1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:01:06,334 --> 00:01:09,667 Imagine a woman coming home and surprising her husband 3 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,376 inspecting his own shit with a popsicle stick. 4 00:01:18,626 --> 00:01:23,792 Imagine that this man never comes out of his self-absorption. 5 00:01:25,459 --> 00:01:29,292 Imagine that she has to admit him into a mental clinic 6 00:01:29,584 --> 00:01:31,251 in the north of the country. 7 00:01:35,376 --> 00:01:40,001 Our story begins precisely the next day. 8 00:01:40,292 --> 00:01:44,417 CHAPTER 1 The Deceitful Wedding 9 00:02:02,626 --> 00:02:04,417 Do you want to hear my life story? 10 00:02:06,459 --> 00:02:08,792 Just kidding. To break the ice. 11 00:02:09,084 --> 00:02:10,667 It's a long trip to Madrid. 12 00:02:12,084 --> 00:02:13,751 My name's Ángel Sanagustín. 13 00:02:14,042 --> 00:02:16,251 I'm a psychiatrist at the International Clinic. 14 00:02:16,542 --> 00:02:18,751 I saw you there yesterday very late. True? 15 00:02:23,709 --> 00:02:25,584 Sorry, my name's Helga. Nice to meet you. 16 00:02:28,209 --> 00:02:28,876 Nice to meet you. 17 00:02:29,167 --> 00:02:31,292 I don't know if Dr. Crespo spoke to you about me. 18 00:02:31,584 --> 00:02:34,334 I'm working on the applications of written discourse 19 00:02:34,626 --> 00:02:37,376 on the diagnosis of personality disorder. 20 00:02:37,667 --> 00:02:38,876 We ask the patient 21 00:02:39,167 --> 00:02:42,834 to write down an episode in their life, 22 00:02:43,126 --> 00:02:46,542 we analyze its narrative and make a diagnosis. 23 00:02:46,834 --> 00:02:48,792 We'll do it with your husband too. 24 00:02:49,084 --> 00:02:50,626 And with great pleasure too. 25 00:02:50,917 --> 00:02:53,376 Texts by coprophagists are my favorites, 26 00:02:53,667 --> 00:02:55,667 their narratives are the most curious. 27 00:02:58,501 --> 00:02:59,876 In fact, 28 00:03:00,709 --> 00:03:01,709 in this file 29 00:03:02,876 --> 00:03:05,417 I have a set of texts by patients with schizophrenia 30 00:03:05,709 --> 00:03:06,959 and paranoid disorders. 31 00:03:07,251 --> 00:03:08,751 Later, if you like, I'll read you some. 32 00:03:09,334 --> 00:03:12,751 Patients with hebephrenic schizophrenia, for example, 33 00:03:13,042 --> 00:03:17,417 show a marked tendency to tell their own life story 34 00:03:18,001 --> 00:03:20,167 but each time they do it differently, 35 00:03:20,459 --> 00:03:23,042 so their personality consists 36 00:03:23,334 --> 00:03:26,334 of a string of superimposed stories, 37 00:03:26,626 --> 00:03:29,001 like the layers of an onion. 38 00:03:29,709 --> 00:03:31,001 By the time we realize it, 39 00:03:31,292 --> 00:03:33,834 we don't have a personality as such to study 40 00:03:34,126 --> 00:03:38,292 but a collection of stories, one narrative after another, 41 00:03:39,084 --> 00:03:41,376 beneath which there is no person. 42 00:03:42,667 --> 00:03:44,001 I'm going to tell you something 43 00:03:47,667 --> 00:03:49,959 that happened to me with a patient 44 00:03:50,251 --> 00:03:53,001 who should've been locked up for good. 45 00:03:53,292 --> 00:03:57,584 He wasn't schizophrenic, but paranoid. 46 00:03:58,126 --> 00:04:00,167 Unlike the schizophrenic, 47 00:04:00,459 --> 00:04:03,876 the paranoid patient is always attentive to external stimuli, 48 00:04:04,167 --> 00:04:06,834 establishing erroneous links between them. 49 00:04:07,126 --> 00:04:10,667 Paranoids' stories can be very dangerous. 50 00:04:15,084 --> 00:04:16,292 Martín. 51 00:04:16,751 --> 00:04:20,167 Martín Urales de Úbeda, that was his name. 52 00:04:22,751 --> 00:04:24,626 The name says it all, doesn't it? 53 00:04:27,084 --> 00:04:29,792 His seductive power was hypnotic. 54 00:04:31,876 --> 00:04:34,417 Have you ever been kidnapped? 55 00:04:36,792 --> 00:04:39,042 Before he kidnapped me, 56 00:04:40,084 --> 00:04:41,834 I'd spent a long time looking for him. 57 00:04:42,126 --> 00:04:44,751 I didn't know him, but I'd heard about him. 58 00:04:45,042 --> 00:04:47,209 I was told that he convinced people 59 00:04:47,501 --> 00:04:50,001 to throw themselves into garbage trucks. 60 00:04:51,792 --> 00:04:53,751 In fact, he died like that, crushed. 61 00:05:02,084 --> 00:05:03,417 If you like, I'll tell you about it. 62 00:05:03,709 --> 00:05:07,126 Alright, it started when my wife and I moved 63 00:05:07,417 --> 00:05:10,292 and bought a house on a residential estate in Galapagar. 64 00:05:19,667 --> 00:05:21,876 We're just following the rules. 65 00:05:22,167 --> 00:05:24,584 And they cover daily garbage collection, 66 00:05:24,876 --> 00:05:26,876 the residents' garbage. 67 00:05:27,167 --> 00:05:28,584 I am a resident. 68 00:05:28,876 --> 00:05:31,167 But only recently. You know better than I do 69 00:05:31,459 --> 00:05:32,834 that this garbage isn't yours. 70 00:05:33,126 --> 00:05:34,959 If it were, my friend and I 71 00:05:35,251 --> 00:05:37,876 would load the truck and haul it away. 72 00:05:38,167 --> 00:05:40,542 But I repeat, this is for Public Thoroughfares. 73 00:05:40,834 --> 00:05:43,876 They have to come to an agreement with Garbage Removal, 74 00:05:44,167 --> 00:05:45,459 maybe they think it's our job. 75 00:05:45,751 --> 00:05:48,751 Hello. Ángel Sanagustín? I have a certified letter for you. 76 00:05:49,042 --> 00:05:51,334 If you'd kindly sign here, please. 77 00:05:51,626 --> 00:05:52,167 Yes. 78 00:05:55,751 --> 00:05:56,834 - Thank you. - Thanks. 79 00:06:13,709 --> 00:06:16,417 The letter read, quote: 80 00:06:17,292 --> 00:06:19,126 Dear Ángel Sanagustín, 81 00:06:20,042 --> 00:06:22,292 my father's greatest dream was that 82 00:06:22,584 --> 00:06:26,167 my brother Martín might enter San Javier Military Academy, Murcia. 83 00:06:26,542 --> 00:06:28,542 Though my brother had no calling, 84 00:06:28,834 --> 00:06:31,459 to please my father, he joined the academy and became a soldier. 85 00:06:31,917 --> 00:06:34,126 - Fusilier! - Fusilier! 86 00:06:35,459 --> 00:06:39,209 He wrote us letters every week that my father read and re-read 87 00:06:39,501 --> 00:06:42,167 in his wheelchair by the sitting room window. 88 00:06:42,959 --> 00:06:44,792 My father was paralyzed, 89 00:06:45,084 --> 00:06:47,042 his legs had been blown off in a bombing. 90 00:06:48,292 --> 00:06:50,001 Shortly after graduating, 91 00:06:50,292 --> 00:06:52,376 the war broke out in Kosovo and he was sent there. 92 00:06:56,084 --> 00:06:57,376 He kept sending letters from there, 93 00:06:57,667 --> 00:07:00,709 but they became increasingly more enigmatic. 94 00:07:05,417 --> 00:07:08,209 One fine day, without warning, 95 00:07:08,501 --> 00:07:11,834 my brother cut off all communication with us. 96 00:07:20,876 --> 00:07:22,209 He disappeared. 97 00:07:22,501 --> 00:07:24,834 It was as if the ground had swallowed him up. 98 00:07:58,251 --> 00:07:59,334 Martín! 99 00:08:00,001 --> 00:08:01,042 My son. 100 00:08:03,792 --> 00:08:04,917 They threw me out. 101 00:08:06,751 --> 00:08:07,792 Out of where? 102 00:08:11,001 --> 00:08:12,001 The Air Force. 103 00:08:14,917 --> 00:08:15,876 Sit down. 104 00:08:30,001 --> 00:08:31,667 What happened, Martín? 105 00:08:38,126 --> 00:08:41,834 You know I was posted to a military hospital in Kosovo. 106 00:08:45,834 --> 00:08:48,376 It was a hotel they'd fitted out as a hospital. 107 00:08:51,084 --> 00:08:52,667 A huge, old building. 108 00:08:53,626 --> 00:08:55,209 This girl who ran the gym 109 00:08:55,501 --> 00:08:57,876 fell in love with her psychologist, a guy called Manuel. 110 00:08:58,167 --> 00:09:00,209 They got married, he gave up psychology 111 00:09:00,501 --> 00:09:02,834 and moved into an office in the gym with her. 112 00:09:03,126 --> 00:09:04,751 The medicine was running out. 113 00:09:06,667 --> 00:09:09,126 The electrical devices stopped working. 114 00:09:10,292 --> 00:09:12,042 There was a shortage of food and water. 115 00:09:13,084 --> 00:09:14,834 The number of deaths was rising. 116 00:09:15,126 --> 00:09:16,459 ...she found out by chance 117 00:09:16,751 --> 00:09:19,667 that Manuel wasn't a psychologist, but a vet. 118 00:09:19,959 --> 00:09:22,001 How she found out, I'll tell you some other time, 119 00:09:22,292 --> 00:09:23,251 it's not important now. 120 00:09:23,542 --> 00:09:25,709 She went into her office to ask for an explanation... 121 00:09:26,001 --> 00:09:27,834 One of the halls was turned into an orphanage. 122 00:09:28,126 --> 00:09:30,959 ...looking through a little hole leading to the women's changing room, 123 00:09:31,251 --> 00:09:33,251 with his pants down and one eye... 124 00:09:33,542 --> 00:09:36,251 It was set up by Dr. Linares. 125 00:09:40,834 --> 00:09:44,126 It was a miracle that she'd done it with her own hands, 126 00:09:44,417 --> 00:09:46,376 but it was in a terrible state. 127 00:09:46,667 --> 00:09:47,626 I'll catch up. 128 00:09:53,084 --> 00:09:55,001 - If I may...? - Thanks a lot. 129 00:09:56,542 --> 00:09:58,209 It's a miracle this place exists. 