The Last Night at Tremore Beach (2024) s01e05 Episode Script

1
[loud clanging]
[Kauffman] Can you see the door?
[Álex] Yes.
[Kauffman] Good.
What do you see?
[liquid gurgling, echoing]
[Álex] I barely see anything.
THE LAST NIGHT AT TREMORE BEACH
[Álex] Only darkness.
I can hear music playing in the distance.
["Für Elise" playing on recording]
[Álex] It's my mom.
She's speaking to me through music.
She used to say it was good
for my development.
[playing "Für Elise" on piano]
[Álex] She was sure I'd be a musician
long before I was even born.
So she started training me.
It's called "Für Elise."
It's a bagatelle that requires
a lot of hand coordination, my son.
It was composed by Beethoven.
And it's rumored that he composed it
for a woman he loved.
Maybe someday you'll find your Elise,
and you'll compose something
like it for her.
- What if he's an astronaut?
- No.
- Huh?
- Impossible.
- Oh, really?
- Yep.
[chuckles] He'll be a composer.
- I've seen it, Isaak.
- [both chuckle]
EPISODE 5
MOM
[symphonic music playing]
Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad.
Reading the score is not enough.
You need to capture it.
In order to be geniuses,
you have to be mediums.
You need to communicate
with a different world.
[Álex] She spent half of her life looking
for her diamond in the rough at school.
And she knew how hard it was.
That language is always there
to remind us that we are
more than simple animals,
who are destined to die
after a life of pain.
- [Álex] Until she had me.
- [mother panting]
Get out.
- Get out of there.
- What's wrong? What happened?
- [moans]
- What's the matter?
What? What's wrong?
- [crying]
- [hesitates]
What's wrong?
[Álex] It wasn't the first time my mom
had one of those episodes.
[softly] Take me to the hospital. Now.
Please.
[mother panting]
[doctor] Everything's fine.
Can you double-check?
Elvira, I can assure you,
your son's doing perfectly fine.
Something's not right. I know it.
- He's fine.
- By the way, have you decided on a name?
Álex. His name will be Álex.
[quietly] Álex is not okay.
- [doctor] Well, Álex is moving.
- I know it.
Check again, please.
[machinery whirs, beeping]
What's wrong?
Something's wrong, right?
What is it?
- [screams]
- [doctor] Come on. You need to focus.
- [Álex crying]
- [mother sobs]
[doctor] Really good. Really good.
Good job.
Honey, come here.
Oh, I wanna see him.
Here, here. No, no, no, no, no!
No, no, no, no, no, no!
[Álex] I'd moved,
and I almost strangled myself.
[mother] No, I wanna see him!
[Álex] If they hadn't seen it,
I would've died in minutes.
The doctors said it was luck,
but my mom was sure something was wrong.
And nothing could change her mind
about that.
[Kauffman] Hold it there.
[machinery whirring]
[Kauffman] Stay in that moment.
Breathe, Álex.
[Álex breathing shakily]
I want you to think
about everything you just said
and try to discern
what's real and what's fiction
from the stories your mother told you.
I know I couldn't possibly remember
that moment,
but it's the first thing
that came to my mind.
It's interesting.
Of all the doors you could've opened,
your mind has chosen this one.
[Álex] It wasn't premeditated.
[Kauffman] No.
I don't want you to judge yourself.
Just take note of what you did.
[Álex] Okay.
All right.
Now, I want you to look
for an image of you as a kid.
The first one that comes to mind.
And go to that moment in the present.
As if you were really there.
- [Álex exhales]
- [playing simple melody]
- [Álex] I remember my first piano.
- [Kauffman] How old are you?
Four.
- [playing "Für Elise" slowly]
- [Kauffman] Tell me what you see.
[Álex] My parents are watching me play.
The first concert of many
I'm gonna play throughout my life.
- [indistinct chatter]
- ["Für Elise" playing]
[Álex] It's all part
of her long-term plan.
She doesn't improvise with me.
And that's how life goes
up until I was ten.
I pass my entrance exam
for the best music school in Oviedo.
Just like she'd planned.
[snapping to beat]
Cor, cor. Cor, cor. Cor, cor.
Cor, cor. Cor, cor. Cor, cor
[Álex] I'll spend
three years of my life here.
- Piano.
- [teacher] Perfect.
- [Álex] Music theory. Composing.
- [teacher] Very good.
[Álex] And then practicing at home.
- Fly with the piece.
- [Álex] That order, every day.
No exception.
[Elvira] Come on, carry it.
Ride with the melody.
Keep it moving, keep it moving,
move your fingers, your fingers.
- Álex, please. Focus.
- [Isaak] Elvira, please.
- Isaak, stay out of it.
- He's been practicing all morning.
Will you leave this to me?
- [metronome ticking]
- [sighs]
- Come on. Focus.
- [resumes playing "Für Elise"]
[Álex] And this is
where my first real problems began.
- ["Für Elise" ends abruptly]
- [kids chattering]
[principal] So his poor performance
has been very alarming.
He failed six classes.
He's clearly struggling
to pay attention in class.
Maybe fewer hours
of playing piano would help.
Music is his life.
That's where his future's at, not here.
