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[city ambience]
[distant church bell]
[church bell]
[sounds "Tierra" by Xoel López]
♪ I dreamed every day ♪
♪ To be able to reach The beach ♪
♪ And now it's so close ♪
♪ I can almost see it ♪
♪ And I hope every time The end is closer ♪
♪ I can already feel dry land Behind the wet land ♪
♪ And I don't want to think That nothing lasts forever ♪
♪ If this song ends ♪
♪ The world should end for everyone ♪
♪ We're all nothing Without the words ♪
♪ Tell me what left for us ♪
♪ Some rhymes return To my tired brain ♪
♪ Parts of scripts ♪
- [doorbell] - ♪ That I believed forgotten ♪
♪ Melodies that once ♪
♪ I thought I would lose ♪
♪ Now become beautiful And brave symphonies ♪
♪ And it's been long Since I have left ♪
♪ I'm always leaving ♪
♪ But I'm always with you ♪
♪ Even though sometimes You think there's nothing ♪
♪ When I stare As if I was gone ♪
♪ That's because I'm traveling ♪
♪ Don't think I will get lost ♪
Suso?
[knocks on door]
["Tierra" by Xoel López continues]
[snoring]
♪ I know the world Will keep on ♪
♪ Spinning when there's Nothing left ♪
♪ And we pay For history ♪
♪ As simple, lonely men ♪
♪ Kings who lost it all ♪
♪ Everything they loved For loving in too much ♪
- ♪ And I try every day ♪ - [coffee spills out]
♪ To be all I had imagined ♪
♪ And I find out that life ♪
♪ Always has something In store ♪
♪ That surpasses Any of my fantasies ♪
♪ Nothing compared ♪
♪ To what really happened ♪
♪ What happened ♪
♪ I dreamed every day ♪
FRIENDS TILL DEATH
♪ I dreamed every day ♪
♪ To be able to reach The beach ♪
["Tierra" by Xoel López ends]
What are you doing here?
I went to the beach.
I was at home, picking up my stuff.
- Not at home! - [Maria] What?
It's my home now, not yours.
I didn't say it was mine.
You said you were at home.
Right? "I was at home."
As in,
"I was at our home." Right?
[Suso] It's a secret code between us.
At home. "I was at home."
At home.
Just wink an eye, like an accomplice.
"I was there, at home." At home.
I was at home.
[Maria] Suso,
do you like the house, then?
I don't mind the house. It's you I like.
So we rent it or not?
I'll stay with you forever.
Put can put anything you want around.
Should I say I was at your house?
Don't say anything.
I didn't want to leave without saying goodbye,
and I thought you were at the bar...
- Not the bar. - What?
My bar. Not the bar.
As if it was our bar.
[Maria] Suso, please!
I know it's your bar.
It's a manner of speaking.
[Suso] That's the point. You can't speak like that anymore.
Because, if you say the bar, it is understood that you and I
know what bar we're talking about,
because there's a complicity between us.
[Suso] The one couples have.
[Suso] The problem is you and I are not a couple anymore.
Because a man came who, while he made love to you,
he also screwed our complicity.
[door closes]
- I can't say anything to... - Right.
- Tell me who is it. - Suso, it doesn't matter.
- What matters is-- - Is he a doctor?
Huh?
He's a doctor. That works in your hospital.
You messed around with a doctor from your hospital.
Just tell me. It's okay.
[Suso] I ask out of curiosity.
[Suso] I don't care.
But you can tell me and I'll be cool.
But I also have a little curiosity, to know.
At least.
I think it's okay.
I don't mind. I'm fine.
I'm calm and fine.
And I'm also calm.
You know? I'm fine.
I'm really fine.
I'm taking it very well.
[sob]
[Maria sighs]
What can I do to make you feel better?
[Suso sobs]
There's something.
Let me keep Nico.
What?
[wood creaking]
How can you ask me that?
We can ask him if you want,
and he'll tell us who he wants to stay with.
Nico can't talk.
He can use signs. He's smart.
Yes, he is. But he's a cat.
Well, that's it.
We put him in the middle and we both call him.
Like, "kitty, kitty,"
and if he crawls to you, you keep him.
But if he crawls to me,
you'll never see him in his damned seven lives.
Why do you say crawling like he was a baby?
Isn't he a cat? He'll crawl, right?
So now, babies crawl, but cats don't.
It turns out cats go "step, step" now.
[door opens]
[door closes]
[door opens]
Okay, don't mind.
You keep Nico. Nico is yours.
But then, I'll ask to keep all of our friends.
What are you talking about?
You'll keep those who are closer to you,
and I'll keep the ones who are closer to me.
And what will you do?
Split the gang because of us?
Don't be selfish, Maria. Please.
One of us should keep them.
I called dibs on them, I keep them.
Very well.
So, for the sake of the group,
you'll keep hanging out with them
and I'll stop seeing Veronica or Cristina.
You can keep seeing
that annoying Cristina whenever you want.
Cristina has never really been part of the gang.
Yes, she came with you,
but if she stops coming tomorrow
or she dies, the rest won't even notice.
I won't allow you to say that.
Cristina is my friend.
Your friend?
Then you keep her.
And we'll see if Veronica is really your friend.
Because, now that I'm single, she may want some.
Stop or this will end badly.
What will we do about Nacho?
Nacho is my best friend. I'll keep him.
Or will you keep my best friend too?
What about the rest?
How will we divide the gang?
♪ [rockabilly music] ♪
[Suso] Who will keep Jose?
[Suso] Who will keep Felix?
[Suso] Who will keep David?
[Suso] Who will keep Xoel?
[Suso] Should we ask them?
[Suso] See who they're better friends with?
If they're such good friends of yours,
why didn't they tell you anything?
♪ [music stops] ♪
What did you say?
I mean...
Did some of my friends know that you--?
Nacho couldn't have known. Nacho would have told--
Tell me at least Nacho didn't know.
I don't know. I guess they all knew.
What do you mean all knew?
Did you tell all my friends you were screwing another guy
before telling me?
- It wasn't like that. - How was it, then?
Maria, how was it? Tell me the truth, please.
One day I was...
with him.
[Maria] We weren't a secluded beach,
between some rocks, so no one could see us.
And we weren't doing anything.
But I asked him to rub some cream on me
and, at the worst moment,
they all passed in a rowing boat.
♪ [music] ♪
[Maria] They had obviously seen us.
Go, go, go.
♪ [music fade out] ♪
But they never said a thing to me.
♪ [sad music] ♪
[Suso laughs]
They didn't tell me either.
♪ [music continues] ♪
None of them.
♪ [music ♪]
But all of them were in the rowing boat.
I mean, Nacho.
Nacho was in the boat too.
No.
Nacho was with me.
♪ [music rises] ♪
♪ [music fades down] ♪
[crowd clapping]
Hello. Good evening.
I am Ignacio Carballo, but my friends call me Nacho,
my parents call me Nachito,
my siblings call me Big Butt,
my Bilbao cousins call me Iñaki
and my ex-girlfriends...
they call me "the son of a bitch".
[crowd laughing]
[Maria] If it wasn't clear, this is Nacho.
[Maria] Nacho has always been Suso's best friend.
[Maria] They became friends since Nacho
came to study to Spain when he was 16.
And they stopped being friends on the day Nacho
slept with Suso's woman.
That means me.
That wasn't right.
Suso got really hurt.
I always liked extreme sports.
That's why I enrolled in the student music group.
[crowd laughing]
What? Yes!
Being part of that group should be considered
an extreme sport.
You put those clothes on,
those little breeches,
you take the bandurria,
you sing in the street
and you run the risk of getting a beating.
[crowd laughing]
[Maria] Yes. There's no excuse.
[Maria] I fell for two students.
And what's worse. I knew they were students.
The day I met them, they sang me a bolero.
♪ We only have this night left ♪
- ♪ To live our love ♪ - [man screaming angry]
I enrolled in the music group with my best friend,
and that's the worst part,
'cause we both liked the same girl.
[Nacho] We both wanted her.
We were both dying to touch her,
to grab her like this and spank her.
What?
I'm talking about a tambourine.
[laughs]
[Nacho] We both fell in love
with the prettiest tambourine in college.
Of course,
two students can't play the same tambourine.
[sounds "El amor no es lo que piensas" by Xoel López]
♪ When we met ♪
♪ I always talked about love ♪
♪ Love is not what you think ♪
♪ Love is not what you think... ♪
My friend Suso wants to meet you.
