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(train horn whistling)

(train clanking)

- What are you doing here?

You were supposed to stay inside.

- I didn't know you had another job.

- I called these guys.

One during the day and another one at night.

Let's go.

Lie down as flat as you can.

And if we got to stop, pull that old tarp

and cover yourself and don't move.

I'm going to drop you in the place of a friend.

It's at night, but at least you have something to eat.

- Why are you doing all of this?

- Because you're in trouble.

- You know you don't owe me anything.

- Don't talk like that.

That's no help.

Angela, this is Bill.

I told you about him.

I'm going to go to Roberto's to find a

place for him to stay for a couple of days.

I should be back in an hour.

(upbeat foreign music)

- Go have a seat.

I'll bring you something to eat.

(speaking foreign language)

- I don't have any money.

- That's okay.

Most people who come here don't have any money.

Luis said he's trying to get you

out of here in the next truck.

- That's his idea.

- Well, if I understood correctly,

you are in some kind of trouble.

- Yeah.

- You don't look like someone who gets into trouble.

- That's 'cause, in a way, I probably

still look like a banker.

I jumped bail.

- You don't like it?

- I'm not very hungry.

(phone ringing)

(speaking foreign language)

- Bye.

(speaking foreign language)

- That was Luis who called.

His friend, Roberto, has been arrested.

He asked if you could find a place to stay for tonight,

and he can meet you here tomorrow.

- Sure.

Thanks for the food.

- Sure.

Do you have a place to go?

(speaking foreign language)

- What did she give you?

- A quarter.

- Why?

- I give her some food every night,

and she insists on giving me a quarter.

Out of dignity.

She will not accept free food.

Even if she can't feed her kids, and she has three jobs.

- Three jobs?

- Yeah.

She sells flowers in the evening, as you can see.

She cleans offices at night

and during the day she works in a sweatshop

with her oldest daughter.

- A sweatshop?

- Yeah.

You know, the kind where they work 12 hours a day

with half an hour break for less than minimum wage.

Her husband left her.

She's all alone.

See?

Not much dignity there.

- [Bill] Not much luck either.

- [Angela] Do you believe in luck?

- I believe more in bad luck.

You?

- Yeah, I believe everything in life

happens by luck and will.

- Will?

You mean like the will of God?

- No, (chuckles) no.

I mean your own will.

I stopped believing in God a long time ago.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Too many people who died in His name.

It's here.

Welcome to my living scrapbook.

It's safe.

We're on the roof, so it's a little hot.

That door goes out.

And when one person needs privacy,

the other one can just go outside.

- Listen, I don't have to stay here.

- Of course you don't.

Don't worry, I'm used to having people here.

The other good thing about being on the roof,

is that from up there you can see the world.

Come out.

I'll show you.

- [Bill] What's that?

- That is the L of life.

See?

I also have the H.

- There's no H in life.

- So, it must be the H of Hell.

- I take it, you don't believe in Hell either?

- Oh, yeah, I believe in Hell.

I believe in Hell on Earth.

I see it every day.

It was the old sign from the hotel.

I dragged it in at the beginning.

It still worked.

It was my only source of light, I got used to it.

From up here you can hear all the life of the city.

And you can see all layers of society.

On that side only poor people.

Dealers, prostitutes.

Below us is a transient hotel.

For those who don't have anything anymore

but still need to find a way to survive.

Over here we have middle class people

in their condo apartments.

I recommend watching the couple in this apartment

who have sex every night at their window.

And over here,

we have the financial district.

With its luxurious hotels and some of

the most powerful banks in the world.

- I used to work over there.

- So, what went wrong for the banker?

- Ambition, need for power.

- Really?

That's it?

- Pretty much.

I made a big hole in the bank.

(Angela laughing)

- And?

What happened?

- And from that point everything collapsed.

Lawsuits, bankruptcy.

Mine, not the bank's of course.

I lost my house, my family rejected me,

my wife divorced me.

Everybody deserted me.

- That's funny.

Where I come from, the son is in trouble,

everybody comes to help.

It's from Peru.

A friend of mine brought it back.

Go ahead.

It will help you dream at night.

- [Bill] I don't dream anymore.

- You do.

You just don't want to remember them.

- Maybe.

- I always think I should leave this place,

but I've been here for years without any problems.

