Blondi (2023) Movie Script
- Happy Sunday.
- Happy Sunday.
- Happy Sunday.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Stop it, man.
- What a drag.
Come on, it'll be quick today.
Move it.
Lock the door!
OK.
Focus, this way.
Do the whole block,
otherwise it's impossible
to track the house.
Here go block and household number.
Pablito, OK?
All the zoning info you can always
fill out in the office later.
Common mistake: The head of the family
isn't the one making the most money,
it's who the interviewee considers to be
the head of the family, get it?
- Maybe it's a woman.
- What?
A woman head of the family.
Or woman. Right.
We'll meet back here at two for lunch.
We can't ring from 2 to 4,
they'd shoot us.
- Carpe diem. Andy, come here.
- Carpe diem?
- Did you get all that?
- Yes, a bit. There's a nap at 2 pm.
- Andy, that way.
- OK.
- See you later.
- Good luck.
You too.
Hello, I am from the Center
for Statistics and Censuses,
we're doing a survey about
environmental pollution in the area.
- I can't right now, I'm cooking.
- I get that, but youre my first today
Id kill my mojo
to start the day with a rejection.
Alright, make it fast, OK?
- Thanks!
- What's your name?
The guy's African, and he looks for people
with no financial identity. Get it?
You can't have anything to your name.
You send him the money,
and in 30 days the money triples.
It's fantastic.
He then sends the money
from the only African country
which is not part of Africa's GDP.
Get it? It's like a tax haven.
- Which country is that?
- Togo.
- Togo, yes.
- You know where it is?
- Yeah, Togo. Obviously.
- Really?
- I know about it, I loved flags as a kid.
- Ah, wow...
Togo has horizontal stripes
in yellow and green,
and a white star on a red background
in the top left corner.
Wow! I have another one, Uzbekistan.
That one's pretty, one of my favorites.
Three horizontal stripes,
the bottom one is light green,
white in the middle,
separated by two red lines,
light blue on top
with a moon to the left
and stars fading towards the right.
- Awesome!
- You're a genius.
- It's beautiful.
- Amazing!
I got excited.
Let's go back to work, you bums. Come on!
Wow!
No, no.
Never mind if your husband
sleeps by your side...
Take that!
Think about it 'cause I can crush you.
- There!
- Hello...
Hi, son.
What's up? Go on.
I don't want to make you cry.
- What's up?
- Your mom's on fire today, man.
A part of your pal's body
is pretty enlarged.
- Did you get the cake?
- No, Martina'll kill me! She'll kill me.
- Did you forget?
- What?
Chill, I went to the supermarket
and bought everything.
- You're perfect.
- I know.
Pablito, leave.
- Can I take the sandwich?
- You sure can.
- Let's bake a cake!
- Right.
- Top speed?
- Maximum 40, minimum 20.
- On avenues?
- 60 on avenues.
- Roads?
- 110.
- Highways?
- 130.
It's 110.
- No, it's 130.
- Don't be arrogant.
It's 130!
- Did you grease the pan?
- Yes.
Did you sift the flour?
OK. Alright, then...
- Pepa! Always on time.
- What a drag! I havent bathed.
- You never do anyway.
- Shut up!
- Boundaries. I'll get that.
- You stink, Blondi.
- Shut up!
- Mirko!
The car is at my place.
You're driving today!
No, Pepa, we're running late.
If I drive, we'll be even later.
Martina's gonna kill us.
You're wonderful!
You always have magnificent excuses.
You always want to be right.
But you're driving anyway.
I don't do well under pressure, Pepa.
This is not pressure, honey.
And I don't give a fuck about that,
because this is your duty.
- I'm ready!
- Is this even working?
Let's go!
- It's raw.
- What?
- I put it two minutes ago.
- No, raw cake and running late.
- It will be a crap evening.
- Is it ready?
- You're a bit tense, Mirko. Chill!
- No, I'm alert.
- Should I change to third?
- Listen to the engine.
Listen to what?
Do I change or not?
When you hear the engine rumble...
- Now?
- What should you do?
- Is it rumbling?
- Change gears!
- Now.
- Change gears.
Take your foot off the clutch.
That's a shitty habit, Mirko!
- Pepa, quiet!
- Hes telling me to be quiet.
Can't you see we're skipping? Look!
- It's the street, Pepa.
- What street?
- Leave him alone or he'll crash.
- OK.
Come on!
Happy birthday!
- Blondi!
- Hey!
- What's that?
- A surprise!
- Pepa!
- Happy birthday, Martina!
- Where's Marti?
- She's been in the toilet for an hour.
An hour in the bathroom?
Only with her makeup?
And your weird Dad? Where is he?
Dad went to get the thingy.
- The thingy...
- A while back, now.
- Should we call him then?
- I'm hungry.
- See where he's at.
- Blondi.
Your sister's been locked
in the toilet for over an hour.
- What do you want me to do?
- Do something about it.
- OK, I'm going.
- Yes, please!
No credit, Mirko?
No, so I'm taking your phone.
Hand it.
I already called him.
- Hand it! Stop playing games.
- I'm playing!
I'm coming in!
Hello...
- Happy birthday.
- Thanks.
How are you?
Fine.
What are you doing?
I want to redo the bathroom,
pull down a wall and put in a window.
- I can't breathe, I'm choking.
- Right...
I need daylight coming in.
You can't stay here for too long.
- Did you bring the cake?
- Yes...
- Did you?
- We did! Also got you a present.
What you asked for.
Thanks!
Can you tell me why you're locked in
the toilet for an hour on your birthday?
- It wasn't an hour.
- It seems so.
It hasn't been an hour.
- Get your foot down.
- Sorry, never-mind how long.
Are you OK?
Is everything OK with Edu?
- Yes...
- Shall we go down?
Everybody's there, let's celebrate.
I hate my birthday.
But, look at you! You're a bomb!
Let's celebrate. Happy birthday...
How are those drawings?
They're animated.
- Are you making animation?
- It was a joke, Edu.
As in animated drawings. Get it?
As in their mood...
Ah, that's a good one, isn't it?
Very good one!
How's work going?
Good, great.
- What is it now?
- Environment. Boring but OK.
I can talk to Enrico and he can
switch you to another project.
No, I already know the area.
It's going well...
What area are you covering?
I know we have to talk,
but not about my work.
It's not interesting.
- I mean for you.
- OK, no talk about work.
- What do you want to talk about?
- I don't know.
- Let's talk about Pepa.
- Pepa!
Did you go to the doctor about your eye?
My health issues are private,
I don't want to discuss them.
It's embarrassing.
- It's an eye, Mom.
- Everything's connected.
It's not just an eye.
Eduardo, I went to the doctor
who prescribed me something
that caused hemorrhoids. That's it.
Hemorrhoids.
You're right, that's too much information.
I'm now going
to this holistic medical center.
It's alternative medicine.
Traditional medicine believes
that man is a symptom.
Are we all just walking symptoms?
Well, it's not like that.
That's what a doctor is supposed to do.
They must look at symptoms.
- Otherwise, what are they looking at?
- Eduardo, sorry.
They can also prepare you
to cope with your disease.
- Don't exaggerate, Mom.
- I'm not, honey, really.
A pimple can become chronic!
And it can be serious!
- You just have a sore ass.
- The ass!
- Is it really necessary?
- What?
To talk about this, is...
- What are we talking about?
- My ass.
- OK, choose a subject.
- Play a song!
- I'll choose a song.
- No! You go, Mirko.
- I'll do it.
- What's wrong with our music?
- Maybe not.
- Nothing's wrong. It's fine.
Sorry for not having
such a sophisticated taste as you.
Sorry for talking about work
and vulgar subjects,
sorry for everything...
Come on, darling!
Sorry for inviting you to my birthday!
- Why are you being like this?
- Excuse me.
- Mom, come here.
- Where are you going?
- It's your birthday.
- What's wrong?
I don't know.
You're asking me what's wrong?
Why is there a raw cake in the oven?
- Blondi, you didn't turn the oven on.
- No, I don't think I did.
- No?
- I don't know!
Honey, come on.
- How does it turn on?
- If you don't know, you should ask.
Mirko!
It's great!
Really? Do you like it?
I love it!
It's the best present!
What's Mirko doing?
He must be telling her
to break up with that asshole.
Probably.
- OK.
- You take as long as you like, honey.
Are you in a hurry, Blondi?
- He's mechanical deafness.
- No, no. Listen, come on.
Listen to what the engine wants.
What is it asking for?
- I don't know.
- Can you hear it?
- No, I don't know.
- Come on!
He's mechanical deafness!
- Grab the wheel.
- The wheel?
- What's he asking me to do?
- This is not teaching me anything.
- Go to second gear, go.
- OK.
Mechanical! Deafness!
This is amazing, I love it.
It's great, you're a genius, son.
- Great.
- It reminds me of the ones
you did for my birthday.
Blondi, go to your room.
Oh! Sure.
Nighty night.
- See you tomorrow.
- Congratulations.
It's great, congratulations. Good night.
APPLICATION FOR FINANCIAL AID
INFORMATION
ABOUT THE STUDENT REQUESTING HELP
You should knock!
I didn't see anything, sorry.
I forgot the Sumo T-shirt
I'd come for.
- Take it.
- Sorry. Boundaries. My fault.
This is working in a high-class area.
I mean, everyone is paranoid.
They look at you
as if you were going to rob the building.
I won't lie, it's shit.
Anything goes. You can lie,
Bribe the doorman with wine
so he lets you in.