♪ When we met ♪
♪ You were only looking For freedom ♪
♪ That's what we all look for ♪
[song continues]
- [song suddenly stops] - [Suso and Nacho groan]
How is Anatomy class going?
Well.
We were just going over the subject.
I can't believe I didn't run off
they day I met you.
Maybe I thought one of you looked handsome.
But now I don't remember which one.
[rain thunder]
[Suso] I think what made me fall in love with Maria,
was that mean face she made
whenever she laughed at us.
- Oh. - Look.
Nevertheless,
I remember I focused more on her butt.
[falling rain]
Sure.
That's why I realized that I cared more about her.
[Maria] Then?
Won't you give me a kiss?
Today is your chance.
Why today?
Because today I turn 20, you fools.
Sure!
We were joking. Happy birthday!
I was just telling Suso about it. Yes.
We even bought a gift for you.
Right, Suso?
Ah...
Yes, yes. Happy birthday.
[Maria laughs]
- So you have a gift for me? - A gift?
We have a surprise for you. Tonight.
[Nacho] A romantic dinner
in the Cori di Napoli restaurant.
A romantic dinner for three?
[Nacho] No. It's for two.
It's only that you have to decide
who do you want to have dinner with,
[Nacho] because it's your birthday.
Well...
I want you two to go.
[Maria] I guess I'll show up.
Otherwise, you can try some new things.
[sounds "L'amore Piuù Bello" by Stephane Huguenin]
[Maria laughs]
Hello.
[Suso] Hello.
[speak in Italian] Good evening, lady.
[song continues at background]
I'm glad you decided to come.
Why wouldn't I?
- Where's Nacho? - I don't know.
He hasn't arrived.
[Nacho] It's not that I didn't arrive.
I didn't go because I cared more about you than Maria.
So I didn't go.
Yeah, you have rubbed that on my face
like 6000 times, thank you.
You were despicable.
You didn't even worry about me.
Maria just arrived to Cori di Napoli,
she sat and you threw yourself at her.
No, no.
I'm waiting for desert.
I remember distinctly
because my mouth was full of tiramisu
when I told her:
I love you.
[Suso] I don't know why I did it.
It just came out, without realizing it.
As you do in the best
and the worst occasions in life,
without realizing it.
[Nacho] Did you know that there are such bastards
who think of screwing their best friend's girl?
[people laughing]
Some of you thought about it, right?
[Nacho] Well, it's gross.
How can someone think
of screwing his best friend's girl?
I mean, I did it.
But I did it without thinking.
[people laughing and clapping]
Suso and I had been together for ten years.
Suso and Nacho had been friends for 26.
Nacho and I had been together for 17 days.
[Maria] Then I came back home and apologized.
And him, as it usually happens in these cases,
- [meow] - forgave me.
Then Nacho came and apologized too.
And Suso,
as it usually happens in these cases, told him that...
he should try and kiss his butt,
because he never wanted to see him face to face.
[sounds "Para siempre tú" by El Zurdo]
3 YEARS WITHOUT HEARING FROM NACHO
♪ Always you ♪
♪ Against all odds ♪
["Para siempre tú" by El Zurdo continues]
♪ If you don't forgive me I forgive you ♪
♪ I won't give the forgotten ♪
♪ What was yours and mine ♪
[song continues]
♪ Even though Things happened ♪
♪ That I'm still scared ♪
♪ When I think of you ♪
♪ If I'm being sincere ♪
[song fades down]
Hello.
[song stops]
Maria.
What a surprise!
[she clears her throat]
Well, I work here.
- You're the surprise. - Sure.
You work here. That's true.
I didn't think about it.
I came to get some tests results,
so it would have been easy to avoid each other.
I work in the lab.
Wow! Another surprise.
Okay. Yes.
How long has it been?
Two years?
Three.
I had to get away from you.
I've been living far away from here for three years,
but I'm closer to my people.
Did you return to Mexico?
Not exactly.
I'm at a campsite at Cabo Finisterre.
But some days, if you do this,
you can see as far as Cancun.
[Nacho] What? No.
Maria, don't cry.
The campsite is not that bad.
[she laughs]
I cry because I can't stand that Suso and you
haven't spoken in three years because of me.
Yes. I can't stand not seeing you because of him.
It's not his fault.
Neither yours nor mine. I don't know.
Blame pheromones or one of those bugs.
[Nacho] You know more, you work in a lab.
Then? Are you giving me my results?
No, no. There was a problem.
- Really? - I mean, not a problem.
It's just that--
The hospital is at full capacity and it will be
two days.
At least two days until you can get them.
[slurps]
Well, luckily it's a food intolerance test,
otherwise, I would think I'm dying.
[bustle]
Maria please, don't cry,
because you're scaring the crap out of me.
No, you fool! No.
I cry because this situation makes me really sad.
[Nacho sighs]
Maria.
I don't believe in fate,
but I think there are unavoidable things in life.
And to me, you're like...
chickenpox.
I had to go through it one day.
The truth is...
I don't know if it's the prettiest
or ugliest thing I've been told in my life.
Come here.
♪ [melancholic music] ♪
He won't die. How can he die?
How can Nacho die? Hell, no.
It makes no sense.
It won't stick.
People called Nacho don't die, goddammit.
♪ [music continues] ♪
You can die if your name is, I don't know,
Serafin or Eusebio,
but how can a 40-year-old guy named Nacho die?
Hell, no. It's just...
♪ [music continues] ♪
Wait, wait.
What if it's a lie?
- What lie? - The disease.
Maybe it's an excuse he invented...
so I would forgive him. So he could see you.
My love.
Nacho will die.
[Suso cries]
He didn't tell me.
He came to the hospital for a test
and they discovered it casually.
He doesn't even know.
How can he not know? You'll have to tell him, right?
It's just that...
I wanted to ask you to tell him.
♪ [melancholic music] ♪
Maria.
[Suso sighs]
I don't want to see Nacho ever again.
♪ [melancholic music] ♪
♪ [music] ♪
[seagulls squawking]
[Maria] Honey, he is your best friend and he needs you.
[Suso] You don't realize he hasn't heard from us
in three years and we from him.
[Suso] How can I...?
You can call him to meet him.
[Suso] Sure, I call him, right?
What do I say? What do I tell him?
Hey, "Nachete", this is your friend Suso.
Do you remember?
Yes, the one who hasn't spoken to you in years
because you screwed his girl.
[Suso] No, you're forgiven.
Hey, we have to meet soon.
But make it soon, because...
Do you want me to say that?
Would you prefer a doctor from the hospital tells him?
[Suso] I'd prefer that you'd tell him.
Why don't you tell him?
Because I want you to be friends again...
♪ [music] ♪
before he dies.
[Maria] Otherwise, he'll die really sad
and you'll regret it for the rest of your life.
♪ [music continues] ♪
[Suso] Maria, he has two or three months to live.
The only thing we'll do
for those friends is that he dies happy.
That's what we'll try.
To make him have the best weeks of his life,
but without him knowing that he's croaking.
[Maria] Isn't it a bit rough to not tell him that he's dying?
[Suso] Well...
He didn't tell me he was screwing my woman.
[Maria] Can you be serious?
[Suso] I'm being serious, Maria. Damn.
If I would die,
that's what I'd want my friends to do for me.
Wouldn't you want to know the truth?
I don't know.
I want to say goodbye to my friend.
I don't want to cry for three months for a dying person,
making my life bitter,
and making what little life has left bitter.
- [Maria] That's how life is. - [Suso] It sure is.
Life is like that.
Life is crap, life is a whore.
Life is a real bitch.
No. Death is the real bitch,
waiting around the corner to screw us over.
[Maria] So you think it's better to not tell the truth
to someone you care about deeply?
You think that way they'll suffer less.
[Suso] Of course.
♪ [music] ♪
Or not.
How can I know? I have no clue.
I don't know, Maria.
[Suso] I don't know if we have the right to or...
I don't know who we are
to decide how Nacho spends the last days of his life.
[Maria] Well.
[Maria] We're his best friends.
[Maria] Friends till death.
♪ [soft music] ♪
♪ [music ♪ fades down]
[Nacho] What is it, man?
- [Nacho] Can you grab a drink? - [Suso] It's closed.
[Nacho] Then the last round before leaving.
[wood sound]
It's not the last one, it's the second to last.
What's that stupid rule of not calling it the last one?
I don't know.
