Valeria (2020) s02e07 Episode Script
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A NETFLIX SERIES
ONE MONTH LATER
[gasps]
IMPOSTOR, THE NEW LITERARY PHENOMENON
FRIENDS 4EVER - LOOK AT WHAT I JUST SAW.
That venue is closed.
I still have to check the other, okay?
But it's nothing, everything's fine.
Yes, yes, it'll be the exact same.
got a montage and a song ♪
Okay.
And every time you talk to me ♪
Yeah, every word sounds good to me ♪
I want you more and more
And more and more ♪
But every time you talk to me ♪
I'm hearing you scared of losing me ♪
And every time you talk to me
You've got it all wrong ♪
You're turning good times
Into bad times ♪
Now that you're no longer ♪
Sleeping with me ♪
Bad times are a good sign ♪
Maybe I'm no longer ♪
As nice as you think ♪
BASED ON THE NOVELS BY ELÍSABET BENAVEN
[Chus] "An unexpected hit."
2.7 FLICKER
- "The voice of the millennials."
- [chuckles]
"The book everyone's talking about."
- And look at the sales.
- Let's see.
Very soon,
we'll have sold half a million copies.
Half a million? But that is just
It's a hit, Valeria.
- [laughs]
- We have to make the most of it.
- Mmm.
- I'm thinking about organizing
a reading of Impostor
in a big bookshop.
With the press. A really big event.
- No.
- What?
Better as an intimate reading.
Something small.
Fine, I think it's great.
It's your book, right?
And I think I have
the perfect person to organize it.
- Hm? That's great.
- Mmm.
Do you need anything else?
You don't happen to have
a spare hand, do you? [chuckles]
- You're going to hate the book fair.
- [sighs]
Finally! My signature
was starting to look like a doctor's.
[laughs] I'm leaving.
I'll send a courier to get these.
Do you want them
- to take some to your sister's?
- No, I'd rather take them to her.
- They're not that heavy.
- Mm.
Oh, fuck!
Víctor.
The voice of the millennials.
Aah
Congratulations.
Thanks.
Oh.
[sung in Spanish]
I'm going to go down the wrong path ♪
I'M DYING TO STRIP YOU OF YOUR LAYERS
I'm going to get into trouble ♪
Play with fire, break the rules ♪
- How are you?
- Fine.
And you?
Fine. Fine, too.
go down your dangerous path ♪
I'm going to light the fuse ♪
Hey, why don't we go for a drink
and catch up?
We haven't seen each other for a month,
since, you know
I don't know, Víctor.
Come on, a chance meeting like this
calls for a celebration.
And, what do you mean,
you've given up caffeine?
Well, it's just after 12:00.
All that caffeine was affecting my nerves,
and I need to be focused to write.
Sure.
Have you read it?
No.
I've tried several times,
but it brings back too many memories.
[sighs]
I should probably leave now.
- But they just brought our drinks.
- Yeah. I'm sorry. But
Víctor, we know each other.
And I know how this could end up
if I don't leave this minute.
And would it be so bad if that happened?
I'm going. Yes. I'm going.
- Okay, well, let me help you.
- No. I can do it alone.
- [clattering]
- Oh. Sorry.
Thank you for the drink.
[sung in Spanish]
has been leading up ♪
To this exact moment ♪
To this exact moment ♪
To this exact moment ♪
Oh.
[sighs]
Hmm I'll put this here, and this here
My love?
- [gasps]
- Ooh!
- Oh, you're awake.
- What's up?
Nothing. [chuckles]
I mean, listen.
I was thinking
we could do something special today.
Right? To celebrate
our first month living together.
- [sighs] Like what?
- Well, we could do something at home.
Order some good food,
have a hot bath, right?
[kissing] Watch a movie together in bed.
Yeah, but that's
what we do every day, isn't it?
[sighs] Well, we do, honey, I know.
But watching the last season of RuPaul
for the third time
while you drool on my pillow
- is not my idea of romance, you know?
- [chuckles] Yeah.
Anyway, I actually have other plans today.
- Huh?
- With my mom.
- With your mom?
- Uh-huh.
- With my mom.
- What for?
- Well, just to help her with some errands.
- What errands?
Errands! Errands
Errands for my mother.
Okay?
But we can do that any other day, right?
- We have lots of time.
- Yeah, we have lots of time.
I don't know. I'll call the girls
to see what they're doing.
Sure. I'm sure you can do
- whatever you like doing with them.
- Hmm.
- Hey, I'm leaving. [kisses]
- But
Mmm
Are you going to put all that there?
Mmm yes. What's up?
Well, the living room
is a bit cluttered already, right?
Never mind. Yeah.
Bye! [scoffs]
- What do you want?
- Me? Nothing.
- [sighs]
- [chuckles]
You don't want me to come here
to work anymore.
- Right?
- What? No.
If you wanna throw me out, I get it.
It's fine. I go from house to house
- begging for wi-fi
- For you.
- You dedicated your book to me?
- Mmm.
"To Nerea, an example of bravery.
Thank you for teaching me
- to get off the well-trodden path."
- Mmm.
"Thanks for organizing
the reading of my book and"
[both] "For saying 'yes'
without hesitation."
[laughs]
Nice joke.
- [phone ringing]
- Hmm?
Yes?
Puri?
Uh No, but wasn't he with you,
doing some errands?
Well, I don't know, mother's errands.
Oh, uh No, no, no. No.
Well, I don't know.
I must have gotten the days mixed up.
Yes. Yes, yes. Sure, yes.
Don't worry. I'll tell him. I
- Bye.
- [doorbell rings]
I can't hire another company.
It has to be you.
No. You're my best friend. If anything
went wrong, I couldn't forgive myself.
It's impossible for anything to go wrong.
Look, I'd like something simple and small.
- Thank God you're here. We're starving.
- Oh, okay
[Valeria] It's impossible
for anything to go wrong for you.
I want I don't know. I'd like a style.
You can't say no to a job.
Don't you have a code
that obligates you to accept clients?
- I'm an event organizer, not a doctor.
- Why don't you wanna do this?
It's a good opportunity. You tell her.
- Carmen!
- What? Yeah.
- Carmen.
- Hey, Nerea, help her.
- See? Yes!
- No.
- No.
- Yes!
- No!
- Come on, yes.
What if we get into
an argument about planning?
I pass.
I don't want to mix work and friendship.
If you don't do it, I'll tell Chus
I'd rather not have a reading.
Come on. Don't say that.
It's your first novel.
No, no. Val has oat milk at lunchtime
because it's sweeter.
See? Nobody knows me better than you.
Uh Oh, you're gonna do it.
[gasps] You're gonna do it.
- I didn't say I was.
- So
- Did you hear me say I was?
- No, but I saw it.
- I saw it in your eyes. You'll do it.
- [Nerea] You didn't.
- [Valeria] You did this
- [Nerea] Val
- I'm not
- Can you guys just stop it, please?
What's going on?
My boyfriend's completely bored with me,
and he makes up excuses
to avoid making plans with me.
Fuck. [sobs]
Carmen.
- What?
- That's not true.
Yes, it is.
Of course it is.
But why?
Dani, I'm on my way.
I tried to get there fast,
but you try running in heels. Oh!
[grunts]
[low murmuring]
I'm sorry.
- I've been waiting for you for 20 minutes.
- I'm sorry. I couldn't come earlier.
You look handsome, little bro.
- I am so handsome.
- [laughs]
I couldn't even get the program.
- Better that way.
- Better? Why?
Lola, come on. Please stay.
Even if it's just for me.
["Suite for Cello No. 1. in G Major,
Prelude" by Bach]
- [buzz of conversation]
- [music continues]
[laughing]
- Hello.
- Hello.
[Borja] Mmm.
[sighs]
[bell rings]
- Víctor Andradas?
- Yes.
- Here you go. Sign here, please.
- Yep.
Thank you.
[music continues]
[Valeria] "You could never discover me
because I hadn't discovered myself."
"But now, I know who I am.
I wish you all the best."
"Valeria."