Do wear your credentials here,
or else they could think we're demented.
- Is that clear?
- Yes.
If in doubt, wing it.
OK! Come on!
Where do we meet?
- Give me a break!
- Here in ten, dumbass.
- Watch out!
- Runners.
- Blondi!
- What is it?
Napkins...
- And plastic cups.
- No, not plastic. They're sad.
We don't have enough.
We'll ask Pepa
and give them back tomorrow.
- But she can't come.
- Why?
- Let's not tell her.
- Why?
- Then I have to see her drunk.
- OK, we can see later.
- No, not these potato chips.
- The others are very expensive.
- They make your hands smell!
- Well change them, then.
- Let's get some cheese.
- There's too many of us.
- What do you mean, "too many"?
- It's expensive.
- And we still don't have candy...
- That's crucial.
- We'll have no other option...
- What?
- No, Blondi.
- It's for the sake of the party.
- It's full of cameras.
- Cover me!
- You're on your own.
- You're mean!
Thanks!
- Celes, excuse me.
- Yes.
- Do you have any baking powder?
- Odex?
No, that's cleaning powder,
I need something to cook.
Like the yeast you have in that aisle.
- Don't worry.
- Hi, I didn't pay for this.
Don't worry, it's on the house.
Popcorn? Thanks!
I'm going to perform in a few days
and there will be a band.
- Wow!
- Come over.
- Thanks, Celes, see you later.
- Take this.
Yes.
- What do we do if it keeps raining?
- We'll have it inside.
- It will be tight.
- Let's hope it stops.
You were born on a day like this.
- Really?
- Just like this.
- Does giving birth hurt a lot?
- Like hell.
- Why do it then, right?
- Well, yes...
I don't get why you had me.
You were just 15.
The idea of being a mother
at that age seemed insane to me.
Why didn't you abort me?
I wanted to, but I got scammed.
What do you mean?
I was given the contact
of some Fernndez Palazos.
I'll never forget it.
Pepa went with me and waited outside.
The guy put me under.
When I woke up, I was prescribed bed rest.
As days passed, I felt fine, I moved on...
After two months I realized
I was still pregnant. It was too late.
He doped me but didn't do anything.
He kept the money
and I was still pregnant.
- True story?
- Yes.
Why didn't you tell me before?
I don't know. It's harsh.
Right.
I'm something
like a badly performed abortion!
- Yes.
- Wow.
What?
"Badly performed abortion"
is a great name for a punk band.
- The initial down payment is 200 dollars.
- 200?
The guy comes to South America
looking for investors like us
because we're
an emerging economy that works.
- Where is the guy from?
- From Togo.
Togo.
- What are you talking about?
- Songo.
- What?
- Ahmed Songo.
- You learned his name fast.
- It's a great name.
- That's a scam.
- It's not. I've already cashed in.
- Did you?
- I did.
- And did he ask for more?
- Now I invested the same.
- I'll earn six times more.
- You'll lose it. He'll screw you now.
- How do you know?
- Because it's a scam.
Why do you say that?
Just because we don't dare
go outside the traditional economy.
- Songo does not exist.
- Yes, he does!
He doesn't. It's the internet.
Come on! Capitalism makes us afraid
of stepping out of the limits it imposes!
It's as capitalist as it gets!
It's financial speculation.
Well I'm thrilled that Camilo,
as dumb as he is,
made 200 bucks
through financial speculation!
- Over 200 dollars!
- Even more?
- I'm not so sure.
- Better him than some Bond Street jerk!
Wall!
- Why do you contradict me?
- It's called "Wall Street".
You have to be an idiot to believe this!
Talking nonsense is free!
- Martina?
- Martina.
No, her sister...
- Did you invite her?
- No.
Mirko! What's up?
- Look at her...
- Hey!
- Trouble?
- None. Eduardo isn't here.
- See? I came!
- OK, come on, let's see.
- I love this song! Let's dance.
- It makes me happy.
- Put that glass down!
- I don't want to put it down!
- I love holding a glass in my hand.
- I know...
Let's see...
Who can it be?
I'm coming!
Who is it?
Hello. Hi.
- Hi, I'm Corina, Cata's mom.
- Hi, how are you?
I'm a bit worried.
Cata said she was staying at a friend's,
but she's not there
and she didn't come home.
- Is she here?
- We had a party.
- Did she sleep over?
- I don't know.
- Can't you find out?
- Mirko's asleep.
Can you wake him up and ask him?
She's not picking up.
- He went to bed late, but I'll ask him.
- Please.
- Wanna come up?
- No, I'll wait here.
- Sure?
- I'll wait. Thanks.
I'm going.
Mirko!
Cata. Your mom's here.
- Come on.
- What?
My Mom!
Feli. Let's go.
Come on.
Yes, she's here.
So, a girl was sleeping at your house
and you didn't know?
Excuse me?
You didn't think to check
whether she'd told me where she was?
I don't get the question.
- Is there an adult there?
- Here?
- Mom!
- There she is.
Mom, don't get mad.
- Bye, Cati.
- Bye, Blondi.
Bye, Cori.
- Do you want chocolate?
- After I finish this one.
I found this one,
it's got amazing drawings. Look.
- Wow.
- Look at this drawing. Is this yours?
I don't know, it might be Pepa's.
"He came from a town outside the city.
- His father came from..."
- Chips.
I have it with this.
- Like this.
- This is the best.
I was thinking that...
Me, thinking? Right.
Arriba as maos, yaco puta.
Muere caralho poga!
I don't understand
why you would buy weed.
You have to be open to new things!
You've been smoking
homegrown weed for 20 years.
- But it's good!
- Yes, but Messi smokes this weed.
- Does Messi smoke weed?
- Climb up.
Here I go.
- I made it.
- You did.
Stay still...
There.
- He's taking his time, this guy.
- He'll be here.
There's a guy there.
That's Salva.
Salva!
- All good?
- What's up?
- Hey, Mirko!
- Hi.
- Hi, is she with you?
- She's my mom.
- How are you?
- Fine, and you?
- Did you bring it?
- Of course!
- Great.
- You do know that's illegal, right?
- Your hair dye is illegal. Take this.
- Shut up.
- Great.
- Can I have...?
- Ah, I have to pay!
- If you buy, you have to pay.
- I normally don't sell.
- Sure!
- Stop bugging him!
- Sorry!
No, I really don't.
It's 'cause I know you...
If you need it call me,
but don't give out my number.
OK, great. Good.
- Thanks, Salva!
- Bye.
- Bye, see you!
- Bye.
Great.
- The first fish I had was called Salva.
- Is that so?
I didn't ask about your fish.
Buying...
- Good, huh?
- OK.
How long since you climbed it?
Since the time they threw me in jail.
How did you manage to climb it?
I'd stand on the condor's head.
Then stepped
on the statue's tit,
and jumped from it.
- You jumped?
- I mean it, that's how I did it.
- I don't believe you. It's hard.
- I swear!
- It's impossible to believe you.
- Why?
Do it, Blondi.
- Now?
- Yeah, now.
If I break something you go to work.
I'll risk that
just to see you on top of that.
- Come on.
- OK.
Here I go.
No way. I'm hungry. Should we go?
Hello.
Hi.
Do you know who I am?
No.
Are you Mirko's friend?
Who is Mirko?
- My son.
- How old is he?
Never mind. I don't know you.
Are you gonna tell me who you are?
I work with Martina. I've seen you.
I don't remember.
No?
Didn't you bring some surveys this week?
We saw each other there.
- You don't remember.
- No.
- Strange.
- What?
That you don't remember. We saw
each other this week, you even said hi.
Sorry, I don't mean it, I'm stoned and
I don't know what you're talking about.
Right.
I also hate it when there's a crowd.
Wanna go for a drink?
No.
You sure?
- Yes, I'm leaving now.
- Where to? Should I come?
- No.
- Come on.
Go on, leave.
Go. OK, I'll leave.
Look.
- Nice! Is it for Mirko?
- Yes.
- He has one just like it.
- Didn't they steal it?
- He got it back.
- That's lucky.
Let's see. No.
- Did you give some money to Mirko?
- No.
- Are you sure?
- I am.
I found 200 dollars in his drawer,
maybe Tina...
Ask him.
- I don't want to be nosy.
- Then don't be.
- It's gorgeous! For you.
- Yeah, right.
- It's beautiful.
- Did you tell him about the African guy?
I hope you didn't... Songo, don't lie.
That's a scam, Pepa.
I don't think it's a scam. But I don't
remember speaking to him about it.
But he did ask me about his father.
- What?
- He did.
His father showed up?
You think he gave him money?
- Money? That tight ass?
- Yes, you're right.
- Right, let's go!
- Come on, leave that there.
- I know you too well.
- Mom!
- Leave it there.
- Alright.
My darling...
- I'll use this.
- Going out again?
- Yes, are you coming?
- No.
- The Rat Killers are playing.
- I prefer the roach killers.
- The Flying Ants play after.
- I'd rather watch flies fly by.
I'm coming home early,
Ive got stuff tomorrow.
I've Got Stuff?
Who else is playing?
I'm Really Busy,
or My Son Acts Mysterious?
- Bye.
- Bye.
Come here.
Hello!
Yes... What are you saying?
What?
OK, give me a second.
- What's up?
- Pepa...
- It's Eduardo.
- Pepa, are you there?
He says Tina went to work
but never made it to the office.
- She didn't go in.
- Are you there? I'm coming.
Eduardo's on his way here.
