The Quietude (2018) - full transcript
Two sisters, as close as they are different, find themselves after a long separation.
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[♪♪♪]
[WOMAN SINGING IN FRENCH]
[VOICES YELLING
INDISTINCTLY]
[TOOL BUZZING]
ESMERALDA:
Take responsibility, for once
in your fucking lifetime!
AUGUSTO:
You signed those papers!
Come on, it's getting late!
You take your father,
because I'm not going anywhere.
Damn it. Come on...
Good morning, baby.
Hi, Dad.
Give me that.
- What happened?
- Nothing.
- We'll be late.
- No...
We'll make it on time.
- Or else, let them wait.
- Yes, let them wait.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Easy.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING
ON RADIO]
AUGUSTO:
Just drop me off at the door
and I'll call you when I'm done.
- Yeah, right.
- I prefer to
At least let me
I'll help you find the office
and then I'll wait outside.
Okay, but promise me
you will stay out.
I'm just going to walk you there
for a second, nothing more.
I'll wait, take you back
to La Quietud and leave, okay?
Okay, okay, that's fine.
- We're almost there.
- Okay. Fine.
So you drop me off
We already agreed on that,
I got it.
I'll walk you upstairs,
we'll find the office
and that's it.
- Perfect.
- Okay.
I prefer to make it clear so
Good morning, is this
I have Counselor Augusto
This is it, yes. Okay.
Everything's going to be okay.
Take this for me.
If I need it, I'll let you know.
All right.
- Easy.
- Okay.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Counselor,
- Nice to meet you too.
- This way, please.
Please, come in.
Thanks for your cooperation.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
MAN:
Good morning.
ESTEBAN:
--a property
on 2024 Libertador Avenue...
a property
on Virrey Arredondo Street.
Two parts of land...
with everything in it,
all things above ground
referred to as
letters B and A...
...a ranch called
La Quietud.
Counselor,
what do you have to say?
Can I have some water,
Did you know
the individuals
who granted you the power
to make these transactions?
Did you actually see
these people
sign those
powers of attorney?
Counselor, answer, please.
Who would have those people
sign these papers?
AUGUSTO: Sor-- Sorry, counselor.
- Dad?
Dad, what is it?
Dad, what is it? Dad!
Dad, what's wrong? Dad!
Dad! Someone call a doctor!
Dad, can you hear me?
Dad, what's wrong?
Daddy, what is it? Dad!
Dad, help, please, help!
Dad, what is it?
Daddy, answer me!
[SOBBING]
Dad...
Daddy, what's wrong?
[MUSIC PLAYING
Hello. Good morning.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
- Hi!
- Hi!
[BOTH LAUGHING]
Sorry, sorry, sorry,
the traffic was terrible.
Sorry!
- I missed you so much!
- Here I am.
You're so pretty!
THE QUIETUDE
ESMERALDA:
Euge!
Mom!
- Euge...
- Mom.
[SIGHS]
Oh, love, it's been so long!
My dear.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
A lemon tree,
a peach tree...
and the raspberries. You don't
know how good they are!
I'll have you taste
the marmalade tomorrow.
Our new garden is marvelous,
and the people working it too.
[ALL CHUCKLE]
So? That boy of yours,
is he still so handsome?
Even more.
I hate how well men age.
They get wrinkles,
lose their hair,
and they still look good.
ESMERALDA:
I'm not having
any of those problems.
To be honest,
and you know why?
Because I quit smoking.
You should be proud
of your mother.
Very well, Mom.
Let's have a toast.
Let's have a toast.
Water is okay,
Then you should
clink your glass twice.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Cheers.
This is very good.
I had them prepare
your shepherd's pie
with potatoes
from our garden.
[ALL LAUGHING]
Oh, well.
You're so silly.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH]
[MUSIC CONTINUES
IN DISTANCE]
[CHUCKLES]
Mm-mm.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
[LAUGHS]
[DOOR OPENS]
MIA:
- What? I'm sleeping.
- Look at this picture.
No, you're not sleeping.
Come on, look.
Look how cute we look.
Mom, you, me
and Madame Richelieu.
MIA:
What about this one?
Remember?
[LAUGHS]
- [IN FRENCH] It's Luc!
- [IN FRENCH] Luc, the plumber.
Do you remember how we used to
[IN SPANISH]
Best time of my life.
I miss those days.
We were always aroused.
[IN SPANISH]
You were.
Come on, now it turns out
you were faking your orgasms.
You made me horny.
- Right, so it was my fault?
- Yes.
You're the one who came up
with the hiding game.
I think he always knew
He could see us inside
that closet.
- You think?
- Totally.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Anyway,
I liked being in that closet.
The darkness made me horny.
[BOTH LAUGH]
That voice you made
made me horny.
- My voice?
- Yes.
Luc crouches down
But what he really wants,
is to show us his ass.
His manly ass. Hard.
Like if it was made
to be grabbed and squeezed!
Stop it!
And now he turns around.
And looks us in the eye.
He stares.
Those dark brown eyes.
[WHISPERING]
And we know what he wants.
The same thing we want.
- He pulls his shirt...
- Stop it!
His stomach is perfect.
It's wet.
And he stands three centimeters
And he looks at us.
And he breathes.
He comes closer.
Stop it!
[NORMAL VOICE]
And now he opens his mouth
to kiss us.
But he doesn't.
He just stays there.
And we're dying for him
We don't know
And suddenly he grabs our tits
[MOANS]
And we grab his hand...
...to show him
Kind of soft.
Soft...
And suddenly, no.
He's strong.
And using that strength,
he turns us over.
EUGENIA:
- And does he put
[MOANS]
All the way in.
Really deep.
[BOTH MOAN]
MIA:
And I ask him
to leave it there forever.
And I squeeze my muscles
so that he can't take it out.
He touches me and I die.
I ask him to use his other hand
to touch my breasts.
And gets it even deeper.
And when it seems
he's all the way in...
he comes back again.
I sank my nails in his skin.
I pull his hair, yeah!
Don't stop!
I'm there!
I'm so aroused!
[BOTH EXCLAIMING]
Like that! Like that!
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[♪♪♪♪]
You're so stupid!
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH]
It's so nice
I missed everything.
The countryside smell,
the light.
The color of the sky.
You know what I'd like?
I'd like to go back to that time
before we moved back
When we would sleep together,
and we would plan everything
Do you remember?
Come on, you remember?
Come on, tell me.
[WOMAN CONTINUES SINGING
IN SPANISH]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Mom.
What is it, honey?
Eh?
- Don't tell me.
- MIA: What?
ESMERALDA:
Don't tell me!
- What?
- ESMERALDA:
What is it?
ESMERALDA:
Honey, that's so nice!
- Really?
- Thank you, my love!
I'm so happy!
What do you think it will be?
A boy or a girl?
I don't know.
I know what it's going to be.
A grandson. My grandson!
So nice!
Thank you! What a joy!
And you?
I just don't get it.
Why didn't you tell me before?
Why are you telling me now?
I wanted to
since I got off the plane,
but I don't know,
I just didn't.
Plus,
since you have to wait
to make sure it's safe,
I hesitated.
ESMERALDA: That's not
important, Mía.
- Well, so?
It came as a surprise,
I'm sorry. Congratulations.
You don't know how good that
I swear,
it's amazing.
All this reminds me of myself,
I just can't believe it.
Really?
It took years
We even considered adopting.
But your dad didn't want to,
he said he'd rather not
be a father
than to have a child
that wasn't his own blood.
Even though our friends
had adopted and they were happy.
We even knew someone
who could make it easy for us.
But there was no point,
And then?
So the first time
a miracle happened.
I don't know whether it was
your father's new position
but then a different
And I got pregnant with you,
[LAUGHING]
My baby girl,
[ESMERALDA SPEAKS
INDISTINCTLY]
I can't feel a thing.
EUGENIA:
It feels like bubbling,
- Is it nice?
- The bubbling?
No, everything!
It's kind of crazy, feeling
I touch my hips every day,
and I notice
they're getting wider.
- You can tell, right?
- Yes.
Because that's where
Plus, I have superpowers.
You wouldn't believe
my body odor.
- Your body color?
- Odor, my scent.
I wouldn't say
that's a good superpower.
- No, flying would be good.
- Mm-hm.
They say the sonogram
is really emotional, is it?
I don't know,
- Really?
- It's all so recent.
And I had to come here
Aren't you anxious?
As soon as I'm back,
[WHISPERS]
Last time they provided
a medical report.
I felt that they gave us
more information
than in the ICU.
Hi, Daddy.
Look who I came with.
I brought you Euge.
Come on, give him a kiss.
Come, sit right here.
Look, give me your hand.
You have to ask him
If he squeezes your hand once,
Two squeezes means no.
Ask him something.
Hi, Dad.
Are you okay?
See?
That's a yes.
The stroke turned out okay
for you.
If not for it,
before Euge came back.
Well, I'll leave you to it.
You must have a lot
to talk about.
[MIA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
You're going to be
a grandfather.
Are you happy?
Dad, you're going to be
a grandfather.
Are you happy?
Is everything okay?
I don't know,
I didn't really get it.
Of course
he is happy.
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH
ON RADIO]
[CHUCKLES]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
ESTEBAN:
I want to make a toast.
We understand the difficult
And we want to say
We want to keep you company,
and to give you
And above all,
Here's to you,
Eugenia. Welcome.
EUGENIA: Thank you.
ALL: Cheers.
Cheers!
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH
ON RADIO]
- You know what came to my mind?
- What?
I remembered
when she was little
and would run naked
through the park.
[LAUGHS]
I remember that too.
- Stop it, I was young.
- Yes, you were young.
I was young too and I wouldn't
run naked through the park.
Specially
if we had visitors.
You were always fond
of showing off, my baby.
Well,
I thought it was cool.
Yes, I thought it was cool too.
I don't know what your dad's
- But I loved it.
- What, Dad?
Something she used to do
when she was about your age.
A little older.
It was a game.
No, it was a bet.
Everyone would tease me,
saying I wouldn't have the guts.
- And I did and I won.
- What did you win?
A kiss from the boy
I had a crush on.
And who was that? Who?
- I don't remember.
- She liked all of them.
- No, not all of them.
- Stop, stop. Gustavo? No.
- Gustavo too.
- No way, were you that generous?
No, no, no way.
Would you get naked
for a girl's kiss?
- No!
- Come on. No?
Well, here, in these...
