Sleepless City (2025) Movie Script
1
What are you doing, son?
This one is dope.
You have no idea.
Hey! Careful!
Don't you break my phone!
C'mon.
Here's good.
SLEEPLESS CITY
- You got it, Atomica!
- C'mon, grandpa!
- C'mon!
- Let's go!
Rev it up, pai!
Speed up, c'mon!
- Toni, look!
- C'mon, Atomica!
- C'mon, Atomica!
- Rev it up!
- C'mon, you got it!
- Pai, speed up!
Come on, kill it, beautiful.
She's killed it! She's killed it!
- She's killed it!
- Yeah!
Brake, pai.
Look. Look.
Good girl! She's the best.
Look, Toni, what a catch.
If we had bet, I would have won.
- Want a rematch?
- No.
She's tired.
Let's go.
- It's the spark plug.
- It's the fuel pump.
- What you on about?
- Let's go, Toni.
Come have a look!
Fucking rust bucket.
Pai, come have a look. Come!
It's the alternator.
- How would you know?
- My pai knows.
Come here, son!
The fuel pump is burst.
It's done.
The fuel pump is dead.
Start it.
What's your dog's name?
- Rayo.
- Mine is Atomica.
I know.
The spark plug, right?
It's the spark plug.
No way it's gonna start.
Unplug it, son.
Let's remove the spark plug.
- I take it out?
- Yeah.
I'm telling you it's the pump,
not the plug.
Put it back.
- It's not gonna start.
- Try.
Look.
It's not gonna start.
Move away.
- Let's do this again soon.
- Let's go, son.
What do I owe you?
One year.
Go.
C'mon, Atomica, get in.
Get the excavator out of there!
Come on!
Come on, everybody out!
You're destroying our homes!
Where are we gonna go?
Throw him a rock!
Jess, come here!
We'll sleep on the streets!
This excavator is gonna kill you!
It took me years
to build that porch!
Motherfucker!
Toni, go get pai!
Jesule, let's go home!
Motherfucker!
Boo! Here comes the ghost
the chain it drags
is no good even for scraps.
Oh my God, she's so talented!
This girl is gonna free us
from poverty.
Guillerma says they'll raze
the whole street.
They'll tear everything down.
What are we gonna do in Madrid?
Trapped between four walls?
Tell the kids off already.
Let them have fun!
We'll run out of water.
Nano, careful,
don't waste so much water.
I am drenching you!
Careful with the water.
Don't waste so much water.
I'm gonna drench you all!
Always playing with the water,
are you a frog?
Stop it,
we need water to rinse the dog.
You've used up all the water, Nano.
It's nice out here, right?
You're enjoying yourselves.
Leave her a little longer.
Leave her alone,
it's not dinner time yet!
Let's dry her off, son.
- Stop with the bath.
- Look.
What a bull-headed kid.
Always messing around.
But we need to do the laundry.
We won't even have water to bathe.
- Tell your kids off.
- Bring them up yourself!
Ask your father
to fill the water tank up.
- Dad!
- What?
Pai wants you to fill up
the water tank.
Not now, leave me alone.
What is he gonna pour into there?
He's capable of pouring gas.
Nano, careful!
He's capable of it.
Bro.
Make her obey you.
Sit.
Sit.
See?
Fuck.
Let me do it.
- You don't know how.
- Yeah I do.
- Bark.
- Let me try.
She only obeys me.
- Then make her do it.
- Bark. Loud.
Louder. Louder!
Holy shit.
Bili...
Where are you?
I hear there is this mole
with mop hair.
Bili, Bili...
Hey! The mop mole!
Where are you going?
I can see your head.
I'm putting you there
with the cocks.
You're fighting that one cock.
Look, Bili, it's dope.
Where is him?
Son...
Why are you by my house?
Leave my door alone.
Lock it!
What are you doing, Tonino?
Are you a karateka?
- Hey, what are you doing?
- Bilal!
- Stop, my family's in.
- Yeah?
- Yes, dude, stop it.
- Bili!
My cousin's in.
- Which cousin?
- The one from Marseille.
Where's that, son?
In France.
What's the sucker doing here?
Come to dinner, dude,
don't leave me alone.
He wants what?
C'mon, don't be shy,
my cousin won't bite.
Let's go.
Are you coming in or what?
My neighbor has this huge boat.
Careful, you little one.
We went fishing for lobster.
Sit down, kids.
Tonino, have something.
- Want some?
- No, thanks.
Go greet your cousin
you're always asking about.
- Cousin! You're all grown-up!
- Of course!
God bless you, you've become a man.
You like it? Here.
Who's your friend?
Tonino. He lives at Yassine's,
two blocks away.
- The Yassine who used to sell drugs?
- Yes, but that's over.
Where do you live?
In the block where Bilal will live,
in Marseille.
Show me a picture.
Yes, look,
I took these before coming.
- Show me.
- Look at this building.
Let me see, cousin.
It's really tall.
Third floor, it's fine.
That's yours. We're neighbors.
- This one? It's pretty.
- It's bullshit, dude.
Look, that's the mosque.
It's a women's mosque, don't worry.
And there's the butcher's there.
- Right there. Is it halal?
- Yes.
The butcher is our neighbor.
But, where's the swimming pool?
What you talking about?
It's even better, look behind it.
- Seriously?
- The sea!
- The beach.
- I'll teach you to swim.
- Are there any sharks?
- No way!
Toni, you can come whenever,
don't pull that face.
And can we take the sofas?
They'll never fit in the van.
They say what?
Nothing, which stuff to bring.
There's no space.
I can't leave them here.
They mean a lot to me.
I've had them for a long time.
I bought them back in Assilah,
it's the only souvenir
I can take with me.
I can't abandon them.
Alright, auntie,
let's see what we can do.
Today we rest,
tomorrow I'll start packing.
Makes sense.
You need to rest, Tarek.
Bilal, tomorrow you'll help your cousin,
that way we'll be able to leave
in a few days.
Park there.
Good coke and good horse!
Just the best!
The best blow in Europe.
Boo! Here comes the ghost
the chain it drags
is no good even for scraps.
Toni.
Tell your sister what's bothering you.
Toni, son, what's your sorrow?
What's wrong?
Tell me something, Toni.
You can tell me.
What's wrong, son?
Stop it, girls!
We'll tell the mengues' tale.
Jesule! Fix the power supply!
- I'm coming.
- They saw a mengue nearby.
Where?
In the Pizarros' plot, up a tree.
It had no face?
Well no, it was like this.
- It was so scary.
- No, you liar.
- You're lying.
- Isn't it true, Aneli?
The Pizarros moved into
a squat house.
No, girl! Don't you know
when the lights go out,
the ghosts come out?
I was told these mengues
are not so mean,
they don't eat people.
But yes, they are wicked!
They eat people like this,
- without even chewing them.
- It's not true.
And they come with critters.
They eat houses like this.
They crush the cars,
they smash them, everything.
Stop it, that's not true.
Toni, help me, c'mon.
Atomica!
Take the gas can.
Let me tell you something,
I do not care.
- We're not leaving here.
- How?
I'm taking care of it.
Pour the gas, son.
It's gone, son.
Where's Julio?
How should I know?
Sulami went out with her friends.
Us here in the dark,
and them having a blast.
What you want me to do?
C'mon, let's go!
Go, go!
C'mon, Calcutta!
Calcutta is winning! C'mon!
- We need gas.
- There's no one in the lot?
Don't you see I'm busy?
- Pai said you gotta go.
- Leave me alone.
He's busy.
What's with you, son?
Always the father-in-law.
You know the half of it.
Here, have a drink
and leave me alone.
Fucking kid, dude.
What can I do, huh?
I have five, what can I do?
Some cigarettes.
- How many?
- Three.
He wants me to work with him
all day fixing stuff.
I work hard all day.
I'm wiped out, dude.
- You don't know.
- No judging.
You're always judging.
Tonino, where you going, kiddo?
- Out.
- He's Chule's grandkid.
