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Kill him, it brings luck!

Stop it! You need faith
more than the others.

You could have waited for
the Holy Blessing at least.

I can't get this haste and this
grudge then. Try to be reasonable.

Ultimately you got on well with us.

Church also needs simple brothers,
everyone can be useful.

You can serve God in several ways.

To confess or celebrate Mass is
not the most important thing.

Priests, representing God,
cannot have physical defects,...

...you know, you have studied it.

Then you, my son, who have such
difficulty to express yourself...

However, this is a letter of
presentation for the baroness Bezzi,...

...a very pious woman who suffers a lot
because of her husband and sick son.

She will find something to do
for you.

If you recover and want to come back,
we'll always welcome you with open arms.

- Ah...
- It's the least I could do.

God bless you.

Please, take a seat.

You get up. Stand up!
Raise your ass from the chair!

Come on! Sit down here and make
yourself comfortable.

What are you doing? Sacrilegious, ignorant,
dunce, you don't have even any money!

Wait, huh? I'll be back very quickly.

Hurry, we have people with
a lot of money.

Come here and I'll paste
the beard on your face.

But is the wine for the function
made up by that little powder, right?

The one which let me have the runs,
made up by that crappy peasant.

- No, this is good. Shut up.
- Easy does it.

What a nice kid. You did
well to bring him.

He's just like Jesus Christ.
He speaks to the Holy Spirit.

And then he comes from the North.

Look, blessed, you're alike!
Oh my, you're alike!

If you had a beard, you'd be the same.

What a nice kid.

Brothers, in truth, in truth, I say
to you that today my heart rejoices.

- The Holy Spirit has been speaking
to me until now. - It spoke to him!

And now let's repeat
the gesture of Grace!

Amen.

- It's God's body that it's hard to digest.
- Enough! Don't say stupid things.

In truth, in truth, I say to you,
here're the consequences of sin,...

...the convictions for our vices,
for worship of money and pleasures!

Get him up!

Come on, leave him alone.

Leave him, I said!

Not always God satisfies us,
the devil lurking filters.

The wicked one is strong,
perhaps it'll go well next time.

We must persevere,...

...in truth, in truth I say to you.

Young master! You've forgotten
the offering.

Poor us, what a misery.

Son, you're back.
Poor us, what a misery.

How handsome you're this way.

If I had known you were coming, I'd not
have sent your little sisters to Don Vito's.

At least he feeds them.

Do you remember your little brothers?

Good thing that death helped us or
they'd be two extra mouths to feed.

However, tomorrow go to Don Vito
and ask for a job.

He did send you to the seminary, that
holy Christian will help you again.

After all you're always one of
them, at heart, aren't you?

"Ba-ro-ness Bezzi".
Good and rich family.

This court condemns the victim
to guillotine!

Charge: pissing the baron
Parsifal Bezzi off,...

...madam Clotilde's and general
Augusto Bezzi's son...

...and Brunilde's brother here,...

...a girl well known as the
ensign of assholes!

You're a rotten idiot and
nothing but!

One day I'll break your head so you'll stop
playing the little Robespierre with flies...

...and getting on people's nerves.

- Mom, I can't stand him anymore!
- Be patient, Brunilde.

And you, Parsifal, do not use
such words with your sister.

How many times must I tell to knock? Who's
the gentleman? Ok, give me the letter.

And you come in.

"So I entrust the bearer of this letter
hoping that you will help him somehow."

"Thanks for what you did for the
Institute for now. Yours, Don Pio."

Don Pio wrote everything to me,
I understand why you left the Institute.

The gentleman, as a child, has been
speech impeded for a thrill, right?

Anyway, the less we speak in
this house, the better it is.

You may be a friend for Parsifal,
go out with him for a drive...

...in short, a sort of
knight companion.

We'll come to an agreement
with the salary.

Do you need also clothes?

Yes, I think I've got something.
Come.

Come in.

I think it should fit you.

My husband has the same size as you.

Or at least almost the same
size as you.

May I speak informally to you,
right?

My husband hasn't been sleeping
anymore with me for a long time.

By the way, if you come to work
here with us, you'd better know...

...that he's an old man not fully clear
headed, closed in his studio all the time.

Should you happen to meet him, he
won't ask you any question. Come.

Look out!

Damn! I've just shitted myself!

If you're not careful, I might break
my neck as well, in addition to my nose.