Wonderful beaches,
on this weekend,
this wonderful weekend.
There's the girls.
Well, there she is,
my beautiful...
...Euge, Euge.
Her sister. And their friends.
MIA:
Mom, why did you
have to talk like that?
In all of our videos,
she is the leading lady.
Her tone is the weirdest part.
EUGENIA:
I like it.
[ESMERALDA SHUSHES]
ESMERALDA:
- Let me hear. That's how
MIA:
That's a lie.
My friends' videos were normal.
- You don't have any friends.
- Mom...
What year
is this video from?
ESMERALDA:
It was 1996.
No, 97.
It was 96, baby.
- No, this was in 1997.
- 96.
It's the year after we moved
That's what I'm saying,
that was in 1997.
You think I don't know
to Paris for a second time?
MIA: Mom, that was in 97.
- Okay, stop it.
Mom, 97. You see that guy
- We met him in 97.
- ESMERALDA: 96.
That was Euge's senior year.
Right, Euge?
I don't know, I don't remember.
I'm not good with dates.
Look, look how he fell
into the water!
How come you don't
we met Vincent? It was 97.
- Please, stop it.
- MIA: But it was 97, Mom.
- It was 97.
- 96.
Mom, it was 97!
- 96.
- No, 97.
EUGENIA: Why does it matter?
- Why? You don't remember?
- No, I don't!
- 96.
MIA:
Well, make an effort.
It was 1997.
Girls, girls...
- 96.
- MIA: Mom, 97.
- It was 97, 97! No!
- ESMERALDA: 96.
MIA:
Mom, no! It was 97!
It was 97, don't you get it? 97!
ESMERALDA: 96. 96.
- No, 97!
- 96.
- It was 97! 97! Mom, no!
- 96.
But it was 97,
Mom, no! 97!
Is it so hard for you
to accept that I'm right?
When you are right,
I'll say you are right.
I don't want you to say I'm
right just because I want you
to think that maybe there is
a chance, a small one,
that for once in a lifetime
I might be right!
- Stop it, Mía. Stop it.
- MIA: No! Is it so hard?
It was 97!
Don't you understand that?
Time for some dessert.
Come on, come on.
[ESMERALDA SPEAKS
INDISTINCTLY]
[MAN SPEAKING FRENCH]
MAN [ON VIDEO]:
Mía.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
[BOTH MOANING]
EUGENIA:
ESTEBAN: Like this?
- Yes.
- Hard.
- Harder?
Slip a finger in.
- Yes!
- Like this?
Slip in two.
Harder... Harder...
More! Deep!
Deeper!
[BOTH PANTING]
That's the last time.
What?
That was the last time.
[MAN SINGING IN SPANISH
ON RADIO]
She doesn't
want to fight with me,
so she gets mad
- There you go, Chino.
- She's not well, poor thing.
She's always been like that,
anyway.
[PEOPLE MOANING]
EUGENIA:
Thanks, Mom.
ESMERALDA:
Thanks for what, honey?
EUGENIA:
Thanks for everything.
For all your help.
ESMERALDA:
It's nothing.
EUGENIA:
It's a great deal.
I'm embarrassed,
like when you would put money
inside my school
cardigan's pocket.
That's what I'm here for,
baby.
And I'll keep helping you
even though it's embarrassing,
right?
That's what moms are for.
And you don't need
to pay me back.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
[PHONE BEEPS]
You're going to love that baby
like you've never loved before.
When I first saw you,
it was a turning point
in my life.
You would stare at me
and move your hands
I never thought you could
I never did.
The first child is special.
That's the truth.
It was different
with your sister.
[WOMAN SCATTING]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
The second stroke
was too strong.
There's nothing we can do.
[RAIN PATTERING,
THUNDER RUMBLING]
ESMERALDA:
Be careful, please.
Now that way.
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
ESMERALDA:
Be careful with the furniture.
MAN:
There are three steps
behind you.
ESMERALDA: Slowly.
On the count of three.
- One, two, three.
- ESMERALDA: Careful...
- Is there another step?
- Yes.
There we go.
One, two, three.
One, two, three, come on.
MIA:
That's it.
ESMERALDA:
Wait a second...
MAN: Should we move him up?
- No.
Can I have
your signature here?
Can I have your signature,
please?
Yes.
- Right there.
- Here?
Thank you very much.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Step out a minute,
please.
MIA:
This is the view
you love the most.
You'll be okay.
[BEEPING]
[ESMERALDA SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
ESMERALDA:
You stay here, I'm going
to sleep in the other room.
Yes, ma'am,
ESTEBAN:
Mía.
Sign here, please.
Thank you.
All right, here you go.
This is a power of attorney
your father made
before the stroke.
If necessary, God forbid...
...you can sign on his behalf
with no need
of an inheritance process.
MIA:
We still have to wait--
- Hi, girls.
- Dad.
It's so nice to see you here.
Good morning, Nicanor.
Specially
the two of you together.
I wanted you to know
that I'm very sorry
about your father.
He's just having
a rest.
A well-deserved one.
He's tough.
He's like a Ford Falcon.
I haven't been paying him
much attention, poor thing.
The district attorney's office
has been driving me crazy.
As soon as they
I'll make some time
and go see him.
Okay, girls.
I want you to know
that it was a great pleasure
having met with you both.
You're so pretty and so nice.
You're so much like
your mom.
Mía, I'd like to say
that I hope our country
has given you
the welcome you deserve.
- I'm Eugenia.
- Sorry.
So, you, I hope our country--
- No, she's the one from Paris.
Well, God bless you
and the best of luck.
- Goodbye.
- Bye.
We'll have a cup of coffee now.
Walk them to the door, please.
Please excuse my dad,
He's old.
I'll go to the toilet
real quick.
Okay, I'll go with--
- Come here.
What is it?
Eight weeks?
- Are you sure?
- Pretty much, yes.
Since you're having
please note that I was
in Paris two months ago.
So?
What do you mean, "so"? I...
Luz, I'll be signing those
That I might be the father.
- It's Vincent's.
- How can you be so sure?
Listen to me, Esteban.
I have a great time with you.
And I love it,
and I always enjoy hooking up.
And I even think about it
when we're not together.
But there is a long way
from that to wanting you to be
the father of my children.
As long as the ocean between us.
I love you.
I've loved you
since the first time I saw you.
And I want to be with you,
I want us to be together,
Eugenia.
I can be that baby's father,
and you know that.
More so, at some level,
you even want me to. Yes.
I can't believe this.
You'd better,
because it's true. What?
Could you be
less romantic?
Here? Are you going
to proclaim your love
in your father's office?
How many times
were we together in Paris?
Doesn't it seem to you
like a more suitable place
to proclaim your love?
But I really like what
you've done with the office.
I think it looks nice.
It has a López Falbo touch.
Elegant and a bit romantic.
Yes, it looks really nice,
congratulations.
Thanks, Mía.
- Shall we?
- Yes.
- Bye.
- Bye.
Well...
You like him,
don't you?
No way.
He's been in love with you
He got better with age.
I can't stand him.
I think he's stupid.
Look at Dad, so handsome!
- Look at Mom.
- She was so young.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
Hey!
[LAUGHS]
- How are you?
- I'm fine, and you?
You shouldn't have.
I could have called a taxi.
Was no trouble at all.
But it's a long drive, isn't it?
Are you tired?
Well, yes, I still am.
I didn't have
to recover
Here we are.
I'm exhausted.
How do you say "hi"
in Chinese?
- Hi?
- Yes.
[SPEAKS MANDARIN]
- [REPEATS MANDARIN]
[IN SPANISH]
And "Hi, how are you?"
[SPEAKS MANDARIN]
- [REPEATS MANDARIN]
Mm-hm.
[IN SPANISH]
- And how should I
[SPEAKS MANDARIN]
[REPEATS MANDARIN
[SPEAKS MANDARIN]
[IN SPANISH]
[IN SPANISH]
Anyway,
I don't speak any Mandarin,
I just know a few
[BOTH MOAN]
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Hi.
Mía.
[POP MUSIC PLAYING
ON RADIO]
[SIREN WAILING]
- Hi!
- Vincent!
[CHUCKLES]
Hi, Vincent.
So nice to see you.
Sorry, honey,
that I couldn't pick you up.
ESMERALDA:
It was my fault,
I wasn't feeling well
and she stayed with me.
- Sorry.
- I told Mía there was no need.
I could have called a cab.
Plus, I had a nice time.
Please excuse me,
I couldn't get here sooner.
How are you,
Esmeralda?
We're so happy
to have you with us right now.
I couldn't thank you enough
for coming here.
Really.
[SIGHS]
Here we are.
VINCENT:
We're here already.
[ESMERALDA CHUCKLES]
We're all here.
ESMERALDA:
The family.
[♪♪♪]
I had been working at the
clerk's office for a while.
And working as Nicanor's
secretary was exhausting.
Until one day,
Augusto came in.
Yes, and I forgot about
everything else.
That same day
I fell in love with him
and he fell in love with me.
I always had to write
so many powers of attorney,
you know?
I would always run into him.
Mom, we already know
how you met Dad.
There's something
I don't understand.
Why does the lawsuit
against Nicanor affect us?
You were already living in
Paris by that time.
That's why Eugenia
was born there, right?
We moved to Europe in 1979,
right?
And came back in 1984,
once the military government
was over.
- The dictatorship, Mom.
- Mía, again?
Don't you think
that's an important detail?
I guess it isn't free to move
to Paris all expenses paid
by a government that's,
Tell me, do you want to have
this conversation now?
I do want to have
this conversation now.
ESMERALDA:
Listen to me, I can't
believe you. Why do you think
it might be so revealing,
something you keep repeating
since you were 20?
Talking about things
is always revealing, Mom.
Are you going to tell me
what the truth means?
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
This is another one
of your spoiled-brat scenes.
And at this time
we have to be united.
Is that understood?
Our family has to be united.
Are you going to talk
about unity, Mom?
You make me laugh,
I'm sorry.
Stop laughing then,
because we have to be united
so that we can think
this through. Do you realize
how serious
your father's condition is?
- Are you aware or not?
- I'm aware of everything.
Stop it!
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
Stop it.
My apologies, Vincent.
I'm going to have to leave
because I can't stand
to keep arguing with this girl.
- Good night.
- Good night.
Shit.
It's good, right?
ESMERALDA:
Unbearable brat.
VINCENT:
It's out.