She went, said hello and didn't go in.
She kept walking.
- Was she alone?
- Yes, he says she was alone.
Is he certain it was her?
It was the institute's janitor.
He knows her well. He sees her every day.
- Why did she go to work?
- Inertia.
How?
She realized she couldn't carry on
with the same thing every day
and carried on walking.
Carried on how?
She greeted the janitor
and carried on walking.
- I don't get it.
- I'll explain later.
- Explain it to me.
- Later...
Were you arguing?
- Same old...
- Do you remember why?
We didn't argue. Same old...
What does "same old" mean?
We were in a hurry, sleepy.
I dropped the kids at school
and she allegedly went to work.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
What do the kids know?
I told them she had to travel urgently.
Are we just going on
what the janitor said?
What if something happened to her,
or she had amnesia?
He's right.
We had some money in the second drawer.
- It's no longer there.
- My darling!
- Pepa!
- Sorry!
OK, I'll bring the kids later.
It's late, come on!
Have everything?
- Cardboard?
- Backpack.
- Dinosaurs.
- Backpack.
Thanks, Aunt Blondi.
You're so sweet.
- I miss Mommy.
- Really?
- Nope.
- Come on, we're late!
Your knives are blunt, Pepa.
I bet you took the good ones home!
- It's in the can...
- Yes, OK. Don't worry. OK.
I'm calm, but did you hear
she left the phone in the can?
Yes, I understand, calm down.
About that, Pepa, the kids also...
Don't worry, of course, of course.
OK then, OK.
Bye, bye, bye.
- What?
- Martina's phone turned up.
- Where?
- In a cookie jar in the kitchen.
- So, she actually ran away.
- That's what it looks like.
So annoying!
What else did Eduardo say?
Nothing. He never says anything.
He didn't even tell the agency.
- He's on his way.
- Here? Why?
We have to see about the kids.
Again?
- What about him?
- He's overwhelmed. He's an asshole.
- Just take the girl to the pool.
- She doesn't swim.
- She roller skates.
- I thought she swam.
I can't, can't you?
No! I have to take Joaqun
to soccer practice.
I wanted to work today. You take her.
- I can't.
- Why can't you do it?
- I've got things to do.
- He can't.
- I told you I had stuff to do.
- What's going on here?
What do you mean?
Do you think I'm stupid?
Stupid?
You're no Einstein, but you're not stupid.
- Is it Songo?
- What?
Don't play dumb. Ahmed Songo.
You're both into that?
- Songo, Songo, Songo!
- I told you. I'm going to the toilet.
Use the small one!
Come on, let's turn!
- Over here.
- OK.
Wait!
- Wait, you moron.
- Great.
That's great!
Let's do this quick, I can't stand him.
- Hi.
- Hello.
And this one.
Alright. Look.
She used the credit card.
Look.
She shopped this morning
at a supermarket near Zrate.
- "Josimar" or something like that.
- So she's in Zrate.
I don't think so. The last purchase
was at a gas station in Baradero.
I don't know where she's going.
Or if she she knows where she's going.
- I'm thinking about calling the police.
- Forget about that.
Should I let her wander around
the province like a teenager?
There's no need for the police.
It's absurd. It was obviously her call.
- A call made by someone unstable.
- Don't call the police.
- We don't know if she's unstable.
- A sane person wouldn't run away
not giving a damn
if her family thinks she's dead.
- OK, dude! Relax.
- Relax?
- Yes! Chill, man...
- "Chill, man"?
- OK, let's all calm down.
- Sorry. I better leave.
- OK.
- Skates, soccer and sleepover.
Sleepover? Are they staying the night?
Is everything set?
Sure they're no bother?
- Your questions are a bother.
- OK.
- I hate the lice comb.
- Me too.
- I take them out but they come back.
- Right.
Why can't we accept that lice
are a part of life which at some point
no longer bother you?
- Because they itch.
- You're right. They're revolting.
- Blondi.
- Why do you call me Blondi?
- It's your name, Blondi.
- Nope.
- Nope? What's your name?
- Auntie.
It's a horrible lie.
My name is Eugenia Anastasia
Genoveva Victoriana del Pilar
de las Mercedes Basile.
Exactly!
And I am Natalia Mabel Sandra
Hermenegilda del Carmen Fuentes.
Wow! You've got a good memory, squirt.
Mom is Martina Nazarena Octavia...
Reina Azul de los Mares Aristbula Basile.
Awesome!
- What is having a sapphire?
- What?
- A sapphire.
- The sapphire is a precious stone...
- It's expensive.
- Does Mom have one?
I don't know.
- Why?
- Dad said to his friend
that Mom maybe was having a sapphire
and that's why she left.
- I need the toilet!
- Lift the seat up!
- Don't listen to your Dad.
- I have another question.
- Another one?
- Is the orgasm an organ?
I wish, my darling.
Brush your teeth.
Flush the toilet!
Its 5 minutes to 7 am
as I tell you this story to wake you up.
Bom dia, un caf da manha.
- Are you sleepy?
- No, they really let me sleep.
Right. Then why are you yawning?
You wouldn't let me sleep.
- Did you have lice?
- Yes, she took them out.
- Come on!
- Are you ready?
Yes.
- That's for me.
- It's for you?
- Yes.
- OK.
One for you...
Wow. This is for me.
Bye! Bye, bye, bye...
- It's hot.
- It's a pancake tongue.
Crap, it's Dad.
He's at the door. Come on, get your stuff.
Hi! How are you?
How did the little ghosts sleep?
- Fine.
- Fine?
Sure? Get in.
Thank you for this.
I don't know how to thank you.
- How are you?
- So-so. I woke up upset today.
- I woke up very early.
- I feel very angry.
The injustice... Why? Why?
I've gotta go. We can't do it today.
Take them to your mom's.
But they hate her and she hates them.
- How can she?
- Impossible.
Stay with them.
They're your kids, they need you.
- You're killing me.
- Alright.
- You're killing me. I'm begging you.
- I don't know.
- Listen. Please.
- Bye. Alright.
Come on!
Go Las Ligas!
Hello.
Hello.
- Martina?
- Are you alone?
- Where are you, nutter?
- I can't tell you.
- You can't tell me?
- I need a favor.
- Been doing you favors for three days.
- I know, I know.
You have no idea
how your stupid stunt affected me.
Get your life back, we're overwhelmed.
I'm sorry, I can't.
- What?
- Eduardo cancelled our credit cards.
- I need help but don't tell him.
- Tell me where you are.
Not sure, it's a commune.
Let's go!
Get closer to the steering wheel.
I'm fine, I'm fine.
- Listen, if you're tired, stop.
- Of course.
- Bye, Ma.
- Go slow, bye.
- I love you desperately.
- I can't live without you.
I beseech you to tell me
if my love is requited. Is it?
It is.
I don't want to freak you out.
You idolize her.
I do? Don't talk shit.
You believed the crap she told everyone.
The jealousy thing again?
It's an absurd competition.
I don't compete with Martina.
I never wanted to or could.
She's the most competitive person I know.
She always wanted to win and she did it.
At 10 she lied about getting her period
to be friends with the older girls.
She stole Pepa's pad to use as evidence.
- Gross!
- She wanted to be the first to fuck.
She hit on the school tutor,
we all had a crush on him.
Everyone ended up hating her.
When I got pregnant,
they bullied us to death.
Even Pepa suffered.
Why?
We were the vagina dentata house.
They were afraid of us.
That's horrible.
Martina was prone to crushes.
She met Edu in an orgy and kept him.
- Are you joking?
- I am.
You're an idiot, Blondi.
Picture Edu in an orgy, how would that be?
I don't want to picture his dick.
What about you?
- No orgies.
- You wont admit it.
- I don't want to talk to you about this.
- What's wrong, Blondi?
Nothing, you know about me.
I got pregnant and that was it.
Things are tough with nappies,
breastfeeding, poo...
OK, super mom.
Yup.
I think maybe sometimes you feel lonely.
- Fucking doesn't make you less lonely.
- So deep!
Don't worry,
there's no stepdad on the horizon.
You can be the Alpha male
of the household.
The Alpha male, the king of the household.
Who needs a stepdad?
- Who wants a father?
- What's a father for?
No idea.
- Not for important things, for sure.
- No.
Hello!
There's no one here.
Hello!
Hey.
Good evening.
I'm Carlos.
Hello. We want to sleep here tonight.
Of course. Let's see if you can.
Excuse me?
It's a joke. If they let you sleep.
The mother doesn't want them.
They're crying out in hunger.
That's odd!
It's never happened before, I love cats.
She doesn't recognize them.
Poor things.
Do you have a room, then?
Yes, of course.
- A double room?
- Yes, a double with two beds.
Follow me.
We should do this more often.
Now that you're learning to drive,
you have to practice.
Here. I forgot my backpack in the car.
I'll be right back.
Do you need anything?
No, I'm fine.
- Are you joining us for dinner tonight?
- OK, great.
It's a kitten stew.
I'm serious.
Hey, Blondi, when I went
to fetch my backpack...
When I went for my backpack
the kittens were gone.
I can't hear, why are you whispering?
- The kittens weren't there. Get it?
- What?
- Something happened to them.
- Ask him about it!
Don't eat!
- What are you saying?
- Here he comes.
- Carlos, the stew is delicious.
- Thanks, my mom made it.
- He wanted to ask you something.
- No questions, thanks.
- Ask him.
- I don't want to.
Yes, ask him.
He wants to know what you did with the...