- Ah, the scrap metal dealer.
- Yeah.
- A gypsy who gets by on his own.
- He's doing his best.
A good scrap dealer.
A scrap dealer who gets by
as best he can.
They'd have to kill him
to take his home.
- He defends himself well.
- That he do.
He's got balls.
I'm gonna just say this:
Everywhere, we gypsies are a nuisance.
Everywhere.
We gypsies, nobody listens to us.
Don't give up.
That's a lie.
I feel a lot of love.
- He's staring at you.
- Look.
No worries, Libe.
She's lost.
- She's got butterflies.
- I want nothing with a scrap dealer.
Scrap metal dealer!
You're gonna hurt yourself, Hercules.
You know I am quite stocky.
Sure, you stocky.
C'mon, we still have to go and weigh it.
To weight it?
Let's take it there.
- Wait.
- You are weak!
That's it. Let's go.
Ole, what a grandpa!
Let's go! Let's go!
- Let's go!
- And to top it, you mess around!
It's done.
Here.
Wait, don't go.
Here.
Don't go.
- Are you giving me glass?
- Sneak it.
White people throw everything away.
It's all new!
Ah, pai, look at mai...
They threw away his portrait.
How sad is that?
If she finds out, you're dead.
Here.
- Sulami.
- What?
It's getting cold.
I'm coming.
Go, su mama, sit next to papa.
- Did you go for scrap?
- No.
How come?
- Where did you go?
- To see the flat.
- Huh? All alone?
- Of course.
I didn't want to tell you.
- Have you been inside?
- No, just outside.
Is there light and all?
Of course there's power, son.
Trust your papa...
- There's also water.
- Yeah?
Of course.
And supermarkets nearby?
- Huh?
- The supermarkets.
- Yes.
- And the farmers' market?
- Yes.
- And a swiming pool?
It's very close by, su papa.
You can swim.
Is it close to the countryside?
Countryside? No, son.
But there are courts to go play.
And a field to go hunting with the dogs?
There is no field.
But there's a place for that one.
A hairdresser.
I'll be at the hairdresser all day.
I love you to pieces!
Every single day.
And I'll work there too.
- My dad is gonna kill you.
- Why?
Because you didn't tell him.
I tell him nothing.
You're scared shitless.
There's no space.
Not for him, not for anybody else.
Because pai is gonna kill you.
Pai is gonna kill you.
Stop messing around!
What now, Toni?
- What's wrong with you?
- Pai will kill you.
I am your father, not him, okay?
Leave papa alone
or I'll cut off your weenie.
Su mami, come here.
Leave mama alone.
- Come with me.
- What's going on?
C'mon, eat, it's getting cold.
Who are you, Toni?
He's just a kid.
- It's your father's fault.
- What?
My kids don't respect me.
- Ouch, Bilal.
- Take this.
Take this.
Stop it, man.
- To the dinghy!
- Fuck off.
Take the stick and row, row.
What's the blackamoor doing?
Couscous.
Quick, run,
the police is coming! The police!
- Give me that, Bilal.
- Al, Tonino.
- This one is mine.
- Yes, su mama.
- No, here.
- This is mine.
Here, no, give me my phone.
I've got a phone now!
Give me that one.
- Yes, here.
- Thanks.
It's a fake one!
Don't throw rocks at the tree,
poor thing.
Did you know
there are bombs in this field?
- Bombs, here?
- Yeah.
- You are nuts.
- I swear, my pai told me.
Sure! Stop making up stuff.
I swear, bro.
Madrid's garbage trucks
used to come here.
- There can't be bombs here.
- One was full of bombs.
What you on about?
I swear. It was covered with tarp.
All the trash from Madrid
they bring it here.
The trash, not the bombs,
this was excavators.
- Look, Bilal.
- What?
Dope, huh?
With air conditioning and all!
- Fresh air.
- So fresh.
Never stops working, see?
And with leather seats.
Get up, khey.
What if there are snakes there.
C'mon, bro.
Did you hear about the raid
at Jos's?
- Yeah.
- They say the cops came.
And took all the critters.
But some snakes and iguanas
scurried away.
- Where?
- Look over there.
Where, khey?
Look, right here.
Let's see.
Wait, son.
Look, over there.
- Down the river?
- Yeah.
Tomorrow you're gonna wake up
with snakes in your bed!
Look, Bili, how cool.
- What is?
- Come, look.
The future.
The guard let me go up with Aneli.
I said to him,
"Let me go in, my friend, with my dog."
He let me.
There were three of them in a corner.
She got mad,
she didn't know where to look.
She caught one.
She gutted it.
- Did she?
- Right there.
- You had fun then!
- It was dope.
I asked the white guy
and it was good.
He let me.
Let's catch some hares, huh?
Did you ask about the sheets
and beams?
No.
Why not, son?
I'm ashamed of all the scrap!
This kid and his shame...
That's right,
you only think about scrap.
Enough with the scrap.
What's wrong, son?
Huh?
What about the flats?
Flats are not for us, son.
But everybody is moving.
For what? To control us all better, huh?
We'll see who lasts in a flat.
How pesky they are with the flats.
Isn't this beautiful?
Look around, son.
This is her home.
Huh?
Listen to the wind.
We are as big as this field.
Isn't this happiness?
No one commands us, you and me.
As if they are not
demolishing your house.
I cut a deal.
How so?
They'll give me a plot
and money to build a shack.
What have you done?
Say goodbye to the greyhound.
What?
What have you done?
She's mine!
The dog is also mine.
No way, I'm not giving her to you.
The dog is mine,
I'm not giving her to you.
Forget about it.
Are you a man or a little brat?
- No.
- Tell me!
Your siblings are not even
saying goodbye.
Let's go.
You have gone crazy!
I'm doing this for you all!
For us, right.
To not lose all of this.
I'll scalp you and make a wig,
you son of a bitch!
Fuck my life, where's my fix?
I fucking lost it.
- Close the gate!
- Open for Miguel and serve him.
Two crack and two heroin.
- Alberto.
- Yes?
- Bring him in.
- Come in, Moreno.
Open the gate!
Close it now.
Libe, bring the dog in.
Seco, open the gate
for the kid and the dog.
Ok, boss.
Open the gate!
Close the gate.
Antonio will be glad
you took the deal.
- Is he still in for long?
- Yes, two years.
- You want me to tell him anything?
- No.
Listen to me, no one is going
to demolish this plot.
No one is touching it.
- Well, done.
- Done.
Okay, it's clear.
Open again. Open the gate!
Close the gate.
- Seco, what about that car?
- Let me see.
Don't worry, it's not the cops.
Just a kid with a flashlight.
Even the color.
Yes, they are very nice.
I don't know.
- What color lipstick do you want?
- Red.
Again? You're always wearing red.
I like it.
- The dress, red too.
- Yes.
- Yes, red, I like it.
- The dress also red?
I am wearing a red dress, yes.
And I don't have a red flower,
but I'd wear it too.
- A red flower.
- Guillerma is like that.
- Look at that.
- Red is her favorite color.
- Clearly.
- Bunch of nitpickers.
Gossips, you dish the dirt on everyone.
- She's impossible.
- Leave her alone.
Enough already.
You'll find a pocket with no money.
Toni, what do you say?
About her red makeup.
I don't know about that.
No idea?
Toni should already
know about girls.
- Of course!
- How many kids you want, Toni?
I don't want any.
I'm gonna find Tonino
someone to marry.
Enough.
I'll find you one
to have lots of kids.
You'll have lots of kids
so that your wife don't leave.
- Leave me alone.
- Yeah.
We'll have you marry a pretty gypsy.
Toni has to enjoy life.
That's why. He has to get married
and experience things.
- Toni, do you want some makeup?
- Enough!
That's it, I'll find you one.
A very pretty gypsy.
- Hello, Bilal.
- Hello.
- Dude, you took forever!
- What is it?
- C'mon, let's go.
- No, I can't.
C'mon, dude, I
want to show you something.
I gotta help out here, dude.
