Elisa & Marcela (2019)

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A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM

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<i>As far back as I can remember,
I had a happy childhood.</i>

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<i>But I grew older...</i>

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<i>and that's when the questions started.</i>

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<i>And with the questions... the pain.</i>

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<i>Who am I?</i>

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<i>Where do I come from?</i>

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<i>What is my story?</i>

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<i>Who were those women whose names
were always spoken in whispers</i>

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<i>when they thought I wasn't listening?</i>

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<i>Who were they?</i>

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<i>Who were they?</i>

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INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY

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CHUBUT PROVINCE, ARGENTINA. 1925

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May I touch your face?

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Mmm.

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I suppose there must be things
you want to know.

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Things?

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Everything.

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Everything... is impossible.

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Are you in the first year?

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I was sick and I had to miss
the first few days.

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You'd better dry off or you're gonna
get sick all over again. Come on.

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Come on!

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VANITY IS YOUR WEAKNESS

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Will they count against me...
the days I've missed?

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I'll speak to them, don't worry.

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They all know me here,
and my aunt's the director.

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Here, let me help you.

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Thanks.

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- Am I hurting you?
- No.

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Now am I?

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No.

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- Now?
- No!

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My name's Elisa.

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I'm Marcela.

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I like your mole.

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This morning, we'll be examining
the use of the pronoun.

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Enter.

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- Morning.
- Good morning.

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Excuse me, Sister,
she's new at the school and got lost.

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She was sick
so she missed the first few days.

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But she's eager to catch up
and she's a very hard worker.

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- May she take a seat?
- Yes. Thank you, Elisa.

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Please come in.

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Your name?

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Marcela Gracia Ibeas.

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Very good. Sit down, please.

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Let us continue with our lesson.

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People and things

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are not only called by their names,

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but also by certain words

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that take the place of those names.

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And so, when we say, for example,

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"Bernardo was very content with his Elvira

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and they lived happily together,

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she with him, and he with her,"

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the "he" replaces Bernardo
and the "she" replaces Elvira.

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- You scared me.
- Did I? Sorry.

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I was waiting for you.

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I live upstairs with my aunt and the nuns.
Didn't I tell you?

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- In the school?
- Mm-hmm.

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I wanted to thank you.

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No need for thanks.

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Living with the nuns, what's that like?

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What do you think?

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I don't know.

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It's hell on Earth.

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The so-called brides of God,
they're a bunch of harpies,

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always bickering and arguing.

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They're always fighting.

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It's like a harem, really.

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Everyone is always competing
to be the Sultan's favorite.

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But there is no Sultan.

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There isn't?

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I haven't seen him.

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So, you don't believe...

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...in God?

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I don't believe in nuns...

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or in priests.

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I don't believe in the Virgin
or the Holy Spirit.

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Or... in God.

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And you?

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I'm not sure.

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I can't believe in anything
that doesn't move.

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I believe in horses.

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I'd give anything to have one.

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And mice? And cats and dogs?
Do you believe in them?

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And in pigeons... and snails.

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And ants.

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Guess you should go inside.

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You should get back to the nuns.

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Yeah.

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Till tomorrow, then.

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Till tomorrow.

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Good night!

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- Tomorrow don't forget your umbrella.
- I won't.

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Who was that girl?

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The one who was with you?

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From school.

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Elisa.

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She helped me find my classroom.

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Her aunt is the director.

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The soup is full of husks.

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I don't know how.
I strained it three times.

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You strained it?

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I know that in school,
you must learn, yes,

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but not too much.

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Not too much, just enough. Hmm?

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Hello, Elisa.

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Hello, Elisa.

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Morning, Elisa.

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Good morning, Elisa.

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Good morning, Elisa.

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And how are you this lovely morning?

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Elisa...

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Elisa...

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Elisa, Elisa, Elisa...

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Elisa, Elisa...

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You didn't do what I said.

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No.

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I forgot.

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This great Christian victory
at the Cave of Covadonga

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was the product of bravery
and of Christian faith,

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a faith that inspired
the Christian soldiers

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and ultimately gave them the strength
to vanquish the Moors,

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who were, frankly, barbarians.

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♪ <i>Isabel and Fernando...</i> ♪

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♪ <i>Were excellent monarchs</i> ♪

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- ♪ <i>They kicked out of Spain...</i> ♪
- Wanna see my room?

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<i>...the dark-skinned Moors.</i>

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Right now?

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Sure, why not?

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Elisa...

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Who's with you?

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Marcela. She's new, Sister Clara.

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And... what does she look like?

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She's, uh...

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um... a redhead.

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More carrot-colored, really.

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With lots of freckles.

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And she's very fat!

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- Elisa!
- And she limps.

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Don't think I don't know you, Elisa.

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I know you too well.

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This is where I read and draw.

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At least in here no one bothers me.

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Do you want me to leave?

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No, I didn't mean you.

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I meant all the nuns and my aunt.

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Know what they keep telling me
all day long?

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What?

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That I should find a man
and get married soon.

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Or I'll be stuck here forever, with them.

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Every single day, they tell me that.

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My father thinks
I'm wasting my time at school.

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He thinks that teachers
aren't respectable.

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And I should get married
before someone gets me pregnant.

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What do you say when he says that?

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And you, what do you say to them?

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I asked you first.

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When they say that, I...

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Uh...

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I say what they want to hear.

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Me too.

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But the fact is I think I'd do anything
rather than have to marry a man.

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Anything.

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I'm not sure if I'll get married or not.

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Well!

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There's a lot you're not sure about,
isn't there?

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If there's a God or not,
if you'll get married or not.

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So, are you sure about anything at all?

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I was living in an orphanage
until I was ten.

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I'm sure of that.

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Sleeping with 40 other girls
in potato sacks.

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Rats roaming everywhere.

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Having to eat watered-down soup
full of dead spiders.

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All I knew was misery...

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and filth...

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and praying.

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Then one morning, out of nowhere,

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a woman came and said she was my mother.

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My real mother.

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She took me to a house where I met
a man who said he was my father.

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They never hugged me...

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or explained why they'd...
let me believe they were dead.

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I still don't know
if they are my real parents.

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And if I don't know that...

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how can I know if I believe in God?

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Or in getting married? Or anything?

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Forgive me, Marcela...

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I didn't know.

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I have class.

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I'm sorry.

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Will you forgive me?

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Good evening. My name's Elisa,
I'm a classmate of Marcela's.

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She lent me a book this morning and I
just wanted to return it to her, if I may?

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- I'll give it to her.
- Thank you.

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- Good night.
- Good night.

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It's from that classmate of yours.

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You left it behind, she said.

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There are some books
that bring nothing but trouble.

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"Dear Marcela...

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I will never knowingly hurt you.

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I swear it.

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Trust me.

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Trust me and forgive me.

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Yours, Elisa."

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"Yours, Elisa."

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Marcela...

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What your father said isn't true.

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About books.

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What?

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About books, what?

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I read in secret...

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when your father isn't looking.

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I don't believe it.

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Emilia Pardo Bazán.

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THE BURNING QUESTION

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I dreamt that...

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- You first.
- No, you.

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I dreamt of you.

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That's funny.

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I dreamt of you, too.

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Really?

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Yes.

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You won't tell me your dream?