He thinks the kittens are here!
No, you believed it.
It's my mother's recipe.
No, I didn't believe it.
It's delicious, thanks.
- Forget it! Thanks.
- Thanks for the bread.
- Wow, you're sick.
- You're impossible.
- What's wrong with you?
- You're impossible.
Don't eat me, I'm a kitten. Meow!
- You're an asshole.
- You're eating me! Meow!
Really... Blondi!
...because then, in that maximum instant
of hate, disgust and repulsion,
that's when you can see
that the only true thing in life
is loneliness.
And the only thing that matters is you.
Blondi. Mom.
ART AND DESIGN COLLEGE
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
FOR SCHOLARSHIP
Applicant Mirko Basile.
The scholarship has been granted...
I was thinking, are you worried about me
being on my own, without a partner?
No, well, I don't know.
I want you to be happy.
I am happy. I've a good life.
The life I've always wanted,
dreamed about.
- You do?
- Yes.
Doing surveys has been my dream,
since I was born. I was born for it.
- I am happy too.
- I'm glad.
You're a good mom, Blondi, the best.
You're everything to me, my best friend.
I don't know what I'd do without you.
You won't be without me.
I know.
- I love you, Mommy.
- I love you.
Are we crying?
No, I got something in my eye.
Some garbage.
What's this?
I'm not going, I hate inner peace.
You get her.
Many days without bathing.
Look who's talking.
- OK. I'll go.
- Go.
- Anita?
- What do you need?
Wait, I'm connecting...
Jorgito, you go.
I'm going!
Look, guys, a butterfly!
Namaste.
Jorge, come here, please.
Mirko! I'm glad you made it.
I'll get my things so we can go.
OK.
Can someone bring me more flour?
I need more.
- Welcome, Mirko.
- Thanks.
I have to go.
- Thanks.
- Bye.
- Come back, Martina.
- We'll be waiting for you.
Bye!
Come on, I want to have
a schnitzel with fries.
Bye, gorgeous.
"Bye, gorgeous"?
I can't believe it.
- Stop.
- I can't believe it.
- Stop.
- You're too much, you really are.
Goodbye, gorgeous ones!
When you're horny you do anything!
Unbelievable!
Great, I could eat another one,
but Id better not.
- How did you end up in a cult with Jerry?
- Stop.
- What?
- It's not a cult.
- What is it?
- A commune.
- They call themselves a family.
- Right.
- Does the Manson family sound familiar?
- Don't exaggerate.
- We drove for 10,000 km, tell me!
- I'll leave you two alone.
- Yes. Yes.
- No, no, no!
Crystal clear.
- Are you going to judge me?
- Of course.
I don't care, I wanted to see him.
I knew nothing about him.
We had a very strong relationship,
it was deep.
It was real
and then we got on with our lives.
I needed to get away from it all.
I needed to live in the here and now.
He was here, it was the perfect excuse.
I needed to feel free again.
To go to bed fully dressed
and wake up with loving beings.
They say loving things to you,
to fuck with aromas,
- the aroma of nature. Are you listening?
- Yes, so?
It's not for me.
You'd love it. I've learned my lesson.
It was good for me to think
about the things in my life
I need to change.
I don't miss them.
Eduardo or the kids.
Maybe not Eduardo, but, the kids?
Nothing. I don't miss them at all.
Well, you haven't been gone long.
They're my children. I should.
Do you ever not want to see Mirko?
Never.
No?
Maybe I shouldn't have had children.
Maybe it was a mistake.
A mistake, this far into the game?
Are you kidding?
- You're old!
- You're so aggressive!
- You're old.
- Younger than you.
- By two years!
- And four months.
- I'm not going back.
- You have to.
- I can't.
- Of course you can.
- Does Eduardo hate me?
- You should hate him.
- Is he very upset?
- I'm not talking about him.
Should I call him first?
I don't know. Yes, call him.
Can I borrow your cell?
- Can you unlock it?
- It's got no password.
Talk all you want.
We have to pay, Blondi.
My sister will be back.
- Hi, honey.
- Hi, Jerry.
- Can I go to the toilet?
- Come, let's go.
Martina, get in already!
Did you pay, Blondi?
- How is Pepa doing?
- Fine.
- Was she worried?
- Yes.
- What?
- Did she know you were coming?
- Of course.
- Did she want to come?
I didn't ask her, it seemed absurd.
It's pretty far.
- I can imagine, yes.
- What do you mean?
Why would Pepa come to pick me up?
You're bad. She's looking after your kids.
- She's their grandmother.
- So?
She's not doing it for me but for them.
- I don't get it.
- Get what?
This complaint. So you flee
just to see if we cared for you?
- Are you judging me already?
- You're judging us!
- Why the plural?
- I speak for myself.
No! You speak for yourself and Pepa!
Maybe 'cause we've both
been taking care of your family.
You're punishing me
'cause you couldn't smoke three joints?
I smoked them
to withstand your unbearable life.
What's your problem with me?
You're a stupid, spoiled princess
who always gets her way!
- C'mon!.
- Admit that you're super self-centered!
You're jealous, resentful!
You've always envied me...
- I'd kill myself over being you.
- I'd kill myself!
You're dirty, a junkie...
You have no life and no hair conditioner!
- Let me out!
- Go.
- I don't need this.
- Neither do I, I came to get you.
- I raised my son pretty much on my own.
- No, you had Pepa.
You weren't there. You'd come see me
for a bit with your boyfriend
and you'd go off. So shush.
- Shush? You're shushing me, bitch?
- Call me bitch again and you're out.
I want to get out, bitch!
- Great.
- What's going on? Are you nuts?
Get out!
- The seatbelt!
- I know.
Martina.
Asshole!
Come on, are you serious?
Come on, get in!
Stop, Blondi!
- Do you want a triple room now?
- No, a single and a double, please.
How are you going to pay for it? A triple.
- I got the scholarship.
- What?
I got the scholarship.
Great!
- Did you tell her?
- I don't know how.
- When are you leaving?
- In a month, now.
I knew it. I knew you'd get in!
Want some?
Your son applied
for an art scholarship and got it.
- Martina!
- He's going to Barcelona in a month.
He's afraid to tell you.
He thinks you can't live without him.
- Stop.
- What?
It's not that. I thought it was useless.
They only granted five scholarships.
It was a long shot to get it. I did.
Because you're very good.
And you knew this?
I gave him some cash
for the paperwork at the consulate.
- You gave him cash?
- Yes.
Did you give any to Pepa
for the Songo thing?
No, I didn't give her anything.
Who's Songo?
And you and Pepa what?
Does Pepa know about the scholarship?
She told me to apply.
- She gave me the idea.
- The idea? Pepa?
- She said it was good.
- It was good for me not to know?
No, Blondi. That it was good to study.
- Am I a monster?
- No, you're not a monster.
You were very busy,
I didn't want to involve you.
You didn't want to involve me?
Did you think I wouldn't be happy?
It's not that.
It was something more to do with me.
With you?
Something I needed to do on my own.
Not on your own,
but with people behind my back.
It's the same.
You need to do something behind my back?
- What?
- Do you need to be a rebel?
Are you nuts?
How could you think I shouldn't know?
- It's not that. We felt awkward.
- Awkward, how?
You're so close.
He's my son! He lives with me!
We're friends!
- Calm down. He's happy.
- I'm happy too!
How could you think it's best for my son
to hide things from me?
And it's not the scholarship.
I think it's great...
- Do you?
- Of course, Mirko.
Why wouldn't I? It's the best news!
It's the best news I could've had!
But a fucking awful way to find out!
You're making me feel
as if I'm someone I'm not.
Possessive, selfish. Am I boring?
An idiot of a mother like all of the rest?
How could I not be happy for you?
How could I not share something
that makes you happy?
I'm very happy.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks.
- Can you get the bags?
- OK!
I'm going to Pepa's.
I need to sleep before I see the kids.
- I'm happy, you?
- Yes, thanks anyway.
Honey, baby.
You screwed up, honey.
I'm ready!
- I love you desperately.
- I can't live without you.
I beseech you to tell me
if my love is requited. Is it?
- It is. What about my love?
- Yes, it is.
Pepa...
- Better a short farewell.
- Yes.
- Do you have everything?
- Yes.
- Oh, wait.
- I'm not scared.
You've never flown long haul.
Take it just in case.
OK.
- Bye, Blondi.
- Bye, Mirko Basile. Write often.
You're the best thing I've done.
Let's go. Bye, bon voyage.
Passport.
Let's go.
- Hello?
- Mom?
Why do you call me that?
Call you what?
"Mom".
Aren't you my mom?
Yeah, dude, but you never call me that.
- Don't be annoying, Blondi.
- There you are, my boy.
How are you doing?
All good. Great. And I miss you terribly.
You'd better!
Look at what I've done.
We were at home
TV isn't funny anymore
We were in peace
puffing away already
Oh, Blondi
Now you have no one to shoot at
But your bullets still hit
Mom... Come on.
You overslept.
Yes, yes, yes.
- Come on.
- We overslept. Come on, Blondi.
Come on, Blondi.
- Go on, get up.
- No. Uh!
Let's go.
- Did you have breakfast?
- Yes.
- Keys?
- Thank you.
Here they are.
- Let's go.
- I'll wait downstairs.
Come, let's go.
- We're on time.
- Yes.
- Don't forget anything.
- No.
- OK.
- They haven't closed the door yet.
- Blondi will pick you up.
- Yes.
- Bye, love ya.