My cousin's all stressed out.
C'mon, khey, please!
Okay, go. But not for long!
I'll miss you, you doing my makeup.
I'm gonna miss you a lot.
- I'll miss you all too.
- Yeah.
That's it, I stop chopping.
What's wrong, khey?
My pai sold my greyhound.
How come?
For a piece of land, he crazy.
And what about
when you forget Spanish?
I'll call you and you teach me.
I can barely speak Spanish,
how will I teach you?
How will you call me
if I don't have a phone?
Stop playing victim.
Give it to me.
It's a wine river.
Look, you're no longer a moor.
Look at your skin.
It's dope.
Khey, look!
Shush, shut up.
Slowly.
C'mon, chop some peach.
Give it a bite.
See how it's looking at us.
Give me small pieces.
We got it, we got it.
- C'mon.
- Yes, come on.
Yes, we got it!
A thousand bucks, bro.
Blue, red, green, yellow...
- Horse!
- Mom, a horse!
I want a quad, babe.
Hey, girl!
With a handbrake?
Come here.
What a tease.
What do you want?
What did you bring?
I'll trade it for my dog.
It's not worth that much.
Then give me 500.
I'm not gonna give you 500.
- What about 300.
- No.
How much then, kid?
Wait here.
Look, they wanna bite each other.
The bird is gonna die.
Libe, what are you doing?
I don't know.
- Look, she's nits!
- Girls, stop it already.
Stop it, Libe.
Tonino!
- He's already out?
- Yes.
- What's his name?
- Israel.
- Say again?
- Israel.
- He's chubby, ain't it?
- Man!
He's just a year older than me.
The dog is mine, okay?
I made a deal with your pai.
- I don't want any trouble.
- Me either.
But the dog was mine too.
We had a deal, he broke it.
You take after him.
My deal goes way back, okay?
You take over. Let's go.
That's a weird body!
The dog's taken care of.
- Let's go, bro.
- His ears! Just like a mengue!
Libe, give me three grams of crack.
- Bastard!
- They asked you?
Yes, and also give me a snake.
We only have multicolor birds left.
But the scrap kid can hunt them.
Libe, I'm telling you, he's in love.
- And you love him too.
- No.
No, my papa loves you.
Maybe your papa, yes.
Then I love your mama.
Wow, Fabian.
They told me it's this big.
Five dirhams.
Five dirhams? I have 200.
I'm opening the window to see the sea.
The sea! A sea of shit!
My kitchen would be here.
Yeah, you go there.
- Shit!
- And then a toilet next to your head.
Fuck off to France already.
What are you doing, you moron?
Let me see yours.
Yeah, sure, you moron!
So here,
a mirror this tall, to see these.
But there's nothing there!
Copper wire.
50 kilos of scrap junk, a true macho.
Wow. You are insane.
- Now, yours.
- Yes, mine.
Like your grandma.
You don't even know how to pour!
- As if you knew.
- Yes.
What about yours? The one in France?
Or you could stay here with me.
Yours and mine right here.
There, the PlayStation.
Two controllers, walkie-talkies...
- Wow.
- Me on this side, you, there.
What do you say?
- Huh?
- I would love to, but I can't.
Well, this is here on my side,
so it's mine.
No, not the money, Tonino.
- Not that.
- Yes.
Bro, what you do?
Can't climb the fence.
Stay there.
Look there. Look.
Fuck.
Look, man.
And with this one.
This is dope.
You leave when?
- What?
- For you.
You dead serious?
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
And only one greyhound remained,
made of gold.
He ran so, so fast,
he was never sleepy.
The greyhound wanted
fields and fields to run through.
But the hood was surrounded
by three rivers:
a wine river, a milk river,
and a coffee river.
From the top of the mountain,
he could see the birds
and was jealous of them.
He saw one, and then he saw another
There were some shadows
dressed in fire.
That was the future.
Mai, keep telling the tale,
I haven't heard it.
Not me.
Don't tug so hard, you break my hair.
But it's so tangled, what do I do?
- Go on with the future, mai.
- Not me.
I'm sick of it now.
Tonino, give me a hand, son.
- Come on, mai!
- I just told it to Mireia.
I don't wanna anymore.
Ask Tonino.
Tell her what the future was, Tonino.
- No.
- Come on, son, tell us about the future.
Enough!
- Come on, Toni.
- Tell us, c'mon.
That's just for kids. She can continue.
- Then I won't feed you.
- What is it, that future?
Look. The future was a neighborhood.
Made entirely of gold.
The streets were golden,
the cars were golden,
and the houses were golden.
And three rivers crossed it.
One was made of sweet milk,
one of coffee, and one of wine.
Nice!
There were cakes on the banks.
I was jealous of the kids
when they were eating the cakes.
It was an incredible thing.
- And the trees, sister?
- Made of chocolate.
But they came home all filthy!
The girls hit them.
'Cause they had chocolate all over.
Yes, the way they treated them.
There was a grill, also golden,
filled with piglets with knifes.
The women were the smarter ones.
They went for the meat.
And there were multicolored fields
with horses and many animals,
and the kids rode them
and they ran and ran.
The men went after the horses
and couldn't reach them.
And from the top of the mountain...
- Ghosts were coming down.
- That's scary!
They were the mengues.
One mengue, then another mengue,
a lot of mengues.
It was very scary.
Some of them didn't have faces,
or noses.
- I'm scared!
- Or ears.
- Didn't have nothing.
- Or mouth.
And everyone, scared to death,
hid in their homes.
But there was a mystery.
They held hands,
they looked up,
the sky turned into many colors,
blue, green, yellow, red,
orange, pink...
And a flock of birds appeared.
The birds were many, many colors.
And by the time they realized,
they left for another neighborhood.
And the people disappeared.
The other day, at the dump,
I saw the sky was many colors.
Because they were moving elsewhere.
- To Turkey.
- To Turkey?
Where did Pastora's daughter go?
To Turkey.
What for?
To have some work done.
Pastora's daughter said
that she was a saint.
With all the TikToks she made,
gorgeous she became,
and with Antonio she ran away,
the one from the 24,
the one who drives a hot rod.
I don't know how he pulls it off,
if he just sells garlic cloves.
To see, to hear, to hush.
C'mon, fuck.
Toni.
C'mon, let's get up.
- Did you sleep well?
- Yes.
You have a hair tie?
Let's go.
Look, Toni, a flower.
- How's it going?
- Hi, Luis, you good?
- So punctual!
- Today it was worth it.
- How are you?
- Good.
- I am Luis, nice to meet you.
- Hi, Julio.
- And you?
- Toni and Aneli.
You have three more siblings, right?
- They are at home.
- With grandma.
Good.
- Have you been here before?
- I haven't.
I have. I know the neighborhood.
Do you know people who were relocated?
No, no.
I've come here just for scrap metal.
The subway is ten minutes on foot,
it goes everywhere.
Where does it go?
- That's not for us.
- You'll see it is.
There you go.
Come on in.
- No. I'm not getting inside that.
- C'mon, su mama.
- No, rather be dead.
- It's alright!
No, I'm not getting there.
Let's use the stairs then.
- You don't want to go up?
- Yes, let's go.
Very important: your lease.
Look at it one last time,
and take it to the registry right away.
Okay?
They won't kick you out of here.
This is a state building.
You won't have any issues.
My cousin's rent was increased,
she couldn't pay
so the vultures took it.
This is not that kind of flat,
I promise.
Families like yours.
There's everything.
You'll like the balcony, look.
Oh, a balcony.
Where are you keeping your stuff?
What stuff?
Now you have your own room.
The little old lady
and her cart, going shopping.
And that one, with his jacket,
as if it was snowing.
- Let me see.
- Everything's so weird.
Let me see.
I like the neighborhood.
- I'm gonna see my room.
- Let's see the big one.
Slow down, not so fast,
we haven't divvied up yet.
- This one is mine.
- Huh?
- This one is mine.
- No, no.
- Mine and Rub's.