[Álex] I look at my mom,
and I feel like there's
something she's not telling me.
- You're underestimating your son.
- You heard the principal.
Enough.
[Elvira] There is more to life
than studying.
[Álex] We get home,
and my parents argue because of me.
- [Elvira] Great.
- [Isaak] He's struggling.
Falling asleep. What do you want?
[Álex] For the millionth time.
[somber music playing]
It's the first night of many
in which I sleepwalk.
[loud rhythmic clanging]
[beeping]
[Álex] I walk
to the living room like a robot.
[Álex] And I play "Für Elise"
like I'd never played it before.
[playing "Für Elise" at a fast tempo]
[metronome ticking rapidly]
["Für Elise" playing downstairs]
[Álex] My parents see me playing,
and my mom says
Just what I had seen.
Leave him. Stop.
[Álex] It's the first time
I suspect my mom thinks
she can see things that come to pass.
[young Álex] What happened to me?
Is it bad?
[Elvira] No.
We're special.
You're special.
You're a little angel, honey.
Why?
- Because of our instinct.
- [loud banging]
Talk about that.
About the instinct
your mother believed she had.
Which she described as seeing the future.
[Álex] For as long as I can remember,
my mom would always talk about
the dream she had, which saved my life.
[train horn toots]
[Álex] But there were more.
And they were always the same.
[train engine whirs]
[train horn toots]
[reporter on TV] Tragedy struck
this morning on a railway near Oviedo.
A train derailed due to unknown causes
while traveling
over 180 kilometers per hour.
Investigators are working to determine
whether the derailment
was caused by human error.
[Álex] Yeah.
At PE today, we did athletics.
- So that's a lot of running, huh?
- Yeah.
By the way, they made me
- [unsettling music playing]
- [gasps]
[Álex] What? What's wrong?
[thunder rumbles]
[crying] My son,
my son, my son, my son, my son
- [thunder rumbles]
- My son
- ["Für Elise" playing]
- [metronome ticking]
[indistinct chatter outside]
- ["Für Elise" stops]
- [sighs]
[tense music playing]
[inhales sharply]
- [hits keys]
- [gasps]
Honey, honey.
- Hey. It's okay.
- [Elvira whimpers]
What do you see?
- What?
- [player] Juan.
Juan, hey, dude. Dude. Juan?
Hey, what's wrong?
Hey, dude. Are you okay? Juan!
[loud banging]
[Kauffman] Let's hold it right there.
In the pattern of your mother's visions.
Always deaths. The final destination.
Not always.
The only exception you've mentioned
so far is yourself.
Your piano playing.
Your musical career.
I guess I tend to dwell on the deaths more
because they're more shocking
than the happy visions she also had.
- [beeping]
- Let's keep that in mind. It's important.
OBSESSED WITH DEATH
[Kauffman] Tell me what happens, Alex.
[whirring]
[Álex] After the last incident,
they ran some tests on my mom.
And it was the first time
they uttered that damn word.
[doctor] Schizophrenia
is a mental disorder
that causes individuals like yourself
to interpret reality in a different way.
It typically involves hallucinations,
delusions,
and significant disturbances
in thoughts and behaviors.
I know exactly what's happening to me.
- What I see is real. I'm not crazy.
- [doctor] You're sick, Elvira.
And you cannot distinguish
between what your mind imagines
and reality.
If you decide not to get treated,
we'll have to get you admitted.
[somber music playing]
[indistinct, distant chatter]
[Álex] She's been admitted
for the first time.
But the attacks always come back.
And the medication too.
Years later, my dad gets sick and tired
of all of it and changes things.
[Kauffman] Go to that moment
and tell me what you see.
- [calming music playing]
- [seagulls crying]
[Álex] I see my house.
Well, my parents' house.
I'm 18 years old. I'm starting a new life.
My dad has decided
to isolate my mom from all stimuli.
She's stopped teaching.
I'm her only student now.
[metronome ticking]
[playing "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor"
by Mozart]
[performing symphony]
[Álex] She gets me to join an orchestra
to keep growing as a musician.
And there, I meet people like me.
- [laughing]
- [indistinct chatter]
[Álex] I wanna have fun,
but it's impossible with her around.
I gotta go.
[Álex] So I start to defy her.
[rock music playing on headphones]
[muffled] Álex.
Álex!
It's time to sleep.
Come on. Put that away.
Turn the music off.
["Symphony No. 40" continues]
[Álex sighs]
[Álex grunts]
[dance music thumping]
[excited chatter]
[laughing]
["Symphony No. 40" continues]
[group cheering]
[Álex] It's the first time
I've ever felt this happy.
But it doesn't last long.
Let's go, dude.
[Álex] I still don't know
what's about to happen.
[laughs]
[Álex exclaims]
[music intensifies]
- [music stops]
- [high-pitched ringing]
[loud banging]
[breathing shakily]
[Kauffman] Álex.
Álex. Keep going, please.
Go back, Álex.
Go back and tell me
what happened after that.
[sirens wailing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[dramatic music playing]
[Kauffman] Breathe.
[Álex] I feel like
I feel like I'm leaving.
My mind separates from my body.
And I see something.
[Kauffman] What is it?
