- "Slowly, son, eat some pasta" - "It's just a sip"
- As if! - You drank the entire bottle
Indeed, and poured the rest for his sister
It's not true. I didn't pour it for her.
You did, you liar! You saw it too. I'm your mom, I know you very well.
- You're right - He saw you too
He saw you too
- Come on, help me - Can I help?
Professor, that's for the women
Dad...
- Madame, it was all delicious. - I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Your wife cooks so well that I couldn't hold back.
Did you hear that compliment?
How is he?
Ugly, he's got crooked feet.
- Dad was no better. - What's that about your father?
- Nothing. - Be quiet then.
All you do is boss us around.
Pietro's so refined!
Do you really have to go?
Dad, Pietro's got things to do
I know the professor's got things to do, but I'm sorry he's going.
Mr. Greco, I'm sorry too I wish I could stay.
I had a very good time
But I really have to leave.
But first I have something important to say.
Quiet now! The professor has something important to say.
- Dad... - Quiet, you.
Mr. Greco, I'm not good at these things. You...
I imagine you already know I mean... I mean...
I'm asking you for your daughter's hand.
If an important person like you asks for my Lenuccia's hand
for me it is a great honor.
You have an important job you're from a fine family, what can I say?
My daughter has happy eyes
it shows that you love her and that's enough for me.
Then let's celebrate.
But before that we need to clear something up
We don't agree with you not getting married in church
because marriage without a priest isn't marriage.
I understand, I do.
I respect those who sincerely entrust themselves to God.
I'm not a believer I have my own convictions
but I don't believe in any god.
But Madame, please you can trust me
Not being a believer doesn't mean I don't believe in anything.
I have unshakable faith in the love I feel for your daughter.
This love will make our marriage solid
not an altar a priest or a city hall official.
If what counts is love what would it cost you?
Get married in church then love each other, it's a formality
No, it's not a formality, sir it's a principle
If I get married in church if I take communion
I become someone who is untrustworthy
who doesn't stick to his principles.
And knowing how your daughter is...
she would stop loving me
And you, Madame...
I can't believe you'd give your daughter to someone untrustworthy.
Since she was small Lenuccia has been out of the ordinary
she did things no other girl in the neighborhood was capable of.
This girl has never disappointed me.
She's my pride she's the pride of the whole family.
With what she's done she deserves to be happy
and if anyone makes her suffer
I'll make them suffer a thousand times more, okay?
I know how precious Elena is and I'm grateful to you
for bringing her up this way.
It was my grandmother's my mother's mother.
My family is very happy for you to have it.
Kiss! Kiss!
Congratulations, my daughter.
Thank you.
At last, welcome to the family!
At last, Madame Immacolata.
Peppino.
- Gianni. - We've married off this one
now we have to marry off the other three.
All in good time.
- Gianni - Thank you
- Cigarette? - Thank you, I quit.
"The builders are doing a good job but it's a mess here"
It's all dirty!
- Hi there. - Hi
They'll be done in a few days.
It's not your problem I'm the one who cleans
Elisa and I will help you.
Why do you need a license if you don't even have a car?
You like wasting money.
So, the phone and the TV are a waste of money, too.
You want to buy a car, I know you
How much you got stashed away?
- It's none of your business. - No?
"Elena! Elena!"
What're you doing? I just cleaned it!
Then you say it's me!
Enzo! Pasquale, what's happened?
- Can you come down? - Now? Why?
- Come down, we'll explain. - I'll be right there
- Where are you going? - Be right back.
Where's she going?
Hi.
Hi, Lenù.
What's happened?
Lila doesn't feel well and she wants to see you.
What happened?
She usually gets back from the factory at four-thirty
Tonight when I came home she wasn't there.
Gennarino was still with the neighbor.
I gave him dinner and she came in.
It must have been seven o'clock.
She was very pale.
She wouldn't answer any questions
All she said was "My nails are falling out."
I looked at her hands
I told her there was nothing wrong.
She started screaming.
She locked herself in her room
and started saying "Call Lenuccia I want to talk to Lenuccia."
- Did you have a fight? - No
- Did she get injured at work? - I don't think so
I don't know.
Let's not panic now.
Hopefully Lila will calm down when she sees you.
Let's go.
I'm so glad we found you!
You're an important person now you must be busy.
What are you two doing together?
You've moved to San Giovanni too?
No, I'm the section secretary now
I often come to San Giovanni for meetings
we met in the section office.
Is Lila a Communist too?
Lila's such a Communist that she's never joined the party
L'Unità reports a lot about students.
They interview them listen to them
People who actually work factory workers
why don't they let them speak too?
The party stays mum, waiting for Aldo Moro to go to government.
Are we Aldo Moro's lapdogs?
We have to make the revolution! What do you reckon?
- You're right. - Good, you've always been smart.
Go Lenù, she's in there.
Come in.
I knew you'd come. Give me a kiss.
I know all about you.
I saw you in the papers.
You look so good!
I also know you're marrying a professor, well done
Forgive me for bothering you at this hour, but I need you.