- I guess you're not really interested

in possessions, are you?

- If possessions were important in life,

rich people would be happy.

You can sleep in the bed with me if you want.

Don't worry, you don't have to have sex with me.

If you prefer, I have a sleeping bag.

I could set it up for you over there.

- That would be fine.

Thank you.

- Okay.

Enjoy.

Since it's very hot and there're no walls,

if nudity bothers you, you can go outside while I undress.

Or you can stay.

It doesn't bother me.

- Really?

- [Angela] Really.

- Well, I'll just turn towards the wall.

- Okay, good night.

Try to remember your dreams.

Okay.

(speaks foreign language)

Sorry.

Hey.

How come you didn't run away?

- I guess I needed a chance to be alone.

Away from it all.

Solitude for a lonely man.

- Beer and burrito for a lonely man?

- Sounds great.

(sirens blaring)

You were right, it's very, very interesting

to watch people from up here.

- Did you notice how frantic they all are?

They all run around honking at each other.

As if the few minutes they gain

would change anything in their lives.

- I guess that's kind of the way I've been living,

always running.

Running for more.

- You American people live in the future.

- [Bill] The future?

- What did you do with the first money you earned?

The first big chunk you got?

- Bought a house, new car.

Invested the rest in stock.

- To make more money later.

And what would you have done with more money?

- Bought a bigger house, more stock, probably.

- See?

You continue to kill yourself for later,

for the future.

Rather than enjoying what you had at the time,

you risked everything for the future.

- I guess you could look at it that way.

Since we're born without that,

if God put us here it was because.

He had a purpose for us.

A destiny that we were supposed to figure out.

Can you see how crazy it is to think

that we have a purpose in life?

- Well, you don't think your life has a purpose?

- No.

I don't.

We are here by chance, by accident.

Your father met your mother, fucked her,

and you were born.

And you can think of two million good reasons

for your father to have met another girl,

and then you wouldn't even be here.

But, who am I to talk?

We need some music here.

(slow tribal chanting)

- I should go meet Luis.

- Luis says the next truck doesn't leave

for two or three days.

Cops are still looking for you.

- You know Luis was my driver?

- Yeah.

Luis is a great guy.

Do you know anything about him?

Luis was a farmer in Honduras.

He and his wife had a couple of fields of coffee.

They were able to live from it, you know.

Not well, but they lived,

until small growers were not needed anymore.

And, little by little, they were not able to survive.

So he had to sell the farm,

but his wife didn't want him to.

They moved to Tegucigalpa to find jobs,

and then his wife got sick.

He could not afford any doctors or medicine,

so she died.

That is when he came here.

Can you see the irony?

Immigrant driver gets his banker boss out of trouble.

- Look, I don't need him to get me out of trouble, okay.

I'm done.

- You didn't get it, did you?

You exist.

That is what matters.

Start to live.

- It's not so bad being at the end.

It's actually quite peaceful, almost liberating.

- Can you stop thinking of yourself as different

or more special than anybody else?

For me, I'm close to suffering in death all day long,

and it is not peaceful.

- Well, you're right about one thing, Professor,

there's nothing more to lose.

So, what do you suggest?

- Stop thinking and start to feel what is around you.

The city, the music, me.

Have you even really looked at me, since we met?

I just mean as a human being,

one human being to another human being.

What if for once you let things happen

without trying to control them?

Close your eyes and try to feel.

(singing in foreign language)

- What are you doing?

- You agreed you had nothing to lose.

Don't think anymore.

Just enjoy.

(male grunting)

- Who are you?

- I'm just a little part of your here-and-now.

No more than that.

You're right, it's my turn.

I come from Nicaragua, where the people are extremely poor.

My mother was from Algeria.

- From where?

- Algeria.

My father was the one from Nicaragua.

I was raised by my grandmother,

after my parents were killed.

- They were killed?

- They died when I was very young.

So I was raised by my grandmother,

and my grandmother was a teacher.

Actually she couldn't find a job as a teacher,

so to feed us she became a janitor.

She wound up cleaning this huge library at night,

at the central university.

That's really where I got most of my education.

I was too young to stay alone,

so she used to bring me with her.

For a young girl, it was this

huge, magical place with thousands of books.

She taught me how to choose my books,

and read while waiting for her.