Do not go fast, I'm afraid of the car!
You still didn't get it after 8 months!

What? I'm working as a fishwife
for a piece of bread...

The civil pension as a widow is
not enough even for the house...

...and you give me this pittance?

They are no longer being affected by typhus
for 8 years and still have the same clothes.

What the fuck! It'd have been better not
to have sent you as a child in the priests!

I did that to let you eat
and these are the results!

At the age of 13, you could already
work and bring home the bacon!

A mother does so much for her children and
children don't do anything for their mother.

Here, Don Vito, for the poor people.

Baroness, Church owes so much
to people like you,...

...always ready to extend a charitable
hand to those who suffer.

There is no pain that can't be
relieved by a bit of money,...

...other sufferings instead...

Oh, I understand you, baroness,
but faith do relieve them.

In fact it's the only thing
I'm left with. If I hadn't it...

By the way, Don Vito, if you
meet the seminary's dean,...

...tell him that the guy he had recommended
has become one of the family by now.

Parsifal has really grown fond of him.
I don't know what he'd do without him.

I've known him since he was a child.
It was me who sent him to the seminary.

Poor guy, if he had not had
that defect,...

...he'd have been a great priest,
really gifted at ministry.

Ah, if you knew, baroness,
how poor his family is.

But, you see when I talked
about faith?

After her husband's terrible loss, that
woman has found the strength to survive.

Now I go, parishioners are waiting. I wanted
to say goodbye to Parsifal but he doesn't come.

My respects to you, baroness.

My respects.

Fuck off!

Her face is ugly, but her
ass is photogenic.

Why so late? I'd like to go
for a walk with such sun.

Wait for me, I go and get the cover.

Come close to me, please, we've not
been able to stay together for a while.

It seems that Parsifal is
spying on me all the time.

Let's go, I'm ready.

Oh, listen, here's some money in
case Parsifal wants something.

Today Don Vito has paid us a visit.

Quick, give me some stones.

The detached tail keeps on moving...

...instead I have my legs attached
but I can't do the same.

It's better to be a lizard.

Don Vito has come to take the check
my mom gives him for poor people,...

...so maybe he thinks to buy
a lot in paradise.

You, being a priest somewhat,
think it's enough to pay for paradise?

For heaven maybe not, but
newspapers are to be paid.

Mom gave you the money, right?

The usual ones, eh!

Listen, would you screw this one?

But do priests think about these things?

Yesterday I saw Brunilde looking
at her pussy in the mirror.

Here she noticed me.

Would you marry Brunilde?

Mom always says that it's my
dad's fault if I'm like that...

...so I hate him, nobody of
the family speaks to him.

Brunilde, instead, once in a while
pays him a visit...but she's a crawler.

Damn!

We have to take him to the hospital.

I tried to brake and I think I succeeded.

- Just as well, nothing happened.
- I was more afraid than him.

- Do I have to pay or s the show free?
- Bitch! Today he almost died to save me!

- A car was going to run over me.
- Wasn't it, don Hercules?

There's no need that you try hard,
you can answer yes or not by your head.

Brunilde would like you to take
your pants and even underwear off.

- General, my ass! Captain of
the territory. - Come on!

- General, grades increase also if I'm a
civilian. - Let's talk about serious things.

Addolorata told me you had a
talk at the factory.

- They called me and I had to decide. - You've
been not making decisions anymore for a long time!

The last decision you made 13
years ago is a son in a wheelchair.

Always the same story! Physicians
pointed out that it's not my fault.

With all the blood samplings
I've been doing, I got an anemia.

Right, it's never your fault,
in fact it was me who went whoring!

"Woman to the burner, man to the brothel".
Remember what your fascist friends talked about?

Now I'm in charge here! And if you
risked your balls with whores...

...I made mine grow in your
place, got it?

Prepare the car,
let's go to the factory.

How is it that you're allowed
to pay me a visit in jail?

Parsifal is cutting off flies' heads
and mom went to the factory.

But you, dad, why do you let them treat
you like that? Why don't you rebel?

You don't have always to accept
everything passively.

I feel like being used up, I just
want to sleep and be left alone.

So the others are right, you're
just a useless old man!

Even if you died, no one would notice that!

I DON'T GIVE A DAMN

I DIDN'T GIVE A DAMN

- They are exploiting us, wretches!
- It's true.

- Any news? - These are old things,
baroness, every year it's the same.