- No, it's Tonino's.
No, it's mine.
- Blue.
- Blue.
- And this one?
- Yellow.
- What color are the wheels?
- Black.
- Very good.
- Black.
Blue, yellow.
- You're good at this.
- Wait, another brick.
Leire, put her down.
Rub, enough, she won't give her up.
- Put her down.
- Rub, leave your sister alone,
she's younger than you.
Go and help your pai, c'mon.
- It's always the same with you!
- Go help him.
Lisi, are you doing my nails?
Okay, I'll do your nails.
Let's have them all done.
Well said.
Tonino, come help me
and I'll let you drive the truck.
- Sulami.
- What, mai?
What's with those boxes, girl?
Well, mai, I've signed already.
- Mama...
- What?
Yes.
What's going on?
I'm leaving. I've signed.
What?
We live here.
No one is leaving.
Listen, pai,
I don't wanna be here anymore.
No water, no power, it's cold...
My daughter is sick, I can't.
And the kids?
We raised them
while you were out and about!
If grandmas don't come, me either.
Me either.
And what about the grandparents?
What are we gonna do?
Pai, for now, I can't take you.
I'm telling you,
the kids are staying here.
Right, Tonino?
You'll build a house for each?
With these hands
I can still build 50 houses.
- And I'm still in charge here.
- Easy, easy.
- You, in charge?
- It's always him.
You are changing nothing.
- It's always about him.
- Mama.
No one leaves here!
- No one is leaving.
- Right.
You and you, get in!
Tonino, son, do as pai says.
- Stop fighting.
- It's always the same.
- Let's go inside.
- C'mon.
What are you making for us?
It's always whatever he wants.
Chip off the old block.
I'm going to rip
your mother's hair out.
Whose hair are you going to rip out,
asshole!
You are the one stealing gas!
Cheater.
Go away!
Go see your mama.
Look, khey.
Look who's in your room.
He's with me since he was a puppy.
Like mine, like Mariana.
- It's like a little kid.
- Same thing.
You love him, but does he love you?
- Yes.
- Ah, he told you?
He didn't say, but it shows.
Mine was stolen two nights ago.
- She got stolen?
- In front of my house.
A kid that knows her.
He was freezing
and I gave him a jacket.
He left and started calling her,
now I can't find her,
she's vanished.
Good God.
What is he doing with her?
Selling her?
He said, "She followed me."
Sure, she followed you.
She followed him with the leash.
Sometimes people are dogs,
and dogs are people.
- That's true.
- Yes, word.
You never know
who is a snake in the grass.
- It pissed me off.
- Once he lets her loose, she's back.
Come here, brother.
- You fag.
- Come on, hug me.
Fuck my life.
I too lost Alberto once.
He came back.
Like a dog.
But because of my smell.
I left my nasty smell.
Where's Paqui?
Paqui!
Paqui...
Open, I'm here to speak to her.
Open the gate.
Give me some gas!
Close the gate already!
Hit harder, c'mon!
C'mon, harder!
No, harder!
Attack with the spurs, attack!
It's winning.
Blind it! A good peck in the eye!
Slice its throat!
- Come on, my cock!
- Kill him!
Why are you here, kid?
Your pai knows?
No, he doesn't know.
I'm here to see the greyhound.
- Go away.
- Let me see her.
Have some respect for your pai, go.
I don't want anything to do
with that liar.
Don't say that in my house, okay?
You'll respect him,
because your pai
served a year in jail for us,
to spare me and my husband.
Respect your pai.
If he had told on us, we would have
served 15 years in jail.
That has nothing to do
with my greyhound.
Do you think that dog
is worth the whole plot?
She's not worth that much, son.
She's worth your pai's pride,
and my husband's.
I can't with those two anymore.
And to top it off, you show up.
Ah, men, you are good for nothing.
- Word.
- Mama, give me money.
Give us some money for Kawasaki.
-No, for me.
Listen.
I hear there's a pat-down up there.
I don't know who.
You go with Seco,
I'll give you money for gas.
You open your big ears
and call me on your cell phone.
- Got it?
- Yes.
- What's on your face?
- I fell.
My little one.
Listen, I'll give you some money,
you explain it to Seco.
You take your cell phone
and tell me everything.
- Forty for me.
- No, don't be greedy.
- Forty.
- Don't be greedy.
Here, thirty.
Twenty for you and twenty for you.
Tell Seco that when he's back
I'll have his fix.
Okay.
Listen, son, you eat something here
and you go away.
Take the piglet out.
Give me some, I'm hungry.
Give a piece of the piglet to each.
How's it going?
Have you eaten some piglet yet?
- Why are you here?
- Let me one shot.
One shot.
If you miss, you go home.
Wow, he's useless!
Scrap dealers are no good at this.
- Scrap dealer.
- Scrap dealers are useless.
- Let's eat.
- Screw him, girl.
Pay no mind to the scrap dealer.
Why have you come?
Don't you get I don't want us
to be seen together?
Why?
'Cause they'd get us married
in no time.
- I don't want to get married.
- Me either, that's why.
Fuck off.
Where's the dog?
Forget about her, she's not yours.
- But where is she?
- My mom sold her.
- You wanna see something?
- What?
Yes or no?
C'mon.
Aw, my beautiful dog!
Atomica.
Atomica.
Atomica!
Atomica, they are gonna kill us!
Let's go!
This is crazy, bro, look.
Atomica.
Look, Bili, she's going mad.
She's a little scamp.
Khay, look!
Atomica, find it!
Find it, girl.
Come on, Atomica.
Where are you going?
See, Bili? This is my dog!
This is a true dog!
C'mon, let's go.
Where do you want me to go?
Nowhere.
Where we belong.
You're not allowed to park here!
- C'mon, Toni, get out.
- Okay, okay.
Tell the boss to come out!
The gate!
I'm going to add some wood.
C'mon, add some wood.
- Tito has to come.
- No one is coming.
You got some nerve.
Grab her good, Libe.
Who's paying for my birds now, son?
You or your pai?
You don't get out?
No one disturbs the boss.
Okay, okay.
- So what?
- So what?
How's the plot going?
It's coming along.
Aren't you tired?
I am tired too.
You could've had a better life.
The life my mom gave me
when I was 9.
The cops!
Papa! Call papa.
Look at them.
It suits them just fine
that we live here.
And the only ones left here
are you and me.
It is what it is.
You want the dog?
No.
You owe me nothing.
Got it.
C'mon, son, let's go.
Harris!
What?
The gate.
Everybody out.
Seco! Add some wood, come on.
Take this box over there.
Don't worry, sister.
Sulami, have you checked
there's nothing left?
Yes, there's nothing left inside,
but I gave the grill it to Lisi.
Yes, she gave it to me.
- Julio! Take the table out.
- Did you take the motorcycle?
Rub, put away the slippers.
- Let's go.
- What about the gas?
Yes.
Give that to mai.
And this blanket too, fold it.
Make some room here.
Yes, there.
- Nano!
- Put the shotgun in the van.
It doesn't fit.
- Mai.
- Yes?
- Where's pai?
- Leave him alone.
This pot for my coffee.
Okay, for your coffee.
Tonino.
Stop by later,
I'll give you some pans
for your mother.
Leave, son.
- Goodbye, kids!
- Goodbye, mai!
- Don't go, my friend!
- Bye, Cheto!
I go and I won't come back.
- What are you gonna do there?
- That's enough, let's go.
Stop pushing him to stay!
Boo! Here comes the ghost
the chain he drags...
Goodbye, darling!
Wow, Tonino, this is crazy.
It's salt, dude.
Like the salt we have at home.
It goes into your nose,
your mouth, your eyes,
and it stings you all over.
Hey, Karim!
If you come, we'll get a boat.
Look where I am, khey.
It's my flat!
My fridge, my armchair, you see?
And here's my kitchen.
Wait, look,
I even have air conditioning. Look.
With my little remote... top-notch.
Speed up, Salome. Speed up!
She's insane.
