"Sonia" "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remenber that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." "F.SCOOTT FITZGERALD" "My hands... are longing for your hands." "And my eyes... are looking forward to your eyes." "I... will love you." "For today... and tomorrow" "and for all time." "She first saw himlast winter." "She had woken up early and was watching the snowstorm from her window." "Then, from the house across the street she saw him walking down the steps with his black overcoat and his bag." "He paused at the gate and looked at his watch." "Inadvertently, Sonia looked towards the big clock in the room." "It was five past eight." "He lifted up his blue overcoat collar and Sonia watched him walk hastily." "Until he vanished down along the street." "She remained at her window looking at the snowy deserted street." "Sonia didn't sleep that night." "Later she heard that his name was Tonio." "He was 46 years old, married, he had a 15 year-old daughter and he was a piano professor." "Then, Spring came." "Sonia at her window would watch him every morning leave with his bag for the Conservatory." "He always paused at the gate, looked at his watch and then left." "In the evenings, piano music came out of his house." "One evening, Sonia listened to a melody coming from Tonio's house." "And as the song continued she became pale." "She felt her heart beating fast." "She froze at the thought she would love him." "The first thing she thought was changing houses, leave this neighbourhood." "Then the melody stopped and Sonia felt relaxed." "At 25, Sonia is aware of the storm coming." "She's not doing anything to stop it." "She believes in Tonio although she never spoke to him." "She allows herself to." "Last year a whole spring passed with Sonia at her window." "Determined, tender and lonesome." "The following summer, Tonio and his family went to an island on holiday." "To this house Sonia had moved a year ago." "She liked it being outside the city, away forn the crowd." "She had spent 4 years studying History of Art in Florence." "Her parents died when she was quite young." "They left her a big fortune and she studied in High School and University." "In this city she has no friends or acquaintances." "So most of her hours are spent on book reading." "She wasn't pretty." "But she had a soul gentleness which is the prettiest beauty." "At times, she had been passionately loved for this inner radiance of hers." "She can't remember offering her heart to anyone." "From her window she watches the house across the street which is closed." "And the street Tonio crossed every morning." "Autumn is loved by the romantics." "Especially when it's windy and the leaves are falling." "Over the years, poems and songs have been written about this season." "The first strong wind at the end of October." "Evening tea behind closed windows." "The telegram arriving from somewhere with only one word in it." "The unusual name of a girl that you hear in the night." "The city square with candy stores changing color in the afternoon sun." "The postcard showing Venice." "The narration by a friend of a unique journey." "Autumn." "Sonia at her window." "The previous spring, one night while listening to professor Tonio play the song she loved on the piano," "Sonia gave him for all time the most precious thing she had." "Her soul." "It is unbelievable." "But she fell for him because of the way he played the song on the piano." "The song was from an old foreign film and it was titled" ""Stormy Weather"." "It was almost the end of summer." "Soon the hot days and the tender nights will be a distant memory." "Fleeting glances..." "A kiss by moonlight..." "A slight layer of lipstic..." "Blue skirts..." "Fruits of summer..." "Drinking cold water..." "Sea diving from the ship's mast..." "Nightly praying to unknown gods..." "Truths and lies having been told..." "Plenty of people in the squares." "Words from passersby." "Train farewells..." "Fires in the sand." "And the poet's phrase..." "It was almost the end of summer." "The old gentleman" "Is reading "Wuthering Heights" for a tenth time." "A book he loved very much in his youth." "The summer that went by stole something out of the young girl's soul." "Some secret of unforgettable beauty." "He'd love you very much if he had known you." "He always dreamt of a woman with forgotten eyes." "There's a sorrow today around the beaches." "These... are the last photos of summer." "During winter nights... they'll remind them of seas, flowers, kisses, caresses, nostalgia, southern winds and sunshine." "These are the photos of a summer fond and at the same time cruel." "Because the summer that passed had a certain cruelty." "Perhaps... because it was very beautiful." "Playing in the sand and the love story that did not happen." "Playing in the sand." "And hope, a weapon strong for sensationalists." "There were wild white waves this last August and a strong south wind." "A stroll by the sea." "All the way across... there... far... she had gone swimming and laughing." "You?" "She asked her friend." "What will you remember from the summer that passed?" "This was the usual visiting spot for that lady in a white dress." "She would sit in this chair and look at the ships travelling." "Everybody loved the lady in white." "She loved nobody." "Today, she left earlier than usual." "Not only one is the last word of summer." "So, you're still smiling?" "Seems like a lie..." "This year summer passed as quickly as a bird's flight from one rooftop to another." "This street separates the two houses." "It's a little outside the city and has houses with gardens on both sides." "It is the street