was in his house." "With Lucas." "Yes Dora." "I don't want you to think it was because of something else." "No Dora, I don't." "Whatever..." "Lucas promised me he won't mock Ismael." "And actually .that's what I wanted from Lucas." "Yes Dora." "─Have you seen Ismael?" "─No, Dora." "─If you do, tell him I'll wait at home." "─Ok Dora." "Poker." "Come here." "Listen carefully, cause i'll say this once." "And no one needs to know this." "I'll tell you cause you seem to know it." "I don't." "You want to fool me?" "Don't tell me anything." "I know it's the best way to help you." "I need to tell you." "If you don't listen, I'm going to think I've lost you too." "I promised Dora that we won't mess with Ismael again." "She had to sleep with me." "In order to do that." "I asked her." "I bought this ring for her." "I can't find another way to apologize." "You don't need to be forgiven." "Yeah, yeah." "I need it." "Understand?" "I can't understand." "I didn't realize you've done something so repulsive." "I don't know how can you be like this." "And have the nerve to tell me this." "Who do you think I am?" "We'll go to the funeral tomorrow." "We can't be complicit in this again." "If it was someone else who'd want it?" "But it's Lucas." "He's getting worse." "You better not contradict him." "You're crazy." "What has Ismael done to you?" "You better shut up." "Quesada is right." "How do we tell him no?" "We go..." "And we tell him." "It's not that hard." "That's it." "─You go and tell him." "─Sure we'll do that." "When Lucas is among us, your ass gets dirty." "You can wash that." "Standing still is worse, without Lucas." "I doubt it's worse, messing with an innocent like Ismael is worse." "Put some silk paper and a pink ribbon to Ismael." "Before she came up..." "We all were close here." "Dora." "You drive me crazy." "Follow me, I'm late." "Your craziness will go away." "Why are you so cold to me?" "I'm not like the others." "They say the same thing." "Clearly not that early." "You're really strong." "Thanks to all of you." "I take advantage of Ismael's strenght." "They thought they could destroy a couple." "And they'd die at the same time." "Don't count me among them." "Why Efraim?" "Are you going to make me believe that you don't even know them?" "Actually no." "Why did she day Lucas and not Ismael?" "Open the door Ismael, it's me!" "Open!" "Efraim." "What's wrong?" "It's a telegram." "It's Dora's." "It's Dora's, read it." "There's one thing I want to know." "If there's something you wanna know you need to know it." "Yes..." "Just one thing." "Read the telegram and i'll tell you." "What do you want to know?" "Just one thing." "Read it." "Read it." "Read it." "I bet it's Dora who left with an excuse to spend the weekend at Tigre." "Read it." "Then I ask you the question." "With Lucas." "Dora obviously spend the weekend with Lucas." "Reading this telegram is useless." "Dora's gone with Lucas." "With Lucas, yes." "With who she's gone." "There's no sun." "Not the right day for Tigre, Lucas." "I'm not happy nor quiet for coming here." "Dora, don't worry." "Life goes back but confident people look ahead." "Come here." "You don't love me as you did." "And it's logical that you don't love me." "I'm the weakest of all." "Do I have something of a saint?" "Me?" "We all have something of a saint..." "Ismael." "Me..." "The most." "Isn't it?" "I have my halo here." "Two halos." "You see them?" "Would you like to have them?" "You too?" "Here?" "Here?" "Do I have or not?" "Something of a saint?" "Saint Ismael?" "Sometimes... when one feels bad projects taste like mint." "Projects?" "What projects?" "What projects?" "Tomorrow night's date." "For instance." "What will happen tomorrow night?" "Don't you know yet?" "In the cemetery." "We're going to steal a corpse." "We'll ask... $50.000 for return." "People like to conserve their corpses." "And they'll pay." "Lucas says they'll pay." "With Lucas, I like mint much more." "I mean projects." "He seems like a fish." "Doesn't he realize it's a joke?" "What time is it?" "It's 12." "I'll look after him." "Lucas..." "You've failed me." "You too." "In some way, Dora." "The first thing you did after Tigre was going to his house." "─That's not very delicate from you." "─I love him, Lucas." "Whatever he does with you, I love him." "Not you." "You're the worst of all." "The worst, because