Tell them goodbye, Bilal!
What are you doing, son?
This one is dope.
You have no idea.
Hey! Careful!
Don't you break my phone!
C'mon.
Here's good.
SLEEPLESS CITY
- You got it, Atomica!
- C'mon, grandpa!
- C'mon!
- Let's go!
Rev it up, pai!
Speed up, c'mon!
- Toni, look!
- C'mon, Atomica!
- C'mon, Atomica!
- Rev it up!
- C'mon, you got it!
- Pai, speed up!
Come on, kill it, beautiful.
She's killed it! She's killed it!
- She's killed it!
- Yeah!
Brake, pai.
Look. Look.
Good girl! She's the best.
Look, Toni, what a catch.
If we had bet, I would have won.
- Want a rematch?
- No.
She's tired.
Let's go.
- It's the spark plug.
- It's the fuel pump.
- What you on about?
- Let's go, Toni.
Come have a look!
Fucking rust bucket.
Pai, come have a look. Come!
It's the alternator.
- How would you know?
- My pai knows.
Come here, son!
The fuel pump is burst.
It's done.
The fuel pump is dead.
Start it.
What's your dog's name?
- Rayo.
- Mine is Atomica.
I know.
The spark plug, right?
It's the spark plug.
No way it's gonna start.
Unplug it, son.
Let's remove the spark plug.
- I take it out?
- Yeah.
I'm telling you it's the pump,
not the plug.
Put it back.
- It's not gonna start.
- Try.
Look.
It's not gonna start.
Move away.
- Let's do this again soon.
- Let's go, son.
What do I owe you?
One year.
Go.
C'mon, Atomica, get in.
Get the excavator out of there!
Come on!
Come on, everybody out!
You're destroying our homes!
Where are we gonna go?
Throw him a rock!
Jess, come here!
We'll sleep on the streets!
This excavator is gonna kill you!
It took me years
to build that porch!
Motherfucker!
Toni, go get pai!
Jesule, let's go home!
Motherfucker!
Boo! Here comes the ghost
the chain it drags
is no good even for scraps.
Oh my God, she's so talented!
This girl is gonna free us
from poverty.
Guillerma says they'll raze
the whole street.
They'll tear everything down.
What are we gonna do in Madrid?
Trapped between four walls?
Tell the kids off already.
Let them have fun!
We'll run out of water.
Nano, careful,
don't waste so much water.
I am drenching you!
Careful with the water.
Don't waste so much water.
I'm gonna drench you all!
Always playing with the water,
are you a frog?
Stop it,
we need water to rinse the dog.
You've used up all the water, Nano.
It's nice out here, right?
You're enjoying yourselves.
Leave her a little longer.
Leave her alone,
it's not dinner time yet!
Let's dry her off, son.
- Stop with the bath.
- Look.
What a bull-headed kid.
Always messing around.
But we need to do the laundry.
We won't even have water to bathe.
- Tell your kids off.
- Bring them up yourself!
Ask your father
to fill the water tank up.
- Dad!
- What?
Pai wants you to fill up
the water tank.
Not now, leave me alone.
What is he gonna pour into there?
He's capable of pouring gas.
Nano, careful!
He's capable of it.
Bro.
Make her obey you.
Sit.
Sit.
See?
Fuck.
Let me do it.
- You don't know how.
- Yeah I do.
- Bark.
- Let me try.
She only obeys me.
- Then make her do it.
- Bark. Loud.
Louder. Louder!
Holy shit.
Bili...
Where are you?
I hear there is this mole
with mop hair.
Bili, Bili...
Hey! The mop mole!
Where are you going?
I can see your head.
I'm putting you there
with the cocks.
You're fighting that one cock.
Look, Bili, it's dope.
Where is him?
Son...
Why are you by my house?
Leave my door alone.
Lock it!
What are you doing, Tonino?
Are you a karateka?
- Hey, what are you doing?
- Bilal!
- Stop, my family's in.
- Yeah?
- Yes, dude, stop it.
- Bili!
My cousin's in.
- Which cousin?
- The one from Marseille.
Where's that, son?
In France.
What's the sucker doing here?
Come to dinner, dude,
don't leave me alone.
He wants what?
C'mon, don't be shy,
my cousin won't bite.
Let's go.
Are you coming in or what?
My neighbor has this huge boat.
Careful, you little one.
We went fishing for lobster.
Sit down, kids.
Tonino, have something.
- Want some?
- No, thanks.
Go greet your cousin
you're always asking about.
- Cousin! You're all grown-up!
- Of course!
God bless you, you've become a man.
You like it? Here.
Who's your friend?
Tonino. He lives at Yassine's,
two blocks away.
- The Yassine who used to sell drugs?
- Yes, but that's over.
Where do you live?
In the block where Bilal will live,
in Marseille.
Show me a picture.
Yes, look,
I took these before coming.
- Show me.
- Look at this building.
Let me see, cousin.
It's really tall.
Third floor, it's fine.
That's yours. We're neighbors.
- This one? It's pretty.
- It's bullshit, dude.
Look, that's the mosque.
It's a women's mosque, don't worry.
And there's the butcher's there.
- Right there. Is it halal?
- Yes.
The butcher is our neighbor.
But, where's the swimming pool?
What you talking about?
It's even better, look behind it.
- Seriously?
- The sea!
- The beach.
- I'll teach you to swim.
- Are there any sharks?
- No way!
Toni, you can come whenever,
don't pull that face.
And can we take the sofas?
They'll never fit in the van.
They say what?
Nothing, which stuff to bring.
There's no space.
I can't leave them here.
They mean a lot to me.
I've had them for a long time.
I bought them back in Assilah,
it's the only souvenir
I can take with me.
I can't abandon them.
Alright, auntie,
let's see what we can do.
Today we rest,
tomorrow I'll start packing.
Makes sense.
You need to rest, Tarek.
Bilal, tomorrow you'll help your cousin,
that way we'll be able to leave
in a few days.
Park there.
Good coke and good horse!
Just the best!
The best blow in Europe.
Boo! Here comes the ghost
the chain it drags
is no good even for scraps.
Toni.
Tell your sister what's bothering you.
Toni, son, what's your sorrow?
What's wrong?
Tell me something, Toni.
You can tell me.
What's wrong, son?
Stop it, girls!
We'll tell the mengues' tale.
Jesule! Fix the power supply!
- I'm coming.
- They saw a mengue nearby.
Where?
In the Pizarros' plot, up a tree.
It had no face?
Well no, it was like this.
- It was so scary.
- No, you liar.
- You're lying.
- Isn't it true, Aneli?
The Pizarros moved into
a squat house.
No, girl! Don't you know
when the lights go out,
the ghosts come out?
I was told these mengues
are not so mean,
they don't eat people.
But yes, they are wicked!
They eat people like this,
- without even chewing them.
- It's not true.
And they come with critters.
They eat houses like this.
They crush the cars,
they smash them, everything.
Stop it, that's not true.
Toni, help me, c'mon.
Atomica!
Take the gas can.
Let me tell you something,
I do not care.
- We're not leaving here.
- How?
I'm taking care of it.
Pour the gas, son.
It's gone, son.
Where's Julio?
How should I know?
Sulami went out with her friends.
Us here in the dark,
and them having a blast.
What you want me to do?
C'mon, let's go!
Go, go!
C'mon, Calcutta!
Calcutta is winning! C'mon!
- We need gas.
- There's no one in the lot?
Don't you see I'm busy?
- Pai said you gotta go.
- Leave me alone.
He's busy.
What's with you, son?
Always the father-in-law.
You know the half of it.
Here, have a drink
and leave me alone.
Fucking kid, dude.
What can I do, huh?
I have five, what can I do?
Some cigarettes.
- How many?
- Three.
He wants me to work with him
all day fixing stuff.
I work hard all day.
I'm wiped out, dude.
- You don't know.
- No judging.
You're always judging.
Tonino, where you going, kiddo?
- Out.
- He's Chule's grandkid.
- Ah, the scrap metal dealer.