130 00:09:58,959 --> 00:10:01,459 Your work here is incredible. You must be proud. 131 00:10:01,751 --> 00:10:04,167 We do what we can with the means we have. 132 00:10:06,667 --> 00:10:09,042 If I can help in any way... 133 00:10:09,959 --> 00:10:12,459 I appreciate it, but unless you're a millionaire... 134 00:10:13,084 --> 00:10:16,667 What we need here is a big injection of money. 135 00:10:17,792 --> 00:10:21,209 As a friend of mine said, money's what I have most of. 136 00:10:21,501 --> 00:10:23,376 Do you have a hundred of anything? 137 00:10:28,501 --> 00:10:31,001 We'd meet for breakfast before our shifts. 138 00:10:33,334 --> 00:10:35,126 Or go for a walk when we were done. 139 00:10:38,959 --> 00:10:41,542 She'd tell me about the latest child to die 140 00:10:43,084 --> 00:10:45,792 and about the state of the hospital, which was more and more worrying. 141 00:10:48,001 --> 00:10:49,792 The months flew by. 142 00:10:51,126 --> 00:10:53,251 Until one day it all changed. 143 00:10:53,876 --> 00:10:55,834 It's called "Lobotomy". 144 00:10:56,126 --> 00:10:59,042 It hypothesizes that everything on the TV screen 145 00:10:59,334 --> 00:11:01,959 is fiction with a script. 146 00:11:02,251 --> 00:11:04,292 For example, game show participants 147 00:11:04,584 --> 00:11:08,334 are actors who pretend to be nervous but know how it ends. 148 00:11:08,626 --> 00:11:12,001 The football games, the goals, the fouls... 149 00:11:23,959 --> 00:11:26,667 - What happened? How did you do it? - I can't talk now, Martín. 150 00:11:29,667 --> 00:11:32,334 I'll come back when we're finished. I'm dying of curiosity. 151 00:11:33,917 --> 00:11:35,209 I can't today. 152 00:11:51,126 --> 00:11:52,251 Are you alright? 153 00:12:06,751 --> 00:12:09,376 You know that I live and breathe for the hospital. 154 00:12:10,959 --> 00:12:12,751 It's the most important thing for me. 155 00:12:15,917 --> 00:12:19,834 You also know they denied funding and we were about to close down. 156 00:12:23,417 --> 00:12:25,792 You yourself saw some of those children die. 157 00:12:29,417 --> 00:12:30,626 That's why... 158 00:12:33,459 --> 00:12:35,292 I decided to prostitute myself. 159 00:12:51,334 --> 00:12:54,751 I chose my clients from NATO leaders, 160 00:12:57,542 --> 00:12:59,167 members of the Papal entourage, 161 00:13:00,126 --> 00:13:01,584 UN observers... 162 00:13:02,501 --> 00:13:04,709 and top representatives of NGOs. 163 00:13:06,084 --> 00:13:08,542 For a few months there was a bit more money, 164 00:13:10,084 --> 00:13:11,751 enough to not... 165 00:13:13,417 --> 00:13:14,626 give it up, 166 00:13:16,626 --> 00:13:19,459 but not enough to cover our needs. 167 00:13:23,292 --> 00:13:24,792 Until one night... 168 00:13:27,667 --> 00:13:29,876 She got a visit from a certain client. 169 00:13:32,542 --> 00:13:33,792 We'll call him... 170 00:13:35,292 --> 00:13:36,667 Cristóbal de la Hoz. 171 00:13:51,751 --> 00:13:53,792 I wanted to tell you something. 172 00:13:57,459 --> 00:14:00,001 I have a group of, 173 00:14:00,709 --> 00:14:02,542 let's say, "very powerful" friends, 174 00:14:02,834 --> 00:14:05,334 with a lot of influence in charitable matters who... 175 00:14:06,251 --> 00:14:08,501 would be delighted to help you. 176 00:14:08,792 --> 00:14:10,792 Sure, give them my number. 177 00:14:13,751 --> 00:14:14,459 No. 178 00:14:16,209 --> 00:14:17,542 I don't mean that. 179 00:14:19,084 --> 00:14:21,709 If you add up NATO subsidies, 180 00:14:22,001 --> 00:14:23,792 the E.U. and the Church, 181 00:14:24,084 --> 00:14:28,542 this group of friends could get you over 200 million pesetas a year. 182 00:14:35,084 --> 00:14:37,001 In exchange for... 183 00:14:40,334 --> 00:14:41,792 one orphan a month. 184 00:14:47,542 --> 00:14:48,792 Get out. 185 00:15:03,209 --> 00:15:04,209 Think it over. 186 00:15:11,751 --> 00:15:14,667 But the hospital was unsustainable. 187 00:15:16,126 --> 00:15:17,584 Children were dying, 188 00:15:18,459 --> 00:15:21,126 the money from my services only covered food. 189 00:16:02,292 --> 00:16:03,834 One orphan at random. 190 00:16:04,334 --> 00:16:05,376 Every month. 191 00:16:05,959 --> 00:16:07,584 You needn't worry about a thing. 192 00:16:07,876 --> 00:16:09,792 They'll take care of everything. 193 00:16:10,084 --> 00:16:11,667 I'll talk to them and that's that. 194 00:16:38,126 --> 00:16:39,667 You did it for them. 195 00:16:41,084 --> 00:16:43,334 You saved a lot of lives, don't forget that. 196 00:17:07,751 --> 00:17:09,917 You once asked me about the orphans. 197 00:17:10,917 --> 00:17:14,584 I told you they were sold to families, 198 00:17:15,084 --> 00:17:15,834 but... 199 00:17:18,251 --> 00:17:21,709 The other night I was with these friends... 200 00:17:27,334 --> 00:17:30,042 If you don't want to say what you do with the children... 201 00:17:31,751 --> 00:17:34,584 Well, a little curious, yes. 202 00:17:34,876 --> 00:17:36,292 But anyway... 203 00:17:37,751 --> 00:17:38,751 I didn't say anything. 204 00:17:42,292 --> 00:17:43,584 What do you mean? 205 00:17:44,126 --> 00:17:46,167 It's the third time you've asked. 206 00:17:47,542 --> 00:17:49,417 I didn't realize. 207 00:17:54,834 --> 00:17:57,667 Do you really want to know what we do with the children? 208 00:18:04,042 --> 00:18:05,167 Come on. 209 00:18:07,126 --> 00:18:08,459 I'll show you. 210 00:19:16,626 --> 00:19:17,792 To the left. 211 00:20:28,751 --> 00:20:31,001 Get comfortable. It'll start in a minute. 212 00:20:36,084 --> 00:20:39,917 Let's say this is direction control. 213 00:20:40,709 --> 00:20:43,667 This business has three income sources. 214 00:20:45,417 --> 00:20:47,834 On one hand, the star of the video 215 00:20:48,126 --> 00:20:50,751 pays a fortune to be in that room for an hour. 216 00:20:51,042 --> 00:20:53,584 One the other, a pornographic video is made 217 00:20:53,876 --> 00:20:56,209 that's distributed worldwide, 218 00:20:56,501 --> 00:20:58,376 with the faces digitally altered. 219 00:20:59,001 --> 00:21:02,667 There are specialist pages that pay very well for the videos. 220 00:21:05,709 --> 00:21:06,542 Yes. 221 00:21:07,751 --> 00:21:08,917 Now? 222 00:21:09,667 --> 00:21:10,792 Of course, yes. 223 00:21:11,084 --> 00:21:11,667 Okay. 224 00:21:23,001 --> 00:21:25,834 We have to go out for a moment. 225 00:21:28,376 --> 00:21:29,542 I won't be long. 226 00:22:57,042 --> 00:22:58,376 Everything alright? 227 00:22:59,292 --> 00:23:00,417 Fine. 228 00:24:35,959 --> 00:24:36,834 Yes? 229 00:26:02,209 --> 00:26:03,292 Cristóbal. 230 00:26:04,084 --> 00:26:05,251 How are you? 231 00:26:07,001 --> 00:26:10,042 I've got nothing against parks, but why meet me here? 232 00:26:21,001 --> 00:26:22,209 What have you done? 233 00:26:22,501 --> 00:26:24,376 What have I done? 234 00:26:25,084 --> 00:26:26,626 What are you people doing? 235 00:26:27,334 --> 00:26:29,876 Did you know what they were doing to the children? 236 00:26:30,167 --> 00:26:32,209 I know everything. 237 00:26:33,542 --> 00:26:34,959 It's barbaric. 238 00:26:35,251 --> 00:26:37,834 It's not what we agreed! 239 00:26:38,126 --> 00:26:39,584 Lower your voice. 240 00:26:41,126 --> 00:26:43,417 How could you do something like this? 241 00:26:43,709 --> 00:26:44,876 How could you? 242 00:26:45,417 --> 00:26:47,292 Money, Cristóbal. 243 00:26:48,542 --> 00:26:51,751 It's the reason you're looking for and don't seem to understand. 244 00:26:53,542 --> 00:26:56,751 I'm a professional in the market economy. 245 00:26:57,042 --> 00:27:01,751 I was trained to extract maximum benefit from raw material. 246 00:27:03,126 --> 00:27:06,001 Though filming death makes a higher profit 247 00:27:06,292 --> 00:27:08,209 than prostitution or blackmail, 248 00:27:08,501 --> 00:27:11,126 nothing is comparable 249 00:27:11,417 --> 00:27:14,709 to the price paid by drug companies for the entrails. 250 00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:19,001 We're selling the innards for a fortune 251 00:27:19,292 --> 00:27:22,667 to a company that makes special food for geese. 252 00:27:22,959 --> 00:27:25,626 The clean, gutted bodies 253 00:27:26,126 --> 00:27:28,792 go to an eccentric New York artist 254 00:27:29,084 --> 00:27:31,292 who sells them to New York trendies 255 00:27:31,584 --> 00:27:34,001 who truly appreciate this guy's hyper-realist art. 256 00:27:35,542 --> 00:27:40,001 The authorities say nothing for now because we lower youth unemployment 257 00:27:40,292 --> 00:27:42,542 and they participate symbolically in the business. 258 00:27:48,251 --> 00:27:49,459 As for you... 259 00:27:51,626 --> 00:27:53,001 What can I tell you? 260 00:27:55,209 --> 00:27:57,417 You're in big trouble. 261 00:28:01,334 --> 00:28:04,001 They'll search the planet for you. 262 00:28:04,292 --> 00:28:07,001 And they'll find you, of course. 263 00:28:07,876 --> 00:28:08,834 Who knows? 264 00:28:09,126 --> 00:28:11,667 Maybe you'll end up in a New York art gallery. 