Original subtitles

(OBJECTS CLATTERING)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

MALE NURSE: Ms. Whitman.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

(SOFIE SPEAKING DUTCH)

(CAR LOCK CHIRPS) (DOOR LOCKING)

(CAR LOCK CHIRPS) (DOOR UNLOCKING)

(CHUCKLES)

(MOANING)

(PANTING)

(SNORING)

(CELL PHONE CHIMES)

(IN ENGLISH) Yes, I am.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(SIGHS)

MAN ON RADIO: It's already 14 and a half minutes after 4:00

and we've got to get some music played for you.

So you stay with us. Music just like this.

(POP SONG PLAYING)

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

(TURNS DOWN RADIO VOLUME)

(SPEAKING DUTCH) (ROBERT SPEAKING DUTCH ON PHONE)

(TURNS UP RADIO VOLUME)

(JACKIE GRUNTING)

MALE NURSE: Just sit right here, see.

It'll be all right.

(MALE NURSE EXHALES)

MALE NURSE: You must be her daughters.

(PANTS)

She was unconscious when I brought her in 10 days ago.

We don't know what happened.

Your mother doesn't talk much.

Doesn't co-operate.

I... We were lucky to find this in her wallet.

(DAAN SPEAKING DUTCH)

MALE NURSE: Well, if you guys have any time

you should try to get up to Santa Fe.

Yeah, but we're not here on a holiday.

Oh, well, that's too bad.

I think that is everything.

Oh... Ms. Whitman...

Ms. Whitman! Mom?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) So, um, we will be flying her tomorrow

to the rehabilitation center. Oh, oh, no.

Flying is out of the question.

Your mother's eardrum is torn.

So?

I don't know. Maybe drive...

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) Are you sure you don't want to get in?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)

SOFIE: Hello!

(OBJECTS CLATTERING)

Hello?

Can you hear us?

I don't know, but, uh, you cannot drive

because the doctor said you cannot use your leg too much.

And also, you cannot fly because of your ear.

There's something wrong with your eardrum or something.

(SOFIE SPEAKING DUTCH)

Can you... (SCREAMS)

Oh, okay.

You can hear us. Okay.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

So this is, uh...

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) You wouldn't say so, but we are your daughters.

Danielle and Sofie.

Sofie, she is the oldest. And... But I'm...

That's only 10 minutes difference.

We're are going to drive you to the rehabilitation center tomorrow

and you can be very lucky they have a place for you.

I've booked a room across the street.

It's not really a fancy room,

but, hey, I mean, look where you're living...

Um...

We meet in an hour for dinner at...

Across the street in the restaurant.

We fresh up and we'll talk later.

If you can talk, I don't know.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(TRAIN RUMBLING)

Okay.

I'll see you later then.

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

SOFIE: Can I ask you if the wonton soup has onions in it?

WAITRESS: Yes. Oh.

And the yang wang guahugua?

Does it have onions?

Yes.

Okay. No, I don't want onions.

I just...

Can I have then the... Just the salad?

And no cheese please, no cheese.

Not the little... You know.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) And the dressing on the salad,

is it with balsamico and olive oil?

Sof... (LAUGHS)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) Um, okay. No dressing.

That's it.

Yeah, oh, and no onions.

(EXHALES)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

Yeah.

Huh?

I've got the spring rolls

and I also have the chicken for you.

Oh, this is duck, sorry.

Oh, shit, maybe you don't eat meat.

Oh, because I didn't eat meat for a while

because of the poor animals,

but now I only eat biological meat.

But she doesn't eat meat at all.

She thinks meat is bad for her.

Okay, you do eat meat.

Well, enjoy.

So, how's life, Mom?

Any good?

Yes, it's great! Especially now you girls turned up.

Yes, you know, for us, it's very, very great to finally meet you.

Oh, my God, it's wonderful, you know.

Because I've been waiting so long to see you.

And, you know, you've brought me all this food.

I don't know how to thank you, you know...

Is there more soya sauce?

(SPEAKS DUTCH)

Yes, sure, here's some soya sauce.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(MUSIC PLAYING ON LAPTOP)

Do you have more family?

No other kids?

(SNIFFS)

Sorry, are you okay?

Can I help you?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

Leave me alone.

Out. Out.

Are you sure?

Are you sure I cannot help?

Out!

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(DOG BARKING)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(GASPS)

(EXHALES)

Oh. I'm sorry.

Good morning.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

So, we have to leave in 10 minutes.

So, I brought you coffee

and also a bit of breakfast.

It's just a muffin and a...

I'm just gonna...

So, can I help you pack?

No? Okay. Then I'll just...

I'll just wait outside here.

You...

Want me to leave my home behind?

(DAAN SPEAKING DUTCH)

(SOFIE SPEAKING DUTCH)

(SIGHS)

SOFIE: (IN ENGLISH) Okay. A few rules.

