"IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT" "Irka!" "Come here..." "I can't understand what all the fuss is about!" "I got distracted, I admit," "I left the machine running and it made twice as much paper as we'd arranged..." "But five million, ten million euros, who cares anyway?" "!" "Okay." "I should have said something to the Russians, but I swear on my children's soul, that it wasn't on purpose!" "It was something I did unintentionally, you see?" "!" "Just like that!" "I didn't mean to give anybody any trouble!" "You put in paper on one side and euros start coming out on the other side, it's enough to dazzle you, isn't it?" "It's like wiping young boys' arses without owing anybody any explanations." "But I came through!" "We give that bastard Moreira the paper we had agreed to." "Did something go wrong?" "!" "Yes, it did!" "You had no business putting out the notes in Leiria!" "You idiot!" "I didn't know that Moreira controlled the market all the way up to Porto!" "How could I guess those Leiria boors buy it more expensive from Moreira?" "!" "Lack of organisation!" "The pyramid's fucked!" "Fucked the pyramid?" "!" "What is this, Disney!" "Good thinking, honey." "That way we won't mess up the trunk." "What the fuck is this shit?" "!" "It's just a warning." "So you won't be left without a father." "Give me a hand, will you." " This babe was hot!" " Don't be such a creep!" "Maybe we shouldn't tell Celeste about any of this." "She couldn't care less!" "Nico!" "Hi there Fyodor!" "Good evening, Mr. Nelson." "Carla, honey, would you make us some coffee?" "That clown-outfit suits you, Mr. Nelson." "It was for my son's birthday." "You shitted on our honour." "We meant no disrespect." "Stupidity can get you killed, Mr. Nelson." "I don't think it's worth taking it so much to heart." "What can I do, Vladimir lost his trust." "We have a problem on our hands." "How can I help with the problem?" "Who's that little girl?" " Sónia?" " The chick's hot." "She's not a chick!" "She's my daughter." "She will open her legs nicely." "Vladimir would see it as a welcome sign of respect." "Sure, but I didn't mean no disrespect to anyone." "And some things are still sacred, man." "I'll see to it that Vladimir gets your proposal." "Thanks." "Life's a bitch and death is a cruel bastard, my angel." "Little Sónia, get a move on, honey!" "Mum, have I got a pimple right here?" "!" "Stop it!" "Don't squeeze it!" "You'll ruin your face!" " O mum, I'll forget the lyrics!" " O no you won't!" "Listen, honey, you're so pretty, you have such a sad little voice, and wearing the princess dress, which suits you so well, you look smashing, out of this world!" "After all the trouble it's been, studying your looks, after I've slogged my guts out to find you this dress, my feet were killing me, trying to find some shoes to match the dress." "Don't even say a thing like that, or I'll snap!" "All this stress is going to freak me out." "It won't make them laugh, much less cry!" "O mum, this stuff is not good for crying." "Of course they'll cry!" "They'll be reaching for the table towels to wipe their noses!" "Carla!" "This place looks like it's never seen a mop." "If it wasn't me checking everything out, nobody sees anything!" "It's a miracle that this place runs so smoothly." "Are you listening to me?" "!" "That man killed a girl right in front of me, with a knife." "Irka and I came to Portugal, Fyodor picked us up at the airport." "What about some grub?" " You're starving again, are you?" "!" " That's all you get out of life!" "I had a bad feeling about it, but he treated us fine." "He took us to a house to have a rest." "I went to take a shower, and suddenly Irka starts banging on the bathroom door, in a state." "I opened the door all jittery, and she rushes to the wash-basin, to wash her mouth." "Then she tells me that Fyodor is waiting for me in the bedroom." " He was lying on the bed." " It was a bloody mess downstairs." "He asked me for oral sex, I said I didn't know how." "He laughed hard and said:" ""It's alright, I'll teach you how."" "But I didn't come to Portugal to become a whore." "He laughed even harder and said:" ""If you work well, after six months you can become whatever you want."" "What are you doing here?" "Don't you know you're not supposed to?" "!" " It isn't open yet, anyway!" " Go home!" "Now!" "Why were you hurting the kid?" "!" "What if he had fallen and had to be taken to the hospital?" "!" "Haven't I got enough to worry about!" "?" "And why do you have to be so bitchy today, of all days?" "!" "Never answers back!" "Bloody jellyfish!" "He explained to us that we had to do it with every men that wanted us and that if we tried to escape or go to the police, he'd kill us." "Honestly, man!" "Irka?" "She's late again." "She's pushing it!" "She'll get a fine." "My body was all swollen." "I stared at a dot on the ceiling waiting for one to leave and the next to come in." "Listen, love, promise me you won't snap when you see all those men laughing at me." "Love, they won't laugh!" "And if they do, I'll break their ugly mugs." " Swear you'll never stop loving me!" " I swear!" "Hey!" "Look at what you've done, you swine!" "I'm all smudged now." "Can't you see I need to be on my own now?" "!" "I just want to be left alone." "Come on, girls." "Get a move on!" "What's that?" "We call it the customer-teaser incense." "He must think even God Almighty enjoys a good smoke." "I must be going crazy." "Lately, I only have