265 00:28:16,042 --> 00:28:18,584 I'll put in a word for you. 266 00:28:20,084 --> 00:28:21,834 They're friends, after all. 267 00:28:26,376 --> 00:28:30,292 I'll try to get them not to rip out your eyeballs which, well dried, 268 00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:32,751 make wonderful erasers 269 00:28:33,042 --> 00:28:35,542 for pen and printing ink. 270 00:28:36,626 --> 00:28:39,167 I'll get them to at least leave your eyes. 271 00:28:46,084 --> 00:28:49,251 Come on, give me a hug. 272 00:28:52,667 --> 00:28:53,667 I didn't want to... 273 00:28:57,542 --> 00:29:00,667 disappear without you knowing all this. 274 00:29:13,751 --> 00:29:15,167 I don't want to be stuffed. 275 00:29:22,126 --> 00:29:24,751 I suppose I could be next. 276 00:29:26,042 --> 00:29:27,292 And I wouldn't mind, 277 00:29:27,584 --> 00:29:31,334 it'd be a favor now that I know that what they did is my fault. 278 00:29:31,626 --> 00:29:33,167 No, it wasn't your fault. 279 00:29:36,751 --> 00:29:37,667 Here. 280 00:29:38,834 --> 00:29:41,001 This is the key to a locker in my office 281 00:29:41,292 --> 00:29:43,459 with all the hospital's papers, 282 00:29:43,751 --> 00:29:46,667 so you can take charge of it all if something happens to me. 283 00:29:47,834 --> 00:29:49,876 Nothing will happen to you, I'm sure of it. 284 00:29:53,084 --> 00:29:54,917 That was the last time I saw her. 285 00:30:02,876 --> 00:30:06,042 I reported it to my superiors, but they said I was insane 286 00:30:08,084 --> 00:30:09,876 and told me to forget it. 287 00:30:10,792 --> 00:30:11,667 I refused. 288 00:30:14,959 --> 00:30:17,709 They charged me with insubordination, threw me out of the service 289 00:30:18,001 --> 00:30:20,167 and put me in a psych hospital. 290 00:30:20,459 --> 00:30:21,542 My son! 291 00:30:24,917 --> 00:30:25,959 Lies! 292 00:30:29,501 --> 00:30:31,334 I don't believe a word of it! 293 00:31:09,417 --> 00:31:11,709 From that day on, my father kept to himself 294 00:31:12,001 --> 00:31:14,334 and devoted his life to staring out the window 295 00:31:15,917 --> 00:31:19,167 or sitting on the patio watching the people go by on bullfight days, 296 00:31:19,459 --> 00:31:21,667 when our street was a bit livelier. 297 00:31:27,251 --> 00:31:30,917 Until death took him one day after an afternoon snack. 298 00:31:33,751 --> 00:31:35,834 My mother died of grief a short time later. 299 00:31:36,126 --> 00:31:39,876 Now the Secret Service wants to obliterate Martín, 300 00:31:40,167 --> 00:31:43,251 take away his civil rights, and they're saying he's mad 301 00:31:43,542 --> 00:31:46,417 and persuades people to throw themselves into garbage trucks. 302 00:31:48,751 --> 00:31:52,792 I hope this case interests you. I've nothing more to say. 303 00:31:54,084 --> 00:31:57,792 Yours sincerely, Amelia Urales de Úbeda. 304 00:32:05,709 --> 00:32:09,792 The letter did sound odd, to be honest. 305 00:32:11,209 --> 00:32:12,917 But it drew me in so much 306 00:32:13,626 --> 00:32:16,042 that I decided to track down where this woman lived. 307 00:32:16,334 --> 00:32:19,001 "...devoted his life to sitting on the patio 308 00:32:19,292 --> 00:32:21,459 and watching people on bullfight days, 309 00:32:21,751 --> 00:32:23,626 when our street got a little livelier." 310 00:32:23,917 --> 00:32:25,251 That's what the letter said. 311 00:32:26,001 --> 00:32:29,376 The woman had lived in a lower house, with a patio, 312 00:32:31,042 --> 00:32:33,834 near Las Ventas bullring. 313 00:32:38,626 --> 00:32:40,792 It's true that the whole thing could've been a story, 314 00:32:41,084 --> 00:32:43,876 but if we think like that, we never do anything in life. 315 00:32:50,292 --> 00:32:53,001 I spent days looking for the non-existent house 316 00:32:53,292 --> 00:32:56,042 of Amelia Urales de Úbeda. But it did exist. 317 00:32:58,876 --> 00:33:01,459 I'd passed it several times and never noticed it. 318 00:33:01,751 --> 00:33:04,376 It was like it suddenly appeared. 319 00:33:11,042 --> 00:33:13,834 21, Martínez Izquierdo. 320 00:33:14,501 --> 00:33:17,126 You can check it if you like, I'm not making it up. 321 00:33:24,792 --> 00:33:25,792 Hello? 322 00:33:26,501 --> 00:33:28,584 Hello. Are you Amelia? 323 00:33:29,417 --> 00:33:31,209 I'm Ángel Sanagustín. 324 00:33:33,001 --> 00:33:36,542 You wrote me this letter about your brother's case. 325 00:33:37,959 --> 00:33:41,251 - I'd like to meet him, if possible. - Ángel Sanagustín. 326 00:33:43,292 --> 00:33:45,584 Sorry, I wasn't expecting you. 327 00:33:45,876 --> 00:33:48,417 No, it's my fault for coming unannounced... 328 00:33:48,709 --> 00:33:50,126 I didn't have your phone number. 329 00:33:50,417 --> 00:33:54,001 Your letter described the house, that's how I found you. 330 00:33:54,292 --> 00:33:55,876 Sure, sure. 331 00:33:57,417 --> 00:34:01,209 My brother's not in right now, but I don't think he'll be long. 332 00:34:01,501 --> 00:34:03,751 - Oh, dear. - You can wait inside if you like. 333 00:34:04,459 --> 00:34:07,209 - You don't mind? - Please, come in. 334 00:34:07,501 --> 00:34:08,626 - Very kind of you. - Come in. 335 00:34:14,667 --> 00:34:16,626 The smell is from the pipes. 336 00:34:17,459 --> 00:34:19,834 These old houses, you know? 337 00:34:20,126 --> 00:34:24,001 Very pretty and all that, but so expensive to maintain. 338 00:34:24,501 --> 00:34:25,376 Sure. 339 00:34:27,876 --> 00:34:30,001 I don't think my brother will be long, 340 00:34:30,292 --> 00:34:33,209 though with him you never know. 341 00:34:33,876 --> 00:34:35,542 Never mind, I'm in no hurry. 342 00:34:41,417 --> 00:34:43,417 - There's no need. - Please! 343 00:34:44,084 --> 00:34:45,334 Thanks very much. 344 00:34:48,334 --> 00:34:50,376 Forgive me if I don't turn on the lights, 345 00:34:50,667 --> 00:34:54,417 we have a little wiring problem. 346 00:34:59,917 --> 00:35:01,417 Well... 347 00:35:03,209 --> 00:35:05,334 What did you think of my letter? 348 00:35:06,334 --> 00:35:07,626 Intriguing. 349 00:35:09,792 --> 00:35:12,834 There, sitting in his wheelchair, 350 00:35:13,501 --> 00:35:16,417 my father read the letters my brother sent. 351 00:35:19,792 --> 00:35:21,334 Through that door 352 00:35:22,251 --> 00:35:26,126 he appeared in the uniform of a lieutenant, missing an arm. 353 00:35:27,751 --> 00:35:28,876 And look, 354 00:35:29,167 --> 00:35:33,751 the table my father broke when my brother was thrown out of the army. 355 00:35:34,042 --> 00:35:36,792 Look at the crack. You can take a look. 356 00:35:37,751 --> 00:35:39,876 He left it in splinters. 357 00:35:41,209 --> 00:35:45,667 I have no money to fix it. A shame, it's quite lovely. 358 00:35:46,917 --> 00:35:48,376 Lovely, yes. 359 00:35:49,042 --> 00:35:51,167 Though even if I had money, I wouldn't fix it. 360 00:35:51,959 --> 00:35:56,042 It's a way of remembering my father, don't you think? 361 00:35:57,334 --> 00:35:58,959 Yes, it is. 362 00:36:01,834 --> 00:36:03,751 That's the croquette that hit my brother's head 363 00:36:04,042 --> 00:36:05,334 when my dad hit the roof. 364 00:36:07,834 --> 00:36:10,001 I'm quite the fetishist. 365 00:36:14,501 --> 00:36:15,667 Do you like it? 366 00:36:16,751 --> 00:36:18,459 - What? - The liquor. 367 00:36:19,667 --> 00:36:20,459 Yes. 368 00:36:21,709 --> 00:36:22,917 I make it myself. 369 00:36:23,667 --> 00:36:26,167 Oh, it's very good. 370 00:36:26,792 --> 00:36:28,626 Strong, but very good. 371 00:36:28,917 --> 00:36:32,251 I'll get you some sausage I also make. 372 00:36:32,542 --> 00:36:35,251 To help you get it down. 373 00:36:35,542 --> 00:36:37,209 - Please! - There's no need. 374 00:37:05,751 --> 00:37:07,959 Sit down! Make yourself comfortable! 375 00:37:12,417 --> 00:37:14,001 I make this sausage too. 376 00:37:33,667 --> 00:37:35,167 It's very nice sausage. 377 00:37:38,876 --> 00:37:41,459 I'm so glad you've come, Mr. Sanagustín. 378 00:37:41,751 --> 00:37:44,376 Call me Ángel, please. 379 00:37:44,667 --> 00:37:46,751 I'm so glad, because... 380 00:37:48,001 --> 00:37:51,292 there's something I wanted to tell you. 381 00:37:56,334 --> 00:37:57,209 Yes? 382 00:37:59,751 --> 00:38:00,834 Yes. 383 00:38:03,376 --> 00:38:04,667 I lied to you. 384 00:38:06,292 --> 00:38:07,251 Really? 385 00:38:09,459 --> 00:38:11,584 My brother was never a soldier. 386 00:38:12,376 --> 00:38:13,834 It's not that I deceived you, 387 00:38:14,126 --> 00:38:18,209 he was deceiving us all for a very long time. 388 00:38:19,834 --> 00:38:23,417 Of everything I said in the letter, the only truth is that he's one-armed. 389 00:38:26,501 --> 00:38:28,709 Everything went awry the day they rejected him 390 00:38:29,001 --> 00:38:31,334 from San Javier Military Academy in Murcia. 391 00:38:31,792 --> 00:38:34,292 He intended to re-do the exam a year later. 392 00:38:34,584 --> 00:38:38,042 Until then he moved into a hostel and got work as a garbageman. 393 00:38:38,334 --> 00:38:43,167 Meanwhile, he wrote us the letters describing barracks life 394 00:38:43,459 --> 00:38:45,667 that my father enjoyed so much. 395 00:38:47,709 --> 00:38:50,209 A year went by and he failed the exam again. 