The Motorcycle Diaries Page #6

- What a night, we are very lucky|- How are you? Ernesto... Luz|- Hi

- Luz|- At your service

Burning light that blinds my dreams|Now hold on tight for what is coming for you

- Ah, Neruda?|- No, Granado

San Pablo, Peru|June 8th, 1952|Km 10223

Are you Bresciani?

How are you guys? How was the trip?

- Long but good|- A little long

No the other way

- Nice to meet you. Bresciani|- Nice to meet you

Dr. Pesce has talked very enthusiastically about you|so, welcome to San Pablo

By the way, i have a letter from Dr. Pesce for you|do you want it now?

No, no, there'll be time for that

Well, since we are here i can show you something

The Amazon divides the colony in two

The south part is where we keep the patients.|Here, in the north part is were the staff, the doctors and nurses live.|And a couple of nuns that are very efficient

This is your room

The beds are a little hard, but that is good for your spine

You can see the hospital from here

Over there|And that's the laboratory

Doctor, let me introduce you to our Argentinean volunteers

Alberto, i understand you have|some experience in baciloscopy

- That's right|- I believe he could help us in the lab, why don't|you take him with you

Ernesto, you are going to help me in the hospital

Here we have the more serious cases,|we transfer them from the south area

- Georgina|- Hello doctor

- And do you make the operations on this side too?|- Yes, on that side we have an operating room

She is Silvia, daughter of one of our patients|and a very good nurse

- How is he?|- He's better, doctor

- Then keep administering the same treatment|- Yes

- Doctor, then how many patients live in the south area?|- Almost six hundred

- All of them Peruvian?|- No, most of them yes, but there are some from|Colombia, Venezuela and other countries of South America

I suggest you use these gloves. It's true that|leprosy under treatment is not contagious

but the nuns are very strict about this

- If it's not contagious, then this is purely symbolic|- Yes, but Im telling you so you don't make mortal enemies over there

- Well, you'll have to forgive us but we are not going to use them|- Yes, thanks doctor

Don't say i didn't warn you

Take out the boxes.|Come this way

- Good evening|- Good evening

- Good evening. Welcome to San Pablo|- Thanks|- You are very kind

- Papa Carlito, at your service|- Nemesio Reyna

- Ernesto Guevara|- I'm Alberto Granado, a pleasure to meet you

Nice to meet you

Doctor, didn't you explain the rules to them?

Nice to meet you

- Don Nemesio, nice to meet you

Papa Carlito is the head of the community.|They are Argentineans doctors

Nice meeting you, bye

They are real gentlemen

Dr. Bresciani, this gentlemen arrive and think|they can behave as they want?

Mother San Alberto, this gentlemen have good|medical experience in Cordoba and Buenos Aires

That doesn't give them the right to behave|like this and break the rules

I suggest we leave this conversation for later, ok?

Thanks Mother, you are very understanding

She is the Mother Superior

This is the dinning hall.

The nuns make lunch on Sundays,|but only for those that come to mass

The sad thing is that most of San Pablo's patients are here|because they have been abandoned by their families|or thrown out of their jobs

That's why they try to adapt to their new life|building their own houses, seeding, caring for animals

- Doctor, good morning|- How is Silvia?

- She doesn't want to go to surgery|- Thanks doctor, Ill go see her

Silvia is a patient a little rebellious and if we don't|operate her ulna, she risks loosing her arm

Hello Silvia

She's very young

Can i come inside to talk to her

Yes

Can i sit?

Does your arm hurt?

What is wrong with you?

I was born with bad lungs

What a shame

No, is not that bad. Thanks to that|i skipped the military service

I didn't have to shine anyone boots

Is that why you became a doctor?|Because you are sick?

Is possible.|The first word i learned was injection

I want to be useful in some way

- You are wasting your time|- Why?

This life is hell

Yes, it's really f***ed up, but we have to|fight for every breath and tell Death to f*** off

Hey Fuser, Bresciani is going to write me a recommendation|for an internship in Cabo Blanco's Hospital, in Caracas|What do you think?

That's nice.

Nice?|What's going on Fuser?

- Did you see the river?|- Yes

It keeps away the sick from the healthy

Yes

That's it...|Just a quick...

Are you ok?

Scalpel

It's ok, it's ok. Look at me

That's it. The nerve is coming out

It's thick

I have four siblings, Celia, Ana Maria|Roberto and Juan Martin

And they are the ones i miss the most actually.|And also my mom

You have to tell us these things with time

- Have you been playing soccer lately?|- Not lately

For the next time, please wear some snickers|and invite me

Gladly

C'mon, C'mon

North team!|Mark that one there!!

Out, out

Get out of there

Mark that...|Out, out

Gol! Gol!

What happened? What happened?|They scored you one fatty!!

Get out of here!

Excuse me

Sister, why you don't give us food?

The rules of Mother San Alberto are very clear,|we only serve to those who go to Holy Mass

- What is it?|- They won't give us food because we didn't go to mass

- Says who?|- San Alberto

- Mother|- Yes?

- We want to eat|- We deserve to eat like everyone else

- Yes but you didn't go to mass|- No

Then, how do you expect to feed the body|if you didn't feed the soul first

- Denying food is not very Christian-like|- Yes, i doubt Jesus would act like this

In this house we have a set of rules|that have to be followed

- I haven't read any rule book|- Neither did i. I think that if find it i would eat it

Your lunch

Did you steal it?

- Yes|- Thanks

- Did you took it from San Alberto?|- Yes

Thanks

- Is it deep?|- Yes

- Do you want some "mate"?|- No thanks

What?

From Caracas?

Great!|Great, isn't it?

- Should i accept?|- What do you want to do?

Maybe is time to settle down

Yes, have a stable job, a girlfriend...

Get a belly

And you? Are you going back to finish school?

I don't know. If i find a way to get|back to Buenos Aires, yes

You're going to be 24 next week, Fuser

I should be thinking on something, right?

San Pablo, Peru|June 14th, 1952

The Mother dances well, uh?|I like the way she dances

No, I don't dance

Thank you

- It's good uh?|It's really good

Listen, this is the tango that|Chichina's uncle played in Miramar

- Ah yes, i like it|- You see|- Yes, yes

- Do you know how to dance it?|- This one's a little faster,

But you know how to dance it.|And there's a lady very interested in dancing with you

- Should i ask her?|- The bird in the stories flies and never returns

Fly, fly

Do you want to dance?

- Do you know how to dance?|- Yes

Is just that this version is faster

Dance Ernesto!

Did you think it was a tango?

Mambo, mambo, mambo

Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you!

Happy birthday, Ernesto, Happy birthday to you!

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