(...)

ESC 2. INT. MOTHER'S BEDROOM. DAWN

Roxana is seated next to her mother, ANGELINA (98), a large elderly woman who rests with her eyes closed on the bed. Two large windows in the walls show the lush garden. Birds are singing. The buzzing of bees comes and goes.

Roxana takes the porridge from the contour of the plate and brings it to her mother's mouth. The mother chews with her eyes closed. Roxana watches her mother's breast rise and fall as a hissing sound comes from it.

The mother chews. Roxana turns to the oxygen tube and moves it. Roxana can barely lift it. Roxana nods, moistening her lips and placing her hands on her hips, with a compliant posture.hips, with a posture of compliance. Roxana reaches over to the edge of the bed and strokes the last of her hair on her mother's head. Roxana takes one of her mother's wrinkled, stained hands and pulls it into her lap. Roxana smiles at her mother with pity.

 

 

Her mother coughs. Roxana hugs her around the waist and settles her mother on the mountain of pillows on her back. The mother snores. Roxana takes the dirty junk and arranges it on a tray. 

There is a knock at the door.

ROXANA
(shouting)

Just come in, Pepe!

 

 

 

They knock again. Roxana tucks her mother in. They knock again.

 

 

 

ROXANA (CONTINUED)

(whispers)
Fuck, this kid is an idiot...

 

 

 

He kisses his mother's forehead. They play again.

 

 

 

ROXANA (CONTINUED)
I'm coming!

​

 

 

Roxana approaches the threshold of her mother's room, whose door is a curtain of beads. Her mother's chest rises and falls, and from it comes a hissing sound.

​

 

 

ESC 3. INT. HALLWAY-FRONT DOOR.DAWN

 

 

The mustard curtain surrounds Roxana's body as she leaves her mother's room. Roxana fixes her untidy curls as she walks down the hallway. Roxana turns, passing through the living room.

ROXANA

(whispering)

How can he not be able to open the door

by himself?

 

 

Roxana's hand reaches for the handle.

 

 

 

ESC 4. EXT. FRONT OF ROXANA'S HOUSE. DAWN.

In front of the main door of the house there is a table. The front door opens and Roxana steps out. Roxana looks both ways and then looks down at the table. Roxana curiously approaches the table. On the table is a dead fly. There is concern on Roxana's face. Roxana reaches her hand towards the fly and takes it with her fingers. Behind the tiny body of the fly, Roxana's face shows clear disgust. The fly moves and flies out of her hands. Roxana evaluates the table with her eyes. Roxana sees the legs full of splinters, with cuts and chain marks. Roxana crosses herself. 

 

 

Roxana enters her house, without closing the front door.

​

 

 

ESC 5. INT. MOTHER'S ROOM. DAWN.

Roxana's face appears between the fibers of the mustard curtain. She looks at her sleeping mother. Roxana searches the room with her eyes. When she turns her face to the oxygen tube a fly lands on the handle of the tube. Roxana's hand reaches down to pull the Hawaiian off her foot. Roxana walks carefully, towards the fly that rubs its legs on the tube handle. Under her feet, the boards creak. Roxana purses her lips. She lifts the Hawaiian up, being only a few inches away from the fly. Behind Roxana's figure is PEPE (15) wearing a black jockey and a light blue muscle shirt too big for his slim body.

 

 

PEPE
Sora' Roxana!

​

 

 

Roxana lets out a scream. The fly flies away from the handle. The mother gives a sharp snore and starts coughing. Roxana and Pepe approach the bed. Roxana settles her mother. (...)