One. I understand you really like this house, but we're going with our car.

It's a very fast car.

And three, if you're not on time,

you will lose your place at the rehab...

(DOOR OPENS)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(ENGINE SPUTTERING)

It ain't working.

(KEYS JANGLING)

(ENGINE STARTS)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

Whoa. Whoa.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(GROANS)

MAN ON RADIO: Fourteen and a half minutes after 4:00

and we've got to get some music played for you. So you stay with us.

Music just like this.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

(SPEAKING DUTCH) DAAN: Whoo-hoo!

(SOFIE SPEAKING DUTCH)

(SCOFFS)

(CLATTERING)

You probably ran out of gas.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

We're not on the highway.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

Look, the TomTom says it's a 100-mile shortcut.

To me, time is precious.

Maybe there is a pump station?

There are no gas stations on dirt roads.

SOFIE: Yes, yes. I left the highway.

I know it was not really smart, I know.

But we really need gas, because I have...

I don't know, maybe two miles?

Yes. Okay. We'll just be...

We'll just be here.

Thank you very much.

Okay. Bye.

Ladies, someone from the nearest gas station is coming.

With gas.

(BURPS)

(LAPTOP BEEPS)

SOFIE: Okay.

(TYPING) (LAPTOP BEEPS)

Oh, shit.

Yes. (CELL PHONE RINGING)

(DAAN SPEAKING DUTCH) (REPLIES)

No, I'm not staying calm, because we've been waiting here for hours.

No, for gas!

Gasoline!

Sorry, I've been talking to you hours ago!

I don't... Hello?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(DAAN GROANS)

(SOFIE SPEAKING DUTCH)

(CELL PHONE SIGNAL BEEPING)

Fuck!

(BIRD CAWING)

(INSECTS CHIRPING)

(SQUEAKING)

(INSECT BUZZING)

JACKIE: Put that away.

Is that you? Put it away.

And this... Is this your brother?

He's dead.

I'm sorry.

(PANTING)

Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck.

(BELLOWING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GROWLS SOFTLY)

(LAPTOP BEEPS)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

Hi.

(GROANS IN DISGUST)

Shit. Shit, shit, shit, shit.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

I need electricity.

The battery is probably dead.

(SOFIE SPEAKING DUTCH)

Um... I, um...

I have to do this interview on my computer

and, um, it's really very, very, very, important to me.

So I need some electricity, please.

Well...

That's not going to happen.

(DAAN SPEAKING DUTCH)

(EXHALES)

DAAN: I had so many fantasies about you.

I always thought you were some sort of Indiana Jones.

I just wanted to have somebody to do boy stuff with, you know.

Because Harm and Marcel, they are really the best fathers in the world,

but they don't ever do anything like

camping or building huts or fires.

In my mind,

I just had all these adventures with you.

So much for Indiana Jones.

(LAUGHS)

(DISTANT HOWLING)

(HORSES NEIGHING)

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

(HISSING)

(SNAKE RATTLING)

Ow! Ow!

(DAAN SPEAKING DUTCH)

(EXCLAIMS IN PAIN)

(STAMMERING) I don't know.

(DAAN SPEAKING DUTCH)

SOFIE: (SOBBING) Help me! Help me.

No, don't touch me.

No, no, no. I gotta go to the hospital.

Go away.

(MUMBLING)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

JACKIE: All right.

First, you will get sweaty,

then your temperature rises to a 105 degrees.

You get so nauseous that you want to spit your guts out.

And finally, you won't be able to breathe. SOFIE: What?

And your heart will stop beating.

I'd say within half an hour.

What do we need, I mean...

Nearest hospital is at least one hour away.

Ugh!

Jackie, please help me.

(SNIFFLES)

(SOBBING) Help me.

Are you sure?

(SOBBING) Yes.

(SOFIE SHIVERING)

DAAN: Are you sure she's going to be okay?

This type of snake ain't lethal.

But it's a bitch for sure.

I got bit quite a few times myself.

But why would you tell her she would die within 30 minutes?

Tough cookie needs an extra bite.

That's delicious.

Oh, my God, I ate snake. (LAUGHS)

(VEHICLES APPROACHING)

Trouble? Yeah, we ran out of gas.

All right. We need some fuel, we need some tools.

We need chopper.

DAAN: Hello. WOMAN: Hello.

I'm Daan.

JACKIE: Will she be all right in there?

WOMAN: Should be ready to go.

(ENGINE STARTING)

All right.

Whoo-hoo!

Thank you.

Uh, that's funny. You call yourself Dykes on Bikes?

Yes.

Funny, because we also say that.

But we say dijken van wijven in Holland.

We also have normal dykes... It's just...

(MOTORCYCLES REVVING) Thank you.