[paramedic 1] Sir, can you hear me?
[Kauffman] Tell me what you see, Álex.
[paramedic 2] Are you okay?
[Álex] My life.
I see the rest of my life
flashing before my eyes.
[applause]
- [loud thumping]
- [indistinct chatter]
[sounds distort]
[laughter echoes]
[monitor beeping]
I've seen his life.
And it doesn't end here.
Please stop saying things like that.
He won't die, Isaak.
I'm telling you.
- [music dies down]
- [gulls crying]
[Álex] Two weeks later, I get discharged.
When I get home,
she's angry
and confused.
[somber music playing]
Does it hurt?
[exhales]
What I see can't be changed.
But that doesn't mean I'm in full control.
Your destiny's beautiful, Álex.
Please believe me.
But you need to have discipline.
From now on, there will be
no more orchestras or parties.
I'm sorry.
[music fades]
[pianist warming up]
Guys, this is Álex.
Hi.
[unsettling music playing]
- [music fades]
- [breathing shakily]
[alarm beeping]
[Kauffman] Breathe, Álex.
Álex. Hold the moment.
[unsettling music rises]
[music fades]
[breathing slows]
[Kauffman] You're out of it.
- Try to go back.
- [gasps]
[quietly] I don't wanna remember her.
Why?
[inhales deeply] It hurts.
Estrella hurts so much.
Embrace what hurts, Álex.
Let it invade your body.
Let the pain spread.
Breathe.
Talk about Estrella.
[distant piano music playing]
[performing warm-up exercise]
[music fades]
[laughing]
- I beat you.
- No.
- Of course I did.
- You didn't.
- [Estrella inhales sharply]
- [birds singing]
- [softly] I did.
- [Álex] She still doesn't know it.
But she'll be the love of my life.
[gentle music playing]
I feel the melody.
[Estrella exhales]
[kisses]
[Estrella laughs softly]
What are you doing?
Looking for your melody.
[Estrella chuckles]
[Álex exhales]
[both panting]
[man whistling casually]
[gentle music fades]
[whistling continues]
Estrella!
Oh my God.
Estrella?
Shit, shit, damn it, damn it.
Álex, Álex, Álex. We fell asleep.
Estrella, sweetie! Are you home?
- Sweetie.
- [gasps] Shit, you scared me, Dad.
- Jesus.
- Sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
- I just saw you here, and, uh
- [grunts] I don't feel very well.
- Sure. You don't feel very well.
- [Estrella] Mm-hmm.
Hmm. And your friend
doesn't feel very well either?
[Estrella chuckles]
- He doesn't wanna say hi to me?
- Álex, forget it. [laughs]
- [father] Would you look at that?
- Uh, hi.
[Álex] Ramiro works for a major
construction company.
He's got so much money,
he doesn't even know what to do with it.
["I'm Gonna Be" playing]
[Álex] He loves his daughter,
and he likes me.
[indistinct chatter]
[Álex] He'll keep our secret from my mom.
Sorry.
He knows how to keep one
because he has secrets of his own.
[young Álex] What did you say
your dad does for a living?
[Estrella] Construction.
Who are those guys?
They work for him.
They keep thieves off the sites.
But don't worry about it.
They never come in the house.
But I would walk 500 miles ♪
And I would walk 500 more ♪
Just to be the man ♪
Who walked 1,000 miles ♪
- [both laugh]
- To fall down at your door ♪
When I'm workin' ♪
[Álex] Go on! Take that!
Holy shit!
- [Estrella yells] No! Wait! Don't!
- Drop her in!
[Estrella] No!
[laughs]
When I come home ♪
- When I come home ♪
- Oh, I know I'm gonna be ♪
I'm gonna be the man
Who comes back home to you ♪
And if I grow old ♪
Well, I know I'm gonna be ♪
I'm gonna be the man
Who's growin' old with you ♪
But I would walk 500 miles ♪
[playing piano melody]
And I would walk 500 more ♪
Just to be the man
Who walked 1,000 miles ♪
To fall down at your door ♪
- Da-da-da-da ♪
- Da-da-da-da ♪
- Da-da-da-da ♪
- Da-da-da-da ♪
Da-da-dum-diddy-dum
Diddy-dum-diddy-da-da-da ♪
- Da-da-da-da ♪
- Da-da-da-da ♪
- Da-da-da-da ♪
- Da-da-da-da ♪
Da-da-dum-diddy-dum
Diddy-dum-diddy-da-da-da ♪
[upbeat song fades]
[gentle piano melody playing]
- [Elvira] Did you compose it?
- [melody stops]
Come on, play it again.
Just one more time.
[gentle piano melody resumes]
You come up with a title already?
"For Estrella." Or just "Estrella."
Who's the lucky lady?
No one. I made her up.
[Kauffman] So your father
knows about Estrella.
I feel like I can tell him
almost anything.
And your mother?
- Does she ever find out?
- [Álex] Not for a while.
But she starts to sense something
in her own way.
- [unsettling music playing]
- [thunder rumbles]
[breathing shakily]
[groans]
[groans]
[thunder rumbles]
[groans]
[unsettling music rises]
[floorboards creaking]
[thunder rumbles]
- [panting]
- [whispering] Álex, the pit. The pit.
