The Last Bath (O Último Banho)

The Last Bath

Oh girl Rita? What are you doing up here? Go down there!

Sorry, sister.

I'm glad to see you! I already left you the flowers there. Everything is there.

- Is everything on the altar already? - Yes, yes, I left it as you asked.

So girls ... Go! To have lunch.

The van is not supposed to be waiting for you, like yesterday.

Andor!

Girl, you've been here for half an hour.

Come on. Hurry up.

I can do that.

You go down there

and in front of the altar you already have everything to make the arrangement.

And it is: one, three, five. And those little leaves all around the vase.

- One, three, five ... - One, three, five ...

And do it fast so we can go to lunch, It's ok?

It's ok.

Sister Josefina, you have a call.

It must be Lourdes. Tell him I'll call you, okay?

It is not Lourdes, it is from outside.

- It's ok. - See you then.

See you soon.

Look, unfortunately I don't bring you good news.

Yea?

Your daddy has been sick for some time, and ...

Look, Josefina,

your dad passed away today.

-It was her nephew, Alexandre, who found him in bed.

Father Manuel has already taken care of everything.

The funeral will be tomorrow.

Yes.

Alexandre is here with me.

He can't be alone in that house, can he?

Poor little thing...

It was fifteen last week ...

it is still very catraio.

It is my sister?

- Angela? Nobody has yet succeeded talk to her.

Friends and companions run away from my misfortune.

My relatives are far away.

Those who seek to take my life they lay snares.

My God, acknowledge my guilt.

Do not forsake me, Lord my salvation.

God our Father,

you rightly condemned the sinful man and you promised him life

through penance and the final resurrection;

we humbly beg you to deign to bless this grave

while your servant's body descends to earth,

I received his soul in Heaven, through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Almighty God wanted to call our brother to himself

whose body we deliver to the earth so that it goes back to the place it was taken from ...

Receive his soul and take him to the presence of the Lord.

Oh son, then?

So go.

Don't be like that, boy.

Go...

You will see that everything will be fine.

Look that even tonight you will sleep in your bed, in your little room.

And look that your aunt is going to take very well take care of you.

My mom hasn't arrived yet ...

Have you managed to talk to Angela yet?

Do not.

He has that idea that it comes from.

The last time she came around,

look, it was at the Feasts of Nossa Senhora da Agonia,

four years ago.

She appeared there with a man,

you don't even know if he was a boyfriend, if he was a husband.

But since she fell out with her father,

she never set foot here again.

Can I?

You have a little bit of chamomile tea there with some cookies to eat anything.

You've been rolling the whole dinner. Come on.

You have to eat.

You have to help your aunt. Come on.

Adelaide spoke to your teacher and you don't have to go to school tomorrow.

Eat a little more, Alexandre.

Alexandre, eat some more ...

I am not hungry.

You shouldn't be walking around barefoot.

The slippers were spoiled when I fell.

Excuse.

Turn, turn, turn, turn.

Get up here.

- Do you want the blanket? - No.

It is folded here at the bottom of the bed, in case you get cold at night.

See you tomorrow.

- Good afternoon. - Good afternoon.

I'm from social security, and I come to talk about Alexandre.

Allow me to offer you my condolences.

I have some documents here, D. Josefina, and I would like you to read them very carefully.

Our great concern, D. Josefina,

it's really Alexandre's well-being.

If he has no one to look after him,

you will have to go to a reception center.

But I would like you to reconsider this possibility.

I can't imagine myself coming back here.

But it doesn't have to be here.

- It might be... - Yes Yes. I understand, but ...

I don't know if Father Manuel explained it to you,

Yes.

There, I have the congregation ...

- Yes, he told me. - and it would be ... it would be very complicated,

because I am only a few months away from making my perpetual vows

and suddenly this is a ...

- I understand. - it's a little too big a turnaround.

But of course I understand that he doesn’t ...

- It's just that Alexandre can't stay alone. -He can't stay.

He can not.

Unfortunately

or fortunately it is my daily life in the congregation.

Because we also have an institution of girls who come by court order.

And so I know these processes.

But at this moment ...

I think I need to fit.

Because D. Josefina would assume parental power.

- Perental. - Exactly.

I thought you were in your room.

It is sometimes important to vent.

If you want to talk ...

When I came home today,

I ... I passed Alice.

She was here, wasn't she?

She was.

Alice was here because she she is worried about you.

I'm going to the orphanage, aren't I?

We talk about it later. Now,

when you get home in that state the first thing you have to do is go to the bath.

Come on.

Go on.

How long have you don't you bathe, Alexandre?

I do not know.

- Huh? - I do not know.

Don't you know?

So why don't you bathe?

- Because of the hand. - Because of the hand?

And you will walk pig while you have your hand like that.

It doesn't matter.

Yes, you do. Then?

You put a plastic bag in your hand, this is not a problem.

Oh! Take it off!

But auntie, I'm cold.

You're cold, nothing. You have to stay a little bit like that.

Which is to make sure that it all dies.

Lift your head up, because it still gets in your eyes, come on.

Ready. Let it be like this a little bit more.

It doesn't hurt anyone.

You're going out on this one.

Adelaide treats her well has been very much your friend.

I come right at night.

See you later.

We don't live alone in the world.

Sometimes before we think in our person

we have to think about others.

- It cost you something to go to Adelaide's house, have you warned her?

Do not.

No?

Do you have anything to say to me?

Sorry, aunt.

Let's go to sleep?

See you tomorrow.

Alexandre.

Then?

What's up?

I can't sleep, aunt.

What time is it?

It's half past three.

Go to your bed, go.

It's just that I had a nightmare with my grandfather.

Go drink a glass of water.

And then you go back to bed.

But...

I peed on the bed, aunt.

So go...

Let's go to sleep.

See you tomorrow.

Aunt.

When are we going to Porto?

When you behave well.

I really wanted to go back there.

I only went there once with my grandfather. We went to see the game with the dragon.

The mother also went with us but she never got in.

Did she do like her aunt? She went to live in Porto ...

You are boring today.

But I'm sure she doesn't like me anymore.

Of course she does.

And the aunt will also abandon me? Are you also going back to Porto?

But who was here to take care of everything? Were you?

Yes. I can already take care of the house, then!

It was also going to be cool to live alone.

Is that so? Don't you need me?

Do not.

No?

So you want to come here and do the laundry?

Oh aunt ...

does aunt know my father?

Do not.

Grandfather and mother never said anything to you?

They never told me anything either.