"Teresa!" " Teresa!" " Here I am." " Is the room ready?" " Not yet." " Did you put his favourite blue sheets?" "You have removed the curtains from Luciana's room?" "I have not had time yet." "Change the towels and polish the best silver." "Polish it well, with the product!" " I do not want to see that stuff in Vincenzo's room." "Stefania!" "Whose are those suitcases?" " What shall I do with those?" " Ssh!" "Traveller who returned from far lands..." " ... which gifts do you bring?" " My lady  I bring you flowers from the garden most perfumed... most precious fabrics from the East and a suitcase full of happiness!" " Tommaso!" " Hello, grandmother!" "Tommaso, mother's darling!" "Let me look at you!" " Darling!" " Hello, mother." " Well?" " Aunt!" " How beautiful you are, Tommaso!" "Traveller, bring the suitcases to the floor above  because here happiness weighs." " Exactly, you bring them!" "We wanted to take her to hospital... but Loredana said: it's nothing, she's just a cry-baby" "Luciana, this is your fourth glass." "I do not count yours." "How are the new boxes?" "Grandmother, as soon as they are ready I will show you." "Nicola always said:" ""Quality is the prime thing..."" ""...but then the pasta must be beautiful."" "Uncle Nicola was always right." "Especially now with the current competition!" "In our brand to be competitive..." "Elena, you want to lecture us on how to manage a company?" " Good!" " No!" " No, what?" "Let them eat." "How beautiful they are!" " If I am not careful, the children will eat me too." "They are the picture of health!" " You were the same at their age." " Thanks, mother." " They are fat." " Ma, last year they were half the size" " They will slim down as they grow." " These will not slim down anymore." " They are fat" " Have you taken the diabetes pills?" "Uncle Nicola always said that people fatten themselves..." " just to show that they have money" " Dad, do not worry  a little belly has not hurt anybody." "Salvatore, do not call me dad." "I don't like it, you are not my son!" "The fifth..." "Pour me some wine, aunt." "What have you done last night?" "Tell the truth." "Yes, yes!" "I really believe you!" "Watch it, stupid bitch!" "No, I did not mean you." "Some broad almost ran me over." "I will call you back." "I did not mean you." "NON AUDIBLE VOICES" "You are looking forward to leave yet again, isn't it?" "Wait at least for the signing of the papers at the notary." " Besides, this dinner with Brunetti means a lot to dad" "I understand" "He would like to introduce you to the new partners." "Exactly." "At that dinner I want to make an announcement to all of you" "There are three things that you do not know." "Three, is that so?" "One at the time." "First, I have never studied Economy and Commerce in Rome." " I graduated in literature last year." " Then?" "The second one is that I want to be a writer." " You a writer?" " Why not?" "I do not understand!" "I have already written a novel." "I am waiting for the reply from a publishing house." "The important thing is not this." "The important thing, Antonio, is that I am gay." "Don't you say anything?" "What do you want me to say?" "Do you recall my buddy Sasa from elementary school?" "I'm gay since then" "We have never played with the toy cars." "You have never thought of that?" "You never wondered?" "No." "I never considered that." "But must you absolutely tell them?" "You know how they are." "You now return to Rome, you go about your life in peace  you write ..." " ... and nobody controls you." " And the signature at the notary?" "Dad wants us to become partners" " Just sign, what do you care?" " I do not want the responsibility." "You know what I will do?" "Thursday evening at dinner..." "I will speak out in front of everybody including this...what's his name?" "Brunetti, as well!" "Brunetti...?" "He talks, that one!" "Why must you absolutely tell them in front of everybody?" "When I speak out in front of everybody, dad will send me away." "I will make the suitcases, the shares will come to you   and I will be free." "I have no choice." " And if dad does not send you away?" " Then I will introduce them to Marco." "Pass the ball!" " And if he also accepts Marco?" " I will write a new novel science fiction this time!" "Science fiction!" "Hold the thief!" "Help, a thief!" " A thief!" " Antonio." "A thief!" " What happens?" " Did you hear?" " Do not worry." " Did the thief come back?" "This is a new one, it is not that one of three years ago." "Go back to sleep." "The thief is back!" "This is the third time this month." "If it were up to her, he would come every night." "What do you mean?" "Not every night!" "She would let him stay day and night!" "Good morning!" "Could I have a coffee?" "I should not sleep with the window open." "Fifty thousand tears would not be enough because the music is as sad as you are inside of me" "You do not know my father." "As soon as he discovers that..." "I'm gay, you will see that all hell breaks loose." "However, to me it does not matter, I have already packed the suitcases." "Why do you care?" "Your life is here with me." "You are right." "Marco, can I tell you something?" " You make me feel lucky." " Lucky?" "Yes." "Think of what would have become of my life if I had not met you" " If you had not come to that brunch." " I think the same  but I cannot say it the way you do." " Call me later?" " Certainly." " I want to know." "It would be even better if I leave tonight  thus I would arrive before you wake up  I will sit down on the bed and watch you silently, while you sleep." " Then I will make coffee for you." " All right." "If I do not leave, I will call you tonight." "Bye" "The policeman says: "I am not