you're the most aware." "And I'll tell you something else." "Now that you're mocking him again." "You were five friends..." "There are now five shadows." "You know it." "Once I remember you wanted to make a revolution." "You even put a bomb in Plaza de Mayo." "You met at the cafe that night." "And you showed your bright faces." "I saw you from the street while I was waiting for Ismael." "Who then told me all." "You were like members from a world domination community." "And it was you." "Who allowed all that." "But actually..." "You never cared about anything." "More than Lucas." "And I've come to tell you." "And to tell you that you're an idiot." "The most intelligent and the most stupid of all." "Leave me." "He spent an hour under the rain." "An hour waiting for us." "And he'd still be there if Luis hadn't tell him it was a joke." "Another joke." "We better stop mocking him, Lucas." "I hate what we're doing with him." "Efraim said he seemed like a fish." "And he seemed like a fish." "You get sadden like a cow." "It's not ok that you all regret it now." "─You should have seen him..." "─Shut up!" "Ismael." "We better leave him alone." "Talk to him." "Why don't you talk to him?" "Do what he says, Dora." "Do it." "He's waiting for you to talk." "You better leave now." "Yes." "Yes, leave." "I also need you to leave." "They've been left alone." "Lucas and Ismael." "Both alone." "Lucas is obviously right when he affirms..." "That if it wasn't for this mocking instinct..." "Life would mean nothing to us." "Lucas is always right." "Shut up!" "When he gets out of there we'll know who's right." "They aren't the strongest, Dora." "And you know it." "Ten minutes have passed." "But even if they were ten years there." "It won't mean they're the strongest." "We all know..." "That you are the engine arm of jokes." "They've turned off the lights." "What shall we do?" "And you ask you." "Doing something is worthless." "They are now..." "The only ones who can do something." "Only if we could enter." "If we asked them to let us enter." "If we could convince them that we can help them." "That we can still help them." "We need to tell them to get out." "We should say that that Dora doesn't feel well." "Come in." "Come to see." "Will they stay there forever?" "Quesada, ask them." "Tell them to get out, come on." "Come on Quesada." "Knock the door, tell them." "Blood." "Turn on the lights." "Turn them on, please." "Dora's gone?" "Turn them on." "Turn them on." "What did you think?" "I'm dying." "You too." "Go." "No." "Go, they need you." "No." "I won't go." "Don't worry." "He's not dead." "It's all over now." "I didn't do anything to end with it." "But now.." "...I feel different than the other days." "I just felt in my hands the cold water." "I realized I've lived a dream crisis." "Now I feel better." "And I think I wasted time until now." "35 years wasting time." "Losing too much." "Nothing is over, don't worry." "Life will continue as always." "How do you know that nothing is over?" "What I say it's over, it ended here." "I've tried to avoid it." "He took the scissor." "And I thought it would fall on me." "It didn't fall on me." "It fell on him." "He made a curious movement and thrust it into his belly." "Then he asked me to turn off the lights." "You won't see me die, he said." "Then he said." "Tell me Ismael." "Has there ever been a man so unhappy?" "The only thing I did was to remove the scissor from where he had it." "So, it was him?" "Did you thought it was me?" "What I don't understand is why you didn't tell us." "He refused." "And I always respected what he wanted." "We all respected what he wanted." "Stay with him." "I'll go to see how's Lucas." "Ismael, forgive us." "Forgive us." "To the wasteland." "Lucas always made fun of you." "So what?" "We all always made fun of you." "So what?" "Now Lucas has died." "He died?" "And you need to know the truth." "Lucas is dead, yes." "Now he'll float forever." "So what?" "And maybe one day he'll come to my dreams." "And tell me if it's true what you just told me." "That you always made fun of me." "Only then I'll believe what you just told me." "He always told the truth." "If he doesn't come to my dreams to tell me this is true..." "I'll never believe it." "Never." "Never." "Never." "Never." "Of course not." "Never." ""Never" I said." "But I actually wasn't talking."