a hunger for ice-cream," "I could eat twenty Cornettos in a row." "The thrill of my première must be giving me cold feet," "I'm shitting my pants and all I feel like eating is ice-cream." "Do you think I'm a freak?" "Yes I do." "Carla." "Do you know what's up with Irka?" "No." "Not a clue." "She's late because of something or other." "She left me a message on my mobile, crying, telling me to run away." "All I know is she didn't sleep at home." "She was scared stiff." "Portuguese, Olga." "Nobody will hurt you here." "We have it good here." "Good." "Come on." "Go get your money." "Go and kiss your daughter." "She's a nervous wreck today." "Don't you upset her anymore." "Leave the kid alone." "Do it now!" "Don't tell me what I should or shouldn't do, it drives me fucking crazy!" "Okay, boss!" "Nelson, my king of the night..." "Our daughter will turn out a great artist, one day we'll have to buy a ticket to hear her sing." "But today she needs a lot of love and affection from her daddy." "Our future is at stake tonight." "Isn't it?" "Carla!" "?" "What are you doing here?" "!" "What do you think?" "!" "Refurbishing the loos?" "!" "One of these days you'll take it out on your skin!" "Take a good look at yourself, you're a mess!" "Not even on your sister's opening night?" "!" "Now you remember to clean the place up?" "You sit on your arse all day and all of a sudden, at opening time, you remember to roll up your sleeves?" "Everything is done in a hurry and nothing is done properly." "I've got to clean this shit before the johns start coming." "What's the matter with you?" "What's with the long face?" "!" " The tatoo isn't for real!" " What face?" "And old timer's face." "You're an old timer, dad, so you have to have an old timer's face." "Just kidding!" "You're the most handsome father in the whole world!" "Even with that long face!" "It's you who make me look old, by being so grown up." "And the long face is because I know something you don't know yet." "Something I don't know?" "!" "What's that?" "!" "Did you see that Russian gentleman?" "He's a show business entrepreneur." "He's on the look out for artists for a joint he owns in Madrid." "He's here to see you perform." "If he likes your singing he'll invite you to perform in Spain." "What a break!" "It's a great opportunity, one in a lifetime." "You're a very talented girl and Portugal is a shitty country." "There's no future for you here." "Spain, on the other hand, is a nice country, it's got a future, unlike this place." "I'm going to Spain?" "!" "Am I going to become a "Spanish star"?" "!" "But listen, you really have to go for it tonight!" "You really have to sing your guts out." "Dad, what if the Russian doesn't dig me?" "He'll dig you, you'll see." "Listen to what I have to tell you:" "I told him about you, because I believe in you," "Don't let me down." "I've put my faith in you, so don't disappoint me." "Not a word to your mother, though." "Leave that to me." "Mum is just making me more nervous." "Sónia, have a pee, so you won't need to when you're dying your hair." "Aren't you going to pay the girls?" "!" "You do that." "The pay slips are in the office." " Cèleste!" " What?" "!" "Don't tell me you're going to apologize for being so rude to me?" "Me, rude?" "You must have a lot to complain about!" "It came unstitched." "It must be from your going around with a hard-on from giving all the girls the eye!" "I'm a jerk!" "I'm going to pay some bastard with my own daughter's blood." "Little Sónia will be fucked until her cunt is ripped apart!" "Good evening." "Sorry I'm late." "If you don't want the kid to go, the kid stays." "Personally, I think I'm educated enough to read a public deed in Russian." "And you'd read the world a lot better with a bullet in your brains!" "Who gives a fuck!" "All you have to do is sing, you don't have to take your clothes off." "Carla, are you going to help me or not?" "'Cause there's something else." "Dad brought an entrepreneur to see me!" "What entrepreneur?" "That Russian fellow, a friend of dad's." "He says he wants to invite me" "Invite you to what?" "!" "To Disneyland?" "Fuck, what's that guy up to now?" "!" "Tell him to shove it!" "He says that if he likes my singing he'll invite me to go with him to Madrid." " Can you believe it?" "!" " No I can't." "You're not going anywhere." "Dad's freaking out!" "Dad will be embarrassed, if you don't give me a hand." "He says this is my shot at becoming a singer." "It's important, you see?" "No." "In fact I can't see a thing." "I know it's a really huge favour to ask." "If it works out, I'll make loads of money!" "You can give up this fucking life and become my manager." " Good grief!" " Come on, please, big siss'." "Dad would be pleased if you helped me out." "If you don't help me I'll never sing again." "I don't have anybody else to turn to." "Mum just wants to dye my hair." "Come on then, my little moron." "I'll help you out." " What do I mean by that!" "?" " Yes." " What do you think I mean by it?" " I don't know." "Last Wednesday, Ribeiro was paying for all the others as well." "You don't know how to drink, you get smashed and have to call the others to your table." "But that's not fair, 'cause the bottles were mine!" "You know how it goes." "It's either my way or the highway." "Don't I treat you well?" "You do." "Case closed." "Now buzz off!" "Maybe it'd be better if we told Celeste that the girl is going for her career." "You got her a contract as a singer in