After she died, I took over her job,

cleaning as fast as I could,

and spending the rest of the time reading.

Let's go inside.

- Are you here illegally?

- [ Angela] Yeah.

And I want to keep it that way.

I really don't want to become a part of this country.

- [Bill] What did you do when you first got here?

- I was fun, actually.

The only address I had was a

hippie community in San Francisco.

I always thought they would be

the only Americans I could deal with.

This is the only thing I kept from there.

- What happened?

- It was great.

From the beginning they welcomed me, they helped me.

They taught me to speak American.

Some of those pictures are from there.

Still uncomfortable with me?

Seems like you enjoyed it outside.

- I did.

- Don't tell me you'll sleep on the floor again?

Don't worry.

I know I'm not the type that bankers like.

I don't have blond hair or an American body.

I'm not even pure Latina.

I'm just a mutt.

- Why are you doing all this?

- Does nudity bother you?

Better?

- You know, when I was a teenager we used to say,

"Life's a bitch, and then you die."

I guess I'm beginning to understand what it means.

- Well, we say the same thing,

but at the end we added "So fuck the bitch."

Look, I agree, for most people life is not very beautiful.

I just try to make every moment as good as possible.

See?

I'm exactly the opposite of what

men like you are interested in.

- How do you know what kind of women I like?

- [Angela] Why?

Do you have a hard-on?

- No.

- Show me.

Show me.

(Angela giggling)

That's what you are.

You people are such Puritans.

(speaking foreign language)

- It means big balls, no guts.

It's only you and me here.

Nobody to judge you.

Show me.

Bravo!

Come here.

Don't think now.

Just enjoy.

What do you feel right now?

- I don't know.

Arousal.

- Me too.

Strong desire for you to kiss my breasts.

And touch me, here.

Come inside me.

(Angela moaning)

Fuck me.

Take me.

Take me like this.

(Angela grunting)

Come on.

Harder, harder!

(heavy breathing)

Do you like it?

- Yeah.

- Did you enjoy watching yourself?

- I think I have a hard time looking at myself, right now.

- [Angela] You should love this guy who came so hard.

Maybe it's the banker you should have dropped long ago.

- So sex is the solution for you?

- You know, research shows that

a lack of sexual pleasure leads to frustration,

bitterness, anger, violence.

- All that, huh?

- When's the last time you had sex?

- I don't know.

Months ago.

- [Angela] And when you were married,

how often did you have sex?

- Once a week.

(Angela laughs)

Maybe.

- Do you masturbate?

You Americans are such a bunch of frustrated hypocrites.

I can't believe it.

You can show body-parts and heads being blown away on TV,

movies, video games.

It's like it's no value whatsoever, but

you can't talk openly about masturbation.

I don't get it.

Doesn't everybody have sex?

Doesn't every boy and man masturbate and have erections.

Why should it be hidden?

- No, yeah, you're probably right.

I mean, of course I masturbated

every now and then when I was a kid.

I guess I just stopped it after college.

It seemed childish.

- Pleasure is childish.

You people.

Do you regret it?

- What?

- Both.

That you stopped masturbating and having sex with me.

- Having sex with you?

No.

Masturbating, I don't know.

Why do you ask?

- To see that even in your desperate situation

having a good time now is better than waiting.

- Now, now, now.

Drink now, live now, fuck now.

I'm going to start calling you Now.

Hello, Now, how are you today?

- It will be a pleasure.

And I will call you Later.

Life is now, Mister Later.

I know, it's hard to masturbate in this country

where the President is preaching abstinence to kids.

He's trying to transform this entire generation with his

insane idea of abstinence, while he's off

throwing bombs on women and children.

- Why are you still in this country

if this is what you think of us?

- I was waiting for you.

I feel like I'm more useful here than there.

- Useful, you mean, like, giving food to poor people?

- That and my work at the clinic,

and here.

Once a week I tend to people

at the hotel with medical needs.

(loud winds)

Listen.

Can you hear it?

The wind!

Can you hear it?

Come on, it's coming from the east.

Come on.

Come on, help me.

Come sit with me.

Take off your clothes, soldier boy.

Let the wind touch you.

It comes from the East.

You'll see.

It's warm and dry.

I love to feel it.

- You're not afraid or ashamed of anything, are you?

- But I just have one life to live.