Álex. How did you end up there?
You're running out of time.
You're running out of time, Álex.
Mom? What happened?
- Leave this house!
- What happened, Mom? Mom!
- Get out. Leave.
- What's wrong?
- What are you doing?
- Leave this house.
- [young Álex] Calm down, Mom!
- [Elvira] Get out!
- Mom, are you okay?
- [Elvira] Leave this house!
- What happened?
- [Elvira crying] Listen to me.
Listen to me, leave this house.
- Calm down!
- Leave this house, Álex!
Álex!
- Please!
- You're in danger.
- Listen to me, leave this house.
- Elvira. Elvira!
- Get out! Leave this house.
- Mom, hey! It's okay.
- There you go, that's it.
- Álex, leave this house.
[Isaak] It's okay. It's okay.
- It's okay.
- [Elvira cries] Álex, leave this house.
[Isaak] Don't worry.
- [sobs]
- Easy.
[Isaak] Easy. Easy.
- Easy. That's it.
- [Elvira's breathing slows]
- That's it.
- [thunder rumbles]
[Isaak, gently] There you go. That's it.
That's it.
- [Isaak] What did you see?
- [Elvira] I don't know.
I was somewhere
I'd I'd never seen before.
With white walls and
a lot of light coming in.
There was this this green lattice
and a man playing chess.
And Álex was there with a woman.
It wasn't his wife.
I'd never seen that woman
in my life, Isaak.
He was far away
from the life he was destined for.
- She put him in danger.
- Shh. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- Don't worry, sweetie. It's okay.
- [Elvira] It was all darkness around her.
[Álex] When my dad told me
what my mother had said later,
I thought she was talking about Estrella.
Now you don't?
A few days ago
I saw my mom, and she said the same thing.
[Judy crying softly]
[Álex] When I saw Judy
nearly dead inside my piano.
Álex. Leave this house.
Álex, leave this house right now.
[Kauffman] So now you think that maybe
the woman she saw was her. Judy.
And those bad things
will happen here in Tremore.
The same danger
I've been seeing in my visions.
It's pretty clear
that she's influenced you.
And shaped your thoughts
to conform to a particular narrative.
Your mother could've projected her fear
that you'd abandon her
and go live your own life.
And besides,
your father told you all this.
Maybe how your father described it
wasn't exactly what your mother said.
But let's not be hasty.
Tell me what happened next.
My mom comes home.
And for a while,
it seems like it's all going fine.
[playing energetic melody]
[Álex] I go back to my classes.
And likewise, I go back to Estrella.
Stop.
[Álex] We get news
that will change everything.
[teacher] The principal
has something to tell you.
We have confirmation
that you, as music students,
will be candidates for a scholarship
to the Royal British Conservatory
in London.
Every year, the school offers scholarships
to students all around the world.
But only one of you will be selected
and will have
the privilege of studying there.
[Álex] It wasn't the first time
I'd seen those walls.
[birds singing]
[Álex] And I feel my mind
separating from my body again.
I know how those visions end.
- [camera shutter clicks]
- [laughs]
[Álex] And Estrella is not in any of them.
[laughs]
[young Álex] I don't know if I wanna go.
Well, you have
to win the scholarship first.
I will.
[Estrella scoffs]
You're such a bighead.
I know I will.
Why wouldn't you wanna go, then?
[softly] Álex.
One of us going to London
doesn't mean we're bound to break up.
Nothing can break us apart
if we wanna be together.
Do you know why?
Because we're unstoppable.
[Álex chuckles softly]
So put your insecurities aside,
because if one of us is going,
the other will too.
And we'll come up with a way
for both of us to study somewhere.
I can't afford a good music school
in England.
My mom won't give me
a choice but to beat you.
[Álex] That's what happened.
She became obsessed
with making me practice
the song for the scholarship contest.
- Can you slow the tempo?
- It's the one Beethoven used.
Beethoven was already deaf.
And that's precisely why the metronome
is our best guide to play the music, Álex.
- His metronome was probably broken.
- Álex!
No one gets that. This is too fast.
- Without technique, there's no freedom.
- This piece is impossible!
A good pianist should never ignore
his technique. He has to forget it.
That's why you're going to London.
Technique, Álex, technique.
Get that stuck in your head.
Shall we?
And one, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
And one, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
Three, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
[loudly] Play!
[playing fast-paced melody]
Álex, gently, gently, gently, gently.
Relax your shoulders, Álex.
Relax your shoulders.
Let your fingers fly.
[inhales sharply]
Álex. Álex, focus on the piece. Come on!
Keep it clean. Keep it clean.
Keep the grace notes clean.
Come on, Álex.
Álex. Tempo, tempo, tempo, tempo!
Come on. Technique, Álex, technique!
Breathe.
Breathe.
Your left hand, Álex.
Keep your left hand moving.
It's just as important as the right.
Like that, breathe.
Air, air, air, air. Let them fly!
Álex, keep your left hand moving. Come on.
That's it.
Fly.
Relax your shoulders.
Get ready.
Prepare.
There you go, there you go.
More gently. Yep.
- [claps]
- The left hand. The left hand, Álex.