- Yeah.
- A gypsy who gets by on his own.
- He's doing his best.
A good scrap dealer.
A scrap dealer who gets by
as best he can.
They'd have to kill him
to take his home.
- He defends himself well.
- That he do.
He's got balls.
I'm gonna just say this:
Everywhere, we gypsies are a nuisance.
Everywhere.
We gypsies, nobody listens to us.
Don't give up.
That's a lie.
I feel a lot of love.
- He's staring at you.
- Look.
No worries, Libe.
She's lost.
- She's got butterflies.
- I want nothing with a scrap dealer.
Scrap metal dealer!
You're gonna hurt yourself, Hercules.
You know I am quite stocky.
Sure, you stocky.
C'mon, we still have to go and weigh it.
To weight it?
Let's take it there.
- Wait.
- You are weak!
That's it. Let's go.
Ole, what a grandpa!
Let's go! Let's go!
- Let's go!
- And to top it, you mess around!
It's done.
Here.
Wait, don't go.
Here.
Don't go.
- Are you giving me glass?
- Sneak it.
White people throw everything away.
It's all new!
Ah, pai, look at mai...
They threw away his portrait.
How sad is that?
If she finds out, you're dead.
Here.
- Sulami.
- What?
It's getting cold.
I'm coming.
Go, su mama, sit next to papa.
- Did you go for scrap?
- No.
How come?
- Where did you go?
- To see the flat.
- Huh? All alone?
- Of course.
I didn't want to tell you.
- Have you been inside?
- No, just outside.
Is there light and all?
Of course there's power, son.
Trust your papa...
- There's also water.
- Yeah?
Of course.
And supermarkets nearby?
- Huh?
- The supermarkets.
- Yes.
- And the farmers' market?
- Yes.
- And a swiming pool?
It's very close by, su papa.
You can swim.
Is it close to the countryside?
Countryside? No, son.
But there are courts to go play.
And a field to go hunting with the dogs?
There is no field.
But there's a place for that one.
A hairdresser.
I'll be at the hairdresser all day.
I love you to pieces!
Every single day.
And I'll work there too.
- My dad is gonna kill you.
- Why?
Because you didn't tell him.
I tell him nothing.
You're scared shitless.
There's no space.
Not for him, not for anybody else.
Because pai is gonna kill you.
Pai is gonna kill you.
Stop messing around!
What now, Toni?
- What's wrong with you?
- Pai will kill you.
I am your father, not him, okay?
Leave papa alone
or I'll cut off your weenie.
Su mami, come here.
Leave mama alone.
- Come with me.
- What's going on?
C'mon, eat, it's getting cold.
Who are you, Toni?
He's just a kid.
- It's your father's fault.
- What?
My kids don't respect me.
- Ouch, Bilal.
- Take this.
Take this.
Stop it, man.
- To the dinghy!
- Fuck off.
Take the stick and row, row.
What's the blackamoor doing?
Couscous.
Quick, run,
the police is coming! The police!
- Give me that, Bilal.
- Al, Tonino.
- This one is mine.
- Yes, su mama.
- No, here.
- This is mine.
Here, no, give me my phone.
I've got a phone now!
Give me that one.
- Yes, here.
- Thanks.
It's a fake one!
Don't throw rocks at the tree,
poor thing.
Did you know
there are bombs in this field?
- Bombs, here?
- Yeah.
- You are nuts.
- I swear, my pai told me.
Sure! Stop making up stuff.
I swear, bro.
Madrid's garbage trucks
used to come here.
- There can't be bombs here.
- One was full of bombs.
What you on about?
I swear. It was covered with tarp.
All the trash from Madrid
they bring it here.
The trash, not the bombs,
this was excavators.
- Look, Bilal.
- What?
Dope, huh?
With air conditioning and all!
- Fresh air.
- So fresh.
Never stops working, see?
And with leather seats.
Get up, khey.
What if there are snakes there.
C'mon, bro.
Did you hear about the raid
at Jos's?
- Yeah.
- They say the cops came.
And took all the critters.
But some snakes and iguanas
scurried away.
- Where?
- Look over there.
Where, khey?
Look, right here.
Let's see.
Wait, son.
Look, over there.
- Down the river?
- Yeah.
Tomorrow you're gonna wake up
with snakes in your bed!
Look, Bili, how cool.
- What is?
- Come, look.
The future.
The guard let me go up with Aneli.
I said to him,
"Let me go in, my friend, with my dog."
He let me.
There were three of them in a corner.
She got mad,
she didn't know where to look.
She caught one.
She gutted it.
- Did she?
- Right there.
- You had fun then!
- It was dope.
I asked the white guy
and it was good.
He let me.
Let's catch some hares, huh?
Did you ask about the sheets
and beams?
No.
Why not, son?
I'm ashamed of all the scrap!
This kid and his shame...
That's right,
you only think about scrap.
Enough with the scrap.
What's wrong, son?
Huh?
What about the flats?
Flats are not for us, son.
But everybody is moving.
For what? To control us all better, huh?
We'll see who lasts in a flat.
How pesky they are with the flats.
Isn't this beautiful?
Look around, son.
This is her home.
Huh?
Listen to the wind.
We are as big as this field.
Isn't this happiness?
No one commands us, you and me.
As if they are not
demolishing your house.
I cut a deal.
How so?
They'll give me a plot
and money to build a shack.
What have you done?
Say goodbye to the greyhound.
What?
What have you done?
She's mine!
The dog is also mine.
No way, I'm not giving her to you.
The dog is mine,
I'm not giving her to you.
Forget about it.
Are you a man or a little brat?
- No.
- Tell me!
Your siblings are not even
saying goodbye.
Let's go.
You have gone crazy!
I'm doing this for you all!
For us, right.
To not lose all of this.
I'll scalp you and make a wig,
you son of a bitch!
Fuck my life, where's my fix?
I fucking lost it.
- Close the gate!
- Open for Miguel and serve him.
Two crack and two heroin.
- Alberto.
- Yes?
- Bring him in.
- Come in, Moreno.
Open the gate!
Close it now.
Libe, bring the dog in.
Seco, open the gate
for the kid and the dog.
Ok, boss.
Open the gate!
Close the gate.
Antonio will be glad
you took the deal.
- Is he still in for long?
- Yes, two years.
- You want me to tell him anything?
- No.
Listen to me, no one is going
to demolish this plot.
No one is touching it.
- Well, done.
- Done.
Okay, it's clear.
Open again. Open the gate!
Close the gate.
- Seco, what about that car?
- Let me see.
Don't worry, it's not the cops.
Just a kid with a flashlight.
Even the color.
Yes, they are very nice.
I don't know.
- What color lipstick do you want?
- Red.
Again? You're always wearing red.
I like it.
- The dress, red too.
- Yes.
- Yes, red, I like it.
- The dress also red?
I am wearing a red dress, yes.
And I don't have a red flower,
but I'd wear it too.
- A red flower.
- Guillerma is like that.
- Look at that.
- Red is her favorite color.
- Clearly.
- Bunch of nitpickers.
Gossips, you dish the dirt on everyone.
- She's impossible.
- Leave her alone.
Enough already.
You'll find a pocket with no money.
Toni, what do you say?
About her red makeup.
I don't know about that.
No idea?
Toni should already
know about girls.
- Of course!
- How many kids you want, Toni?
I don't want any.
I'm gonna find Tonino
someone to marry.
Enough.
I'll find you one
to have lots of kids.
You'll have lots of kids
so that your wife don't leave.
- Leave me alone.
- Yeah.
We'll have you marry a pretty gypsy.
Toni has to enjoy life.
That's why. He has to get married
and experience things.
- Toni, do you want some makeup?
- Enough!
That's it, I'll find you one.
A very pretty gypsy.
- Hello, Bilal.
- Hello.
- Dude, you took forever!
- What is it?
- C'mon, let's go.
- No, I can't.
C'mon, dude, I
want to show you something.
I gotta help out here, dude.