You don't say that.
The last one. The last one.
It's like your last drink before dying.
So if I ask for the last one and you serve it,
it means it's the last drink I'll have in my life?
What is this talk about life?
No life nor dying. No life, man.
Come on.
[Suso] It's the typical drunkard nonsense.
There's people who come here and ask for the last one,
and they're here the next day
having 15 or 20 drinks.
You can actually die from that.
I don't mean you.
I mean people in general.
Suso, are you okay?
Yes, I am.
You too, huh?
- Me too, what? - You're okay too.
I mean, you're okay too.
You're fine, goddammit.
You look well.
You look really fine.
You came and I thought that.
I thought, "Damn, he looks fine."
[Suso] You look fine. I think you're fine.
You look...
I don't know. You look even taller.
You look heavier.
You look pretty older.
You're equally mean.
Well.
Let's drink the antepenultimate.
[Nacho] I'll serve today.
[opening bottle]
Maria called me and
she told me you wanted to talk to me.
Yes.
Yes, it's true.
What do you want?
Me? A beer.
Oh, right.
Well, I want to talk.
About one thing. With you.
Maria already told me that.
Yeah, sure. I'm sure.
Ah...
That's it. I want to talk.
Talk to you calmly. That's it.
Normal talk.
That's how people understand each other.
- No. - No what?
[Nacho] People don't understand each other talking.
That is a lie.
When people talk, they don't want to understand.
When people talk, they want to be told they're right,
they don't understand others.
[Nacho] The right thing
would be listening.
Listening is how people understand each other.
That's well thought.
It's like this one,
"Who loves you well, will make you cry."
That sucks.
If you love me, make me laugh. Don't be a brat.
What the hell do you mean?
[Suso] It's another saying.
You keep bugging me with these sayings.
Okay. Come on. What?
I mean... It's...
The...
The thing is...
I...
Not I. You.
You are...
I mean... It's...
What?
I mean...
What did you want to talk about?
[Maria] I already knew that with these two
it wouldn't be easy.
But what could I do?
I had to get them together and I did.
Now they had to do their part.
[Nacho] You wanted to talk to me
because you talked to Maria
and she told you about me, right?
[Nacho takes a deep breath]
What did she talk to me about?
What would she tell me? She didn't tell me anything.
Suso, come on! Stop pretending!
About the hospital.
Maria told you about the hospital
and that's why you wanted to talk to me.
[Suso breathes heavily]
Yes.
[Nacho sighs]
It hurt you a lot when you found out.
Of course it did.
What kind of person do you think I am?
No. I know.
You don't have to explain anything to me.
It's obvious and I understand you're mad at me.
I mean, I... Well...
I was, of course, a little angry,
but not anymore.
I mean... I don't know.
It's in moments like this where you show
the true friendship.
[Suso pat Nacho's back]
[Suso kisses Nacho's neck]
[Suso sighs]
Suso, I'm really glad you're taking it this way.
[Nacho] It's very mature of you.
I thought...
You'll see how mad this guy will get
when he finds out.
[Nacho] After what happened,
that Maria and I, again...
[Nacho] But good for you.
I love how you're handling this.
[Nacho] It's stupid.
That's why I told Maria
she shouldn't tell you anything, but...
It's nothing.
Some days ago
[Nacho] I went to the hospital to pick some results
that were not ready, and when I said goodbye,
I gave her to kisses, like they do here in Spain,
and when I went from the first kiss to the second one,
I went for her mouth.
♪ [tense music] ♪
[Nacho] But she moved away.
[Nacho] The truth is,
it shouldn't even be considered a kiss because
there wasn't a tongue involved.
♪ [tense music] ♪
Suso, I didn't plan this.
I'm as surprised as you or more.
I didn't go to the hospital because of her.
But when I saw Maria,
I had the same stupid impulse
to see what happened.
I already knew she would say no.
Suso, really.
Thank you so much for understanding
and taking it so well.
I take my hat off to you.
You're a true friend.
♪ [music fades up] ♪
♪ [music continues] ♪
[dart hitting wood]
♪ [music continues] ♪
[dart hitting wood]
Why hasn't this son of a bitch already died?
Well, maybe Suso didn't say that,
but I'm sure he thought it at that time.
I would have thought the same.
Because we're friends.
In fact, we're the same.
This story could have happened
the same way, but the other way around.
But it happened this way.
[dart hitting wood]
I had to be the cuckold and he had terminal cancer,
and each bears his own load.
Life is like that.
Life is a real bitch.
So...
Do you want to play with me again?
Friends till the end?
[Nacho] Not?
♪ [music ends] ♪
The truth is Nacho was making it hard for him.
It was normal Suso would find it hard to forgive him,
so I would have to do something to give a little help.
[cow mooing]
We have company.
What is this guy doing here?
I invited him to the barbecue.
I'll take a shower and leave you two
to talk about your stuff.
Uh...
I mean, speak normally.
[Maria] Not that you have anything to talk about,
that someone must tell something to the other.
No, no. Just talk.
People understand each other by speaking.
Don't bring that topic up, please.
[Nacho] Suso, don't be mad.
Why do you leave?
[Nacho] To avoid talking to me?
No. I'll bring you another pork chop.
Good idea.
Because if you're still hungry, you'll roast the cat.
[cat meowing]
Suso!
Suso, wait!
Do you think you're the only one who took a hit?
Don't you think Maria and I had a bad time?
[Suso laughs]
I suppose so,
but what screws me is to imagine
when you had a good time.
I understand you're hurt, but--
Don't tell me you understand me!
I was deeply affected too.
Did you know I've had bowel problems since then?
[Nacho] I have irritable colon.
I get constipated for weeks.
Well, listen, I could nevertheless
don't give a crap about your problems every day.
Make all the jokes you want,
but it was really hard for me.
You will take this lightly, but
I had early anorexia symptoms.
- Anorexia? - [Nacho] Yes.
Now that you mention it,
I think I also had a little anorexia. Sure.
Whenever I looked at myself in the mirror,
I thought I was fat.
Really.
You're not taking me seriously.
If I take you seriously, maybe
today, instead of pork chops,
you would eat some junk.
Okay. I better leave.
I understand you behave that way.
Don't say you understand me!
Don't tell me that! Goddammit!
Maybe you'll understand this.
Screw you!
Screw me?
You don't get to say that.
I can say whatever I want.
There. Screw you! See?
No, no. Screw you!
No. Screw you!
Okay. Fine.
Up yours, then!
Screw me, and up yours!
You know what? Up yours sounds better!
No. Even better. Go to hell!
No, no! You go to hell!
You go to hell and, on the way, up yours, while you're at it.
Very well. Up mine is delightful,
- but you know what? - What?
you can lick my balls, jerk!
Don't call me jerk, you jackass.
I'll call you whatever I want.
What? Are you going to hit me?
Maybe I will, because you're a jackass.
And you're a jerk!
- Really? Jackass. Jackass. - Jerk! Jerk!
That's very mature.
Are you solving problems like adults?
- He started. - [Maria] Suso, please!
No. Suso is right.
I started all of this.
I think I better leave.
He needs time. It's normal.
What time are you talking about?
We don't have time.
Time for what?
No, I meant we don't have time to lose.
It's better to face these things as soon as possible,
because...
Because it can lead to anorexia.
[Maria] What are you saying?
I better leave and we should think about it
and, some months later,
we can speak calmly.
In a couple months you won't...!
Well, yeah. Sure.
We have our whole lives ahead, right?
- Jerk. - Jackass.
[rain thunder]
[falling rain]
[Nacho] I confess that at that time
I decided to leave forever.
I was going to go back to Mexico,
but the tickets were too expensive.
[Suso laughs]
[Nacho] That's why I went to that damn campsite.
[rain thunder]
[Nacho] It's no wonder
my grandpa emigrated to Mexico.
[Nacho] It feels like this damn rain will never stop.
[Suso] My grandpa said that what matters in life
is to not keep your head down when it rains,
[Suso] because you'll get wet anyway.
[sounds "Esqueleto/OÓyeme" by Santi Araújo]
♪ Dancing like the grass ♪
♪ Singing in the middle Of a thunderstorm ♪
♪ I'll wait until You fall asleep ♪
♪ Listen ♪
♪ Listen to me ♪
- [song continues] - [Maria screams]
♪ A person is coming closer ♪
♪ He says hello ♪
♪ I don't know who that is ♪
♪ His skeleton is dancing inside ♪
♪ I'll keep on ♪
♪ Dancing like the grass ♪
♪ Singing in the middle Of a thunderstorm ♪
♪ I'll wait until you Fall asleep ♪
♪ Listen ♪
♪ Listen to me ♪
[song continues at background]
[people bustle]
[David] Hey, man!
