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with company.

Lucy would say that.

It's funny.

That a thing so rare

can be so insignificant.

Do you have a family?

No, not really.

You? You got kids?

Yeah.

We adopted a son, Nathan.

He's away at camp.

Have you been

enjoying my wife?

What was that?

Lucy.

She's showing you

the city, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, she has.

How do you like it?

The city.

I tend not to stick around

anywhere too long.

See, I'm just

the opposite.

When I have something,

I can't let it go.

I stay too long.

Funny accident

how we all

found

each other tonight.

Should...

Should we head back?

Ben has great taste.

The '29.

Lucy was just telling me

about your son.

He's learning

how to play tennis.

Is he?

He's very athletic

and he's so smart.

-Ladies?

-Cheers.

Benjamin?

Thanks.

Nazdarovya.

Nazdarovya.

To a good night.

So is he here?

Your son.

Is he sleeping?

Should we be quiet?

-Actually...

-Lucy.

Can I talk to you?

Okay.

-Now.

-Excuse us.

We'll be

just a minute.

Why are you doing this?

So rude.

What are you doing?

I want to smoke.

What if this

is my last one?

Well, then I'd

take it from you.

What's your fantasy?

There you are.

Well, what is it?

To be free.

Of what?

I don't know.

What's yours?

To die young.

You didn't really

mean that, did you?

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

You're not coming in?

I...

I just wonder

where they went.

You really care?

No. I just...

They could be f***ing.

No.

They haven't in months.

He told me.

He told you that?

I just think...

I don't...

People's private lives

should stay private.

See, that's your problem.

You want everything

to be like a dream.

But it's not a dream.

Sex is sex.

F***ing is f***ing.

Don't be such a prude.

I'm not a prude.

You afraid to jump?

I'm not a prude.

So, where does she

keep you?

What?

Where does Mrs. Bishop

keep you?

I know you don't work.

I'm a writer.

Right.

I am.

Have I read

any of your work?

'Cause I read everything.

I was published.

How long ago?

Four years.

So you don't work.

I'm not judging.

You're imagining things,

Kat.

I can smell

one of my own kind.

Don't.

It's not like that.

Why? Why not?

Some writer.

You're with

a married man.

-It's more complicated than that.

-Is it? Is it?

What is it,

like some kind of act

or something?

It's all an act, Ben.

We give people

the versions of ourselves

they need to feel safe.

I give him what he needs,

so he gives me what I want.

What does that mean?

It means

he pays for my life.

For all of it.

So you're a whore.

Don't do that.

No, say it with me.

Say it with me.

"I'm a whore."

You're one to talk.

Lucy's showing me the city.

I bet.

So, where does he

keep you?

Where does he keep

his whore?

A loft in the marina.

Your turn.

Why should I have to

tell you anything?

Because I can't stand

a liar,

and I liked standing you.

Downtown.

She keeps me downtown.

I like we're being honest.

Honest?

Back there...

Things are getting

quite serious, aren't they?

Let's go look around

some more.

I don't wanna look around.

You're beautiful.

Sometimes dirty things

have a kind of beauty.

This can't lead anyplace.

I know.

Now that I've found you,

I don't want to let you go.

We really should

get back downstairs.

Anthony?

What?

Are you listening to me?

Yes.

Where did you get this?

What?

This bra.

I don't think I've ever

seen you wear it before.

What's this?

This...

is a tattoo.

Come on.

It's...

It's the name of a song that

my father would sing me

when I was a kid to

put me to sleep.

"Szerelem."

It, means "love" in hungarian.

Well,

what's the song say?

It's in hungarian.

Tell me your favorite part.

Favorite part is...

"I would do anything

for my old lover.

I would dip the water

of the sea.

I would pick shells

from the seabed,

and I would sew a wreath

for my old lover."

Tell me about him...

Your father.

He was, you know,

the strongest man in the world

to me when I was a kid.

You know how you think

when you're a kid.

He was...

He was a superhero to me.

You know, my book

was about my parents.

Tell me about your mom.

My mother... passed away

when I was seven.

It crushed my father.

It devastated him.

He...

He lost it... all that...

That strength

that made him great.

And I watched it all melt away

when I was a kid.

He would cry to me.

He would cry to me,

a seven, eight-year-old kid.

And he'd be sobbing,

telling me how much

he missed her,

how much he needed her.

I wouldn't know what to say.

You know, why would...

How would I know

what to say?

And everyone else,

they were telling him

that it wasn't his fault,

that she was just

an unhappy person.

But...

he wasn't hearing it.

He took the full weight of it.

He blamed himself.

You know,

I remember having

the distinct thought that...

how is anything in the world...

worth that much pain?

And from that point on,

you know, he...

It was like he had

two different lives.

There was the life

while my mother was alive,

and there was the life after.

Whatever it was,

I stayed in this life.

Letholdus.

I was supposed

to see him today.

But you didn't?

Tell me something

about your parents.

Your family.

Don't.

Come on.

Come on.

All right.

This sounds like Stravinsky.

We danced to Stravinsky

on our wedding day.

Why's that

so important?

I used to love Stravinsky.

Dance with me, Mrs. Bishop.

So that's why we're here.

I remembered us.

I remembered the day.

Can't a man love his wife?

Anthony,

you can't just change

everything back

the way it was

because you want to.

All this... what we have...

Is nothing.

You're nothing.

What are you doing?

You act like a c*nt,

then I am going

to treat you like a c*nt.

Stop... Stop it!

No!

Get out!

What?

You gonna swap me out

for the boy?

He's more of a man

than you.

F***. You get up.

Get up!

F*** you.

Get up!

What, are you

gonna shoot me?

Go ahead.

Go ahead and shoot me.

Wait. Stop!

You didn't want

to dance with me,

so you're going

to dance for me.

Do you understand?

Come on.

Yeah.

Harder. Harder!

That's right.

Yeah. Harder.

Harder.

F***ing harder.

F***.

Yeah.

That's right.

Now turn around.

Please. Please. Please.

Please. Please. Please.

Please.

Baby, please.

I'm sor...

I'm sorry.

Anthony.

Yeah, hi. Hi.

I need a cab

as soon as possible.

Yeah.

54 Alighieri Drive.

Thirty minutes?

Thank you. Thank you.

Hey, Laz.

It's-It's Lucy.

I-I really need

to talk to you.

Can you come by later?

I got a cab.

I told you...

I can't.

You've gotta stop running

at some point.

You pigeonholing me?

I mean, what are you

doing here, Kat?

Why are you

with this guy?

You don't know what

you're talking about.

I know you're better

than this.

You're better than

what he makes you into.

There you two are.

Everything okay?

Benjamin, would you

excuse us?

What's going on?

Nothing.

I know you, Kat.

You don't do nothing.

Where were you?

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