the one who does not know how to drive."" ""My colleague, who is a poof, carried the gearbox home!"" " Did you get it Elena,changing gears?" " Yes Salvatore, I understood." " The policeman thought that the car did not have a gearbox!" " Yes, I get it!" " That was a good one!" "Tommaso, please come." "I present you Alba Brunetti, the daughter of Brigadier Brunetti ... our new partner in business." " Hello." " Hello, my pleasure." "Alba!" "We played together when we were little, do you remember?" "No, I am sorry." "Do not be sorry, I do not recall either." " I will introduce you to her father." " Anyhow, nice shoes!" " Raffaele, this is Tommaso, my son." " Hello dear boy, welcome back" " These boys are the future of the company." "Good evening." "What good evening?" "I am your sister-in-law!" "Glasses, lenses, operation, modern technologies... nothing there, eh?" "You already have two glasses in your hand." " Please try." "Would you like to taste?" "Stefania, have you heard the joke Brunetti was telling about the cop?" " We are still laughing." " No, how did it go?" " Raffaele." " But I have to warn you  it is a little gross." " It made me laugh!" " There is a policeman... - a poof." " Salvatore, let him tell the thing." " Every evening he gets in the car." " He thought that the gearbox ..." " Salvatore, give him some time." " If you don't want, I will not..." " Yes please, yes please." " Go ahead." " This policeman gets in the car every evening..." " The car is always the same one" " Sorry." "Sorry, I wanted..." " Sorry everybody!" " I wanted to say ..." "Sorry, Tommaso." "I must tell you a story." " There is no need." " It is about a boy  that has always done what his parents expected him to do  without ever saying what he wanted, without ever telling who he was." "This boy had a problem  a defect as you would say." "This boy liked other boys." "Which story is this?" "You do not know how to be funny" "This boy hid his true nature for years" "He even dated a few girls in order to pretend being like other boys" "Then a day at the factory where he worked, he found a friend." "A special friend." "Somebody that understood because he was like him." "They went out together and they saw each other often." "But then our boy got scared." "He feared that people would gossip   and that they would discover what he was trying to hide." "Thus, our boy had Michele fired from the factory." "Do you remember Michele...?" "... labourer assigned to the control of the pasta and the mixture?" "Antonio, sorry, but what does this boy matter to us?" "I have thrown away thirty years hiding  for fear of what you could have thought." "Now finally I have found the courage to tell you." "I am gay." " Antonio, you are always special!" "I am happy that you are laughing, I would have never imagined that." "However, have you understood well?" "I am gay, homosexual, bent, a faggot, a fruity." "Cheers, Antonio, you are funny!" "What were we talking about?" "I want to put it clearly to you, dad." "You do not want to understand." "I cannot hide anymore." " It's enough now, you stop it!" " This is how things are." "I am sorry for all of you." " Tommaso, sorry." " Raffaele, for the contract, everything is done." "Are you going to the notary?" "What will they say in town tomorrow?" "In a few hours everybody will know." "What you will say when you will meet them in the street?" "Why are you doing this to me?" " Do you know what I would like to do?" " You stop it!" "I would like to call Michele and let him come here." "Let him stay with us." "To go in main street, to take a stroll in front of all." "To do it all in the daylight." "And you know what I would like to do?" "I would like you to get up from the table." "Get up!" "Go in the next room and leave what you have in your pockets on the cupboard ... the car keys, those of the office, of the house  the company credit cards, the chequebook  the documents, all." " Then you take a suitcase and you go from this house." "Even better, leave town  because I do not want to see you here anymore, have you understood?" "You heard what I said?" "Get out!" "Dad." "Stefania  I want to talk to him alone, tell him to wait for to me in the study." "Yes." "Excuse us." "He is gone." "I have read somewhere that half of the Italians is bisexual." "However there are greater misfortunes." "The diseases, the hunger, the scarcity." "Death" "Isn't it true...?" "Dad?" " Dad!" " Vincenzo!" "Vincenzo!" "Vincenzo!" "Call for an ambulance!" "Why don't they allow us to enter?" "I want to know how he is." " I want to greet dad." " Do not call him dad." " He is not here." " This annoys me as well." "Tommaso." "Tommaso." "Dad." "Tommaso, come!" "No, here." " Who is outside?" " Nobody." " Has word got out?" " No, not at all" "Your brother has caused my heart attack" "A light one." "Try to stay calm." "Tommaso!" " Who knows about Antonio?" " Nobody." " Brunetti said that he will not talk" " Yes, Brunetti!" " Tommaso!" " Ahi!" "Only you are left." "I lost your sister years ago when she married that Neapolitan asshole." "Your brother did not want to talk, to me it is as if he were dead." "Tommaso, you are my life, my blood, my breath." "You must help me." "You will, true?" " I must go to Rome." " This is your land." "This is your home." " Dad, I..." " Only for a little while." "Yes?" "Yes." "Think of how many gay brothers we know:" "Mariano and Fabrizio  Roberto and Pino, the lesbian twins." "What do I care about statistics on gay brothers?" "Come on!" "Look at it from the positive side." "Someone has smoothed the road for you." " The family now knows the issue." " Too well as it is!" "Are you a fool?" "What do you say?" "My father has ended up in