And this year you want to change instead,
and so you have disturbed the general.

- And we also made an agreement.
- By phone?

For us general's word is more
worth than a piece of paper.

- It's worth nothing, you know!
- All right. Give us what he gave us.

Never! I give you even too much.

If I were not here to make a wine which
pays nothing, all of you would starve.

Get back to work or I'll close
everything and you go to hell!

No! You can't say that,
for God's sake!

Yokels!

Oh my, what a beauty!

They will finally be able to
get dressed normally.

Touch this fabric!

Never used. But we have to stretch
them, they are too short.

Are you sure that she gave them
to you as gifts?

Hey, does this mean...

That's a good sign,
my son, an intimate gift.

Brunilde is already a woman of
marriageable age. Got it?

You're mad! You have the opportunity
and don't do anything?

Brunilde is ready, I know, a mother
is never wrong about these things.

She's yours, take her, if you want to!

And then lady Clotilde will definitely have
to give her to you! So this pittance will end up!

Mom, I thought that I'd need a nurse
for my breakfast in the morning.

Maybe a beautiful and busty wench, eh?

Ah, come, give me a hand to wash him.

Come over there for a while,
I need to talk to you.

Addolorata, you go on.

Bitch! Take me out, quick!

Bitch! Come on!

No, please, there's Brunilde
at home, it's not safe.

Hurry up, bitch!

Blast you!

Baroness, help!

Come, baroness! Help!

Come, my husband killed himself!

Fool! What are you doing?!

But how does this come to your mind?
Now you want to take it? Stupid!

So they will notice it right away.
Tomorrow, before they close the coffin.

Be still, in a short time Addolorata
will bring us something to eat.

Well, Don Vito, here's the check.

As you can see the amount is enough, but
I want you to celebrate a great funeral.

The memory of the general should
be reevaluated in people's eyes.

Call everyone, little orphans, sons
of Mary...you, experienced, go ahead.

And you, please, take care of
the hearse, the band...

Let workers and peasants of
the estate come. Go the whole hog.

- Pay all what is needed!
- Mom!

That's my stuff, it's due
rightfully to me!

Poor general.

- You could not see or hear him.
- Be still!

They say he was strange.

If no one was ever talking to him,
how could they know?

Instead he was really good
in my opinion.

Well...eat because the night is long.

Shit!

- What did you say? - Nothing, madam,
how everything has changed here.

And now go to bed, tomorrow it will
be a bad day. Throw away the sacks.

This is done.

Hello everybody, good women.

Sun is rising, we must begin
a laborious day: wake up!

- Thanks... - My respects for the demise,
little master. - Sign and shut up!

Next, please!

Compliments.

Cripple and asshole.

- Sign and shut up!
- Condolences.

The general was a gentleman,
a true gentleman.

- Parsifal, come in! Thanks
for coming... - Condolences.

It has been a terrible loss.

I can't imagine I don't have
him with me anymore.

Clotilde, bon courage, you have
to be strong, even for them.

Oh, what a disgrace!

And then your husband
had his ripe old age.

He looked out of the window...
a vertigo, definitely.

It's unfair to die this way!

On the other hand it was good,
he no longer wanted to see anybody...

...and recently used to
eat alone in his room!

And he has been no longer fucking for
many years. Why doesn't she say it?

Who knows who's currently screwing her,
she must be a sex bomb in the bedroom.

- I would try.
- Me too surefire!

What a disgrace.

Addolorata, make coffee.

- Yes, with cabbage and sausages over
low heat. - Yes, everything in the pan.

And with no base fried mix,
otherwise it's too heavy.

Well, my Gina, what a trouble
was for Clotilde.

I still remember the day of their wedding,
they seemed father and daughter.

- What a beautiful couple.
- She doesn't seem to suffer a lot, though.

- Maybe it was a liberation.
- Luckily she has found that boy.

- What? - Yes, that young
unfrocked priest, as her partner.

Mary, you and me have not been meeting
since George's funeral, right?

- No, since Federica's marriage. You
had just bought a mink fur. - Oh, indeed.

Madam baroness, everything's ready.
If you want to get down and check...

Thanks, Don Vito, but me and my
sons will be staying here...

...we would not have the strength to...

Gee whiz, the defrocked one...

If my husband tolerated him,
I'd also like such a partner.

- It's clear that the general
was a tolerant husband.

Coffee is served.

In the name of the Father, the Son...

Play!