It happens all the time.
Does it come back quickly?
It depends.
[MAN SINGING IN SPANISH
ON RADIO]
[SIGHS]
[RAIN PATTERING]
[MEDICAL MONITORS BEEPING]
[SIGHS]
I love you, Daddy.
RAQUEL: Good morning.
MIA: Good morning, Raquel.
RAQUEL: Did you have breakfast?
You just can't have a break,
it was quiet here
and then we all came by.
VINCENT: Good morning.
- MIA & RAQUEL: Good morning.
I brought cheese, foie gras
For you, your favorite dessert.
Coffee, sir?
Thank you.
[IN FRENCH] Thanks.
[DOG WHINING]
[MIA LAUGHS]
[SIGHS]
I had a dream last night
about you and my dad,
want to hear about it?
Sure.
I dreamt about
those walks
we used to take
around Paris.
When we were
15 years old.
Those endless walks.
In my dream
we would run into my father.
And I'd introduce you
As my lover...
...as the man I had lost
my virginity to.
Eugenia would get really mad
when your father
could not find you.
Because she had to
make up excuses
not to tell him
you had run away with me.
[CHUCKLES]
- Remember?
- Yes.
RAQUEL:
Ma'am.
Ma'am.
What is it, Raquel?
I'm sorry, ma'am. They're
looking for you, it's urgent.
Ask them to come back
another time,
- tell them I'm busy now.
- It's important, ma'am.
Take this inside.
- What is this?
- It's a subpoena, ma'am.
You'll have to attend court
as a witness.
Where should I sign?
Here, please.
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO]
This is for you,
thank you very much.
[BIRDS CALLING]
Raquel!
Here I am, ma'am.
[SIGHS]
MIA:
Last night
I dreamt about you.
I dreamt we were
staying in Paris.
You looked
handsome, young.
I introduced you
And you would get
I'd love to go back
to that time with you.
And to have stayed
in Paris.
I'd like to
be there with you.
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANS]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
You can go,
I'll stay with him tonight.
WOMAN:
Excuse me.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[CRYING]
Die, son of a bitch.
[ALARMS BEEPING]
[HEART MONITOR FLATLINING]
[SIGHS]
[♪♪♪]
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ People who need ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Are the luckiest ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ In the world ♪
♪ We're children ♪
[CRYING]
♪ Needing other children ♪
♪ And yet ♪
♪ Letting ♪
♪ Our grown-up pride ♪
♪ Hide ♪
♪ All the need inside ♪
♪ Acting more ♪
♪ Like children ♪
♪ Than children ♪
♪ Lovers ♪
♪ Are very special ♪
♪ Special people ♪
♪ 'Cause they're
The luckiest ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ In the world ♪
♪ One ♪
♪ Person ♪
♪ Just one very... ♪
Thank you
It's decided.
We're doing it the right way.
Dad wanted a closed casket,
he always said that.
He never said that.
What he used to say
when people had to see
the dead all dressed up
- and wearing makeup.
- Exactly.
It's not a nice image
to remember him all stiff,
in makeup,
and with his eyes closed.
But people want
to say goodbye to him.
To hold him, touch him.
Don't you understand?
If they find it
distressful,
they can look away.
And that's it!
Please.
Mía, let's do what
Mom says.
Okay,
do whatever you want.
That's it. Very well.
♪ ...who needs people ♪
[CRYING]
♪ People ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Who need people ♪
♪ Are the luckiest ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ In ♪
♪ The ♪
♪ World ♪
[BELL TOLLING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
Excuse me.
Are you okay, Mía?
Yes.
Thanks for all you're doing
for my family.
You don't have
to thank me.
They're close friends
of my dad's.
They're helping us
have everything run smoothly.
- It all looks very nice.
- You don't worry about all this.
Yes, I'm going to
go see Dad.
Do you want me to go with you?
Should I walk you there?
Are you sure
- Hi, Raquel.
- Hi, Mía.
Come here. Let's give my dad
a kiss, shall we?
[ORGAN MUSIC
PLAYING SOFTLY]
Look, that's my dad.
Give him a kiss.
No.
Come on, give him a kiss!
No!
- Grandpa!
- Hey, hey! How are you?
Everything okay?
My condolences,
Esmeralda.
ESMERALDA:
Thank you for coming.
Thank you
This is my son-in-law,
Vincent.
Nice to meet you.
How are you?
Augusto worked at his office
for a very long time.
Augusto
was a great man.
In all the years
he's worked for me,
he never missed
a day of work.
He only asked for time off
so he could move to France.
[SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY]
[POURS WATER]
Eugenia, listen to me.
How long is he going to stay?
- What?
- How long is he going to stay?
He'll stay for as long
as he has to.
And are you flying back
with him?
What kind of
question is that?
It's a very specific one.
I guess I'm flying
back with him
so I can have
my child there, yes.
What if it is our child?
I'm sorry?
VINCENT:
What's wrong with you,
Mía?
Leave me alone.
VINCENT: Mía.
- When were you going to tell me?
I had to learn through Eugenia
that you're going to be parents.
VINCENT:
How could we have told you,
with all that's been going on?
Plus, we were not going
to tell anyone yet.
- Am I "anyone"?
- No, you're not.
What are you saying? Don't you
- Easy.
- Don't you realize
Yes, yes, my love!
What did you want me to say?
I wanted you to tell me!
How could you let me just...?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I didn't tell you.
- Let me go!
- There, there, easy.
[SOBBING]
Easy. Please, stop,
honey, stop.
I'm sorry.
I hate you!
VINCENT:
Mía, please!
[ORGAN MUSIC
PLAYING SOFTLY]
You don't look sad.
What?
It's just odd
that you don't look sad.
I don't get it,
Esteban. What?
That you're not sad.
- Hold me.
- I'm sorry?
Hold me.
Try to look sad and hold me.
What are you saying,
Esteban?
Have a paternity test done
or I'm telling your husband.
Leave me alone. My father has
just died. Let me go!
Okay, then,
we'll do this later.
- Go with your sister.
- Why?
She's not okay,
go with her.
- Mía, what's wrong?
- [CRYING] I don't feel good.
- What do you mean?
- I want to go home.
Did you have too much to drink?
No.
Okay, stop it. Calm down.
- Do you want to sit down?
- No, I want to go home.
I feel like I'm dying.
Calm down, calm down. You had
[COUGHS]
No.
What happened?
Stop it, stop it.
I'll drive you. Calm down.
[ENGINE STARTS]
[POP MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
[POP MUSIC CONTINUES
PLAYING ON RADIO]
Okay,
do you feel better?
[SOBBING]
Yes.
Come on, calm down.
Why are you like this?
Because Dad died, Eugenia,
- Why are you attacking me?
- I'm not attacking you.
Don't you realize Dad
An incredible person?
Dad was the man of my life.
What you're saying
What do you mean,
It sounds very weird.
What gives you
the right to tell me
who I have to love,
and how much I should love him?
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm always going to love Dad.
But Dad is dead, Mía.
Stop, I want to go back.
I'm feeling better already.
I want to go back!
before they close the casket!
- Please, Eugenia!
- No, Mía.
- I swear I'm feeling okay.
- No, you're not.
Calm down, please,
stop it!
I need to go back, Eugenia!
[BOTH SCREAM]
[ESMERALDA BREATHING LOUDLY]
ESMERALDA:
And you even wake up.
You're bold enough
to wake up.
You're shameless.
You know what you are?
You're a lousy daughter!
And you know what else?
A terrible sister.
You're a shitty person, Mía!
If you want to kill yourself,
do it alone, you know?
Because
that was no accident.
No one believes that.
You know what that was?
Another suicide attempt.
One more! One more!
[CRYING]
I'm sorry.
I'm going to make your life
a living hell for
the rest of your days!
- Esmeralda!
- I'm sorry, Mom!
[SOBBING]
- [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
This isn't good for you.
Relax. You want some water?
Stay here.
[SIRENS WAILING
IN DISTANCE]
- What is it, Esmeralda?
- Doctor.
Tell me,
how's the baby?
My daughter is pregnant.
- Mía Montemayor?
- No, Eugenia.
No, ma'am,
there's no baby.
So she lost it?
No, there's no sign of
a miscarriage.
[SIGHS]
So it's perfectly fine.
- What?
- The baby.
Ma'am, I'm saying
there's no baby.
So then where is it?
Your daughter
is not pregnant.
So it was born?
[HEART MONITORS BEEPING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
[BALLAD PLAYING]
ESMERALDA:
Thanks for your help, Vincent.
No, it's a pleasure
to be here.
In spite of it all,
- Thank you.
- [MUSIC DISTORTS, RESUMES]
I'm so sorry.
- Thank you.
- And I'm so sorry about Eugenia.
All those years trying
they said she couldn't get
She wanted it so badly.
She wanted it so much.
[MUSIC STOPS, RESUMES]
She would beg for us
to keep trying.
She wanted to be a mother
She knew just how much
We were all pregnant.
We were all
expecting that baby.
Tragedy tends
to bring more tragedy.
Euge had
a phantom pregnancy, Mom.
That's a medical condition,
not a tragedy.
You have no right to speak
Specially not about other
people's medical conditions.
[MUSIC STOPS, RESUMES]
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
[MUSIC DISTORTS, RESUMES]
Good afternoon.
Thanks for everything, I have
Thank you so much.
There's nothing to thank me for,
Esmeralda. Nothing.
You have to sign this paper
so that they can keep him there.
[GROANS]
Everything okay with Dad?
Yes. He's still at
They were really nice,
they'll keep him for as long
as you need until you can
continue with the ceremony.
No extra charge, you don't
Maybe they'll need to put a bit
of makeup on him, that's all.
RAQUEL:
Excuse me.
Thank you.
I'm sorry.
[MUSIC DISTORTS, RESUMES]
Thank you. Me too.
Thank you.
Why do you thank me?
I meant,
you're welcome.
When should we pick him up
from there?
Don't worry, that's no problem.
He's okay there.
They're going to take
good care of him.
They have state-of-the-art
refrigerators. He'll be fine.
Really, I have no words
[MUSIC STOPS]
For fuck's sake!
[SIGHS]
[RINGING]
Raquel! Raquel!
- Is it good?
- Very good.
- You want some?
- I'm starving, to be honest.
- Help yourself.
- Help yourself.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
MIA: You're welcome.
What about Euge?
Any news?