Madrid." "There's something we need you to explain to Vladimir." "You take it as you will, you're all a bunch of sleazy pimps anyway." "The girl's place is with her family." "You think you bugger the Portuguese and we'll pay for the lubricant." "Well nothing gets up our arses, not even suppositories!" "And if you want to talk to somebody, talk to me." "Sleaze-ball." "Can I ask you a favour?" "Would you take Sónia only after her act?" "She'd like her family to see her debut." "These whores come here and think they can steal our customers!" "But they'd better forget it when it comes to me." "Nobody gets their paws on my customers." "The customers belong to the establishment." "If they wanted to be with the same woman they'd stay at home with their wives." "Oh, she's so sweet, she's calling me chérie!" "I'm not your chérie, I'm nobody's chérie!" " Sónia!" "Get a grip!" " What's the matter?" "!" "You're fucking hopeless, that's what it is." "What was wrong?" "!" "I'd never seen anything so naff in all my life." "You should ask what was right instead." "Nothing!" "This sucks, man, forget about it." "Right, and baby Jesus' dick is holy!" "You're spoiled rotten!" "And I won't put up with your tight-assed sulking!" "This isn't working out, man." "I can't do it!" "It won't work out only if you don't want it to!" "You're the one who asked me to help you!" "Now work your arse off, which is Something you never had to do!" " Listen, Carla, I give up!" " That's really sad, you know?" "!" "Leave me alone Carla, I don't want to sing anymore!" "I'll leave you alone, but only when you get this shit right!" "I wish I had your voice, you moron!" "All you have to do is use your brains and pay attention to what you're saying." " Once more, with feeling!" " But I don't have feeling!" "You're going to get this shit right, even if I have to beat the shit out of you!" "You don't have feeling?" "!" "And you think I do?" "!" "All you see here is hard work!" "But the words you're singing have feeling!" "What are you doing holding the pole like that?" "Are you afraid it'll run away?" "!" "If you want to hold the pole, then hump it!" "Turn yourself on!" "Do like all the others, hump the damn pole!" "Haven't you seen how the others do it every night?" "!" "Who do you think taught them?" "!" "Because none of them was spoiled rotten, like you were!" "And none of them has a voice like yours!" "They all worked their fingers to the bone!" "You've got to turn yourself on!" "'Cause they all worked their arses off!" "If you need to touch yourself to get horny, do it!" "What are you embarrassed about?" "!" "Haven't you see how they do it every night?" "!" "They turn themselves on!" "And then the body just follows!" "They can't afford to be embarrassed if they're in the night business!" "Consider yourself lucky that you only have to use your mouth to sing, you don't have to swallow cocks!" "Now sing, nightingale!" "When I am born again" "I want to be born ageless" "Daughter to the mother That had me" "And to a man without malice" "That's more like it." "Just sing and your body will follow." "Sing or I'll kill you if you stop!" "It's so sad, now pimps call themselves entrepreneurs?" "!" "My princess!" "Vladimir is a friend of mine, he's an honest guy, he's going to take care of your sister." "Anyway, I haven't got a choice." "I'm up to here with you!" "Are you on drugs or something?" "So your choice is to ruin Sónia's life!" "?" "Your sister is a sort of bleach." "Relax, my angel." "What it all comes down to in this life is stupidity and a laid-back attitude." "It's okay." "As sure as sunrise." "Fate's pulling my leg and there's nothing I can do about it." "But you have to." "Or else they'll ruin her life, if they don't shoot her the minute she walks out of here!" "You're sending her to her death!" "Don't get on my fucking nerves, Carla!" " Dad?" "!" " Keep going, sugar plum!" "Can you announce me, please!" "Sure, honey." "I wouldn't miss it for the world." "Thanks, dad." "Don't get the kid more upset than she already is." "For your information, Nico has kicked the bucket." "How can I look Celeste in the eye now?" "That kid is the apple in her eye." "They've got me by the balls." "They'll make a stew out of our body fat and fry us alive." "Give me your hand." "They'll set this dump on fire with everybody in it." "We can sell the whole lot and get away." "You can't dodge fate." "But we can always hide Sónia." "Only if we can put her in hell." "Only Sónia can save us." "I can too." "Vladimir says he'll get your daughter "after act"." "I don't have a choice, do I?" "It's opening time!" "I'm not even ready!" "My little Sónia, dear, come on, mamma is ready for you." "Honey, straighten your back or you'll grow a hump." "Get off my back, I'm not in a fucking mood to put up with you!" "Can't you see I'm a nervous wreck because of your sister!" "?" "You don't have a drop of sympathy!" "Go get me a glass of water, 'cause I need to take a Valium." "My nervous system is jumping up and down!" "Sónia dear!" "Come on, honey!" "She's smashing!" "Your sister turned out to be a great artist." "And I turned out to be what, Celeste?" "Did you get paid already?" "Are you up to the job?" "Don't you want to go home?" "I won't take it out of your pay." "I'm afraid to go home all by myself." "Are you sure?" " What are you going to do with her?" " Classic blond." "Olga?" "Nothing, forget it!" "The first thing your mother learned from this job was that looks are everything