So, I'm gonna stay
and congratulate her. You coming?
I stayed for the concert,
don't push your luck with me.
At least move me over there.
Nice try, but no luck.
This is all really shallow.
[kisses]
- I'll give her a kiss on your behalf?
- No.
Okay, on your behalf.
[applause continues]
[sighs]
Okay, wait just a minute.
I brought you a little something.
- What?
- I hope you like it.
- Okay!
- Let's see.
Mmm [gasps]
- Happy Advent!
- Oh, oh, oh! I love it.
- They remind me of my childhood.
- Right? It's very Christmassy.
- Thanks.
- I have always thought those calendars
were really stupid.
Oh, really? This has chocolate,
- but okay, if you don't want it
- Give.
- [Carmen chuckles]
- But I still think it's a stupid thing.
- [Carmen] You're the Grinch with curls.
- Yep.
Lola, did you go to a concert?
No. Okay, yes.
- Yes.
- Really?
That's my mom's.
I mean
I went, but because my brother tricked me.
- And
- But you stayed?
Sure. Sure, I stayed.
I stayed because I feel good
after breaking up with Sergio.
And I feel much more equipped
to face all of this.
- And that's all.
- [Carmen] Yeah.
I don't know, but, just the fact that
you felt like talking to her,
it's a very important step, right?
Well, I didn't say
I felt like talking to her.
Well, but but you're thinking about it.
- Mmm?
- Well, I
Stop it, people. How does a little wine
sound for everybody?
- Yes, more wine.
- More wine?
- I want some.
- I love having wine in the afternoon.
- Here, finish it.
- It's very good.
- Look, a little star. So good.
- [Lola] Mm. They are.
- Carmen, are you all right?
- What?
You haven't talked to Borja, hmm?
I don't even know how to do it. [sighs]
Look, have a conversation.
And then say that, if you're going
to move in with each other,
you need to learn to express your needs
without lying to each other.
Hey! Hello?
Uh, Val, is that you?
Hmm?
- [Lola and Nerea chuckle]
- It's the "successful writer's" effect.
Sometimes, it seems
I know what I'm talking about.
Oh, shit, Valeria. Víctor was right
when he said you were changing.
[Carmen] Have you seen Víctor?
- You didn't say anything.
- [Valeria] It's not a big deal.
- What? You haven't heard from him.
- I haven't either, and he's my friend.
- Yeah, but
- It was just for a minute.
We bumped into each other and
What did he say to you?
Well, uh, he said, um
that you seemed different.
In a good way, in a good way.
That it was all polite, very diplomatic.
Although I think he went home
and jerked himself off.
- Oh, Lola!
- What?
- That's gross.
- What'd you do when you got back?
- Bet you did
- [Carmen] No, I don't want to know!
[laughs] What did I tell you?
Hey, have all of you opened day 15?
It's the praline one and I love it.
- Mm-mm.
- No, I ate it.
- [Lola] Hey. Yes! Come on.
- [Carmen] Nerea, give it to her. The 15th.
Do you have it?
You are thinking about Víctor, right?
Well, it was right there
where we kissed the first time.
- Worse things have happened in there.
- I also slept here, with you,
- the night I broke up with Adrián.
- Yes.
I made love to Borja for the first time
in your bathroom, remember?
- Is that for real?
- [Carmen] Yes.
[all laughing]
Well, I did it with Olga
on the washing machine.
[Valeria] What?
- [Carmen] Excuse me?
- With the spin dryer going? Like
[burbling]
- No.
- Yes.
It'd be quicker if I told you
where I haven't fucked
- in this flat.
- For sure.
- No shock there.
- You wanna know something?
- I'm gonna ask your publisher for rights.
- Why?
Half of your novel is set
inside this apartment.
- That's true.
- Hmm?
- [Lola] Mmm.
- Wait a minute.
Why don't we do
the book reading right here?
- What?
- [Lola] Oh!
Yeah! Lola's right.
Half the book is set in this house.
- Please?
- Well, sure.
- How could I not let you?
- How about it? Yeah?
- [clears throat]
- Hm?
We probably could,
but it'd be strange to have a reading
in an apartment.
Oh, I like it. I don't know,
it's intimate and different.
- Yeah, sure.
- [Nerea sighs]
- Well maybe we could see
- Oh!
- I didn't say yes. Did you hear
- Yes, a little bit.
- But did you hear me say "yes"?
- Come on, I've had enough of all this.
- Let's go have a drink.
- Okay.
- My mouth feels like a dry shoe.
- I'm taking my calendar.
- I need you to do me a favor.
- Okay?
I want to send an invitation
to someone very special.
[door closes]
[Borja] Hello!
Hello.
I've been working on that brief
for three hours.
But that's okay, it's done.
- You'll get it first thing tomorrow.
- Great.
Well, first thing,
or maybe at ten or 11:00.
That's fine, Borja. [sighs]
What's wrong?
- [sighs] Um I know about your mom.
- What's wrong with my mom?
- She called me.
- She called you?
I know you didn't meet her, Borja.
- When?
- Yesterday, Borja. Yesterday.
Yesterday
Oh, uh Since when are you
such good friends with my mother?
If you wanted to go somewhere on your own,
- you just had to tell me.
- I don't have to explain where I'm going.
Sure, and that's exactly why
you don't have to lie to me, right?
- I didn't lie to you.
- You didn't?
- No.
- Because I think you did.
- Mm, no.
- No?
[groans]
I'll tell you what happened
yesterday, okay? Look.
In the afternoon, I was just gonna
- Not there!
- Hey! What's up?
You're gonna look through my things?
Are you blind? There's food on the knife.
It was going to get dirty.
Fuck this shit.
[sighs]
[plays note]
- [Virginia] Do you want to play it?
- [gasps]
No, no, no. Uh
I just wanted to tell you that
you played really well at the concert.
I saw you, and, um it made me happy.
What did you think?
Weird.
When you started playing,
I stopped seeing the mother and
I saw the artist.
You don't have to see just one thing.
The mother or the artist, the ex.
The happy one, the depressed one.
I'm a mixture of all of them.
["Suite for Cello No. 1. in G Major,
Prelude" by Bach]
I never wanted to hurt you.
But I'm not going to feel guilty
for wanting to be more
than just one thing.
I have to go.
I still have time
before the next performance.
- We can get something to drink.
- I can't.
I just wanted to tell you that.
[music continues]
[footsteps]
Lola.
If you ever want to share
anything else with me, I'm here.
- She's a workin' woman ♪
- [doorbell rings]
She got no time to be misled ♪
- Hello!
- Hello!
- Hello!
- Well, it seems like little sis
can finish what she starts, right?
- We're so proud.
- You look so nice, honey.
- Hello, honey.
- Hi, Dad.
So, for the reading,
this place we're going to
- Hmm?
- Are they going to read your book?
That's basically the definition
of a reading.
Yeah, but
- All of it?
- No. not all of it! That would take hours.
Mm.
Are you sure you wanna come?
- Yes, yes.
- Sure.
- Yes, yes, yes. Of course.
- Yes, yes. Sure.
We're in a little bit of a hurry.
- Get in the elevator. We can't all fit.
- [Fernando] Okay.
- We'll go down first.
- [Rebeca] Fine.
They are happy too. Hmm?
But when they read your book, they didn't
expect it to be so informative.
- Hm?
- So informative.
Ah. [laughs]
- Okay.
- Give them a chance, huh?
- Well, then, are you ready?
- [sighs]
- Yes?
- Yes!
- Let's go.
- Let's go, let's go. Okay. Wait.
- Okay.
- Ooh! [giggles]
She's a workin' woman ♪
- She got no time to be misled ♪
- [applause]
- She's got ♪
- Hello.
- Hello.
- How are you?
- [woman] This way.
- Hi.
Oh, she will gladly share ♪
- [Lola] Whoo!
- This fun to entertain you ♪
- Go for it.
- Okay.
- You'll do great.
- You'll be amazing.
You got this.
- You got this.
- She can do it ♪
She can do it ♪
Okay.