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Nuh-uh.

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Never.

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And yours?

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I won't either.

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Do you know the one dream
I've had my whole life?

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What?

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Sometimes when I stand here...

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right by the ocean...

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I close my eyes and I dream.

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You do?

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Mm-hmm.

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I dream that I'm riding a horse,

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and I cross the ocean.

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Then I reach the other side and...

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and it's Argentina.

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And I just keep on riding...
for a long, long time.

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And I never get tired.

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It's absurd because I've never been
on a horse in my life...

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and I'm terrified of the ocean.

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Marcela... what on Earth are you...

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This is real, right?

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It's not a dream, is it?

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In dreams, it's never this cold.

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You have a long way to go
to get back to the school.

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Oh, I don't mind.

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See you tomorrow.

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Marcela, wait!

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- There's so much I want to tell you...
- Elisa.

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My parents are waiting for me.

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Then just this one thing.

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What?

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If I were to die right now...

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my day with you by the sea...

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...would be the happiest of my life.

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Someday,
I'll get you that horse.

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No, don't. She's studying...

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- Not another word.
- I'm fine.

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She's staying and that's final.

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You can put that away.
You're not going to school today.

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Why not?

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You'll stay with you mother,
she's not well.

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00:32:44,645 --> 00:32:47,485
I'm perfectly fine.
She doesn't need to miss her classes.

270
00:32:47,565 --> 00:32:49,205
Marcela will be staying right here.

271
00:32:50,525 --> 00:32:51,765
That's the end of it.

272
00:32:56,205 --> 00:33:00,005
The country of Portugal
is divided into three distinct regions,

273
00:33:00,125 --> 00:33:03,965
the northern, the central,
and the southern region,

274
00:33:04,045 --> 00:33:06,845
consisting of the Alentejo
and the Algarve.

275
00:33:06,925 --> 00:33:08,605
The northern region is located

276
00:33:08,685 --> 00:33:11,245
between the Minho
and the Serra da Estrela.

277
00:33:34,045 --> 00:33:35,205
Shh.

278
00:33:36,565 --> 00:33:37,565
Shh.

279
00:34:26,285 --> 00:34:27,565
You know something?

280
00:34:30,045 --> 00:34:31,845
I have moles all over my body.

281
00:34:40,325 --> 00:34:41,485
You think one day...

282
00:34:43,485 --> 00:34:44,925
you might show them to me?

283
00:34:57,205 --> 00:34:58,205
Hmm.

284
00:35:17,365 --> 00:35:18,365
Wait here.

285
00:35:22,005 --> 00:35:25,925
"The shadows revealed nothing except
for the enormity of its proportions,

286
00:35:26,005 --> 00:35:29,485
hiding its outline and details
in the darkness of the scene."

287
00:35:31,205 --> 00:35:33,285
Who's this? Why is she here?

288
00:35:33,605 --> 00:35:34,605
It's Elisa.

289
00:35:36,285 --> 00:35:38,085
With the work I didn't finish...

290
00:35:38,765 --> 00:35:40,725
since you wouldn't let me go to school.

291
00:35:42,805 --> 00:35:43,805
Get out.

292
00:36:05,845 --> 00:36:06,845
Daughter...

293
00:36:09,285 --> 00:36:11,325
We need to have a little talk.

294
00:36:11,645 --> 00:36:12,645
What about?

295
00:36:13,125 --> 00:36:15,525
- I can't miss class again...
- Yes, you can.

296
00:36:16,205 --> 00:36:18,405
Now, seeing how your education
is so important to you,

297
00:36:18,485 --> 00:36:21,805
your mother and I have decided to send you
to a boarding school... in Madrid.

298
00:36:22,365 --> 00:36:24,221
- Yeah.
- It's a good school, dear.

299
00:36:24,245 --> 00:36:26,245
You'll learn much more than here.

300
00:36:26,365 --> 00:36:28,085
In three years, you'll be a teacher.

301
00:36:28,165 --> 00:36:30,885
Boarding school or convent, you decide.

302
00:36:30,965 --> 00:36:33,605
I would have preferred the convent,
but your mother insisted.

303
00:36:34,245 --> 00:36:36,285
- Hold on there.
- Let me go!

304
00:36:36,365 --> 00:36:38,405
- Let me go! Leave me alone!
- Where do you think...

305
00:36:38,765 --> 00:36:40,085
- Stop!
- Let me go!

306
00:36:43,605 --> 00:36:44,765
Let me go!

307
00:37:18,085 --> 00:37:19,365
Dear Marcela...

308
00:37:20,245 --> 00:37:21,605
Four weeks, three days

309
00:37:22,045 --> 00:37:23,885
and nine hours have gone by...

310
00:37:24,125 --> 00:37:26,325
since the last time I smelled you.

311
00:37:27,285 --> 00:37:30,365
Yet I picture you so close to me
in my thoughts...

312
00:37:31,525 --> 00:37:33,125
I can almost touch you.

313
00:37:34,685 --> 00:37:36,445
Everything reminds me of you.

314
00:37:37,165 --> 00:37:38,165
Everything.

315
00:37:39,085 --> 00:37:40,085
The children...

316
00:37:40,605 --> 00:37:43,205
My aunt, the nuns!

317
00:37:44,925 --> 00:37:45,925
The sun...

318
00:37:46,365 --> 00:37:48,725
The rain, the sea...

319
00:37:48,805 --> 00:37:49,805
The sand...

320
00:37:51,165 --> 00:37:54,165
This blank page I fill with words
that carry me to you...

321
00:37:56,445 --> 00:37:57,485
This pen...

322
00:37:58,565 --> 00:37:59,565
This ink...

323
00:38:01,725 --> 00:38:03,645
I dream of you often, Marcela...

324
00:38:05,485 --> 00:38:06,645
when I'm awake.

325
00:38:08,445 --> 00:38:09,445
I draw you...

326
00:38:09,845 --> 00:38:12,085
and so I see you, wherever I look.

327
00:38:14,645 --> 00:38:16,125
I miss you so much.

328
00:38:17,765 --> 00:38:18,805
So much.

329
00:38:20,845 --> 00:38:21,925
I want to hold you...

330
00:38:24,085 --> 00:38:25,405
and kiss your mole.

331
00:38:30,325 --> 00:38:31,565
Your faithful one...

332
00:38:32,685 --> 00:38:33,685
Elisa.

333
00:38:35,365 --> 00:38:36,405
Dear Elisa...

334
00:38:37,965 --> 00:38:39,485
I just read your letter.

335
00:38:40,165 --> 00:38:42,245
It was almost like touching you again.

336
00:38:44,805 --> 00:38:47,925
I try to imagine myself
by your side as you write.

337
00:38:48,325 --> 00:38:49,845
Write to me, I mean.

338
00:38:50,725 --> 00:38:51,805
I sit and watch...

339
00:38:53,965 --> 00:38:56,125
I watch every gesture...

340
00:38:56,965 --> 00:38:58,525
Every word that you write.

341
00:39:00,165 --> 00:39:01,805
And I study your hands...

342
00:39:02,885 --> 00:39:03,885
Your moles...

343
00:39:06,045 --> 00:39:07,325
The pauses you take...

344
00:39:08,525 --> 00:39:09,845
Your impatience...