hospital with one gay son." "If we tell him that both are gay, we send him to the graveyard!" "And then, as if it were not enough, Antonio does not answer the phone." " Leave him for now." "Only think of getting out of this." " Tomorrow there is the carpenter." " So." " I cannot sign contracts by myself." "Yes, I have understood." "I will call back, I cannot speak right now." "Bye" "What are you doing here?" "Teresa has not told me of your arrival." "My father is better." "I know already." " Shall we go?" " Where?" "In less than a month the new line must be launched on the market." "We must decide on the campaign and control the distribution." "We are behind schedule with the production of the special format." "We will redo "the crazy wheel", the format invented by your grandmother." "So, what do I care?" "My God, careful!" "That sod!" " You must take the place of Antonio." " I know nothing about this business." "You studied Economy and Commerce, you must have learned something!" "We have invested a lot of money in this agreement  your brother is gone, your father is in hospital  you are the only one left!" "27 by 6 is all right, however, we need to darken the brown colour" "We do not like brown." "True, Tommaso?" "Antonio did not want the colour to be darker." "Antonio is out of the plan therefore now only I and him decide." "It that clear?" "Tommaso, is it right?" " Tommaso." " Eh?" "We are expecting the new shapes in three days." " Hold the thief!" "Hold the thief!" "Help!" "A thief!" "A thief!" " Giovanna, did you hear the lady?" "Come!" " Mum." "There is nothing, no evidence, nothing of nothing." " What are you are trying to find?" " I don't believe that your brother is  what he says he is." "I am his mother, I would have noticed." "I have raised him, I was always close to him." "I never had a suspicion, never." "The only explanation is this..." "He did not tell us the truth." " Maybe he wanted to go away for a reason of his own." " The only explanation is this." " Perhaps you never noticed." "What do you know?" "Are you a mother?" "No, so what?" "This is it.." "Michele, the boy that worked at the factory." "When you were little  we often went swimming at the Bay of the Turks, remember?" "One day in August  Antonio went into the bushes  and made a basket for me with plaited leaves." "A basket with leaves is a girly thing." "Mother, it was not Antonio." "I made that basket for you." "Aha." " Vincenzo, I have found evidence." " What evidence?" "Just in the last minute I had almost given up instead, we must put our minds to peace." "What a shame!" "I could never imagine that it would end like this!" "That we would become the laughing-stock of town!" "Your mother has sworn not to talk   but she is a loose cannon" "I have told everybody that he has left for reasons of his own." "He has hidden it from us all, he was good." "All these years together without understanding." "Remember when we had gone to the Bay of the Turks all together?" " What?" "Which Bay of the Turks?" " Yes, you said something to me." " Antonio had made a basket for you." " What does it matter?" "Forget it." " Sorry, but are we late?" " No." " Signora, she will not speak." "She didn't even undersand what has happened" "You have the duty to keep quiet..." "if not I will fire you." "Earlier, I saw you speaking with Rosetta of the Ferrara's." "We were speaking about our things to pass some time." "Hear how she replies!" "You do not have to waste time, you must work." "I am not keeping you here for decoration" " Go and prepare rice and chicken." " Wait, call Massimo..." " ..." "I want to go out." " Where are you going?" "I am meeting Vincenzo   and then to the factory to see how things are going..." " ...now that Antonio is missing" " Mother, Tommaso is at the factory." "He is looking after things." "Vincenzo must rest, I will take you there tomorrow." "Vincenzo just doesn't understand, eh?" "Listen Mama, the less we talk about this, the better" "The doctor says he must return to normality as soon as possible." "Normality..." "that ugly word." "To me he was everything!" "Like an arm of mine, like my legs." " He was me, only younger." " I know." "He had to like women as I like them." "Certainly." "If I imagine him with a man, blood goes to my head." " Look, the world is full of them!" "Your son is not..." " Ssh!" "Your son is not a unique case." " Sometimes in the same family..." " Truly?" "A friend of mine knows somebody that has the grandson and also the son." " What do I care about your friend?" " They are everywhere." "They pop up like mushrooms." " Lady, the five minutes are up." " Only a moment." " Ok." " Thanks." "There are many that also have wife and the children at home." "Those who have family, they go along very discretely   without talking to anybody." "Now, how shall I walk around?" "What face shall I put up?" " Nobody knows that!" " Yes... nobody!" "Now I must go, it's late." "I would come to your home too." "As soon as you are better, it only takes a little patience." "I am lucky to have you and Tommaso." "Tommaso and you." "What would I do without you?" " My boy!" " How do you feel?" "A little better, still weak." "It smells of whore here." "This looks like it's blocked." "Is it dripping?" "It drips, it drips!" " Is the needle put well?" " Yes." " Aah!" " Now it is!" "Now I will feed you rice and lean chicken." "I am not hungry." "Nurse!" "You are angry with Antonio because he did not talk to you before?" "I am not angry." "I only did not expect things to go this way." "Did you never talk between you  on this thing?" "Which thing?" "On... this thing." "My brother and I have not spoken a lot in recent years." " Pity." " Pity?" "Two are always