The bartender arrives last to the bar.
[Patricia] We thought you wouldn't come.
[Ledi] That's really mature.
[Xoel] Yes, we're really proud of you
because of this game.
I wouldn't be able to do it.
[Jose] You're remarkable.
You can forgive him,
but to throw a party for him?
You're here!
[Maria] Excuse me. Excuse me.
Come with me.
["Esqueleto/OÓyeme" by Santi Araújo ends]
[Maria] I invited Nacho here today
- to reunite him with everyone. - [Suso] What?
He didn't want to come at first, but I told him it's my birthday.
But today is not your birthday.
I'm glad you remember.
Sit down.
Calm down. They're all complicit
and they will pretend, because they want you to make up.
But what if he realizes it?
- Maybe he knows your birthday. - [Maria] He doesn't.
- But maybe he does. - He doesn't.
- Damn, maybe he does. - He doesn't.
How do you know he doesn't know?
Do you know?
Don't be silly, of course I do.
Of course I know.
I think I know.
Wait. It's on November 24th.
- Nice try! - November 25th.
No, wait! I'm joking.
I sure know. It's on February 11th.
I don't believe this.
That's yours, you idiot!
That's why it sounded familiar.
[Suso laughs]
[Suso] Come here.
- No. - Wait.
We'll try to fix thing up with Nacho and you and I will have
all the time in the world after that.
After he dies, you mean.
- Don't be such a brute! - You said it.
Don't be silly, I don't want to laugh about this.
It's not okay to laugh at this stuff.
Forgive me. Laughing is always good.
What's bad is that these things happen.
Haven't you heard the phrase:
"Laughter can laugh at death,
but death can't kill our laughter."
I had never heard that. Who said it?
I guess I, because I just thought of it.
[both laugh]
Then why do you say it like a literary quote?
[Suso] I don't know. I think it is...
because I like when you look at me
like you thought I was really smart.
- I think you're a big fool. - See?
I prefer to not take any chances.
[song continues]
The tiramisu was delicious.
[Maria laughs]
[sounds "El amor no es lo que piensas" by Xoel López]
You hardly ate any spaghetti.
[Maria laughs]
[song continues]
Were you ashamed I would see you slurp?
[Maria laughs]
You won't say anything?
I prefer to not take any chances.
[song continues]
♪ A moment is a Very short time ♪
[crowd clapping]
[friends] Come on, girl! Breathe!
[Suso] It's you, jackasses.
[crowd bustle]
Hide this over there.
- What is this? - Your present.
Did you get me a present?
No, you got it for me, for my birthday.
- I didn't get you anything. - Right.
If today is my birthday and Nacho brings me a gift,
it's only logical that you get me one too.
Yes, yes.
Hell, I didn't get you a gift.
I can't be ready for you to say
any given day, "Guess what,
today is my birthday".
But did you get it?
I'm really sorry, but I didn't get you a thing.
Look what I got for you!
I'm on top of everything, am I not?
By the way, Maria.
I bought this for you.
[Maria] Shh! Don't open it! It's a surprise.
For the first time in your life, you'll get a gift right.
You're so ungrateful.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
[sounds "Actitud" by Taiacore]
- [David] How are you? - [Nacho] Pretty good.
[song continues]
♪ They say I'm restless ♪
♪ Seems like life Doesn't bother me ♪
♪ My freedom ♪
♪ Can scare you ♪
♪ I'm wild I can't be tamed ♪
♪ When you let go I'll run away ♪
[Nacho] It's so nice to see you. What else have you done?
[song continues]
♪ Stay with me Make a way ♪
[Maria] Sit here.
[Maria] Make some room.
[bustle]
Well.
We three will make a toast for the reunion.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
Ch...
Cheers or chin chin or whatever.
- Right? - No.
Cheers. It's important to be cheerful.
Yeah, it's not that important.
Because... No.
Jose! What do you always say about being cheerful?
What matters is money, happiness comes and goes.
Right?
[Jose laughs]
Beautiful. Yeah.
- Okay. Here's to money. - To money.
No, we're not toasting to money.
We're toasting to friendship.
If you have a friend, you have a treasure.
No, no.
That saying gives me a bad feeling.
Also, that.
You have a problem with Spanish sayings.
Wait. You're my friends, right?
- Yes. - Sure.
Do you think of me like a treasure?
- Well, yeah. - Yes.
[Nacho] Well, no.
I don't want to be nobody's treasure.
I feel I'll get buried.
Why are you talking about burying?
Isn't that what you do with a treasure?
You bury it like a dead person.
What is that? What dead person?
[Suso] Who's dying?
No one's dying here.
Nacho, you're not dying.
Well, I am dying.
[Nacho] We're all dying
eventually.
What we don't know, is after what event,
[glass sound]
or after who.
[glass sound]
[people bustle]
Nacho, can I ask you a question?
- [Suso] You know... - Let's get to the point.
We're here and we're talking about treasures
and I haven't opened my presents.
Come on! Everybody!
Presents for the girl.
[Maria] Where are my presents?
- [Maria] Come on, come on. - [bustle]
[people bustle]
So... cancer?
- What? - Cancer?
[people bustle]
Yes. Cancer.
I don't understand how did you know.
It's June 26th.
Cancer.
If you were born a week ago, you would be a Gemini.
[people bustle]
Happy birthday.
[Maria laughs shyly]
Let's see, which one should I open first?
[Maria] Hmmm...
- [Maria] Let me see. - [Suso] Wait, wait.
Mine. I get the feeling that
you're going to like it.
[Nacho] I'll start.
[Nacho] If you don't like it, you can't change it.
If you don't like it, you can change it.
Let me guess. It's a husband.
[Suso] I'm sorry, I'm just a little... But it's okay.
Let's open Nachito's present, it's all cool. Come on!
[paper creaks]
- Wow! - [Nacho] That's it.
You don't like them.
No. I mean, yes. I really like them.
The thing is...
The thing is you don't like them.
No, I like them, but...
I can tell you don't like them.
I'm telling you I like them.
Suso, do you think she likes roller skates?
Don't get me in trouble.
But I'm saying that I like them.
Yes, but you say it to be polite and it's absurd,
because if you don't like them, you can change them.
Maria, Nacho is right about that.
You can change them.
But I don't want to change them.
Why would you keep them if you don't like them?
[Nacho] Don't be silly.
If you can change them, don't be silly.
To not change them just to avoid snubbing them
would be stupid.
You can tell she doesn't like them. She's playing fool.
You don't change them and then you feel stupid.
[Nacho] Suso, you know her better.
Does Maria like roller skates?
It's a freaky gift, honestly.
- [everybody laughing] - Wait.
The roller skates are nice, but she'd never like them.
- It's set. You don't like them. - Maria, you don't like them.
- Tell him. You don't like them. - [Nacho] Say it.
[Nacho] Say it, you don't like them.
[everyone] Maria, you don't like them.
♪ [funny music] ♪
I do like them!
[Maria] Damn!
♪ [music stops] ♪
They're nice.
[hard hit]
It's okay.
Don't get mad, woman.
We're celebrating your birthday.
Come on. Now let's open my gift.
Uh... No.
I don't want to open more presents.
I'll do it later at home.
That's nice. I remember your birthday
everyone's here, and now you won't--
If you want to do it's badly,
you open it.
[Suso] That's silly. I'll open it.
We have to open it.
♪ [soft music] ♪
[Maria] Yes. It wasn't that hard to guess.
He said he was a lousy husband.
That it didn't matter if it was my birthday,
but Nacho got me exactly the present I wanted.
And that meant Nacho knew
what I needed better than him.
I told him he was overreacting,
that it didn't matter to me.
- ♪ [music] ♪ - [birds singing]
I lied to him.
[everyone] Happy birthday to you
[David] Hooray!
No, no.
First you have to make a wish.
I thought about it at home.
I want you two to be friends again.
You screwed it up,
because if you say it out loud, the wish won't come true.
Listen, guys.
I'm grateful for everything you're doing, but...
I'm the guilty one here, Suso needs something.
[Nacho] Suso,
I apologize in front of everyone.