345
00:39:10,725 --> 00:39:12,325
...and mine.

346
00:39:15,365 --> 00:39:18,725
I imagine all our letters
spread out like a magic carpet.

347
00:39:19,965 --> 00:39:22,325
With us lying on top of it, naked.

348
00:39:24,365 --> 00:39:26,925
As if, somehow,
all these words we've written...

349
00:39:27,445 --> 00:39:30,045
could protect us from the cold...

350
00:39:31,045 --> 00:39:32,485
from other people...

351
00:39:33,205 --> 00:39:35,005
from the distance between us.

352
00:39:37,645 --> 00:39:39,765
Each time I receive
another one of your letters,

353
00:39:40,365 --> 00:39:42,165
I hug it before opening it.

354
00:39:43,565 --> 00:39:44,845
I embrace you.

355
00:39:45,845 --> 00:39:48,605
And your words calm my impatience...

356
00:39:49,005 --> 00:39:51,765
and ease my fear of never seeing you again

357
00:39:51,845 --> 00:39:54,645
or that one day you'll stop writing back.

358
00:39:54,725 --> 00:39:57,005
Your words of love sink into my skin.

359
00:39:58,565 --> 00:40:01,645
I think of my moles
as your words.

360
00:40:03,005 --> 00:40:04,645
I love you so much, Elisa.

361
00:40:07,685 --> 00:40:09,965
COUSO, GALICIA
THREE YEARS LATER

362
00:40:10,045 --> 00:40:11,285
The chestnut...

363
00:40:12,805 --> 00:40:13,965
is a fruit...

364
00:40:15,885 --> 00:40:16,925
whose shell...

365
00:40:19,925 --> 00:40:21,285
is reddish in color.

366
00:40:27,925 --> 00:40:29,765
The shape of the chestnut...

367
00:40:35,605 --> 00:40:37,405
is very similar...

368
00:40:44,805 --> 00:40:46,245
to the shape of a heart.

369
00:40:58,925 --> 00:41:00,245
Now draw a chestnut.

370
00:41:26,565 --> 00:41:29,565
What's this?
So you've already finished your drawings?

371
00:41:29,845 --> 00:41:32,045
I have the fastest class in Couso.

372
00:41:32,965 --> 00:41:34,445
Inside, now!

373
00:42:42,005 --> 00:42:43,045
And who is this?

374
00:42:55,645 --> 00:42:56,645
You.

375
00:48:10,845 --> 00:48:13,085
<i>You've been with me
all this time.</i>

376
00:48:13,565 --> 00:48:15,725
<i>And you've been with me
every minute.</i>

377
00:48:17,805 --> 00:48:21,565
<i>You should apply to the school at
Couso, it's only ten kilometers from mine.</i>

378
00:48:22,365 --> 00:48:23,685
<i>Ten kilometers...</i>

379
00:48:24,245 --> 00:48:26,526
<i>I'll get them to transfer me
so I can be with you.</i>

380
00:48:26,645 --> 00:48:29,045
<i>- Yes...
- With me.</i>

381
00:48:29,125 --> 00:48:30,165
With you.

382
00:48:31,005 --> 00:48:33,085
<i>We'll be together.</i>

383
00:48:33,405 --> 00:48:34,845
<i>- Together.
- Together.</i>

384
00:48:34,925 --> 00:48:36,165
<i>- Together.
- Together.</i>

385
00:48:36,245 --> 00:48:38,565
<i>- Forever.
- Forever.</i>

386
00:48:38,845 --> 00:48:40,285
<i>- Forever.
- Forever.</i>

387
00:48:40,365 --> 00:48:41,565
<i>I love you.</i>

388
00:48:41,965 --> 00:48:43,325
<i>I love you.</i>

389
00:48:53,645 --> 00:48:55,805
- Good morning.
- Good morning!

390
00:48:57,045 --> 00:48:58,045
You may sit.

391
00:48:58,325 --> 00:49:00,285
CALO, GALICIA. FEBRUARY 1901

392
00:49:00,365 --> 00:49:02,885
I am Miss Marcela. Now tell me your names.

393
00:49:03,285 --> 00:49:04,285
I'm Pedro.

394
00:49:04,765 --> 00:49:05,765
Rosa.

395
00:49:06,005 --> 00:49:07,325
My name is Celso.

396
00:49:07,405 --> 00:49:08,645
My name is Rocío.

397
00:49:08,725 --> 00:49:09,965
I'm Rosalía.

398
00:49:10,365 --> 00:49:12,965
And the tree,
do you know what it's called?

399
00:49:16,805 --> 00:49:19,765
THE HOLY TRINITY

400
00:49:19,845 --> 00:49:24,405
GOD - HOLY SPIRIT - SON

401
00:49:41,405 --> 00:49:43,581
- Well, look what we have here.
- Don't.

402
00:49:43,605 --> 00:49:44,765
Could you give us a hand?

403
00:49:44,845 --> 00:49:47,645
- We won't bite.
- Come on, come on. Keep moving.

404
00:51:22,045 --> 00:51:23,045
The...

405
00:51:23,805 --> 00:51:25,445
bo-dy...

406
00:51:28,245 --> 00:51:29,245
of...

407
00:51:31,685 --> 00:51:33,525
the...

408
00:51:34,285 --> 00:51:36,285
snail...

409
00:51:39,525 --> 00:51:40,525
is...

410
00:51:43,165 --> 00:51:45,125
soft.

411
00:52:22,445 --> 00:52:24,165
I knew you'd be here.

412
00:52:30,125 --> 00:52:32,045
I always know when you're near.

413
00:53:48,885 --> 00:53:50,525
What's the letter about?

414
00:53:51,845 --> 00:53:53,165
My cousin, Mario.

415
00:53:53,885 --> 00:53:55,045
He died.

416
00:53:56,805 --> 00:53:58,005
I guess he drowned.

417
00:53:59,445 --> 00:54:00,725
Drowned?

418
00:54:01,845 --> 00:54:04,245
I barely even knew him.
He lived in England.

419
00:54:04,325 --> 00:54:05,325
Hmm.

420
00:54:06,165 --> 00:54:07,525
I was his only family.

421
00:54:11,205 --> 00:54:12,205
Shall we eat?

422
00:54:12,325 --> 00:54:13,965
Yes, I'm starving.

423
00:55:32,245 --> 00:55:33,245
May I?

424
00:55:38,445 --> 00:55:39,885
Oh, I don't dance.

425
00:55:40,645 --> 00:55:42,245
What do you mean, you don't dance?

426
00:55:42,565 --> 00:55:43,565
Just one.

427
00:55:45,565 --> 00:55:48,445
Don't worry about your friend,
I'll dance with her later if she wants.

428
00:56:49,005 --> 00:56:50,965
Sometimes I feel so afraid.

429
00:56:52,845 --> 00:56:53,845
Elisa...

430
00:56:54,525 --> 00:56:55,965
we have to play along.

431
00:56:56,805 --> 00:56:58,525
Pretend that we're just like
everyone else.

432
00:56:59,245 --> 00:57:00,405
That we're no different.

433
00:57:02,325 --> 00:57:03,605
Or they'll never leave us alone.

434
00:57:10,805 --> 00:57:11,965
You know it's true.

435
00:57:12,245 --> 00:57:13,245
I know.

