Helena...
- Could I have a word with you? - Of course.
Very nice.
Look, Dr. Vesalio has an idea
that may interest you.
We'd like you to participate in the closure.
What is it?
We want to act out a visit to the doctor.
It wouldn't be very much, just a short scene,
but we'd do it properly, set up a surgery...
Don Manuel's wife is on the phone.
- No. - She's insisting.
No!
I won't speak to her. Doesn't she realize?
I was trying to persuade her to take part in the scene, but...
At first, I thought it was a stupid idea too,
but I saw it at an international congress and it's amazing.
It was a singer
who had a problem with volume and tone
because of some botched-up surgery.
How can we interpret correctly what the patient wants to tell us?
- Well... - It isn't so easy.
Let's not keep on.
But it's very interesting. She was a well-known singer.
What was her name?
A real beauty!
As far as that goes, the doctor did have a good eye.
Hello, doctor!
Have you seen this? It's fantastic.
He's not playing anything.
I was leaving.
Dr. Jano!
How are you?
This morning I saw one of the lab girls coming out of a room,
one of the rep girls, I think.
This is a congress, not a casino.
And it isn't the first time this week.
This is a medical congress.
We're only asking for a week of decent behavior.
It isn't that much.
Give me wealth
or poverty.
Give consolation or despair.
Grant me hell
or grant me heaven,
sweet life, radiant sun,
for I have given in to you,
I have given in.
This way, please.
How is it going?
Mr. Hoffer, Mrs. Helena Tiscornia.
We're going do a cubicle trial.
If you'd be so kind...
Can you hear me?
Can you hear my voice?
Good.
Dog.
White.
Quote.
Knot.
Kiss.
Hiss.
- Tail. - Tail.
Defy.
- Ship. - Ship.
Nice.
Rice.
Mule.
Mass.
- Niche. - Niche.
- Handy. - Handy.
- Bothers. - Mothers.
What do you think?
Can you plug the gadget into the piped music system?
What kind of plug is it?
Look, it's plugged into the electric organ.
- Is that called an organ? - No.
It's in behind.
What do you think?
Now, try it out.
Don't follow me!
Here.
Here, take a taxi, and don't come back to the hotel.
You're filling your eyes with microbes.
Did he touch you in the hotel?
I know what I have to do.
Hello.
We have to tell someone.
We could ask Inés.
- I bet she'll know what to do. - You promised...
You promised you wouldn't tell anyone if I told you.
We don't have to tell anyone. It's my business.
It's my mission, I know that.
Don't cry anymore. I promise I won't tell anyone.
Not a single word.
Give me a kiss.
Will I get the photo?
What are you doing?
Photocopies for grandma.
What is it, the stigmata?
No, the suffering of the Passion.
Those photocopies.
I need them, I'll come and get them today.
- At grandma's house? - Yes.
Ciao.
For a few words, doctor!
But they weren't legible.
It isn't the first malpractice case over handwriting.
This is lawyers' doings.
Putting a doctor on trial for his handwriting!
I saw the prescription.
It wasn't terrible, but you couldn't read the dosage clearly.
It's possible.
You can't smoke in here, mom.
You know very well where you should be now.
I left it all ready. You just have to cut and serve.
Dry your eye.
My hands are covered with oil.
I come in,
I sit down, we shake hands...
I come in,
we shake hands,
and I sit down.
And then, well, doctor...
I think that you...
Don't worry.
Just answer the questions spontaneously,
as we've been doing.
Of course, you're right.
Well...
Finish your coffee, Jano.
I'd like to know what you think...
I don't know what to wear.
You'll think it's stupid,
but I can't decide.
I'm going to be on a stage, even if it is only a platform.
They're all lovely.
This one?
That one would do.
And this one?
Yes...
I'll put it on and we'll go over it all again.
It doesn't suit me.
Thanks for the coffee.
Hello? I'll put her on.
Maria Callas, for you.
You only turn up at meal times.
This isn't an hotel. Excuse me, Amalia.
This isn't an hotel.
It's a family home. There's a big difference
and you don't see that.
Mom, Amalia lives in an hotel.
What did I ask you to do today?
Try asking me for the car later.
No more car!
We can't practice here. My brothers have all got lice.
That's the other idiot!
Make me look like a skinflint.
Until I'm gone, you won't know...
- What did she say? - You've got whooping cough.
I don't have whooping cough.
You do, because if I spin you round
you get whooping cough.