I mean, I can be afraid, but shame

is for those who believe in

heaven or a judgment day.

You know, those kind that live in the future.

Come on.

Come on!

- Hey, come on.

What are you doing?

- Remember Mr. Later, you are living on Now's time.

- Wait a sec.

Those are the only ones I have!

- Time to get rid of the past.

I just killed the old you.

Be happy!

A poor guy will find them and use them.

I hope your illness is not contagious.

Now lay down, let the wind touch your body.

(loud helicopter whirring)

(slow paced music)

(singing in foreign language)

- So you think teenagers and kids should have sex?

- Sure, sure.

If they feel like it.

Well, they should at least know it's

available to them, and it's good for them.

It's good to learn about life, and themselves.

They shouldn't be ashamed of it,

thinking that it's bad.

It's called natural sexuality.

It's a natural need, like any other.

What are you doing?

- I'm feeling the heat.

Listen, your wife is coming to Eddie's to see you.

- My wife?

- She got in touch with Luis, he's bringing her there.

He told me he'll make sure it's okay, it'll be safe.

- Can you tell her you couldn't find me?

- Why don't I just tell her you don't want to see her?

- Thank you, Professor Now, for reminding me of the way.

- I never thought I would see

a banker wearing one of my T-shirts.

- Yeah, well, banker's shirt was thrown

to the wind yesterday.

(singing in foreign language)

Hi.

- Hi.

You know, the police came to my parent's house,

to see if I knew where you were.

I can't believe you jumped bail.

You're a fugitive now, a wanted man.

Do you realize that I invested my best years

into our marriage?

- Invested.

You're starting to sound like me.

And what did you expect in return?

- What did I expect?

A normal life,

with my family.

- A normal life.

What is that?

- What?

What do you mean?

A normal life is a family living together,

taking care of their children,

going on vacation with family and friends.

- I'm glad you're so sure of that.

- [Wife] And what's wrong with that?

- Something must have been.

- Well,

yes.

You.

You ruined it.

- I'm sorry.

- So, what are you going to do now?

- I'm leaving the country in a day or so.

- Why?

Why don't you just go to jail?

It's only eight years.

They'll let you out early,

and you will have paid your debt to society, and...

- What debt?

What is it that I owe society?

You mean the debt for doing what I was raised to do,

what I was trained to do?

The debt for what I got paid to do?

Or do you mean my debt to the bank

that spent years pressuring me

into do its dirty work.

You mean that debt?

- What are you talking about?

What dirty work are you talking about?

You've changed, Bill.

- Yeah.

Let's hope so.

- And where will you go?

- Nicaragua.

- Nicaragua?

And then what?

You'll be a fugitive for the rest of your life.

You won't ever be able to come back.

- What exactly do I have to come back to?

- Good luck, Bill.

- Wait.

Can you pay for the water?

I don't have any money.

- These are yours.

I don't need them anymore.

Enjoy Nicaragua.

- [Bill] Sorry, guess I should knock first?

- How did it go?

Why?

But why?

- Just to hear you say that.

No, I was on my way back, and I passed this crazy store

and I just wanted to give it to you.

So I stole it.

- You stole it?

- Yeah.

I was scared to death.

I couldn't stop running.

But it was kind of exciting.

- It was kind of stupid.

I mean, if they caught you and called the cops.

- Nah, it felt good anyway, after my dive into the past.

- [Angela] You can talk about it, if you want.

- No, there's not much to talk about.

We really didn't have very much to say to each other.

I felt alone

sitting with her today.

- Well, you're always alone.

I've felt alone most of my life.

This solitude of being missed,

don't belong to any group,

couldn't find my place.

For Latino men I was always (speaks foreign language).

The Little Black one.

Just good to play with.

Here is a little souvenir

from that time.

- So,

was (speaks foreign language) ever loved?

- Well, there is true love,

and then there is everything else.

- Then how do you recognize true love, Professor Now?

- You don't, I guess.

But any feeling is worth it.

So just enjoy it for what it is,

and don't be afraid to walk away when the feeling goes.

- But how do you truly enjoy something

when you know it's going to end soon?

- [Angela] What do you mean?

- Like now, with you.

I can't stop thinking that in a day or two

I'll be gone, and,

won't ever see you again.

- Same answer, Student Later.

