Julieta Page #14

The ringing of the doorbell interrupts Xoan’s silence.

Julieta goes out to see who it is. Xoan imagined that

some day they’d have to talk about this.

88. REDES. XOAN’S HOUSE. CONT.

1998. SUMMER.

In.s is waiting at the door. She’s the young woman

who’s going to replace Marian.

She introduces herself. Julieta tells her to come back

the next day.

JULIETA:

Marian did everything before she

left.

(In more than one sense, Julieta thinks)

In.s says goodbye until the next day. She realizes that

she hasn’t come at a good time.

89. REDES. XOAN’S HOUSE. CONT.

1998. SUMMER.

Xoan comes into the hall, he sees Julieta saying

goodbye to In.s. Julieta is angry and deeply

disappointed.

XOAN:

I’ve known Ava since I was

fifteen. We were never together

but we screwed from time to time.

Julieta looks at him in silence. She picks up the books

she was looking for in the last sequence with Marian.

Then she goes to the kitchen. Xoan follows her like a

guide dog.

XOAN:

I often thought about telling you,

but I didn’t know how.

Julieta looks at him again. She takes a purse from a

chair.

XOAN:

I’m not much of a talker, you’ll

have realized that. But Ant.a and

you are the most important things

in my life, you know that, don’t

you?

Julieta goes into the hall, turns her back on him,

takes a light jacket and puts it on. She hangs the

purse over her shoulder.

XOAN:

Aren’t you going to say anything?

JULIETA:

No.

XOAN:

What are you going to do?

JULIETA:

I’m going for a walk and to

prepare my classes.

XOAN:

(Bewildered) I… I think I’ll go

fishing.

He had decided to stay at home, but after talking to

Julieta he prefers to go out fishing. Before going to

the door, Julieta turns to him. Xoan is looking at her

concerned. Now that the subject has blown up he’d like

to talk it out and he’d like her to do the same, to

insult him, if she wants, anything but that toxic

silence. But Julieta can’t bear Xoan’s pleading

expression.

90. REDES. XOAN’S HOUSE. EXT.

1998. SUMMER.

Julieta comes out of the house. It’s a heavy,

changeable day, with clouds and sun. We can see Xoan’s

gamela in the distance, rocking on a slightly choppy

sea. A lovely day.

91. REDES. THAT SAME DAY, IN THE AFTERNOON.

1998. SUMMER.

Mid-afternoon the weather changes. It starts to rain

heavily. The storm breaks.

(Detail with images of the atmospheric process, what

happens in the sky and on the sea.) The sky darkens,

the sea gets rough. Lightning, thunder, etc.

92. REDES. XOAN’S HOUSE. EXT. THAT SAME DAY. LATER.

1998. SUMMER.

Julieta arrives home in a taxi. It’s pouring rain and

the wind is blowing hard. It’s dusk. Xoan’s gamela

can’t be seen, the roaring of the sea is deafening.

(Images of the rough sea at the Mux.a lighthouse.

Enormous waves crash onto the beach of broken stones)

93. REDES. XOAN’S HOUSE. INT. EARLY EVENING. CONT.

1998. SUMMER.

Julieta comes into the house, soaked.

Once she has showered, dried herself and changed her

clothes, she is filled by a feeling of extreme

loneliness.

She walks past the door of Ant.a’s room. She looks

inside, she sees her daughter’s bed, the posters on the

walls. She misses her dreadfully. Finally she looks at

the unfinished creel that Xoan was making and that he

left on Ant.a’s desk.

Julieta comes into the kitchen in a housecoat. Through

the windows she sees the sea, still very rough, but

less so than when we saw it at Mux.a Beach. To fill the

time she starts to prepare dinner, very meticulously,

dinner for two. She pours herself a glass of vinho

verde to cheer herself up. She wants Xoan to come back.

She regrets not having let him talk.

94. REDES. XOAN’S HOUSE. A LITTLE LATER/NIGHT.

1998. SUMMER.

Dinner is sitting on the hot plates. Julieta has

another glass of wine and lights a cigarette. She has

the radio tuned to the local station, they’re talking

about the storm that has suddenly hit the area.

“…a sudden change in the direction and force of winds

in the area of the Ferrol estuary. This change is

causing heavy seas with waves from 20 to 25 feet… all

fishing and sailing activity should be suspended in

this area…”

Naturally she thinks about Xoan and is worried. Did he

go out fishing as she thought she heard him say before

she left the house? Is he with Ava? The best way to

find out would be to call her, but for the moment she

rejects the idea.

95. REDES. XOAN’S HOUSE. SITTING ROOM. NIGHT.

96. REDES. AVA’S STUDIO.

1998. SUMMER.

Julieta is waiting in the sitting room, in front of the

television. The evening news is talking about a probe

that Japan has sent to Mars.

It’s 11:
00 p.m., Xoan still hasn’t returned and Julieta

is desperate. She thinks he’s with Ava, but she needs

to be sure. After many doubts, she dials Ava’s number.

The artist is in her studio, busy on one of her

sculptures. The phone rings. She answers.

JULIETA:

Ava, I’m sorry to call you… I just

wanted to know if Xoan is with

you.

AVA:

Xoan? No.

JULIETA:

Do you have any idea where he

might be?

AVA:

Hasn’t he come back yet?

JULIETA:

No.

AVA:

(Uneasy) Did he go fishing?

JULIETA:

I hope not… Look at the storm!

Wait, they’re saying something on

television.

(Cont.)

97. TELEVISION STUDIO.

1998. SUMMER.

NEWS READER:

“Maritime Safety has reported the sinking of a gabela

three miles north of the mouth of the Ferrol estuary.

Its occupant has not yet been located and there are

serious fears for his safety given the conditions at

sea.

A pleasure boat with a crew of three is in the same

situation. Rough seas with waves of over 20 feet have

impeded any rescue attempts by Civil Protection… As

soon as it dawns and conditions at sea improve…”

Julieta is listening to the television, the phone still

at her ear.

98. REDES. XOAN’S HOUSE. NIGHT. CONT.

99. REDES. AVA’S STUDIO. CONT.

1998. SUMMER.

The two women are silent, horrified. Ava has heard the

television report over the phone.

Cut.

100. BUILDING FISHERMEN’S GUILD. TWO DAYS LATER. EXT. DAY.

1998. SUMMER.

It is a two-storied building with a narrow tower topped

by a clock that is broken, a piece is missing from the

face. Time has been broken, rather than stopped.

The sequence begins with a close-up of the broken

clock, a downward crane shot shows us a police four-

wheel drive arriving. An officer and Julieta are in it.

The car stops at the front door of the building.

101. BUILDING FISHERMEN’S GUILD. INT. DAY.

1998. SUMMER.

Julieta and the police officer come into an open,

informal area where pieces of fishing gear have been

left piled up against the wall. Julieta is wearing

large dark glasses and has a black scarf on her head.

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