She can do it ♪
- She can do it ♪
- Hello.
The woman behind me
is the director of our Mexican affiliate.
Make sure you smile.
- Hello.
- Guadalupe Barandela, Valeria Férriz.
- Do you want some?
- Oh, no, no, no.
- I'm not hungry, thanks.
- Hm.
Look at her.
Poor thing, she just needs to look
for Víctor on the ceiling now.
- Do you know if he's coming?
- I have no idea.
He's been so weird lately
- that nothing would surprise me.
- Mm.
Ugh.
- I'm gonna go eat.
- Didn't you say you weren't hungry?
- Uh, Carmen, look, Can we talk
- I'm going to talk to Val's parents.
[sighs] Here, take this. It's gross. Ugh.
Hmm. That's very interesting.
The author's my best friend.
She don't need advice on fashion ♪
She don't need advice on fashion ♪
- She can do it, she can do it ♪
- Yeah ♪
She can do it, she can do it ♪
- [buzzing]
- She can do it on her own ♪
- She can do it on her own ♪
- I like shy guys. I don't bite.
Yeah, she can do it on her own ♪
- She can do it on her own ♪
- Yeah ♪
- So after that, they went downstairs and
- I'm sorry.
That light bulb is getting on my nerves.
It won't stop blinking.
- It's driving me crazy.
- Oh The light bulb's fine.
- Nobody has noticed.
- Are you sure?
- I'm sure.
- Girls, we're going to start now.
- Now?
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Everything is perfect.
Come on.
I've never read in front
of so many people.
And this book is quite intimate.
Yeah.
Well, that sucks, huh.
Don't you wish you'd hired someone
who really knew who you were?
[chuckles]
What did you think?
I've thought about everything.
- What?
- Trust me.
- [tinkling]
- Everyone, may I have your attention?
- Good evening, everyone.
- Lola, stop it.
- Thank you so much for coming
- Carmen and Lola.
- to this special reading of Impostor.
- [Valeria sighs]
Sometimes, we publishers
take all the credit
for having discovered some new author
who becomes an overnight success.
In this situation, that's not the case.
The one who really risked everything
with her novel was Valeria.
We got involved later.
- Our only credit was printing it.
- [laughter]
And, so, Valeria, I'm really grateful
to you for trusting yourself
and then for trusting us. [chuckles]
Valeria Férriz.
Whoo-whoo!
Whoo!
I, uh
I don't really like talking about myself,
even if I have written
a whole book about my life.
[laughter]
That's why I just want to thank you
for coming here tonight,
for putting up with me,
supporting me,
and, above all, loving me. [laughs]
Thank you.
Valeria has two ways
of expressing herself.
Writing stories and sending never-ending
audio messages.
- [laughing]
- But
speaking in public is very hard for her.
And so tonight,
some of the people who know her best
will lend her our voices.
"Carmen didn't take long." [laughs]
"When I opened the front door,
she and Borja were happily chatting
and laughing." [chuckles]
"That looked pretty nice."
"I wasn't surprised in the least
by Borja."
"He was just as I had imagined,
but without his Bogart-style hat."
[both laugh]
"Apparently, he was just a normal guy."
When the stars
Are the only things we share ♪
Will you be there? ♪
[music continuing]
"Lola grabbed the big jar of pickles
and drank some of the liquid
that they were floating in."
[both laugh]
[Lola] "It was a miracle
I didn't throw up."
"Then she burped loudly,
she cleaned her mouth with her hand
and just kept talking."
hands while you were waiting ♪
For that cold long promise to appear ♪
People in the churches
Started singing ♪
[Nerea] "Nerea and I
had been friends for years."
"We met at a library,
in one of those strange coincidences
that make two people
with nothing in common
- become thick as thieves."
- [chuckles]
"We were like the earth and the sky,
but there the two of us were,
always together, joined at the hip."
that place ♪
When the stars are
The only things we share ♪
Will you be there? ♪
- [Lola] Congratulations!
- [all laughing]
[Nerea] Well done.
[Rebeca] It's the first time I've been
away since she was born.
- I can't stop looking at pictures of her.
- Yeah.
I've turned into one of those mothers
I used to mock at the clinic all the time.
Well, I mean,
that's because it's the first time.
I suppose.
I I mean, at first, well
you'll feel guilty, but then,
you'll start enjoying
doing things on your own.
I sure hope so, because
I talk about her, and
leak all over my breastfeeding pads.
- Do you mind?
- No.
The thing is, Lola,
that we do all these classes to prepare,
but no one teaches you to deal with guilt.
Sure, it's because maternity
can be beautiful,
- but it can also feel scary.
- [sighs]
Sometimes, you'll feel invisible,
because now, when you go to
the playground with your daughter,
everyone will call you "Mar's mom,"
"Mar's mom," but
but do not forget for one second,
you are still Rebeca.
I am.
And if you're not invisible,
your daughter won't be invisible.
You're very lucky
if your mom taught you that. It's true.
Well, yes.
- I suppose so.
- No.
- No?
- No, no, I get emotional,
and the milk spurts out of me.
- Where can I go to pump it?
- There.
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
[sighs]
Oie papi ven a mí y cuéntame ♪
Come, come ki estai, tai
Come ki vai, vai ♪
Oie papi, ven a mí y déjame sentir ♪
Come ki estai, tai
Come ki vai, vai ♪
Oie papi ven a mí y cuéntame ♪
Come, come ki estai, tai
Come ki vai, vai ♪
Oie papi, ven a mí y déjame sentir ♪
Come ki estai, tai
Come ki vai, vai ♪
Hello.
Hello.
- You came.
- Yes, I'm a bit late.
- I missed the reading. I'm sorry.
- Don't worry.
- It was all good.
- Thank you for inviting me.
And Lucía.
Oh.
- I'm happy you're doing well.
- Well, the same to you.
Shit! It's amazing what you're capable of.
I'm sorry I wasn't there
when I should've been.
I really did want to have something
with you, but I couldn't tell you.
- Well, but now
- Yeah.
Yeah, I know. It's too late, but
I needed to tell you.
Thank you.
I think someone's looking for you.
- Well, I'm going.
- Yes.
- Take care.
- Of course.
Too boho-hippy for you, Nerea.
Miriam.
- My love! Long time, no see.
- What a surprise.
So tell me, where does a stiff lawyer
like you get such great taste?
[laughs]
- It seems I'm an organizer at heart.
- Yes, however
You're missing a waiter.
I just saw a friend of yours banging him.
And don't wait more than ten minutes
to put in more toilet paper.
There seem to be a lot of small bladders
at this party.
Hey, what's your line of work?
Uh, well, I'm a part-time
administrative assistant,
and a full-time badass, to be honest.
- [laughs]
- Are you working right now?
Unfortunately, no.
How many girls like me
do you see as secretaries in a company?
It's fine.
- That's the one. That's her.
- I'll be back.
Yes, yes, you solve that, honey.
[tuts] You are not going back
to that bathroom. Put down the condoms.
I don't know what you're talking about.
- [sniffs] You're drunk.
- No.
The reading was so beautiful.
I don't know what I'd do without you.
- Write a boring book.
- Lola!
- We had to make your day perfect.
- It is, even if someone's missing.
Why don't you call Víctor
to put our minds at ease?
Víctor?
It's better for you to know
if he's coming or not.
- Víctor isn't even invited.
- No.
Well, hang on.
Then who were you looking for?
- Me? I was
- Yes.
Look.
Wh
I'll be right back.
Oh, sorry!
I'll have one.
- I think my shag can wait. Come with me.
- Okay, let's go.
Okay.
[Adrián] Who are you looking for?
I thought you left.
I did.
But then I came back, and then left again.
I did that twice. [chuckles]
Thanks for trying to be here.
To be honest,
I didn't think you'd invite me
after our last conversation.
It was intense, yeah.
What I said to you, I really
I know it must've been
really painful to read.
And I'm sorry.
Well, I'd better accept it.
I've read it's going to be a best seller.
- [Lola] What are they saying now?