More force, more force.
Álex, you've got this, you've got this,
you've got this. Fly, fly, fly, fly.
Prepare for the ending. Tragic.
Tragic. Tragic.
- [song concludes]
- [exhales]
[indistinct chatter]
[Kauffman] Álex? You've gone quiet.
Where are you now?
[Álex] At the auditorium.
It's the day of the scholarship contest.
I'm in the car.
I'm nervous.
Thinking that I don't wanna lose Estrella
by winning the scholarship.
[Elvira] Good evening.
[Álex] Hello.
[sighs]
- Do you know each other?
- She's in my class.
[Elvira] Hmm.
Hi, how's it going?
Hmm. Hi there.
Well, today she's your enemy.
Uh-oh! Excuse me, the car keys.
So? Are you nervous?
Isn't your dad coming?
- So, just these two things.
- I guess he's gonna be late. As expected.
- Well, see you later.
- Yep.
- Estrella.
- Hi, Isaak. How are you?
- [Isaak] Good. You?
- [Estrella] Good, ready.
Great.
Estrella?
Do you know her?
Yeah, well, I met her one day
when I picked him up at school. And, uh
- Yeah.
- Right.
[whispering] Ernesto. He's got soul.
[playing fast-paced melody]
[indistinct whispers]
[playing rapid melody]
[whispering] She's not keeping it clean.
- But she's
- She's never gonna beat Álex.
[playing fast-paced melody]
[excited chatter]
[whispers] She's pretty good, right?
Álex plays it much better.
[piano melody continues]
[playing fast-paced melody]
[melody concludes]
[applause]
[Estrella] Play like you do,
and the scholarship is yours.
Unless I win. [giggles]
[judge] The next candidate
is Álex de la Fuente.
[applause]
[Álex] Once again,
I feel like I've lived it before.
- [applause fades]
- [unsettling music playing]
[Álex] I know I'll win the scholarship
but lose her.
[heart beating]
[metronome ticking]
[inhales sharply]
[judge] Whenever you're ready.
We don't have all day. Go ahead, please.
[man coughs]
[sighs]
[Álex] And I make a decision
that will change my life forever.
- [plays wrong note]
- [gasps]
[panting]
[Kauffman] Where are you now?
[Álex] In London.
With Paula, Bruno, and Bea.
Years after winning the scholarship
and losing Estrella.
Before all the bad stuff.
[gentle music playing]
[Álex] I met Paula
at the art gallery where she works.
- Come on, say bye to Papa.
- [Álex] I've wanted kids and a big house.
We paid for it thanks to the movies.
I compose film scores.
Allan hired me once I was done with school
and kept getting me new gigs.
- How good to see you again.
- Hey, Allan.
Janek, Álex. Álex, Janek.
[epic music playing]
[Álex] I put my talent and music
to the service of others.
[plays notes]
[orchestra playing epic tune]
[Álex] And for a while I'm happy.
[strings join in]
[horns join in]
[TV presenter] And the winner is
- Álex de la Fuente for Januaries.
- [cheering]
[Álex] But that slowly drives me
away from my family.
Until I feel like everything's happening
just as it was written.
And, ironically, my mom
wasn't there to witness it.
[award ceremony playing on TV]
[Álex] My dad hospitalized her
shortly after I moved to England.
Her attacks got worse,
and she was no longer herself.
Her mind couldn't take it anymore,
and she had a stroke.
[gentle piano melody playing]
[Álex] I feel sorry
that she couldn't see all this.
The future she envisioned,
which I wasn't able to avoid.
[kids laughing]
[Kauffman] And how does that
make you feel, Álex?
[metronome ticking]
[Álex] Confused.
The day I won the scholarship
to go to London,
I got trapped
in my mother's obsession forever.
As soon as I realize that, I give up.
Because I feel like
this isn't the life I would've chosen.
[metronome stops]
I realize that I'm not happy,
and I enter a crisis.
I hide myself away in work.
I pursue success so as not to stop.
Because if I stop, I feel.
And I don't want to feel.
[monitor beeping]
[Álex] I abandon my family,
and the inevitable happens.
Paula has been feeling
my rejection for months.
And one day, while working at the gallery,
she meets Niels.
It all happens so fast.
[laughing]
[both panting]
[Álex] She falls in love again.
And after three months,
she spits everything out.
[Paula] I've met someone.
And I'm moving to Amsterdam with him.
[somber music playing]
[Kauffman] Tell me how you feel.
[quietly] Empty.
Nothing makes any sense.
[Kauffman] What happens after that, Álex?
[somber music intensifies]
I love you so much.
Okay, okay, go.
- You got your stuff?
- [Bea] Bye, Dad.
[Bruno] Bye, Papa.
[inhales shakily]
[Kauffman] Álex, tell me
what happened after that.
[screams]
[glass shatters]
[Kauffman] Who are you angry with?
[Álex] With my life.
Be more specific.
With my work.
[Kauffman] Why?
[Álex] Nothing around me
fulfills me anymore.
I just do what other people tell me to do.
I ignore Allan's advice.
For God's sake, Álex.
[Álex] I start
You can't do this. You can't walk out.
[Álex] to sabotage my own career.