stronger." "When being two...?" "What you mean?" "What I just said." "Grandmother, why are you still awake?" "I am worried." "About what?" "Nothing, nothing..." "Have you taken your pills?" "Did you see the new machines that Antonio ordered?" "Yes, I've seen them" "You knew about Antonio!" "He had told you!" "When he returned from the factory, he smiled, he was happy there must had been a reason, for him!" "Yes, he had told me  but even if he hadn't told me..." "Once we, ourselves, wrapped the pasta in paper." "I was sitting amongst the others and I made wrappings for hours." "And I wondered: "And now...?"" ""Where will this pasta end up?" "Who will eat it?"" ""...this pasta that I touched, that I have helped making?"" "Have you ever touched the pasta when it is right out of the machine?" " No." " It is warm, soft" "Nicola touched it from time to time and he then laughed by himself." "He knew it very well, that pasta." "We were nursing it together, me and him." "Tomorrow, I will go to the factory, I will touch the pasta myself." "Not, do not touch it." "Tommaso if one always does what others want  it is not worth living." " Good day, Mr. Cantone." " Good day." "Tommaso, eh?" " Raffaele!" " Vincenzo, how are you?" " Very well, how do you see me?" " In perfect shape!" "Tommaso and Alba are doing well with the company." "They are strong together!" "A miracle of nature." " Have a drink with us?" " Thanks, done already." "I will call you afterwards, I must talk to you." "Bye!" "Tommaso, come." "Let us sit here." "Sit down." "Why do you laugh at?" "What is it?" "Something wrong?" "No, nothing, only that there are a lot of things to do at work." "Alba is waiting for me." "Good that you worry about work, but not right now." "Now you are with your father." " How are things going with Alba?" " All right." "A beautiful girl, eh?" "She is serious." "She never went out with anybody from town." "A girl like that!" "It looks like she is trying to find the right man." "She is doing all right." "Here you are!" " Good day, Mr. Cantone." " Good day." "Then...... what do you have?" " Something light, non-alcoholic." " We will have a bottle of champagne." "Champagne!" "I got it." " You want to celebrate!" " Why...?" " What do you have against that?" " Nothing." " Something wrong?" " When one orders champagne, one usual celebrates." " Right." " Bring us a bottle of champagne." " Any preference?" " Your choice." " Champagne it is." " Go!" " Dad!" " They know!" "They all know." " What are you doing?" " They all know!" "They know..." " Shall we call a doctor?" " Not, it is nothing." "I told you not to go to the bar in full sunlight." "Dad, we'll call a doctor thus he will check on your blood pressure." "I told you, there is no need!" "It is only grief" "The grief that Antonio has caused me." "I am ashamed." "It is me who is ashamed of you, Vincenzo." "I cannot leave the house anymore." "I must be confined in here like a prisoner." "I cannot think of this." "Have a rest." "Take a rest." "Yes, dad, have a rest." " Tommaso." " Eh?" " Come here." " Dad..." " Come!" "This can't go on." "It is becoming an obsession!" "You will see that over time you will get used to it." "I cannot get used to that!" "I will never get used to it!" "How is it that in all these years we did not notice anything?" "It is not written in one's face that he is homosexual." "Homo... what?" "That fairy!" "Do not try to justify him." "Why did we not notice?" "One recognises this by the speech, by the way one moves   by the walk." "Instead, he did not make a gesture, he also dressed normally  in order to hide from us all." "One does not need to dress like a women in order to go with men." "And what do you know?" "These things are known." " You knew it, didn't you?" " If I had only known...!" "I did not know, I swear." "But why?" "We stay at home a lot" " Sometimes friends come to see us otherwise we are by ourselves." "I read or write at the computer while Marco studies." "Sometimes when I am here I imagine that he joins me  like that, in the street." "In Rome he is always in the front because he walks faster." "Then I stop and look at him from behind how he moves his shoulders how he goes in the crowd, by himself as if I were not there." "I do not know why, but this thing touches me  until he notices, turns around and smiles to me." "I stop watching him, I make two fast short steps and I catch up with him" "It is true, the verbal agreement that we had made was different  but now there is still room to renegotiate." " You cannot take your word back." " There is no written agreement." "We have second thoughts." "Have you spoken with Sergio?" " Elena, you do not say anything?" " Why?" "Can I speak?" "Why else did I bring you along?" "Dr Mancini this isn't a good moment to negotiate" "We have to finish production within two weeks." "We sign a contract right now that the production is not halted   and we will take into account the new requests." "With all the respect, you do not have any responsibility in this company." " As from now on, she has indeed" " What do you do?" "Do you work with us?" " Yes." " Ah." "And the children?" "Now return downthere" "Walk properly!" "One foot in front of the other." "Cross the legs." "You must cross the feet." "Eh!" "Straight on!" " You must keep straighter." "The neck!" "High up, the neck!" "All right." "What do you do, aunt?" "I have a cough." " What are we playing with, now?" " You never sleep in the afternoon?" "Shall we play with jam and bread now?" "You have a tremendous cold, let me hear the cough." "This cold is terrible!" "Auntie will give you a thing that will make the cough to go away quickly." "This will make everything to go