De Helleveeg Page #6

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- Have fun.

There's no point,

Leentje knows all about it.

Look, that's where it happened.

Sometimes Nelleke was present.

We could go straight to the police.

- You'd better sleep on that, Hanny.

I will deny everything and you'll go to

prison for making a false accusation.

Tiny, I'm really sorry for you. All the best.

I will tell our mother and father.

Give them my regards.

High time we played cards again.

Tiny... Come.

He tried it on me when I was twelve.

- Yes...

At home they believed him and not me.

I know that story.

I've got an idea. A blood test can show

if somebody is related to you.

In the hospital they can take blood

from the foetus and compare it to Nico's.

It's useless, Hanny.

Nico is not the only one.

No, Tiny... and you're asking me

to help you?

In nomine Patris et Filii

et Spiritus Sancti, Amen.

I am erm...

I have...

There's somebody...

a friend of my parents, Nico van Dartel...

"who has done really bad things.

Really very bad.

What Nico van Dartel has done

he has to confess himself.

I'm here to listen to your sins.

Hurry up, woman. We're going.

Heady? Hurry up.

- All right.

Did you come to see us?

We're going off to play cards.

Tiny is in, so you can see her.

Tiny... I found a woman who has

a practice at home.

Not expensive.

I'll pay three quarters. Is that OK?

Is it far to go?

- Over the fish market.

I daren't.

You don't have to go on your own.

I will come with you. We'll do it together.

Come.

I don't dare.

Come along.

Don't give up now. Come.

Come.

Hail Mary, full of grace...

Have you been done?

The sanitary towel cost some extra.

How do you feel?

In pain?

She didn't even use any instruments.

She did it with her sharp nails.

That can't be true?

You didn't come in with me, did you!

Go upstairs before they ask

why you look so white.

And put an old curtain underneath you.

Something you can throw away later.

If the pain doesn't stop,

send Hasje over to me.

If you don't come down

I'll put your food away again.

Whole days in bed never cured anyone.

Where are you going?

Pretending to be ill and now going

out to party in town.

Now what's up?

Oh girl...

Oh... Nico, hurry up, man.

I've phoned him.

You'll be all right.

The doctor told us.

You've been to her over the fish market.

Good thing Nico found you

and has a telephone.

Van Dartel found her. Had you heard?

- No.

He rang for an ambulance.

He saved your life. Do you realize that?

Why didn't you come to me?

Why go to Nico van Dartel for help?

I hoped he would open the door

and I would collapse at his feet.

Dead.

Then everybody would find out

that he had done it.

I wanted to die and lie dead at his feet.

I love him.

This is for your parents:

your medical report.

Jesus.

- Can't be true.

What was trumps?

- Clubs. You start.

That's mine.

- No, it's mine. I've got the ace.

Hello, girlie.

Did they let you go home?

Come, come, Nico.

Your turn.

AVE. aye.

And here's a three.

- Look at that.

Got another one?

And that was all I got.

Then I was in their power.

Thanks to the wonderful help

I got from your mother.

Because she forked out so little money

I'm now mutilated.

It was a crime.

The cheapest address

far and wide around.

Well, thanks a lot.

Well, that's quite a revelation.

After nearly forty years of marriage.

Except that this letter

was never seen by my parents.

Happy with your copy?

Got a cigarette for me?

Are you smoking?

In a minute I will be.

Long ago you got into bed with me...

...and I told you about the Papuans.

We went out on the town together.

And now here you are with your letter

and your reproach.

I always thought there was one person

in the family who understood me.

I was wrong.

I shouldn't have done it.

The story has it that I discovered Tiny

aged four, when she was sixteen...

...and I waddled after her

like a duckling.

Later I fell in love.

I have desired her, hated her...

...and finally understood her.

After many hitter words I understood

what she was trying to say.

Now she's in hospital

and doesn't speak.

There is no medical reason for it...

but Tiny remains sf lent.

Young Albert.

- Hey, Koos.

I didn't recognize you in a Mercedes.

Weren't you always an Opel man?

That ancient history.

This is my fourth Mercedes, man.

This is Henk, and that's Willem.

Two of my sons.

And that's young Albert,

world-famous in Amsterdam.

She's in oncology. Room number 2-203.

Hello, Aunt Tiny.

So... had a nice chat catching up?

The doctors give her a few more weeks.

I say, young Albert...

When the time comes,

would you speak at her funeral?

That's one thing taken care of.

WW ma'!?

You're a theatre man, aren't you?

Whenever I switch on the TV, I see...

Scenario and script: Albert Egberts.

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Just a few funny stories about her life.

I mean, it's a funeral

but that doesn't exclude a laugh.

Just a few anecdotes about our Tiny.

Sure you can do that?

Yes, young Albert...

...that's all that remains of a life.

A few anecdotes.

Going off for a smoke.

Don't forget to tell them

about the chocolate egg.

What do you know of another person?

Precious little, unfortunately.

And sometimes you wish

you didn't know anything at all.

Tiny, Nico's in the mood for it.

Come on in.

He's at the back.

Hi...

- Hi.

I've invited some friends.

You know them, football or pool mates.

Come on.

Sit down.

Nelleke is making the coffee.

We won't be long.

One... two...

Let the blood flow to your head

and keep your eyes closed.

Count till ten and then open them.

Do you see?

Upside down, the world looks

very different.

More beautiful, don't you think?

- Much more beautiful.

Something else you've learned

from your Aunt Tiny.

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