Mary and Martha Page #4

The bus leaves from

the jetty at 7:
00.

Screw the bus.

I got a car.

Great!

That'll be much more comfy.

Micaela.

Yes.

His camera.

Yes.

He gave it to me

when he was sick.

I think you should have it.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Look. If you do this,

you can see

all of his photos.

Oh, really?

That's a good,

little camera, isn't it?

He was very lucky

you were here.

Thank you.

And thank you for him.

Yes. A nice piece

of work.

I put a lot of work

into him over the years.

MARY:
Nets in here

but nowhere else?

Yes. One day we'll have

them everywhere,

but for now,

this is the most important place.

And what's wrong with

these little guys?

Jose, here had a fall,

and Manuel has diarrhea,

and like your sons,

Paul has malaria.

Is he going to be all right?

We hope so.

I have given him what

we have to treat it.

[SNORING]

I just wanted...

Yeah.

I'll go back to bed

in a little while.

Yeah.

Oh!

Sorry, Micaela.

MARTHA:
How does

he look to you?

He's a little worser.

I think I should take

him to hospital.

How far away is that?

Two hours by bus.

Two hours? Jesus.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[HORN HONKING]

[PUMALELE SPEAKING

FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[WOMAN WAILING]

[BABY CRYING]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]

[BEEPING ACCELERATES]

[DOCTORS AND NURSES SPEAKING

FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[BEEPING SLOWS]

[CHILD CRYING]

I need to step outside.

We'll stay here and watch him.

[SOBBING]

[PUMALELE SPEAKING

FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Pumalele, he's quite

handsome, isn't he?

Yeah, and he's quite

the basketball player, too.

Yeah?

Yeah. Him and George,

they used to play all the time.

Is your husband handsome?

Yeah. Yeah, I think

he's pretty cute.

What about yours?

Mine?

Mm-hmm.

Oh. Heh.

I don't know.

Ha ha ha!

I never really

thought about it.

Oh, come on.

He must be.

Why else would you marry him?

Well, he was very polite.

[WOMAN SOBBING]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[CHILDREN CRYING]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

There's lots of people.

Yes. Lots of malaria.

This is all malaria?

No, but most, yes.

Micaela, please don't be embarrassed

if this is embarrassing,

but I need to be useful.

I don't have a job.

Do you think I could be of any

help in your orphanage at all?

Really?

Yes, really.

Of course.

It's easy to be useful there.

Yeah, well I can

cook quite well,

Victoria sponge cake

a speciality.

That's a start.

And football?

Football? Oh, yes.

I'm a brilliant player

if somewhat violent.

Ah, well.

Like mother, like son.

And you, Mary,

What are your plans?

I have to get home.

Yeah, of course

you do, darling.

But didn't we get lucky

bumping into one another?

Mmm. Didn't we?

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[BEEP]

[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]

[WHISPERING] Hello?

Hello, Mary, darling.

It's Martha.

Hi. How's it going?

Can't sleep?

What?

Can't sleep in the middle of the morning?

Oh, no! I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I've completely forgotten

the time difference.

I'm sorry, darling.

I'll call back later.

Oh, no, no.

I was awake.

How's it going there?

Not bad, actually.

And I'm thinking perhaps, um,

I can be a little bit useful here.

My muffins are a triumph.

Ha ha ha!

Um, you know what?

I woke Peter up.

Maybe we can talk at a

slightly better time tomorrow?

Yeah, OK, darling.

Sorry.

Bye.

Who the hell was that

at 4:
00 A.M.?

It was Martha.

She's alone.

She wants to talk.

Martha.

Sorry.

[BABY CRYING]

ALICE:
And as with most men,

he just assumes that

I won't have an opinion

about the car.

Don't tell me.

Oh, we've already

been through this,

even with the second car.

This is the second car!

I mean, I'm gonna be driving

the damn thing,

but no, no, no, no,

he'll buy it.

He'll decide what it is.

And so finally,

he agrees to a Mercedes,

And I say, "I don't

want that damn Mercedes.

I want a Lexus." Right?

I mean, come on.

I'm gonna go now.

Why?

The honest answer is I'm not

ready to feel this normal again.

You know, I've just

seen some terrible things,

and I'm having a hard

time getting worked up

about... about one

great big car

versus another great big car.

Honey? Mary?

Don't go crazy on us.

You know, Alice, look.

The way I see it now,

you're the crazy ones.

We spend every

minute of our lives

obsessed or angry about things

that don't matter at all

when I've just stood in a room

where children are allowed

to die of a mosquito bite,

and I would cry all

night about how I wasted

my life, except I can't

allow myself to cry

at all because I've

just wasted my son's.

You see?

I just wasted my son's life.

Maybe we should sell the house.

Sell the house?

Yeah.

It just seems so big now.

We just have so many

memories, you know?

Tough ones.

Sweetie, you've made

this house so beautiful.

It's us.

We could buy something

smaller that costs less.

We don't need

to sell the house.

And buy stuff

with the difference

which would make a difference

where I've just been.

You know, nets, medicine,

salaries for nurses

and doctors.

You're kidding.

No. Maybe what

happened to George

was a one-in-a-million

chance for someone like him,

but it turns out he's just

one of millions of kids

this disease kills.

Honey, please.

This is insane.

Give us a chance to get

our lives back on track

before we try to

fix other people's.

Please.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Can I help you?

Hi. Yes!

I called a couple of hours ago,

and I couldn't get an

appointment for a month,

so since I was just passing by,

I thought I'd just drop in

in case the senator

happened to have...

No, I'm afraid that he doesn't.

OK. I don't want

a lot of his time.

I just want a little bit

of advice as a person

from his state who has

just driven 3 hours

in some really nasty traffic.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

No. It won't work.

OK. I'll just wait

just in case.

OK.

OK.

Senator, hi!

Hi.

Excuse me...

excuse me, sir.

I'm... I'm Mary Morgan,

and I was just...

I was wondering if you

had a minute.

Oh, I'm afraid I don't have

a minute to spare right now.

Why don't you make an

appointment with my secretary?

I just... I wanted to talk

to you about malaria.

Malaria?

Yeah.

Wow.

Uh, that's a big subject, Mary.

Uh, I'm gonna be more useful

on "My local school

isn't any good."

What exactly do you think

I can do about malaria?

Um, I don't know really,

but, oh, uh, what I do know

is that it's

a preventable disease

that has killed over half a

million people every year.

OK. Well, how much

does the U.S. spend

on malaria at the moment?

I don't know exactly.

Is it more or less than

the last administration?

Is it spent through

governments or NGOs?

I don't know,

but it killed my son.

Oh, well, I'm sorry

to hear that.

I-I'd be happy to help

you pursue some kind

of recompense, uh...

I don't want recompense.

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