It looks like
They'll be moving her
- That's good.
- That's good.
- Thank God.
- ESTEBAN: But I don't get it.
Is it possible for a phantom
pregnancy to produce
the image of a baby
on a sonogram?
No.
She never had a sonogram done.
ESTEBAN: Really?
No.
So how did you know
she was pregnant?
Eugenia took a pregnancy test.
Ah.
And can it test positive?
That's what
the doctors said.
If she had had
a blood test done,
it would have tested
negative.
Hmm.
It's hard to understand,
right?
Hard to understand
and hard to explain.
Like any other
psychological disorder.
That doesn't mean
my sister is crazy.
Hmm.
ESMERALDA:
Sure.
What were you and Euge
when Mía started to feel bad?
What?
It's just that I saw
her go to him
and start crying
Mm-hmm.
- Eh.
- Hmm.
Actually...
I was sharing one of
my memories about Augusto.
And she got a little emotional,
poor thing.
- That was silly of me.
- It must have been that.
What?
She hadn't cried at all
before that moment.
- Did she cry with you?
- No.
My daughter
is such an introvert.
That's why it was weird
that she opened up with you.
I found it weird too.
But it looks like
[ALL MURMURING]
ESTEBAN:
I want to make a toast
for Augusto.
To Augusto.
Cheers.
ALL:
Cheers.
[MOANING IN DISTANCE]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MOANING CONTINUES]
[BREATHING WHEEZILY]
[BOTH MOANING, GRUNTING]
[MOANING CONTINUES]
Look at me.
[CRYING]
VINCENT:
Forgive me.
Forgive me, love.
Forgive me.
Forgive me.
Look at me, look at me.
VINCENT:
I want to ask her
if she really felt pregnant,
or if she had been lying to me
the whole time.
MIA:
How could she lie
about such a thing?
Eugenia lies
about lots of things.
[SIGHS]
EUGENIA:
- I really felt a baby
VINCENT:
But it wasn't real.
And it never will be.
This will be good for us.
Yes, you're right.
But let's not grow apart.
[CRYING]
[SPOON CLANKING]
ESMERALDA:
Will Vincent be long?
I don't know,
he likes to sleep.
Does he?
I'm just saying that
because
you also sleep with him,
don't you?
Don't you?
Stay out of this, Mom.
ESMERALDA:
It's the truth, baby.
Stay out of it.
He'll miss his flight.
[SIGHS]
[♪♪♪]
[WOMAN VOCALIZING]
Hi, girls.
Good morning.
JUDGE:
Good morning, with this
we'll open the hearing.
Your name, ma'am.
ESMERALDA:
Esmeralda Jáuregui
de Montemayor.
JUDGE:
You've been summoned here
to testify
on case number 40320
where Mr. López Falbo
is on trial.
I advise you that the criminal
code penalizes people
who are deceptive or do not
answer with the truth.
According to your beliefs,
do you swear to tell the truth?
Yes, I swear.
JUDGE:
Mr. Prosecutor,
your witness.
PROSECUTOR:
Thank you very much.
I request
Your Honor's permission
to show the witness
some documents.
JUDGE:
Go ahead.
PROSECUTOR:
Are you aware of the way those
property deeds were signed?
Yes.
The sellers gave my husband
a power of attorney
certified by
Nicanor López Falbo.
PROSECUTOR:
The signatures
on these documents,
do they belong to the owners
of these properties?
- Yes.
PROSECUTOR:
- So the people providing
actually signed the documents
at López Falbo's clerk's office?
ESMERALDA:
No.
PROSECUTOR:
But these deeds were signed
at the clerk's office?
Yes.
And were the property owners
present at that moment?
No.
Why?
Because the property owners
were unable to come
to the office.
That's why they all signed
a power of attorney.
So that their representative
could sign for them.
Why?
Because they were in custody.
[CROWD GASPS]
Were they in prison?
No.
Where were they?
At the ESMA.
[CROWD MURMURING]
The Navy School
of Mechanics.
Correct.
They were in
the ESMA's basement.
And did these detainees sign
of their own free will?
No.
They were forced to.
They were told that if they
or their families would be.
Ma'am, how do
you know all this?
Because I was
López Falbo's secretary.
PROSECUTOR:
And he'd send you
to have those papers signed?
ESMERALDA:
No way.
PROSECUTOR:
Do you know who would
go to the ESMA
to collect those signatures?
Yes.
PROSECUTOR:
Who?
- My husband.
- [CROWD MURMURING]
PROSECUTOR:
Counselor Augusto Montemayor?
ESMERALDA:
Yes.
[MIA & EUGENIA YELLING
INDISTINCTLY]
[YELLING GROWS LOUDER]
MIA:
Why did you make
that shit up, Mom?
EUGENIA:
Please leave her alone.
I won't! I want her
That shit is the truth.
I won't stop! Listen to her!
Come on, tell us!
There are lots of things you
don't know about your father.
MIA:
Well, then, tell me.
Are you going to say
that Dad
would throw people
out of planes?
- Come on, tell me.
- Sit down!
I had my mouth shut
for decades
to protect you from this shit
you want to know
about now. Decades!
That father
you worship so much...
when we came back from Paris
the first time...
held me hostage
in my own home...
in my own matrimony,
do you understand?
He forced me to have sex
without consent.
Over and over.
- He raped me!
- What are you saying, Mom?
He'd tie you to the bed?
How did he rape you?
Listen to what
That's how I got
pregnant with you.
He forced me to go through
with the pregnancy.
And ever since the first day,
I wanted it to stop...
but I couldn't
do it alone, no....
I couldn't have an abortion.
And when you were born...
I kept thinking everything
was going to change.
I'd be like
any other mother
who has that special love
for her child, but I never did.
Not one day,
not one instant. Never.
I went from...
feeling sad
to hating myself.
I didn't know what to do,
it was terrible.
It was like a dark cloud
chasing after me.
It was torture,
Mía, torture. Really.
And then your dad...
started
taking care of you.
And feeding you, because I
couldn't. I couldn't because....
[SOBBING]
I couldn't lift you up,
nor hold you...
nor breastfeed you or anything.
I didn't want to touch you.
And then...
I decided to accept it
and act natural about it.
But it never happened.
I barely loved you, Mía.
Do you know how terrible
and feel like it's no one,
like it's nothing?
And call a person
you barely know "daughter."
All that thanks to your father,
your adored father.
You and this misfortune
And I swear...
I swear...
I swear that I tried.
But...
But I couldn't love you.
I just couldn't.
I don't know...
I couldn't.
I do love you.
But I...
But... I tried to.
I tried to.
I was desperate,
but I tried, I tried.
NAVY SCHOOL OF MECHANICS
ESTEBAN:
In those days, kindness
took the shape of favors.
You asked for favors,
you returned favors.
There were favors that
required certified signatures.
My father took care of that,
and yours as well.
Now, she would go to the ESMA
to see these people.
Your mother took their
- But is the book real?
- Yes, of course.
Of course.
My father said it was at
the office, but it was missing.
Where did you find it?
It was in the briefcase my dad
But he never
This puts your mother
in a very complicated position.
Do what you have to do.
I don't get it.
I don't get
what your mother did.
Honestly...
I don't get it.
In here there's her name,
her last name, her signature.
Explain it to me
because I don't get it.
She should stay there, enjoy
life and stop messing around.
[CHUCKLING]
Imagine your mother in prison.
Just imagine that.
No one's going to do
anything for her.
No more ringing the bell.
I mean...
What did you do?
What had to be done.
Without asking me?
If I had,
what would you have done?
- I don't know.
- So?
Do you realize we are going
You're not a kid anymore, Mía.
- To stand up for Dad, Euge.
- I can't believe this.
How will you pay your bills?
- How will I pay mine?
- I don't know.
I don't know, Euge.
I don't know.
[SCOFFS]
[DOGS BARKING]
MAN:
Let me give you a hand.
Stay calm.
Stay calm. It'll be okay. I'll
[PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER POLICE RADIO]
If you need me,
just have them call me.
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[ENGINES STARTS, REVS]
[PANTING]
Hey!
- No.
- No, no.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
[WHINES]
Pancho! No!
Come here.
[WHINING]
That's it.
[MURMURS INDISTINCTLY]
[BARKING]
I never understood why,
of all the men in the world,
you had to pick
Vincent.
You knew how much
I loved him.
I used to tell you
everything.
- I didn't pick him.
- [SCOFFS]
Vincent
was my schoolmate.
My friend. And you started
And when you had to
because you were 16,
make a choice,
And things turned out
[ENGINE STOPS]
No, things didn't
turn out like this, Euge.
Someone decided it
to be that way.
[CAR BEEPING]
I've known about you two
for 15 years, Mía.
Fifteen years.
Ever since the first time
you saw each other
in Marseille,
when he came back
with the smell of
your perfume, I knew it.
But I never told you.
Not you nor him.
Why?
What would
Every time
I knew you were
Every time you came
I knew that at some point
you were going to be together.
But why did you
never say anything?
Because...
Because I never felt
Because you know
Relief.
Knowing that I share him
Knowing that I can give you
makes me feel good.
I never asked him
to leave you.
For me too, it's a way
to be close to you.
[CRYING]
I miss you so much!
I know.
The distance is too real,
too painful.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[KISSES]
Easy.
Even if we speak every day,
I miss you just the same.
I think about you every day.
I swear I want to be okay.
I want to, but I just can't.
I don't know how to...
[KISSES]
Poor thing.
You poor thing.
[LAUGHS]
Poor things us both.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[♪♪♪]
[CHAIN CLANKING]
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH]
DOCTOR [IN FRENCH]:
Here you can see Eugenia's
fertilized egg.
The result is very good.
And the good news
is that Eugenia's egg
is well implanted
in Mía's uterus.
The embryo is now
eight weeks old.
[MIA & EUGENIA LAUGH]
[HEART BEATING
OVER ULTRASOUND]
Now we'll see the image
of the embryo.
That sound you hear
is the heart
going 150 beats
per minute.
[BOTH LAUGH]
There are no bruises
It looks perfect, ladies.
Everything's okay.
[IN FRENCH]
Where do we go
from here?
We have to wait two more weeks
But everything's okay.
Congratulations
to you, Moms.
BOTH [IN FRENCH]:
Thank you.