[Suso sarcastic]
Wait, you're not the only guilty one.
You hit the jackpot, but...
- it's evenly distributed. - Suso, please.
It's okay, woman.
We can speak openly in front of them.
They won't tell anyone.
They're experienced in keeping secrets. They're trustworthy.
Suso, you're completely right.
But this was hard for us too.
[Suso] Yes? What is it?
Do you have irritable colon too?
- What's that? - [Nacho] Leave him alone.
He is making fun of something that happened because of him.
[Nacho] I somatize everything!
It's your fault I have this inside me.
Being like this with you is what's killing me.
- What is he talking about? - Calm down, woman.
He means it's my fault he now has to eat fiber,
otherwise, he'll...
- Stop it! - [Nacho] Let him go on!
Let him take it all out.
Well, we better leave.
I'm sure you'd rather be alone.
No, no.
This should belong to everyone.
♪ [western music] ♪
I'm here.
Come on!
[Nacho] Let out everything you've kept to yourself.
Tell it to my face.
♪ [music continues] ♪
I have nothing to tell you.
Suso, you won't be able to forgive me that way.
I sure can.
I forgive you. See?
That doesn't count.
Because you say so?
It's not that he says so.
Nacho is right about that.
I just said I forgive him.
You can tell it's not honest.
[Nacho] Suso, I'm here.
Take the chance. Don't hold back. Come on!
[exhale]
♪ [tense music] ♪
♪ [music intensifies] ♪
- I'll beat the crap out of you. - [Suso] Really?
[everyone] Stop! Stop!
[Suso] Enough!
[Suso] It's set.
Now I forgive him. He's forgiven.
He can take a crap peacefully.
- [Nacho] That's it! - [everyone] No, no!
[everyone screaming]
[whistle]
[Maria] Have you two lost it?
What's next?
Will you measure your junk to see whose is longer?
We're going home.
We should. This makes no sense.
[Maria] The three of us.
The three of us are going home.
[door's open]
[Nacho and Suso] ♪ Happy ♪
[Nacho and Suso] ♪ Birthday to you ♪
[Nacho and Suso] ♪ Happy birthday, dear Maria ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
[Suso clears his throat]
[Nacho] I know how we can figure this out.
[brassy sound]
[chairs hitting floor]
Let's make a blood pact.
We make a cut in our fingers,
we join them and promise
to be friends for the rest of our lives.
Uh?
- ♪ [sad music] ♪ - [Maria cries]
- Why is she crying? - [Suso] Uh?
Uh...
I don't know. Maybe blood makes her squeamish.
[Suso] Maria?
Here's the knife.
No problem.
Nacho, I'll tell you why Maria is crying.
Suso, please.
No, Maria. This isn't right.
He has to know what's going on.
[Suso] This is...
[Suso] Nacho, sit down, please.
Listen.
♪ [tense music] ♪
Well...
Maria is crying because
you just proposed
[Suso] a blood pact so that
we continue to be friends
for the rest of our lives. But...
[Suso] the problem is...
we can't think of the future anymore, because...
Carpe diem!
What?
[Maria] Carpe diem.
We can't think of the future
because who knows what tomorrow will bring.
So Carpe diem, let's enjoy the moment.
[Nacho] Sure.
It's like this saying, "Once the dog dies,
the rabies is gone".
Why are you talking about dogs?
What dead dog? What rabies?
Can we forget about those sayings? Please!
Okay. He understands.
[Maria] Let's blow the candles.
No. No candles.
Let's all three sit down and talk calmly, because...
Suso, wait.
Don't be a killjoy.
[Nacho] Carpe diem.
Let's blow the candles together.
Sit here, Maria.
[Nacho] Very well, we'll do it Carpe diemstyle,
but cooler.
[Nacho] Stand up, Suso.
Let's celebrate like this was the last party
we're having together.
Everyone close their eyes.
Close your eyes, Susito.
Okay, Maria.
[Nacho] Let's make a wish.
Something important. I don't know.
What wish would you make if these were
the last months of our lives?
♪ [mysterious music] ♪
[Nacho] Think carefully.
[tinker bell sound]
[Nacho] I'll count up to three.
[Maria] Make a wish. Quickly.
I have to make a wish.
I know exactly what that would be.
I guess I'd ask
for these two to be friends again.
- [Nacho] One... - ♪ [mysterious music] ♪
[Maria] Damn! Time is running out!
I must decide now.
But now that I think about it,
if I only had a couple months to live,
I could ask something for myself.
[Nacho] And two...
[Maria] No, no. Wait!
Hurry!
Something I really want for myself.
Not anyone else.
Be a little selfish, goddammit.
I don't care so much about others, for once.
♪ [music continues] ♪
[Nacho] And...
[Maria] No. Wait! Wait!
[Nacho] three.
♪ [music fades down] ♪
[Maria] I want to have a child.
[Suso an Nacho blows]
[thunder]
[Nacho] A nice wish would have been
to put a roof on Galicia.
How do you get used to it?
I can't adjust.
We can.
Galician children are born with gills behind our ears.
[falling rain]
[Suso] Do you remember everything that happened the next day?
[Nacho] How can I forget it?
I realize how much I've missed something
these last three years.
Yeah, me too.
It has been bad for me too.
It has been hard not seeing you.
That too, of course.
What do you mean "too"?
No, no. I missed you too, of course.
But I was referring to the octopus.
What octopus?
[water flowing]
The octopus, on general.
[Nacho] We haven't eat it together
for a long time.
[sounds "Sopor en Moscoso" by Caldo]
[people bustle]
[song fades down]
The octopus. Three years without talking
and what you missed was the octopus.
[Nacho] Do you understand me?
I'm glad to be here with you,
share things with you,
to eat half an octopus,
that we can eat from the same plate,
share everything with you.
Everything.
Be it octopus, or...
[song continues]
[Nacho] Or...
Or...
[song continues]
[Nacho] Suso!
[Nacho] Suso, I'm sorry. I slipped.
[song fades down]
[Suso] In can't deal with this, Nacho. I thought I could.
I have it-- I can't.
I get it.
Don't say you get me, because you don't understand anything.
Then you get me.
I get you. That's the problem. I get you perfectly.
I get what you did,
why you did it, I get that you did it.
I get it and I forgive you,
but I can't stand looking at your face.
[Nacho] Suso, I can't stand that this ends this way.
I can't stand to go on without seeing you.
I'll die of grief.
Don't worry, you won't have time for that.
He didn't say that either, but he thought about it.
[Maria] What he didn't think was seeing Suso so overwhelmed
would make Nacho leave that very afternoon.
I don't get it, Nacho.
What did you lose in Istanbul?
I'm not going to Istanbul.
I'll arrive to Istanbul's airport
and then I'll hitchhike until Turkish Kurdistan,
a remote place to find myself.
What?
[Suso breaths deep]
How long are staying there?
Who knows.
Six months, a year, two. It depends.
Depends on what?
You can just wander around, suddenly, with no cares.
What about all that Carpe diem you told me about yesterday?
Yes, damn, we said Carpe diem,
but Carpe diemin Spain.
[airplane landing]
[screeching tires]
[Nacho] Honestly, Suso, if I had known
you'd be so annoying, I would have taken a cab.
[airplanes flying around]
- [Suso] Nacho, wait! - [Nacho] What do you want?
It's just that...
If you leave...
What?
- Have a nice trip. - ♪ [sounds emotive music] ♪
Bye.
♪ [emotive music] ♪
Maria, honey, can you do me a favor?
Sure. Tell me.
We're a little short on staff in Maternity.
If you could come for a while
and lend us a hand.
Well, I work at the lab.
I don't know how can I help you.
You come back
and help us with whatever you can for a moment.
♪ [music] ♪
Come on.
♪ [music] ♪
[nurse] Please, come in.
Look.
♪ [accordion romantic music] ♪
[nurse] These two, for example.
They're fine if they're together,
but if we separate them,
they won't stop crying.
[baby crying]
♪ [music continues] ♪
[nurse] Can you handle them, Maria?
♪ [music ♪ fades up]
Maria?
- [nurse] Maria? - ♪ [music turns louder] ♪
Maria!
♪ [music louder] ♪
- Maria. - Huh?
♪ [music fades down] ♪
[Maria] Uh!
Are you okay?
Yes, I am.
I think I fell asleep for a second...
Uh...
Eh... I'm leaving.
I have to...
make an important call.
I'm sorry. I won't be able to help.