- [Carmen] Shut up, they'll hear us.
- Oh!
- No, it's just
- Didn't see you there.
- It's so damn hot in there.
- Hello.
- We just came out to get some fresh air.
- We're going inside.
- Don't move. Bye.
[both chuckle]
I'm really sorry
about what I said in the argument we had.
We deserved a better goodbye.
Especially now.
I'm leaving Madrid.
- What?
- I have a project abroad, and
Well, my life here is not, you know
Sure you don't wanna come up?
I saw your mother, your father
and your sister,
and, well, I'd rather not [laughs]
So this is goodbye.
Goodbye, Val.
Bye, Adri.
[sung in Spanish] Your kisses say
You love me but your words don't ♪
Adri!
You're not being direct ♪
I'm getting really tired of this
Please, be clear ♪
Thanks for all these years together.
[chuckles]
Well, it was nice
It was nice to learn together, right?
Yes.
What did you do to me?
I can't get you out of my head ♪
I'm not saying this
Because I'm an idiot ♪
If you tell me what I am to you ♪
I'll do anything to make you happy ♪
You're special to me ♪
Take care.
- You too.
- Mmm.
- Bye.
- Bye.
I feel insecure when you say you love me
Because I don't think you do ♪
[sighs]
I fall down like a baby
Right into your trap, my love ♪
We can clear these dishes
and bring out the dessert.
And please, get someone
to fix that light bulb. Thanks.
- Nerea.
- Yes?
Congratulations.
When Valeria told me the reading
would be at an apartment,
I didn't expect anything like this.
And what did you expect?
Well, like a birthday,
where, instead of a magician,
you have a reading
of passages from a book.
In a few weeks, we have an event
to present to Bruno Aguilar.
- Yes?
- The publisher's new recruit.
Just take it,
so you have some information.
Do you want me to, uh
Do it as well as today, and we'll call you
for all our future events.
Thanks.
[laughs]
Congratulations to you both.
- [chuckles] Thanks.
- [Fernando] Thanks.
It's not very common
to find someone in this generation
who talks so openly about sex
and from the point of view
of female pleasure.
- I know.
- That's true.
Do you have a moment?
- Well
- Yes.
Yes, she does.
- Well, then.
- Excuse me.
- Let's make a toast to Valeria.
- Cheers.
- [Lola] Cheers.
- To Valeria.
- Cheers.
- Do you know what my favorite part is?
- Mmm?
- The cunnilingus in chapter nine.
- [coughing]
- [Lola laughs]
- You're confused.
- I'm confused?
- Yes.
- Maybe you don't want to live with me.
- If that's the case, I beg you, tell me.
- Carmen.
- No, no, no. Carmen
- I'll suffer. Yes, I'll suffer a lot.
But will I overcome it someday? I will.
- Carmen.
- No. I know I will.
If you don't like it, I don't care.
- Carmen!
- What?
I wanted to ask you to marry me.
What?
I wasn't meeting my mother.
I went to get you a ring.
That's why I didn't want you
to touch my backpack.
Now it's all gone to shit. I wanted us
to be alone, at home, with candles.
- You know, like how it should be done?
- Yes.
Yes, of course.
That's the way I wanted it.
- Not like this.
- No, I mean yes.
- Yes what?
- What I mean is, yes.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I'm saying yes.
- Yes?
- Yes, I want to marry you.
Of course I want to.
- Hang on, hang on, hang on.
- What's do we do now? [laughs]
Let's do things the right way.
Okay. Yeah. [laughing]
[Borja chuckles]
No, no, it goes here
[laughs]
Carmen, will you marry me?
Yes.
Of course I will!
- Enjoy yourself, okay?
- Thanks.
- Bye, honey.
- Bye, Dad.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks.
- I appreciate that you came.
- Once a week.
- I'll call you.
- I think we'll have a successful run.
- Gorgeous.
- Bye.
- And thank you. Valeria, I'm leaving.
- Bye.
- [laughs]
- [Valeria sighs]
- Thank you.
- Congratulations.
- It was a total success.
- Yes.
And if you want,
we can also do this again.
I didn't want to say anything yet,
but as soon as possible, we want you
to start writing
the second part of Impostor.
- I'll call tomorrow about the contract.
- That's fine..
Keep it up, Valeria.
You have
a promising future as a writer.
Really?
I would like you to know,
I have a "promising future" as a writer!
- Oh, we already knew that.
- What happened?
They want me to write
the second part of Impostor!
- Oh, my God!
- [shrieks]
[laughing and cheering]
So, come on!
- Thank you.
- Whoo-hoo!
- To Valeria!
- To Valeria!
- Thank you.
- Whoo-hoo!
[clears throat]
And this one is to my new office.
- [Valeria] What?
- What?
I'm going to stop crashing in your houses.
- I rented a coworking space.
- [Carmen] What?
- Yes, girl, you go!
- Congratulations! Congratulations.
[Lola] Congratulations.
- [Valeria] Wow.
- Wait a minute.
- Oh, shit, we have a lot to celebrate.
- Yes.
- My God!
- This one's for
this!
- No way.
- No.
- Yes! Yes, girl.
- [Lola] Oh, no!
- [Valeria] You're getting married?
- Yes.
- [Nerea] You're getting married?
- I'm getting married!
- Carmen.
- [Lola] Oh, my God!
- Come here!
- [all laughing]
Oh, my God! Another married friend.
Oh, no. We're really getting old.
I'm feeling similar to what I felt
when I heard the movie
Titanic was over 20 years old
- Oh, God.
- [Valeria] 1997.
Why are you here
and not celebrating with Borja?
I have all my life
to celebrate with Borja.
The success of your first novel can only
be celebrated once in your life, right?
To Carmen.
- To you, Carmen.
- To Carmen.
- And to you ladies. I love you so much.
- [Lola] Oh!
- Me too.
- Me too.
- [Nerea] Me too.
- Aww! Come here.
You're getting married! Aww!
- [all laughing]
- I hate you.
- Well
- Seriously? Now it's working?
- [all laughing]
- I can't believe it!
- For your OCD.
- This calls for a celebration.
How can we have a little celebration?
- So much celebration!
- [Lola] With a little conga.
- A conga!
- [all] A conga!
[Lola] The conga at the wedding!
- [Carmen] The conga at the wedding!
- [Lola] The conga at the wedding!
- The conga at the wedding!
- I'm tryin', but still I close my eyes ♪
Breathe ♪
The dreamin' bringin' his face to mine ♪
Lock the door ♪
The constant buzzing
All through the night ♪
Breathe ♪
The fightin' rips me all up inside ♪
[Valeria] It's hard to say goodbye
to a story that has been a part of us.
That emptiness you feel
when you finish a book,
or when you reach the credits of a film.
name on the page ♪
- How long till ♪
- This washes away? ♪
- How long till ♪
- My body is safe? ♪
- How long till ♪
- I walk in the light? ♪
[Valeria] That lonely space inside when you've
just watched a season finale.
The rise and fall of his chest on me ♪
I'm tryin', but still it's all I see ♪
VIENNA - BOOK TICKE
That's because
we're not only closing a chapter.
We're saying goodbye to a part of us
that was something, that traveled,
that changed.
Mmm ♪
I hide it away and underneath ♪
Lock the door ♪
I shake, I promise every day to change ♪
I cross out his name on the page ♪
And just with that feeling,
without meaning to,
without realizing it,
you've already started a new chapter.
CHAPTER 1
I walk in the light? ♪
- How long till ♪
- This heart isn't mine? ♪
Take this wildness ♪
Away ♪
Aah ♪
It away ♪
Aah ♪
It away ♪
Aah ♪
Aah ♪
I'm tryin', but still I close my eyes ♪
Mmm ♪
The dreamin' bringin' his face to mine ♪
Out the door ♪
I pace, I run my mouth
I pray to change ♪
I cross out his name on the page ♪
- How long till ♪
- This washes away? ♪
- How long till ♪
- My body is safe? ♪
- How long till ♪
- This heart isn't mine? ♪
I just want him in my arms ♪
Steady ♪
A NETFLIX SERIES
ONE MONTH LATER
[gasps]
IMPOSTOR, THE NEW LITERARY PHENOMENON
FRIENDS 4EVER - LOOK AT WHAT I JUST SAW.