436
00:58:00,685 --> 00:58:03,125
That's probably true.

437
00:58:05,365 --> 00:58:06,885
Oh, did I tell you?

438
00:58:17,605 --> 00:58:20,045
- There!
- And to think they're teachers.

439
00:58:24,125 --> 00:58:25,925
It's the children I worry about.

440
00:58:26,005 --> 00:58:28,965
Did you hear about those two?
Those two girls?

441
00:58:29,045 --> 00:58:30,965
Everybody liked their dance.

442
01:00:14,605 --> 01:00:15,605
What is it?

443
01:00:21,445 --> 01:00:24,285
I wanted to invite Marcela
to the dance next week.

444
01:00:27,085 --> 01:00:28,085
The dance.

445
01:00:28,885 --> 01:00:30,645
She can't make it, I'm afraid.

446
01:00:33,045 --> 01:00:34,485
Let her tell me that herself.

447
01:00:35,365 --> 01:00:36,765
Or are you her boss?

448
01:00:44,045 --> 01:00:45,045
Open the door!

449
01:00:48,925 --> 01:00:50,605
You perverted bitch, open the door!

450
01:00:56,645 --> 01:00:57,645
Whore.

451
01:01:03,885 --> 01:01:04,885
Marcela!

452
01:01:35,965 --> 01:01:38,125
Do you know what's happened
to your classmates?

453
01:01:40,685 --> 01:01:42,445
Are they all sick or something?

454
01:01:50,645 --> 01:01:51,725
Be seated.

455
01:02:41,805 --> 01:02:42,805
Who's there?

456
01:04:08,645 --> 01:04:10,205
So, you know what we have to do?

457
01:04:11,925 --> 01:04:12,925
Yes.

458
01:04:14,845 --> 01:04:15,845
Are you sure?

459
01:04:18,125 --> 01:04:19,125
Yes.

460
01:04:24,405 --> 01:04:25,405
Do you love me?

461
01:04:28,765 --> 01:04:30,125
With all of my being.

462
01:05:23,925 --> 01:05:27,165
It's not too late for you
to live another kind of life, Marcela.

463
01:05:27,285 --> 01:05:28,325
One that's...

464
01:05:30,085 --> 01:05:31,405
- ...normal.
- Shh!

465
01:05:32,765 --> 01:05:33,765
Quiet.

466
01:05:36,685 --> 01:05:39,045
For me,
a normal life is with you.

467
01:05:42,365 --> 01:05:44,325
You're the one who gives me what I need.

468
01:05:46,485 --> 01:05:47,485
Just you.

469
01:05:49,525 --> 01:05:50,565
No one else.

470
01:06:00,445 --> 01:06:03,965
Then we'll go to Buenos Aires,
where no one knows us.

471
01:06:07,285 --> 01:06:08,525
Yeah.

472
01:06:16,325 --> 01:06:18,765
Quite a while since I've seen
your friend Elisa.

473
01:06:20,245 --> 01:06:21,245
She's gone.

474
01:06:21,805 --> 01:06:23,805
Ah... Where to?

475
01:06:24,285 --> 01:06:25,925
If you don't mind my asking.

476
01:06:26,885 --> 01:06:27,925
Havana.

477
01:06:28,685 --> 01:06:29,885
With some relatives.

478
01:06:31,085 --> 01:06:32,125
They've sailed.

479
01:06:35,125 --> 01:06:36,125
Oh.

480
01:06:41,165 --> 01:06:43,245
Well, goodbye. I'm going inside.

481
01:07:02,485 --> 01:07:03,485
Wait.

482
01:07:19,685 --> 01:07:21,205
I hear your friend's gone away.

483
01:07:21,885 --> 01:07:22,885
Yes.

484
01:07:23,885 --> 01:07:25,005
A few days ago.

485
01:07:26,405 --> 01:07:27,405
To Cuba.

486
01:07:30,525 --> 01:07:31,605
So, you're alone?

487
01:07:36,245 --> 01:07:38,125
And I'm running out of firewood.

488
01:07:40,565 --> 01:07:42,285
Elisa was in charge of that.

489
01:07:44,805 --> 01:07:46,125
I can bring you firewood.

490
01:07:49,405 --> 01:07:50,405
Thank you.

491
01:07:53,205 --> 01:07:54,205
Today...

492
01:07:56,045 --> 01:07:57,045
Or tonight.

493
01:08:36,925 --> 01:08:39,045
♪ <i>There is a prize island</i> ♪

494
01:08:39,965 --> 01:08:42,325
♪ <i>There at the bottom of the sea</i> ♪

495
01:08:43,165 --> 01:08:45,885
♪ <i>It's filled with bright stars</i> ♪

496
01:10:06,925 --> 01:10:07,925
Mario...

497
01:10:10,165 --> 01:10:12,365
I was born the same day
as my cousin Elisa,

498
01:10:12,445 --> 01:10:13,765
but seven years later,

499
01:10:13,845 --> 01:10:16,085
after my mother married
an English protestant.

500
01:10:16,165 --> 01:10:17,565
CHURCH OF SAINT GEORGE, A CORUÑA

501
01:10:17,645 --> 01:10:20,645
But this cannot be, my son.
It cannot be.

502
01:10:21,605 --> 01:10:25,525
I know, Father, I know,
but those were the circumstances.

503
01:10:26,445 --> 01:10:28,725
All the records were lost
and I was never baptized

504
01:10:28,805 --> 01:10:31,605
because my stepfather, Mr. Hobbs,
was opposed it.

505
01:10:32,565 --> 01:10:35,285
When I was eight, they took me to England,
and then...

506
01:10:39,005 --> 01:10:40,925
Do you know what my dream is, Father?

507
01:10:43,685 --> 01:10:46,925
My one dream
now that I'm finally back home...

508
01:10:47,805 --> 01:10:50,805
is to be baptized,
and then to marry Marcela.

509
01:10:51,165 --> 01:10:54,565
It shall be done at once, my son,
tomorrow morning.

510
01:10:55,525 --> 01:10:57,245
- Really, Father?
- Certainly.

511
01:11:23,965 --> 01:11:26,525
JUNE 1901

512
01:11:26,605 --> 01:11:27,645
Mario...

513
01:11:28,205 --> 01:11:30,685
will thou take Marcela, here present,

514
01:11:31,165 --> 01:11:35,125
for your lawful wife according
to the rights of the Holy Mother Church?

515
01:11:36,165 --> 01:11:37,845
Now the bridegroom responds: "I will."

516
01:11:40,045 --> 01:11:41,045
I will.

517
01:11:41,805 --> 01:11:42,805
Marcela...

518
01:11:43,685 --> 01:11:45,885
will thou take Mario, here present,

519
01:11:45,965 --> 01:11:47,445
for your lawful husband

520
01:11:47,525 --> 01:11:50,445
according to the rights
of the Holy Mother Church?

521
01:11:50,605 --> 01:11:52,765
The bride responds: "I will."

522
01:11:54,845 --> 01:11:55,725
I will.

523
01:11:55,805 --> 01:11:58,285
I now join you in holy matrimony

524
01:11:58,365 --> 01:12:01,325
in the name of the Father, and the Son,

525
01:12:01,405 --> 01:12:03,885
and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

526
01:12:04,005 --> 01:12:05,005
Amen.