Help me with what?
[cellphone ringing]
- [Suso] Yes? - [Maria] Suso?
Maria.
[street ambience]
- I have to tell you something. - Me too.
Let me tell you, and then you tell me.
No, I'll start. It's important.
Mine is important too, let me go first, please.
You first.
- [Maria] Sorry. - [Suso] Sorry.
- Listen. - I'll go first, or I'll lose steam.
Well...
Suso, I want to have a child.
That's not a big deal.
[Suso] I mean, it's not urgent.
I meant, I already knew that.
This time I'm not saying it as a wish.
It's a decision.
And it's urgent.
I don't understand.
Do you want a child?
Maria, you know I would have loved to,
but it couldn't be. We haven't been able to...
Do you still want it?
Do you really want it?
[Maria] Or, deep down, you don't care as much.
Be honest.
I need to know if you want it as much as I do.
Honey,
having a child with you is my greatest wish in the world.
Then we'll have one.
But...
How? Are we adopting?
If you want that too.
But I want a child that's born out of me.
Honey, that's impossible. It couldn't be.
[Maria] Come.
[hospital speaker sound]
[Maria] Close it. We can speak quietly in here.
- [Maria] Close it. - [Suso] But...
[Maria] Don't worry, he's in a coma.
He can't hear nor feel anything.
[Maria] Honey,
I spoke to the gynecology team,
- my colleagues. - [Suso] Yes.
They all agree our case is impossible.
Besides your sperm being practically infertile,
it seems that part of the problem
is that I have a congenital deviation
in my cervix,
[Maria] which makes me incompatible
with artificial insemination.
Which mean...
Which means?
I have lousy semen, but you have a spoiled coochie.
[Suso and Maria laughing]
[Maria] That's how the doctors said it.
[Suso] Ok, that's funny... And then?
Then...
The only way in which I can have a child
is to use sperm from a donor.
Didn't you just said you were
incompatible with artificial insemination?
Yes. With the artificial one.
Oh...
[Suso breathes heavily]
- You don't mean...? - Yes.
[coughs]
Oh, my!
Oh, shoot!
Just thinking about it...
[Maria] I know this is really hard for you,
but you must understand that it won't mean anything to me.
I'm glad for you. Please understand that to imagine
that a man, out of nowhere, will be with you.
And on top of that, it will be without protection, to...
[Suso sighs]
It's just that...
It doesn't have to be a stranger.
♪ [soft music] ♪
- [street ambiance] - ♪ [music] ♪
[Suso breathes heavily]
Oh, boy!
Honey.
I know this is really weird.
♪ [music] ♪
[both crying]
Whatever happens, I'll always be your woman,
and Nacho is your best friend.
[Suso Cries]
And, somehow, we three will have that child.
♪ [tender piano music] ♪
Very soon,
one of us won't be here anymore.
But if that child is born,
a part of him will still be here
and it will always be the three of us.
♪ [piano music continues] ♪
Oh, shoot!
♪ [music intensifies] ♪
Promise me...
that he won't look like Nacho.
[both laughing]
♪ [music continues] ♪
[Maria] Then...
[Maria] Is that a yes?
You know I will always say yes to you.
I'm trying to process it, but damn.
[emotive music increases]
[Maria] Hey.
- What was your thing? - [Suso] What thing?
Your urgent thing.
Damn! Nacho.
- What about Nacho? - He's leaving.
Leaving where?
Turkish Kurdistan. I dropped him at the airport.
- What? - Yes.
♪ [music continues] ♪
I'll tell them I have to leave and you start the car.
But call him first!
Don't let him get on that plane.
[Suso breathes heavily]
♪ [music ♪ intensifies]
Nacho.
How can I say this?
♪ [music continues] ♪
- [Maria] What are you doing? - ♪ [music fades down] ♪
[Suso] Wait, wait. Calm down.
He's coming here.
He didn't confirm, but I'm sure he'll come.
Why are you so sure?
I told him it's my birthday.
The same excuse? Are you stupid?
Why will he come if you say, "Today is my birthday"?
I didn't say it like that.
I said it with intention.
- What intention? - With second intention.
Like saying, "Nacho, today is my birthday."
I winked my eye.
You winked an eye on the phone?
[Suso] Yes.
A true colleague will perceive it.
He won't come.
[Suso] He will.
[Maria] We'll be lucky to get to the airport.
[Suso] He'll come. We'll cross paths,
and when we get to the airport,
[Suso] he'll get here.
- [Maria] Stop! Stop! - [screeching tires]
- [hard hit] - [Suso sounds worried]
[Suso] I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Where are you going so fast?
We weren't going anywhere. We just--
Maria thought you wouldn't come.
Why wouldn't I?
You said, "It's my birthday."
[Nacho] And I want to know that important secret
you are keeping from me, and that you have to tell me.
Ahm...
What makes you think we're keeping a secret?
Suso winked an eye on the phone.
Okay.
It's not really a secret.
It's something we want to ask you.
[Maria] I mean...
It's hard to explain.
It's better if Suso tells you.
What?
Suso?
Ahm... Uh...
Give me a moment.
Yes, yes.
How can I tell him?
- You should tell him. - And why me?
Because of the little favor he'll do to you.
He'll do that little favor to us both.
Us both? You haven't told me that part.
Don't be stupid. It's a figure of speech.
Tell him.
What figure of speech?
- You tell him. - I won't.
Well, me neither.
[muted voice]
- What? - That if I'm losing my plane,
I hope it's for something important.
Okay. Calm down.
I'll park the car and we'll talk peacefully.
- Alright? - Go.
[street ambience]
[brassy sounds]
Don't look at me that way. How can I tell him?
It's too much.
If you want, I can also help him and be his fluffer.
Don't be silly!
If we're doing this with Nacho, I'd like you to participate.
Do you want us to have a threesome?
No! It's a figure of speech.
I want you to participate in all decisions.
To be a part of this.
I want you to be present at all times.
Do you want me to watch?
No! It's a manner of speaking.
It's a figure of speech.
Well, speak normally, because I'm getting really nervous.
[Maria sighs worried]
[Maria] Suso, do you want to go ahead with this?
Because if you're not sure, I won't do it.
[Suso sighs]
[far ambulance]
Who will be the spokesperson?
Forget it. It was nonsense, Nacho.
Maria and I will be the spokespeople
because it's something we must do together,
figuratively.
Hey, I'm still here.
Tell me or I'll go back to the airport.
[both] Nacho. We want to have a child.
What a surprise! I already knew that.
The problem is... We can't.
I didn't know that, but I supposed it.
The problem seems to be mostly mine.
I have kind of a low count
of fertile sperm in my seminal fluid.
I didn't know that nor supposed it.
And I prefer not to imagine it.
Ahm...
Nacho...
Haven't you guessed what we're going to ask you?
I think I have.
What do you think?
- What do you think? - It makes me hopeful.
In fact, I was waiting for you to ask me.
I'm very eager.
What are you eager about?
About being the godfather of the child you're having.
[flapping bird]
Do you really want our child to have this idiot's genes?
But...
Didn't I just tell you we can't have kids?
Nacho, what we want is to have a child,
not a godfather.
Then what?
[Nacho] Get out of here!
Get the hell out of here!
Are you joking? I'm going to Istanbul.
Nacho, if we're asking this it's because we need you.
Maria, come on!
You don't need me to have a child.
What you need is a glass of sperm and it can be anyone's.
Go to a sperm bank.
I'm sure the liter is not very expensive.
- Nacho, it's just... - What?
that we want it to be you.
Why should it be me?
That's twisted, man.
How would things go now?
I would have to jerk off,
[Nacho] put it in a glass, and then what?
There would be a little child running around,
who is the son of my best friend,
but who casually looks a little like me.
And you don't even want me to be the godfather!
Nacho!
Damn, wait. It wouldn't be like that.
It wouldn't be like that, how?
Because--
Maria is incompatible with artificial insemination.
Then?
[Maria] Mhm...
[birds singing]
Get the hell out of here.
[Maria sighs]
[Suso] Maria, are you okay?
- Maria? Nacho. - [Nacho] What?
[Suso] Are you okay?
[Nacho] What happened?
[Suso] I don't know. Are you okay?
- [Nacho] Maria. - [Suso] Do you feel better?
[Suso] Calm down. I'm here. It's okay.
[Nacho] I'm here with you too.
[Nacho] Calm down. It's okay. Listen.
