Insignificant Things Page #3

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I thought you said it was important?

Not anymore.

Why did you return it?

I don't know.

Well,

I'm going to Canada

with my brothers.

Canada?

Your sister will like it there.

I'm going alone.

I'll send for her later.

You don't look too happy.

Neither do you.

No.

Neither do I.

But, I'm old.

It'll be fine, Lina.

You've got money just in case.

Uncle Rafa will pick you up

in Toluca.

His address is in the notebook.

I'll buy you some cool

Sneakers when I get paid.

I don't want sneakers.

Lina.

Here.

So you'll remember me.

Doctor Gabrieli?

I don't have an appointment,

but I was told you...

I don't know

who gave you my name

but I'm no longer seeing patients.

Please.

It's very important.

I don't think I can help your son.

It's not for my son.

It's for me.

Even less.

I don't know if you can help.

But I do know

I'll never ask for help again.

He's five years old

and, in five years,

I haven't learned to be a mother.

Madam, trust me,

if I could, I would help you.

But right now, I'm...

the least helpful person

you'll find.

Your son is very young.

Young enough to forgive you.

The Box

Esmeralda, is that you?

What's wrong?

Have you got a migraine?

I know how you feel.

I used to get them, too.

My Nana said

snow would make it go away.

But she's crazy.

Sometimes, crazy people make sense.

That's what Lina says,

she said, in Fani's world,

there's nothing but snow,

and we have to take her there

because here her bones hurt

and there they don't.

Your little sister is very wise.

I have something of yours.

It's a note with a number on it.

Why would you want that?

Anyway,

you've probably

had more use for it than I have.

Who's Ines?

She's my daughter.

I haven't seen her in twenty years.

She was your age when she left,

I never heard from her again.

She's got her own life

and doesn't need me anymore.

Are you riding all the way to

Canada on bicycle?

Maybe later.

First, I have something

important to do.

You're wrong, you know

you have more use

for it than I do.

Esmeralda,

What do I want this box for?

Eruptions from the Popocatepetl

volcano throughout the night

have covered Mexico City

in a dense layer of ashes.

It looks pretty.

Almost like snow.

You've seen snow, haven't you Mom?

I bet it looks just like that.

Lina!

Esme!

Ines?

Ines, it's your father.

Please, don't hang up.

Even if we never speak again.

I needed to see you.

I have a son.

A son?

Yes.

How old is this son of yours?

Five.

It happened while you were

in Tijuana for the border exhibit.

And you've kept this

from me for five f***ing years?

I only found out a year ago.

I had no idea.

She showed up suddenly

and threw this at me.

I couldn't.

I just...

I just did nothing.

I didn't tell you.

We haven't told him...

Now he's very sick.

And I feel completely useless.

And this secret...

I couldn't touch you, Ellie.

Every time I reached for you,

I felt my world come crashing down.

I had to tell you,

Ellie.

You son of a b*tch.

Your son better not like cats.

- Should I cut it all off?

- Yeah!

- All of it?

- Yeah!

How do I look?

You look pretty.

Do you like it?

There's the princess,

the warrior is next to her.

I don't see anything.

Look closely Nana.

They're right there.

Yes,

there they are.

They're dressed in white.

He's wearing a cape

over his shoulders,

and the princess is covered

in a blanket to keep warm.

The blanket turns pink at sunset

and the sun makes it shimmer

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