Ready to go.

She can't drive.

No. No, I don't have a license.

So what?

I'm a danger on the road.

Joost thinks it's because half of my brain is bigger than the other...

Well, there's a first time for everything.

Hey. No.

DAAN: A bit to the back.

More? More? Yeah. Yeah.

How is that? It's okay.

Okay.

You're clear in the back, just give her some gas.

Oh...

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

JACKIE: Just press harder.

Go fast. She's not a pussy.

Okay.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

Whoo-hoo!

(LAUGHS)

I drive!

(TRUCK HORN BLARING)

(EXHALES) Oh.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Well done, girl.

Whoo!

DAAN: ♪ Oh, girls, please sit up straight

♪ Hold on to that spot you're standing on

♪ Why don't you carry all that weight?

♪ You're gonna fall before too long

♪ Hunchback lovers

♪ Stop staring at your shoes

♪ Hunchback lovers

♪ Raise your eyes up to the sky and sing the blues ♪

(VOCALIZING)

MAN ON RADIO: It's 4:00. This is the Town and Country radio show...

You can sing and drive at the same time.

(BOTH LAUGH)

Hi, fill her up.

(DAAN SPEAKING DUTCH)

Do you have kids?

No.

What if...

What if you have been part of our lives?

(EXHALES)

What if...

That's a returning question.

Is it an opportunity wasted or...

Or a wrong turn not taken.

I stopped torturing myself asking that question.

(LAPTOP BEEPS)

(CHIMING)

(DAAN SPEAKING DUTCH)

(EXHALES)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(IN ENGLISH) She doesn't have a license.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(ENGINE STARTS)

Hey. She is doing great.

(BANGING ON DOOR)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(CALL DISCONNECTS)

Sofie, Daan! Inside now!

(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)

(WIND HOWLING)

(WIND WHISTLES)

(CREAKING)

(LOUD THUD) (EXCLAIMS)

(WIND HOWLING)

JACKIE: Watch your hand, watch your hand.

(LAUGHS)

Wow!

(LAUGHS)

Whoo!

Whoo-hoo!

(DAAN SPEAKING DUTCH)

You drove us on the white sands.

DAAN: It's so beautiful.

I mean, really. It looks like snow, but it's sort of sand.

It's just... Wow.

(SNIFFLING)

Are you crying?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

It's not sand, but plaster.

I'm fine.

Really.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

Whoo! Whoo!

(BOTH YELLING)

(BOTH SIGH)

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

(SINGING ALONG TO RADIO)

ANNOUNCER: (ON RADIO) request going out right about now.

This goes out to our...

(SIGHS)

(JOOST SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) Jackie, this is Joost.

The man who married your daughter.

Joost, Jackie.

Hi, hi.

How do you do? You are a lucky bastard.

Yeah.

My wife is not fit to drive.

She panics very easily.

She cannot multitask.

She's always overreacting. (SPEAKING DUTCH)

(LAUGHS)

(WHISTLES)

(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)

(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)

WOMAN: ♪ Yes, Jesus loves me

♪ Taking children on his knee

♪ Saying, "Let them come to me"

♪ Yes, Jesus loves me

♪ He will stay

♪ Close beside me

♪ All the way ♪

Oh...

Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no.

Why not?

Well, just not.

(LAUGHS)

Has your sister always been such a chicken shit?

Sorry? Wasting her talent.

Because she's too goddamned afraid.

Well, no, I'm not afraid.

No, I'm just...

Too fucking shy.

Take a risk for God's sake.

(MUSIC STOPS)

We got a hell of a voice here.

You guys wanna hear her sing?

MAN 1: Bring her on. MAN 2: Let's sing.

MAN 3: Come on.

MAN 4: Come on, sing.

Two, one, six, zero.

(CLEARS THROAT)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

♪ When you were gone

♪ You were on a part that I was wrong

♪ I never knew

♪ What I've been through

♪ Trying to keep you

♪ I never had the best...

MAN: Care to dance?

♪ I always only got what was left

♪ And I was always there

♪ Behind the rest

♪ Trying, trying

♪ Take these arms

♪ And help them close more consciously

♪ Take this heart

♪ And let it stay free

♪ And take this women

♪ And give her strength to go on

♪ Trying and you know somehow

♪ Even though I can't help you now

♪ I'll keep trying anyhow ♪

(BOTH LAUGHING)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(CAR DOOR CLOSES)

MAN: Ladies.

Why are you guys walking alone?

Just... Nothing. Just going...

Sorry, we just want to go home.

Sorry, we just... Yeah.

Oh, come on. Just... Just a little time.

No, no, no. We just wanna chat.

Just a little chat.

Come on, baby. No, no, no.

SOFIE: Do not touch me. Where are you from?

Just not from here, so...

So what do you say we go hang out over there?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH)

No, no!