in this life." "No matter how sexy a woman is, without looks she's worthless." "An untidy hair is enough to make you look dirty." "Tito!" "What are you waiting for to open the door?" "!" "There's still ten minutes to go." " Will you do as I say?" "!" " Certainly." "You hang on here for a while before you go in, Okay?" "Forty minutes." "Ten euros." "Fuck, Carla!" "Can't you close your eyes just for once?" "!" "No." "Fuck, man!" "We keep the money coming in and you can't let us off the hook!" "?" " Hi there, Carla!" " Hi, excuse me!" "See you later." "This parking lot is for customers only." "If you want to socialise, go inside." "Stop it, motherfucker!" "Let her go." "How I could fall in love with that bitch!" "If she doesn't return to the nest I'll cut her throat." "I'm sorry, miss." "It was a mistake." "Have you had enough fooling around?" "Not yet." "Hi, honey." "This is your glass, isn't it?" "Come on, let's dance." "What were you doing paying off that whore?" "!" "Are you putting me on?" "!" "This made my day!" "With all the scum out there, my night is fucked, once again!" " Most of all my feet!" "I'm fucked." " Paula!" "What!" "?" " It's the same every night." " Get to work." "See you later." "Next time you'll sleep with her." "I don't have time for this shit!" "Do you understand?" "!" "You'll wait for me and that's that!" "I'm not a kid anymore!" "Hello, love!" "I thought you'd never come!" "You took forever." "All those years dreaming about this and the dream is just within arm's reach!" "I've always said this girl would turn out to be a great artist." "You're a natural, honey." "But I don't know if I want to go yet?" "!" "What's the idea of me going all by myself to Spain?" "We should give that hair some volume." " Your father is never wrong, dear." " Are you both out of your minds?" "!" "Lower your head." "I always knew you'd strike lucky." "When I spread your cards, the dominant one was the Wheel of Fortune..." "And the Sun came along with it!" "You're an Earth sign, so it had to turn out right!" "After everything going bad for Carla..." "may God have mercy on her!" "I've done all I could...!" "Rest assured, you'll get out of here with a hair like a star!" "Give me some room!" "I want to have a piss and stars don't piss." "And I don't want to go to Spain with that Russian!" "You need a good head on your shoulders!" "In my days you needed that, you didn't give everything away." "It wasn't like nowadays, girls give everything away for free, they don't hook their customers, they don't make friends, and then, of course, you lose the long-term investment." "The Brazilian girls are the worse!" "For a couple of bottles of champagne..." "Look at her!" "Your sister's going to look like a real star." "She's going to look like a real whore, that's what." "Don't pay any attention, she's just jealous." "If they don't get turned on just by looking at you" "I'll quit the business there and then!" "As to you, leave the girl alone, she's got enough to worry about without you on her back!" "Aren't you going to fix yourself up?" "!" "Have you looked at yourself?" "!" "Let me take care of it." "You must have gone crazy for good." "They laugh at you in your face and you don't want to see what's right in front of you." "Now I'm not following you at all!" "Guess!" "I wouldn't let my daughter go with a "entrepreneur" of that sort." "Don't make up stories, Carla!" "What planet are you from?" "!" "Were you dropped by an alien?" "!" "Stay out of it." "All you do is cause trouble." "Don't be so jealous!" "Madam Celeste!" "I haven't been payed yet." "As if you hadn't already received the whole lot in money orders!" "The thing is, I'm flat broke." "You shouldn't have spent it." "I'd make a pajamas out of spit!" "Would you have the tongue for it?" "!" "Your girl is busy at the moment, but I'll send her to you shortly." "I don't want her here!" " Where are you coming from?" " Just around here." "Somewhere." "I'd say from another galaxy." "I work here." "And what do you do, sweetie?" "I'm a man of independent means." "I wished I were in your shoes!" "Do you want to swap places?" "Make that man feel welcome." "He's disgusting, he drools all over my neck!" "He's a customer." "One is as good as the other!" "Tell him I'm sick, that I have an allergy to grease and slime in general." "Carla!" "I can't stand Panela any more!" "He keeps pushing me to all those sleazy customers." "I don't like to deal with Rute's customers, they're spoiled." "Rute is a lady!" "You wish you could make as much money as she does." "If Xupa is or isn't a lady, I don't know!" "I'd rather earn less than to be groped all over." "Escorting doesn't mean fucking!" "The man pays handsomely." "And you're here to work." "Ready!" "You can't walk about with your fly open, man." "Where does the Russian want to take Sonia to?" "To sing in Spain." "She's getting the break of her life." " Don't lie to me!" " I'm not lying to you." "Don't push it, 'cause you don't fool me." "This is good for her." "Okay, so I'll go with her." "Why on earth would she go without her mother?" "She doesn't need her mother to wipe her arse!" "Sónia is not going anywhere without my permission." "I still haven't lost the plot altogether!" "What are you mixed up in?" "Tell me." "Did they offer you money?" "Did you screw up?" "Don't tell me you've got a debt I don't know of?" "!" "The money from this place is mine." "I earned it." "Not you." "You never worked your arse off like I did." "Not