- Go honey, bye.
- Happy Sunday.
- Happy Sunday.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Stop it, man.
- What a drag.
Come on, it'll be quick today.
Move it.
Lock the door!
OK.
Focus, this way.
Do the whole block,
otherwise it's impossible
to track the house.
Here go block and household number.
Pablito, OK?
All the zoning info you can always
fill out in the office later.
Common mistake: The head of the family
isn't the one making the most money,
it's who the interviewee considers to be
the head of the family, get it?
- Maybe it's a woman.
- What?
A woman head of the family.
Or woman. Right.
We'll meet back here at two for lunch.
We can't ring from 2 to 4,
they'd shoot us.
- Carpe diem. Andy, come here.
- Carpe diem?
- Did you get all that?
- Yes, a bit. There's a nap at 2 pm.
- Andy, that way.
- OK.
- See you later.
- Good luck.
You too.
Hello, I am from the Center
for Statistics and Censuses,
we're doing a survey about
environmental pollution in the area.
- I can't right now, I'm cooking.
- I get that, but youre my first today
Id kill my mojo
to start the day with a rejection.
Alright, make it fast, OK?
- Thanks!
- What's your name?
The guy's African, and he looks for people
with no financial identity. Get it?
You can't have anything to your name.
You send him the money,
and in 30 days the money triples.
It's fantastic.
He then sends the money
from the only African country
which is not part of Africa's GDP.
Get it? It's like a tax haven.
- Which country is that?
- Togo.
- Togo, yes.
- You know where it is?
- Yeah, Togo. Obviously.
- Really?
- I know about it, I loved flags as a kid.
- Ah, wow...
Togo has horizontal stripes
in yellow and green,
and a white star on a red background
in the top left corner.
Wow! I have another one, Uzbekistan.
That one's pretty, one of my favorites.
Three horizontal stripes,
the bottom one is light green,
white in the middle,
separated by two red lines,
light blue on top
with a moon to the left
and stars fading towards the right.
- Awesome!
- You're a genius.
- It's beautiful.
- Amazing!
I got excited.
Let's go back to work, you bums. Come on!
Wow!
No, no.
Never mind if your husband
sleeps by your side...
Take that!
Think about it 'cause I can crush you.
- There!
- Hello...
Hi, son.
What's up? Go on.
I don't want to make you cry.
- What's up?
- Your mom's on fire today, man.
A part of your pal's body
is pretty enlarged.
- Did you get the cake?
- No, Martina'll kill me! She'll kill me.
- Did you forget?
- What?
Chill, I went to the supermarket
and bought everything.
- You're perfect.
- I know.
Pablito, leave.
- Can I take the sandwich?
- You sure can.
- Let's bake a cake!
- Right.
- Top speed?
- Maximum 40, minimum 20.
- On avenues?
- 60 on avenues.
- Roads?
- 110.
- Highways?
- 130.
It's 110.
- No, it's 130.
- Don't be arrogant.
It's 130!
- Did you grease the pan?
- Yes.
Did you sift the flour?
OK. Alright, then...
- Pepa! Always on time.
- What a drag! I havent bathed.
- You never do anyway.
- Shut up!
- Boundaries. I'll get that.
- You stink, Blondi.
- Shut up!
- Mirko!
The car is at my place.
You're driving today!
No, Pepa, we're running late.
If I drive, we'll be even later.
Martina's gonna kill us.
You're wonderful!
You always have magnificent excuses.
You always want to be right.
But you're driving anyway.
I don't do well under pressure, Pepa.
This is not pressure, honey.
And I don't give a fuck about that,
because this is your duty.
- I'm ready!
- Is this even working?
Let's go!
- It's raw.
- What?
- I put it two minutes ago.
- No, raw cake and running late.
- It will be a crap evening.
- Is it ready?
- You're a bit tense, Mirko. Chill!
- No, I'm alert.
- Should I change to third?
- Listen to the engine.
Listen to what?
Do I change or not?
When you hear the engine rumble...
- Now?
- What should you do?
- Is it rumbling?
- Change gears!
- Now.
- Change gears.
Take your foot off the clutch.
That's a shitty habit, Mirko!
- Pepa, quiet!
- Hes telling me to be quiet.
Can't you see we're skipping? Look!
- It's the street, Pepa.
- What street?
- Leave him alone or he'll crash.
- OK.
Come on!
Happy birthday!
- Blondi!
- Hey!
- What's that?
- A surprise!
- Pepa!
- Happy birthday, Martina!
- Where's Marti?
- She's been in the toilet for an hour.
An hour in the bathroom?
Only with her makeup?
And your weird Dad? Where is he?
Dad went to get the thingy.
- The thingy...
- A while back, now.
- Should we call him then?
- I'm hungry.
- See where he's at.
- Blondi.
Your sister's been locked
in the toilet for over an hour.
- What do you want me to do?
- Do something about it.
- OK, I'm going.
- Yes, please!
No credit, Mirko?
No, so I'm taking your phone.
Hand it.
I already called him.
- Hand it! Stop playing games.
- I'm playing!
I'm coming in!
Hello...
- Happy birthday.
- Thanks.
How are you?
Fine.
What are you doing?
I want to redo the bathroom,
pull down a wall and put in a window.
- I can't breathe, I'm choking.
- Right...
I need daylight coming in.
You can't stay here for too long.
- Did you bring the cake?
- Yes...
- Did you?
- We did! Also got you a present.
What you asked for.
Thanks!
Can you tell me why you're locked in
the toilet for an hour on your birthday?
- It wasn't an hour.
- It seems so.
It hasn't been an hour.
- Get your foot down.
- Sorry, never-mind how long.
Are you OK?
Is everything OK with Edu?
- Yes...
- Shall we go down?
Everybody's there, let's celebrate.
I hate my birthday.
But, look at you! You're a bomb!
Let's celebrate. Happy birthday...
How are those drawings?
They're animated.
- Are you making animation?
- It was a joke, Edu.
As in animated drawings. Get it?
As in their mood...
Ah, that's a good one, isn't it?
Very good one!
How's work going?
Good, great.
- What is it now?
- Environment. Boring but OK.
I can talk to Enrico and he can
switch you to another project.
No, I already know the area.
It's going well...
What area are you covering?
I know we have to talk,
but not about my work.
It's not interesting.
- I mean for you.
- OK, no talk about work.
- What do you want to talk about?
- I don't know.
- Let's talk about Pepa.
- Pepa!
Did you go to the doctor about your eye?
My health issues are private,
I don't want to discuss them.
It's embarrassing.
- It's an eye, Mom.
- Everything's connected.
It's not just an eye.
Eduardo, I went to the doctor
who prescribed me something
that caused hemorrhoids. That's it.
Hemorrhoids.
You're right, that's too much information.
I'm now going
to this holistic medical center.
It's alternative medicine.
Traditional medicine believes
that man is a symptom.
Are we all just walking symptoms?
Well, it's not like that.
That's what a doctor is supposed to do.
They must look at symptoms.
- Otherwise, what are they looking at?
- Eduardo, sorry.
They can also prepare you
to cope with your disease.
- Don't exaggerate, Mom.
- I'm not, honey, really.
A pimple can become chronic!
And it can be serious!
- You just have a sore ass.
- The ass!
- Is it really necessary?
- What?
To talk about this, is...
- What are we talking about?
- My ass.
- OK, choose a subject.
- Play a song!
- I'll choose a song.
- No! You go, Mirko.
- I'll do it.
- What's wrong with our music?
- Maybe not.
- Nothing's wrong. It's fine.
Sorry for not having
such a sophisticated taste as you.
Sorry for talking about work
and vulgar subjects,
sorry for everything...
Come on, darling!
Sorry for inviting you to my birthday!
- Why are you being like this?
- Excuse me.
- Mom, come here.
- Where are you going?
- It's your birthday.
- What's wrong?
I don't know.
You're asking me what's wrong?
Why is there a raw cake in the oven?
- Blondi, you didn't turn the oven on.
- No, I don't think I did.
- No?
- I don't know!
Honey, come on.
- How does it turn on?
- If you don't know, you should ask.
Mirko!
It's great!
Really? Do you like it?
I love it!
It's the best present!
What's Mirko doing?
He must be telling her
to break up with that asshole.
Probably.
- OK.
- You take as long as you like, honey.
Are you in a hurry, Blondi?
- He's mechanical deafness.
- No, no. Listen, come on.
Listen to what the engine wants.
What is it asking for?
- I don't know.
- Can you hear it?
- No, I don't know.
- Come on!
He's mechanical deafness!
- Grab the wheel.
- The wheel?
- What's he asking me to do?
- This is not teaching me anything.
- Go to second gear, go.
- OK.
Mechanical! Deafness!
This is amazing, I love it.
It's great, you're a genius, son.
- Great.
- It reminds me of the ones
you did for my birthday.
Blondi, go to your room.
Oh! Sure.
Nighty night.
- See you tomorrow.
- Congratulations.
It's great, congratulations. Good night.
APPLICATION FOR FINANCIAL AID
INFORMATION
ABOUT THE STUDENT REQUESTING HELP
You should knock!
I didn't see anything, sorry.
I forgot the Sumo T-shirt
I'd come for.
- Take it.
- Sorry. Boundaries. My fault.
This is working in a high-class area.
I mean, everyone is paranoid.
They look at you
as if you were going to rob the building.
I won't lie, it's shit.
Anything goes. You can lie,
Bribe the doorman with wine
so he lets you in.