[LAUGHING]
[WOMAN CONTINUES SINGING
IN SPANISH]
The
Quietude
[♪♪♪]
[WOMAN SINGING IN FRENCH]
---
[♪♪♪]
[WOMAN SINGING IN FRENCH]
[VOICES YELLING
INDISTINCTLY]
[TOOL BUZZING]
ESMERALDA:
Take responsibility, for once
in your fucking lifetime!
AUGUSTO:
You signed those papers!
Come on, it's getting late!
You take your father,
because I'm not going anywhere.
Damn it. Come on...
Good morning, baby.
Hi, Dad.
Give me that.
- What happened?
- Nothing.
- We'll be late.
- No...
We'll make it on time.
- Or else, let them wait.
- Yes, let them wait.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Easy.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING
ON RADIO]
AUGUSTO:
Just drop me off at the door
and I'll call you when I'm done.
- Yeah, right.
- I prefer to
At least let me
I'll help you find the office
and then I'll wait outside.
Okay, but promise me
you will stay out.
I'm just going to walk you there
for a second, nothing more.
I'll wait, take you back
to La Quietud and leave, okay?
Okay, okay, that's fine.
- We're almost there.
- Okay. Fine.
So you drop me off
We already agreed on that,
I got it.
I'll walk you upstairs,
we'll find the office
and that's it.
- Perfect.
- Okay.
I prefer to make it clear so
Good morning, is this
I have Counselor Augusto
This is it, yes. Okay.
Everything's going to be okay.
Take this for me.
If I need it, I'll let you know.
All right.
- Easy.
- Okay.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Counselor,
- Nice to meet you too.
- This way, please.
Please, come in.
Thanks for your cooperation.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
MAN:
Good morning.
ESTEBAN:
--a property
on 2024 Libertador Avenue...
a property
on Virrey Arredondo Street.
Two parts of land...
with everything in it,
all things above ground
referred to as
letters B and A...
...a ranch called
La Quietud.
Counselor,
what do you have to say?
Can I have some water,
Did you know
the individuals
who granted you the power
to make these transactions?
Did you actually see
these people
sign those
powers of attorney?
Counselor, answer, please.
Who would have those people
sign these papers?
AUGUSTO: Sor-- Sorry, counselor.
- Dad?
Dad, what is it?
Dad, what is it? Dad!
Dad, what's wrong? Dad!
Dad! Someone call a doctor!
Dad, can you hear me?
Dad, what's wrong?
Daddy, what is it? Dad!
Dad, help, please, help!
Dad, what is it?
Daddy, answer me!
[SOBBING]
Dad...
Daddy, what's wrong?
[MUSIC PLAYING
Hello. Good morning.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
- Hi!
- Hi!
[BOTH LAUGHING]
Sorry, sorry, sorry,
the traffic was terrible.
Sorry!
- I missed you so much!
- Here I am.
You're so pretty!
THE QUIETUDE
ESMERALDA:
Euge!
Mom!
- Euge...
- Mom.
[SIGHS]
Oh, love, it's been so long!
My dear.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
A lemon tree,
a peach tree...
and the raspberries. You don't
know how good they are!
I'll have you taste
the marmalade tomorrow.
Our new garden is marvelous,
and the people working it too.
[ALL CHUCKLE]
So? That boy of yours,
is he still so handsome?
Even more.
I hate how well men age.
They get wrinkles,
lose their hair,
and they still look good.
ESMERALDA:
I'm not having
any of those problems.
To be honest,
and you know why?
Because I quit smoking.
You should be proud
of your mother.
Very well, Mom.
Let's have a toast.
Let's have a toast.
Water is okay,
Then you should
clink your glass twice.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Cheers.
This is very good.
I had them prepare
your shepherd's pie
with potatoes
from our garden.
[ALL LAUGHING]
Oh, well.
You're so silly.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH]
[MUSIC CONTINUES
IN DISTANCE]
[CHUCKLES]
Mm-mm.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
[LAUGHS]
[DOOR OPENS]
MIA:
- What? I'm sleeping.
- Look at this picture.
No, you're not sleeping.
Come on, look.
Look how cute we look.
Mom, you, me
and Madame Richelieu.
MIA:
What about this one?
Remember?
[LAUGHS]
- [IN FRENCH] It's Luc!
- [IN FRENCH] Luc, the plumber.
Do you remember how we used to
[IN SPANISH]
Best time of my life.
I miss those days.
We were always aroused.
[IN SPANISH]
You were.
Come on, now it turns out
you were faking your orgasms.
You made me horny.
- Right, so it was my fault?
- Yes.
You're the one who came up
with the hiding game.
I think he always knew
He could see us inside
that closet.
- You think?
- Totally.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Anyway,
I liked being in that closet.
The darkness made me horny.
[BOTH LAUGH]
That voice you made
made me horny.
- My voice?
- Yes.
Luc crouches down
But what he really wants,
is to show us his ass.
His manly ass. Hard.
Like if it was made
to be grabbed and squeezed!
Stop it!
And now he turns around.
And looks us in the eye.
He stares.
Those dark brown eyes.
[WHISPERING]
And we know what he wants.
The same thing we want.
- He pulls his shirt...
- Stop it!
His stomach is perfect.
It's wet.
And he stands three centimeters
And he looks at us.
And he breathes.
He comes closer.
Stop it!
[NORMAL VOICE]
And now he opens his mouth
to kiss us.
But he doesn't.
He just stays there.
And we're dying for him
We don't know
And suddenly he grabs our tits
[MOANS]
And we grab his hand...
...to show him
Kind of soft.
Soft...
And suddenly, no.
He's strong.
And using that strength,
he turns us over.
EUGENIA:
- And does he put
[MOANS]
All the way in.
Really deep.
[BOTH MOAN]
MIA:
And I ask him
to leave it there forever.
And I squeeze my muscles
so that he can't take it out.
He touches me and I die.
I ask him to use his other hand
to touch my breasts.
And gets it even deeper.
And when it seems
he's all the way in...
he comes back again.
I sank my nails in his skin.
I pull his hair, yeah!
Don't stop!
I'm there!
I'm so aroused!
[BOTH EXCLAIMING]
Like that! Like that!
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[♪♪♪♪]
You're so stupid!
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH]
It's so nice
I missed everything.
The countryside smell,
the light.
The color of the sky.
You know what I'd like?
I'd like to go back to that time
before we moved back
When we would sleep together,
and we would plan everything
Do you remember?
Come on, you remember?
Come on, tell me.
[WOMAN CONTINUES SINGING
IN SPANISH]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Mom.
What is it, honey?
Eh?
- Don't tell me.
- MIA: What?
ESMERALDA:
Don't tell me!
- What?
- ESMERALDA:
What is it?
ESMERALDA:
Honey, that's so nice!
- Really?
- Thank you, my love!
I'm so happy!
What do you think it will be?
A boy or a girl?
I don't know.
I know what it's going to be.
A grandson. My grandson!
So nice!
Thank you! What a joy!
And you?
I just don't get it.
Why didn't you tell me before?
Why are you telling me now?
I wanted to
since I got off the plane,
but I don't know,
I just didn't.
Plus,
since you have to wait
to make sure it's safe,
I hesitated.
ESMERALDA: That's not
important, Mía.
- Well, so?
It came as a surprise,
I'm sorry. Congratulations.
You don't know how good that
I swear,
it's amazing.
All this reminds me of myself,
I just can't believe it.
Really?
It took years
We even considered adopting.
But your dad didn't want to,
he said he'd rather not
be a father
than to have a child
that wasn't his own blood.
Even though our friends
had adopted and they were happy.
We even knew someone
who could make it easy for us.
But there was no point,
And then?
So the first time
a miracle happened.
I don't know whether it was
your father's new position
but then a different
And I got pregnant with you,
[LAUGHING]
My baby girl,
[ESMERALDA SPEAKS
INDISTINCTLY]
I can't feel a thing.
EUGENIA:
It feels like bubbling,
- Is it nice?
- The bubbling?
No, everything!
It's kind of crazy, feeling
I touch my hips every day,
and I notice
they're getting wider.
- You can tell, right?
- Yes.
Because that's where
Plus, I have superpowers.
You wouldn't believe
my body odor.
- Your body color?
- Odor, my scent.
I wouldn't say
that's a good superpower.
- No, flying would be good.
- Mm-hm.
They say the sonogram
is really emotional, is it?
I don't know,
- Really?
- It's all so recent.
And I had to come here
Aren't you anxious?
As soon as I'm back,
[WHISPERS]
Last time they provided
a medical report.
I felt that they gave us
more information
than in the ICU.
Hi, Daddy.
Look who I came with.
I brought you Euge.
Come on, give him a kiss.
Come, sit right here.
Look, give me your hand.
You have to ask him
If he squeezes your hand once,
Two squeezes means no.
Ask him something.
Hi, Dad.
Are you okay?
See?
That's a yes.
The stroke turned out okay
for you.
If not for it,
before Euge came back.
Well, I'll leave you to it.
You must have a lot
to talk about.
[MIA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
You're going to be
a grandfather.
Are you happy?
Dad, you're going to be
a grandfather.
Are you happy?
Is everything okay?
I don't know,
I didn't really get it.
Of course
he is happy.
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH
ON RADIO]
[CHUCKLES]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
ESTEBAN:
I want to make a toast.
We understand the difficult
And we want to say
We want to keep you company,
and to give you
And above all,
Here's to you,
Eugenia. Welcome.
EUGENIA: Thank you.
ALL: Cheers.
Cheers!
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH
ON RADIO]
- You know what came to my mind?
- What?
I remembered
when she was little
and would run naked
through the park.
[LAUGHS]
I remember that too.
- Stop it, I was young.
- Yes, you were young.
I was young too and I wouldn't
run naked through the park.
Specially
if we had visitors.
You were always fond
of showing off, my baby.
Well,
I thought it was cool.
Yes, I thought it was cool too.
I don't know what your dad's
- But I loved it.
- What, Dad?
Something she used to do
when she was about your age.
A little older.
It was a game.
No, it was a bet.
Everyone would tease me,
saying I wouldn't have the guts.
- And I did and I won.
- What did you win?
A kiss from the boy
I had a crush on.
And who was that? Who?
- I don't remember.
- She liked all of them.
- No, not all of them.
- Stop, stop. Gustavo? No.
- Gustavo too.
- No way, were you that generous?
No, no, no way.
Would you get naked
for a girl's kiss?
- No!
- Come on. No?
Well, here, in these...
Wonderful beaches,
on this weekend,
this wonderful weekend.