That venue is closed.
I still have to check the other, okay?
But it's nothing, everything's fine.
Yes, yes, it'll be the exact same.
got a montage and a song ♪
Okay.
And every time you talk to me ♪
Yeah, every word sounds good to me ♪
I want you more and more
And more and more ♪
But every time you talk to me ♪
I'm hearing you scared of losing me ♪
And every time you talk to me
You've got it all wrong ♪
You're turning good times
Into bad times ♪
Now that you're no longer ♪
Sleeping with me ♪
Bad times are a good sign ♪
Maybe I'm no longer ♪
As nice as you think ♪
BASED ON THE NOVELS BY ELÍSABET BENAVEN
[Chus] "An unexpected hit."
2.7 FLICKER
- "The voice of the millennials."
- [chuckles]
"The book everyone's talking about."
- And look at the sales.
- Let's see.
Very soon,
we'll have sold half a million copies.
Half a million? But that is just
It's a hit, Valeria.
- [laughs]
- We have to make the most of it.
- Mmm.
- I'm thinking about organizing
a reading of Impostor
in a big bookshop.
With the press. A really big event.
- No.
- What?
Better as an intimate reading.
Something small.
Fine, I think it's great.
It's your book, right?
And I think I have
the perfect person to organize it.
- Hm? That's great.
- Mmm.
Do you need anything else?
You don't happen to have
a spare hand, do you? [chuckles]
- You're going to hate the book fair.
- [sighs]
Finally! My signature
was starting to look like a doctor's.
[laughs] I'm leaving.
I'll send a courier to get these.
Do you want them
- to take some to your sister's?
- No, I'd rather take them to her.
- They're not that heavy.
- Mm.
Oh, fuck!
Víctor.
The voice of the millennials.
Aah
Congratulations.
Thanks.
Oh.
[sung in Spanish]
I'm going to go down the wrong path ♪
I'M DYING TO STRIP YOU OF YOUR LAYERS
I'm going to get into trouble ♪
Play with fire, break the rules ♪
- How are you?
- Fine.
And you?
Fine. Fine, too.
go down your dangerous path ♪
I'm going to light the fuse ♪
Hey, why don't we go for a drink
and catch up?
We haven't seen each other for a month,
since, you know
I don't know, Víctor.
Come on, a chance meeting like this
calls for a celebration.
And, what do you mean,
you've given up caffeine?
Well, it's just after 12:00.
All that caffeine was affecting my nerves,
and I need to be focused to write.
Sure.
Have you read it?
No.
I've tried several times,
but it brings back too many memories.
[sighs]
I should probably leave now.
- But they just brought our drinks.
- Yeah. I'm sorry. But
Víctor, we know each other.
And I know how this could end up
if I don't leave this minute.
And would it be so bad if that happened?
I'm going. Yes. I'm going.
- Okay, well, let me help you.
- No. I can do it alone.
- [clattering]
- Oh. Sorry.
Thank you for the drink.
[sung in Spanish]
has been leading up ♪
To this exact moment ♪
To this exact moment ♪
To this exact moment ♪
Oh.
[sighs]
Hmm I'll put this here, and this here
My love?
- [gasps]
- Ooh!
- Oh, you're awake.
- What's up?
Nothing. [chuckles]
I mean, listen.
I was thinking
we could do something special today.
Right? To celebrate
our first month living together.
- [sighs] Like what?
- Well, we could do something at home.
Order some good food,
have a hot bath, right?
[kissing] Watch a movie together in bed.
Yeah, but that's
what we do every day, isn't it?
[sighs] Well, we do, honey, I know.
But watching the last season of RuPaul
for the third time
while you drool on my pillow
- is not my idea of romance, you know?
- [chuckles] Yeah.
Anyway, I actually have other plans today.
- Huh?
- With my mom.
- With your mom?
- Uh-huh.
- With my mom.
- What for?
- Well, just to help her with some errands.
- What errands?
Errands! Errands
Errands for my mother.
Okay?
But we can do that any other day, right?
- We have lots of time.
- Yeah, we have lots of time.
I don't know. I'll call the girls
to see what they're doing.
Sure. I'm sure you can do
- whatever you like doing with them.
- Hmm.
- Hey, I'm leaving. [kisses]
- But
Mmm
Are you going to put all that there?
Mmm yes. What's up?
Well, the living room
is a bit cluttered already, right?
Never mind. Yeah.
Bye! [scoffs]
- What do you want?
- Me? Nothing.
- [sighs]
- [chuckles]
You don't want me to come here
to work anymore.
- Right?
- What? No.
If you wanna throw me out, I get it.
It's fine. I go from house to house
- begging for wi-fi
- For you.
- You dedicated your book to me?
- Mmm.
"To Nerea, an example of bravery.
Thank you for teaching me
- to get off the well-trodden path."
- Mmm.
"Thanks for organizing
the reading of my book and"
[both] "For saying 'yes'
without hesitation."
[laughs]
Nice joke.
- [phone ringing]
- Hmm?
Yes?
Puri?
Uh No, but wasn't he with you,
doing some errands?
Well, I don't know, mother's errands.
Oh, uh No, no, no. No.
Well, I don't know.
I must have gotten the days mixed up.
Yes. Yes, yes. Sure, yes.
Don't worry. I'll tell him. I
- Bye.
- [doorbell rings]
I can't hire another company.
It has to be you.
No. You're my best friend. If anything
went wrong, I couldn't forgive myself.
It's impossible for anything to go wrong.
Look, I'd like something simple and small.
- Thank God you're here. We're starving.
- Oh, okay
[Valeria] It's impossible
for anything to go wrong for you.
I want I don't know. I'd like a style.
You can't say no to a job.
Don't you have a code
that obligates you to accept clients?
- I'm an event organizer, not a doctor.
- Why don't you wanna do this?
It's a good opportunity. You tell her.
- Carmen!
- What? Yeah.
- Carmen.
- Hey, Nerea, help her.
- See? Yes!
- No.
- No.
- Yes!
- No!
- Come on, yes.
What if we get into
an argument about planning?
I pass.
I don't want to mix work and friendship.
If you don't do it, I'll tell Chus
I'd rather not have a reading.
Come on. Don't say that.
It's your first novel.
No, no. Val has oat milk at lunchtime
because it's sweeter.
See? Nobody knows me better than you.
Uh Oh, you're gonna do it.
[gasps] You're gonna do it.
- I didn't say I was.
- So
- Did you hear me say I was?
- No, but I saw it.
- I saw it in your eyes. You'll do it.
- [Nerea] You didn't.
- [Valeria] You did this
- [Nerea] Val
- I'm not
- Can you guys just stop it, please?
What's going on?
My boyfriend's completely bored with me,
and he makes up excuses
to avoid making plans with me.
Fuck. [sobs]
Carmen.
- What?
- That's not true.
Yes, it is.
Of course it is.
But why?
Dani, I'm on my way.
I tried to get there fast,
but you try running in heels. Oh!
[grunts]
[low murmuring]
I'm sorry.
- I've been waiting for you for 20 minutes.
- I'm sorry. I couldn't come earlier.
You look handsome, little bro.
- I am so handsome.
- [laughs]
I couldn't even get the program.
- Better that way.
- Better? Why?
Lola, come on. Please stay.
Even if it's just for me.
["Suite for Cello No. 1. in G Major,
Prelude" by Bach]
- [buzz of conversation]
- [music continues]
[laughing]
- Hello.
- Hello.
[Borja] Mmm.
[sighs]
[bell rings]
- Víctor Andradas?
- Yes.
- Here you go. Sign here, please.
- Yep.
Thank you.
[music continues]
[Valeria] "You could never discover me
because I hadn't discovered myself."
"But now, I know who I am.
I wish you all the best."
"Valeria."