And doing what I feel like doing,
not the shit people tell me to do.
[mournful music playing]
[Kauffman] Are you sure
you're sabotaging your career, Álex?
I want to find my my voice.
Even if I have
to fight tooth and nail for it.
And I get angry
if I'm denied that privilege.
Please, stop, Álex.
It doesn't work.
It doesn't work. Álex, please.
I hate it.
Can you stop playing
this fucking shit, please?
I can't stand it!
Álex, the music is horrible.
[Kauffman] Who are you angry with, Álex?
[director] You need to stop this.
Somebody stop it.
- Say it out loud.
- Shut up!
- [director] Stop! Stop!
- Say it.
It doesn't work.
What the hell are you doing?
[both grunt]
Who are you punching?
Tell me who you're really punching.
Tell me who you're angry with, Álex.
Who are you punching right now?
[inhales sharply]
[breathing shakily]
My mother.
[somber music playing]
[gasps]
[gulls crying]
[Kauffman] Where have you gone now?
[Álex] I'm in Tremore.
I haven't worked in a year.
And I've just spent
my first night with Judy.
It's the first time I feel
at peace in a very long time.
The scar on my hand hurts,
but it doesn't matter.
I go out on the balcony.
My neighbors are going fishing.
[loud banging]
[Álex] Leo. María.
[thunder rumbles]
- [breathing shakily]
- [María screams]
- [camera shutter clicks]
- [electricity thrums]
- I want you to calm down, Álex.
- [breathing shakily]
- [María sobbing indistinctly]
- [Kauffman] Calm down, Álex.
Álex, listen to your breathing.
- Álex, Álex, Álex.
- Stop, Dad!
[Kauffman] Listen to your breathing.
Please calm down. Álex.
Calm down, calm down, Álex. Calm down.
That's it, that's it. Breathe.
Calm down.
- [monitor beeping]
- Calm down.
- [breathing slows]
- [Kauffman] Breathe.
- [heart racing]
- It's okay.
[beating slows]
It's okay.
Listen to me.
The hooded men, the rain of fish
All those symbols are linked
to what you've told me so far.
The question is, what links them?
And I suspect
that you're scared of digging that up.
Doctor.
I haven't hidden anything.
[Kauffman] Not consciously.
But there's a door
you didn't want to open.
That of pain.
You escape from it
the moment you sense it.
That's why you haven't told me
how you won the scholarship yet,
and why you and Estrella parted ways.
So I'd like to ask you to go back
to that point of no return in your life
and tell me what happened.
We don't have all day. Go ahead, please.
[fast-paced piano melody playing]
[Elvira] Breathe, air.
Air.
The left hand. The left hand, Álex!
Tragic! Tragic!
Tragic!
[plays wrong note]
- [plays wrong note]
- [gasps]
I deliberately played the wrong note.
[plays wrong note]
[Álex] I wanted to rebel
against the life my mom envisioned for me.
I wanted to be with Estrella.
[timid applause]
[applause fades]
[gloomy music playing]
- What have you done?
- Go out there and wow them.
I'm going to London with you.
[applause]
[judge] And the next candidate
is Estrella Escudé.
[applause fades]
[playing fast-paced melody]
So this is all because of her?
I don't know what happened.
I'm gonna tell you what happened.
You intentionally tried
to ruin your own future, Álex.
Do you think I'm stupid?
You say what you see can't be changed,
and we can't escape our future
because it's written.
- Álex.
- I just proved you wrong, didn't I?
- Are you okay?
- Better than ever.
You knew about this girl, didn't you?
He needs to live his life, Elvira.
You're stupid, Isaak.
I'd like to believe
you're not an accomplice in all this.
Of course I'm not an accomplice.
Isaak, she won't be a part of his life.
She is now.
- [melody concludes]
- [applause]
Bravo!
[Ramiro] Bravo!
[Kauffman] There's something
I don't understand, Álex.
If Estrella won the scholarship
and got the life that,
according to your mother,
you were destined to live,
what changed everything?
Why did you end up going alone to London,
instead of going with her,
as you two had originally planned?
What happened, Álex?
[breathing shakily]
[Kauffman] You're going away, Álex.
Don't go away.
Come back and tell me what happened.
Tell me what happens, Álex.
- There was a party after the gala.
- No.
No, in the present, Álex. Don't run away.
I want you to be there, mentally.
As if you were living
in that moment right now.
[lively jazz music playing]
[excited chatter]
[Álex] There's a party after the gala.
My mom doesn't wanna join in.
I wanna talk to her,
but my dad says he'll do it for me.
I'll talk to your mom.
[Ramiro] So where do you think
we should hang this?
[Álex] My mom won't accept the defeat.
They argue in front of everyone.
For the first time,
I don't feel any guilt.
When I see her begging
to the members of the jury,
all I feel is embarrassment.
- Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.
- And then relief when she finally leaves.
I feel
happy, at ease.
- Okay.
- Come on, Álex. Let's go.
[Álex] Ramiro and my dad
finally give us some space.
- [upbeat music playing]
- [laughs]
I feel like I can be myself
for the first time.
[jazz music fades]
- [indistinct chatter]
- [Estrella laughs]
Are you sure you don't want a ride?
