Excuse me. May I ask you a question?
Right... Thanks a lot.
Damn... Damn.
Excuse me, wait...
Ma'am? No?
- No, dear. - It's only a question.
Only a question. Do you think things will get better?
Excuse me. Do you think things will get better?
A LUCKY DAY
- Watch out. Did you hear it or not? - What?
The agitation! The people are starting again, I'm telling.
Where, Grandpa? I know this rage so well...
Long time I did feel it!
- You're crazy. - Crazy? You don't believe me?
Come, come. Look.
How are you doing?
- Shall we go to Tony's later? - OK. Vitalife.
Anti-stress, energizing.
I gave you one already, didn't I?
- Thanks. - Hi, Vitalife.
Energizing, anti-stress.
Thanks, thanks.
Anti-stress.
Energizing, anti-stress.
What the...? What're you doing, prick?
Bastard!
Fuck you...! Fuck you!
Energizing. Laura! Laura!
What is it? I'm working.
You're mad, look how you're dressed.
I don't dress like this. They give me these clothes.
- Where's your supervisor? - It's OK, OK.
He's a jerk. I don't have to put up with that!
You can't get at people like that.
Energizing, anti-stress.
I'm fed up!
Energizing, anti-stress.
Fuck it all.
Hello, Vitalife. Energizing, anti-stress.
Energizing, anti-stress...
I told you, dummy! You take it or you don't! Another mess!
That motherfucker!
If Alejandro finds out, he won't get us another job.
- Did you see the supervisor? - No. Who cares!
Hurry up then! Maybe we still have a job.
I hate vitamins! I've an overdose of vitamins!
Elsa, you know what it's like, don't play the princess.
Laura! Laura!
Fernando, we gotta sell it all. Cut this, and some sausages.
- Get me some glasses. - What happened?
When you leave, what do you dream with? The bar?
I don't know if I dream. Maybe I don't dream shit.
You dream. Everybody dreams.
Yeah, I read it in a book.
This beer's warm.
I've news for you. The wind has turned. It's southerly.
You don't dream, you go mad.
Look who's here.
Piedra Buena, Deseado, Madryn, Viedma,
- Bahía Blanca... Tres Arroyos. - Bahía Blanca... Tres Arroyos.
- Tandil, Olavarría. - Tandil, Olavarría.
- Buenos Aires, San Cristóbal. - Buenos Aires, San Cristóbal.
Easy.
- Hi, sweetie? How you doing? - Fine.
Want something?
Something cool. A job came up,
- I dropped by Erasmo's. Surprised? - Quite.
- You still got that car? - You bet. Bought it from an old man.
Oh, my friend too. Elsa, Elsa.
You do the dishes with the beer these days?
Yep.
This beer's too warm.
- No sausages for you. - Why not?
- You coming with us? - Where?
- To get some dough. - Yeah, coming.
Hey, where's Pompi?
Pompi! Here she is!
Pompi, wake Laura up. Laura, hello.
Hey, want to hear it again?
Listen.
That's not a dream. It's a nightmare.
How can you get hooked on a guy called like a washer? Candy.
You gave it all and he took off. He's a pimp.
Yeah, listen!
My Rome address:
Via dei Platani 311
Why don't you come?
Let's toss a coin in the Trevi Fountain. Will you come?
Surprise me. Ciao!
1 kiss, 2 kisses, 3 kisses.
Ciao...! A kiss, 2 kisses, 3 kisses.
Four kisses, five kisses...
I'm missing them, Laura.
Time is what you're wasting! What if you go?
Somehow get the money and go, and the guy doesn't care?
You'll be out in the streets, begging.
A kiss, 2 kisses, 3 kisses,
4 kisses, 5 kisses, 2 kisses...
Going back to sleep?
- Just a little more. - No, please, Laura, don't!
Don't you feel that nothing's ever going to happen to you?
He came into the bar and said:
"Excuse me, I'll have a beer please."
With that voice.
So I started talking in Italian too.
We talked almost an hour in Italian, and I thought it was a joke!
It wasn't a joke!
Dummy.