So, I'm gonna stay
and congratulate her. You coming?
I stayed for the concert,
don't push your luck with me.
At least move me over there.
Nice try, but no luck.
This is all really shallow.
[kisses]
- I'll give her a kiss on your behalf?
- No.
Okay, on your behalf.
[applause continues]
[sighs]
Okay, wait just a minute.
I brought you a little something.
- What?
- I hope you like it.
- Okay!
- Let's see.
Mmm [gasps]
- Happy Advent!
- Oh, oh, oh! I love it.
- They remind me of my childhood.
- Right? It's very Christmassy.
- Thanks.
- I have always thought those calendars
were really stupid.
Oh, really? This has chocolate,
- but okay, if you don't want it
- Give.
- [Carmen chuckles]
- But I still think it's a stupid thing.
- [Carmen] You're the Grinch with curls.
- Yep.
Lola, did you go to a concert?
No. Okay, yes.
- Yes.
- Really?
That's my mom's.
I mean
I went, but because my brother tricked me.
- And
- But you stayed?
Sure. Sure, I stayed.
I stayed because I feel good
after breaking up with Sergio.
And I feel much more equipped
to face all of this.
- And that's all.
- [Carmen] Yeah.
I don't know, but, just the fact that
you felt like talking to her,
it's a very important step, right?
Well, I didn't say
I felt like talking to her.
Well, but but you're thinking about it.
- Mmm?
- Well, I
Stop it, people. How does a little wine
sound for everybody?
- Yes, more wine.
- More wine?
- I want some.
- I love having wine in the afternoon.
- Here, finish it.
- It's very good.
- Look, a little star. So good.
- [Lola] Mm. They are.
- Carmen, are you all right?
- What?
You haven't talked to Borja, hmm?
I don't even know how to do it. [sighs]
Look, have a conversation.
And then say that, if you're going
to move in with each other,
you need to learn to express your needs
without lying to each other.
Hey! Hello?
Uh, Val, is that you?
Hmm?
- [Lola and Nerea chuckle]
- It's the "successful writer's" effect.
Sometimes, it seems
I know what I'm talking about.
Oh, shit, Valeria. Víctor was right
when he said you were changing.
[Carmen] Have you seen Víctor?
- You didn't say anything.
- [Valeria] It's not a big deal.
- What? You haven't heard from him.
- I haven't either, and he's my friend.
- Yeah, but
- It was just for a minute.
We bumped into each other and
What did he say to you?
Well, uh, he said, um
that you seemed different.
In a good way, in a good way.
That it was all polite, very diplomatic.
Although I think he went home
and jerked himself off.
- Oh, Lola!
- What?
- That's gross.
- What'd you do when you got back?
- Bet you did
- [Carmen] No, I don't want to know!
[laughs] What did I tell you?
Hey, have all of you opened day 15?
It's the praline one and I love it.
- Mm-mm.
- No, I ate it.
- [Lola] Hey. Yes! Come on.
- [Carmen] Nerea, give it to her. The 15th.
Do you have it?
You are thinking about Víctor, right?
Well, it was right there
where we kissed the first time.
- Worse things have happened in there.
- I also slept here, with you,
- the night I broke up with Adrián.
- Yes.
I made love to Borja for the first time
in your bathroom, remember?
- Is that for real?
- [Carmen] Yes.
[all laughing]
Well, I did it with Olga
on the washing machine.
[Valeria] What?
- [Carmen] Excuse me?
- With the spin dryer going? Like
[burbling]
- No.
- Yes.
It'd be quicker if I told you
where I haven't fucked
- in this flat.
- For sure.
- No shock there.
- You wanna know something?
- I'm gonna ask your publisher for rights.
- Why?
Half of your novel is set
inside this apartment.
- That's true.
- Hmm?
- [Lola] Mmm.
- Wait a minute.
Why don't we do
the book reading right here?
- What?
- [Lola] Oh!
Yeah! Lola's right.
Half the book is set in this house.
- Please?
- Well, sure.
- How could I not let you?
- How about it? Yeah?
- [clears throat]
- Hm?
We probably could,
but it'd be strange to have a reading
in an apartment.
Oh, I like it. I don't know,
it's intimate and different.
- Yeah, sure.
- [Nerea sighs]
- Well maybe we could see
- Oh!
- I didn't say yes. Did you hear
- Yes, a little bit.
- But did you hear me say "yes"?
- Come on, I've had enough of all this.
- Let's go have a drink.
- Okay.
- My mouth feels like a dry shoe.
- I'm taking my calendar.
- I need you to do me a favor.
- Okay?
I want to send an invitation
to someone very special.
[door closes]
[Borja] Hello!
Hello.
I've been working on that brief
for three hours.
But that's okay, it's done.
- You'll get it first thing tomorrow.
- Great.
Well, first thing,
or maybe at ten or 11:00.
That's fine, Borja. [sighs]
What's wrong?
- [sighs] Um I know about your mom.
- What's wrong with my mom?
- She called me.
- She called you?
I know you didn't meet her, Borja.
- When?
- Yesterday, Borja. Yesterday.
Yesterday
Oh, uh Since when are you
such good friends with my mother?
If you wanted to go somewhere on your own,
- you just had to tell me.
- I don't have to explain where I'm going.
Sure, and that's exactly why
you don't have to lie to me, right?
- I didn't lie to you.
- You didn't?
- No.
- Because I think you did.
- Mm, no.
- No?
[groans]
I'll tell you what happened
yesterday, okay? Look.
In the afternoon, I was just gonna
- Not there!
- Hey! What's up?
You're gonna look through my things?
Are you blind? There's food on the knife.
It was going to get dirty.
Fuck this shit.
[sighs]
[plays note]
- [Virginia] Do you want to play it?
- [gasps]
No, no, no. Uh
I just wanted to tell you that
you played really well at the concert.
I saw you, and, um it made me happy.
What did you think?
Weird.
When you started playing,
I stopped seeing the mother and
I saw the artist.
You don't have to see just one thing.
The mother or the artist, the ex.
The happy one, the depressed one.
I'm a mixture of all of them.
["Suite for Cello No. 1. in G Major,
Prelude" by Bach]
I never wanted to hurt you.
But I'm not going to feel guilty
for wanting to be more
than just one thing.
I have to go.
I still have time
before the next performance.
- We can get something to drink.
- I can't.
I just wanted to tell you that.
[music continues]
[footsteps]
Lola.
If you ever want to share
anything else with me, I'm here.
- She's a workin' woman ♪
- [doorbell rings]
She got no time to be misled ♪
- Hello!
- Hello!
- Hello!
- Well, it seems like little sis
can finish what she starts, right?
- We're so proud.
- You look so nice, honey.
- Hello, honey.
- Hi, Dad.
So, for the reading,
this place we're going to
- Hmm?
- Are they going to read your book?
That's basically the definition
of a reading.
Yeah, but
- All of it?
- No. not all of it! That would take hours.
Mm.
Are you sure you wanna come?
- Yes, yes.
- Sure.
- Yes, yes, yes. Of course.
- Yes, yes. Sure.
We're in a little bit of a hurry.
- Get in the elevator. We can't all fit.
- [Fernando] Okay.
- We'll go down first.
- [Rebeca] Fine.
They are happy too. Hmm?
But when they read your book, they didn't
expect it to be so informative.
- Hm?
- So informative.
Ah. [laughs]
- Okay.
- Give them a chance, huh?
- Well, then, are you ready?
- [sighs]
- Yes?
- Yes!
- Let's go.
- Let's go, let's go. Okay. Wait.
- Okay.
- Ooh! [giggles]
She's a workin' woman ♪
- She got no time to be misled ♪
- [applause]
- She's got ♪
- Hello.
- Hello.
- How are you?
- [woman] This way.
- Hi.
Oh, she will gladly share ♪
- [Lola] Whoo!
- This fun to entertain you ♪
- Go for it.
- Okay.
- You'll do great.
- You'll be amazing.
You got this.
- You got this.
- She can do it ♪
She can do it ♪
Okay.