away." " Good!" " Good, eh?" "How old were you?" "Fourteen when the disease begun." "My father was never at home, ... and I had to do it all by myself." "Preparing the food, watching her studying, everything." "Mother did not want anyone else near her" "In the end she was so ill that I had hoped that ... she would die...quickly." "I thought it would have been better for her and me." "I was wrong, you know." "When it happened, I was in my final year of school." "I remember returning home  and I did not know what to do." "I opened the door... and there was nobody to wait for to me nobody to whom I meant anything  nobody for whom I was important." "I am tired." "We shall meet tomorrow." "Yes." " At 9 o'clock?" " At 9." "Good night." "She seems to like you." "She never let me in her house." "Have you ever held to a person as you hold to your arm or your leg?" "Otherwise, you cannot understand all I have done." "I hold to Michele as I hold to this hand." "I know how it is." "I went to get him back, to tell him that I had come out of the closet." "I have been too harsh on him." "I had him fired from the factory in order not to make people gossip... ..I set him up in a house outside town to secretly meet him." "He was operated, has been ill and I could not go to see him." "He told me that it is way too late... that he does not want to see me anymore." " I am sorry." " You're sorry?" "How can you say that?" "Is this the bullshit that you write in your books?" " It was your fault." " My fault?" " Yes, yours!" "I stayed here for years hiding on your behalf   because you had to study in Rome and in the meanwhile  you calmly lived your life doing what pleased you." "Go ahead..." "Why don't you also leave town, to another city, do like I did." "Find two or three friends with whom you can talk about how you are." "...find someone to love  in the middle of thousands of people that do not want you." "You cry, you suffer  secretly." "However, if that's what it's about, you could have talked to me  rather than to leave me in this mess" " What's keeping you here?" "Speak." "You must speak as well, do you want to leave?" "Tell dad that the Cantone family will end here  that our family name will not continue." " You must say it to dad." " Do not touch me!" "You have sent him to hospital, what must I do?" "Kill him?" "Michele is right when he doesn't want you... you don't have mercy with anybody, not even your own brother." "You deserve being alone, like all those who only think about themselves" "Oh!" "What the fuck are doing?" "The family already stripped us of our dignity." "And us?" "We must steal things one at the time." "We must fight amongst brothers because what is given to one  is taken from the other." "I have had to earn this moment in life  beautiful or ugly, whatever!" "I will not go back for anybody, not even for you." "Good day, Tommaso." "Good day, grandmother." "What's up?" "Always remember this." "Gentleman get up later than peasants  but always long before the lazy-bones." " The true gentleman are workers." " What time is it?" " Will I be in time today to be a gentleman?" "Yes  but only because I have woken you up." "Five minutes and I will be up." "You are hiding something from me." "You had dinner with her again, right?" " Dad..." " This makes me happy." "Only that on the job we are behind schedule." "You are right." "I know it." " With Antonio it was different." " It was but now he is gone." " Yesterday he was here." " Where did you meet him?" "How is he?" " He has left this morning." " Mother!" "How did you know?" "What are you up to?" " I am preparing an attack." " I do not want to know why he came" "If he is sorry  he is much too late!" " What should he regret about, dad?" " It's not his fault he's homosexual!" " I do not want to hear this word." "It is a word like any other, it is better than you get used to it." "Signora the cake is bad for your glucose levels." "You are still here?" "Go!" "Dad, I believe that Antonio must come back here." "Are you crazy?" "He is the same person as before, he will always be your son." "Let me understand this  according to you your brother he is the same person as before?" "Yes, he is the same person." "You are late for the factory." "You are the one that is late to understand." "It is more difficult to remain quiet that to say what is on one's mind." "Do you believe I am not missing him?" "I always think of him in these days." "The years that he needed me and if he became ill, I felt bad myself!" "I won't find that Antonio anymore." "At least he saved himself, thank God." " Elena?" " Yes." "I am gay." "Homosexual." " I know, I got it." " You had understood?" " And you just kept quiet?" " What was I supposed to say?" "And..." "Antonio likes men, and so do you..." "I even wondered if I liked women, but..." "I don't like them." "I am not gay." "All right then." " Tommaso?" " Yes?" "Are you happy?" "Maybe." "The "crazy wheel"" "Nicola and I, based our lives on that "wheel"" "We wanted to make better pasta than Cavalieri's  but we never managed." "You have never known Nicola." "Your brother-in-law?" "Yes, the brother of my husband." "I have spent all my life with him." "He was with me even when he was not there." "In my head I slept with him... and with him I woke up in morning." "All these years I have never stopped loving him." "It has been a beautiful thing, but unbearable." "Impossible love that never ends." "Those that always last." "Stefania, I am not mistaken." "They are all watching us!" " Vincenzo was right." " But you cannot see well" " Good day, how are you?" " Very well, thanks." " Yes, they are watching." " I know why." "This morning I found under your bed an empty bottle of