They're coming!

- How old are you, child?
- 14.

- Nice. And what's your name?
- Mary, like the Virgin.

- What will you do when you grow up, get married?
- No, the presenter on TV.

Stop, buy me an ice cream
with the money my mom gave you.

- The general Cadorna has arrived!
- Yes, Cadorna in a wheelchair.

He must be the son of that
piece of ass of baroness Bezzi.

My father worked for them, he was kicked
out because he had gone on strike.

That varmint!

That guy who came in was in the
seminary. He lives in the ghetto.

By day he takes the cripple on a stroll,
by night he shags his mother, got it?

Come.

Who threatens Church's structures
by words and acts is to be punished.

With no grudge or malice.
Now pray and repent.

Hey, does she make you wear
the robe when fucking?

Look out!

We taught them a lesson! So they'll
learn not to be a pain in our ass!

Take.

And I did not even piss myself!

You see, mr Donato, you can
afford no weakness with workers.

Sure., we have to pay,
agreed, the right though.

Sure.

Of course, you pay for and claim.

When someone no longer satisfies us,
we'll get rid of him and pay another one.

You're absolutely right.
Okay, I greet you.

See you soon.

May I ask why you're snorting so much?

You'd call the technician for
my TV, the antenna must be broken.

You could do it. We're in mourning,
it'd not be nice that I did it.

The knight companion should fix it,
at least he could do that.

- After all we pay him, don't we?
- First, I pay him, and then...

And then another thing.

Since you don't study and risk
to go to a college...

...instead of staying at home to criticize,
take advantage, my dear, get out.

Do as your peers. Is it possible
that you don't have a flirtation?

Do you think that it's easy to join in the
others in this town of repressed slanderers?

I have to conquer my space in this
kind of circus which you call family.

With a father throwing himself out
of a window and a brother like mine...

...do you think it's possible to
have friends not trying to be witty?

Thanks for leaving me out
of the museum of horrors.

No, you're not left out, it's only that
talking about me would be more complex.

- Mom!
- And then the two are coming.

We'll talk later, if you want.

Mom, today we have beaten three
boys who spoke ill of you!

You saved Parsifal from a car,
defend a widow's honour...

You just have to fix the antenna of
my TV to go into the Hall of heroes.

Please, go on the terrace with
Brunilde and fix that damned TV.

Listen, they were three and you'd
have seen the looks of their faces...

Wait, now I let someone go to the terrace with you,
so you'll also see how an antenna is to be fixed.

You look like Saint Sebastian's portrait
my mom has in her bedroom.

But why did a hunk like you
want to become a priest?

I don't understand your situation
here with us.

Mom says that you're a Parsifal's
friend, but friends are not to be paid.

Let me see, you take the money
and offer friendship in exchange?

And then what? Are there other
services?

Since you serve my mother and
Parsifal...

...if I ordered you, you'd have
to help me out too, shouldn't you?

I'm part of the family and money
belongs to everyone, hence to me too.

So, let's see. For first provide
an easy thing, an opinion.

Do you like these panties?

Do they have the same effect
on your little sisters?

So, what do you decide? Come on,
I don't ask for a tough performance.

It's just an opinion.

I don't need men for my emotions.

Oh, well done...fix it well...

...so tonight Brunilde will be able
to watch "Father Mariano's mail".

After the tests I can confirm
the previous diagnosis.

There are no lesions, so
it's a nervous trauma.

However, you'd have to go to
Toulouse, in France.

This is a letter for Dr Valenti...

...who is the only specialist
in this field, I think.

40,000.

Why aren't you in your bed?

- So what?
- I had to, Father.

It's like if I had heard Madonna's
voice calling me to prayer.

So Madonna called you, huh?
- Yes, just Madonna.

Well done, okay.

But now go to bed!

Ah, should you hear Madonna's voice
again, call me, we will pray together.

We can't go on like this,
please, we can't.

- Why don't you marry her?
- Go! Get out!

- Maybe she wouldn't want you
as you're too stupid. - Damn!

Yuck!

I hate you, yucky bitch! Cockeyed
dirty slut! Shitty woman!

But what's happened to those ones...

He must have had a fight with
Brunilde, excuse me.

- What's up? - That yucky bitch of
your daughter is always breaking my balls!

- Look, if I had a sword instead of
the mirror... - Yes, but now calm down.

- You're always going heavy on reactions.
- Ah, mom, by the way!