She can do it ♪
- She can do it ♪
- Hello.
The woman behind me
is the director of our Mexican affiliate.
Make sure you smile.
- Hello.
- Guadalupe Barandela, Valeria Férriz.
- Do you want some?
- Oh, no, no, no.
- I'm not hungry, thanks.
- Hm.
Look at her.
Poor thing, she just needs to look
for Víctor on the ceiling now.
- Do you know if he's coming?
- I have no idea.
He's been so weird lately
- that nothing would surprise me.
- Mm.
Ugh.
- I'm gonna go eat.
- Didn't you say you weren't hungry?
- Uh, Carmen, look, Can we talk
- I'm going to talk to Val's parents.
[sighs] Here, take this. It's gross. Ugh.
Hmm. That's very interesting.
The author's my best friend.
She don't need advice on fashion ♪
She don't need advice on fashion ♪
- She can do it, she can do it ♪
- Yeah ♪
She can do it, she can do it ♪
- [buzzing]
- She can do it on her own ♪
- She can do it on her own ♪
- I like shy guys. I don't bite.
Yeah, she can do it on her own ♪
- She can do it on her own ♪
- Yeah ♪
- So after that, they went downstairs and
- I'm sorry.
That light bulb is getting on my nerves.
It won't stop blinking.
- It's driving me crazy.
- Oh The light bulb's fine.
- Nobody has noticed.
- Are you sure?
- I'm sure.
- Girls, we're going to start now.
- Now?
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Everything is perfect.
Come on.
I've never read in front
of so many people.
And this book is quite intimate.
Yeah.
Well, that sucks, huh.
Don't you wish you'd hired someone
who really knew who you were?
[chuckles]
What did you think?
I've thought about everything.
- What?
- Trust me.
- [tinkling]
- Everyone, may I have your attention?
- Good evening, everyone.
- Lola, stop it.
- Thank you so much for coming
- Carmen and Lola.
- to this special reading of Impostor.
- [Valeria sighs]
Sometimes, we publishers
take all the credit
for having discovered some new author
who becomes an overnight success.
In this situation, that's not the case.
The one who really risked everything
with her novel was Valeria.
We got involved later.
- Our only credit was printing it.
- [laughter]
And, so, Valeria, I'm really grateful
to you for trusting yourself
and then for trusting us. [chuckles]
Valeria Férriz.
Whoo-whoo!
Whoo!
I, uh
I don't really like talking about myself,
even if I have written
a whole book about my life.
[laughter]
That's why I just want to thank you
for coming here tonight,
for putting up with me,
supporting me,
and, above all, loving me. [laughs]
Thank you.
Valeria has two ways
of expressing herself.
Writing stories and sending never-ending
audio messages.
- [laughing]
- But
speaking in public is very hard for her.
And so tonight,
some of the people who know her best
will lend her our voices.
"Carmen didn't take long." [laughs]
"When I opened the front door,
she and Borja were happily chatting
and laughing." [chuckles]
"That looked pretty nice."
"I wasn't surprised in the least
by Borja."
"He was just as I had imagined,
but without his Bogart-style hat."
[both laugh]
"Apparently, he was just a normal guy."
When the stars
Are the only things we share ♪
Will you be there? ♪
[music continuing]
"Lola grabbed the big jar of pickles
and drank some of the liquid
that they were floating in."
[both laugh]
[Lola] "It was a miracle
I didn't throw up."
"Then she burped loudly,
she cleaned her mouth with her hand
and just kept talking."
hands while you were waiting ♪
For that cold long promise to appear ♪
People in the churches
Started singing ♪
[Nerea] "Nerea and I
had been friends for years."
"We met at a library,
in one of those strange coincidences
that make two people
with nothing in common
- become thick as thieves."
- [chuckles]
"We were like the earth and the sky,
but there the two of us were,
always together, joined at the hip."
that place ♪
When the stars are
The only things we share ♪
Will you be there? ♪
- [Lola] Congratulations!
- [all laughing]
[Nerea] Well done.
[Rebeca] It's the first time I've been
away since she was born.
- I can't stop looking at pictures of her.
- Yeah.
I've turned into one of those mothers
I used to mock at the clinic all the time.
Well, I mean,
that's because it's the first time.
I suppose.
I I mean, at first, well
you'll feel guilty, but then,
you'll start enjoying
doing things on your own.
I sure hope so, because
I talk about her, and
leak all over my breastfeeding pads.
- Do you mind?
- No.
The thing is, Lola,
that we do all these classes to prepare,
but no one teaches you to deal with guilt.
Sure, it's because maternity
can be beautiful,
- but it can also feel scary.
- [sighs]
Sometimes, you'll feel invisible,
because now, when you go to
the playground with your daughter,
everyone will call you "Mar's mom,"
"Mar's mom," but
but do not forget for one second,
you are still Rebeca.
I am.
And if you're not invisible,
your daughter won't be invisible.
You're very lucky
if your mom taught you that. It's true.
Well, yes.
- I suppose so.
- No.
- No?
- No, no, I get emotional,
and the milk spurts out of me.
- Where can I go to pump it?
- There.
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
[sighs]
Oie papi ven a mí y cuéntame ♪
Come, come ki estai, tai
Come ki vai, vai ♪
Oie papi, ven a mí y déjame sentir ♪
Come ki estai, tai
Come ki vai, vai ♪
Oie papi ven a mí y cuéntame ♪
Come, come ki estai, tai
Come ki vai, vai ♪
Oie papi, ven a mí y déjame sentir ♪
Come ki estai, tai
Come ki vai, vai ♪
Hello.
Hello.
- You came.
- Yes, I'm a bit late.
- I missed the reading. I'm sorry.
- Don't worry.
- It was all good.
- Thank you for inviting me.
And Lucía.
Oh.
- I'm happy you're doing well.
- Well, the same to you.
Shit! It's amazing what you're capable of.
I'm sorry I wasn't there
when I should've been.
I really did want to have something
with you, but I couldn't tell you.
- Well, but now
- Yeah.
Yeah, I know. It's too late, but
I needed to tell you.
Thank you.
I think someone's looking for you.
- Well, I'm going.
- Yes.
- Take care.
- Of course.
Too boho-hippy for you, Nerea.
Miriam.
- My love! Long time, no see.
- What a surprise.
So tell me, where does a stiff lawyer
like you get such great taste?
[laughs]
- It seems I'm an organizer at heart.
- Yes, however
You're missing a waiter.
I just saw a friend of yours banging him.
And don't wait more than ten minutes
to put in more toilet paper.
There seem to be a lot of small bladders
at this party.
Hey, what's your line of work?
Uh, well, I'm a part-time
administrative assistant,
and a full-time badass, to be honest.
- [laughs]
- Are you working right now?
Unfortunately, no.
How many girls like me
do you see as secretaries in a company?
It's fine.
- That's the one. That's her.
- I'll be back.
Yes, yes, you solve that, honey.
[tuts] You are not going back
to that bathroom. Put down the condoms.
I don't know what you're talking about.
- [sniffs] You're drunk.
- No.
The reading was so beautiful.
I don't know what I'd do without you.
- Write a boring book.
- Lola!
- We had to make your day perfect.
- It is, even if someone's missing.
Why don't you call Víctor
to put our minds at ease?
Víctor?
It's better for you to know
if he's coming or not.
- Víctor isn't even invited.
- No.
Well, hang on.
Then who were you looking for?
- Me? I was
- Yes.
Look.
Wh
I'll be right back.
Oh, sorry!
I'll have one.
- I think my shag can wait. Come with me.
- Okay, let's go.
Okay.
[Adrián] Who are you looking for?
I thought you left.
I did.
But then I came back, and then left again.
I did that twice. [chuckles]
Thanks for trying to be here.
To be honest,
I didn't think you'd invite me
after our last conversation.
It was intense, yeah.
What I said to you, I really
I know it must've been
really painful to read.
And I'm sorry.
Well, I'd better accept it.
I've read it's going to be a best seller.
- [Lola] What are they saying now?
- [Carmen] Shut up, they'll hear us.