527
01:13:46,725 --> 01:13:48,965
I'm telling you.

528
01:13:49,045 --> 01:13:52,565
Let's not be hasty.
We shall see, we shall see.

529
01:14:13,045 --> 01:14:14,325
How can I help you?

530
01:14:14,405 --> 01:14:15,805
Marcela, my child...

531
01:14:16,685 --> 01:14:18,125
we heard that you married someone.

532
01:14:18,485 --> 01:14:19,725
Yes, Father.

533
01:14:19,885 --> 01:14:21,765
- In A Coruña.
- Hmm.

534
01:14:21,845 --> 01:14:23,365
- Church of St. George.
- Ah.

535
01:14:23,765 --> 01:14:25,205
Father Cortiella married us.

536
01:14:27,165 --> 01:14:29,765
And... may we meet
this husband of yours?

537
01:14:31,605 --> 01:14:33,085
He's resting right now.

538
01:14:34,045 --> 01:14:35,285
It shouldn't take long.

539
01:14:38,725 --> 01:14:41,045
See, Marcela, people are saying...

540
01:14:42,405 --> 01:14:43,885
We've been told that...

541
01:14:44,925 --> 01:14:46,485
as strange as it sounds...

542
01:14:49,525 --> 01:14:51,005
that you're married to...

543
01:14:52,965 --> 01:14:54,445
...to Elisa.

544
01:14:54,525 --> 01:14:56,605
Elisa, disguised as a man.

545
01:14:57,365 --> 01:14:59,045
Come on!

546
01:14:59,405 --> 01:15:00,965
Elisa disguised as a man?

547
01:15:02,605 --> 01:15:03,845
That's what all this is about?

548
01:15:06,645 --> 01:15:07,805
His name's Mario.

549
01:15:08,165 --> 01:15:09,365
He's Elisa's cousin.

550
01:15:10,845 --> 01:15:13,045
They look so much alike,
he could be her brother.

551
01:15:13,765 --> 01:15:15,165
They're like twins almost.

552
01:15:17,285 --> 01:15:19,725
- Is that it?
- He needs to come out and see us.

553
01:15:20,485 --> 01:15:21,845
I really ought to...

554
01:15:23,005 --> 01:15:24,045
examine him.

555
01:15:25,125 --> 01:15:26,725
I mean, physically.

556
01:15:28,565 --> 01:15:31,085
Why must you meddle
in other people's lives?

557
01:15:31,965 --> 01:15:34,165
Shouldn't you be out
giving the sick comfort...

558
01:15:34,525 --> 01:15:35,925
or the last rites?

559
01:15:38,645 --> 01:15:39,965
You know something, Father?

560
01:15:40,365 --> 01:15:43,925
If you're doubting whether Mario is
really a man, if you're not convinced...

561
01:15:45,165 --> 01:15:47,005
wait a few more months and you will be.

562
01:15:48,045 --> 01:15:49,165
I'm having a child.

563
01:15:50,965 --> 01:15:52,005
Mario's child...

564
01:15:52,085 --> 01:15:53,485
my husband's child.

565
01:15:54,485 --> 01:15:56,645
And I hope you'll baptize him, Father.

566
01:15:58,045 --> 01:15:59,045
Now go on.

567
01:15:59,365 --> 01:16:01,005
The weather is turning bad.

568
01:16:01,085 --> 01:16:03,085
Uh...

569
01:16:27,205 --> 01:16:29,125
We'll have to leave
sooner than we thought.

570
01:16:37,925 --> 01:16:40,565
If only we could just leave
for Buenos Aires tomorrow.

571
01:17:12,845 --> 01:17:14,805
I'm going to lie down, I'm tired.

572
01:17:17,645 --> 01:17:19,605
Elisa, come out if you're a man!

573
01:17:19,685 --> 01:17:21,005
Come out!

574
01:17:21,085 --> 01:17:24,605
You whore!

575
01:18:08,885 --> 01:18:10,405
Lovely place, Argentina.

576
01:18:11,485 --> 01:18:15,085
A fine place to raise children,
from what I've read about it.

577
01:18:15,165 --> 01:18:16,925
Yes, very fine.

578
01:18:17,005 --> 01:18:19,085
How many children do you have?

579
01:18:21,485 --> 01:18:24,445
PASSENGER LIST

580
01:18:28,845 --> 01:18:31,445
I suppose you know
why I've asked you to come here.

581
01:18:33,885 --> 01:18:35,125
They're lies, Father.

582
01:18:35,805 --> 01:18:37,005
Nothing but slanders.

583
01:18:37,965 --> 01:18:41,125
The villagers, they will say anything
to discredit us, anything.

584
01:18:43,205 --> 01:18:44,565
It's an outrageous lie.

585
01:18:45,645 --> 01:18:48,285
Do you realize how this made me look?

586
01:18:49,525 --> 01:18:51,845
What you did was a travesty.

587
01:18:53,405 --> 01:18:55,005
It is the worst kind of lie.

588
01:18:55,325 --> 01:18:57,645
And for it, you and that wretched girl

589
01:18:57,725 --> 01:18:59,685
are going to both rot in hell forever!

590
01:19:04,525 --> 01:19:05,685
Please, Father.

591
01:19:09,205 --> 01:19:10,845
You've left me no choice.

592
01:19:12,365 --> 01:19:14,205
I have to, Mario...

593
01:19:15,285 --> 01:19:17,005
or whoever you are!

594
01:19:18,325 --> 01:19:19,405
You may enter!

595
01:19:38,645 --> 01:19:41,285
Father, I will proceed.

596
01:19:53,685 --> 01:19:55,725
Please don't let them
do this to me, Father.

597
01:19:56,045 --> 01:19:57,605
Don't let them, I beg you.

598
01:19:57,685 --> 01:20:00,405
If you're a man... then we need proof.

599
01:20:08,365 --> 01:20:09,365
Please.

600
01:20:13,405 --> 01:20:16,085
It's not what it looks like.
Father, I'm a hermaphrodite.

601
01:20:16,165 --> 01:20:18,285
You are damned, woman!

602
01:20:18,365 --> 01:20:20,645
The fury of all the archangels

603
01:20:20,725 --> 01:20:23,005
shall fall upon you and your...

604
01:20:23,085 --> 01:20:24,085
your...

605
01:20:24,165 --> 01:20:25,445
That woman!

606
01:20:34,685 --> 01:20:35,885
She's my wife.

607
01:20:37,685 --> 01:20:39,045
Her name's Marcela.

608
01:20:41,845 --> 01:20:44,365
Read the story
of Elisa and Marcela,

609
01:20:44,445 --> 01:20:46,085
a marriage without a man.

610
01:21:07,325 --> 01:21:08,405
You've read this?

611
01:21:09,085 --> 01:21:10,925
Is that the behavior of human beings?

612
01:21:17,645 --> 01:21:18,525
You've seen this?

613
01:21:18,605 --> 01:21:21,645
- Unbelievable.
- What was the priest thinking?

614
01:21:21,725 --> 01:21:24,685
- Can't expect him...
- It turns your stomach.

615
01:21:24,765 --> 01:21:25,765
Good evening.

616
01:21:41,885 --> 01:21:44,565
Right, your papers are in order.