It's late, my house is far away.
I'll get a taxi, don't worry.
You still have to tell me
what happened in there, okay?
[crickets chirping]
[young Álex sighs]
You did that intentionally, right?
Why?
It was how I felt.
Why do I get the feeling
you're hiding something?
I don't wanna lose you.
And you won't.
You won't.
You won't.
- Let me know when you get home, okay?
- Okay.
Okay. Now, go.
Go ahead, go.
- [tender music playing]
- [Estrella] Álex!
What are we?
Unstoppable.
[engine starts]
[Isaak, in distance] Where are you? Huh?
Call me when you hear this. Bye.
[phone beeps]
- Hey.
- Why are you up?
I couldn't sleep.
- Who were you talking to?
- No one.
Work stuff.
- Where's Mom?
- [tender music fades]
Uh sleeping.
I'll go talk to her.
Wait until tomorrow.
She's still upset, you know?
[young Álex] Mm.
Don't you get tired?
I still love her.
[thunder rumbling]
Well, I'm goin' to bed.
Good night.
[softly] Okay. Good night.
[sighs]
[thunder rumbles in distance]
[phone rings]
[phone rings]
[phone beeps]
- Hello?
- [Ramiro] Álex.
Uh, it's Ramiro.
- [Álex] Ramiro? What's wrong?
- [Ramiro] Estrella was in a car accident.
[breathing shakily]
[Kauffman] Álex, don't go away.
Álex, come back and tell me what happened.
Álex?
- [thunder rumbles]
- [breathing shakily]
Álex?
- [mournful music playing]
- Where are you going?
Where are you going?
Álex! What happened?
- Álex!
- [gasps]
Álex. Álex, you need to calm down.
Focus on your breathing.
Calm down, Álex.
[Kauffman] Álex, listen to me.
- [alarm ringing]
- [Álex grunts]
[Kauffman] Álex. Calm down.
Try to calm down, Álex.
[alarm beeping]
Calm down.
- [young Alex panting]
- [Kauffman] Breathe, Álex, please.
[Ramiro] She's my daughter!
Estrella!
[Kauffman] Calm down, Álex.
[sobbing]
[mournful music building]
[Álex sobbing]
- [alarm beeping]
- Calm down.
[crying hysterically]
[priest] We are gathered here today
to honor the life of Estrella.
A life taken too soon.
[mourners chattering]
[music fades slowly]
[Ramiro] Thank you for coming.
[Isaak] I'm so sorry for your loss.
- Thanks.
- I'm really sorry.
Do they know what happened? Or
[sighs]
They say They say she was speeding,
lost control,
and went off the road, uh, so
Did she look okay when you left?
[inhales sharply]
She was perfectly fine.
Otherwise, I would've driven, I swear.
I would've called her a cab or something.
I don't know.
I guess I'm looking for answers
where there are none.
Take care of him. This boy's a treasure.
Look.
They retrieved this
from the scene of the accident.
- ["For Estrella" playing]
- I want you to have it.
Don't ever forget her, okay?
[Álex sobs softly]
FOR ESTRELLA
[smashes random discordant notes]
[sobs]
[Isaak] Álex, please, just
[exhales shakily]
If I hadn't played the wrong note,
I I would've won.
Maybe she'd still be alive.
- It was meant to be.
- [sighs]
You sound like mom.
I'm sorry, son.
[phone ringing]
I'll get it.
[call connects]
Yes? Hello?
Yes, he's here.
Who's calling?
[ominous music playing]
Yes, yes.
I'll put him on.
- Álex.
- [Elvira sighs]
[Isaak] It's for you.
About the scholarship.
[sighs]
[Elvira sighs]
Hello?
[man] Hello, this is the board
of the Royal British Conservatory.
Yes?
- Is this Alex De La Fuente?
- Yes, this is he.
We wanted to check if you'd still
be interested in the scholarship.
[Álex] Yes. Of course. I'm interested.
I just need to think about it.
- Of course.
- Thanks.
We hope to hear from you soon. Thank you.
- [exhales sharply]
- [Elvira] I told you.
One wrong note isn't enough of a reason
for what I saw not to happen.
[music fades]
It's written, Álex.
It can't be changed.
There's nothing to think about. Okay?
Call them
and tell them you accept. Please.
Tell me it's not true.
I got the scholarship.
[somber strings swell]
[Álex clears throat]
How do you feel?
- Exhausted.
- That's normal.
Your mind has opened a door
that's been closed for years.
[sighs]
And what's your diagnosis?
I think the intense influence
of your mother
has led you to believe Estrella's
death was your fault.
And now you're scared of losing
the people you love.
You fled to Tremore
to get away from the life
your mother envisioned for you,
and now you're afraid
that change will make
everything around you crumble.
That's why my mind's playing tricks on me?
[Kauffman] How important are they to you?
Leo, María?
What role do they play in your life?
Your new life in Tremore?
They and Judy are some
of the most important people I have.
And your children are
what's most important to you,
outside of Tremore?
Of course.
And specifically, now that they're
here with you for a while,
your delirious threat episodes
are increasing.
I'm scared of losing the ones I love?
That's all this is?