No, try it.
Try it!
...do what you want.
And I hope you're not like the Correa brothers.
They didn't stop until they destroyed their mother.
And look where they are.
Where are they?
One is divorced.
The other is in Spain on a two-year scholarship.
You see? The other one out of the country.
Juan Pablo,
don't you want to take elocution class with Inés?
Inés isn't a speech therapist, she's a loony.
She can give me classes in my room.
- Good morning. - Hello.
Good morning, doctor.
How are you doing?
Atilio...
Well, Freddy, where are the baths?
Hugo...
Yes?
- Do you remember Dr. Jano? - No.
To be honest, I don't.
My daughter Amalia, Dr. Jano, Dr. Cuesta...
Say hello.
What were you doing? Are you purifying the mud?
This is ready.
Fifteen minutes in the mud,
then a shower and a lie-down.
Dr. Jano!
It seems they're looking for you.
Dr. Jano, you have a call. You can take it in the booth.
Hello?
Yes, thank you.
Hello, how are you?
What about the kids?
Kind of so-so.
I've been away a long time.
Put her on.
Hello, sweetheart.
Yes.
No, there's no cold pool.
No, the diving board is gone.
I told your mother I didn't know if it was worth you coming.
No, it isn't that.
I don't like you traveling at night.
There she is.
Hello, Jose.
How are things?
Fine.
Pour her coffee.
- Have you got a temperature? - Yes, she has.
The photos!
Exactly.
What's wrong?
There's some problem between one of the girls and a doctor.
I'm not surprised.
Freddy, if you please...
There's Jano.
Is that him?
How are you?
We've got the photos.
Doctor...
There's a little problem.
Dr. Vesalio is withdrawing from the congress.
He left me these papers to give to you.
They're the tests they did on Helena,
so that you or Dr. Cuesta can do the representation, the closure.
What?
That boy is so intelligent but...
He went out last night with one of the rep girls
and he just got back twenty minutes ago.
The lab has replaced the girl, they fired her.
Dr. Vesalio made a scene.
He says he's leaving.
It's one way to ruin a career.
My career?
No, no, his career.
He's an expert in his field but easily tempted.
He does this at all the congresses, he can't resist.
Who?
Dr. Vesalio.
Why don't you tell him to stay? He'll listen to you.
But I hardly know him.
As you were sharing a room I thought you were friends.
No, that was just for one night, the hotel had a problem.
Excuse me.
He's odd.
Very odd.
Going off like that, so suddenly,
without a word to me
and with the representation in a few days.
He got me into this mess and now he disappears.
There are a thousand questions...
What do I care? I know what I've got.
It won't change my life. Just the opposite.
I'm going crazy, always thinking about that noise in my ear.
- The family is coming. - Oh, mom!
Why "Oh, mom"? Dry that eye!
That man has a family.
That torments him.
He's not a bastard.
He obviously has a sentimental conflict.
You know, I think that too.
Poor man.
Stay by me,
I still have caresses that you don't know.
I don't think I can open my eyes.
Open them.
Look at me.
I'm asking for the stigmata.
I can see you a bit when you move,
but I'm going to stay like this.
All right.
Open them now.
One, two, three...
Now!
If my words,
trembling with love,
don't waken any passion in your mind...
It's amazing how quickly I can learn.
I've got the gift of learning.
Open your eyes.
The guy who groped you isn't that old.
What's his name?
Open your eyes, idiot.
You opened your mouth!
No, you stuck your tongue in.
Stay by me,
I still have caresses
that you don't know of all of me.
And I'll invent some new ones for you
so that you'll stay with me.
Take this off, it's burning!
You have to give it time to work.
Have you noticed that Dr. Jano is a bit withdrawn?
Why not go to his room, kind of casually,
and see what's wrong with him?
- I can't go out like this. - I'll comb it for you.
I look like I've got more hair, don't I?
I'm worried.
I have to do that performance and I'm really going off the idea.
You should devote all your time to that.
- Mirta can't do everything. - I'm here, aren't I?
That's why I'm telling you. Go on.
- Freddy... - Hello, doctor, how are you?
Fine.
Come in.
- Is the room comfortable? - Yes.
My family are coming, I've reserved a room for the kids.
It's been years since I saw your wife.
I'd just had my youngest son at the time.
Right.
Your kids must be big now.
Yes.
Well, I must be going.
- What did he say? - Fine, fine.
He's fine.
I'm going to call Chile.