Do wear your credentials here,
or else they could think we're demented.
- Is that clear?
- Yes.
If in doubt, wing it.
OK! Come on!
Where do we meet?
- Give me a break!
- Here in ten, dumbass.
- Watch out!
- Runners.
- Blondi!
- What is it?
Napkins...
- And plastic cups.
- No, not plastic. They're sad.
We don't have enough.
We'll ask Pepa
and give them back tomorrow.
- But she can't come.
- Why?
- Let's not tell her.
- Why?
- Then I have to see her drunk.
- OK, we can see later.
- No, not these potato chips.
- The others are very expensive.
- They make your hands smell!
- Well change them, then.
- Let's get some cheese.
- There's too many of us.
- What do you mean, "too many"?
- It's expensive.
- And we still don't have candy...
- That's crucial.
- We'll have no other option...
- What?
- No, Blondi.
- It's for the sake of the party.
- It's full of cameras.
- Cover me!
- You're on your own.
- You're mean!
Thanks!
- Celes, excuse me.
- Yes.
- Do you have any baking powder?
- Odex?
No, that's cleaning powder,
I need something to cook.
Like the yeast you have in that aisle.
- Don't worry.
- Hi, I didn't pay for this.
Don't worry, it's on the house.
Popcorn? Thanks!
I'm going to perform in a few days
and there will be a band.
- Wow!
- Come over.
- Thanks, Celes, see you later.
- Take this.
Yes.
- What do we do if it keeps raining?
- We'll have it inside.
- It will be tight.
- Let's hope it stops.
You were born on a day like this.
- Really?
- Just like this.
- Does giving birth hurt a lot?
- Like hell.
- Why do it then, right?
- Well, yes...
I don't get why you had me.
You were just 15.
The idea of being a mother
at that age seemed insane to me.
Why didn't you abort me?
I wanted to, but I got scammed.
What do you mean?
I was given the contact
of some Fernndez Palazos.
I'll never forget it.
Pepa went with me and waited outside.
The guy put me under.
When I woke up, I was prescribed bed rest.
As days passed, I felt fine, I moved on...
After two months I realized
I was still pregnant. It was too late.
He doped me but didn't do anything.
He kept the money
and I was still pregnant.
- True story?
- Yes.
Why didn't you tell me before?
I don't know. It's harsh.
Right.
I'm something
like a badly performed abortion!
- Yes.
- Wow.
What?
"Badly performed abortion"
is a great name for a punk band.
- The initial down payment is 200 dollars.
- 200?
The guy comes to South America
looking for investors like us
because we're
an emerging economy that works.
- Where is the guy from?
- From Togo.
Togo.
- What are you talking about?
- Songo.
- What?
- Ahmed Songo.
- You learned his name fast.
- It's a great name.
- That's a scam.
- It's not. I've already cashed in.
- Did you?
- I did.
- And did he ask for more?
- Now I invested the same.
- I'll earn six times more.
- You'll lose it. He'll screw you now.
- How do you know?
- Because it's a scam.
Why do you say that?
Just because we don't dare
go outside the traditional economy.
- Songo does not exist.
- Yes, he does!
He doesn't. It's the internet.
Come on! Capitalism makes us afraid
of stepping out of the limits it imposes!
It's as capitalist as it gets!
It's financial speculation.
Well I'm thrilled that Camilo,
as dumb as he is,
made 200 bucks
through financial speculation!
- Over 200 dollars!
- Even more?
- I'm not so sure.
- Better him than some Bond Street jerk!
Wall!
- Why do you contradict me?
- It's called "Wall Street".
You have to be an idiot to believe this!
Talking nonsense is free!
- Martina?
- Martina.
No, her sister...
- Did you invite her?
- No.
Mirko! What's up?
- Look at her...
- Hey!
- Trouble?
- None. Eduardo isn't here.
- See? I came!
- OK, come on, let's see.
- I love this song! Let's dance.
- It makes me happy.
- Put that glass down!
- I don't want to put it down!
- I love holding a glass in my hand.
- I know...
Let's see...
Who can it be?
I'm coming!
Who is it?
Hello. Hi.
- Hi, I'm Corina, Cata's mom.
- Hi, how are you?
I'm a bit worried.
Cata said she was staying at a friend's,
but she's not there
and she didn't come home.
- Is she here?
- We had a party.
- Did she sleep over?
- I don't know.
- Can't you find out?
- Mirko's asleep.
Can you wake him up and ask him?
She's not picking up.
- He went to bed late, but I'll ask him.
- Please.
- Wanna come up?
- No, I'll wait here.
- Sure?
- I'll wait. Thanks.
I'm going.
Mirko!
Cata. Your mom's here.
- Come on.
- What?
My Mom!
Feli. Let's go.
Come on.
Yes, she's here.
So, a girl was sleeping at your house
and you didn't know?
Excuse me?
You didn't think to check
whether she'd told me where she was?
I don't get the question.
- Is there an adult there?
- Here?
- Mom!
- There she is.
Mom, don't get mad.
- Bye, Cati.
- Bye, Blondi.
Bye, Cori.
- Do you want chocolate?
- After I finish this one.
I found this one,
it's got amazing drawings. Look.
- Wow.
- Look at this drawing. Is this yours?
I don't know, it might be Pepa's.
"He came from a town outside the city.
- His father came from..."
- Chips.
I have it with this.
- Like this.
- This is the best.
I was thinking that...
Me, thinking? Right.
Arriba as maos, yaco puta.
Muere caralho poga!
I don't understand
why you would buy weed.
You have to be open to new things!
You've been smoking
homegrown weed for 20 years.
- But it's good!
- Yes, but Messi smokes this weed.
- Does Messi smoke weed?
- Climb up.
Here I go.
- I made it.
- You did.
Stay still...
There.
- He's taking his time, this guy.
- He'll be here.
There's a guy there.
That's Salva.
Salva!
- All good?
- What's up?
- Hey, Mirko!
- Hi.
- Hi, is she with you?
- She's my mom.
- How are you?
- Fine, and you?
- Did you bring it?
- Of course!
- Great.
- You do know that's illegal, right?
- Your hair dye is illegal. Take this.
- Shut up.
- Great.
- Can I have...?
- Ah, I have to pay!
- If you buy, you have to pay.
- I normally don't sell.
- Sure!
- Stop bugging him!
- Sorry!
No, I really don't.
It's 'cause I know you...
If you need it call me,
but don't give out my number.
OK, great. Good.
- Thanks, Salva!
- Bye.
- Bye, see you!
- Bye.
Great.
- The first fish I had was called Salva.
- Is that so?
I didn't ask about your fish.
Buying...
- Good, huh?
- OK.
How long since you climbed it?
Since the time they threw me in jail.
How did you manage to climb it?
I'd stand on the condor's head.
Then stepped
on the statue's tit,
and jumped from it.
- You jumped?
- I mean it, that's how I did it.
- I don't believe you. It's hard.
- I swear!
- It's impossible to believe you.
- Why?
Do it, Blondi.
- Now?
- Yeah, now.
If I break something you go to work.
I'll risk that
just to see you on top of that.
- Come on.
- OK.
Here I go.
No way. I'm hungry. Should we go?
Hello.
Hi.
Do you know who I am?
No.
Are you Mirko's friend?
Who is Mirko?
- My son.
- How old is he?
Never mind. I don't know you.
Are you gonna tell me who you are?
I work with Martina. I've seen you.
I don't remember.
No?
Didn't you bring some surveys this week?
We saw each other there.
- You don't remember.
- No.
- Strange.
- What?
That you don't remember. We saw
each other this week, you even said hi.
Sorry, I don't mean it, I'm stoned and
I don't know what you're talking about.
Right.
I also hate it when there's a crowd.
Wanna go for a drink?
No.
You sure?
- Yes, I'm leaving now.
- Where to? Should I come?
- No.
- Come on.
Go on, leave.
Go. OK, I'll leave.
Look.
- Nice! Is it for Mirko?
- Yes.
- He has one just like it.
- Didn't they steal it?
- He got it back.
- That's lucky.
Let's see. No.
- Did you give some money to Mirko?
- No.
- Are you sure?
- I am.
I found 200 dollars in his drawer,
maybe Tina...
Ask him.
- I don't want to be nosy.
- Then don't be.
- It's gorgeous! For you.
- Yeah, right.
- It's beautiful.
- Did you tell him about the African guy?
I hope you didn't... Songo, don't lie.
That's a scam, Pepa.
I don't think it's a scam. But I don't
remember speaking to him about it.
But he did ask me about his father.
- What?
- He did.
His father showed up?
You think he gave him money?
- Money? That tight ass?
- Yes, you're right.
- Right, let's go!
- Come on, leave that there.
- I know you too well.
- Mom!
- Leave it there.
- Alright.
My darling...
- I'll use this.
- Going out again?
- Yes, are you coming?
- No.
- The Rat Killers are playing.
- I prefer the roach killers.
- The Flying Ants play after.
- I'd rather watch flies fly by.
I'm coming home early,
Ive got stuff tomorrow.
I've Got Stuff?
Who else is playing?
I'm Really Busy,
or My Son Acts Mysterious?
- Bye.
- Bye.
Come here.
Hello!
Yes... What are you saying?
What?
OK, give me a second.
- What's up?
- Pepa...
- It's Eduardo.
- Pepa, are you there?
He says Tina went to work
but never made it to the office.
- She didn't go in.
- Are you there? I'm coming.
Eduardo's on his way here.
She went, said hello and didn't go in.