A kiss, two kisses, three kisses...
- What got into me? I don't know. - You don't know?
Gimme a mate.
- That water's cold. - You know what happened to you?
You met an Italian,
got laid, said good bye and that was that.
- You're getting on my nerves. - You don't get it.
There I was, a blink and suddenly I was in a hotel room.
Right and then "Gotta go!" He left.
I let him go without telling him I loved him.
Too late now... You couldn't, and he didn't say a word either.
You go on like...
and you'll screw up the memory of that week you spent together
I go first, then you come over.
I'll make some dough and then you come.
Yeah, tell me when you're awake.
There's a world out there, Laura.
High school degree?
Yes, well, no, dropped out the last year.
The job's 11 hours, 6 days a week, an alternate day off.
That means you'd have a free Sunday every two weeks.
Laura, what're you doing, you idiot?
- I saw you... - Sorry, sorry.
- Did you miss an important job? - You're a jerk.
- There they are. - Coming.
Hi, Luis, can I have some water?
Come here... You look very pretty!
We are all pretty to you, Alejandro.
Wait for me over there.
Aldo, tell the girls to hand in all the forms today. Now!
I need something else. I'm so fed up. This is death, man.
- Yeah, it's hard, isn't it? - Very.
I think I've got the solution.
- What's wrong? You in trouble? - No, no trouble.
I'm saving money to get away.
- Yeah? To where? - To Europe.
Europe...! You fly high!
Hold on a bit.
Give me the folders from yesterday's companies.
So? How's it going? Is it clear?
Take a seat.
Excuse me, we're doing a survey.
Can I ask you a question?
Tell me a last name, Dad. Not Italian.
You already gave me 5 Italians.
OK. This one's Spanish, Gutiérrez.
Alberto... Gu-tié-rrez... Bought a car last year.
What are you taking? Prozac again?
Yes...
My blood pressure.
- Elsie, clear the table. - Tell me a last name, Mom.
Romero.
He's got a 505 and bought a Fiesta for his wife.
Have they paid you what they owe?
No... They say they have no money.
I didn't have a contract...
so if they don't pay, that's that.
And what about the mortgage?
The bank will have to wait. For a miracle. Like we do.
- They've got to pay... - They've known you for years.
They don't give shit they know me. Your Mom lives in the moon.
I want to leave.
Visit Italy.
- What's going on here? - Nothing. I was just...
- D'you know how to cook timballo? - No, and it'd be grand if you do it.
Franco, from now on, when I have deliveries, you do the cooking.
Timballo, seems like I was always eating timballo.
With a glass of white wine...
- What do I write? - Valium.
- And in this one? - Rohipnol, and the other Prozac.
The house upstairs was robbed the other day.
- How do you spell that? - With a "V".
Couple of burned junkies. God.
Pass on the towel. Even a month's wages aren't enough.
Can I have a fag?
- Pro... How do you spell Prozac? - With a "Z".
- A kidnapping, I'd do it swell. - A one for ever...
Make two to "Dr. Ríos Fernández".
A bank, maybe.
And the other to "Dr. Carlos Afieri". You couldn't do a piggy bank, man.
Right, bro, then let's play Lotto. What's the problem?
Here, put it back. What would you do with the Lotto?
- You signed 'em? - Yes.
- Here's the stamp. - OK.
I'd get a 2-storey house with a pool.
Here in the neighborhood.
I'd pack the money and make a trip.
I'd use all the dough to get me a couple of hookers. 2 couples!
- Yes, it'll be better... - There's a friend...
38 bucks.
You sure this one's OK?
The owner's an old fart, can't even tell his name.
- How many shall I take? - 3 or 4, related prescriptions.
- What does your mom take? - Well, Lexotanil, and...
45 bucks.
- How's it going? Well? - And your father?
He's not coming. Said you deal with me.
He's gone under for a few weeks so...
Said you can do it with me.
- Hi. - Hi.
Got a joint?
- Si, how much do you want? - Five bucks?
How can we trust you? You're not your father.
Either you trust, or get the pills yourself.
What've you got?
- Rohipnol, Usen... - Prozac! Good!