Yesterday on the terrace that bitch
did her utmost to provoke him.

She even raised her skirt! But he did
nothing, better he almost kicked her out.

I got the picture of the bitch!
She was going to swipe him from us!

I'll send you Addolorata to get
you dressed, be quiet now.

Your sister must have played a joke.

Brunilde is playing a dangerous
game: I hate her.

You hate her too, I know.

Yesterday on the terrace I saw...
that idiot. You were so great.

I told my mother, if the little sister
is not careful, she'll end up like dad.

Try to hurry up.

Well, look at that...

Thanks, thank you very much.

If you've dreamed of Madonna,
it's a good sign.

I'll talk about it to madam Clotilde,
you'll see, she will organize the trip.

Thank you, you're very good.
Thanks.

Here, look how much begging pays.

- Stop making that piggish noise!
- You're a slut making no noise!

Enough, Brunilde,
you've become intolerable!

I've been not standing you for a while.
You look like your late lamented father.

He became late lamented
because of you.

And we all know that.

Better, why don't we talk
about it for a while?

I'm sorry, see you tomorrow, as the young
lady says, we have to make things clear.

Look, my dear, I'm warning you that
I'll no longer stand certain excesses.

If you're not able to eat with the
others, you can do it alone in your room.

Why don't you move to your father's
room, so you'll be more peaceful.

You could do like him,
he lived there so well...

There must be order in this house.

Addolorata, the second course!

Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name...

...thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.

How strict they have become,
28 "Hail holy Queen".

Like me, Don Vito made me
say 200 "Our Father"...

...because I had spitted to
my daughter-in-law's plate.

Now that I put rat poison in her
soup, I'll no longer confess.

Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name...

Daughter, sins of the flesh
are the most difficult to fight.

And the devil, hidden in the folds
of flesh, stimulates us to sin.

Father, I try to resist, but
when I feel his hands on me...

- Then I pray and I feel better.
- Well done! Pray.

Well done, my daughter, only this way
you can chase away the wicked one...

...who went back to Earth
determined to get us lost.

However, the right man sins
seven times per hour.

Remember, they have more
parties in heaven...

...for one sinner who repents
than for one hundred right men.

I absolve you in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Don Vito, if the you want to
come and visit us for poor people...

By the way, baroness, I'm
organizing a pilgrimage to Lourdes.

I was thinking if the case might
be to send Parsifal too.

You're a pious woman, baroness,
Our Lady could...who knows?

Don Vito, you know what a pain
is for me that child.

Ah, if only Our Lady could
pay attention to me...

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name...

She has been there for two hours
and goes away with no penance.

I've been there for two minutes
and have to say 28 "Hail holy Queen".

- Hail Holy Queen, Mother of...
- What can you do, my dear? She's baroness.

Our Father, who art in heaven...

So, Parsifal, I decided,
you'll go to Lourdes.

Don Vito has arranged everything.
You'll leave Sunday. He will accompany you.

- I don't want to go, I'm afraid.
- Of what? - I don't know, but I don't want to.

Instead you'd have to be happy.

My son, Madonna does not hurt.
The devil sure does, in case.

- Think, you will see France!
- Are there stripteases in Lourdes?

No, you can find them only in Paris.

Then after I want to go to Paris.

Madam, miss Brunilde threw
a bowl of soup in my face.

- Excuse her, she's very nervous in
these days. - Just a moment, maid.

I inform you that baron Parsifal
Bezzi will go to Paris.

Who knows...who could not care less.

Hey! Why in the dark?
Are you not afraid?

It's not dark, can't you see
the lights of the street?

What's up? Tonight you haven't
eaten, don't talk, stay in the dark...

- Do you feel sick?
- No, I just think of the trip.

- There's no hope for a cure,
I know it. - What are you saying?

Doctors always hope, and me too...

It's pointless to make a fool of each other,
Brunilde told me that with a long face.

Do not believe in that idiot,
she's just angry.

- We don't have to talk to her anymore.
- It's not for her, I always knew it too.

Now I'm afraid of Lourdes...Got it?
If things go amiss, I'm fucked!

- It's the last hope I'm left with.
- You'll see, this time there will be a grace.

It must be there!

We paid the journey for
Don Vito and the others too.

Our Lady will also take account of this.

But don't be like that, you have to pray.
Pray and with faith.

- But how many people will leave?
- I don't know, around fifty, maybe.