(SCREAMING)

Come here. I got her.

Get your hands off my girls.

SOFIE: Jackie! (GUN COCKS)

Oh, shit, boys. Granny wants some.

(MEN LAUGHING)

Oh, come on, grandma.

(FIRES GUN) Oh, shit.

MAN 1: Come on, come on. Get out of here.

(MEN CLAMORING)

(SOBBING)

It's all right.

Shh!

(SNIFFLES)

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) Are you okay?

Jackie?

Are you okay? What's wrong?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) Are you okay?

(SIREN WAILING)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(EXHALES)

We should take you to specialist.

No more doctors.

I'm not that sick.

My brother's name is Paul.

Okay.

That's a nice name. Paul.

I'd like to go there.

Go there?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) Do you have more brothers?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) I'm sorry, but, I... I mean...

He's dead, right?

I mean, you told me he was dead.

He felt dead to me.

I haven't seen him for so many years.

SOFIE: Do you know where you can find him now?

He felt dead?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

He used to live 100 miles north of Albuquerque.

So, did you... So you lied to us?

SOFIE: (WHISPERS) Daan.

I asked you, "Do you have more family?"

And you said, "No, no. No family."

And now you... There is...

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH) Why?

(SPEAKING DUTCH) (CELL PHONE RINGS)

So you want to go see him?

(DAAN YELLING IN DUTCH)

Maybe not.

Maybe it's a bad idea. Maybe... I don't know.

(SIGHS) I don't know anymore.

(TRAIN HORN BLOWING)

My brother calls me Melissa.

That used to be my name.

But...

it's not anymore.

I'd rather not talk about my illness.

No need to worry him.

Would you like to freshen up a little?

(SHOWER RUNNING)

Are you okay in there? JACKIE: I'm fine.

(LAUGHS)

(LAUGHING)

Thank you.

(CELL PHONE RINGING) (GASPS)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(ROBERT SPEAKING DUTCH)

(CHUCKLES)

(INAUDIBLE)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

So you have a very nice place here.

It's big, huh.

(COW LOWING)

Also a lot of cows.

We also have a lot of cows in Holland.

(COW MOOS)

(SNIGGERS) So...

Did you know about our existence?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(COWS MOOING)

(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR STEREO)

(CAR DOOR OPENS)

(BOTH WHISTLE)

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(HENS CLUCKING)

Oh, are there any carbohydrates in it?

Carbs. Carbs?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

PAUL: ♪ Now take my hand

♪ Take my hand to the evening sun

♪ Take my hand

♪ And we'll watch this day run ♪

Oh. (CHUCKLES)

First things first. (LAUGHS)

It's a waltz. (SPEAKING DUTCH)

PAUL: And then, four-four.

♪ Every night

♪ When the sun goes down

BOTH: ♪ Every night

♪ When I lay my head down

♪ Every night

♪ You come round in my dreams

♪ It all seems

♪ Thus love is found

♪ Lost love is found

♪ Every night when the stars... ♪

(INAUDIBLE)

(SOBBING)

JACKIE: Dear Sofie,

dear Daan.

You made the last days of my life so beautiful.

I couldn't have wished for anything more.

You gave me back a joyful heart,

and my family.

This felt like the perfect moment to step out.

Please throw out my ashes in sea of white masa.

Thank you for making me a mother.

"PS:

(SNIFFLES)

"I stole a wallet with your birth announcements.

"I'm not the real Jackie.

"I'm sorry. Melissa."

(SOBBING)

(PIANO PLAYING)

Huh?

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(IN ENGLISH)

My sister always had these fantasies when we were young.

Um, about what our mother would be like.

But I never did.

Um...

I guess, I never allowed myself

to give my mother a face.

And...

meeting Jackie... Um, Melissa

was a...

(IN DUTCH)

Um...

(CHUCKLES)

(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

Listen, we're so grateful you are taking care of her last wishes like this.

Of course.

Have a good trip.

Bye.

(DOG BARKING)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(TRUCK HORN BLARES)

(MIMICKING GUN FIRING) (CHUCKLES)

(SQUEAKING)

(DAAN WHISTLES)

(SPEAKING DUTCH)

(BELCHES) (CHUCKLES)

(SOFIE SPEAKING)

(CHUCKLES)

(LAUGHING)

(CELL PHONE RINGS)

(JOOST SPEAKING)

(VOICE ECHOING)

(SIGHS)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

MAN: Jackie, how about some coffee?

Why aren't you cleaning this up?

I mean... Why...

Why am I doing this? I don't know.

Why am I doing your job? How come you are not doing your job?

Whatever.

What are you looking at?

(SINGING)

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(MUSIC CONTINUES)

Take it away, Joe.

(HARMONICA SOLO PLAYING)

(MUSIC PLAYING)