- What health insurance did you use? - None of your business.
OK. Fine...
- Hey, your friend's on her own? - Hold your horses, you prick.
OK. Here are the dough...
and the 5 joints.
OK. Tell your father I wanna see him. Nothing to you...
Yeah, that's the ticket. Nobody trusts anybody here.
- My dad did 3 years for trusting. - You tell him.
OK... drop by tomorrow...
And bring your friend...
the brunette one.
Here...
Bricks for your house.
With this I buy a bank,
bribe the guards and then hold it up.
What an idiot.
- Elsa. - What?
- You're really leaving? - What's it to you?
I had a dream last night.
I opened a window and saw a cow passing.
- A cow. On the highway? - There was no highway.
It was all empty fields. The Pampa.
There are no more cows, Elsa, there's nothing left.
- Why do you say that? - It's better that way.
What do you wanna know? There's just us, nothing else.
- What's here? - Nothing. The countryside.
Without us... there's nothing here at all.
Susana... and Yamila.
Sign this...
This one is yours... and the other one...
Do you know Pirulo?
No.
OK, you'll meet him next time. Get going.
Elsa Ronzano?
- Hi. - Hi.
Gimme a kiss.
- How was it this week? - A bit better.
Just this? It's too little.
They turned some surveys down.
Sign here... We're putting together a sales team.
I'll try to get you in. You'll be better there.
- They pay salary and a commission. - Thanks.
You may even save up for that trip in a few months.
You plan to stay there?
I don't know.
I'm going.
So far... Why so?
- Bye. - Bye.
Call me anytime. Maybe drop by my place.
Does your father still have the 1100?
"...To commemorate the birth of our Lord Jesus"
"Thank you for being here..."
"seeing me all in white",
"'coz I'm clean."
"Let the world... have peace."
"Let us pray..." What the hell is this wall with this windows?
The Coliseum, dummy
- It's all gone to pieces. - It's that way, idiot, it's old.
When I go to Italy, I won't visit this place.
First thing I'll do in Italy is get into the Trevi fountain.
Hey, where you going? Laura!
What are you going to Italy for?
I met someone and fell in love.
Besides, I just want to leave.
- How can you fall in love like that? - How "like that"?
In a week.
That's not love.
What's love then?
Give me a week too...
7 days, then take your pick.
You've got lovely eyes.
Look at that cloud.
Which one?
There.
It's a cow!
What's with you and cows!
You know, brother, during the Spanish Civil War,
- the troops ate Favada... - I know that one, with beans.
That's why I share the bread and wine.
- ...Food for revolutionary faith. - Comrade! You're telling me.
In Italy...
we hadn't even hard bread, but we beat them anyway.
Pim, pam...! Nobody gave in.
It isn't a dainty dish, but will raise the dead.
A one ingredient stew:
sheer faith.
Faith, ha!
Lions in the circus ate it up!
Grandpa.
Elsie! This is my granddaughter.
The day that stew is ready, everything will blow up.
Leave it.
Then they go and vote Peronism.
You open it, it won't open from the inside.
You could've told us where you were, Dad!
We were waiting for you to eat, Dad.
People out of work think only of food.
To eat salad and steak? I'd rather eat in the street!
Cut it out, Grandpa.
The car...! Remember when I bought it?
Just imported from there.
When was that? In '48...
- I came here in... - It was in '63.
I was 18 years old, hadn't been conscripted yet.
The best selling car. Everyone wanted one like it.
All original Italian...
From FIAT... It was a cooperative!
- Now there's the Japanese. - Right, them.
Last thing the Japanese did well was to crush the American
in... what's it called? Pearl Harbor.
That, and harakiri... But cars?!
Careful!
- Stop here... - You getting out here?
Yes. Pull up here.
- Dark as a lion's den! - What?
- Good luck to you. - In the lion's den!
Neighbor, join in our protest.
How's that, so neat and smart!
- You got the stuff? - Sure. Here it is.
You only got 2 hours for sure, after that, it may get messy.
See you at the barber's. In 3 hours.
Hey! One more thing.