You have to trust it.

Just enjoy it.

It's worth it.

You'll deal with that time when it comes.

What you have now will always be yours.

What would you desire most?

Right this minute?

And don't stop yourself.

Everything is okay.

- I'd like to watch you masturbate.

Unless, you know, you...

(Angela moaning)

(Angela chuckling)

Thank you.

- My pleasure.

Do you like it.

- Very much.

- I'm always hungry after an orgasm.

You know, for centuries

women have been seducing men through food,

doing all sorts of crazy stuff.

- Well, like what?

- Well, for example, women used to make bread

and sit on the dough naked

and infuse the dough with their juices.

- Really?

Where do you come from?

- You really want to know?

- Yeah.

- That's my grandmother's village.

That's her writing.

She's wishing me a good life.

She wrote it for me before she died.

That's my mother.

She was a singer.

She danced, too.

(singing in foreign language)

That is my mother.

Her only recording.

I have very few memories of my parents.

It's hard to grow up without parents.

- What happened to them?

- They were killed

by the contras in the beginning of the civil war.

They were part of the first literacy campaign.

Teaching peasants to read and write.

This is the only thing I have left from my father.

- I thought you said he was a teacher.

- He was.

But he was a Sandinista.

He used to go help the peasants harvesting

sugar cane in the fields.

Every weekend.

- So what about these Sandinistas?

- Well,

in short we had a dictator for two decades

financed and supported by the U.S.

The Sandinistas fought them for years,

and little by little the people joined them

and created a popular revolution,

deposing the dictator.

- And what happened?

- And it became a new country.

With free health care, free schools,

literacy campaign in the country.

But, unfortunately, the Sandinistas are

what your country calls socialists.

The Sandinistas didn't want their money

and resources to go to U.S. corporations,

they wanted it to go to their people.

So, your actor President Reagan

ordered the CIA to put together an army,

called the Contras to overthrow our government.

And this created a civil war, that raged on.

Your CIA got entangled in its mess

and realized that it would need more money to continue,

but it was a secret war that the American Congress

did not want to finance.

So, the CIA decided to sell weapons to Iran

which was forbidden by your Congress

and by international law.

And when your CIA needed more money,

they decided to sell drugs.

Cocaine, to be precise,

in your country to finance the Contras.

- You read way too many novels.

- And you don't read enough.

It's all documented.

- Reagan authorized the CIA to finance an army to overthrow

a government with money from weapons and drug trade.

- Carter first, and then Reagan after him, in full force.

You see, that is what I am trying to explain to you,

people here do not know what is going on

in their own country.

You are educated by Walt Disney,

and Fox News, and Star Wars.

You live in a bubble.

Your country has been responsible for the removal

or assassination of dozens of leaders around the world.

You want names?

Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo.

Salvador Allende, President of Chile.

Mossadeq, Prime Minister of Iran.

All democratically elected, all dead

because of the CIA organized coup.

Your country has initiated massacres

in Indonesia, Guatemala, Iran...

- Okay.

Okay.

- Sorry.

I get worked up.

That is why my parents died.

It's hard for me to talk calmly about it.

You don't believe me, do you?

That is what was left from my parent's car.

After the Contras killed them,

they came to my grandmother's house,

and tossed it at her feet.

She knew immediately what it meant.

- You know,

what's confusing is that

for the last 30 years I've been living

in a world where we were the heroes,

and what you're describing is completely different.

It's like two totally different worlds.

- Did you really believe in this system

in which you were a banker?

- Yeah, of course.

I mean, why wouldn't I?

- Your system remains only because it has exploited

and plundered dozens of countries,

and oppressed and starved millions of people

around the world for decades.

- You know, I worked in foreign markets.

I was an international trader,

and traders are supposed to influence foreign markets.

With the international banking system it's very easy

to cripple the economy of another country.

That's what I did for 10 years,

and I was rewarded for it.

You know what international bankers call themselves?

Masters of the Universe.

- You're kidding, right?

- No, it's true.

We spent our time bidding on the economy of countries.

Buy Brazil, bid half a million on Pakistan,

sell Argentina.

- Oh, man.

How did you put a hole in the bank,

Master of the Universe?

- Well,

it was during the time when Argentina was falling apart,

unable to repay its debt and heading for elections,

and we were supporting candidates that...