396 00:38:50,501 --> 00:38:52,042 The next year, the same thing. 397 00:38:52,334 --> 00:38:56,584 Before he knew it, Martín was a garbageman living in Murcia. 398 00:38:57,209 --> 00:39:01,042 What began as a white lie, a postponement, 399 00:39:01,709 --> 00:39:04,001 ended up being a decision. 400 00:39:05,751 --> 00:39:09,042 He lost his arm one night when he wasn't on the ball. 401 00:39:36,542 --> 00:39:40,667 And now, depressed, one-armed, 402 00:39:41,126 --> 00:39:43,584 with a shitty pension, 403 00:39:44,251 --> 00:39:45,709 he's living here with me. 404 00:39:49,376 --> 00:39:50,626 Take it easy. 405 00:39:53,084 --> 00:39:54,959 Take it easy, it's alright. 406 00:39:57,792 --> 00:39:59,167 Now, looking back, 407 00:39:59,959 --> 00:40:02,459 I'm surprised I didn't realize before, 408 00:40:02,917 --> 00:40:04,334 but I didn't. 409 00:40:08,751 --> 00:40:10,209 Take it easy. 410 00:40:10,501 --> 00:40:12,251 Take it easy, it's alright. 411 00:40:24,459 --> 00:40:25,542 Well... 412 00:40:27,251 --> 00:40:28,292 Well, well... 413 00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:03,334 No fucking way. 414 00:41:12,542 --> 00:41:15,792 Sorry about the joke. I think I kept it going too long. 415 00:41:18,667 --> 00:41:20,334 I've been living alone so long. 416 00:41:51,876 --> 00:41:53,792 Now I've covered the mics, we can talk. 417 00:41:55,084 --> 00:41:56,709 I should've guessed. 418 00:41:58,001 --> 00:41:59,917 No, don't sell yourself short. 419 00:42:00,834 --> 00:42:03,584 They're much more powerful and they still haven't found me. 420 00:42:04,751 --> 00:42:05,626 Who? 421 00:42:06,834 --> 00:42:09,667 Them, the garbagemen. 422 00:42:18,667 --> 00:42:19,584 They followed you. 423 00:42:21,001 --> 00:42:21,751 No! 424 00:42:48,251 --> 00:42:50,001 I knew it wasn't the pipes. 425 00:42:51,334 --> 00:42:53,042 8 years without throwing out the garbage. 426 00:42:54,292 --> 00:42:55,751 You can't expect it to smell of roses. 427 00:43:03,959 --> 00:43:05,167 If you make a noise, I'll punch you 428 00:43:24,876 --> 00:43:26,667 Do you know who those people in the truck are? 429 00:43:30,501 --> 00:43:31,667 Garbagemen. 430 00:43:33,751 --> 00:43:36,709 You got no fucking idea what's going on in the world. 431 00:43:37,334 --> 00:43:41,042 - No? - No, that's why I made you come. 432 00:43:43,001 --> 00:43:44,667 You made me come? 433 00:43:45,084 --> 00:43:47,209 You don't know how hard it was to find you. 434 00:43:47,501 --> 00:43:50,709 The letter I sent pretending to be my sister didn't help? 435 00:43:51,001 --> 00:43:53,542 The clues I left were no help? 436 00:43:53,834 --> 00:43:55,792 For fuck's sake, Ángel! 437 00:43:58,126 --> 00:44:01,959 I brought you because you're the chosen one. 438 00:44:04,917 --> 00:44:06,167 You're trustworthy, 439 00:44:07,334 --> 00:44:09,876 because for years you've been using disposable razors, 440 00:44:10,167 --> 00:44:13,334 even though they've brought out triple or quadruple razors. 441 00:44:13,792 --> 00:44:17,959 You're an idealist because you don't eat transgenic foods. 442 00:44:18,251 --> 00:44:20,459 You're tenacious and persistent, 443 00:44:22,501 --> 00:44:24,959 your pumpkin seed shells prove it. 444 00:44:26,709 --> 00:44:27,751 And, above all, 445 00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:31,876 above all, Ángel, 446 00:44:32,751 --> 00:44:34,126 you're brave 447 00:44:36,126 --> 00:44:37,792 because you drink loads of coffee. 448 00:44:41,709 --> 00:44:44,334 - You spied on my garbage? - Of course. 449 00:44:45,542 --> 00:44:47,459 - What for? - To open your eyes. 450 00:44:55,459 --> 00:44:58,251 You think I use this cotton and this helmet because I'm mad. 451 00:44:59,751 --> 00:45:01,251 But I'm not mad, Ángel. 452 00:45:04,917 --> 00:45:08,667 They put mics and an identification chip in me. 453 00:45:12,459 --> 00:45:15,542 - Who? - The people up there. 454 00:45:18,084 --> 00:45:20,876 - The garbagemen? - They're not garbagemen! 455 00:45:23,126 --> 00:45:24,042 Right. 456 00:45:27,292 --> 00:45:30,959 Then what are they, Martín? 457 00:45:32,417 --> 00:45:33,834 Political police. 458 00:45:37,751 --> 00:45:39,209 Have a little respect. 459 00:45:40,001 --> 00:45:41,334 Forget everything my sister told you. 460 00:45:41,626 --> 00:45:43,876 Let your mind go blank and listen carefully. 461 00:45:47,667 --> 00:45:49,251 I was a garbageman for 5 years. 462 00:45:53,917 --> 00:45:56,792 But didn't you say that everything your sister said was a lie? 463 00:45:57,084 --> 00:45:59,001 No. I said to forget everything my sister told you, 464 00:45:59,292 --> 00:46:01,209 to let your mind go blank and to listen carefully. 465 00:46:01,501 --> 00:46:03,167 Are you going to listen carefully? 466 00:46:03,834 --> 00:46:04,417 - Yes. - Good. 467 00:46:06,084 --> 00:46:07,917 I was a garbageman for 5 years. 468 00:46:10,751 --> 00:46:12,792 When I started, I was assigned to a truck 469 00:46:14,209 --> 00:46:16,001 with two colleagues, Paco Platero... 470 00:46:19,376 --> 00:46:20,584 and Gota. 471 00:46:21,501 --> 00:46:23,209 The work was routine and unpleasant. 472 00:46:24,042 --> 00:46:27,001 Some fuckers don't shut their bags right 473 00:46:27,292 --> 00:46:30,334 and when you tip it into the truck, all the shit falls on you. 474 00:46:31,501 --> 00:46:32,792 Fucking hell... 475 00:46:33,292 --> 00:46:35,834 Then your colleagues are always going on about it, 476 00:46:36,126 --> 00:46:38,417 that we're sick of picking up people's shit... 477 00:46:38,709 --> 00:46:40,959 I'm sick of picking up people's shit, man. 478 00:46:41,917 --> 00:46:43,959 ...that it's the worst job ever... 479 00:46:44,251 --> 00:46:45,542 This is the worst job ever. 480 00:46:46,334 --> 00:46:47,667 ...that it's the worst paid... 481 00:46:47,959 --> 00:46:49,084 And the worst paid! 482 00:46:50,084 --> 00:46:52,542 ...that it's not valued by society... 483 00:46:52,834 --> 00:46:55,001 People don't realize what we do, 484 00:46:55,292 --> 00:46:58,126 while they're sleeping peacefully. 485 00:46:59,667 --> 00:47:00,959 Bastards! 486 00:47:05,292 --> 00:47:06,417 Then there's the smell. 487 00:47:07,292 --> 00:47:09,042 No matter what gloves and special clothes you use, 488 00:47:09,334 --> 00:47:12,001 the stink gets in your hair and skin, 489 00:47:12,292 --> 00:47:14,417 there's no way to get it out. 490 00:47:16,042 --> 00:47:18,292 The first two weeks are the worst, 491 00:47:19,626 --> 00:47:22,459 you think you'll go crazy with the stink, I'm telling you, 492 00:47:22,751 --> 00:47:24,626 but then you get used to it. 493 00:47:26,917 --> 00:47:29,834 And then you discover that the company itself 494 00:47:30,126 --> 00:47:32,501 is spraying the dumpsters with an unbearable stench 495 00:47:32,792 --> 00:47:37,001 that we, the garbagemen, touch every day, 496 00:47:37,501 --> 00:47:39,959 to alienate us socially and increase our resentment. 497 00:47:56,667 --> 00:47:58,834 The idea is that, when the time comes, 498 00:47:59,126 --> 00:48:03,376 you'll accept without reservations what your bosses tell you in secret: 499 00:48:04,751 --> 00:48:07,042 the real task. 500 00:48:09,209 --> 00:48:10,751 The real task? 501 00:48:11,042 --> 00:48:13,667 The real task. 502 00:48:17,042 --> 00:48:19,209 The trucks don't grind the garbage. 503 00:48:24,251 --> 00:48:25,584 They store it. 504 00:48:29,001 --> 00:48:30,834 It all starts with the identification of each bag. 505 00:48:31,126 --> 00:48:32,292 There's a margin of error, 506 00:48:32,584 --> 00:48:36,334 but usually the last person to touch the bag is the owner. 507 00:48:37,667 --> 00:48:41,417 The plastic the bags are made of preserve fingerprints wonderfully. 508 00:48:41,709 --> 00:48:43,792 When they match them with the waste, 509 00:48:44,084 --> 00:48:47,376 we have the owner of the garbage. 510 00:48:48,834 --> 00:48:50,251 Every resident has a file, 511 00:48:50,542 --> 00:48:54,376 with a history and a detailed analysis of the waste. 512 00:48:54,667 --> 00:48:58,001 That's why they didn't collect the garbage at your house. 513 00:48:59,126 --> 00:49:00,959 It would've falsified your file. 514 00:49:01,459 --> 00:49:03,542 Your case was a blip in the system. 515 00:49:03,876 --> 00:49:06,459 In the more advanced countries, this is done by the citizens, 516 00:49:06,751 --> 00:49:08,834 who separate and classify their own garbage, 517 00:49:09,126 --> 00:49:11,126 believing that they're improving the environment. 518 00:49:11,417 --> 00:49:12,667 But not here, no. 519 00:49:14,251 --> 00:49:17,209 Unintentionally, we make it hard for the intelligence center. 520 00:49:17,501 --> 00:49:19,792 There had to be some advantage to the Third World mentality. 521 00:49:20,084 --> 00:49:22,251 They can find out your tastes, your phobias, 522 00:49:22,542 --> 00:49:25,251 how you survive financially, how you vote, your sex life, 523 00:49:25,542 --> 00:49:28,126 your dreams, your moods... Everything. 524 00:49:30,959 --> 00:49:32,209 They know everything. 