My cousin's all stressed out.
C'mon, khey, please!
Okay, go. But not for long!
I'll miss you, you doing my makeup.
I'm gonna miss you a lot.
- I'll miss you all too.
- Yeah.
That's it, I stop chopping.
What's wrong, khey?
My pai sold my greyhound.
How come?
For a piece of land, he crazy.
And what about
when you forget Spanish?
I'll call you and you teach me.
I can barely speak Spanish,
how will I teach you?
How will you call me
if I don't have a phone?
Stop playing victim.
Give it to me.
It's a wine river.
Look, you're no longer a moor.
Look at your skin.
It's dope.
Khey, look!
Shush, shut up.
Slowly.
C'mon, chop some peach.
Give it a bite.
See how it's looking at us.
Give me small pieces.
We got it, we got it.
- C'mon.
- Yes, come on.
Yes, we got it!
A thousand bucks, bro.
Blue, red, green, yellow...
- Horse!
- Mom, a horse!
I want a quad, babe.
Hey, girl!
With a handbrake?
Come here.
What a tease.
What do you want?
What did you bring?
I'll trade it for my dog.
It's not worth that much.
Then give me 500.
I'm not gonna give you 500.
- What about 300.
- No.
How much then, kid?
Wait here.
Look, they wanna bite each other.
The bird is gonna die.
Libe, what are you doing?
I don't know.
- Look, she's nits!
- Girls, stop it already.
Stop it, Libe.
Tonino!
- He's already out?
- Yes.
- What's his name?
- Israel.
- Say again?
- Israel.
- He's chubby, ain't it?
- Man!
He's just a year older than me.
The dog is mine, okay?
I made a deal with your pai.
- I don't want any trouble.
- Me either.
But the dog was mine too.
We had a deal, he broke it.
You take after him.
My deal goes way back, okay?
You take over. Let's go.
That's a weird body!
The dog's taken care of.
- Let's go, bro.
- His ears! Just like a mengue!
Libe, give me three grams of crack.
- Bastard!
- They asked you?
Yes, and also give me a snake.
We only have multicolor birds left.
But the scrap kid can hunt them.
Libe, I'm telling you, he's in love.
- And you love him too.
- No.
No, my papa loves you.
Maybe your papa, yes.
Then I love your mama.
Wow, Fabian.
They told me it's this big.
Five dirhams.
Five dirhams? I have 200.
I'm opening the window to see the sea.
The sea! A sea of shit!
My kitchen would be here.
Yeah, you go there.
- Shit!
- And then a toilet next to your head.
Fuck off to France already.
What are you doing, you moron?
Let me see yours.
Yeah, sure, you moron!
So here,
a mirror this tall, to see these.
But there's nothing there!
Copper wire.
50 kilos of scrap junk, a true macho.
Wow. You are insane.
- Now, yours.
- Yes, mine.
Like your grandma.
You don't even know how to pour!
- As if you knew.
- Yes.
What about yours? The one in France?
Or you could stay here with me.
Yours and mine right here.
There, the PlayStation.
Two controllers, walkie-talkies...
- Wow.
- Me on this side, you, there.
What do you say?
- Huh?
- I would love to, but I can't.
Well, this is here on my side,
so it's mine.
No, not the money, Tonino.
- Not that.
- Yes.
Bro, what you do?
Can't climb the fence.
Stay there.
Look there. Look.
Fuck.
Look, man.
And with this one.
This is dope.
You leave when?
- What?
- For you.
You dead serious?
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
And only one greyhound remained,
made of gold.
He ran so, so fast,
he was never sleepy.
The greyhound wanted
fields and fields to run through.
But the hood was surrounded
by three rivers:
a wine river, a milk river,
and a coffee river.
From the top of the mountain,
he could see the birds
and was jealous of them.
He saw one, and then he saw another
There were some shadows
dressed in fire.
That was the future.
Mai, keep telling the tale,
I haven't heard it.
Not me.
Don't tug so hard, you break my hair.
But it's so tangled, what do I do?
- Go on with the future, mai.
- Not me.
I'm sick of it now.
Tonino, give me a hand, son.
- Come on, mai!
- I just told it to Mireia.
I don't wanna anymore.
Ask Tonino.
Tell her what the future was, Tonino.
- No.
- Come on, son, tell us about the future.
Enough!
- Come on, Toni.
- Tell us, c'mon.
That's just for kids. She can continue.
- Then I won't feed you.
- What is it, that future?
Look. The future was a neighborhood.
Made entirely of gold.
The streets were golden,
the cars were golden,
and the houses were golden.
And three rivers crossed it.
One was made of sweet milk,
one of coffee, and one of wine.
Nice!
There were cakes on the banks.
I was jealous of the kids
when they were eating the cakes.
It was an incredible thing.
- And the trees, sister?
- Made of chocolate.
But they came home all filthy!
The girls hit them.
'Cause they had chocolate all over.
Yes, the way they treated them.
There was a grill, also golden,
filled with piglets with knifes.
The women were the smarter ones.
They went for the meat.
And there were multicolored fields
with horses and many animals,
and the kids rode them
and they ran and ran.
The men went after the horses
and couldn't reach them.
And from the top of the mountain...
- Ghosts were coming down.
- That's scary!
They were the mengues.
One mengue, then another mengue,
a lot of mengues.
It was very scary.
Some of them didn't have faces,
or noses.
- I'm scared!
- Or ears.
- Didn't have nothing.
- Or mouth.
And everyone, scared to death,
hid in their homes.
But there was a mystery.
They held hands,
they looked up,
the sky turned into many colors,
blue, green, yellow, red,
orange, pink...
And a flock of birds appeared.
The birds were many, many colors.
And by the time they realized,
they left for another neighborhood.
And the people disappeared.
The other day, at the dump,
I saw the sky was many colors.
Because they were moving elsewhere.
- To Turkey.
- To Turkey?
Where did Pastora's daughter go?
To Turkey.
What for?
To have some work done.
Pastora's daughter said
that she was a saint.
With all the TikToks she made,
gorgeous she became,
and with Antonio she ran away,
the one from the 24,
the one who drives a hot rod.
I don't know how he pulls it off,
if he just sells garlic cloves.
To see, to hear, to hush.
C'mon, fuck.
Toni.
C'mon, let's get up.
- Did you sleep well?
- Yes.
You have a hair tie?
Let's go.
Look, Toni, a flower.
- How's it going?
- Hi, Luis, you good?
- So punctual!
- Today it was worth it.
- How are you?
- Good.
- I am Luis, nice to meet you.
- Hi, Julio.
- And you?
- Toni and Aneli.
You have three more siblings, right?
- They are at home.
- With grandma.
Good.
- Have you been here before?
- I haven't.
I have. I know the neighborhood.
Do you know people who were relocated?
No, no.
I've come here just for scrap metal.
The subway is ten minutes on foot,
it goes everywhere.
Where does it go?
- That's not for us.
- You'll see it is.
There you go.
Come on in.
- No. I'm not getting inside that.
- C'mon, su mama.
- No, rather be dead.
- It's alright!
No, I'm not getting there.
Let's use the stairs then.
- You don't want to go up?
- Yes, let's go.
Very important: your lease.
Look at it one last time,
and take it to the registry right away.
Okay?
They won't kick you out of here.
This is a state building.
You won't have any issues.
My cousin's rent was increased,
she couldn't pay
so the vultures took it.
This is not that kind of flat,
I promise.
Families like yours.
There's everything.
You'll like the balcony, look.
Oh, a balcony.
Where are you keeping your stuff?
What stuff?
Now you have your own room.
The little old lady
and her cart, going shopping.
And that one, with his jacket,
as if it was snowing.
- Let me see.
- Everything's so weird.
Let me see.
I like the neighborhood.
- I'm gonna see my room.
- Let's see the big one.
Slow down, not so fast,
we haven't divvied up yet.
- This one is mine.
- Huh?
- This one is mine.
- No, no.
- Mine and Rub's.
- No, it's Tonino's.