for a second!" "You're nothing but a small-time pimp." "I sure hope you're not two-tricking me, may God forgive you, or I'd tear you apart!" "Shit, did you have to use yesterday's beans?" "!" "Fuck, I've lost my appetite!" "Why's that?" "!" "Beans always get better the day after." "That's when the taste comes out, Nelson." "Sónia is too young." "Vladimir is doing us a big favour." "Good for him!" " Celeste, please!" " Over my dead body!" "Please, trust me!" "Trust me, sweetie pie." "I know what I'm doing." "I'm also worried, but it's for her own good." "Do you think I'm not going to miss our baby?" "!" " Maybe you think I have no feelings?" " Stop it now!" "That's just what I needed!" "Go get busy, Iris." "I'm pissed off with iron-mouth there!" "Forget it, I don't want to know, I've got a headache." "Spare me the cock and bull stories, precious." "Make yourself presentable and go grab a customer." "It'll ease off." "My customer isn't here yet." "Give us a break, will you boss!" "?" "As soon as Ricardo arrives I'll call you for him." "He keeps postponing his fucking promise to help me with my debt!" "Paloma, get a grip!" "This isn't the place to cry." "A friend of mine told me he went down on you big time!" "Really?" "!" "He's one hell of a muff-eater." "He's been there so many times, he doesn't brush his teeth, he combs them." "Hands off!" "Why don't you squeeze somebody who's up for it!" "Come here, my dear." "Take your hands off me, you leech!" "I haven't got a washing machine yet." "You'll have it there by tomorrow." "Is that right?" "!" "It'll have to be a semi-profissional like your wife's!" "I'm even afraid to go out with you." "I don't bite." "I've been meaning to talk to you about something for a while now." "Shoot!" "Wouldn't you like to have children?" "I'm really sorry, Mino, but I don't like chains." "I'd rather go about my own little business, enjoy my own little freedom, than have children hanging around my neck." "Sebastiao wants me to stay with him." "He wants to marry me." "It was just to calm my nerves." "You'll get drunk and blunder the song." "Leave her alone." "Stay out of it!" "She can't drink..." "It's real cool that you've arranged all this stuff and all that, but..." " But what?" "!" " O dad, I don't want to go!" "What's the point of going alone to Spain?" "Alright, honey!" "Case closed." "Fuck this fucking life!" "What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?" " What's the matter?" "!" " Don't say a word!" "I'm sorry, okay!" "Rute, that guy over there, he'd like to speak to you." "Lead-feet over there is in the bag, honey!" "I'll pay for all the cases of champagne, but away from here." "I don't want anything else from you." "I understand, but I've got plenty of friends already." "So, darling, how's it going?" "Can I sit down?" "You can and you should!" "Wouldn't you like to go to my place tonight?" "I wouldn't mind waiting for at least a couple of minutes." "Brigina!" "How long have you been here?" "This gentleman has had his hands all over you for half an hour and you didn't drink anything?" " We're celebrating our engagement!" "This is no place for engagements." "This is place for drinking, not for getting married." "So you smoke now?" "!" "Iris." "Eleven thirty." "They're like wolves prowling." "Let me go instead." "You?" "You're too old for their taste." "But I'm as good as new." "But they want Sónia, that's the fucking problem." "They wanted Sónia!" "But they can take me, 'cause I can do things Sónia can't." "But what they want is a pretty lolita." "She can't take it!" "You can't let her go!" " It can't be helped." " Let me go instead!" "You can't." " Let me go instead!" " It's impossible!" "But why is it impossible?" "!" "Let your pussycat do it!" "It's impossible, honey." "Honey, see how good it is!" "You can't die, or I'd kill myself right after." "Why is it impossible?" "!" " Let your sweet Carla cuddle you!" " They'd kill us all." "No they won't, I won't let them!" "You like Carla, don't you?" "!" "They'll burn us alive in here." "Don't say a word!" "Relax, let Carla take care of it." "You'll see how wonderful your Carla is, and so you'll love your sweet little Carla to bits!" "I love you more than anything else in the world." "Then send me!" "Send me!" "My sweet Carla, honey!" "Dad!" "Are you mad at me too?" "Why would I be?" "I ended up with a whore as a mother and a pimp as a father." "What reasons could I have to be mad at you?" "!" "You've freaked out!" "It's all because of pussycat." " Whose pussy?" "!" " Yours, stupid!" "Dad sold your cunt." "I wanted dad to announce me." "Dad sold your cunt to the Russians!" "So he could square his debts." "That's why he wants you to go with them!" "No way you're going to Spain to sing!" "You're going to Spain to be fucked!" "Look at me!" "Dad exchanged you for money." "Moolah, loads of moolah!" "Beans!" "Jangle!" "Notes!" "Euros!" "That's alright, I already told him I'm not going." "I used some of your nail polish." " Does it look alright?" " Yes, fine!" "Because you're blond and about as dumb as a plastic bucket!" "They've already killed Irka!" "They left the bathroom covered in blood." "Do you know what that is?" "!" "That red stuff that clings to the walls and is hard to wash off!" "?" "What have you got against me?" "And then dad told them they could keep you." "And the very same thing will happen to you if you keep trying not to listen to what I have to tell you." "Would you like to see where Irka