- And we have paid for everybody.
- No, we have chipped in.

Mom, you were stupid,
do you realize? Fifty!

If Madonna showers you with grace, the
more we're the fewer chances there're.

Make people pay back your money.

Mom, me and you are getting on
really well now. Don't you think?

But what would change in the family
if by chance I came back healed?

They are coming.

Let's hope that someone won't
die at the station.

Rejoice, brothers!

Lift up your hearts!

Faith wins!

- To the soul which has faith...
- Come. -...He grants everything.

Make them get on very quickly, the team
playing an away game will be here soon.

- Yes, all right. - Hurrah for
Jesus! - Put it down.

Just a moment, listen! Silence!
Now you're getting on the train.

Please do not push, you might hurt
yourself. There're seats for everyone.

Compartment in the head is
reserved for Bezzi. Got it?

Don't take it up, you understand?

Now, my dear sons, a lot of fervent
greetings, a big kiss from my heart...

...draw him up, and may
Our Lady take care of you.

- Oh, what a blessed day...
- Go on, in order.

Well done, young man. Go, you
will become child again. Order!

- In order! - Hurrah for Jesus!
- Well done, well, sing!

Joy is faith! Faith is joy!

To the soul which has faith, He grants
everything. To the soul which has faith...

I saw you with that stick!
You have to stop it, got it?

Wait!

How rude! Let's hope that Our Lady will
make you lose weight, you'll be less intrusive.

And who wants to lose weight? I want
to win the contest for the new voices.

- To the soul which has faith...
- ...Heaven has given us...

Oh, what a blessed day, hurrah
for Jesus!

Come on, and please at Lourdes come back
early in the evening, do not be late.

Hey, you, what are you doing?
Your stick is always up!

And you are even brothers.
Shame on you!

Who knows when we will be able
to stay together again.

Oh my, 14:00 pm! How late.

We have to hurry, I'll go there
and let Parsifal get dressed...

In the meanwhile...get the
car ready.

If he wanted to go to Paris
after Lourdes, go along with him.

Please, be good, even from here
I'll be checking you.

We will win hands down!

We will get into your houses against
the wall and break your ass.

Oh, what a blessed day...
...Heaven has given us!

Oh, what a blessed day, hurrah
for Jesus!

Hurrah for Jesus!

For God's sake! When will they
ever arrive? Hurrah for Jesus!

Brunilde has not even said
goodbye to me.

- When we get back, we will send
her to a college. - May I?

Need anything?

Don Vito, before leaving, has recommended
me to pop in from time to time.

I'd like something to eat and to know
when they will hook us to other trains.

First hook will be in 7 hours and
miss Marconi will bring you the lunch.

Now if you'll excuse me...

I'd like to get some sleep,
let me lie down.

Come on, wake up, we have
stopped, they are hooking.

I'm miss Marconi. I will pop in once
in a while to see if you need anything.

- If she was a little later, we could
starve. - But there're the others as well.

Then a man felt ill and we took
him to the hospital car.

It takes a lot of patience.

...our harmony sounds in heaven...

...praise Mary.

Mary, you're a pure white lily...

...that makes our hearts fall
in love with your son's word.

Praise Mary.

- Hurrah for Mary!
- Hurrah for the Virgin!

Good evening, may I and my
grandmother sit down here?

This compartment is reserved
to us, you're not allowed to.

My mother has paid for the
others too, so go away!

Also we, honey, have paid
for the others, so we sit.

Well, since we have to travel
together, I'd better introduce me.

Teresa Auditori, and that's my grandmother.

I'm the baron Parsifal Bezzi
and that's my secretary.

- It's the first time you go to Lourdes?
- Yes, the other times I went to Paris.

My grandmother is very sick...

...we have been coming to Lourdes for
three years in the hopes of her healing.

Have you seen many healings
occur at the sanctuary?

- Miracles always happen, everyone
get them. - Are you kidding?

You see, my dear, a miracle is not only
to cure yourself of a pain you're affected by,...

...a miracle is to accept your own
sufferings modestly and with resignation...

...and find the strength to live
peacefully in faith.

A miracle is to run over a flowered
lawn, even if you don't have your legs.

You run on it with your imagination.

A miracle is to look at nature,...

...look at this prodigy which has been
recurring for centuries in any moment.

It's God, and speaks to you in
a lot of ways.

It's enought that you want
to understand its message.