- My regards to the chicks! - What a shithead.
- Can I have the card, please? - Here you are.
Fine, sign here for the purchase.
Sure.
Here.
- Thank you for shopping here. - Thanks.
Three and a half hours! I thought you weren't coming.
How are things?
Go straight to the back.
Wasn't there an old hag watching?
She does her stuff, but loves to nose into my things.
No, there was no one.
- And this? - In the back.
- Can we drag this? - Yes.
There's another TV set in the car. Will you get it?
Yes.
Lock the car, don't want it stolen.
- Where do we put all this? - In the back.
A mate.
Oh, the money.
- It's all here. - Perfect!
You know a big dope dealer...
Still see him? What for?
There's another guy who wants to sell 200 grams...
If you do it, you get 10 G and a cut.
- ...see if it grabs you. - OK.
At my doorstep...
there's a polo field.
- When Elsie walks by... - Laura...
The poles stand up.
Nice little cows!
Wow, onion chips! Nothing better than onion chips.
Well, Walter?
Coming. Got to roll 'em. But gotta get a drink first.
- Where's my drink? - With or without beer?
What you laughing at, dummy?
You're so funny.
Your joint's going out.
What did you go South for? To freeze your ass off.
This drag's no good.
- What'd he say? - The drag's fouled up.
- What's wrong? - The drag's fouled up.
What's there in the South?
- And what's there in Buenos Aires? - Nothing!
- And down in the South? - Nothing.
I sold...
lamb burgers.
No! I went whale hunting.
Made white whale burgers, white burgers.
Laura!
Pussy's smoked out.
- You been to the Glaciers? - There's no glaciers in Patagonia.
And what'll you do in Italy? Why don't you stay?
Got nothing here.
Nobody's got anything. You a princess?
Nobody's got anything anywhere.
You've shiny eyes, princess.
- What are you two laughing at? - Something Toni said.
- What did he say? - I can't remember.
You're so stoned.
'Coz your joint didn't hit you at all. It's a mess in here.
A real mess.
I'm leaving.
I gotta go. I can't sleep over... Bye!
- Well? - Well what?
- I told him that I'm leaving. - And what did he say?
What could he say? He asked me to go.
We go to that corner there.
A different kind of fun.
It's deserted. We'll take forever.
A different kind of fun.
They're a little messed up.
Elsa, look over there.
I wanna finish these damned balloons.
Oops, it flew away.
I forgot to tell you something. Twice now.
Sorry.
I lost. I like you a lot.
I gotta tell you something you already know...
I'm leaving...
- Now? - Not now, but I'm leaving.
Can I say something?
Shut up.
I'm reading...
Walter!
Get up.
No, please get up. Come on.
You gotta go.
You mad or something?
Sorry.
You threw him out? Are you stupid?
Call him back, go on. You'll lose him.
Go get him!
Go and tell him: "I'm sorry Walter, I don't know what got into me."
And tell him you love him.
- And cut it out with that trip. - Hold it. That's my story.
Elsa, what do you want?
To be happy, that's what I want.
Do the things I like, have money, a little...
live somewhere I like,
be with someone I love...
Be happy.
Look... tomorrow's deal is more than enough to pay your ticket.
I'll give you the money.
To me, it's only cutting the dope some more.
I'd promised myself not to fall in love again. But it happened.
Go on your trip. If you don't come back, tough luck.
If you do... cool. Just that.
Walter, wait.
What?
Nothing...
just...
It's alright, everything's just fine.
I wanna come with you.
OK. I'll call you.
Come on, you're barefoot, you'll catch a cold.
- Is he asleep? - Like an angel!
This'll be ready in a minute.
The smell will wake him up.
Dad used to fix beef like this when I was a kid.
He'll love it.
It'll break Mom's heart.
And mine.
It's bit raw.
No, it's delicious.
I'm seeing to the ticket. I have lodgings there.
- I wish I could help you. - It's OK.
- You know the date already? - Almost.
I've got a problem... I don't know how to tell Mom.
I'll smooth it out for you.
I love you!
The pan!
Your Mom'll kill me! Damn it!