Tonio crosses on his way to the Conservatory." "This is the house Tonio stays in." "His wife and daughter have been away for some time now to another city." "They are coming back in a few days." "Right across is the house where Sonia stays in." "On the room walls there are paintings from her journeys abroad." "A grand bookcase with interbellum books a tape recorder with music that she loves and always in a crystal vase flowers." "Sir Professor!" "Sir Professor!" "Good morning to you." "Good morning to you." "I don't even know your name." "My name is Sonia." "I live in the house across." "The house across..." "I've never seen you." "What did you say your name was?" "Sonia." "It is like a song." "Are you a student?" "I was in Florence." "I studied History of Art." "I have a daughter who wants to be a writer after she travels alone." "She's away with my wife right now." "Do you think I should let her?" "Since she wants to." "You know better." "I'm late." "I must go." "Tomorrow I'm taking a 20-day-off." "we'll have time to talk." "Adieu, Miss Sonia." "Adieu, Sir Professor." "Thus begins the story of Sonia and Tonio." "On an autumn day of that year." "A morning that marks Sonia's life." "As she is now watching Tonio walk away in her mind comes the spring evening from the previous year." "and she recalls that in her early youthful years she had read of a beginning like this one in a book." "Soul is of main importance in all art forms." "When you touch the keys with your fingers you should feel that the tune about to be produced must have eternity." "When I say eternity," "I mean transference of music from you playing to those listening." "Of course there has to be technique as well." "But don't forget to give the best you have in your soul." "The last time I saw Paris was two years ago." "I loved the Paris of Cézanne and Toulouse-Lautrec." "The Interwar cafés frequented by Hemingway and Fitzgerald." "The poor musicians in the street corner." "The songs of Edith Piaf and Yves Montand." "The beggar who gave his last franc to another beggar." "The sudden rainfalls of May." "Waiting at Orly Airport." "Accidental meetings with strangers." "The Paris of bohemians." "Maxim's." "Rodin's Eternal Spring." "The music coming from afar and I could not make out the song." "The Latin Quarter." "Favorite liars." "Italian Mario who wanted to be a writer." "Carlos who only painted roofs and skyscapes." "I loved a Paris of my own." "and I think that you will not deny me a meeting." "A tiny little contact." "I'm not asking of you to love me." "But allow me to love you." "I know that you are married and you have a grown daughter." "All the same I love you." "Like the desperate ones love." "Dear Sir Professor, dear Tonio," "Today for the first time I spoke to you." "You spoke to me as well." "We exchanged a few words in the autumn morn." "In fact... your eyes are brown." "Seeing you from afar" "I always wondered about their color." "Also your smile is April-like." "I know nothing about your life." "But you must be a happy man." "I first saw you last year." "A winter morning with a heavy snowstorm on your way to the Conservatory." "At that time although you wore an overcoat" "I thought you might get cold." "Tonio..." "I'm not beautiful and I know it." "The only thing I can give you is my soul." "It will belong to you forever." "I know... when the two of us begin an affair there will be no solution or a way out." "I'm not afraid though." "If you devote one day of your life to me just one day" "to me it will be eternal." "Sonia." "Every time I see you" "I feel like I'm going to fly." "Ann when I think about you a flame sparks in my heart" "and some unbeknown fever consumes me." "Two days ago I spoke to you." "I know that there cannot be a resolution to this story" "which I can feel is beginning" "I don't mind though." "I know you are married and you have a grown daughter" "If you accept being with me for a short while" "I will be happy." "We may live a love story like those described by the great writers." "Or it may be that our story passes quietly and anonymously in our era." "But any which way" "please be good to me." "She remembered Previn's verse" ""I bought flowers for you but did not find you" "I bought heavy shackles for you but did not find you."" "Tonio!" "How does that poem end?" ""There's nothing more beautiful in the world than you"." "Tonio thought that her soul was unapproachable." "That as much as he'd ever got close to knowing her he wouldn't understand her." "To his thought came the picture of an unknown girl from a photo store on a central street." "He had stopped and looked at it closely that time" "Dear unknown one, he'd whispered, what is your name?" "Yesterday you said that you love me." "I don't know what to say." "I don't know what to do." "I am lost in a new world." "As I said, I have a wife and a daughter." "They'll be back soon." "Sonia, what could I offer a girl like you?" "or a life like yours?" "I've loved you for a year now." "Since I finished High School there's been no other love in my life." "Autumn came early this year." "I've decided to tell you." "I'm not asking anything of you." "I cannot ask anything of you." "only to let me love you." "And us be together." "For as long as you would like us to." "I'm not asking for anything else." "Where are you going, Miss Sonia?" "To Paradise!" " To Paradise?" " Yes!" "On the train, Tonio talked about the forest where he went with his friends in childhood." "Tonio!" "Tonio!" "I've caught a butterfly!" "Let it fly." "Are you asleep?" "No..." "Tonio..." "Are you any happy at all?" "Yes, Sonia." "Their short excursion was magical." "By afternoon they took