525 00:49:34,501 --> 00:49:37,001 I'm the only garbageman to leave the company 526 00:49:38,209 --> 00:49:40,709 and since then I've been on the run. 527 00:49:42,209 --> 00:49:44,751 I discovered they'd implanted microphones in me, 528 00:49:46,459 --> 00:49:47,792 in my nostrils, 529 00:49:49,501 --> 00:49:51,751 and magnetic metals in my cerebral cortex. 530 00:49:53,834 --> 00:49:55,792 I can't go into the Prado Museum. 531 00:50:01,751 --> 00:50:04,876 So I passed myself off as my sister and hid out here, 532 00:50:06,667 --> 00:50:09,834 buying nothing at the supermarket, not generating any waste, 533 00:50:11,542 --> 00:50:13,792 feeding myself the best I can on my urine and feces. 534 00:50:16,292 --> 00:50:19,042 Wasn't the liquor and sausage you ate nice? 535 00:50:21,709 --> 00:50:23,001 We have a lot of prejudices. 536 00:50:23,542 --> 00:50:27,167 When he said that, I must've made a face, 537 00:50:27,459 --> 00:50:29,334 much like the one you're making now. 538 00:50:30,459 --> 00:50:33,626 He said he was sick of being looked at like that, 539 00:50:35,709 --> 00:50:37,542 of everyone looking at him like that. 540 00:50:38,251 --> 00:50:40,542 He said: "Right now, I'll show you I'm right." 541 00:50:40,834 --> 00:50:43,251 He tied me up, gagged me 542 00:50:43,542 --> 00:50:45,542 and took me outside by the back door. 543 00:50:50,542 --> 00:50:53,709 Lots of fuckers don't shut their bags right, you'll get used to it. 544 00:50:54,251 --> 00:50:57,126 We're getting into a truck so you see with your own eyes. 545 00:50:58,751 --> 00:51:00,376 Relax, it's just a moment. 546 00:51:01,251 --> 00:51:02,042 Now! 547 00:51:03,292 --> 00:51:05,792 I don't know what I did, what I grabbed on to, 548 00:51:06,084 --> 00:51:07,834 adrenaline is wonderful. 549 00:51:08,126 --> 00:51:09,834 At the last moment, 550 00:51:10,126 --> 00:51:11,667 he tripped and let go of me. 551 00:51:12,751 --> 00:51:16,459 I fell down outside and he fell inside. 552 00:51:17,501 --> 00:51:19,001 I'm still alive... 553 00:51:24,084 --> 00:51:26,126 ...and he vanished forever. 554 00:51:28,751 --> 00:51:29,917 Are you hungry? 555 00:51:30,542 --> 00:51:33,126 I usually get down here and buy a sandwich at the bar. 556 00:51:33,417 --> 00:51:35,792 I'll get you one. Ham and cheese? Salad? 557 00:51:37,084 --> 00:51:39,334 - Okay, but I'll pay. - No, no need. 558 00:51:40,001 --> 00:51:41,584 My treat. 559 00:51:46,626 --> 00:51:47,917 I'll be right back. 560 00:52:26,501 --> 00:52:30,917 CHAPTER 2 People 561 00:52:45,084 --> 00:52:47,667 Helga Pato's problem with people 562 00:52:47,959 --> 00:52:50,417 was that she confused narrators with authors 563 00:52:50,709 --> 00:52:53,334 and sometimes the latter with characters. 564 00:52:53,959 --> 00:52:56,667 When she met W at the Book Fair, 565 00:52:56,959 --> 00:52:59,001 she was an independent editor 566 00:52:59,292 --> 00:53:01,876 and he was a famous writer popular with the left wing. 567 00:53:02,376 --> 00:53:06,709 W at once perceived a powerful groin under her pants, 568 00:53:07,251 --> 00:53:10,459 and instead of a dedication, he wrote an address. 569 00:53:15,959 --> 00:53:19,709 She believed at that moment a love story was beginning 570 00:53:20,001 --> 00:53:23,501 about a young editor who was going to live with her favorite author 571 00:53:23,792 --> 00:53:25,876 on the top floor of a Madrid skyscraper. 572 00:53:26,626 --> 00:53:30,209 She believed she was falling in love with her favorite writer... 573 00:53:32,751 --> 00:53:35,834 Today we have pleasure of speaking to the author of "Jungle". 574 00:53:36,126 --> 00:53:39,042 ...but she'd actually fallen in love with the narrator... 575 00:53:41,917 --> 00:53:44,709 If you could be a jungle animal, which would you choose? 576 00:53:45,709 --> 00:53:46,834 A predator. 577 00:53:47,917 --> 00:53:50,042 ...and gone to live with a character. 578 00:53:54,001 --> 00:53:57,751 After this last romantic failure, Helga Pato quit her job,... 579 00:54:00,876 --> 00:54:03,834 adopted a dog, called it Pingo, 580 00:54:04,501 --> 00:54:09,167 and decided never to have anything to do with a man again. 581 00:54:27,751 --> 00:54:30,042 My thing began as "101 Dalmatians". 582 00:54:30,501 --> 00:54:32,376 Everything that happened later, 583 00:54:32,751 --> 00:54:35,417 I could've foreseen from the first day I met him, 584 00:54:35,709 --> 00:54:38,376 for all things are present in their beginnings. 585 00:54:38,917 --> 00:54:40,042 Hey! 586 00:54:40,334 --> 00:54:43,417 No! Sorry, she's mine. Leave them be. 587 00:54:50,876 --> 00:54:52,709 I wanted a litter. 588 00:55:02,709 --> 00:55:04,376 I really love dogs. 589 00:55:05,667 --> 00:55:08,376 I have plenty of room at home, I can handle it. 590 00:55:25,001 --> 00:55:26,667 - Do you live in the neighborhood? - Yes. 591 00:55:27,876 --> 00:55:29,292 Right nearby. 592 00:55:30,834 --> 00:55:32,876 I've got a kiosk on the square. 593 00:55:33,709 --> 00:55:35,001 - Really? - Yes. 594 00:55:37,917 --> 00:55:39,626 Drop by one day if you like. 595 00:55:40,667 --> 00:55:44,209 One day I had nothing better to do, so I went to see him at the kiosk. 596 00:55:44,501 --> 00:55:45,209 Hello! 597 00:55:47,209 --> 00:55:48,626 - Hello. - How are you? 598 00:55:49,751 --> 00:55:52,334 Well, not many customers today. 599 00:55:55,751 --> 00:55:59,709 I was thinking the other day, you didn't tell me your dog's name. 600 00:56:01,709 --> 00:56:03,542 - Charla. - Charla? 601 00:56:03,834 --> 00:56:05,334 Charlita, Charla. 602 00:56:08,084 --> 00:56:09,792 And I'm Emilio. 603 00:56:11,751 --> 00:56:13,334 I'm such an idiot... My name's Helga. 604 00:56:19,667 --> 00:56:22,667 I'd let you in, but this place is a bit like my home, you know? 605 00:56:23,709 --> 00:56:25,834 It means a lot if a woman comes in. 606 00:56:26,126 --> 00:56:26,751 Sure, sure. 607 00:56:31,542 --> 00:56:34,959 When I went to buy bread or walk the dog, I'd stop by. 608 00:56:37,542 --> 00:56:41,626 He'd show me dog magazines and talk about breeds and crosses. 609 00:56:41,917 --> 00:56:44,584 A dog's mission is to play and procreate. 610 00:56:44,876 --> 00:56:48,167 Obviously I was fond of Pingo and I'd ask about Charla's pregnancy, 611 00:56:48,459 --> 00:56:50,542 but nothing more. 612 00:57:00,167 --> 00:57:02,751 I was thinking of selling four of the five pups. 613 00:57:04,542 --> 00:57:05,834 All but this one. 614 00:57:13,667 --> 00:57:14,792 His name's Elvis. 615 00:57:16,876 --> 00:57:17,667 Hold him 616 00:57:25,709 --> 00:57:27,709 I was thinking of giving him to you. 617 00:57:30,959 --> 00:57:32,751 If you'll be my girlfriend. 618 00:57:38,251 --> 00:57:39,459 What do you say? 619 00:58:03,292 --> 00:58:05,667 We spent lots of time together in the kiosk. 620 00:58:05,959 --> 00:58:08,667 That's the job for you, it really ties you down. 621 00:58:09,917 --> 00:58:11,042 But I didn't mind. 622 00:58:11,334 --> 00:58:14,584 What I minded was that he tired of me so quickly. 623 00:58:19,042 --> 00:58:21,834 After a few months he'd leave me alone all day in the kiosk 624 00:58:22,126 --> 00:58:24,834 while he'd walk the dogs to Casa de Campo. 625 00:58:31,042 --> 00:58:34,959 One night, in bed, he asked to do it from behind. 626 00:58:37,751 --> 00:58:39,084 Like dogs, he said. 627 00:58:39,376 --> 00:58:40,542 Like dogs. 628 00:58:40,834 --> 00:58:44,792 As we hadn't talked for a while or done anything, I gave in. 629 00:58:47,126 --> 00:58:50,459 And if you give in once, you do forever, 630 00:58:50,751 --> 00:58:52,834 sometimes for love, 631 00:58:53,126 --> 00:58:56,626 sometimes from insecurity, sometimes because you're scared. 632 00:58:56,917 --> 00:58:59,751 Generally it's for all three reasons at the same time, 633 00:59:00,042 --> 00:59:02,667 if all three aren't the same thing. 634 00:59:03,834 --> 00:59:07,459 After that we never did it face to face again. 635 00:59:28,667 --> 00:59:31,001 One day I tried to say no. 636 00:59:33,251 --> 00:59:36,667 No, Emilio, I don't feel like it that way today. 637 00:59:42,834 --> 00:59:44,251 He was gone for a week. 638 00:59:51,959 --> 00:59:53,626 I never said no again. 639 01:00:03,084 --> 01:00:05,459 Now moan. Like a dog, do it. 640 01:00:10,751 --> 01:00:12,001 That's it, that's it. 641 01:00:15,751 --> 01:00:16,667 That's it. 642 01:00:18,251 --> 01:00:19,251 Higher, higher! 643 01:00:28,834 --> 01:00:30,626 He was very nice all week 644 01:00:30,917 --> 01:00:33,792 and gave me my first gift since he gave me Elvis. 645 01:00:41,501 --> 01:00:42,667 What's this? 646 01:00:43,876 --> 01:00:44,876 For you. 647 01:01:12,834 --> 01:01:13,751 Wait! 648 01:01:24,876 --> 01:01:25,959 2.20. 649 01:01:29,751 --> 01:01:31,376 Thanks, see you later. 650 01:01:35,834 --> 01:01:37,001 You're not wearing it. 651 01:01:40,251 --> 01:01:42,876 I put it on at home, but I take off to go out. 652 01:01:45,626 --> 01:01:48,001 Why put it on and take it off all the time? 653 01:01:48,917 --> 01:01:50,334 Leave it on. 654 01:02:04,251 --> 01:02:06,292 One day he said he'd make lunch. 