- Oh!
- No, it's just
- Didn't see you there.
- It's so damn hot in there.
- Hello.
- We just came out to get some fresh air.
- We're going inside.
- Don't move. Bye.
[both chuckle]
I'm really sorry
about what I said in the argument we had.
We deserved a better goodbye.
Especially now.
I'm leaving Madrid.
- What?
- I have a project abroad, and
Well, my life here is not, you know
Sure you don't wanna come up?
I saw your mother, your father
and your sister,
and, well, I'd rather not [laughs]
So this is goodbye.
Goodbye, Val.
Bye, Adri.
[sung in Spanish] Your kisses say
You love me but your words don't ♪
Adri!
You're not being direct ♪
I'm getting really tired of this
Please, be clear ♪
Thanks for all these years together.
[chuckles]
Well, it was nice
It was nice to learn together, right?
Yes.
What did you do to me?
I can't get you out of my head ♪
I'm not saying this
Because I'm an idiot ♪
If you tell me what I am to you ♪
I'll do anything to make you happy ♪
You're special to me ♪
Take care.
- You too.
- Mmm.
- Bye.
- Bye.
I feel insecure when you say you love me
Because I don't think you do ♪
[sighs]
I fall down like a baby
Right into your trap, my love ♪
We can clear these dishes
and bring out the dessert.
And please, get someone
to fix that light bulb. Thanks.
- Nerea.
- Yes?
Congratulations.
When Valeria told me the reading
would be at an apartment,
I didn't expect anything like this.
And what did you expect?
Well, like a birthday,
where, instead of a magician,
you have a reading
of passages from a book.
In a few weeks, we have an event
to present to Bruno Aguilar.
- Yes?
- The publisher's new recruit.
Just take it,
so you have some information.
Do you want me to, uh
Do it as well as today, and we'll call you
for all our future events.
Thanks.
[laughs]
Congratulations to you both.
- [chuckles] Thanks.
- [Fernando] Thanks.
It's not very common
to find someone in this generation
who talks so openly about sex
and from the point of view
of female pleasure.
- I know.
- That's true.
Do you have a moment?
- Well
- Yes.
Yes, she does.
- Well, then.
- Excuse me.
- Let's make a toast to Valeria.
- Cheers.
- [Lola] Cheers.
- To Valeria.
- Cheers.
- Do you know what my favorite part is?
- Mmm?
- The cunnilingus in chapter nine.
- [coughing]
- [Lola laughs]
- You're confused.
- I'm confused?
- Yes.
- Maybe you don't want to live with me.
- If that's the case, I beg you, tell me.
- Carmen.
- No, no, no. Carmen
- I'll suffer. Yes, I'll suffer a lot.
But will I overcome it someday? I will.
- Carmen.
- No. I know I will.
If you don't like it, I don't care.
- Carmen!
- What?
I wanted to ask you to marry me.
What?
I wasn't meeting my mother.
I went to get you a ring.
That's why I didn't want you
to touch my backpack.
Now it's all gone to shit. I wanted us
to be alone, at home, with candles.
- You know, like how it should be done?
- Yes.
Yes, of course.
That's the way I wanted it.
- Not like this.
- No, I mean yes.
- Yes what?
- What I mean is, yes.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I'm saying yes.
- Yes?
- Yes, I want to marry you.
Of course I want to.
- Hang on, hang on, hang on.
- What's do we do now? [laughs]
Let's do things the right way.
Okay. Yeah. [laughing]
[Borja chuckles]
No, no, it goes here
[laughs]
Carmen, will you marry me?
Yes.
Of course I will!
- Enjoy yourself, okay?
- Thanks.
- Bye, honey.
- Bye, Dad.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks.
- I appreciate that you came.
- Once a week.
- I'll call you.
- I think we'll have a successful run.
- Gorgeous.
- Bye.
- And thank you. Valeria, I'm leaving.
- Bye.
- [laughs]
- [Valeria sighs]
- Thank you.
- Congratulations.
- It was a total success.
- Yes.
And if you want,
we can also do this again.
I didn't want to say anything yet,
but as soon as possible, we want you
to start writing
the second part of Impostor.
- I'll call tomorrow about the contract.
- That's fine..
Keep it up, Valeria.
You have
a promising future as a writer.
Really?
I would like you to know,
I have a "promising future" as a writer!
- Oh, we already knew that.
- What happened?
They want me to write
the second part of Impostor!
- Oh, my God!
- [shrieks]
[laughing and cheering]
So, come on!
- Thank you.
- Whoo-hoo!
- To Valeria!
- To Valeria!
- Thank you.
- Whoo-hoo!
[clears throat]
And this one is to my new office.
- [Valeria] What?
- What?
I'm going to stop crashing in your houses.
- I rented a coworking space.
- [Carmen] What?
- Yes, girl, you go!
- Congratulations! Congratulations.
[Lola] Congratulations.
- [Valeria] Wow.
- Wait a minute.
- Oh, shit, we have a lot to celebrate.
- Yes.
- My God!
- This one's for
this!
- No way.
- No.
- Yes! Yes, girl.
- [Lola] Oh, no!
- [Valeria] You're getting married?
- Yes.
- [Nerea] You're getting married?
- I'm getting married!
- Carmen.
- [Lola] Oh, my God!
- Come here!
- [all laughing]
Oh, my God! Another married friend.
Oh, no. We're really getting old.
I'm feeling similar to what I felt
when I heard the movie
Titanic was over 20 years old
- Oh, God.
- [Valeria] 1997.
Why are you here
and not celebrating with Borja?
I have all my life
to celebrate with Borja.
The success of your first novel can only
be celebrated once in your life, right?
To Carmen.
- To you, Carmen.
- To Carmen.
- And to you ladies. I love you so much.
- [Lola] Oh!
- Me too.
- Me too.
- [Nerea] Me too.
- Aww! Come here.
You're getting married! Aww!
- [all laughing]
- I hate you.
- Well
- Seriously? Now it's working?
- [all laughing]
- I can't believe it!
- For your OCD.
- This calls for a celebration.
How can we have a little celebration?
- So much celebration!
- [Lola] With a little conga.
- A conga!
- [all] A conga!
[Lola] The conga at the wedding!
- [Carmen] The conga at the wedding!
- [Lola] The conga at the wedding!
- The conga at the wedding!
- I'm tryin', but still I close my eyes ♪
Breathe ♪
The dreamin' bringin' his face to mine ♪
Lock the door ♪
The constant buzzing
All through the night ♪
Breathe ♪
The fightin' rips me all up inside ♪
[Valeria] It's hard to say goodbye
to a story that has been a part of us.
That emptiness you feel
when you finish a book,
or when you reach the credits of a film.
name on the page ♪
- How long till ♪
- This washes away? ♪
- How long till ♪
- My body is safe? ♪
- How long till ♪
- I walk in the light? ♪
[Valeria] That lonely space inside when you've
just watched a season finale.
The rise and fall of his chest on me ♪
I'm tryin', but still it's all I see ♪
VIENNA - BOOK TICKE
That's because
we're not only closing a chapter.
We're saying goodbye to a part of us
that was something, that traveled,
that changed.
Mmm ♪
I hide it away and underneath ♪
Lock the door ♪
I shake, I promise every day to change ♪
I cross out his name on the page ♪
And just with that feeling,
without meaning to,
without realizing it,
you've already started a new chapter.
CHAPTER 1
I walk in the light? ♪
- How long till ♪
- This heart isn't mine? ♪
Take this wildness ♪
Away ♪
Aah ♪
It away ♪
Aah ♪
It away ♪
Aah ♪
Aah ♪
I'm tryin', but still I close my eyes ♪
Mmm ♪
The dreamin' bringin' his face to mine ♪
Out the door ♪
I pace, I run my mouth
I pray to change ♪
I cross out his name on the page ♪
- How long till ♪
- This washes away? ♪
- How long till ♪
- My body is safe? ♪
- How long till ♪
- This heart isn't mine? ♪
I just want him in my arms ♪
Steady ♪