617
01:21:45,765 --> 01:21:48,245
- Good night.
- Very good. You may proceed.

618
01:21:48,325 --> 01:21:49,885
Thank you. Good night.

619
01:22:51,845 --> 01:22:57,645
PORTO, DECEMBER 1901

620
01:23:22,965 --> 01:23:24,645
Put the chicken in the oven!

621
01:23:24,725 --> 01:23:26,325
Come on! The cod's ready!

622
01:23:32,485 --> 01:23:33,885
Oh! What's this?

623
01:23:35,085 --> 01:23:37,285
What do you think you're doing?
Wake up! Get a move on!

624
01:23:51,725 --> 01:23:52,965
How much do we have?

625
01:23:56,805 --> 01:23:58,205
Enough for one ticket.

626
01:24:06,205 --> 01:24:07,725
Two more months...

627
01:24:13,245 --> 01:24:14,445
Two months.

628
01:24:42,525 --> 01:24:45,645
♪ <i>Maria Severa has passed away</i> ♪

629
01:24:46,565 --> 01:24:49,965
♪ <i>Maria Severa has passed away</i> ♪

630
01:24:51,205 --> 01:24:54,685
♪ <i>And the streets of Mouraria</i> ♪

631
01:24:55,245 --> 01:24:59,205
♪ <i>Weep with anger and pain</i> ♪

632
01:24:59,965 --> 01:25:03,165
♪ <i>And the streets of Mouraria</i> ♪

633
01:25:03,965 --> 01:25:07,605
♪ <i>Weep with anger and pain</i> ♪

634
01:25:08,405 --> 01:25:11,645
♪ <i>A black shawl, a black shawl</i> ♪

635
01:25:12,205 --> 01:25:15,885
♪ <i>Black like the new moon</i> ♪

636
01:25:17,085 --> 01:25:20,405
♪ <i>A black shawl, a black shawl</i> ♪

637
01:25:21,485 --> 01:25:24,925
♪ <i>Black like the new moon</i> ♪

638
01:25:25,765 --> 01:25:29,085
♪ <i>As black as the darkest night</i> ♪

639
01:25:29,605 --> 01:25:32,245
♪ <i>As black as the darkest night</i> ♪

640
01:26:01,205 --> 01:26:04,285
By order of the Portuguese
government, you're both under arrest.

641
01:26:05,565 --> 01:26:06,925
No, wait.

642
01:26:07,845 --> 01:26:08,885
She's done nothing.

643
01:26:11,645 --> 01:26:12,805
She's done nothing!

644
01:26:19,445 --> 01:26:20,805
Careful with her, she's...

645
01:26:20,845 --> 01:26:22,805
- Be quiet! Keep moving!
- Wait...

646
01:27:14,245 --> 01:27:16,405
Looks like someone
got herself into trouble.

647
01:27:16,485 --> 01:27:19,165
I hate that bastard
who didn't come for me.

648
01:27:23,685 --> 01:27:24,925
Keep moving!

649
01:27:28,525 --> 01:27:33,885
I have here a warrant
from the court in A Coruña...

650
01:27:35,085 --> 01:27:37,125
stating that you are a woman...

651
01:27:37,445 --> 01:27:39,325
whose name is Elisa...

652
01:27:40,445 --> 01:27:43,605
and that by using a false identity

653
01:27:43,685 --> 01:27:47,285
you managed to get yourself
married to... Marcela...

654
01:27:48,125 --> 01:27:49,485
then fled to Portugal.

655
01:27:51,365 --> 01:27:52,365
I'm Mario.

656
01:27:54,725 --> 01:27:56,645
Please, I don't have time
for this nonsense.

657
01:27:57,765 --> 01:28:00,725
What is the point of this...

658
01:28:00,805 --> 01:28:02,765
this farce that you and this woman
have concocted?

659
01:28:03,245 --> 01:28:05,085
That woman, sir, is my wife!

660
01:28:06,365 --> 01:28:08,725
You Spaniards are always so pig-headed,

661
01:28:08,805 --> 01:28:11,805
so... stubborn, so self-righteous.

662
01:28:18,085 --> 01:28:21,045
Please, sir, she... my wife...

663
01:28:21,405 --> 01:28:23,285
She had nothing to do with it.

664
01:28:24,405 --> 01:28:25,605
She knows nothing.

665
01:28:26,005 --> 01:28:28,365
She thinks that I'm a hermaphrodite, sir.

666
01:28:30,285 --> 01:28:31,485
Please, no more of that,

667
01:28:31,725 --> 01:28:34,765
Elisa, Mario, whatever you call yourself.

668
01:28:35,445 --> 01:28:38,925
I'm not some ignorant priest
in a tiny village in Galicia

669
01:28:39,005 --> 01:28:42,045
that you and your friend
can make a fool out of.

670
01:28:46,805 --> 01:28:49,445
What would happen
if I were to order the guards...

671
01:28:49,925 --> 01:28:52,405
to put you in the same cell
as all the men?

672
01:28:53,245 --> 01:28:56,485
How long do you think it would take them
to find out what you are?

673
01:28:57,725 --> 01:28:58,965
Would it take them long?

674
01:29:00,205 --> 01:29:01,205
Hmm?

675
01:29:06,725 --> 01:29:07,725
No.

676
01:29:08,525 --> 01:29:09,565
Not very.

677
01:29:28,445 --> 01:29:29,765
You're pretty far along.

678
01:29:33,565 --> 01:29:34,565
Come.

679
01:29:35,165 --> 01:29:36,165
Come.

680
01:29:44,045 --> 01:29:45,045
Eat.

681
01:30:10,805 --> 01:30:12,405
What will happen to us now?

682
01:30:16,605 --> 01:30:17,885
What are we accused of?

683
01:30:19,285 --> 01:30:20,725
Transvestism.

684
01:30:22,605 --> 01:30:24,205
Blasphemy.

685
01:30:27,085 --> 01:30:29,605
Falsifying documents.

686
01:30:30,685 --> 01:30:33,005
Your friend is wanted as an accomplice.

687
01:30:33,365 --> 01:30:35,845
That's on the other side
of the border.

688
01:30:36,525 --> 01:30:39,085
First, you'll have to answer
charges on this side.

689
01:30:39,885 --> 01:30:41,525
You'll be tried here,

690
01:30:41,605 --> 01:30:45,325
and then... returned to Galicia.

691
01:30:48,765 --> 01:30:51,125
I'm to blame, not Marcela. She's innocent.

692
01:30:51,205 --> 01:30:52,245
I swear it.

693
01:30:56,605 --> 01:30:58,205
She's gonna have a child.

694
01:31:01,445 --> 01:31:02,485
A child?

695
01:31:10,045 --> 01:31:11,485
Put on a dress.

696
01:31:11,565 --> 01:31:14,725
I'll see to it that you're taken
to the women's block.

697
01:31:24,325 --> 01:31:25,565
We'll be together, then?

698
01:31:26,005 --> 01:31:27,005
Yes.

699
01:31:30,605 --> 01:31:31,725
Oh, thank you.

700
01:31:34,605 --> 01:31:35,965
You're a good man.

701
01:31:36,365 --> 01:31:37,725
Well, you're welcome.