There's the girls.
Well, there she is,
my beautiful...
...Euge, Euge.
Her sister. And their friends.
MIA:
Mom, why did you
have to talk like that?
In all of our videos,
she is the leading lady.
Her tone is the weirdest part.
EUGENIA:
I like it.
[ESMERALDA SHUSHES]
ESMERALDA:
- Let me hear. That's how
MIA:
That's a lie.
My friends' videos were normal.
- You don't have any friends.
- Mom...
What year
is this video from?
ESMERALDA:
It was 1996.
No, 97.
It was 96, baby.
- No, this was in 1997.
- 96.
It's the year after we moved
That's what I'm saying,
that was in 1997.
You think I don't know
to Paris for a second time?
MIA: Mom, that was in 97.
- Okay, stop it.
Mom, 97. You see that guy
- We met him in 97.
- ESMERALDA: 96.
That was Euge's senior year.
Right, Euge?
I don't know, I don't remember.
I'm not good with dates.
Look, look how he fell
into the water!
How come you don't
we met Vincent? It was 97.
- Please, stop it.
- MIA: But it was 97, Mom.
- It was 97.
- 96.
Mom, it was 97!
- 96.
- No, 97.
EUGENIA: Why does it matter?
- Why? You don't remember?
- No, I don't!
- 96.
MIA:
Well, make an effort.
It was 1997.
Girls, girls...
- 96.
- MIA: Mom, 97.
- It was 97, 97! No!
- ESMERALDA: 96.
MIA:
Mom, no! It was 97!
It was 97, don't you get it? 97!
ESMERALDA: 96. 96.
- No, 97!
- 96.
- It was 97! 97! Mom, no!
- 96.
But it was 97,
Mom, no! 97!
Is it so hard for you
to accept that I'm right?
When you are right,
I'll say you are right.
I don't want you to say I'm
right just because I want you
to think that maybe there is
a chance, a small one,
that for once in a lifetime
I might be right!
- Stop it, Mía. Stop it.
- MIA: No! Is it so hard?
It was 97!
Don't you understand that?
Time for some dessert.
Come on, come on.
[ESMERALDA SPEAKS
INDISTINCTLY]
[MAN SPEAKING FRENCH]
MAN [ON VIDEO]:
Mía.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
[BOTH MOANING]
EUGENIA:
ESTEBAN: Like this?
- Yes.
- Hard.
- Harder?
Slip a finger in.
- Yes!
- Like this?
Slip in two.
Harder... Harder...
More! Deep!
Deeper!
[BOTH PANTING]
That's the last time.
What?
That was the last time.
[MAN SINGING IN SPANISH
ON RADIO]
She doesn't
want to fight with me,
so she gets mad
- There you go, Chino.
- She's not well, poor thing.
She's always been like that,
anyway.
[PEOPLE MOANING]
EUGENIA:
Thanks, Mom.
ESMERALDA:
Thanks for what, honey?
EUGENIA:
Thanks for everything.
For all your help.
ESMERALDA:
It's nothing.
EUGENIA:
It's a great deal.
I'm embarrassed,
like when you would put money
inside my school
cardigan's pocket.
That's what I'm here for,
baby.
And I'll keep helping you
even though it's embarrassing,
right?
That's what moms are for.
And you don't need
to pay me back.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
[PHONE BEEPS]
You're going to love that baby
like you've never loved before.
When I first saw you,
it was a turning point
in my life.
You would stare at me
and move your hands
I never thought you could
I never did.
The first child is special.
That's the truth.
It was different
with your sister.
[WOMAN SCATTING]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
The second stroke
was too strong.
There's nothing we can do.
[RAIN PATTERING,
THUNDER RUMBLING]
ESMERALDA:
Be careful, please.
Now that way.
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
ESMERALDA:
Be careful with the furniture.
MAN:
There are three steps
behind you.
ESMERALDA: Slowly.
On the count of three.
- One, two, three.
- ESMERALDA: Careful...
- Is there another step?
- Yes.
There we go.
One, two, three.
One, two, three, come on.
MIA:
That's it.
ESMERALDA:
Wait a second...
MAN: Should we move him up?
- No.
Can I have
your signature here?
Can I have your signature,
please?
Yes.
- Right there.
- Here?
Thank you very much.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Step out a minute,
please.
MIA:
This is the view
you love the most.
You'll be okay.
[BEEPING]
[ESMERALDA SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
ESMERALDA:
You stay here, I'm going
to sleep in the other room.
Yes, ma'am,
ESTEBAN:
Mía.
Sign here, please.
Thank you.
All right, here you go.
This is a power of attorney
your father made
before the stroke.
If necessary, God forbid...
...you can sign on his behalf
with no need
of an inheritance process.
MIA:
We still have to wait--
- Hi, girls.
- Dad.
It's so nice to see you here.
Good morning, Nicanor.
Specially
the two of you together.
I wanted you to know
that I'm very sorry
about your father.
He's just having
a rest.
A well-deserved one.
He's tough.
He's like a Ford Falcon.
I haven't been paying him
much attention, poor thing.
The district attorney's office
has been driving me crazy.
As soon as they
I'll make some time
and go see him.
Okay, girls.
I want you to know
that it was a great pleasure
having met with you both.
You're so pretty and so nice.
You're so much like
your mom.
Mía, I'd like to say
that I hope our country
has given you
the welcome you deserve.
- I'm Eugenia.
- Sorry.
So, you, I hope our country--
- No, she's the one from Paris.
Well, God bless you
and the best of luck.
- Goodbye.
- Bye.
We'll have a cup of coffee now.
Walk them to the door, please.
Please excuse my dad,
He's old.
I'll go to the toilet
real quick.
Okay, I'll go with--
- Come here.
What is it?
Eight weeks?
- Are you sure?
- Pretty much, yes.
Since you're having
please note that I was
in Paris two months ago.
So?
What do you mean, "so"? I...
Luz, I'll be signing those
That I might be the father.
- It's Vincent's.
- How can you be so sure?
Listen to me, Esteban.
I have a great time with you.
And I love it,
and I always enjoy hooking up.
And I even think about it
when we're not together.
But there is a long way
from that to wanting you to be
the father of my children.
As long as the ocean between us.
I love you.
I've loved you
since the first time I saw you.
And I want to be with you,
I want us to be together,
Eugenia.
I can be that baby's father,
and you know that.
More so, at some level,
you even want me to. Yes.
I can't believe this.
You'd better,
because it's true. What?
Could you be
less romantic?
Here? Are you going
to proclaim your love
in your father's office?
How many times
were we together in Paris?
Doesn't it seem to you
like a more suitable place
to proclaim your love?
But I really like what
you've done with the office.
I think it looks nice.
It has a López Falbo touch.
Elegant and a bit romantic.
Yes, it looks really nice,
congratulations.
Thanks, Mía.
- Shall we?
- Yes.
- Bye.
- Bye.
Well...
You like him,
don't you?
No way.
He's been in love with you
He got better with age.
I can't stand him.
I think he's stupid.
Look at Dad, so handsome!
- Look at Mom.
- She was so young.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
Hey!
[LAUGHS]
- How are you?
- I'm fine, and you?
You shouldn't have.
I could have called a taxi.
Was no trouble at all.
But it's a long drive, isn't it?
Are you tired?
Well, yes, I still am.
I didn't have
to recover
Here we are.
I'm exhausted.
How do you say "hi"
in Chinese?
- Hi?
- Yes.
[SPEAKS MANDARIN]
- [REPEATS MANDARIN]
[IN SPANISH]
And "Hi, how are you?"
[SPEAKS MANDARIN]
- [REPEATS MANDARIN]
Mm-hm.
[IN SPANISH]
- And how should I
[SPEAKS MANDARIN]
[REPEATS MANDARIN
[SPEAKS MANDARIN]
[IN SPANISH]
[IN SPANISH]
Anyway,
I don't speak any Mandarin,
I just know a few
[BOTH MOAN]
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Hi.
Mía.
[POP MUSIC PLAYING
ON RADIO]
[SIREN WAILING]
- Hi!
- Vincent!
[CHUCKLES]
Hi, Vincent.
So nice to see you.
Sorry, honey,
that I couldn't pick you up.
ESMERALDA:
It was my fault,
I wasn't feeling well
and she stayed with me.
- Sorry.
- I told Mía there was no need.
I could have called a cab.
Plus, I had a nice time.
Please excuse me,
I couldn't get here sooner.
How are you,
Esmeralda?
We're so happy
to have you with us right now.
I couldn't thank you enough
for coming here.
Really.
[SIGHS]
Here we are.
VINCENT:
We're here already.
[ESMERALDA CHUCKLES]
We're all here.
ESMERALDA:
The family.
[♪♪♪]
I had been working at the
clerk's office for a while.
And working as Nicanor's
secretary was exhausting.
Until one day,
Augusto came in.
Yes, and I forgot about
everything else.
That same day
I fell in love with him
and he fell in love with me.
I always had to write
so many powers of attorney,
you know?
I would always run into him.
Mom, we already know
how you met Dad.
There's something
I don't understand.
Why does the lawsuit
against Nicanor affect us?
You were already living in
Paris by that time.
That's why Eugenia
was born there, right?
We moved to Europe in 1979,
right?
And came back in 1984,
once the military government
was over.
- The dictatorship, Mom.
- Mía, again?
Don't you think
that's an important detail?
I guess it isn't free to move
to Paris all expenses paid
by a government that's,
Tell me, do you want to have
this conversation now?
I do want to have
this conversation now.
ESMERALDA:
Listen to me, I can't
believe you. Why do you think
it might be so revealing,
something you keep repeating
since you were 20?
Talking about things
is always revealing, Mom.
Are you going to tell me
what the truth means?
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
This is another one
of your spoiled-brat scenes.
And at this time
we have to be united.
Is that understood?
Our family has to be united.
Are you going to talk
about unity, Mom?
You make me laugh,
I'm sorry.
Stop laughing then,
because we have to be united
so that we can think
this through. Do you realize
how serious
your father's condition is?
- Are you aware or not?
- I'm aware of everything.
Stop it!
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
Stop it.
My apologies, Vincent.
I'm going to have to leave
because I can't stand
to keep arguing with this girl.
- Good night.
- Good night.
Shit.
It's good, right?
ESMERALDA:
Unbearable brat.
VINCENT:
It's out.
It happens all the time.
Does it come back quickly?
It depends.