[Suso] I'll do whatever you need. Don't worry.
I'll calm down! But let me breathe, goddammit!
[soft music fades up]
What? It's okay. I got dizzy.
It's okay.
Haven't you ever seen a collapse?
[Maria] I'll take something inside.
[Suso] I'm coming with you.
[Nacho] We'll go with you.
I can make it on my own.
I'm going to the hospital because I work in the hospital.
I'll drink a glass of water and come out in ten minutes.
- [Maria] That's all! - Yes.
♪ [music continues] ♪
[Nacho sighs]
I can still catch my plane.
Maria is fine and I'm not needed.
Can you take me?
Why can you and I talk
- calmly? - Because you only
talk calmly about things that don't matter,
and you and Maria are on the list of the few things
that matter to me.
Can you take me?
♪ [music increases] ♪
AIRPORT 4.5 MILES
Admit that this child thing is weird, man.
[Nacho] If it's so clear to her,
what's the problem?
I'll take my trip,
think about it, and when I come back
in a few months, we'll discuss it.
[screeching tires]
[Suso] What months?
[Suso] What damn months are you talking about?
[Nacho] What are you doing, Suso?
- [car getting closer] - [screeching tires]
[Nacho] Suso!
♪ [soft music increases] ♪
[Nacho] Suso!
♪ [music continues] ♪
Stop right there! Stop!
[Nacho] What the hell are you doing, buddy?
Why can't you wait five or six months?
You have waited ten years for a damn child!
If you wait a few months you won't die.
Not us.
Who are you talking to?
♪ [music] ♪
I'm really sorry, man.
But you can't leave like this. It's not fair.
- [Suso] I have to tell you. - Tell me what?
You're making me very nervous.
Listen, Nacho.
Hear me out.
The other day, when you went to Maria's
[Suso] hospital to pick up your test results,
they found something in you
that's not right.
Something like...
You're really sick, man.
Sick of what?
They said I was fine at the hospital and I feel wonderful.
You feel well because of those
pills they gave you, but that's all.
They're vitamins.
I read the instructions, you bastard.
I don't know. It's their trick to distract you,
those pills may be tranquilizers.
They can give you anything else,
because you have no cure, Nacho.
[Suso breathes heavily]
You're dying.
♪ [tension music] ♪
[Maria] He told him!
I didn't think Suso capable, but he told him.
That was not part of the plan.
Poor Nacho.
[water flowing]
[crispy wrap]
[water flowing]
[Nacho breaths deep]
[Nacho breathing faster]
[sighs]
[road ambience]
What is this?
Another strategy so I make a child with your wife?
No, Nacho. It's true.
I'm really sorry.
We didn't tell you anything because we thought
[Suso] you'd be happy without knowing.
I'm sorry for all of this we made up about the child.
I'm really sorry. We thought it was a good idea.
"We thought"? Didn't you think
that maybe I would like to think something?
This is my life, after all. It's my death!
[Nacho] It's only logical that knowing
was important to me.
You don't die every die, goddammit!
You're right, Nacho. Forgive me.
I'm sorry!
I made all this crap
with the intention of making things better for you.
Screw you.
[Nacho] This time,
screw you, Suso.
You only thought of you when you made this.
What you wanted
was to make a child for your woman before I died.
So she would forgive that you are half a man.
Listen...
First, I would have never made something for me
if I thought it might have hurt you.
Can you say the same?
And second, the fact that I have a problem
with me sperm doesn't make me less man than you.
You're right. This is not about your sperm.
You have always been less man than me.
That's why Maria preferred me.
[sighs]
Listen...
I'll forget you said that
because I know my friend Nacho doesn't think that.
The problem is not that I think it,
it's that your woman thinks it.
- Hey, moron! - [Nacho] Come here.
♪ [sounds "Ser mi amigo/Estar contigo" by Santi Araújo] ♪
♪ I know being my friend Is not easy ♪
♪ I know being with me Is not easy ♪
♪ But I really loved you ♪
♪ Even though that ♪
♪ Doesn't matter anymore ♪
[song continues]
♪ I know being my friend Is not easy ♪
♪ I know being with me Is not easy ♪
♪ But I really loved you ♪
♪ Even though that ♪
♪ Doesn't matter anymore ♪
♪ Even though that ♪
♪ Doesn't matter anymore ♪
♪ Even though that ♪
♪ Doesn't matter anymore ♪
[songs fades down]
What? Enough?
[Suso] Huh?
It's done?
Congratulations, champ.
That's what you wanted, right?
Very good.
You had kept this since...
Since Cuore di Napoli, right?
[Suso] Because you're still thinking that
if you had been there that night
it would be the other way round.
[Suso laughs]
[Suso] It sucks, right?
You spent all your life
being jealous of someone you think is worse than you,
because all you ever wanted
was to have his life, right?
Right?
[Suso] It's funny because you can walk
your whole life like a champion
and end up convincing yourself that you're a champion.
Even though everyone around him know
that he's a loser.
Are you calling me a loser?
No, I'm not calling you a loser.
I'm informing you you're a loser.
Do you think that's a nice thing to tell your friend
after you just told him he's dying?
Can I give you a hug?
Please.
♪ Even though that ♪
♪ Doesn't matter anymore... ♪
♪ ["Ser mi amigo/Estar contigo" by Santi Araújo, continues] ♪
[song fades down]
[Suso moaning]
[moans louder]
[Maria] It had to hurt you.
What have I done?
You didn't want us to tell him
- since the beginning. - [Maria] No.
I mean, yes, but if you say you won't say anything,
why do you tell him now?
It stings!
- When is he living? - The day after tomorrow.
[crickets chirping]
[Suso] He lost his connection and there were no other flights.
He says he's still going,
that he doesn't care if he dies
in Ourense or Ponte Vedra or the Turkish Kurdistan.
The day after tomorrow?
- [Suso] Yes. - Okay.
Tomorrow we'll have a farewell dinner.
Good. Something at home or...?
[crickets chirping]
Oh, brother!
♪ [sounds "L'amore Piuù Bello" by Stephane Huguenin] ♪
[song continues]
Hello.
[Nacho] Hello.
[waiter i n Italian] Buona sera, signorina.
[song continues]
I'm glad you decided to come.
How could I miss it?
Didn't Suso come with you?
Scusi. Are we waiting for someone?
- Yes. - [Maria] No.
[song continues]
Do you want a drink?
Yes, a glass of Godello.
[Nacho] Why isn't Suso coming?
No, because something came up that...
[sighs]
No. No more lies.
Suso won't come because that's what we decided.
What about our farewell dinner?
Nacho...
you're not dying.
What?
[Maria] You're not sick. You're not dying.
At least not for now.
I don't know if you will forgive me, but I made that up.
[song continues at background]
[waiter] Here.
[wine continues flowing]
[Nacho swallowing]
Now what?
Am I supposed to be happy?
[Nacho] I'm not!
You can't go through life telling people
now you die, now you don't.
I had faced up to the fact.
What do I do with so much life?
- [Suso] Did you tell her that? - [Nacho] No.
[Nacho] Maybe I only thought that.
- [falling rain] - Does it happen to you?
There's wild phrases your remember
from the time you said them, but you never said them?
Ehm...
Tell me you didn't make all this up
just to have a child.
No. It's not only that.
But it was one of the reasons.
I don't know if I want you to explain
or I'd rather run for the hills.
You have a right to do any of the two.
Okay.
♪ [music at background] ♪
[Nacho sighs]
Curiosity is stronger than pride.
[people bustle]
I had planned it a different way,
but it all turned out wrong.
I told Suso you were dying.
- Why did you tell him? - It was the only way
- in which he would forgive you. - Yes, but why?
Th key was you weren't supposed
to find out about your illness,
and I asked him to tell you because I thought he wouldn't,
[Maria] and you'd go back to being friends, as always.
Maria, you have to be insane.
You didn't have to kill me for that.
♪ [music] ♪
Why didn't you try we meet little by little?
And, to make it even worse, when we did the...
Blowing the candles to make a wish,
[Maria sighs]
[Maria] I thought...
that I could use the occasion to have a child
and you would be the biological dad.
And even if I accepted that madness,
first, we would have to make up,
see us for a few months, wait a couple years...
- No. - Why not?
Because it has to be before...
- Before... - Before what?
Before dying.
Don't screw me again, Maria.
Didn't you just say I won't die?
No. Not you.
♪ [emotive guitar music] ♪
Did you hear me?