Come on, it's late.
Walter dear, how are you? Excuse me.
You thought I wouldn't turn up?
I'm like God, everywhere.
The South, man, the whales. Didn't you go South with the whales?
Everything good?
- Great. Same stuff as always? - That's all there is.
I'll try it. No, I can't. Taking care of my heart.
Baby, come over!
What is it? I'm freezing in that shitty car.
I wanted to get to the party early
and we've been driving around hours with his fucking deals.
Don't complain.
Honey, darling, you told me we were going out.
I'm all dressed up, man.
What's with you? I'm fed up.
To get this one out you got to kick his ass.
If he had his way it'd be all work, work, and nothing else.
Do you think I get to see the joints we visit? Nothing.
He drives me around all day. What am I?
What's the matter with you? Never seen anyone doing dope?
Want to get caught in the black out?
Easy.
Count the bag.
"Count the bag", "count the bag"?
Screw you. Right, kid?
OK, I'll count it.
- Hurry up, will you? - Screw you!
Keep 'em on a leash. See how he treats me?
6, 7, 8. See how he treats me, kid?
8, 9, 10. How does yours treat you?
And how does yours treat you?
...Honey, there's some missing.
There's some missing.
If she says it's missing, it's missing.
You shat in your pants, hon. It's OK.
That stuff about the whales throwing stones like volcano...
is it true?
What're you doing?
She's an idiot.
On the way here, a butterfly crashed into the headlight... of the bike.
Killed it trying to save it.
What a letdown.
Seen the yellow spots on the windshields of cars on the road?
They're butterflies! They crash into the shield...
and die 'coz they can't stop.
Let's go South.
What shitty times.
Tough luck, ain't it?
We'll live.
Look at me. Just arrived and gotta get back.
Had it been Erasmo's father, I'd be history.
San Cristóbal, Olavarria, Tandil, Tres Arroyos...
Bahía Blanca, Pirámides, Puerto Madryn.
Buenos Aires and fuck it all.
- Now both of us have to leave! - Sorry, it's my fault.
No, it's nobody's fault, Elsa.
What if the guy isn't there? What if it's over?
- If it's not what you think? - Better.
- You're kidding yourself. - I can be lucky, too.
Wait, come over here.
Have a good trip.
Have a good trip yourself.
Unbelievable! You came!
I came.
Princess...
Luckily I always have a few extra beers!
Anyway, I wanted to ask you something.
Let's not talk shop now.
I work hard and don't even know why.
12 hours a day!
I'm thrilled you're here.
But I...
wanted to ask you something.
I'm glad you think of me, even if it's only for a job.
The other day... I date this chick.
Everything's fine.
Next day she doesn't know me.
So I tell her in front of everybody:
"Babe, we got laid last night, remember?"
I don't know what's wrong with these kids, they're nuts.
Well, you're a kid yourself.
- Yeah, sort of. - But you're different.
I came to ask you for something.
You always need something?
OK, never mind.
Won't you tell?
Don't play coy with me, Elsa. I know you.
- You're not yourself. - It's nothing.
- Tell me what happened with Walter. - Nothing happened.
I'm leaving. That's what happened.
- Leaving? - Yeah, leaving.
It's all set... I'm leaving.
Come on.
You give each person...
You give each person one of those in your house,
and you say: "There's a meeting tomorrow."
Thank you for your support!
What are you talking about?
I've got enough faith.
I've got so much faith, that I'll bet a saint.
Pick one out.
Grandpa.
Elsie.
She's about to go, and so is your grandpa.
I have to talk to you.
Play this hand for me.
Be careful with the lady,
she cheats.
Go ahead.
- It's beautiful. - It's crazy.
So, the girl is taking off.
Yes, I'm going to Rome.
At home I've got some money...
I don't need any.
- What can you tell me? - You don't have experience.
- You've never been at war. - You don't know who I am!
Then show me.
Listen to this.
For God, the country, and the king,
our ancestors fought.
For God, our country, and the king,
we too will fight. Cheers!
Now listen to me.
I told her: "I'll only be gone 60 days..."