No, it's mine.
- Blue.
- Blue.
- And this one?
- Yellow.
- What color are the wheels?
- Black.
- Very good.
- Black.
Blue, yellow.
- You're good at this.
- Wait, another brick.
Leire, put her down.
Rub, enough, she won't give her up.
- Put her down.
- Rub, leave your sister alone,
she's younger than you.
Go and help your pai, c'mon.
- It's always the same with you!
- Go help him.
Lisi, are you doing my nails?
Okay, I'll do your nails.
Let's have them all done.
Well said.
Tonino, come help me
and I'll let you drive the truck.
- Sulami.
- What, mai?
What's with those boxes, girl?
Well, mai, I've signed already.
- Mama...
- What?
Yes.
What's going on?
I'm leaving. I've signed.
What?
We live here.
No one is leaving.
Listen, pai,
I don't wanna be here anymore.
No water, no power, it's cold...
My daughter is sick, I can't.
And the kids?
We raised them
while you were out and about!
If grandmas don't come, me either.
Me either.
And what about the grandparents?
What are we gonna do?
Pai, for now, I can't take you.
I'm telling you,
the kids are staying here.
Right, Tonino?
You'll build a house for each?
With these hands
I can still build 50 houses.
- And I'm still in charge here.
- Easy, easy.
- You, in charge?
- It's always him.
You are changing nothing.
- It's always about him.
- Mama.
No one leaves here!
- No one is leaving.
- Right.
You and you, get in!
Tonino, son, do as pai says.
- Stop fighting.
- It's always the same.
- Let's go inside.
- C'mon.
What are you making for us?
It's always whatever he wants.
Chip off the old block.
I'm going to rip
your mother's hair out.
Whose hair are you going to rip out,
asshole!
You are the one stealing gas!
Cheater.
Go away!
Go see your mama.
Look, khey.
Look who's in your room.
He's with me since he was a puppy.
Like mine, like Mariana.
- It's like a little kid.
- Same thing.
You love him, but does he love you?
- Yes.
- Ah, he told you?
He didn't say, but it shows.
Mine was stolen two nights ago.
- She got stolen?
- In front of my house.
A kid that knows her.
He was freezing
and I gave him a jacket.
He left and started calling her,
now I can't find her,
she's vanished.
Good God.
What is he doing with her?
Selling her?
He said, "She followed me."
Sure, she followed you.
She followed him with the leash.
Sometimes people are dogs,
and dogs are people.
- That's true.
- Yes, word.
You never know
who is a snake in the grass.
- It pissed me off.
- Once he lets her loose, she's back.
Come here, brother.
- You fag.
- Come on, hug me.
Fuck my life.
I too lost Alberto once.
He came back.
Like a dog.
But because of my smell.
I left my nasty smell.
Where's Paqui?
Paqui!
Paqui...
Open, I'm here to speak to her.
Open the gate.
Give me some gas!
Close the gate already!
Hit harder, c'mon!
C'mon, harder!
No, harder!
Attack with the spurs, attack!
It's winning.
Blind it! A good peck in the eye!
Slice its throat!
- Come on, my cock!
- Kill him!
Why are you here, kid?
Your pai knows?
No, he doesn't know.
I'm here to see the greyhound.
- Go away.
- Let me see her.
Have some respect for your pai, go.
I don't want anything to do
with that liar.
Don't say that in my house, okay?
You'll respect him,
because your pai
served a year in jail for us,
to spare me and my husband.
Respect your pai.
If he had told on us, we would have
served 15 years in jail.
That has nothing to do
with my greyhound.
Do you think that dog
is worth the whole plot?
She's not worth that much, son.
She's worth your pai's pride,
and my husband's.
I can't with those two anymore.
And to top it off, you show up.
Ah, men, you are good for nothing.
- Word.
- Mama, give me money.
Give us some money for Kawasaki.
-No, for me.
Listen.
I hear there's a pat-down up there.
I don't know who.
You go with Seco,
I'll give you money for gas.
You open your big ears
and call me on your cell phone.
- Got it?
- Yes.
- What's on your face?
- I fell.
My little one.
Listen, I'll give you some money,
you explain it to Seco.
You take your cell phone
and tell me everything.
- Forty for me.
- No, don't be greedy.
- Forty.
- Don't be greedy.
Here, thirty.
Twenty for you and twenty for you.
Tell Seco that when he's back
I'll have his fix.
Okay.
Listen, son, you eat something here
and you go away.
Take the piglet out.
Give me some, I'm hungry.
Give a piece of the piglet to each.
How's it going?
Have you eaten some piglet yet?
- Why are you here?
- Let me one shot.
One shot.
If you miss, you go home.
Wow, he's useless!
Scrap dealers are no good at this.
- Scrap dealer.
- Scrap dealers are useless.
- Let's eat.
- Screw him, girl.
Pay no mind to the scrap dealer.
Why have you come?
Don't you get I don't want us
to be seen together?
Why?
'Cause they'd get us married
in no time.
- I don't want to get married.
- Me either, that's why.
Fuck off.
Where's the dog?
Forget about her, she's not yours.
- But where is she?
- My mom sold her.
- You wanna see something?
- What?
Yes or no?
C'mon.
Aw, my beautiful dog!
Atomica.
Atomica.
Atomica!
Atomica, they are gonna kill us!
Let's go!
This is crazy, bro, look.
Atomica.
Look, Bili, she's going mad.
She's a little scamp.
Khay, look!
Atomica, find it!
Find it, girl.
Come on, Atomica.
Where are you going?
See, Bili? This is my dog!
This is a true dog!
C'mon, let's go.
Where do you want me to go?
Nowhere.
Where we belong.
You're not allowed to park here!
- C'mon, Toni, get out.
- Okay, okay.
Tell the boss to come out!
The gate!
I'm going to add some wood.
C'mon, add some wood.
- Tito has to come.
- No one is coming.
You got some nerve.
Grab her good, Libe.
Who's paying for my birds now, son?
You or your pai?
You don't get out?
No one disturbs the boss.
Okay, okay.
- So what?
- So what?
How's the plot going?
It's coming along.
Aren't you tired?
I am tired too.
You could've had a better life.
The life my mom gave me
when I was 9.
The cops!
Papa! Call papa.
Look at them.
It suits them just fine
that we live here.
And the only ones left here
are you and me.
It is what it is.
You want the dog?
No.
You owe me nothing.
Got it.
C'mon, son, let's go.
Harris!
What?
The gate.
Everybody out.
Seco! Add some wood, come on.
Take this box over there.
Don't worry, sister.
Sulami, have you checked
there's nothing left?
Yes, there's nothing left inside,
but I gave the grill it to Lisi.
Yes, she gave it to me.
- Julio! Take the table out.
- Did you take the motorcycle?
Rub, put away the slippers.
- Let's go.
- What about the gas?
Yes.
Give that to mai.
And this blanket too, fold it.
Make some room here.
Yes, there.
- Nano!
- Put the shotgun in the van.
It doesn't fit.
- Mai.
- Yes?
- Where's pai?
- Leave him alone.
This pot for my coffee.
Okay, for your coffee.
Tonino.
Stop by later,
I'll give you some pans
for your mother.
Leave, son.
- Goodbye, kids!
- Goodbye, mai!
- Don't go, my friend!
- Bye, Cheto!
I go and I won't come back.
- What are you gonna do there?
- That's enough, let's go.
Stop pushing him to stay!
Boo! Here comes the ghost
the chain he drags...
Goodbye, darling!
Wow, Tonino, this is crazy.
It's salt, dude.
Like the salt we have at home.
It goes into your nose,
your mouth, your eyes,
and it stings you all over.
Hey, Karim!
If you come, we'll get a boat.
Look where I am, khey.
It's my flat!
My fridge, my armchair, you see?
And here's my kitchen.
Wait, look,
I even have air conditioning. Look.
With my little remote... top-notch.
Speed up, Salome. Speed up!
She's insane.
Tell them goodbye, Bilal!