is?" "!" "She's packed real tight in the trunk of your dad's Mercedes." "Are you trying to ruin my opening night?" "!" "Come see the far out scene in father's car!" "I don't believe you!" "I hate you!" "Good." "Listen carefully." "Dad's in a jam, he's been tricked, he owes a bundle of money and he was forced to sell you to the Russians." "Do you understand!" "?" "Why won't you let me live my night in peace?" "!" " You must be retarded!" " Shut up, stupid!" "The more you cry the less you'll piss!" " Piss off!" " Okay!" "I love you too!" "Fuck!" "Come here!" "You're lucky I won't let this happen." "Because I love you, stupid." "You're my moron kid sister." "I'll work it out." "Okay?" "You don't like our water?" "!" "It's got too much iron, at least I know this one didn't come out of the tap." "Say no more." "It's medicine, isn't it?" "For the cough." "Nice mouthwash, it's strong." "Where are you?" "No, I feel like having a pizza." "Yes." "Hello and good evening, gentlemen." "Thank you for joining us and our entertainers!" "Our show includes strip-tease, table-dancing and..." "Can I have your attention please, now, the sexy moment..." "A very exotic, gorgeous dancer, Iris!" "You can't wash away your sadness with tears." "I have no tears." "Get your hands off, you're pushing it!" "This is a respectable place!" "I'm off." "I have to slave early tomorrow morning." "Just give me 20 lousy euros for a cab before you go." "How much do you charge to go out?" "O darling!" "Two hundred to get in, two hundred to go out." "But that means the whole lot?" "A three course meal?" "That's your number, isn't it?" "Do you want to talk to me?" "Go ahead and talk!" "What?" "!" "You told me she was the one that called you and it turns out you're the one sending her messages?" "!" "You're a bloody pig!" "You're not half the man he is!" "Your brains are microscopic compared to mine!" "What's going on here?" "I just wanted to know why Mr. Cardoso is sending me love messages?" "Mr. Cardoso, do you see what you're doing to the girls?" "!" "I noticed Brigina has been so gloomy lately, I just wanted to comfort her." "Can't a man just be friendly these days?" "!" "Friendly?" "!" "Oh, how sweet of you!" "Bullshit!" "Brigina!" "Come here, I've got a swell customer for you." "What an extraordinary woman!" "I've known her for years and years." "So, where are my two sweethearts off to?" "!" " Grab a bite to eat!" " Eat, now?" "!" " We'll be back in no time!" " Honey, listen!" "Good evening, Carla!" "Would you tell Mrs. Celeste that I'm here?" "No need for that, she can smell you a mile away!" "Look, just out of curiosity!" "How many bottles of that stinking stuff did you pour on yourself?" "!" "Some people like it." "I'm telling you, if I don't eat a pizza right now, I'll die!" "I want a four cheese pizza!" "It must be some sort of emotional need." "Don't worry, I'm an expert on that!" "The guys call her the "arse bandit", 'cause the bitch had a unique technique to do the customers in no time without getting pregnant." "She told the johns she only liked to fuck doggy-style." " What have I done?" "!" " Nothing." " Tell me!" " You haven't done anything." "You're pissed off with me, I can tell." "All you think of is yourself." "It's nothing to do with you, it's to do with me!" "Do you still love me?" " I do." " Forever?" "I love you so much that sometimes I think I'm going to burst!" "Will you marry me, Sebastiao?" "We're too young to get married." " Wait." " What?" " I have to check something." " What's the matter?" "I'm thinking." "My dad wants me to go to Spain with that Russian fellow." "What about me?" "!" "It's a free country nobody can force you to go." " Don't be so thick!" "You tell him you're not going and that's that!" "Alright?" "Don't ever leave me." "Sónia!" "My dad is in a tight spot." "Come here, honey!" "I'm the only one that can help him." "I love you." "Sónia had Irka's gold string around her neck." "She never takes it off, it was her grandmother's." "Where's Irka?" "Carla!" "Tell Sónia I'll go and wash her hair in a second." "Go on, honey!" "What I have to go through to keep this family together!" "If you only knew what I go through for you." "Stop it, my titties are all puffed up, my period's around the corner." "If it was a cigar I'd call you Bill Clinton." "What's the matter with you?" "!" "Come here and talk to your father!" "I'm washing my hair." "I'm going to die." "Nobody's ever died for singing a song, dear!" "Don't lie to me, dad." "What are those Russians going to do with me?" "They're going to manage your career and make a music star out of you." "They're just scouting for talent to take to Spain." "They're show business entrepreneurs." "Did you sell me?" "I won't have you talking to me like that!" "He's one of the finest people in our country, honey!" "And they're my friends." "And they're proving it by giving you a hand." "So I told them about you and they decided to come see you tonight!" "They're going to draw you a contract, handle your promotion, get you some gigs and a nice house for you to live in." "They can do for you what your dad couldn't so that you can reach the top, reach for the stars." "That's right." "And it's much better to go to Spain." "It's much better for a singer." "In Portugal, forget it, nothing gets done." "I'm real lucky." "I've got loads of talent and I'm not going to blow it just because I'm spoiled." "That's the spirit, dear!" "Later we'll go there to hear you sing, with a pretty