702
01:31:37,805 --> 01:31:40,685
That's what my wife says when
she's about to give me upsetting news.

703
01:31:42,325 --> 01:31:43,405
Now, go on.

704
01:31:44,365 --> 01:31:45,405
Get out.

705
01:31:45,485 --> 01:31:47,405
Before I change my mind

706
01:31:47,485 --> 01:31:49,325
and lock you up with those savages.

707
01:31:59,085 --> 01:32:00,085
Go.

708
01:32:19,765 --> 01:32:20,765
Marcela...

709
01:32:26,645 --> 01:32:27,645
Mario.

710
01:32:29,285 --> 01:32:30,565
I'm Elisa.

711
01:32:35,845 --> 01:32:36,845
Elisa.

712
01:33:12,325 --> 01:33:13,805
What will happen to us?

713
01:33:25,965 --> 01:33:26,965
Who knows?

714
01:33:44,285 --> 01:33:45,725
But at least we're together.

715
01:33:49,965 --> 01:33:51,485
Together, yes.

716
01:34:02,005 --> 01:34:03,165
Forgive me.

717
01:34:10,605 --> 01:34:12,445
I said I'd protect us...

718
01:34:13,565 --> 01:34:14,765
Look where we ended up.

719
01:34:14,845 --> 01:34:16,085
Elisa, shh.

720
01:34:18,365 --> 01:34:20,205
You don't need to apologize.

721
01:34:27,485 --> 01:34:28,885
We'll get out of here.

722
01:34:34,285 --> 01:34:36,885
We should have left a long time ago,
I suppose.

723
01:34:44,125 --> 01:34:45,445
I guess so.

724
01:34:51,645 --> 01:34:53,685
I'm scared of having it in here.

725
01:35:03,045 --> 01:35:04,725
The warden's looking after us.

726
01:35:06,525 --> 01:35:08,005
He's a good man, I think.

727
01:35:12,365 --> 01:35:14,725
Right now, we need more than a good man.

728
01:35:37,885 --> 01:35:39,085
Hold still.

729
01:35:43,485 --> 01:35:44,645
That's fine.

730
01:35:45,325 --> 01:35:46,325
Ready?

731
01:36:03,165 --> 01:36:06,045
Have you read this?
About the two women who got married?

732
01:36:07,765 --> 01:36:10,805
According to this,
if we send them back to Spain,

733
01:36:10,885 --> 01:36:12,725
they'll be sentenced to 20 years.

734
01:36:21,045 --> 01:36:24,205
Will you give this to them?
It was made with great affection.

735
01:36:24,285 --> 01:36:25,525
Yes, I'll see to it.

736
01:36:25,605 --> 01:36:27,845
This is a gift for the child
of the Spanish women,

737
01:36:27,925 --> 01:36:30,205
will you please make sure they get it?

738
01:36:35,725 --> 01:36:36,965
It brings good luck.

739
01:36:41,925 --> 01:36:45,085
Alright, no more touching.
Let's have some order around here.

740
01:36:48,765 --> 01:36:49,805
Elisa...

741
01:36:56,565 --> 01:36:57,685
It's coming!

742
01:37:01,005 --> 01:37:02,005
Are you certain?

743
01:37:02,725 --> 01:37:03,725
Yes.

744
01:37:04,045 --> 01:37:05,045
Come.

745
01:37:09,405 --> 01:37:12,285
It's coming! It's coming!
I can see the head.

746
01:37:12,365 --> 01:37:13,925
Go on, keep breathing.

747
01:37:14,005 --> 01:37:16,685
Keep breathing. That's right. And push!

748
01:37:16,765 --> 01:37:19,365
That's right. You can do it, big push.

749
01:37:21,645 --> 01:37:25,165
Almost there.
One more time. One last push.

750
01:37:51,405 --> 01:37:53,125
She's got so much hair.

751
01:38:13,765 --> 01:38:15,885
Ah, so adorable.

752
01:38:16,205 --> 01:38:17,805
A girl. It's a girl.

753
01:38:17,885 --> 01:38:19,365
What's her name?

754
01:38:19,645 --> 01:38:21,325
- Ana.
- She's beautiful.

755
01:38:21,885 --> 01:38:24,325
GOVERNOR'S PALACE, PORTO

756
01:38:24,965 --> 01:38:26,005
Really, Commissioner,

757
01:38:26,085 --> 01:38:28,805
all this about these Spanish women
getting married?

758
01:38:28,885 --> 01:38:32,365
My wife can't seem to talk
about anything else.

759
01:38:34,085 --> 01:38:36,285
She even wants to visit them in prison.

760
01:38:37,765 --> 01:38:39,485
They have had a lot of visitors,

761
01:38:39,565 --> 01:38:40,605
it's true.

762
01:38:42,165 --> 01:38:44,565
I'm getting pressure
from the Spanish authorities.

763
01:38:45,365 --> 01:38:47,285
They want to try them in A Coruña.

764
01:38:47,765 --> 01:38:50,445
I think they're keen
on making an example of them.

765
01:38:51,645 --> 01:38:54,885
They're not criminals, so much
as just two women who are just...

766
01:38:54,965 --> 01:38:56,085
Idiots.

767
01:38:59,045 --> 01:39:00,725
This fish has no flavor.

768
01:39:04,645 --> 01:39:06,085
How do things stand at the moment?

769
01:39:07,365 --> 01:39:09,645
One of them has given birth
to a baby girl.

770
01:39:10,165 --> 01:39:11,485
In the prison?

771
01:39:12,445 --> 01:39:13,805
That's all we needed.

772
01:39:15,965 --> 01:39:16,965
Governor...

773
01:39:17,445 --> 01:39:20,125
if we hand them over
to the Spanish authorities...

774
01:39:20,365 --> 01:39:22,565
they'll be facing 10 to 20 years.

775
01:39:28,925 --> 01:39:30,245
Hmm...

776
01:39:30,325 --> 01:39:33,765
Then I will rely on your esteemed
abilities to keep that from happening.

777
01:39:34,285 --> 01:39:36,125
Nothing illegal, of course.

778
01:39:37,005 --> 01:39:39,565
Even if it's just to annoy the Spanish.

779
01:39:42,245 --> 01:39:44,725
Your Excellency... leave it to me.

780
01:39:48,285 --> 01:39:50,805
Here, try this fish,
tell me if you can taste anything.

781
01:39:50,885 --> 01:39:52,005
No, Governor, thank you.

782
01:40:08,285 --> 01:40:10,325
We have enough
for the tickets now, Marcela.

783
01:40:11,485 --> 01:40:13,445
As soon as we get out of here.

784
01:40:14,845 --> 01:40:17,325
If we leave here, we'll just be deported.

785
01:40:24,605 --> 01:40:25,965
Something's wrong with her.

786
01:40:26,445 --> 01:40:28,045
It's the damp.

787
01:40:28,845 --> 01:40:30,005
It's this place.

788
01:40:37,805 --> 01:40:39,445
- Let me.
- No.

789
01:40:42,005 --> 01:40:43,045
What is it?

790
01:40:46,045 --> 01:40:48,725
Shh. Shh, shh.

791
01:40:54,965 --> 01:40:56,925
She's burning up.

792
01:41:02,045 --> 01:41:03,205
A doctor!