She kept walking.
- Was she alone?
- Yes, he says she was alone.
Is he certain it was her?
It was the institute's janitor.
He knows her well. He sees her every day.
- Why did she go to work?
- Inertia.
How?
She realized she couldn't carry on
with the same thing every day
and carried on walking.
Carried on how?
She greeted the janitor
and carried on walking.
- I don't get it.
- I'll explain later.
- Explain it to me.
- Later...
Were you arguing?
- Same old...
- Do you remember why?
We didn't argue. Same old...
What does "same old" mean?
We were in a hurry, sleepy.
I dropped the kids at school
and she allegedly went to work.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
What do the kids know?
I told them she had to travel urgently.
Are we just going on
what the janitor said?
What if something happened to her,
or she had amnesia?
He's right.
We had some money in the second drawer.
- It's no longer there.
- My darling!
- Pepa!
- Sorry!
OK, I'll bring the kids later.
It's late, come on!
Have everything?
- Cardboard?
- Backpack.
- Dinosaurs.
- Backpack.
Thanks, Aunt Blondi.
You're so sweet.
- I miss Mommy.
- Really?
- Nope.
- Come on, we're late!
Your knives are blunt, Pepa.
I bet you took the good ones home!
- It's in the can...
- Yes, OK. Don't worry. OK.
I'm calm, but did you hear
she left the phone in the can?
Yes, I understand, calm down.
About that, Pepa, the kids also...
Don't worry, of course, of course.
OK then, OK.
Bye, bye, bye.
- What?
- Martina's phone turned up.
- Where?
- In a cookie jar in the kitchen.
- So, she actually ran away.
- That's what it looks like.
So annoying!
What else did Eduardo say?
Nothing. He never says anything.
He didn't even tell the agency.
- He's on his way.
- Here? Why?
We have to see about the kids.
Again?
- What about him?
- He's overwhelmed. He's an asshole.
- Just take the girl to the pool.
- She doesn't swim.
- She roller skates.
- I thought she swam.
I can't, can't you?
No! I have to take Joaqun
to soccer practice.
I wanted to work today. You take her.
- I can't.
- Why can't you do it?
- I've got things to do.
- He can't.
- I told you I had stuff to do.
- What's going on here?
What do you mean?
Do you think I'm stupid?
Stupid?
You're no Einstein, but you're not stupid.
- Is it Songo?
- What?
Don't play dumb. Ahmed Songo.
You're both into that?
- Songo, Songo, Songo!
- I told you. I'm going to the toilet.
Use the small one!
Come on, let's turn!
- Over here.
- OK.
Wait!
- Wait, you moron.
- Great.
That's great!
Let's do this quick, I can't stand him.
- Hi.
- Hello.
And this one.
Alright. Look.
She used the credit card.
Look.
She shopped this morning
at a supermarket near Zrate.
- "Josimar" or something like that.
- So she's in Zrate.
I don't think so. The last purchase
was at a gas station in Baradero.
I don't know where she's going.
Or if she she knows where she's going.
- I'm thinking about calling the police.
- Forget about that.
Should I let her wander around
the province like a teenager?
There's no need for the police.
It's absurd. It was obviously her call.
- A call made by someone unstable.
- Don't call the police.
- We don't know if she's unstable.
- A sane person wouldn't run away
not giving a damn
if her family thinks she's dead.
- OK, dude! Relax.
- Relax?
- Yes! Chill, man...
- "Chill, man"?
- OK, let's all calm down.
- Sorry. I better leave.
- OK.
- Skates, soccer and sleepover.
Sleepover? Are they staying the night?
Is everything set?
Sure they're no bother?
- Your questions are a bother.
- OK.
- I hate the lice comb.
- Me too.
- I take them out but they come back.
- Right.
Why can't we accept that lice
are a part of life which at some point
no longer bother you?
- Because they itch.
- You're right. They're revolting.
- Blondi.
- Why do you call me Blondi?
- It's your name, Blondi.
- Nope.
- Nope? What's your name?
- Auntie.
It's a horrible lie.
My name is Eugenia Anastasia
Genoveva Victoriana del Pilar
de las Mercedes Basile.
Exactly!
And I am Natalia Mabel Sandra
Hermenegilda del Carmen Fuentes.
Wow! You've got a good memory, squirt.
Mom is Martina Nazarena Octavia...
Reina Azul de los Mares Aristbula Basile.
Awesome!
- What is having a sapphire?
- What?
- A sapphire.
- The sapphire is a precious stone...
- It's expensive.
- Does Mom have one?
I don't know.
- Why?
- Dad said to his friend
that Mom maybe was having a sapphire
and that's why she left.
- I need the toilet!
- Lift the seat up!
- Don't listen to your Dad.
- I have another question.
- Another one?
- Is the orgasm an organ?
I wish, my darling.
Brush your teeth.
Flush the toilet!
Its 5 minutes to 7 am
as I tell you this story to wake you up.
Bom dia, un caf da manha.
- Are you sleepy?
- No, they really let me sleep.
Right. Then why are you yawning?
You wouldn't let me sleep.
- Did you have lice?
- Yes, she took them out.
- Come on!
- Are you ready?
Yes.
- That's for me.
- It's for you?
- Yes.
- OK.
One for you...
Wow. This is for me.
Bye! Bye, bye, bye...
- It's hot.
- It's a pancake tongue.
Crap, it's Dad.
He's at the door. Come on, get your stuff.
Hi! How are you?
How did the little ghosts sleep?
- Fine.
- Fine?
Sure? Get in.
Thank you for this.
I don't know how to thank you.
- How are you?
- So-so. I woke up upset today.
- I woke up very early.
- I feel very angry.
The injustice... Why? Why?
I've gotta go. We can't do it today.
Take them to your mom's.
But they hate her and she hates them.
- How can she?
- Impossible.
Stay with them.
They're your kids, they need you.
- You're killing me.
- Alright.
- You're killing me. I'm begging you.
- I don't know.
- Listen. Please.
- Bye. Alright.
Come on!
Go Las Ligas!
Hello.
Hello.
- Martina?
- Are you alone?
- Where are you, nutter?
- I can't tell you.
- You can't tell me?
- I need a favor.
- Been doing you favors for three days.
- I know, I know.
You have no idea
how your stupid stunt affected me.
Get your life back, we're overwhelmed.
I'm sorry, I can't.
- What?
- Eduardo cancelled our credit cards.
- I need help but don't tell him.
- Tell me where you are.
Not sure, it's a commune.
Let's go!
Get closer to the steering wheel.
I'm fine, I'm fine.
- Listen, if you're tired, stop.
- Of course.
- Bye, Ma.
- Go slow, bye.
- I love you desperately.
- I can't live without you.
I beseech you to tell me
if my love is requited. Is it?
It is.
I don't want to freak you out.
You idolize her.
I do? Don't talk shit.
You believed the crap she told everyone.
The jealousy thing again?
It's an absurd competition.
I don't compete with Martina.
I never wanted to or could.
She's the most competitive person I know.
She always wanted to win and she did it.
At 10 she lied about getting her period
to be friends with the older girls.
She stole Pepa's pad to use as evidence.
- Gross!
- She wanted to be the first to fuck.
She hit on the school tutor,
we all had a crush on him.
Everyone ended up hating her.
When I got pregnant,
they bullied us to death.
Even Pepa suffered.
Why?
We were the vagina dentata house.
They were afraid of us.
That's horrible.
Martina was prone to crushes.
She met Edu in an orgy and kept him.
- Are you joking?
- I am.
You're an idiot, Blondi.
Picture Edu in an orgy, how would that be?
I don't want to picture his dick.
What about you?
- No orgies.
- You wont admit it.
- I don't want to talk to you about this.
- What's wrong, Blondi?
Nothing, you know about me.
I got pregnant and that was it.
Things are tough with nappies,
breastfeeding, poo...
OK, super mom.
Yup.
I think maybe sometimes you feel lonely.
- Fucking doesn't make you less lonely.
- So deep!
Don't worry,
there's no stepdad on the horizon.
You can be the Alpha male
of the household.
The Alpha male, the king of the household.
Who needs a stepdad?
- Who wants a father?
- What's a father for?
No idea.
- Not for important things, for sure.
- No.
Hello!
There's no one here.
Hello!
Hey.
Good evening.
I'm Carlos.
Hello. We want to sleep here tonight.
Of course. Let's see if you can.
Excuse me?
It's a joke. If they let you sleep.
The mother doesn't want them.
They're crying out in hunger.
That's odd!
It's never happened before, I love cats.
She doesn't recognize them.
Poor things.
Do you have a room, then?
Yes, of course.
- A double room?
- Yes, a double with two beds.
Follow me.
We should do this more often.
Now that you're learning to drive,
you have to practice.
Here. I forgot my backpack in the car.
I'll be right back.
Do you need anything?
No, I'm fine.
- Are you joining us for dinner tonight?
- OK, great.
It's a kitten stew.
I'm serious.
Hey, Blondi, when I went
to fetch my backpack...
When I went for my backpack
the kittens were gone.
I can't hear, why are you whispering?
- The kittens weren't there. Get it?
- What?
- Something happened to them.
- Ask him about it!
Don't eat!
- What are you saying?
- Here he comes.
- Carlos, the stew is delicious.
- Thanks, my mom made it.
- He wanted to ask you something.
- No questions, thanks.
- Ask him.
- I don't want to.
Yes, ask him.
He wants to know what you did with the...
He thinks the kittens are here!