I can't walk. I've been like
that since I was born.

I have no sensitivity and strenght
as to my legs...

They keep on growing but it's as if
they were detached from me,...

...as if they didn't belong to me.

Do you think that I could be
happy even in such condition?

Happiness doesn't belong to this world.
You see, life is just a whisper of eternity.

We must prepare for what's next,
that's the only purpose of existence.

So why do you take your
grandmother to Lourdes?

Shorten her waiting for a
future happiness, kill her...

...so she will go to heaven
and be happy.

It would be unfair because
life does not belong to us.

You can't destroy what is not yours,
you do not have the right to.

But who is he?

He's my secretary.

He was in the seminary, then he was
dismissed because he could not speak.

But it's not that he doesn't talk
at all, he's only stuttering.

A lot! Think that it takes him
a month just to day "yes".

- And is he hoping for a miracle too?
- No, not him, he accompanies me.

He doesn't care about talking, he does.

Thanks for everything, father.

Have you been feeding her for
a long time?

- There must be five years, by now.
- If you want, I can help you.

No, thanks, honey, I'm used to.
Better, I'll feed you too later.

Teresa, listen, when we'll get
off to Lourdes...

...my friend will have to go to Toulouse
and deliver a letter on behalf of our priest.

- May I go with you to the sanctuary?
- Sure, honey, we'll go together.

Your friend will join us
at the hotel.

It's outrageous!

This promiscuity is not to
be allowed.

At other times, the right ones,
that would not have happened!

Dear lady, you ought to be ashamed...

...doing the job you do, you even
dare to come to the sanctuary!

I'm doing this job because of
people like you.

You're our best customers.
Our Lady knows how much I suffered.

Dear lady...Eh, ma'am...

For your information...

...men like me gave their blood
to defend the nation!

- I lost my arm in Africa!
- So you learn to be neater.

I lost my virginity at the
age of 12...

Silence! He felt asleep.

Parsifal told me that you'll
have to go to Toulouse.

If you don't mind, I could go
with the boy to the sanctuary.

Poor baby, he has heard people
talking more about devil than God.

- He was so scared.
- Please, make way!

- Nothing happened, don't
worry. - Nothing happened.

You move, please, let us go!
Here!

Come on, easy! Nothing happened,
madam, do not worry.

A man fell ill, sorry.
Go in!

Nothing happened, go in!
Everybody go in!

Still 10 hours, it's just
an unnerving journey.

Be good, it's nothing,
I'm here, grandma.

Don't be afraid, it was a nightmare.
Calm, calm down now, okay?

She must have been dreaming,
poor dear. Be good, now...

- Are you scared?
- A little, you know, I was sleeping...

Thanks!

I don't have a boyfriend, it's clear
that men don't find me beautiful.

I think you're very beautiful!
If you wanted to, I'd marry you.

- I'm very rich, you know?
- But you're too young.

I'm rich too, and hence ours
would be a marriage of convenience.

Leave me alone, I'm speaking!
When I'm hungry, I'll tell you!

Can one fall in love with God
from praying him too much?

There's a poem by a holy nun
who was in love with God.

It says:

"When the sweet hunter..."

"...stretched the bow to have
a dig, I fell wounded at full..."

"...in the arms of love..."

"...but I was given a new verve again
and I burnt with such a fire in my chest..."

"...that the Beloved is all mine
and I'm all of the Beloved."

"I was struck by a bolt of
burning love..."

"...so that my soul joined
its Lord closer and closer."

"Now I don't desire anything else,
my love is here for Him only."

"The Beloved is all mine, and
I'm all...all of the Beloved."

It's beautiful, it's a
wonderful prayer.

But is the hunter the boyfriend?

- No, he's the groom.
- Ah...

- Saint Teresa of Avila spoke to God...
- Look at this.

Her beautiful body was raising into
the air during the conversations.

The quivering breasts, the
body fully aimed at ecstasy...

...a contact...a contact
with God came true.

The mouths joined in the sublime
offering and her soul was hovering lightly...

- Oh, finally we have arrived.
- ...Genoa, Pisa, Rome.

Wait for me over there. I give
passports and will be right there.

Well, here. This way.

Well done! Really well done!

All right. Our rooms are even
near.

- How good it sounds.
- Hear how Chopin is playing arpeggios.

Well done!

Listen, I need to change,
I'm all wet.

You know, in front of Teresa
I didn't want to show that...