793
01:41:03,565 --> 01:41:05,125
We need a doctor here!

794
01:41:06,405 --> 01:41:08,165
It's the baby! A doctor!

795
01:41:14,445 --> 01:41:15,925
Shh, shh.

796
01:41:20,965 --> 01:41:22,445
Shh.

797
01:41:22,525 --> 01:41:23,965
Calm down now.

798
01:41:38,445 --> 01:41:39,965
The baby has pneumonia.

799
01:41:40,445 --> 01:41:42,805
She'll die if we don't get
that fever down quickly.

800
01:41:42,885 --> 01:41:44,805
They'll come with me, to my house.

801
01:41:46,925 --> 01:41:47,965
Come with me.

802
01:42:26,205 --> 01:42:29,005
Well, are we feeling better, huh?

803
01:42:29,445 --> 01:42:30,725
Feeling better?

804
01:42:31,205 --> 01:42:32,205
Shh.

805
01:42:43,165 --> 01:42:45,285
- Well?
- How are they?

806
01:42:45,685 --> 01:42:47,005
Out of danger, I think.

807
01:42:48,725 --> 01:42:49,925
They're sleeping.

808
01:42:54,205 --> 01:42:55,885
She's a darling little girl.

809
01:42:57,485 --> 01:43:00,605
There's no way I can possibly thank you
for all that you've done for us.

810
01:43:01,565 --> 01:43:03,045
The privilege is ours.

811
01:43:05,365 --> 01:43:07,085
Not many others would feel the same.

812
01:43:08,645 --> 01:43:10,885
Well, we're not like many others.

813
01:43:11,205 --> 01:43:12,205
Are we?

814
01:43:15,165 --> 01:43:16,165
No, we're not.

815
01:43:19,485 --> 01:43:20,605
Do you have children?

816
01:43:21,365 --> 01:43:22,365
No.

817
01:43:47,925 --> 01:43:50,565
I can't hold the two of you here
any longer, Elisa.

818
01:43:52,165 --> 01:43:54,525
But if I release you, you'll be deported.

819
01:43:54,685 --> 01:43:55,685
I know.

820
01:44:08,525 --> 01:44:12,405
However, if I were to,
just hypothetically...

821
01:44:13,085 --> 01:44:15,765
If I released you
the day before the ship sails...

822
01:44:16,125 --> 01:44:19,485
and then I filled in the forms
to say that you were let out...

823
01:44:20,445 --> 01:44:22,325
two or three days later...

824
01:44:26,885 --> 01:44:29,965
But, first, we must wait and see
how well they recover.

825
01:44:30,365 --> 01:44:31,365
Yes.

826
01:44:35,085 --> 01:44:37,605
You earn more,
more money coming in,

827
01:44:37,685 --> 01:44:39,405
Don't worry about the rest of it.

828
01:44:39,885 --> 01:44:42,045
These things have a way of working out.

829
01:44:55,205 --> 01:44:56,245
Where's Ana?

830
01:45:02,445 --> 01:45:03,485
With Flor.

831
01:45:06,765 --> 01:45:09,605
I asked if she'd watch her
until we're ready.

832
01:45:20,525 --> 01:45:21,725
Is everything alright?

833
01:45:22,645 --> 01:45:23,685
Is something wrong?

834
01:45:30,005 --> 01:45:32,445
I would have thought
you'd be glad we were leaving.

835
01:45:32,525 --> 01:45:33,525
I am.

836
01:45:34,405 --> 01:45:35,405
Believe me.

837
01:45:40,125 --> 01:45:41,325
You don't look it.

838
01:45:49,645 --> 01:45:51,965
We'll never have to set foot
in this cell again.

839
01:45:56,325 --> 01:45:57,565
It's not so bad.

840
01:46:02,045 --> 01:46:03,685
It's worse out there.

841
01:46:06,405 --> 01:46:08,365
Where we're circus freaks.

842
01:46:12,205 --> 01:46:13,565
Where they laugh at us.

843
01:46:14,645 --> 01:46:15,805
Stare at us.

844
01:46:20,805 --> 01:46:22,085
Where there's no escape...

845
01:46:25,125 --> 01:46:26,405
Never will be.

846
01:46:32,005 --> 01:46:34,205
And that's why I was Mario
and why we were married.

847
01:46:34,325 --> 01:46:35,845
And why I had my daughter.

848
01:46:40,005 --> 01:46:41,405
We thought it would work.

849
01:46:47,445 --> 01:46:49,445
I can't do this to my daughter.

850
01:46:52,765 --> 01:46:54,045
How could I?

851
01:47:02,645 --> 01:47:04,005
- My love...
- Please.

852
01:47:27,405 --> 01:47:28,405
Listen to me.

853
01:47:33,925 --> 01:47:36,085
Although I love you
more than my own life...

854
01:47:40,125 --> 01:47:43,085
if you have to stay here
with your daughter, I'll understand.

855
01:47:44,165 --> 01:47:46,845
I'll wait for you forever, Marcela,
I swear.

856
01:47:56,725 --> 01:47:58,245
Don't you understand?

857
01:48:03,325 --> 01:48:06,605
I'm leaving her behind... Ana.

858
01:48:27,445 --> 01:48:28,445
Thank you.

859
01:48:35,325 --> 01:48:38,565
Elisa, we'll make sure
the child knows who her mother is.

860
01:48:38,845 --> 01:48:39,845
Tell her that.

861
01:48:40,125 --> 01:48:41,125
I will.

862
01:48:44,685 --> 01:48:45,685
Take care of her...

863
01:48:46,605 --> 01:48:47,965
and take care of yourself.

864
01:49:39,805 --> 01:49:40,805
Argh!

865
01:50:28,245 --> 01:50:30,285
I hated you, you know that?

866
01:50:34,925 --> 01:50:36,365
For so many years.

867
01:50:39,165 --> 01:50:41,925
- I can imagine.
- But the two of them were good parents.

868
01:50:43,245 --> 01:50:44,485
The best, really.

869
01:50:50,285 --> 01:50:51,645
I knew they were.

870
01:51:00,045 --> 01:51:01,445
Was it worth it?

871
01:51:03,965 --> 01:51:04,965
All this?

872
01:51:07,005 --> 01:51:09,485
The wedding, the mockery?

873
01:51:10,965 --> 01:51:12,085
The jail cell?

874
01:51:14,525 --> 01:51:15,885
Abandoning me?

875
01:51:19,485 --> 01:51:20,805
Was it worth it?

876
01:52:20,205 --> 01:52:24,125
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
WAS LEGALIZED IN SPAIN IN 2005.

877
01:52:24,205 --> 01:52:27,645
TODAY, IT IS LEGAL IN ONLY 25 COUNTRIES
ACROSS THE WORLD.

878
01:52:27,725 --> 01:52:30,525
IN 72 COUNTRIES,
HOMOSEXUALITY IS PUNISHED:

879
01:52:30,605 --> 01:52:33,605
IN 14 COUNTRIES, IT IS PUNISHED
WITH 14 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON.

880
01:52:33,685 --> 01:52:36,045
IN 13 COUNTRIES, WITH THE DEATH PENALTY.

881
01:52:36,125 --> 01:52:42,165
ELISA AND MARCELA'S MARRIAGE
WAS NEVER ANNULLED.