liquor." " You do not manage to walk straight." " It's not that!" "It's the other thing" "No!" "Antonietta no!" " Good day." " Oh, Mrs. Cantone!" " How are you?" " Very well, thanks." " What can we do for you?" " We are looking for a suitcase." " Which colour?" " Wood green, on the wet side." " Another colour?" " Raspberry." " Yes." "Mrs. Cantone!" "Luciana!" "I thought it was you, from far away!" " How are you?" " We very well, thanks." "And you?" "What a pleasure seeing you!" "We hear certain things and instead here you are, beautiful as ever, perky and smiling!" "Thanks, same to you." "Have a good day." "I wanted to tell you that my son Luigi is getting married next month  and we will have a great feast." "I wanted to tell Antonio, they were such good friends at school." "I am so happy." "When sons marry, it is happiness!" "We shall tell him." "Good bye, have a good day." "What a surprise, Antonietta!" "I had not understood, Luigi gets married!" "How beautiful!" " And with Caterina!" "?" " Yes." " Jesus!" "He gets married with "the free beach", this is how they called Caterina!" "They said that all came by and rammed their "little umbrella" in the beach" "People say such nasty things, it's awful!" "Quiet right." "How ugly slander is!" "Good bye!" " Bitch!" " Tart!" "You see the tension that they put on me?" "I am all stressed." "Everything is hard here." "Relax, Vincenzo." "With the shame that I have to bear?" "In order to come here, I took side streets and kept my eyes down" "Now you are overdoing." " Even Tommaso is defending him!" " Sorry, what else should he do?" " He will always be his brother." " That boy is much too good." "I sometimes have the impression that he puts himself in his brother's shoes" " He is making an effort to understand him but how is he managing that?" "Perhaps, as he has studied in Rome, he is probably used to that." "You know how it is!" "In the big cities ..." " But who?" "Tommaso?" " Tommaso." "You do not know him!" "Tommaso before this thing with the brother he did not even know what it all was about!" "What did those bastards want from you?" "Who?" "Nothing" "They told you that I am crazy  that I was in a clinic?" " They did not talk about you." "They told you that I am sick, rich, spoiled  that I do strange things, that here, nobody can stand me." "But what are you saying?" "What got into you?" "They are right, it's all true what they say here in Lecce." "You are not aware of the way I am, of my fixations?" "Alba, look, I think you are wrong." "It is all true, I am strange." "I do not succeed to get close to others, I keep everybody at a distance" "Then I have plenty of presumptions, of whims." "Good night." "Good night." "You will be tired after travelling for hours..." " ... would you like to shower?" " No." "Let the maid call Tommaso." "Teresa!" "Tommaso!" "Look what a surprise?" "Your friends from Rome!" "They were missing you." "We only wanted to greet you, we were on our way to the sea-side..." " ... and then they told us to come in." " How nice of you!" " Hello, beautiful." " Hello." "What have you done?" "You are pulling some face!" " Nothing, I was sleeping." " Hello!" " Nice, Tommy!" " Hello." "I will have some water." " So, you are...?" " I am Davide." " I am Andrea" " Yes, I must remember." " And you are?" " Tommaso's aunt." "Luciana." "Please call me Luciana." " Mother, have you seen such cute boys?" "Are you from Naples too?" "When did you go to Rome?" "I also lived in Rome before getting married." "Do you know Gennaro Capece?" " No, not at all." " That's not possible!" "He has the most famous club in Rome, ALTRAS, ALIAS, something like that." " "The alibi"?" " Right." "It's a small world" " We have some common friends!" " I got it." " I am Massimiliano." " Salvatore." " I am Elena, the wife." " Pleasure." " Pleasure." "Sorry, we shall be on our way now." "No!" "Already?" "Now, we prepare a nice supper." " We must be going." " We are only passing by  we wanted to go to the seaside to Gallipoli for the weekend." "You can got to the seaside over here, there is lots of space!" "Tommaso, what cute friends you have!" " I already like them." " Teresa!" "Teresa!" "Here I am, I came running" "Take the meat from the fridge and mince it finely twice." "Slice four onions but very thin, you got that?" " Skin fresh tomatoes after which I will take care of it all." "Ask Renato for eight chickens." "If he has mushrooms, take them as well." "And air the cheeses." "Now make us a beautiful coffee with cream and dry biscuits." "All clear?" "Giovanna!" "They have not noticed anything." ""What cute friends you have in Rome!" They haven't understood anything" " "You can go to the seaside over here." - "There is lots of space."" "One night in Napoli with the moon and the sea" "I met an angel that could fly no more" "One night in Na" "I brought the towels." ""I brought the towels."" "Today is Saint Ramiro." "I have an engagement, I must go to the factory." " My father is not still well." " Why is the factory so important?" "Before you only spoke about writing, about what you wanted to do." "Those were the important things, not the pasta." "They are still important." " Now I must stay a little with them." " What are you watching?" "Nothing." " You are scared, ashamed for us" " I do not fear anything  and I am not ashamed." "It is only that my folks do not think like us." "I spend entire days talking about my brother..." " ... and it's chaos with you guys around" " That's all you can say...?" "... after all the time that we did not see each other?" " You do not know what can happen." " And what should happen?" "They discover that your friends are gay!" "So what?" "We are in 2010!" "We are not in 