Fever Dream (Distancia de rescate)

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They're like worms.

What kind of worms?

Like worms,

they're everywhere.

Worms in the body?

Yes, in... in the body.

Earthworms?

No.

Another kind of worm.

I can't move.

But someone is dragging me.

Is that you, David?

You have to stay awake, Amanda.

You have to understand what's important.

What is important, David?

Why are we seeing all of this?

Because what you see,

we all see.

We have to go back to the garden, Amanda.

Amanda.

Amanda.

Am I in the garden?

N... no, you're not.

But Carola, your mother, is.

I met her a few days ago, when Nina and I arrived at the house.

We'd just come back from the river.

What is my mother doing?

She finishes her lemonade

and leaves the glass in the grass, next to the lounger.

She gets up and walks away.

She forgets her sandals, which are only a few feet away on the pool steps.

But I don't say anything.

Why not?

Because I want to see what she does.

W hat does she do?

She slings her purse over her shoulder

and, in her gold bikini, she walks to the car.

She walks around the car, running her hand along it.

She doesn't look at me,

but she gets me to stand up and walk over to her.

What else?

Why aren't you saying anything?

I check on Nina, who's still asleep on the porch.

This is not important.

We have to start over.

Your first day in town.

Am I screaming?

Yes. You are.

Good day, ladies.

- Hello. You must be Geser. - That's right. Nice to meet you.

Thanks for coming to meet us.

I didn't want to arrive at the house on my own.

Of course.

Stop, Bronco. Calm down.

I'll tie up the dog and go with you.

Yeah.

This is important.

Why is this important?

I need to understand which things are important and which aren't.

The details, Amanda.

- Quiet down. - W e need to see the details.

The house isn't far from town.

It's a 20-minute walk.

And the young lady can ride her bicycle up there.

This is a nice car.

It was my father's.

Oh. Your father was from Argentina.

I see you for the first time.

My hands are shaking.

I'm looking at your hands now, and they're not shaking.

Is that our house?

No, it's just a bit further.

You're gonna love it. It has a really nice swimming pool.

You hear that?

It's the day you met my mother.

She's like a ghost.

She puts the buckets down to open the gate,

and then puts them down again to close it.

I liked her right away.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

Sorry to just show up, but I brought you water.

Sometimes you can't drink the tap water,

and since you're new here, I've brought you some.

Thanks.

- Carola. Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you. Amanda.

That's Nina, my daughter.

Hello, Nina.

We can make lemonade. Would you like some?

Oh yeah, that'd be great. It's so hot.

Are you here by yourself?

We came early. My husband is on the way.

Mm.

They've been preparing the house for a few days. It looks good.

We don't always get nice neighbors.

- Will you be staying for a while? - No, just for the summer.

I wanted to make sure I brought Nina here.

Mm.

You're not from here either?

Why did you think she wasn't from around here?

What a compliment...

She seemed so sophisticated.

...but I am.

I remember the way she moved her hand in the car.

Her arms, the sound of her bracelets.

The scent of her sunscreen when she moved in the seat.

Don't get distracted, Amanda. Let's go back to the garden.

Why do we always go back to the garden?

Because it's when my mother told you about me for the first time.

That is where it starts.

You're not gonna wanna see me anymore.

If I tell you, you won't let him play with Nina.

Who?

David?

You won't want to, Amanda.

He's your son. He belongs to you.

He used to, but...

now he doesn't belong to me.

She means you, David.

I know. Keep going.

I don't understand, Carola.

A child is yours forever.

No, darling.

I need a cigarette.

There's a kind of mutual fascination between us.

And at times, brief periods of repulsion.

When David was born, he was an angel.

Of course he was.

In the hospital, when they put him in my arms for the first time

I lost my mind a little because...

I was convinced he was missing a finger.

The nurse said that happens sometimes with anesthesia.

It can make you a little paranoid.

But until I counted his ten fingers twice, I didn't...

I wasn't convinced that he wasn't deformed.

What I wouldn't give now for him to be only missing a finger.

What's wrong with David?

He was an angel. When he laughed...

- Where's the ashtray in this car? - Here.

And then David got sick.

That was about seven years ago or so.

I had started to work for my husband.

It was the first time in my life I worked for a living. Can you imagine?

I did his bookkeeping, but bookkeeping had nothing to do with it.

I'd run errands around town in a nice dress.

It's different for you. You're from somewhere else.

Here you need an excuse to be glamorous,

and I had the perfect one.

What did your husband do, then?

Omar bred horses.

Yeah, if you can believe it.

Omar was different.

When I met him, he still smiled all the time.

Back then, we had two spectacular mares.

Sad Cat and Fine Suede. They were beautiful.

But the secret isn't in the mares.

The real secret is having a good stallion,

and that costs a fortune.

One third isn't enough.

And I'm not waiting until you sell it. You pay me everything up front.

Half up front, the rest when the foal is born.

I'm telling you, I can get at least two hundred thousand.

Nobody is going to find out.

Prince of princes.

You aim high, Omar.

I've had my eye on that one since he was born.

But if anything happens to him, they'll hang us both.

Mm? Three days. And if the boss comes home earlier,

I want him back in half an hour.

Can that kid be trusted?

Yeah.

Which color do you like?

When I strike it rich, I'll even carpet the kitchen for you.

Eye, eye, boop.

- It's magic... - It's magic...

Look at her.

Pretty, isn't she?

Look at her.

There's the black one.

Look at how she moves her tail for him.

She wants him to like her.

Then she'll have a little baby.

Oh.

Oh.

The damned stallion.

You are jealous.

And you're freezing cold.

Morning, darling.

Hi.

I'm going out for little a bit.

Keep an eye on him.

You don't care about anything but that horse.

I'll be back around five, I promise.

I'm sure he'll mount the other one today.

- One horse. - This one.

- Yeah, she's the mommy. - She's the mommy. And this one?

- Her son. - Her son.

- And what are you? What are you? - Your son.

I love you.

- Where are your boots? - Don't know.