655 01:02:06,584 --> 01:02:10,709 He bought himself Sanlúcar prawns and gave me meat stew. 656 01:02:14,501 --> 01:02:16,709 He said it was meat stew. 657 01:02:18,376 --> 01:02:20,667 It wasn't bad, to be honest, 658 01:02:21,209 --> 01:02:23,584 but I would've preferred Sanlúcar prawns. 659 01:02:25,417 --> 01:02:28,251 From then on, he always made the food. 660 01:02:29,876 --> 01:02:33,001 Now he didn't even bother hiding where the stew came from. 661 01:02:34,792 --> 01:02:38,001 Today, eat it without cutlery. You'll love it. 662 01:03:31,501 --> 01:03:35,417 Today I thought you'd like to eat with them. 663 01:03:39,542 --> 01:03:40,834 No, Emilio, no. 664 01:03:46,959 --> 01:03:48,876 But it's got your name and everything. 665 01:03:49,626 --> 01:03:51,876 Not that. 666 01:03:57,667 --> 01:03:58,751 Why not? 667 01:04:00,876 --> 01:04:03,167 Because. 668 01:04:04,251 --> 01:04:05,751 Why not? 669 01:04:06,792 --> 01:04:08,001 Because. 670 01:04:09,501 --> 01:04:11,626 Why not? 671 01:04:14,834 --> 01:04:16,292 Don't laugh at me. 672 01:04:17,917 --> 01:04:19,084 Don't laugh at me. 673 01:04:19,792 --> 01:04:21,459 You're not laughing at me! 674 01:04:22,084 --> 01:04:23,751 You're not laughing at me! 675 01:04:24,751 --> 01:04:26,126 Don't you laugh at me! 676 01:04:26,501 --> 01:04:28,459 Get it straight, you're not laughing at me! 677 01:04:31,959 --> 01:04:33,167 Don't you laugh at me! 678 01:04:33,459 --> 01:04:34,542 Don't you laugh at me! 679 01:04:42,251 --> 01:04:44,334 What are you staring at? Shit! 680 01:04:47,542 --> 01:04:50,042 Don't laugh, this is not a joke! 681 01:04:53,917 --> 01:04:57,042 He took the dogs and went off to the Casa de Campo. 682 01:05:27,126 --> 01:05:29,501 When you're alone, thinking the whole damn day, 683 01:05:29,792 --> 01:05:32,459 it's easy to find reasons for doing something. 684 01:05:37,292 --> 01:05:39,042 No matter how crazy it is. 685 01:05:44,251 --> 01:05:46,376 When I told him I'd do it, 686 01:05:47,376 --> 01:05:50,001 he put his arms around me and for the first time in ages, 687 01:05:50,667 --> 01:05:52,209 he kissed me on the muzzle. 688 01:05:55,834 --> 01:05:58,417 The changes had taken place so gradually 689 01:05:58,709 --> 01:06:01,126 that I didn't realize he'd turned me into a dog. 690 01:06:03,792 --> 01:06:07,542 I'd ceded terrain that I was never going to recover. 691 01:06:08,251 --> 01:06:10,376 That happens a lot in life, 692 01:06:11,126 --> 01:06:13,709 especially if you do nothing at the beginning. 693 01:06:33,126 --> 01:06:34,001 Helga! 694 01:06:42,459 --> 01:06:44,251 I've been thinking... 695 01:06:45,417 --> 01:06:48,459 Now that you're in the garden there's more room in the house. 696 01:06:49,751 --> 01:06:51,334 And well... 697 01:06:53,417 --> 01:06:54,917 I thought that 698 01:06:56,542 --> 01:06:58,376 we could have a puppy. 699 01:07:04,751 --> 01:07:08,001 I was so happy, because I thought maybe a child 700 01:07:08,292 --> 01:07:10,751 would make me more human for him. 701 01:07:25,417 --> 01:07:26,042 Elvis! 702 01:07:31,501 --> 01:07:32,626 No! 703 01:07:35,876 --> 01:07:38,584 He had no choice but to tie me up and beat me. 704 01:07:43,417 --> 01:07:44,626 Look at her! Look at her! 705 01:07:44,917 --> 01:07:47,792 See her? Go for it, go on! 706 01:08:21,376 --> 01:08:25,459 Love is a beam of indirect light, 707 01:08:25,751 --> 01:08:30,001 a drop of peace, faith awakened, 708 01:08:30,292 --> 01:08:34,542 a hum in the air, a spot in the fog, 709 01:08:34,834 --> 01:08:37,042 a profile, a shadow, 710 01:08:37,334 --> 01:08:39,417 a pause, expectation. 711 01:08:39,751 --> 01:08:43,876 Love is a soft murmur approaching, 712 01:08:44,376 --> 01:08:48,251 a buzz from afar, a light breeze, 713 01:08:48,751 --> 01:08:52,876 a voice in the calm, an aroma of mint, 714 01:08:53,251 --> 01:08:55,334 and then, a perhaps, 715 01:08:55,626 --> 01:08:57,751 a "let's see", a goal. 716 01:08:58,042 --> 01:09:01,959 Love sprouts between air and ground, 717 01:09:02,417 --> 01:09:06,542 palpable and felt, and there are those who see it, 718 01:09:06,834 --> 01:09:10,667 and it makes you awaken and think of it, 719 01:09:11,417 --> 01:09:15,334 and it calls you softly, brushing your skin. 720 01:09:15,834 --> 01:09:19,834 Love hypnotizes you, makes you dream, 721 01:09:20,417 --> 01:09:24,251 and you dream and you give in and let yourself go, 722 01:09:24,751 --> 01:09:28,876 it moves you inside, it makes you be more, 723 01:09:29,334 --> 01:09:33,167 it pushes you, overcomes you and takes you from behind. 724 01:09:33,459 --> 01:09:37,959 And suddenly you rise, hurl yourself and burn, 725 01:09:38,251 --> 01:09:40,501 there is light in your soul, 726 01:09:40,792 --> 01:09:42,709 fire in your veins, 727 01:09:43,001 --> 01:09:47,001 it makes you scream when you feel you are burnt, 728 01:09:47,292 --> 01:09:51,334 it dissolves you, evaporates you, destroys you, creates you. 729 01:09:51,626 --> 01:09:56,251 It makes you travel on the edge of time, 730 01:09:56,542 --> 01:10:00,709 going up the rivers of a thousand universes, 731 01:10:01,001 --> 01:10:05,126 and it takes you to glory, it delivers you to the earth, 732 01:10:05,417 --> 01:10:10,001 it looks at you, sees you, and thinks and thinks. 733 01:10:19,751 --> 01:10:23,751 And suddenly love is the light of a flame 734 01:10:24,542 --> 01:10:28,667 that begins to flicker, then goes out. 735 01:10:29,042 --> 01:10:33,251 It's a tiny island lost in the fog, 736 01:10:33,751 --> 01:10:37,667 a drop, an unknown, a blemish, a grimace. 737 01:10:38,084 --> 01:10:42,209 Love is a leaf fallen on the ground, 738 01:10:42,876 --> 01:10:46,876 a point on the sea, a thickening mist, 739 01:10:47,459 --> 01:10:51,334 a snag in the soul, a watching sun, 740 01:10:51,792 --> 01:10:56,001 a why, a depending, a no more, a whine. 741 01:10:56,376 --> 01:11:00,542 Love comes down, rung by rung, 742 01:11:00,959 --> 01:11:05,209 hands closed, a weary pace, 743 01:11:05,501 --> 01:11:09,334 it asks you who you are to let you know 744 01:11:09,792 --> 01:11:13,834 that it barely knows you: What do you want from it? 745 01:11:14,126 --> 01:11:18,167 Love mocks you, laughs at you, 746 01:11:18,667 --> 01:11:22,751 while you follow it calmly, not knowing what to do, 747 01:11:23,042 --> 01:11:27,334 and you wish to follow it and tell it now, 748 01:11:27,834 --> 01:11:31,751 to stay, to come back, to make a mistake. 749 01:11:32,042 --> 01:11:36,334 Love thwarts your grand ideas, 750 01:11:36,626 --> 01:11:40,834 it destroys, it breaks you, it splits you, it breaks you, 751 01:11:41,126 --> 01:11:45,292 and makes you what you wanted not to be, 752 01:11:45,584 --> 01:11:49,667 it drives you to be evil and turns you to shit. 753 01:11:49,959 --> 01:11:54,042 It hurls you face down into the final hell, 754 01:11:54,334 --> 01:11:58,626 rips out your soul, stamps on your body, 755 01:11:58,917 --> 01:12:03,167 drowns you in yearning to return to nothing, 756 01:12:03,626 --> 01:12:05,709 and suddenly it stops. 757 01:12:19,501 --> 01:12:21,709 That night I decided to kill him. 758 01:12:22,626 --> 01:12:24,834 I remembered a book I'd read recently 759 01:12:25,126 --> 01:12:26,667 that mentioned Anarbital, 760 01:12:27,251 --> 01:12:29,417 a powerful tranquilizer that left no trace 761 01:12:29,709 --> 01:12:32,876 and that I could get without prescription on the Internet. 762 01:12:50,501 --> 01:12:55,709 One night, I put 10 c.c.'s of Anarbital in Emilio's drink. 763 01:12:57,292 --> 01:12:59,917 Then I left the house and spent some days with my mother. 764 01:13:21,792 --> 01:13:23,292 Supposedly in those few days 765 01:13:23,584 --> 01:13:25,626 Emilio would've gradually passed away, 766 01:13:29,917 --> 01:13:32,834 but when I got back, he hadn't. 767 01:14:11,751 --> 01:14:13,167 I looked for a cheap clinic 768 01:14:13,459 --> 01:14:16,334 that didn't ask too many questions and was far away. 769 01:14:24,792 --> 01:14:27,626 There I said goodbye to Emilio forever. 770 01:14:42,042 --> 01:14:43,667 Now let's go back to the train 771 01:14:44,751 --> 01:14:47,709 and let's imagine that Helga Pato opens Sanagustín's red file 772 01:14:48,001 --> 01:14:50,251 to look for a phone number or an address. 773 01:15:04,959 --> 01:15:07,792 Let's imagine that her eyes don't find what they're after, 774 01:15:08,084 --> 01:15:10,959 but they see some words that immediately grab her attention. 775 01:15:11,251 --> 01:15:13,584 SOMATIC DELUSIONAL DISORDER 776 01:15:13,876 --> 01:15:15,626 I WAS BORN ON A RIVER BANK... 777 01:15:34,126 --> 01:15:35,751 I was born on a river bank... 778 01:15:36,709 --> 01:15:38,251 ...and the damp softened my bones, 779 01:15:38,542 --> 01:15:41,667 forcing me to stay in bed for most of my life. 780 01:15:43,084 --> 01:15:45,834 Those first years of life that forge character 781 01:15:46,501 --> 01:15:48,334 and predict future conduct, 782 01:15:48,626 --> 01:15:50,584 I was flat on my back. 783 01:15:51,084 --> 01:15:53,209 "No one will be able to avoid..." 