[MAN SINGING IN SPANISH
ON RADIO]
[SIGHS]
[RAIN PATTERING]
[MEDICAL MONITORS BEEPING]
[SIGHS]
I love you, Daddy.
RAQUEL: Good morning.
MIA: Good morning, Raquel.
RAQUEL: Did you have breakfast?
You just can't have a break,
it was quiet here
and then we all came by.
VINCENT: Good morning.
- MIA & RAQUEL: Good morning.
I brought cheese, foie gras
For you, your favorite dessert.
Coffee, sir?
Thank you.
[IN FRENCH] Thanks.
[DOG WHINING]
[MIA LAUGHS]
[SIGHS]
I had a dream last night
about you and my dad,
want to hear about it?
Sure.
I dreamt about
those walks
we used to take
around Paris.
When we were
15 years old.
Those endless walks.
In my dream
we would run into my father.
And I'd introduce you
As my lover...
...as the man I had lost
my virginity to.
Eugenia would get really mad
when your father
could not find you.
Because she had to
make up excuses
not to tell him
you had run away with me.
[CHUCKLES]
- Remember?
- Yes.
RAQUEL:
Ma'am.
Ma'am.
What is it, Raquel?
I'm sorry, ma'am. They're
looking for you, it's urgent.
Ask them to come back
another time,
- tell them I'm busy now.
- It's important, ma'am.
Take this inside.
- What is this?
- It's a subpoena, ma'am.
You'll have to attend court
as a witness.
Where should I sign?
Here, please.
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO]
This is for you,
thank you very much.
[BIRDS CALLING]
Raquel!
Here I am, ma'am.
[SIGHS]
MIA:
Last night
I dreamt about you.
I dreamt we were
staying in Paris.
You looked
handsome, young.
I introduced you
And you would get
I'd love to go back
to that time with you.
And to have stayed
in Paris.
I'd like to
be there with you.
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANS]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
You can go,
I'll stay with him tonight.
WOMAN:
Excuse me.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[CRYING]
Die, son of a bitch.
[ALARMS BEEPING]
[HEART MONITOR FLATLINING]
[SIGHS]
[♪♪♪]
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ People who need ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Are the luckiest ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ In the world ♪
♪ We're children ♪
[CRYING]
♪ Needing other children ♪
♪ And yet ♪
♪ Letting ♪
♪ Our grown-up pride ♪
♪ Hide ♪
♪ All the need inside ♪
♪ Acting more ♪
♪ Like children ♪
♪ Than children ♪
♪ Lovers ♪
♪ Are very special ♪
♪ Special people ♪
♪ 'Cause they're
The luckiest ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ In the world ♪
♪ One ♪
♪ Person ♪
♪ Just one very... ♪
Thank you
It's decided.
We're doing it the right way.
Dad wanted a closed casket,
he always said that.
He never said that.
What he used to say
when people had to see
the dead all dressed up
- and wearing makeup.
- Exactly.
It's not a nice image
to remember him all stiff,
in makeup,
and with his eyes closed.
But people want
to say goodbye to him.
To hold him, touch him.
Don't you understand?
If they find it
distressful,
they can look away.
And that's it!
Please.
Mía, let's do what
Mom says.
Okay,
do whatever you want.
That's it. Very well.
♪ ...who needs people ♪
[CRYING]
♪ People ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ Who need people ♪
♪ Are the luckiest ♪
♪ People ♪
♪ In ♪
♪ The ♪
♪ World ♪
[BELL TOLLING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
Excuse me.
Are you okay, Mía?
Yes.
Thanks for all you're doing
for my family.
You don't have
to thank me.
They're close friends
of my dad's.
They're helping us
have everything run smoothly.
- It all looks very nice.
- You don't worry about all this.
Yes, I'm going to
go see Dad.
Do you want me to go with you?
Should I walk you there?
Are you sure
- Hi, Raquel.
- Hi, Mía.
Come here. Let's give my dad
a kiss, shall we?
[ORGAN MUSIC
PLAYING SOFTLY]
Look, that's my dad.
Give him a kiss.
No.
Come on, give him a kiss!
No!
- Grandpa!
- Hey, hey! How are you?
Everything okay?
My condolences,
Esmeralda.
ESMERALDA:
Thank you for coming.
Thank you
This is my son-in-law,
Vincent.
Nice to meet you.
How are you?
Augusto worked at his office
for a very long time.
Augusto
was a great man.
In all the years
he's worked for me,
he never missed
a day of work.
He only asked for time off
so he could move to France.
[SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY]
[POURS WATER]
Eugenia, listen to me.
How long is he going to stay?
- What?
- How long is he going to stay?
He'll stay for as long
as he has to.
And are you flying back
with him?
What kind of
question is that?
It's a very specific one.
I guess I'm flying
back with him
so I can have
my child there, yes.
What if it is our child?
I'm sorry?
VINCENT:
What's wrong with you,
Mía?
Leave me alone.
VINCENT: Mía.
- When were you going to tell me?
I had to learn through Eugenia
that you're going to be parents.
VINCENT:
How could we have told you,
with all that's been going on?
Plus, we were not going
to tell anyone yet.
- Am I "anyone"?
- No, you're not.
What are you saying? Don't you
- Easy.
- Don't you realize
Yes, yes, my love!
What did you want me to say?
I wanted you to tell me!
How could you let me just...?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I didn't tell you.
- Let me go!
- There, there, easy.
[SOBBING]
Easy. Please, stop,
honey, stop.
I'm sorry.
I hate you!
VINCENT:
Mía, please!
[ORGAN MUSIC
PLAYING SOFTLY]
You don't look sad.
What?
It's just odd
that you don't look sad.
I don't get it,
Esteban. What?
That you're not sad.
- Hold me.
- I'm sorry?
Hold me.
Try to look sad and hold me.
What are you saying,
Esteban?
Have a paternity test done
or I'm telling your husband.
Leave me alone. My father has
just died. Let me go!
Okay, then,
we'll do this later.
- Go with your sister.
- Why?
She's not okay,
go with her.
- Mía, what's wrong?
- [CRYING] I don't feel good.
- What do you mean?
- I want to go home.
Did you have too much to drink?
No.
Okay, stop it. Calm down.
- Do you want to sit down?
- No, I want to go home.
I feel like I'm dying.
Calm down, calm down. You had
[COUGHS]
No.
What happened?
Stop it, stop it.
I'll drive you. Calm down.
[ENGINE STARTS]
[POP MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
[POP MUSIC CONTINUES
PLAYING ON RADIO]
Okay,
do you feel better?
[SOBBING]
Yes.
Come on, calm down.
Why are you like this?
Because Dad died, Eugenia,
- Why are you attacking me?
- I'm not attacking you.
Don't you realize Dad
An incredible person?
Dad was the man of my life.
What you're saying
What do you mean,
It sounds very weird.
What gives you
the right to tell me
who I have to love,
and how much I should love him?
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm always going to love Dad.
But Dad is dead, Mía.
Stop, I want to go back.
I'm feeling better already.
I want to go back!
before they close the casket!
- Please, Eugenia!
- No, Mía.
- I swear I'm feeling okay.
- No, you're not.
Calm down, please,
stop it!
I need to go back, Eugenia!
[BOTH SCREAM]
[ESMERALDA BREATHING LOUDLY]
ESMERALDA:
And you even wake up.
You're bold enough
to wake up.
You're shameless.
You know what you are?
You're a lousy daughter!
And you know what else?
A terrible sister.
You're a shitty person, Mía!
If you want to kill yourself,
do it alone, you know?
Because
that was no accident.
No one believes that.
You know what that was?
Another suicide attempt.
One more! One more!
[CRYING]
I'm sorry.
I'm going to make your life
a living hell for
the rest of your days!
- Esmeralda!
- I'm sorry, Mom!
[SOBBING]
- [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
This isn't good for you.
Relax. You want some water?
Stay here.
[SIRENS WAILING
IN DISTANCE]
- What is it, Esmeralda?
- Doctor.
Tell me,
how's the baby?
My daughter is pregnant.
- Mía Montemayor?
- No, Eugenia.
No, ma'am,
there's no baby.
So she lost it?
No, there's no sign of
a miscarriage.
[SIGHS]
So it's perfectly fine.
- What?
- The baby.
Ma'am, I'm saying
there's no baby.
So then where is it?
Your daughter
is not pregnant.
So it was born?
[HEART MONITORS BEEPING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY]
[BALLAD PLAYING]
ESMERALDA:
Thanks for your help, Vincent.
No, it's a pleasure
to be here.
In spite of it all,
- Thank you.
- [MUSIC DISTORTS, RESUMES]
I'm so sorry.
- Thank you.
- And I'm so sorry about Eugenia.
All those years trying
they said she couldn't get
She wanted it so badly.
She wanted it so much.
[MUSIC STOPS, RESUMES]
She would beg for us
to keep trying.
She wanted to be a mother
She knew just how much
We were all pregnant.
We were all
expecting that baby.
Tragedy tends
to bring more tragedy.
Euge had
a phantom pregnancy, Mom.
That's a medical condition,
not a tragedy.
You have no right to speak
Specially not about other
people's medical conditions.
[MUSIC STOPS, RESUMES]
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
[MUSIC DISTORTS, RESUMES]
Good afternoon.
Thanks for everything, I have
Thank you so much.
There's nothing to thank me for,
Esmeralda. Nothing.
You have to sign this paper
so that they can keep him there.
[GROANS]
Everything okay with Dad?
Yes. He's still at
They were really nice,
they'll keep him for as long
as you need until you can
continue with the ceremony.
No extra charge, you don't
Maybe they'll need to put a bit
of makeup on him, that's all.
RAQUEL:
Excuse me.
Thank you.
I'm sorry.
[MUSIC DISTORTS, RESUMES]
Thank you. Me too.
Thank you.
Why do you thank me?
I meant,
you're welcome.
When should we pick him up
from there?
Don't worry, that's no problem.
He's okay there.
They're going to take
good care of him.
They have state-of-the-art
refrigerators. He'll be fine.
Really, I have no words
[MUSIC STOPS]
For fuck's sake!
[SIGHS]
[RINGING]
Raquel! Raquel!
- Is it good?
- Very good.
- You want some?
- I'm starving, to be honest.
- Help yourself.
- Help yourself.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
MIA: You're welcome.
What about Euge?
Any news?
It looks like
They'll be moving her
- That's good.