I'm the one who's dying.
♪ [music fades up] ♪
[wine flowing]
♪ [music continues] ♪
I have a...
Well...
I'm a really sick in a really screwed place.
I have, at most, a couple of years.
A month more, a moth less.
It's the same.
This is the truth.
It's there.
That's why I mounted this circus.
[Maria] And, honestly, I don't know
if I did it for you two or...
out of pure selfishness.
[Maria] I didn't want to die thinking
that the two people I love the most
would go on without talking
the rest of their lives because of me.
♪ [music continues] ♪
I wanted to see you together again.
Imagine you together forever.
And the baby...
I thought it could be a child of us three.
[Maria] A child that would grow without a mom.
But with two dads.
And I thought...
that it would be a way of staying with you forever.
♪ [music continues] ♪
[Maria sighs deeply]
You now the rest of the story.
♪ [music] ♪
I'm sorry I screwed so badly.
The next time I die I'll try to do it better.
♪ [music] ♪
[waiter i n Italian] Allora...
♪ [music continues] ♪
♪ [music fades down] ♪
Why didn't you tell us before?
We could have tried something.
Because I knew that if I told you,
Suso would be so annoying.
And with me being sick, you wouldn't want
to hear about a baby.
And if I didn't tell him, I couldn't tell you,
because that would be like betraying him again.
Now you're telling me.
I told him last night.
And why isn't Suso here?
Ignacio...
do I have to explain it all to you?
Get the hell out of here.
Ge the hell out of here!
How can we do that?
Well, if you mean the position,
within an order, I don't mind.
No. I'm not in the mood for jokes.
My head is exploding. I can't even think.
Nacho, I'm ovulating.
I'm psychologically ready to do it
and believe me, it's not easy.
I don't know how many more chances I will have.
Please, trust me.
Are you sure Suso is okay with this?
He gave me this for you.
What the hell is this?
Viagra.
[Maria] He says he prefers to not take a chance.
He'd rather it be eight times today
so that we won't have to repeat.
[Maria] I'd rather think this is a night we had pending
when we were 20.
[Maria] So it all has to be like when we were 20.
[crickets chirping]
If it's a boy, can we name him Nacho?
No, but if you want,
you can teach him how to play the bandurria.
♪ [sounds "Eco" by Xoel López] ♪
♪ Like a child in a Summer pool ♪
♪ We leaped into life ♪
♪ Like crows on the road ♪
- ♪ Without fear dancing ♪ - [Nacho sighs]
You must know I will think of Suso all the time.
♪ There's time ♪
[Nacho] That's good.
I'll try not to think of him all the time.
♪ And only The echo remains ♪
♪ Only your echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Only the echo ♪
♪ Only your echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ When everything that matters Doesn't matter anymore ♪
♪ The needle stops ♪
♪ When the noise ceases And everything fits at last ♪
♪ When there's no Time anymore ♪
♪ And everything calms Down at last ♪
♪ Only the echo remains ♪
♪ Only your echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Only the echo ♪
♪ Only your echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Only an echo ♪
♪ Your life dripping Through my hands ♪
♪ An echo remains ♪
♪ I only heard your voice ♪
♪ Just an echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Maybe it was ♪
♪ My voice ♪
♪ Or just the echo ♪
[songs fades down]
[Nacho sighs]
[song continues]
[song fades up]
♪ Like a child in a Summer pool ♪
♪ We leaped into life ♪
["Eco" by Xoel López, ends]
[birds singing]
They say that when you're about to die
the movie of your life plays in front of you.
Great! You die and, on top of that,
they play a Spanish film.
I'll tell you one thing. I don't want to see my movie.
Because I already had the leading role
and sometimes I even was directing it.
But now who does the editing?
Who chooses the images you see and those you don't?
♪ [soft piano music fades up] ♪
According to the moments you choose,
my movie can be a romantic comedy
or one of those melodramas that play at siesta time.
And why does it have to be a movie?
Why can't it be a music video?
A video game?
- ♪ [music continues] ♪ - [birds singing]
Cool.
If this was a video game, I would have an extra life.
♪ [soft piano music fades up] ♪
[water flowing softly]
♪ [slowly music fades down] ♪
I never understood why Maria suddenly wanted
to do the Way of Saint James the three of us together.
[Suso] She said that,
by walking the way with us,
she felt as if...
Death couldn't be so definite.
[Suso] It wasn't a religious thing,
it was something about us three.
The three walking together, as always.
That's it.
♪ [emotive music] ♪
You won't believe it, but it stopped raining.
♪ [music continues] ♪
- Let's go, then. - Let's go.
- [Suso] Hey. - [Nacho] What?
Aren't you forgetting something?
♪ [music] ♪
[Suso] It's not raining, but it's damn cold for a baby.
He better don't get a cold.
Mister Anguish has arrived.
You're just like your mom.
Right. My mother came out now.
Why do you get my mother into this?
Because I do. She's a very nosy woman.
She always has an opinion.
I'm glad my mother is here, or else,
I would have to take care of everything.
If I bother you so much at home, I'll pack my things.
Don't pack your things. Unpack a diaper.
- A diaper? - Yes, a diaper.
Diaper. Poop.
[Suso] Does it ring a bell?
[Nacho] Suso, stop!
[Nacho] Don't be annoying.
Come here.
Take my hand.
[Suso] What?
Take my hand.
Like women do, without making a big deal.
Like girlfriends, they hold their hands.
We men should learn that from them.
Come. Take my hand.
- ♪ [music] ♪ - [Nacho sighs]
You do know this is illegal, right?
What? Holding hands?
No! Scattering ashes in any place is illegal.
But this isn't any place.
This is the place Maria chose to scatter her ashes.
♪ [emotive music fades up] ♪
However your life movie is,
it would have to have a happy ending.
I only like happy endings.
And this can be a happy ending too.
♪ [music continues] ♪
Fate, chance,
or however you want to call it, is inevitable.
But happiness is a point of view.
♪ [slowly music fades up] ♪
♪ [music continues] ♪
♪ [slowly music fades down] ♪
[Nacho] She fell asleep.
- [Suso] What a little thing. - [Nacho] So cute.
What matters is she's here, like her mother wanted.
Yes.
Okay. Let's do it.
Like her mom wanted.
[sighs deeply]
But just like her mother wanted?
Just like her mother wanted.
♪ We only have this night left ♪
♪ To live our love ♪
♪ And your tick tock ♪
♪ Reminds me ♪
♪ Of my unrelenting pain ♪
♪ Clock, stop walking ♪
♪ Because my life is dwindling ♪
♪ She is the star that lights My being ♪
♪ I'm nothing without her love ♪
♪ Stop time in your hands ♪
♪ Make this night eternal ♪
♪ So that it never leaves ♪
♪ So that it never dawns ♪
♪ [sounds "El Reloj" by Roberto Cantoral García] ♪
[song continues]
♪ Clock, stop walking ♪
♪ Because my life is dwindling ♪
♪ She is the star That lights my being ♪
♪ I'm nothing without her love ♪
♪ Stop time in your hands ♪
♪ Make this night eternal ♪
♪ So that it never leaves me ♪
♪ So that it never dawns ♪
♪ So that it never leaves me ♪
♪ So that it never dawns ♪
["El Reloj" by Roberto Cantoral García, ends]
[sounds "Eco" by Xoel López]
♪ Like a child in a Summer pool ♪
♪ We leaped into life ♪
♪ Like crows on the road ♪
♪ Without fear dancing ♪
♪ But no ♪
♪ There's time ♪
♪ Now everything is fading out ♪
♪ And only the Echo remains ♪
♪ Only your echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Only the echo ♪
♪ Only your echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ When everything that matters Doesn't matter anymore ♪
♪ The needle stops ♪
♪ When the noise ceases And everything fits at last ♪
♪ When there's no Time anymore ♪
♪ And everything calms Down at last ♪
♪ Only the echo remains ♪
♪ Only your echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Only the echo ♪
♪ Only your echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Only an echo ♪
♪ Your life dripping Through my hands ♪
♪ An echo remains ♪
♪ I only heard your voice ♪
♪ Just an echo ♪
♪ Echo, echo ♪
♪ Maybe it was ♪
♪ My voice ♪
♪ Or just the echo ♪
[songs fades down]
[song fades up]
♪ Like a child in a Summer pool ♪
♪ We leaped into life ♪
["Eco" by Xoel López, ends]