784 01:15:53,501 --> 01:15:57,334 Life was filtered through the opaque sieve of Sister Araceli, 785 01:15:57,626 --> 01:15:59,001 my teacher. 786 01:15:59,292 --> 01:16:02,251 I understand that perfectly. But what gets me muddled is... 787 01:16:02,709 --> 01:16:05,834 the second and third... it's like one is... 788 01:16:07,334 --> 01:16:09,834 is everything that's then inside a third. 789 01:16:10,126 --> 01:16:14,001 - The third part is the second. - Exactly. 790 01:16:14,292 --> 01:16:17,251 - So, like the Russian dolls. - Like the Russian doll. 791 01:16:17,542 --> 01:16:20,334 Perfect. Let's look for our Russian doll. 792 01:16:20,626 --> 01:16:21,251 Okay. 793 01:16:21,542 --> 01:16:24,667 The third Russian doll is "what has to happen", 794 01:16:24,959 --> 01:16:28,167 which is an adjectival proposition... 795 01:16:28,459 --> 01:16:30,042 I never went to school 796 01:16:30,334 --> 01:16:33,001 or had any contact with vertebrate boys my age... 797 01:16:33,292 --> 01:16:37,209 ...only with the nuns and the carers in the residence where I lived. 798 01:16:37,751 --> 01:16:39,667 Can you get me some water? 799 01:16:40,834 --> 01:16:43,459 My experiences were always false and belonged to others 800 01:16:44,459 --> 01:16:48,417 coming from reading or the TV screen. 801 01:16:48,709 --> 01:16:50,917 Petrarch, Bécquer, Garcilaso, 802 01:16:51,626 --> 01:16:53,751 Truffaut, Bertolucci... 803 01:16:54,709 --> 01:16:57,251 I also took delight in the audiovisual fiction 804 01:16:57,542 --> 01:17:00,542 supplied to me by the substitute social worker. 805 01:17:13,126 --> 01:17:16,209 And so, this snail child got an idea of the world 806 01:17:16,501 --> 01:17:19,001 and the marvelous universe of love. 807 01:17:27,334 --> 01:17:29,251 After many medical trials and tribulations, 808 01:17:29,542 --> 01:17:31,751 which I won't tire you with, 809 01:17:33,626 --> 01:17:37,792 thanks to advances in prosthetics as a result of the Gulf War 810 01:17:38,501 --> 01:17:41,917 they filled my body with iron, inside and out. 811 01:17:44,751 --> 01:17:48,917 Months later, the handicapped association to which I belonged 812 01:17:49,917 --> 01:17:51,417 organized a trip to Paris. 813 01:17:54,292 --> 01:17:56,001 And off I went to Paris. 814 01:18:07,084 --> 01:18:10,376 As soon as I arrived, my camera was stolen. 815 01:18:13,167 --> 01:18:14,542 Hold it! Hold it! 816 01:18:15,792 --> 01:18:19,292 Rosa, a lame woman on the trip, consoled me. 817 01:18:19,584 --> 01:18:20,501 - Did you see that? - Are you alright? 818 01:18:20,792 --> 01:18:23,959 Yes, I'm fine. I got distracted for a second. 819 01:18:24,251 --> 01:18:25,501 Just for a moment. 820 01:18:25,792 --> 01:18:27,542 Then her crutch was stolen... 821 01:18:28,834 --> 01:18:30,542 I don't believe it! The same guy! 822 01:18:30,834 --> 01:18:33,167 ...and I was the one who had to dry her tears. 823 01:18:38,126 --> 01:18:39,167 It'll probably seems silly, 824 01:18:39,459 --> 01:18:42,709 but I was disappointed that they spoke French in Paris. 825 01:18:43,376 --> 01:18:45,334 This detail, which everyone knows, 826 01:18:46,126 --> 01:18:49,001 isn't mentioned in any work of fiction that I know. 827 01:18:49,292 --> 01:18:51,042 It became a nightmare 828 01:18:51,334 --> 01:18:54,334 when I went out with Rosa to buy a new crutch. 829 01:18:55,209 --> 01:18:56,251 Lady of France... 830 01:18:56,542 --> 01:19:00,042 It didn't occur to me to look up "crutch" in the dictionary, 831 01:19:01,001 --> 01:19:04,001 and that led me to figure in those kinds of episodes 832 01:19:04,417 --> 01:19:07,667 which when they're happening are pathetic 833 01:19:08,334 --> 01:19:11,376 and which, if you marry the person with you at that time, 834 01:19:12,001 --> 01:19:14,751 become hilarious and endearing, 835 01:19:15,626 --> 01:19:17,126 and if you don't get married, 836 01:19:17,417 --> 01:19:19,459 they're pathetic until the day you die. 837 01:19:20,709 --> 01:19:22,001 At the time, I didn't realize that 838 01:19:22,292 --> 01:19:26,126 the higher I went up the ridiculous scale in my own eyes, 839 01:19:26,959 --> 01:19:30,001 the more points I made in hers in the account of love. 840 01:19:31,084 --> 01:19:35,876 We finally got a new crutch and, exhausted, went back to the hotel. 841 01:19:44,501 --> 01:19:45,751 Once there, 842 01:19:46,667 --> 01:19:50,334 she helped me remove the orthopedics from my arms and legs. 843 01:20:11,084 --> 01:20:13,667 Without them I felt more naked than when I was naked, 844 01:20:14,751 --> 01:20:18,459 deconstructed like some postmodernist slug, 845 01:20:19,334 --> 01:20:20,626 almost liquid. 846 01:20:30,709 --> 01:20:32,876 She removed her orthopedic shoe 847 01:20:35,084 --> 01:20:37,584 as if she were taking off her underwear. 848 01:20:50,292 --> 01:20:52,334 We were so tired by the effort, 849 01:20:54,917 --> 01:20:56,751 we lay there on our backs, asleep,... 850 01:20:59,667 --> 01:21:01,751 she with one leg longer than the other 851 01:21:02,417 --> 01:21:04,209 and I, without my structures, 852 01:21:04,792 --> 01:21:07,001 helpless as a peeled prawn. 853 01:21:07,792 --> 01:21:08,792 I caught a cold. 854 01:21:10,292 --> 01:21:12,376 The next day, I had to stay in bed 855 01:21:16,084 --> 01:21:17,709 and she stayed to look after me. 856 01:21:18,376 --> 01:21:21,709 I couldn't see that this gesture was more than generosity. 857 01:21:22,001 --> 01:21:24,001 I hadn't been trained 858 01:21:24,292 --> 01:21:27,501 to interpret the gleam in a lame girl's eyes as love. 859 01:21:27,792 --> 01:21:29,501 In all the books I'd read, 860 01:21:29,792 --> 01:21:31,584 in all the films I'd seen, 861 01:21:31,876 --> 01:21:35,292 the women were always perfect and symmetrical. 862 01:21:35,584 --> 01:21:38,542 They didn't have defects and they certainly weren't lame. 863 01:21:38,917 --> 01:21:42,626 And if they did, those bastard poets, writers and filmmakers 864 01:21:43,709 --> 01:21:45,792 had hidden it with words or prosthetics, 865 01:21:46,084 --> 01:21:49,167 lying to humanity and fucking up my life. 866 01:21:54,001 --> 01:21:57,751 Can anyone tell me in which Garcilaso or Bécquer poem 867 01:21:58,042 --> 01:22:02,376 there are imperfections, physical defects or asymmetries? 868 01:22:02,667 --> 01:22:04,459 And I'm not talking about skin imperfections 869 01:22:04,751 --> 01:22:07,834 that can be a beautiful trace of the passing of time, etc. etc. 870 01:22:08,126 --> 01:22:12,001 I'm talking about one leg longer than the other, for fuck's sake! 871 01:22:12,959 --> 01:22:16,959 Nobody told me that what I was starting to feel for Rosa 872 01:22:17,251 --> 01:22:18,959 was true love. 873 01:22:22,792 --> 01:22:26,626 I was expecting to shudder, to shake with internal spasms. 874 01:22:29,042 --> 01:22:31,876 And as I didn't feel any of that, but a justified affection, 875 01:22:33,042 --> 01:22:35,417 a vague tenderness, I told myself: 876 01:22:35,709 --> 01:22:38,709 "It's not love you feel, Gárate, only pity." 877 01:22:47,709 --> 01:22:50,751 And when Rosa asked me to sleep with her,... 878 01:23:09,292 --> 01:23:12,584 ...as I'd promised myself to do it for the first time 879 01:23:12,876 --> 01:23:16,876 only with the person who made me feel what I mentioned, 880 01:23:17,751 --> 01:23:18,834 I said no. 881 01:23:20,292 --> 01:23:23,917 I said no, but we ended up doing it. 882 01:23:28,501 --> 01:23:30,709 We did it, unfortunately for me. 883 01:23:32,667 --> 01:23:35,417 Because sex happened for me the same as love: 884 01:23:38,084 --> 01:23:40,126 everything I knew, when the first time came, 885 01:23:40,417 --> 01:23:44,667 I'd learned from the films my volunteer carer brought me. 886 01:23:50,709 --> 01:23:54,334 No huge breasts or long legs. 887 01:23:55,251 --> 01:23:57,959 Well, yes, there was one long leg 888 01:23:58,709 --> 01:24:00,209 and another shorter one. 889 01:24:10,126 --> 01:24:14,001 Rosa didn't throw herself on me like the women in fiction. 890 01:24:45,209 --> 01:24:48,501 So there was none of that frantic activity 891 01:24:48,792 --> 01:24:52,459 or howling that was so familiar to me. 892 01:25:16,251 --> 01:25:18,834 Worst of all was when the final moment came. 893 01:25:26,792 --> 01:25:31,167 I did what I'd seen sex professionals do so often. 894 01:25:36,542 --> 01:25:38,042 I was surprised by her reaction. 895 01:25:38,334 --> 01:25:40,042 I did it with the best of intentions. 896 01:25:42,292 --> 01:25:43,376 Listen... 897 01:25:44,792 --> 01:25:47,042 She didn't say anything. She got dressed and left. 898 01:25:52,917 --> 01:25:56,001 I heard her uneven footsteps heading off down the hallway 899 01:25:57,417 --> 01:25:59,042 and I never saw her again. 900 01:26:00,084 --> 01:26:01,417 She left the Tour, 901 01:26:02,001 --> 01:26:06,167 and hid away on the Fortunate Isles, where she was from. 902 01:26:08,084 --> 01:26:12,792 CHAPTER 3 Advantages of Travelling by Train 903 01:27:13,834 --> 01:27:16,417 Hello, Good evening. My name's Helga Pato. 904 01:27:16,709 --> 01:27:19,667 I'd like to leave a message for Dr. Sanagustín. 