"and then I'll come back for you."
"I can make money there..."
"We can be happy."
And Marieta is still waiting for me.
"Just beyond that sea, there's life."
"There's no hunger there, you can be successful."
"We can have a family, a house."
"Life is over there. In America."
"Here we have nothing."
"Just misery."
- Who's Marieta? - "I'll come for you."
That's what I told her. "And we can be happy."
What are 3 or 6 months?
What matters is that we escaped hunger.
- Go back? - To the "new Italy".
"Don't be afraid."
"It's a beautiful city, nicer than any one you've seen."
"You'll think you never left Italy."
But who's Marieta?
Buenos Aires is grand.
This was Europe.
There was only one thing I didn't like so much.
You couldn't compare it that much: the moon.
The moon you see in Italy can't be found anywhere else.
Do you have a place to go?
Yes.
You're not afraid?
A little.
Your mother was a good mother.
A great woman.
But love is different.
Damn thing life is, Elsie. A damn thing.
You just go on.
You go on and on.
When you're young, you never dream...
your heart will never beat that way again.
She was afraid of the sea.
And I left.
Now there's manifestations everywhere.
Grandpa, come with me!
No. This damn shit hasn't beaten me yet.
Hi, excuse me, do you know...
- ...where I can find Candy? - Candy?
Candy who?
- Candy? - What Candy's that?
- Candy? Like a cat's name, Candy. - Candy, the washing machine.
Candy who?
- A woman? - A man...
No, he's called Candy.
- You mean Candido! - Cándido.
Of course we know him. He's our roommate.
- Is he home now? - No, he actually isn't.
He's gone South. Back home.
- South? Where South? - To his home.
- Want the address? - We'll give you his address.
- Just arrived in Rome? - Yes.
Just now? Do you have somewhere to stay?
Yes, I do.
Thanks.
- Bye. - Bye, see you.
- Where's this place? - In Sicily, North Africa.
Candy's Sicilian, you know.
I didn't know.
Bye.
PALERMO, SICILY
Excuse me, Ma'am. Where's Dante street?
Take Maquera St, then turn left, and second right.
- Can I help you? - I'm looking for Dante St.
- Via Dante, walk down this street. - No, I'll tell her.
Please, I can't follow you all.
Go straight down, then turn right, then second left.
- Is it far? - Not much. It won't take long.
Thanks.
No, leave it here. I'll keep it, trust me.
It's OK, trust him.
Don't worry, trust me.
- See you later. - Thank you.
- I'll put it away inside.
- Can I help you, Miss? - I'm looking for this address.
- Oh, looking for Rosa. - No, for Candy.
Candy? Cándido, you mean. Rosa!
- What is it? - She's says she's looking for Cándido.
Cándido'll be back in an hour. Bring her up.
Says she's come looking for him, but what does she want?
Says she knows him.
American...! Looks Italian, though.
She has our kind of eyes.
Surely he's met her on his trips.
He never told me a thing, it's odd.
Coming all the way from there,
to Palermo looking for him.
It was worth it...
- ...Should've stayed home, though. - Her grandpa was Sicilian.
Sicilian,
one of those who forget their family and land...
- ...to run after strangers. - Maybe she's pregnant?
Not in your life.
And how long were you with him?
Just one night.
Well...
Sicilian guys are famous.
Many foreign women come over looking for a man. You're not alone.
Spanish women are crazy about us,
as if they had no men there. I see it here, at the hotel.
Don't know what's wrong with those guys, can't fulfill a woman.
And yet their women are beautiful.
You're very pretty too.
Another beer?
You may find somebody else.
There's plenty of men in the world.
You made 10,000 km for a guy you hardly know.
A one night stand... Cándido!
Awful name, sounds like the name of an appliance.
You'll forget him...
So what're you gonna do now?
Don't know. Look for a job, I guess...
Have a lucky break.
You sure?
Why can't I have a lucky break?
How are you? What's that noise?
The manifestation!
Grandpa, I'm in Sicily.
I'm leaving...
Grandpa!
We want our electricity back!
Go to hell, you prick!
We want power!
We want electricity!