the train back." "I never felt like being younger." "Not even when I was 20 years old." "Not at thirty..." "Not at my forty years of age." "Now I would like it if I were young." "That night Tonio had a strange dream." "There was a big snowy square and in the middle there was a table with a crimson tablecloth." "On the table there were oranges, apples and red wine." "Sonia sat opposite to him and all around were friends of his youth." "When Tonio woke up in sweat because of that dream he cried for quite a while." "I don't want to cause you any unhappiness." "No, no." "I was thinking of something else." "My sweet Tonio..." "What's troubling you?" "Nothing, Sonia." "Nothing." "Your hands are hot, Tonio." "Burning hot." "The day was beautiful today, like in June." "I know that for you I'm nothing but and autumn fling." "But Tonio" "I love you like angels are loved." "I hear a melody." "Like yesterday snow." "I shouldn't have met you, Sonia." "Come and let me kiss you." "I lost track... and I let myself go." "I... do not want to forget you." "I want to love you forever." "What will our passing through life leave behind?" "My sweet Sir Professor!" "Sweet Sonia..." "You... who passes by if you see her speak to her of romantic places." "Winter will be here soon." "Then we won't be together." "We'll be living in different cities." "Different worlds." "I'll be starting out every day for the Conservatory at exactly 8.05" "and you, after time goes by and the merciless years come will recall me as a distant memory." "Like a tiny spot in the eternity of our life." "After a long time passes ann we won't be together anymore" "will you remember me?" "He kissed her all night." "On her beloved eyes, on her breasts, on her knees, on all her burning body." "Tonio..." "I grew up in a house with a garden full of flowers." "In the evenings my father and my mother would listen to Albinoni and Vivaldi." "At 20, I had dreams..." "At 25 I compromised... and at 27 I married a woman whom I never loved." "Later came Katerina." "The only moments when I feel happy are when I open my room window." "And feel the sea air." "Now I do not expect anything." "Why are you crying?" ""He remembered that time when she came to him running on the moist grass with her delicate shoes wet with dewnrops." "Then she had stood on his shoes cuddled up in his arms." "And looked at him right in the eyes showing him her face like an open book." "Think of how much you love me... she had whispered him." "I'm not asking you to love me like this for ever." "I'm only asking you to remember this." "Some place inside you there will always be her, the one I am tonight. "" "Sonia." "The anonymous cro wd of the city cannot imagine that in a country spot" "Sonia and Tonio are living a special story." "A story resembling an old fashioned book but also having a uniqueness," "Truth." "The story they're living in has no resolution." "Tonio is leaving with his family in a few days for another city." "Sonia knows that." "She knew it from the beginning." "She doesn't mind." "With a sensitivity at the razor's edge she's determined to pay herself with any kind of disaster." "Sonia..." "Soon we'll be parted." "My wife called today and said that they're on their way." "I would have liked us to be together forever." "But this cannot be." "We spend years waiting for the great occasion and when that comes it finds a closed door." "What I'm writing to you is goodbye." "Separation." "I'll remember you, Sonia." "Tonio!" "Tonio!" "Sonia..." "What is it?" "It's the end of summer." "And the sky is full of stars." "Why are you sleeping?" "Sonia it's 4 am." "What's the matter?" "For you the matter is nothing at all." "You knew from the start that there was no way out." "There was no solution." "I told you, you didn't want to listen." "I love you, you said." "I loved you too, Sonia." "In life, for those who can feel nothing goes to waste." "All we ever live, whatever, even sacrifice, in the future, will mean happiness." "Forgive me." "It's late, Sonia." "Go and get some sleep." "Why don't you speak?" "When do they arrive?" "In an hour." "I'll pick them up at the airport." "Tomorrow we're leaving for good." "Hello." "I wish you all happiness." "Shall I play a nostalgic song for you?" "What's this song's title?" "It's an old, very old song." "Oh infinite sea... is the title." "It is late, Katerina." "Go to bed." " Good night, dad." " Good night." " Good night, mom." " Good night." "I have reserved a taxi." "Tomorrow at 10 it will be waiting outside." "What's wrong, Tonio?" "Is anything the matter?" "Nothing, Olga." "If something's the matter..." "I said, nothing." "Don't stay up late." "We have a long journey tomorrow." "Late at night" "Tonio fell asleep." "She spent all night at her doorstep." "In the morning she put on the clothes she wore on their first meeting and a small white hat." "Today she's going to see him for the last time." "She's been outside his house for some time now." "Sonia is serene on this last morning." "She doesn't want to make him sad." "She'll leave him with the impression that for her also this was a fine venture that has ended." "Good morning." "Good morning to you." "Olga, let me introduce you to Sonia." "She lives in the house across." "Nice to meet you." "Tonio, we must hurry." "The plane leaves in 20 minutes." "Adieu, Sir Professor." "Adieu, Miss Sonia." "At the beginning of autumn of 1966" "Sonia's heart stopped for ever." "It is as if she's sleeping." "My hands are longing for your hands." "And my eyes are looking forward to your eyes." "I... will love you." "For today... and tomorrow." "And for all time." "The End" "Eng. subs by never4ever / Aug 2014"