- Who's we?

- [Bill] Well, the government, the US government, of course.

- Of course.

And?

- And, the bank suddenly decided to buy

Argentine debt in massive numbers

and they felt for sure that our candidate

would be elected no matter what.

And since I'd had so much success

doing the same thing with Brazilian debt,

they called me in and put me in charge of the operation.

- [Angela] And?

- And,

they put enormous pressure on me to

buy an incredible amount of Argentine paper.

At that time I was thinking it was the best thing to do.

I knew that if I was successful

we would make so much money

that I would be king of the bank.

- How could you make so much money

if the country could not repay its debt?

- Well,

you buy the debt from the original lender

at 10 cents on the dollar and then, afterwards,

you sue the government to repay to loan at face value.

- I see.

And what happened?

- At the time I was so caught up in the gamble,

and I was Master of the Universe

that I continued to buy without authorization,

signing the papers myself,

even after the bank had stopped the project.

- So, how come you didn't make so much money?

- Well,

the wrong guy was elected.

- Depends for who.

- Maybe.

He decided not to repay the debt.

Never happened before.

- Wasn't it the best thing he could do for his country?

- I think I understand why you've come

to hate this country so much.

- My parents' death was a real turning point for me.

It made me open my eyes and wonder why.

Why all this violence, why all this death,

all this misery?

- I'm going to go get some fresh air.

- You're okay?

- [Bill] Yeah.

- You don't sleep much, do you?

- [Bill] Not any more.

- I'm late.

The night was too short.

How are you feeling?

- Right now?

Feeling like I want to watch you shower.

- Go on.

- And according to Professor Now,

I don't have to hide the fact that that excites me.

- Of course not.

It's a pleasure for you to get excited.

It's a pleasure for me to see you get excited.

You can masturbate, if you want.

- I think I'd prefer to be inside you.

(Angela moaning)

- Wait, wait for me, wait.

(Angela moaning)

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

That was great.

That was great.

Oh God, I have to go.

I have to go.

Saturdays are crazy at the clinic.

- I hope they pay you extra to work on Saturdays.

- You're funny!

You think I am paid?

- What, you're not?

- With what?

What do you think these people pay us with?

- What about the doctors?

- Same.

Everybody who works there is a volunteer.

- Are they real doctors?

(Angela speaking foreign language)

- [Angela] Everybody who works there has a diploma.

- Yeah, what about you?

- Yeah, me too.

I have my nurse's degree.

I know.

I know it's hard for you people to

understand wanting to go to work every day.

Even Saturday, without pay.

- You're right.

It's another world.

- [Angela] I have to go.

(sirens blaring)

- See?

(speaking foreign language)

- What are you doing here?

- Well, I'm very sick, doctor.

I think my appendix is inflamed.

- It's very stupid for you to come here.

Who told you where I was?

- Luis.

Look, I don't want to bother you.

I just want to stay here for a while and watch you,

and learn.

If I'm bothering you, I can leave.

- You'd do better to watch them.

You'll learn faster.

I think you might be a little on the

wrong track, Mr. Later.

- Is there any such thing as the right track, Professor Now?

- Good, good answer.

(indistinct chatter)

So, did you learn anything today?

- [Bill] Well, I prefer the private sessions.

(Angela screams)

- [Angela] Oh, my God!

You scared me!

I didn't know you were back!

- I just wanted to see you.

I didn't know if you were gonna be here.

- This is my friend Diego.

This is my student Later.

- Later?

- Later, hi Diego.

(Diego chuckles)

- [Diego] I didn't know you were teaching too.

- Yeah, she's a wonderful teacher.

- [Diego] Aha.

Teaching what?

- Life rescue.

- Really?

Interesting.

It is hot here.

(Diego and Angela giggling)

- I'm going to go.

- Oh, no, no, no, please stay.

I just came bye to say hi.

I'm in between two planes.

- I can't believe it.

You're leaving again?

- [Diego] Well...

- Diego is a reporter.

Always going around the world.

Just got back from Palestine.

Where the fuck are you going now?

- Congo.

(lively music)

(singing in foreign music)

- Don't go.

Come dance with us.

- [Bill] No, it's okay.

I'm just gonna go outside and get some fresh air.

- Hey!

I don't want you to be upset.