- That's good.
- Thank God.
- ESTEBAN: But I don't get it.
Is it possible for a phantom
pregnancy to produce
the image of a baby
on a sonogram?
No.
She never had a sonogram done.
ESTEBAN: Really?
No.
So how did you know
she was pregnant?
Eugenia took a pregnancy test.
Ah.
And can it test positive?
That's what
the doctors said.
If she had had
a blood test done,
it would have tested
negative.
Hmm.
It's hard to understand,
right?
Hard to understand
and hard to explain.
Like any other
psychological disorder.
That doesn't mean
my sister is crazy.
Hmm.
ESMERALDA:
Sure.
What were you and Euge
when Mía started to feel bad?
What?
It's just that I saw
her go to him
and start crying
Mm-hmm.
- Eh.
- Hmm.
Actually...
I was sharing one of
my memories about Augusto.
And she got a little emotional,
poor thing.
- That was silly of me.
- It must have been that.
What?
She hadn't cried at all
before that moment.
- Did she cry with you?
- No.
My daughter
is such an introvert.
That's why it was weird
that she opened up with you.
I found it weird too.
But it looks like
[ALL MURMURING]
ESTEBAN:
I want to make a toast
for Augusto.
To Augusto.
Cheers.
ALL:
Cheers.
[MOANING IN DISTANCE]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MOANING CONTINUES]
[BREATHING WHEEZILY]
[BOTH MOANING, GRUNTING]
[MOANING CONTINUES]
Look at me.
[CRYING]
VINCENT:
Forgive me.
Forgive me, love.
Forgive me.
Forgive me.
Look at me, look at me.
VINCENT:
I want to ask her
if she really felt pregnant,
or if she had been lying to me
the whole time.
MIA:
How could she lie
about such a thing?
Eugenia lies
about lots of things.
[SIGHS]
EUGENIA:
- I really felt a baby
VINCENT:
But it wasn't real.
And it never will be.
This will be good for us.
Yes, you're right.
But let's not grow apart.
[CRYING]
[SPOON CLANKING]
ESMERALDA:
Will Vincent be long?
I don't know,
he likes to sleep.
Does he?
I'm just saying that
because
you also sleep with him,
don't you?
Don't you?
Stay out of this, Mom.
ESMERALDA:
It's the truth, baby.
Stay out of it.
He'll miss his flight.
[SIGHS]
[♪♪♪]
[WOMAN VOCALIZING]
Hi, girls.
Good morning.
JUDGE:
Good morning, with this
we'll open the hearing.
Your name, ma'am.
ESMERALDA:
Esmeralda Jáuregui
de Montemayor.
JUDGE:
You've been summoned here
to testify
on case number 40320
where Mr. López Falbo
is on trial.
I advise you that the criminal
code penalizes people
who are deceptive or do not
answer with the truth.
According to your beliefs,
do you swear to tell the truth?
Yes, I swear.
JUDGE:
Mr. Prosecutor,
your witness.
PROSECUTOR:
Thank you very much.
I request
Your Honor's permission
to show the witness
some documents.
JUDGE:
Go ahead.
PROSECUTOR:
Are you aware of the way those
property deeds were signed?
Yes.
The sellers gave my husband
a power of attorney
certified by
Nicanor López Falbo.
PROSECUTOR:
The signatures
on these documents,
do they belong to the owners
of these properties?
- Yes.
PROSECUTOR:
- So the people providing
actually signed the documents
at López Falbo's clerk's office?
ESMERALDA:
No.
PROSECUTOR:
But these deeds were signed
at the clerk's office?
Yes.
And were the property owners
present at that moment?
No.
Why?
Because the property owners
were unable to come
to the office.
That's why they all signed
a power of attorney.
So that their representative
could sign for them.
Why?
Because they were in custody.
[CROWD GASPS]
Were they in prison?
No.
Where were they?
At the ESMA.
[CROWD MURMURING]
The Navy School
of Mechanics.
Correct.
They were in
the ESMA's basement.
And did these detainees sign
of their own free will?
No.
They were forced to.
They were told that if they
or their families would be.
Ma'am, how do
you know all this?
Because I was
López Falbo's secretary.
PROSECUTOR:
And he'd send you
to have those papers signed?
ESMERALDA:
No way.
PROSECUTOR:
Do you know who would
go to the ESMA
to collect those signatures?
Yes.
PROSECUTOR:
Who?
- My husband.
- [CROWD MURMURING]
PROSECUTOR:
Counselor Augusto Montemayor?
ESMERALDA:
Yes.
[MIA & EUGENIA YELLING
INDISTINCTLY]
[YELLING GROWS LOUDER]
MIA:
Why did you make
that shit up, Mom?
EUGENIA:
Please leave her alone.
I won't! I want her
That shit is the truth.
I won't stop! Listen to her!
Come on, tell us!
There are lots of things you
don't know about your father.
MIA:
Well, then, tell me.
Are you going to say
that Dad
would throw people
out of planes?
- Come on, tell me.
- Sit down!
I had my mouth shut
for decades
to protect you from this shit
you want to know
about now. Decades!
That father
you worship so much...
when we came back from Paris
the first time...
held me hostage
in my own home...
in my own matrimony,
do you understand?
He forced me to have sex
without consent.
Over and over.
- He raped me!
- What are you saying, Mom?
He'd tie you to the bed?
How did he rape you?
Listen to what
That's how I got
pregnant with you.
He forced me to go through
with the pregnancy.
And ever since the first day,
I wanted it to stop...
but I couldn't
do it alone, no....
I couldn't have an abortion.
And when you were born...
I kept thinking everything
was going to change.
I'd be like
any other mother
who has that special love
for her child, but I never did.
Not one day,
not one instant. Never.
I went from...
feeling sad
to hating myself.
I didn't know what to do,
it was terrible.
It was like a dark cloud
chasing after me.
It was torture,
Mía, torture. Really.
And then your dad...
started
taking care of you.
And feeding you, because I
couldn't. I couldn't because....
[SOBBING]
I couldn't lift you up,
nor hold you...
nor breastfeed you or anything.
I didn't want to touch you.
And then...
I decided to accept it
and act natural about it.
But it never happened.
I barely loved you, Mía.
Do you know how terrible
and feel like it's no one,
like it's nothing?
And call a person
you barely know "daughter."
All that thanks to your father,
your adored father.
You and this misfortune
And I swear...
I swear...
I swear that I tried.
But...
But I couldn't love you.
I just couldn't.
I don't know...
I couldn't.
I do love you.
But I...
But... I tried to.
I tried to.
I was desperate,
but I tried, I tried.
NAVY SCHOOL OF MECHANICS
ESTEBAN:
In those days, kindness
took the shape of favors.
You asked for favors,
you returned favors.
There were favors that
required certified signatures.
My father took care of that,
and yours as well.
Now, she would go to the ESMA
to see these people.
Your mother took their
- But is the book real?
- Yes, of course.
Of course.
My father said it was at
the office, but it was missing.
Where did you find it?
It was in the briefcase my dad
But he never
This puts your mother
in a very complicated position.
Do what you have to do.
I don't get it.
I don't get
what your mother did.
Honestly...
I don't get it.
In here there's her name,
her last name, her signature.
Explain it to me
because I don't get it.
She should stay there, enjoy
life and stop messing around.
[CHUCKLING]
Imagine your mother in prison.
Just imagine that.
No one's going to do
anything for her.
No more ringing the bell.
I mean...
What did you do?
What had to be done.
Without asking me?
If I had,
what would you have done?
- I don't know.
- So?
Do you realize we are going
You're not a kid anymore, Mía.
- To stand up for Dad, Euge.
- I can't believe this.
How will you pay your bills?
- How will I pay mine?
- I don't know.
I don't know, Euge.
I don't know.
[SCOFFS]
[DOGS BARKING]
MAN:
Let me give you a hand.
Stay calm.
Stay calm. It'll be okay. I'll
[PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER POLICE RADIO]
If you need me,
just have them call me.
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[ENGINES STARTS, REVS]
[PANTING]
Hey!
- No.
- No, no.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
[WHINES]
Pancho! No!
Come here.
[WHINING]
That's it.
[MURMURS INDISTINCTLY]
[BARKING]
I never understood why,
of all the men in the world,
you had to pick
Vincent.
You knew how much
I loved him.
I used to tell you
everything.
- I didn't pick him.
- [SCOFFS]
Vincent
was my schoolmate.
My friend. And you started
And when you had to
because you were 16,
make a choice,
And things turned out
[ENGINE STOPS]
No, things didn't
turn out like this, Euge.
Someone decided it
to be that way.
[CAR BEEPING]
I've known about you two
for 15 years, Mía.
Fifteen years.
Ever since the first time
you saw each other
in Marseille,
when he came back
with the smell of
your perfume, I knew it.
But I never told you.
Not you nor him.
Why?
What would
Every time
I knew you were
Every time you came
I knew that at some point
you were going to be together.
But why did you
never say anything?
Because...
Because I never felt
Because you know
Relief.
Knowing that I share him
Knowing that I can give you
makes me feel good.
I never asked him
to leave you.
For me too, it's a way
to be close to you.
[CRYING]
I miss you so much!
I know.
The distance is too real,
too painful.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[KISSES]
Easy.
Even if we speak every day,
I miss you just the same.
I think about you every day.
I swear I want to be okay.
I want to, but I just can't.
I don't know how to...
[KISSES]
Poor thing.
You poor thing.
[LAUGHS]
Poor things us both.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[♪♪♪]
[CHAIN CLANKING]
[WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH]
DOCTOR [IN FRENCH]:
Here you can see Eugenia's
fertilized egg.
The result is very good.
And the good news
is that Eugenia's egg
is well implanted
in Mía's uterus.
The embryo is now
eight weeks old.
[MIA & EUGENIA LAUGH]
[HEART BEATING
OVER ULTRASOUND]
Now we'll see the image
of the embryo.
That sound you hear
is the heart
going 150 beats
per minute.
[BOTH LAUGH]
There are no bruises
It looks perfect, ladies.
Everything's okay.
[IN FRENCH]
Where do we go
from here?
We have to wait two more weeks
But everything's okay.
Congratulations
to you, Moms.
BOTH [IN FRENCH]:
Thank you.
[LAUGHING]
[WOMAN CONTINUES SINGING
IN SPANISH]
The
Quietude
[♪♪♪]
[WOMAN SINGING IN FRENCH]