Before going to Toulouse, you've to let me
have a bath, otherwise I'll smell very awful.

Come in.

May I? Well done, I see that
you have unpacked.

You go ahead, I will take
care of Parsifal.

Actually I wanted him to let
me have a bath before.

I will do.

Well, you know, I'm feeling ashamed.

Just imagine, I washed a lot of people.
You go ahead, don't worry.

Okay, then go. See you tonight.

But how long is this mass?

Don't be impatient,
honey, now we go.

- Please, do not let me sink in the
bath. - Okay, honey, as you like.

Oh my God!

However, I fully agree with
my colleague's diagnosis.

There are no cures on medical
or surgical side.

But over the years and through
a series of special exercises...

...you could begin to make
yourself understood.

Unless you wanted to undergo
a shock treatment or curare.

But I don't recommend it personally.

However, do not lose heart,
do not demoralize.

I've suggested the vocal exercises which
I consider essential to my colleague.

You'll be never able to
speak perfectly...

...but you'll notice remarkable
improvements after some time.

Teresa, I don't know, I want to be close to you.
Please let me be with you, I'm afraid.

Okay, my dear. As you like.
Thank you.

It will be a long night.
They will come and get you at dawn.

Here in Lourdes people who die
are taken away at night...

...not to shock the other sick
persons, reasonably.

And he did leave us alone!

It's not his fault. I told him to go.

Who could predict that? I didn't
have to let her sink into the spring.

Listen, Teresa, you said
you're alone in the world.

I'm alone too at heart,
especially now that he...

If you want, I come and stay
with you, in your town.

You know, I was helpful to everyone
in the family, no one to me.

I'll let me be given the money,
we could be together.

Honey, you're very good. I'm sure
you'll be happy after all.

No, do not say that,
I've never been good.

You're an angel instead.

Parsifal, listen, you've idealized me
a lot. I'm a woman like any other.

With the same problems,
the same fears,...

...the same questions
waiting for a response.

You see, my dear, if my life
had been different,...

...if I had not been forced
to live with her...

...who took up all my time,
maybe now I'd be another woman.

And you wouldn't feel the affection
you harbour for me now.

It's not true. I'm sure that you'd have
been the same, even in different condition.

Dear honey, to be good,
tolerant of your neighbor,...

...love this neighbor deeply...

...means to be tolerant and
good with yourself.

It means not to be afraid,
not to have upheavals,...

...to be calm and ready to face any
calamity God wants to inflict on us.

You see, I don't feel all of this.
I'm afraid, Parsifal.

Fear of life, of loneliness,
of the world.

I have no fear, but not even hope.

What are you doing here?
You could even stay in Toulouse!

We no longer need you, by now!
Go away!

No, don't listen to him. Poor thing,
he's shocked by my grandmother's death.

It has been a terrible accident.
Now, however, we will give him a painkiller.

She had a collapse while they were
sinking her into the Sacred Fountain.

She was the only loved person
I had.

After the death of my family,
she was more than a mother for me.

Remove that hand, ugly slob!

Please, my dear, try to rest.
Don't be evil.

Yeah, okay, but I want to come
and live with you.

I agree. But now sleep, relax.

You go ahead, do not worry for
me, I may be alone, it's ok.

Please, be good, but what are
you doing?

No! You cannot!

No, you coward!

No!

I don't want to see you anymore,
don't touch me!

It was an accident! My friend
fell...fell down the stairs.

I...I tried to stop him, but...
but he got out of my hands.

- Poor baby... - Well, you
know...anyway he was a cripple!

If you heal and want to come back again,
we will always welcome you with open arms.

In the big misfortune Madonna extended her
helping hand on me. I was dumb, now I speak.

He was dumb! Our Lady gave him
back his voice.

And from now on my voice
will be only for her.

On your knees, my brothers.

Let's thank the Virgin.

Let's pray.

"Hail Mary, full of grace,..."

"...the Lord is with thee,
blessed art thou among women."

"And blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus."

"Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,..."

"...now and at the hour of our death."

"Amen."

"Hail Mary, full of grace,..."

"...the Lord is with thee,
blessed art thou among women."

"And blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus."

"Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,..."

"...now and at the hour of our death."

"Amen."

"Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name..."

"...Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done."

"Blessed is he..."

"...who comes in the name
of the Lord."

"Hosanna!"

"Hosanna..."

"...in the highest!"

revised by quidtum December 2013