Window to the Sea (Una Ventana al Mar)

WINDOW TO THE SEA

It's not good news, Imanol.

We've run many tests on your mother and...

...it's bowel cancer.

It's advanced to stage four.

I don't know if you want to tell her or you prefer it to be me.

Well...

...you stay calm.

Think about it.

And Jone?

I don't know.

With the kids... I don't know.

Shit, mom! You know this isn't gonna beat you, don't you?

No cancer or bullshit.

If we have to visit the best doctor we just go.

That's not an issue, are you listening?

Don't tell the kids anything.

-Will it take long? -We'll be done in 30 or 40 minutes.

Ok. You just sit here and relax.

If you need anything press this buzzer.

Thank you.

I was supposed to pick you up!

It's all right.

I felt like having a walk.

With this rain?

So... how are you feeling?

Fine, fine...

... I'm feeling great.

Let me see those little rascals.

Shall I help you with the dinner?

No way! It's almost ready. You just sit and rest.

Is there something you can't eat?

No, love. For the time being.

So what's going on here?

-Nothing. -Really?

So I'm not getting a kiss?

- Yes. - Yes? Let me see...

Let me see that kiss. A strong kiss.

And what about you?

What about you?

Little boy.

Well?

Do you like it?

Well... I don't know... It's fine.

I know you don't want to but I think you'll be comfortable here.

We've discussed it and and the best is you stay with us.

And then we'll see... right, Jone?

This is your house.

Besides, I haven't been using the office lately.

Getting out the drawing board was a nightmare.

If you don't like it, say so. You don't like it, do you?

I knew it... It was Jone's idea and I told her you'd say no but...

OK.

Yes?

-Alright. It's a yes. -Well, that's fine.

Then I'll come to your place and help you pack your things.

Have you spoken to dad?

No.

Someone has to tell him, don't you think? I haven't told him a word.

I don't care. No way I'm calling him.

Let's have dinner.

Sign here.

And...

you're now on sick leave.

-Thank you. -You're welcome.

Girls...

...I think we should cancel our trip to Greece.

I was excited about it but as things now stand...

Of course.

Don't worry, sweetheart.

Sure.

I'm sorry.

Don't be silly.

We'll go there when you get well. Greece isn't moving from its place.

You now enjoy your time off and make the best of it.

You'll be back on track in no time.

I won't be sitting still, that's for sure.

No way.

I wouldn't do anything.

I'd lie down and watch series all day long.

Not the two of you at the same time!

Enough. Now you go to sleep and don't make any noise, ok?

Grandma has to sleep.

-Come on. Good night. -Dad, what's making her sick?

Come on. Off to bed!

Off to bed!

Let's go to bed!

And where is the bed?

What are you saying? Where is the bed?

Not here! Not here in the bathtub! Let's go!

Hey!

Could you take a picture of us?

María!

Yes, of course.

There. Right there.

It's gonna look great with the Parthenon in the background.

Smile. Let's look like we're on holidays.

Smile!

Pa-ta-ta!

Stay still! Another one!

Pa-ta-ta!

- Now it is! Look! - Let me see!

That's the Parthenon in the background...

The Greeks razed the village.

They put the men to the sword and enslaved the women.

who were forced to bear every kind of burden from then on...

no matter how heavy it was.

The same old story.

The stone Caryatids at the Erechtheion

were condemned to bear the weight of the temple's roof.

till the end of time.

Give her feed, not leftovers or she'll get real fat!

Ok, bye.

Honestly, I sometimes think my husband is a hopeless blockhead.

He just doesn't get it.

You have spoiled him rotten, Mentxu.

I know.

As I've never been away for more than four days...

he is now like a chicken with its head cut off.

Hey...

Have you ever thought after what happened to Xabier...

you get what I mean, don't you?

Having a fling or something...

Me?

No, my dear, I don't...

And the Valencian trombonist of the orchestra?

It didn't go anywhere.

Because of him or because of you?

I don't know.

I guess Xabier tore everything apart. It doesn't matter anymore.

I do get that itch sometimes...

I think...

You know I love my Aitor, that's for sure.

But I don't know... you get what I mean?

Having that feeling for someone again, getting besotted.

Like when I first met Aitor.

He was still doing his military service in Pamplona.

How time goes by...

I sometimes think, as years go by...

things are taken away from your life instead of adding up.

That's a bummer, isn't it?

I guess nobody has the life they imagined when they were young.

You think so?

I don't know. Perhaps some people do.

Like who?

I don't know.

Those who take risks.

Those with no fear.

But that's not me.

No...

I get scared shitless.

You know what I do?

I go to San Mamés Stadium and that's the end of it.

How lucky you are...

What about you, Blas? Also divorced?

For many years now.

I'm better like this, for the record. Much better.

That's good, isn't it?

Well, I have two children and I see them every 15 days.

- Spaghetti! - Hamburger and spaghetti!

- Very good! - And soup!

- And then we send her... - And chocolate!

That's it!

And what are you gonna send her?

A big kiss, grandma!

Bye!

That's it, grandma...

We miss you a lot. Take good care of yourself.

Give me a call, ok?

Bye!

So where did you leave Andoni?

He's so boring... he keeps talking about his ex.

Maite this. Maite that.

Now he's insisting every night on...

On what?

On sticking his finger up my ass, you know?

How can you tell me that, Bego?

Because I fucking can! Isn't that what friends are for?

The truth is I'm broadminded when it comes to sex.

I've done almost everything. You know me!

But the finger in the asshole... I don't see it.

He keeps going on about it.

He says it gets him real horny.

"If it was ""the other thing""..."

...his penis, I'd understand but I don't know.

His finger... It feels cold for me. Don't you think?

I don't really know what to tell you.

I've always envied you.

Why?

I don't know.

All those ballet trips around the world

all those adventures...

To end up as a civil servant collecting music stands...

And what do you want? If I may ask...

You're gonna laugh about it. But deep inside...

...what Mentxu has.

What you have.

No, I don't believe that.

Well, yes. If what happens to you were to happen to me...

if I got very sick...