dress, on a proper stage," "with spot lights making that glitter in your eyes stand out, and a whole orchestra with violins" "and a piano!" "And I'm going to be rich and pay for the hotel where you'll stay." "The best hotel in Madrid." "Then I'll take you for a tour around the city in my limo." "And wherever we are, there will be loads of photographers." "They'll even pay us to be on the cover of magazines." "Then we'll go to a club and have a few drinks." "And I'll introduce you to my boyfriends, a whole bunch of them." "But they'll be gloomy, they'll have a broken heart, because I'll be faithful to Sebastiao for as long as I live." "What if my singing is not any good, dad?" "Don't cry, dad." "I can't take it." "Get out of here." "Get out, please." "You were right." "They're going to kill me." "Funny, isn't it?" "You're the one that does everything, they count on you for everything." "And now it's me they need." "In a way, I'm happy." "There you go, nine hundred euros." "After the show, you say you have to change clothes and you come downstairs." "I'll meet you here and help you escape through the bathroom windows." "You can take my Fiat Uno," "I'll hand you the keys later." "Once they've noticed you're taking too long, they'll come looking for you and you'll be gone by then." "I'll be here, by myself, just sitting and waiting for them." "And it will all turn out for the best." "You head straight to Lisbon." "You find a pension there and don't tell a soul where you are." "Not even Sebastiao!" "Are you listening?" "!" "You can't tell this to anyone!" " Where did you get this?" "!" " I found it on the bathroom floor." " Give it to me." " No." "I'll use on stage." " You can't!" " Why?" "!" " Because it belonged to Irka." " I know." "Now it's mine." "It looks good on me." "Ladies and gentlemen." "We are happy to present to you a little of us for each and every one of you!" "A future night star!" "Sónia!" "Ladies and gentlemen, a joy to the eyes, a fire to the heart!" "A girl raised by these very hands, brought up with devotion." "A voice like a dove, which Your Excellencies will have the opportunity to see and hear." "A voice like a sweet dove!" "The extraordinary and sensational Sónia!" "A red-hot and velvety voice!" "Nobody messes with Sónia!" "When I am born again" "I want to be born ageless" "Daughter to the mother That had me" "And to a man without malice" "I'll be born in a corner" "Where the devil went past" "When the night is young" "As young as I" "I'll be born in a corner" "When I am born again" "I want to be born backwards" "And change completely" "So I'll turn into a boy" "I'll be born in the square" "That lies in the eyes of a slut" "Why the long face?" "!" "I'll watch people going by" "And dying of blindness" "Haven't you got anything to tell me?" "It's really sad, man." "Would you mind translating!" "?" "So you're going to sacrifice your daughter, Nelson?" "Aren't you going to say anything?" "I know everything." "Silence gives consent." "Spare me the pain of spelling it out." "I don't need to justify myself to you." "What do you want me to say." "I have nothing to say to you." "But I do, Nelson." "Listen carefully to what I have to say." "You're her father, you brought her into this world!" "How will I bear to look at her empty chair and then at yourself?" "If I lose my daughter, you lose me along with everything that belongs to me." "Don't let me down, Nelson." "You won't find a woman like me ever again." "You want me to jump off a bridge, is that it?" " Kill the Russian." " Killing will come to nothing." "Killing always comes to something." "Otherwise I'll kill you." "I won't think about it twice." "You know I can't live without her." "I won't need any excuses." "What you reap is what you sow." "The princess there must think this shit is a second-rate Casino!" "She's got a nice voice to type." "If I was the boss' daughter I'd be singing the fado as well." "I only kiss men that turn me on." "I'll fuck alright, and I'll fuck like crazy, but only with who I fancy." "And now get out of my face, your ashtray-stink's making me sick." "Kissing is not included, case closed." "Is that clear?" "!" "A beautiful evening..." "Isn't it?" "Drink up." "Go on, take it out of your pants." "Let us have a look at the bacteria." "I'm really strung out." "I need to get some fresh air." "Let's step outside." "Bye, Carla." "See you later!" "O My God!" "I mustn't." "My daughter's in there singing and here I am!" "Fucking hell, Celeste!" "Fuck!" "What does she want now?" "!" "Go away!" "That's the last thing I needed!" "Fucking old cunt!" "Where are you?" "You can come now, the food's on the table." "I'm the princess of your dreams." "Let's hear it, ladies and gentlemen, for the fabulous, the stunning, the amazing Sónia Star!" "And now, to commemorate the occasion, the house offers champagne to everybody!" "That's okay, isn't it, Celeste?" "Excuse me!" "What are you doing?" "!" "Do you fancy yourself a big star!" "?" "You've got to get dressed!" "On the double!" "I hear you." "You don't need to repeat it twenty times over." "I'm tired of it." "Fucking twenty times a night, in the cold, in Russia, now that's tiring." "Rest assured, Carla." "They're not going to make me fuck in Russia." " Olga hanged herself." " Olga what?" "!" " Come with me, Carla." " I don't have time to listen to you!" "I'm sick and tired of listening to you!" "Let's go!" "No way, Celeste." "And you're hurting me!" "I've got to help my sister get