No, you believed it.
It's my mother's recipe.
No, I didn't believe it.
It's delicious, thanks.
- Forget it! Thanks.
- Thanks for the bread.
- Wow, you're sick.
- You're impossible.
- What's wrong with you?
- You're impossible.
Don't eat me, I'm a kitten. Meow!
- You're an asshole.
- You're eating me! Meow!
Really... Blondi!
...because then, in that maximum instant
of hate, disgust and repulsion,
that's when you can see
that the only true thing in life
is loneliness.
And the only thing that matters is you.
Blondi. Mom.
ART AND DESIGN COLLEGE
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
FOR SCHOLARSHIP
Applicant Mirko Basile.
The scholarship has been granted...
I was thinking, are you worried about me
being on my own, without a partner?
No, well, I don't know.
I want you to be happy.
I am happy. I've a good life.
The life I've always wanted,
dreamed about.
- You do?
- Yes.
Doing surveys has been my dream,
since I was born. I was born for it.
- I am happy too.
- I'm glad.
You're a good mom, Blondi, the best.
You're everything to me, my best friend.
I don't know what I'd do without you.
You won't be without me.
I know.
- I love you, Mommy.
- I love you.
Are we crying?
No, I got something in my eye.
Some garbage.
What's this?
I'm not going, I hate inner peace.
You get her.
Many days without bathing.
Look who's talking.
- OK. I'll go.
- Go.
- Anita?
- What do you need?
Wait, I'm connecting...
Jorgito, you go.
I'm going!
Look, guys, a butterfly!
Namaste.
Jorge, come here, please.
Mirko! I'm glad you made it.
I'll get my things so we can go.
OK.
Can someone bring me more flour?
I need more.
- Welcome, Mirko.
- Thanks.
I have to go.
- Thanks.
- Bye.
- Come back, Martina.
- We'll be waiting for you.
Bye!
Come on, I want to have
a schnitzel with fries.
Bye, gorgeous.
"Bye, gorgeous"?
I can't believe it.
- Stop.
- I can't believe it.
- Stop.
- You're too much, you really are.
Goodbye, gorgeous ones!
When you're horny you do anything!
Unbelievable!
Great, I could eat another one,
but Id better not.
- How did you end up in a cult with Jerry?
- Stop.
- What?
- It's not a cult.
- What is it?
- A commune.
- They call themselves a family.
- Right.
- Does the Manson family sound familiar?
- Don't exaggerate.
- We drove for 10,000 km, tell me!
- I'll leave you two alone.
- Yes. Yes.
- No, no, no!
Crystal clear.
- Are you going to judge me?
- Of course.
I don't care, I wanted to see him.
I knew nothing about him.
We had a very strong relationship,
it was deep.
It was real
and then we got on with our lives.
I needed to get away from it all.
I needed to live in the here and now.
He was here, it was the perfect excuse.
I needed to feel free again.
To go to bed fully dressed
and wake up with loving beings.
They say loving things to you,
to fuck with aromas,
- the aroma of nature. Are you listening?
- Yes, so?
It's not for me.
You'd love it. I've learned my lesson.
It was good for me to think
about the things in my life
I need to change.
I don't miss them.
Eduardo or the kids.
Maybe not Eduardo, but, the kids?
Nothing. I don't miss them at all.
Well, you haven't been gone long.
They're my children. I should.
Do you ever not want to see Mirko?
Never.
No?
Maybe I shouldn't have had children.
Maybe it was a mistake.
A mistake, this far into the game?
Are you kidding?
- You're old!
- You're so aggressive!
- You're old.
- Younger than you.
- By two years!
- And four months.
- I'm not going back.
- You have to.
- I can't.
- Of course you can.
- Does Eduardo hate me?
- You should hate him.
- Is he very upset?
- I'm not talking about him.
Should I call him first?
I don't know. Yes, call him.
Can I borrow your cell?
- Can you unlock it?
- It's got no password.
Talk all you want.
We have to pay, Blondi.
My sister will be back.
- Hi, honey.
- Hi, Jerry.
- Can I go to the toilet?
- Come, let's go.
Martina, get in already!
Did you pay, Blondi?
- How is Pepa doing?
- Fine.
- Was she worried?
- Yes.
- What?
- Did she know you were coming?
- Of course.
- Did she want to come?
I didn't ask her, it seemed absurd.
It's pretty far.
- I can imagine, yes.
- What do you mean?
Why would Pepa come to pick me up?
You're bad. She's looking after your kids.
- She's their grandmother.
- So?
She's not doing it for me but for them.
- I don't get it.
- Get what?
This complaint. So you flee
just to see if we cared for you?
- Are you judging me already?
- You're judging us!
- Why the plural?
- I speak for myself.
No! You speak for yourself and Pepa!
Maybe 'cause we've both
been taking care of your family.
You're punishing me
'cause you couldn't smoke three joints?
I smoked them
to withstand your unbearable life.
What's your problem with me?
You're a stupid, spoiled princess
who always gets her way!
- C'mon!.
- Admit that you're super self-centered!
You're jealous, resentful!
You've always envied me...
- I'd kill myself over being you.
- I'd kill myself!
You're dirty, a junkie...
You have no life and no hair conditioner!
- Let me out!
- Go.
- I don't need this.
- Neither do I, I came to get you.
- I raised my son pretty much on my own.
- No, you had Pepa.
You weren't there. You'd come see me
for a bit with your boyfriend
and you'd go off. So shush.
- Shush? You're shushing me, bitch?
- Call me bitch again and you're out.
I want to get out, bitch!
- Great.
- What's going on? Are you nuts?
Get out!
- The seatbelt!
- I know.
Martina.
Asshole!
Come on, are you serious?
Come on, get in!
Stop, Blondi!
- Do you want a triple room now?
- No, a single and a double, please.
How are you going to pay for it? A triple.
- I got the scholarship.
- What?
I got the scholarship.
Great!
- Did you tell her?
- I don't know how.
- When are you leaving?
- In a month, now.
I knew it. I knew you'd get in!
Want some?
Your son applied
for an art scholarship and got it.
- Martina!
- He's going to Barcelona in a month.
He's afraid to tell you.
He thinks you can't live without him.
- Stop.
- What?
It's not that. I thought it was useless.
They only granted five scholarships.
It was a long shot to get it. I did.
Because you're very good.
And you knew this?
I gave him some cash
for the paperwork at the consulate.
- You gave him cash?
- Yes.
Did you give any to Pepa
for the Songo thing?
No, I didn't give her anything.
Who's Songo?
And you and Pepa what?
Does Pepa know about the scholarship?
She told me to apply.
- She gave me the idea.
- The idea? Pepa?
- She said it was good.
- It was good for me not to know?
No, Blondi. That it was good to study.
- Am I a monster?
- No, you're not a monster.
You were very busy,
I didn't want to involve you.
You didn't want to involve me?
Did you think I wouldn't be happy?
It's not that.
It was something more to do with me.
With you?
Something I needed to do on my own.
Not on your own,
but with people behind my back.
It's the same.
You need to do something behind my back?
- What?
- Do you need to be a rebel?
Are you nuts?
How could you think I shouldn't know?
- It's not that. We felt awkward.
- Awkward, how?
You're so close.
He's my son! He lives with me!
We're friends!
- Calm down. He's happy.
- I'm happy too!
How could you think it's best for my son
to hide things from me?
And it's not the scholarship.
I think it's great...
- Do you?
- Of course, Mirko.
Why wouldn't I? It's the best news!
It's the best news I could've had!
But a fucking awful way to find out!
You're making me feel
as if I'm someone I'm not.
Possessive, selfish. Am I boring?
An idiot of a mother like all of the rest?
How could I not be happy for you?
How could I not share something
that makes you happy?
I'm very happy.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks.
- Can you get the bags?
- OK!
I'm going to Pepa's.
I need to sleep before I see the kids.
- I'm happy, you?
- Yes, thanks anyway.
Honey, baby.
You screwed up, honey.
I'm ready!
- I love you desperately.
- I can't live without you.
I beseech you to tell me
if my love is requited. Is it?
- It is. What about my love?
- Yes, it is.
Pepa...
- Better a short farewell.
- Yes.
- Do you have everything?
- Yes.
- Oh, wait.
- I'm not scared.
You've never flown long haul.
Take it just in case.
OK.
- Bye, Blondi.
- Bye, Mirko Basile. Write often.
You're the best thing I've done.
Let's go. Bye, bon voyage.
Passport.
Let's go.
- Hello?
- Mom?
Why do you call me that?
Call you what?
"Mom".
Aren't you my mom?
Yeah, dude, but you never call me that.
- Don't be annoying, Blondi.
- There you are, my boy.
How are you doing?
All good. Great. And I miss you terribly.
You'd better!
Look at what I've done.
We were at home
TV isn't funny anymore
We were in peace
puffing away already
Oh, Blondi
Now you have no one to shoot at
But your bullets still hit
Mom... Come on.
You overslept.
Yes, yes, yes.
- Come on.
- We overslept. Come on, Blondi.
Come on, Blondi.
- Go on, get up.
- No. Uh!
Let's go.
- Did you have breakfast?
- Yes.
- Keys?
- Thank you.
Here they are.
- Let's go.
- I'll wait downstairs.
Come, let's go.
- We're on time.
- Yes.
- Don't forget anything.
- No.
- OK.
- They haven't closed the door yet.
- Blondi will pick you up.
- Yes.
- Bye, love ya.
- Go honey, bye.