905 01:27:28,542 --> 01:27:31,501 - Hello? - Hello, this is Ángel Sanagustín. 906 01:27:33,084 --> 01:27:34,042 Ángel? 907 01:27:34,334 --> 01:27:38,042 Look, I'm not sure I know who you are or what you want, 908 01:27:38,334 --> 01:27:39,542 but I can imagine. 909 01:27:39,834 --> 01:27:42,209 What I am sure of is that I haven't lost any file. 910 01:27:42,501 --> 01:27:45,917 So please, don't call me at the clinic again. 911 01:28:57,751 --> 01:29:00,001 - Yes. - I think we spoke on the phone. 912 01:29:00,542 --> 01:29:02,334 Forgive me for coming unannounced, 913 01:29:02,626 --> 01:29:05,584 but what happened to me doesn't happen every day. 914 01:29:05,876 --> 01:29:08,501 This is the famous file that apparently you haven't lost. 915 01:29:08,792 --> 01:29:10,417 I told you, that's not my file. 916 01:29:10,959 --> 01:29:13,251 I'd rather you didn't bother me with these things. 917 01:29:13,542 --> 01:29:16,834 Yesterday I met a man on the train who said he was Ángel Sanagustín, 918 01:29:17,126 --> 01:29:19,417 he was a psychiatrist, he worked at the International Clinic, 919 01:29:19,709 --> 01:29:20,584 he lived in Galapagar 920 01:29:20,876 --> 01:29:24,334 and had a mountain of garbage that no one wanted to remove. 921 01:29:25,292 --> 01:29:26,834 Clearly that man isn't you, 922 01:29:27,126 --> 01:29:30,292 but whoever it was I met on the train, he knows you, 923 01:29:30,584 --> 01:29:32,001 and he left this file on his seat. 924 01:29:34,084 --> 01:29:36,709 Let her in. That's our file. 925 01:29:37,334 --> 01:29:39,709 I'm sorry if my husband was a bit abrupt, but... 926 01:29:40,001 --> 01:29:44,876 we're having neighbor trouble because of the garbage 927 01:29:45,167 --> 01:29:48,834 and he thought the call 928 01:29:49,126 --> 01:29:50,501 was about that. 929 01:29:50,792 --> 01:29:53,459 Don't worry, I understand perfectly. 930 01:29:53,751 --> 01:29:55,209 Unless I'm mistaken, 931 01:29:55,876 --> 01:29:58,542 the person you met on the train was this man. 932 01:30:04,959 --> 01:30:06,584 He's my brother Martín. 933 01:30:06,917 --> 01:30:10,126 - Martín? Martín what? - Martín Urales de Úbeda. 934 01:30:15,751 --> 01:30:19,209 So you're Amelia. And you're Ángel. 935 01:30:23,417 --> 01:30:25,334 My brother Martín is very sick. 936 01:30:25,959 --> 01:30:29,209 Theoretically he's admitted at the International Clinic, 937 01:30:29,876 --> 01:30:32,959 But they have very advanced ideas about mental health 938 01:30:33,959 --> 01:30:36,542 and they say that my brother must be free to come and go, 939 01:30:36,834 --> 01:30:38,417 so that he can integrate into society. 940 01:30:39,084 --> 01:30:41,459 - They say he's harmless. - And he is. 941 01:30:42,542 --> 01:30:44,209 He'd never kill anyone, 942 01:30:44,501 --> 01:30:46,709 but it isn't the first time he's done something like this. 943 01:30:47,001 --> 01:30:50,167 Talking to people is part of his rehabilitation therapy. 944 01:30:52,542 --> 01:30:55,001 Is lying part of his therapy? 945 01:30:55,292 --> 01:30:56,709 And supplanting personalities? 946 01:30:57,001 --> 01:31:00,001 Is confusing people part of his rehabilitation therapy? 947 01:31:03,917 --> 01:31:07,376 If people believe everything that Martín, or anyone else, 948 01:31:07,667 --> 01:31:09,459 tells them on a train, 949 01:31:09,751 --> 01:31:11,709 it's their problem, don't you think? 950 01:31:12,292 --> 01:31:16,417 Or did you make an honesty pact that made him tell you the truth? 951 01:31:16,709 --> 01:31:17,751 Ángel... 952 01:31:21,209 --> 01:31:26,376 Martín has paranoid schizophrenia with a wealth of syndromes. 953 01:31:27,542 --> 01:31:30,917 There are no affective disorders, but he has divided personalities. 954 01:31:32,126 --> 01:31:34,417 He has delusions and hallucinations. 955 01:31:34,709 --> 01:31:38,584 At times he feels like someone else and lives as such. 956 01:31:39,376 --> 01:31:44,251 In common language it's called split personality. 957 01:31:45,501 --> 01:31:48,876 Currently, from what you say, he's living as if he were me. 958 01:31:53,834 --> 01:31:57,292 The papers here look like statements by schizophrenic patients, 959 01:31:57,584 --> 01:31:59,959 but they're nonsense, with no rhyme or reason, 960 01:32:00,251 --> 01:32:02,126 things he made up. 961 01:32:07,084 --> 01:32:09,042 That's the reason I'm here. 962 01:32:09,334 --> 01:32:12,126 I'm interested in these papers. I'd like to publish them. 963 01:32:13,959 --> 01:32:14,792 Publish them? 964 01:32:15,917 --> 01:32:18,792 I don't care if they're real or not. They're good. 965 01:32:19,209 --> 01:32:22,126 As an editor, I think there's a good novel here. 966 01:32:22,417 --> 01:32:26,376 I guess you should speak to him. 967 01:32:26,917 --> 01:32:31,834 If you do, don't tell him you've been here or that you know us, 968 01:32:32,126 --> 01:32:35,209 and please, don't call him Martín, call him Ángel. 969 01:32:37,792 --> 01:32:39,667 If you want, I'll give you the address. 970 01:32:43,376 --> 01:32:45,376 No, no need. 971 01:33:01,792 --> 01:33:04,917 Dr. Sanagustín? Do you remember me? 972 01:33:06,459 --> 01:33:08,667 We met the other day on the train. 973 01:33:12,501 --> 01:33:14,042 Yes, of course. 974 01:33:15,709 --> 01:33:18,959 You were lucky to catch me here. 975 01:33:20,876 --> 01:33:24,417 I've come to inspect Martín Urales de Úbeda's papers. 976 01:33:27,751 --> 01:33:29,376 Do you want to come with me? 977 01:33:37,667 --> 01:33:40,209 I told you the smell was unbearable. 978 01:34:00,876 --> 01:34:03,709 You'll understand how important this moment is for me. 979 01:34:15,376 --> 01:34:16,542 This way. 980 01:34:29,126 --> 01:34:31,292 I'm going to need more time than I thought. 981 01:34:32,459 --> 01:34:34,126 Look, look. 982 01:34:35,709 --> 01:34:37,126 There's everything here. 983 01:34:44,917 --> 01:34:46,626 There's lots of data protection, 984 01:34:48,001 --> 01:34:51,626 lots of discussions about whether we're watched on the Internet 985 01:34:51,917 --> 01:34:53,626 or when we pay by credit card, 986 01:34:53,917 --> 01:34:58,751 but then we don't mind sitting on the privacy of our toilet 987 01:35:00,709 --> 01:35:03,042 and blithely supplying 988 01:35:04,501 --> 01:35:07,167 the most hidden aspects of our personality. 989 01:35:09,084 --> 01:35:13,292 It's how we open our hearts to others. 990 01:35:17,917 --> 01:35:20,126 We're just a fistful of shit. 991 01:35:22,667 --> 01:35:25,542 A fistful of shit and 80% water. 992 01:35:27,876 --> 01:35:30,959 Look, doctor, I've really come to see you 993 01:35:31,251 --> 01:35:34,876 because I read the file you left on the train 994 01:35:35,167 --> 01:35:37,667 and I'm interested in publishing it. 995 01:35:40,001 --> 01:35:42,876 - Publishing it? - I'm an editor. 996 01:35:43,167 --> 01:35:44,542 - An editor? - Yes. 997 01:35:48,876 --> 01:35:50,167 That's terrible! 998 01:35:53,834 --> 01:35:55,167 Next Monday it'll be... 999 01:35:56,709 --> 01:36:00,167 seven years and two months since I stopped reading. 1000 01:36:02,001 --> 01:36:03,584 I used to read, 1001 01:36:04,917 --> 01:36:07,334 but now, as I read with a psychiatrist's eyes, 1002 01:36:07,626 --> 01:36:09,209 I don't believe a word. 1003 01:36:11,417 --> 01:36:13,126 Plausibility bores me. 1004 01:36:14,751 --> 01:36:17,292 Why such an effort to make books and films seem real 1005 01:36:17,584 --> 01:36:19,376 when everyone knows they aren't? 1006 01:36:21,084 --> 01:36:24,001 Well, there's something called "suspension of disbelief"... 1007 01:36:26,459 --> 01:36:28,542 Plausibility is overrated. 1008 01:36:37,417 --> 01:36:38,876 According to the firemen, 1009 01:36:39,167 --> 01:36:41,334 it's too soon to know if the fire was provoked 1010 01:36:41,626 --> 01:36:45,334 or due to the spontaneous combustion of gases from the garbage. 1011 01:36:45,626 --> 01:36:49,834 Guys, it still isn't safe to go down into the basement! 1012 01:36:50,126 --> 01:36:51,876 Is anyone left in the basement? 1013 01:36:52,501 --> 01:36:53,584 Martín. 1014 01:36:54,501 --> 01:36:55,959 Martín Urales de Úbeda. 1015 01:36:57,042 --> 01:36:58,667 He said his name was Ángel, 1016 01:37:00,084 --> 01:37:01,792 but he's called Martín. 1017 01:37:04,792 --> 01:37:07,626 FOR SALE 1018 01:37:22,001 --> 01:37:22,876 Hello? 1019 01:37:24,126 --> 01:37:25,376 Yes, that's me. 1020 01:37:25,876 --> 01:37:29,209 We'd make a cut here on the forehead 1021 01:37:30,251 --> 01:37:32,584 to access the pre-frontal lobe. 1022 01:37:35,292 --> 01:37:39,917 As you'll understand, it's a very delicate operation. 1023 01:37:43,167 --> 01:37:46,084 So we need your authorization. 1024 01:37:47,917 --> 01:37:49,667 You'd just have to sign here. 1025 01:37:55,001 --> 01:37:56,001 Good. 1026 01:37:57,001 --> 01:37:57,959 Good. 1027 01:38:37,376 --> 01:38:39,376 Would you like some conversation? 1028 01:38:40,305 --> 01:39:40,331 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today