I'd like the kids to come and help me with the hotel.
Mirta is very good, I know, but family is family.
Mirta is almost family.
I know that.
Look at the time.
What's the time in Chile?
Have you got the number? It must be really late.
How old are they now?
They must be pretty grown up.
Know what? I'll call the Carrera Hotel,
my friend Francisco, so he can tell me the time.
Have you got the Chilean's number?
Hello.
Mr. Francisco Gutiérrez, please.
Hello, Francisco.
This is Freddy from Argentina.
Yes, a very long time...
How many years?
Listen,
what time is it there?
What time?
It can't be.
Hello?
Were you cut off?
No, but the poor guy would have talked for hours.
I'm going to call the kids anyway.
They'll understand it's an emergency.
- Is this my address book? - No, it's mine.
It's all the same.
Do you remember my wedding suit?
You couldn't pay for that today.
The Chilean.
With that voice!
We should call a doctor.
Would you like something to eat?
Yes, thanks,
but nothing reheated.
Then try another hotel.
I'm sorry about the time, but I didn't want just anyone.
Dr. Vesalio left in the end.
What a pity, such a jolly man.
Sit up.
Does your throat hurt?
Open your mouth.
What about that food?
Stick out your tongue.
Take a deep breath.
Sometimes, when you're asleep, you stop breathing for a few seconds.
You could suffocate.
She's all right, it's just a chill.
Come and sleep with me, darling.
Fifty.
Fifty-five.
Sixty.
Sixty-five.
- What's wrong? - A bee stung me.
Seventy.
Seventy-five.
Dad, look! It's incredible!
Eighty-five.
- Are you sure? - Yes, I am.
It's a long time.
You need a haircut.
Five.
Wait, start over again.
Don't talk to me.
Don't talk to me!
Mom!
My God!
What did you do to grandma?
Something horrible happened.
I was telling Juli? N about it.
He's the only one who listens to me.
It's horrible.
A doctor at the congress interfered with Amalia.
My God, that's awful!
What happened?
Juli? N,
get dressed and get out.
The doctor is a friend of her mother.
I didn't know what to do, he told me to tell you.
Of course.
- Did Amalia tell her mother? - No, she didn't dare.
See what I mean?
- We have to tell Helena. - No, mom.
Please.
I'll tell Amalia to tell her, please.
Jose, we're going home.
Sweetheart,
fold this.
Is the representation starting at 6:00?
Stop that!
A bit later, at 6:15 or 6:30.
Is there dinner afterwards?
Yes, there's dinner.
Don't pour shampoo on the bees!
This is the hive. They're getting away, hurry!
Hand me my purse, please.
Quick, they're outside!
I'll take the kids for a walk.
- I'll keep a front seat for you. - Yes, do that.
Come on, kids.
They're getting out the other side.
I'm going to tell your mother everything.
I wanted to tell you something.
You're a good man.
Did I hit you?
Come in.
I feel the same. It's madness.
We should be going.
Good evening.
We have to talk to Helena. It's urgent.
I'm very sorry!
She's at the closure of the congress.
You can wait in the hall.
I'm going to find Amalia.
Don't come back until I've spoken to her mother.
Josefina!
Get rid of that long face. You're helping her.
Remember.
Elevator!
- Mirta. - Yes?
I must speak urgently to Helena about a very serious situation
that has occurred here in the hotel.
Stop that!
What's wrong?
Go and see what it is.
Stop that.
Right, I would ask you all to please take your seats,
and if we could have some silence
we'll get ourselves organized.
Doctors, if we can all take our seats...
You can sit there.
I think there's going to be a scandal.
They're going to report a doctor
who interfered with the girl from the hotel.
You know the one?
The girl at the pool, with brown hair.
Dr. Jano, if you'd come round this way, please.
As you all know,
today, to close this congress,
we are going to present a public consultation.
So I would ask for a big round of applause for Helena
who is going to participate as our patient.
The first part of this representation
is an interview with Dr. Jano.
Doctor...
- Your tie. - It's fine without a tie.
Dr. Jano, we're waiting for you.
Jose!
When did you get here?
What are you doing?
Are you allowed in now?
You want me to come in?
Are you allowed?
The water is so warm.
You notice that smell?
Yes.
Orange blossom.
I'll always take care of you,
because you have no brothers or sisters.
I'm your sister.
Next year, I'll have twin brothers.
I mean, sisters.
Hello, hello. Did you hear?