2000 anymore!" "I only wanted to see you." "It's not my fault if your family is keeping us here." "If you start complaining this moment count to me because" "I am asking you to kiss me again." " You stop it, it's a gay song!" " To you, they all are!" "Get out!" "Who is there?" "Oh God!" "Where did you go?" "A dish of pastries, two cakes and profiteroles." "Tommaso's friends arrived from Rome and I want to celebrate." " We are taking care of that." " Are these friends cute?" "Likeable and beautiful." " What's wrong with the T-shirt?" "It is perfect." " It's gay.Take it off!" " It is summery." " Change it, get on!" "You are limiting my freedom of expression." "We must do this here, you are the biggest liability" " Quit flapping your hands, tie them!" " Here, you are the liability" "If you have taken anything, God knows how the evening will end." " Davide, do not make any trouble, eh?" " Enough with this." "I did not take anything I do not know since when!" "Real hunks, athletic as well" "If I do not tell I am gay, nobody will notice." "Keep your daughters locked at home tonight  because if those want to go out, goodness knows what will happen!" "I have noticed how you looked at Tommaso's brother-in-law." " Are you crazy?" " You nearly jumped on him, darling!" "And the liability would be me?" "Don't say that you are airline steward or they will understand immediately" "There is plenty of straight flight attendants!" "Yes, the stewardesses." " Thus has the lawyer spoken!" " Yes sir, I'm a lawyer, so what?" "They don't call you Queen of the Bench because you're good in Court!" "Why are you always this angry?" " I am not angry, it's my expression" " Would you like a drink?" " Nice aperitif, eh?" " No, if I drink in the evening my belly swells and I cannot wear my swimming suit." "However, tonight I will make an exception." "In fact, men with belly are sexy!" " You also studied Economy?" " Why, who studies Economy?" " I study Economy." " Certainly, we all know that." " I study medicine." " Ah!" " How did you meet?" " "In the hole"." " Where?" " Where?" " Common friends." " Common friends!" "What do you do?" "I look after the marketing at a multinational." " I am often in London." " London!" "Oh, how I liked London!" "I have lived there long time ago." " Luciana." " A period..." " Luciana!" " Most beautiful." " Lets not talk about London." "I work for an airline." "It is beautiful, I travel a lot." " And you?" " I'm in a factory, you know, aunt." " Not you Salvatore, you..." " I am a lawyer." " I imagined a hairdresser or stylist" " Miss Brunetti." "She made an announcement, she thinks we are at a ball." "Moron!" " Good evening, sorry for the delay." "Hello, Tommaso" " Hello." "Thank God, you are here!" " Alberta?" " No, Alba." "The garment..." "Alberta Ferretti." "Ah, yes!" " Magnificent!" " Thanks." " My girlfriend has the same one, and therefore..." " Ah!" "This is really a jolly table!" "It was really worth it!" " But I am missing Rome, Elena!" " You can always leave." " I will get you a ticket." " Dad!" "Why don't you stay for a few days?" "Now that Tommaso is here..." "Thus while Tommaso works you can tour around." " There are plenty of beautiful girls." " If there are girls..." "Right?" "You must come to have dinner with us." " I will cook for this occasion, OK?" " Excellent idea!" "My husband does not know how to prepare anything." "He just speaks but it does not mean a thing." " And you, Tommaso, how is it with you?" "Tell us." "There is lots to do at the factory." "Sorry, a mosquito." " Tommaso now has lots of responsibility." " You know, we have a pasta factory?" " Aunt, more to the right." "It was built more than 50 years ago by my mother and uncle Nicola." "Oh, my God!" "Sorry." "It has been going well enough." " Pitty for that flashing sign" " What sign?" "The one you had overhead, that said "gay" "gay" "gay"!" "Boys, what are you saying!" "I never betrayed myself!" "You should shut your mouth." "You should speak!" "You'd end up under the table with the brother-in-law." "Have you seen him?" "I tried to avoid looking at him but I couldn't" " And you with that glass!" " You could have let it fall" "I know, I know, but it was not me." ""She" is the true me, I try to keep "her" under control  but "she" will come out." "However, easy now because she is in the car now." "I would take her out only once in Rome." " Oh, sorry." " Davide!" " You cannot sleep?" " Looking for the kitchen, I'm thirsty" "It's all here, help yourself." " No, thanks." " Come and sit with me for a while." "Come." "Tommaso!" "Tommaso, it's me, Marco" "Sorry." "London!" "I liked London!" "You cannot imagine how it was 25 years ago!" "I run away and went there." "I liked a boy that my folks did not like." "He wanted to play in a group, but he did not succeed." "Thus I took money, credit cards, papers, all  and I ran away with him." "Then one morning I woke up in the flat  and he was gone." "He had left with the last cash that remained   and some jewels that I had brought." "He had left me with the bills to pay, and had taken all the papers." "Vincenzo had to come to take me home." "But I had so much fun." " Come on, have a drink!" " No, thanks." "The good boys!" " A mortal boredom!" " I am not a good boy." "I prefer other things." "They don't even fatten." "Like?" "I am tired." "Of whom?" "Of them?" "A little of all." "You are so ugly!" "I love you too, my lady." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Listen  I wanted to ask you something, a private thing." "Tommaso has told me that you are close friends." "Did he tell you about Antonio?" " Yes, he told me." " Exactly." "I wanted to ask you  according to you, as a doctor..." " ... it is a thing that can be cured?" " What?" " This thing about Antonio..." " Homosexuality?" " Yes." "Maybe after some time it goes away." " No." " No?" "It is not like a disease." " It is a trait" " A trait?" " Yes." "Some people are and some people are not." "Yes, certainly." "It is known." "But does it ever happens that one becomes normal?" " Normal?" " Eh!" "I have dark circles under the eyes, I look like a Panda." " It doesn't get normal, it gets worse" " Tomorrow, I throw out my cosmetics!" " Good morning." " Good morning, here you are." " Mrs. Luciana has thrown out her whole wardrobe." "She says she wants a change of season." "Last night she didn't sleep at all!" " Sorry, my sister-in-law is not well." " I do not know what got into her!" " She is all agitated but not like when she has drunk, it is much worse!" "I have not given her anything, I swear." " What if there is no water?" " We will not wash" "If they have not brought us doors and windows?" "We would let the wind through  and if there were no beds, we lie down on the floor." " And if there is no..." " If there aren't any walls..." "I'll take you to a new house, lock you up and will not let you out again" "Passive, passive!" " With wife and daughters." " But what does it mean!" "Darling, I've told you, the world is made up of passives and liars." "He just cannot accept it" "Listen." "I have something for you, it arrived at our home." "It is from the publishing house?" "You already read it?" "Yes, I wanted to give it to you earlier but then..." "I am sorry." "It does not matter." "One night in Napoli With the moon and the sea I met an angel who couldn't fly any more" ""Una notte a Napoli" A song by Pink Martini" " Bye!" " Have a nice trip." " One night in Napoli With the moon and the sea ...I met an angel who couldn't fly any more" "What is your book about, that they do not want to publish it?" "It tells about two persons that they are not together anymore." "One suffers and the other not." "But perhaps the true story  it is that one must not fear to leave   because all that counts will never leave us  even if we do not want it." "Therefore at the end  one does not leave nothing and nobody?" "Indeed." "What a rotten deal!" " We shall meet later." " Wait, dad." " I must tell you something." " I said later." "Tommaso, do not say a thing." "I have tried, I go to the factory every morning  I work, I touch the pasta as grandmother says  I see the boxes that go all over the world  but I do not care, I do not feel anything." "At night, while you are asleep, do you know what I do?" "I write." " Things that I see, what I think, what I want to say  it all becomes real." "I succeed in saying what I feel as in real life I do not succeed." "I do not know how to speak." " When you ask me, I would like to say "Wait, I go next door and I'll write down the answer, and you can read it, so you can understand me."" "I manage to explain myself better." "This is what I want to do in life, I want to write." "Some days ago in Rome a letter arrived." "It says that they will not publish the novel that I have written." "They didn't like it  but I do not care." "I will write another and still another." "If they will not publish those, I will continue writing for myself." "I have told you now." "This is it." " Tommaso." " Wait, let us talk about it." "About what, dad?" " There is nothing to say, things are like this." "Will see you tonight." "Teresa!" "Teresa!" "Tell Massimo to prepare the car." "Where do you want to go?" "Now, must I ask permission to go out?" "Good morning, Tommaso." "Good morning, grandmother." "Did I wake up late today like the lazy-bones?" "No, you woke up at the right time." "You have been brave, resisting." "Keep on like that." "Make your own mistakes" "Is it the way gentlemen do?" "Gentlemen do not matter here." "This is the way people do, that want to be happy." "Good morning, my love." "What's happening?" "Madam, all those cakes!" "Not even children eat that many cakes!" "Tommaso..." "Goodness knows if these places will have memory of me?" " If the statues, the facades of the churches will remember my name?" " I want to walk a last time along these roads  that have accepted me many years ago." " When all called me the Tuscan." " I want to see the yellow stones." " All that breathtaking light" "If the roads will hold the noise of my steps." " My city" " The city of Lecce" "I must say goodbye to my town before leaving." " To my grandsons Antonio, Elena and Tommaso  I leave all that I have  but the land that was Nicola's I want Antonio to have it." " You must come back here, Antonio, because it is here that you belong." " You will have the land, the force that lives when we all die." "You, Luciana, will have all that you will need, but you must have courage." "Thieves do not always have to go by force through the window." "This is also your home." " You, Vincenzo and Stefania, there is nothing that you can do  in order not to love Antonio." "The earth cannot hate the tree." " Tommaso, write about us, our history, our land, our family  about the good things we did and mainly where we were wrong... about what we did not manage to do because we were little for this life" "this life...that is so huge." " The shooting cannon is gone, so you called me thinking that I did not hear you." " But shooting cannons cause disorder and put the things in places where nobody wanted them to be to smash it all  and to change the plans." " Nicola has taught me the most important thing." " Smile when you feel bad, when you would want to die within." " Do not be sad when you do not hear my voice in the house." "Life is never in our rooms." "We die and then we return like everything else."