dressed!" "It's an emergency!" "The emergency will have to wait!" "Let's go!" "Fuck!" " What do you want?" "!" " Shut up!" "Listen, Celeste, I've worked it all out." "Sónia is going to run away," "I've already given her some money and my car keys." "Calm down, Carla." "You're only getting us into more trouble, honey." "Listen to me, please!" "Leave me alone!" "I hate you!" "Just my luck!" "You seem to have been born just to make my life miserable, honey." "Don't start playing the victim, I'm up to here!" "If they by any chance so much as think of taking your sister, you're father is as good as dead." "What!" "?" "I warned him." "I'll go instead of Sónia." "Look at you..." "You're twenty-four, your hair is a disgrace, your teeth are a mess." "You wouldn't know what to with a man if he had eyes for you." "Carla, wake up and smell the coffee, will you honey?" "Carla, my dear, don't make things more complicated than they are." "This life can be so easy if we only make an effort." "It all depends on what you put into it!" "I'm not crazy." "You're the one who refuses to see the devil right in front of you." "It's as if your eyes were turned inside." "Wipe your face." "You're so cute, did you know that?" "!" "You're hot as a pistol, but you can switch off." "My battery is flat." "But I've got a plug here where you can charge it." "It was something else, wasn't it dad?" "It sure was, honey!" "You've hit it big." "We have to tell each other the truth." "I know I'm not going to see you again, dad." "Look me in the eye." "Don't look away." "Everything's fine." "They're good people." "Give me a kiss." "Tune your senses to life, gentlemen, let eroticism take hold of your souls." "Anything can happen in this crazy night world, all you have to do is let the life juices flow." "Night life is packed with emotions!" "What's the matter?" "!" "You promised me." "Are you nuts?" "!" "They'll kill you!" "No they won't." "You can't do this!" "You only think of yourself, nobody else." "You're just like your mother!" "A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do!" "Fucking hell!" " That's right, Carla." " You're pushing me, damn it!" "You can always tell right from wrong." "You always take care of everything." "You've always been there for me." "You taught me everything I know, Carla." "You've always been the best sister in the world." "Do you hear me, Carla?" "You're the best sister in the world." "She's gone nuts." "What's wrong, honey?" "Does your tummy ache?" "It must have been all those ice- - creams, they stopped your digestion." "Do you have a fever?" "Do you know what it was?" "Your blood pressure plunged." "You're letting off some steam." "Nobody should suffer because of me." "It was fab." "It was really cool to sing like that." "It was the greatest night of my life." "I felt things I'd never felt before." "It's weird, but it's true." "Time to go!" "Come on, Sónia!" "It's because of you that I sang so well." "Did you know that?" "You're so pretty, Carla." "Don't let anybody say you're ugly." "Never." "Take it easy." " Run for it, there's still time." "Go." " Let go of your sister!" "I still have to talk to Sebastiao." "He's waiting for me." "He's over there alone and lost." "I have to go and give him a kiss." "I love you." "Did you see what you did to your sister?" "She doesn't know which way is up..." "She's all twisted up inside!" "Get off your arse and do your job!" "Why do I have to do everything around here?" "!" "Mr. Nelson, I've already sent Nicolau three messages." "He doesn't show up." "Irka didn't show up." "Go have a word with Celeste." "Dad." "This isn't the end of it." "I won't allow it." "Relax, honey." "It's been a long night." "I have to be the one who saves you!" "Hi, darling." "I'm ready." "You'll have to wait a bit." "It's not time to go yet?" "!" "Not yet." "So, will you buy me a drink?" "To while away the time." "How can I help you?" "A bottle of Dom Perignon for the young lady." " Certainly." " You're a man of taste, honey." "It's the waiting that gets to you." "Won't you join me, darling?" "I don't like champagne." "Here's to my future." "I get it." "I'm going home." "It was very nice of you to have come." "Give me a ring when you wake up." "Sure, love." "I'm sorry about that." "It was just a friend." "It's three a.m. And souls are damned!" "France is a much more Germanic country, don't you think?" "Have you ever seen two women making out?" "The two of us would make out and then you could make out with us." "My cunt is all steamed up." "I've got plenty of love to go round!" "Then give it all to me!" "It's for luck, honey!" "You're getting me all wet, love!" "You're making me blind, Celeste." "Don't be like that, I'll never leave you." "You know I'm sensitive." "Stop it." "Nelson isn't too keen on this kind of thing." "Fuck Nelson." "He doesn't deserve you." "You're the most decent guy in the night business." "Go away now." "Sónia!" "Get away!" " You don't need to go, honey!" " Mum, don't do this to me." "I'll lose my nerve." "O honey stay with me!" "I don't want you to cry." "Look at mummy." "Mummy is not crying, honey." "Let go of me!" "Honey!" "Stop it!" "Nelson, let go of me, please." "You're sending your daughter to hell!" "Let's work it out between us." "She might come back!" "Cut it out!" "What can I do?" "!" "Let go of me!" "Kill the bitch!" "Don't die, Carla." "You can't trick me out of my death." "Don't touch her, Nelson." "There's still customers around." "Get to work."