- I'm not.

- Diego is a love of mine and I miss him.

- It's okay.

You don't owe me anything.

It's me that owes you.

Enjoy your time with him.

I can go, if you want.

- Of course not.

He has to go.

I just want to spend a little time with him,

and then I'm going to take him to the airport

with Luis' car.

- Okay, I'll be here.

(singing in foreign language)

(Angela moaning)

- What?

- Nothing.

Never mind.

- Come with me.

- What? Where?

- To the bedroom.

I spoke with Diego.

I want you to be a part of this too.

- Well thank you both, very much,

but I'm afraid I can't do that.

I'm still this dumb American who freaks out when

he hears his lover having sex with someone else.

- I'm sorry.

I just missed him a lot.

Come on now.

- I can't, I can't do that.

It would just be for a minute.

He has to go anyway.

Do it for me, if nothing else.

- Oh God, I thought you were never going to come back.

- Sorry man, I had to bribe him.

- [Diego] Uh huh.

- I'm not really...

- Shh.

We don't want to hear it.

Just let Now be in charge.

- Who's Now?

- A friend of his.

- What?

Listen, my friend, enjoy.

Okay, I prefer women.

But I've been known to experiment.

(speaks foreign language)

And,

when there's a beautiful woman on top...

(Angela screams)

Does this excite you, darling?

Too many in bed?

- What a question.

But it's more than that.

- [Diego] That sounds nice to me.

- Come with us, please.

- That would be nice.

Not bad for a student.

- [Angela] And he clearly likes it.

- I'm sorry.

I can't.

(airplane whirring)

(singing in foreign language)

- Hi.

It finally cooled off.

I thought that for tonight I'd do something special.

I stopped at an Italian trattoria.

The menu is Italian antipasti and Lambrusco.

You were reading?

- No, not really.

I picked it up when I saw you coming.

It looks better.

- Come on.

How was your time alone?

- Okay, I guess.

I was thinking, of course.

- What were you thinking about?

- I'm leaving tomorrow.

This morning.

- You could stay longer, if you want to.

- I think Professor Now is right.

I have a whole new life to start.

Besides, we know that only foolish students

fall in love with their professors.

- Well, you know,

you leaving this morning will be

as hard for me as it is for you.

Don't forget, that for me too,

love is the most important feeling.

It's the only one which redeems mankind.

- Do you love him?

- Who?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But you have to understand, I'm not like you.

Saying that I love him does not mean

that I don't love you,

or that I love you any less.

- So you believe in free love?

- Yeah, of course I do.

Free love is the only true love.

It's the love you keep on testing with others,

and the love which endures.

That is the only form of love

which liberates the ones who live it,

rather than limiting their freedom.

- You're a dreamer.

- But I'm not the only one.

(both giggling)

- What can I do for you?

On our last night?

- Don't worry.

I spent the last 20 years taking care of my desires.

- No, it's my turn.

Please.

- Kiss me.

(singing in foreign language)

(Angela moaning) (heavy breathing)

- [Bill] God.

- [Angela] Isn't it beautiful?

- You know the most precious gift you gave me?

- Anal sex?

- No.

You gave me strength.

I mean, here I am, a fugitive,

seeing my country for the last time.

Going to leave the only person I have in my life

going to a place where I don't speak

the language, no money, no connections.

I think I'll be freakin' out.

- [Angela] You're not?

- Can I wear this?

It smells like you.

- Sure, if you think it can help.

- I know it will.

I hope it smells like you for a long time.

- If you make it to Nicaragua, call that number.

He's a dear friend of mine.

You'll like him.

- Another lover.

- And this will help, too.

- No, thanks.

I'm not taking your money.

- [Angela] I understand.

But you're going to be back in a harsh reality soon,

and everything has a price.

- I know, I know,

but it's my problem, and I will deal with it.

I think I should go on alone now.

And you go.

There are other people in desperate need of help.

- The truck will stop three blocks down.

The driver will be with Luis.

He'll see you.

- Thank you for...

- Shh.

I wrote Eddie's restaurant address on the inside.

Write me every time you cross the border.

- I will.

- It's a long read, but you'll have the time

to read it and re-read it.

Remember, to exist is the only thing that matters.

To exist here and now.

- And nothing else.

(light slow paced music)

(singing in foreign language)