No, it's not just that.
You desperately need to protect them too.
Since your kids haven't been with you,
you've lost your role
as a protective father.
You have this need to protect others
to purge the guilt from
not having been able to protect Estrella.
When you played a wrong note,
in an attempt to change
what you thought was a premonition,
Estrella, the person
you loved the most, died.
So after you've been struck by lightning,
your mind has been awakened,
and it's designing a new premonition.
So that this time, you can find a way
to address it and finally redeem yourself.
But
Everything my mom predicted
about my future, it all came true.
Hmm. You could have maybe
rejected that scholarship,
and this wouldn't have happened.
I've been running away from my mother.
And ironically, you proved her right.
And my son?
How do you explain my son
seeing exactly what I see?
Because you are influencing him
in the same way your mother
influenced you in your childhood.
Sleepwalking is a hereditary disorder.
It becomes a problem of suggestion.
Your son is absorbing all your beliefs
up to the point
that he believes he has
the same gift as you.
You need to be careful with that.
[contemplative piano music playing]
And now what?
That depends on you.
[Judy] Are you sure you're okay?
Do you need, uh
anything?
Just trust me.
I like seeing you like this.
[ringtone playing]
She's been calling all day.
What do we do?
Okay.
[Viviana] Hello, hello.
- Hello.
- Hi Viviana.
Hey lovebirds! Where are you?
Well, uh you know,
we just, uh we spent the day outside.
Here we are,
setting everything up for the concert.
- Look at Peio. Peio! Say hi.
- [Peio] Hey! Champ!
It's comin' along. Check it out!
So, are you going to play or not?
- [Viviana] You've got us on the edge of
- The answer is yes.
- [Viviana] Concert and speech? Everything?
- Yes, yes. Well, not everything.
I'll call you tomorrow to talk about it.
Oh, that's wonderful.
It'll be the best festival ever.
Seriously, you don't know
how happy I am right now.
I'm gonna tell everyone. [laughs]
Thanks.
- Ciao.
- [both] Ciao.
- Are you gonna tell me?
- What?
What happened in the session
for you to be so good?
Yes, but
I'll tell you, but In a moment, okay?
It'll be real quick.
SANATORIUM
[Kauffman] Have you decided on the answer
to the question I asked you
at the beginning of the session?
Man of science or man of faith?
You have to choose.
[birds singing]
[Álex] I choose science.
I choose to be treated.
[Kauffman] But you have doubts.
[Álex] No.
I know what I've experienced,
but I don't wanna end up like my mom.
[Judy] I'll wait here. Okay?
[softly] Okay.
[crow caws]
[Álex] I don't wanna lose Judy.
I don't want my kids
to see me like this again.
I'm glad to hear that.
- What if I have another attack?
- [Kauffman] Don't run from your visions.
Try to capture what they're telling you.
And if you feel able,
write down every detail.
They're important.
Always face what is to come, Álex.
[nurse] Well, it's been hard.
It's always an effort
to get her out of the room
and interact with other patients.
The truth is, her state has worsened a lot
since you were here last.
She used to ask about you.
But she might not even recognize you now.
Let me know if you need anything, Álex.
- Thanks.
- You're welcome.
[tense music playing]
[clock ticking]
[music fades]
[exhales]
[sniffles]
[softly] Hi, Mom.
Do you know who I am? [sniffles]
I'm sorry
I'm sorry I didn't come here sooner,
but I was feeling a bit angry with you.
But I guess you already knew that,
since you say you see everything.
I'm assuming that Dad
told you about my divorce.
And that I'm out of work.
You know what?
I've realized that I don't know who I am.
I did know it for a little bit.
Not long.
When Estrella showed me a world
that was different from yours.
Then my mind went blank.
And I began living the life
I supposedly was destined to live.
And I was unhappy.
Until now, Mom.
I've recently met a wonderful woman.
Her name is Judy.
And I don't want you to meet her
because I don't want her
to have anything to do with you.
Did you hear that?
I know you heard me.
I hate you, Mom.
I hate you so much.
[somber piano music playing]
I've been living like a slave
of the fear of becoming like you.
I feared being looked at in the same way
that Dad and I looked at you.
The way people
who didn't understand you looked at you.
Now I finally understand you.
Because something similar
has happened to me.
But you know what?
I'm going to rebel.
I won't be like you.
I won't lose
the few people I have and love.
[exhales shakily]
I've been seeing you in my dreams lately.
I suppose
that's because part of me wonders
how much of my life you were able to see.
If you were ever able to do it at all.
[unsettling music playing]
You didn't give me a choice, Mom.
At all.
And now I choose
to live the life I want to live.
I'm leaving.
[crying softly]
Bye, Mom.
[clock ticking]
[ominous music rises]
[Elvira] I was somewhere I'd
I'd never seen before.
With white walls and
a lot of light coming in.
There was this this green lattice
and a man playing chess.
- [gasps]
- [Elvira] And Álex was there.
With a woman.
It wasn't his wife.
He was far away
from the life he was destined for.
[music building]
She put him in danger.
It was all darkness around her.
[gasps]
[music ends abruptly]
[somber piano music playing]
[eerie music playing]
[music fades]