My head's coming unstuck like peeling wallpaper.
What happened?
I bothered you because you have to promise me something.
If anything happens to me
if I end up in a hospital, if they lock me up in an asylum, if I disappear
you have to take Gennaro.
You have to bring him up in your house.
Enzo's a good guy, I trust him
but he can't give the child what you can.
if you don't explain I can't understand.
Promise first.
- All right. - No, don't say all right!
You have to promise now you'll take the boy.
And if you need money go find Nino.
Tell him he has to help you.
But promise. "I'll raise your child."
- I'll raise your child, I promise. - Good.
Now will you tell me what happened?
"I realized immediately that Lila needed to talk."
"Talking soothed her."
"She told me that going to work was the worst humiliation ever."
"But she had no other choice."
Put a little white meat in not just red.
- You're not doing your job, concentrate - Yes, sir
"Bruno, Nino's friend who we met in Ichiya, offered her the job."
"He's not the same man anymore."
"His father passed, and he took charge of the sausages factory."
"This broke him down."
Listen to this joke.
A man mistakenly enters the ladies' to take a piss.
A woman comes in sees him and starts screaming.
And he goes: "What the fuck are you screaming at?"
And she goes "This is only for women."
He turns around and shows his dick. "Isn't this only for women?"
Didn't make you laugh, girlie?
I know what you need to have fun.
How dare you, you asshole?
Never mind him! He's all talk, he's harmless.
Harmless or not he can't fuck with me!
I'll show you!
Bitch!
If they lay their hands on me again, there'll be hell to pay.
You hear me? Do you hear me?
Bruno, what kind of shithole is this?
You can't kick up a stink every time.
People need to horse around a bit or it's agony in here.
- I thought you liked jokes. - When I decide I do.
You're always the same. Go back to work.
Go!
"She had no news of the neighborhood"
"she hadn't even seen her mother."
"She said, I cancelled the past that cancelled me too"
"until it was harder than anyone could imagine"
Lila, look who I brought to see you.
What are you doing here?
Good evening, Lila. How are you?
Standing, as you can see Shall I set a place for you?
No, I just dropped in to say hello.
I'll go back to the party meeting.
We bumped into each other. He's become section secretary.
Who would have thought?
A plate of pasta?
There's plenty.
- Come on. - Thank you.
So, what do you do in the party?
I'm the neighborhood party secretary.
But soon they're going to kick me out.
"Why?"
They complain I make too much fuss, that I'm not calm.
Guess who's the head of the right-wing party
for our neighborhood.
- Gino. - The pharmacist's son?
Michele Solara's slave
If the fascists raise their voices do I enact democratic vigilance?
What the fuck is democratic vigilance?
Pasquale's a friend, never mind if he uses bad words.
I only came to tell you this.
If people had the strength you have...
the world would be a lot different.
Don't tell anyone in the neighborhood
that you came to my house you'll get in trouble.
I'm not afraid I'll follow your example.
No one gave it back to the Solaras and the Carraccis as good as you.
I'm completely out of touch even with my family.
Better that way.
Your father's repairing shoes on his own.
We never see your mother she stays shut away at home.
And Rino... remember how well Rinuccio was doing?
He's a thorn in Stefano's side always begging him for money.
Whenever you want to come there's no need to tell me in advance.
I'll put out an extra plate you just sit and eat.
Thank you.
- You're not eating? - I'm not hungry.
If you want some more there's plenty.
"Enzo not only worked in the factory"
"but at night he studied electronics until he was in a stupor."
Aren't you going to bed?
No, I have to study.
Shall we study a bit together?
"Lila helped him she couldn't leave him alone."
"When she was with him, she was relaxed and her mind was at peace."
We need to make practical examples or it's just talk. Look here.
Zero.
One... Zero, One!
Schematize the door opening using the 0-1 system, can you?
Sure
Then you know how.
This way we can do even more complicated things.
Yes, of course.
Everything okay at the sausage factory?
Why don't you tell me how things are in your factory?
What can I say... same as ever.
Same here.
You say you can apply it to everything
then let's schematize the factory.
- With the binary system? - Yes.
Are algorithms a sequence of procedures?
So, we do lots of things that are defined algorithms.
I know.
And if we do block diagrams
we turn them into geometric shapes.
Exactly.
So they can be applied to everything.
We can really benefit from them.
Help me.
Show me. Shall we start with your factory?
They don't deserve anything.
Actually, do it by yourself I'm tired tonight
Good night.
What are you doing here?
I came to check, do you mind?
You can do what you want in here.
How's Pinuccia?
How would I know?
I think she's in the shit
she's never been happy with your brother.
That summer she fell in love with me and you with Nino.
That's when I found out that pregnant women really like making love.
What? Pinuccia?
Do you really think we went to get coconut?
You know, the factory has always disgusted me.
Really, since I was a kid.
But here in the drying room I felt all right.
Maybe because there's the whole process.
The product being perfected until it's ready to be sold.
Or the smell of cured meat
that reminds me of the smell of a man and a woman touching each other.
What's wrong?
What are you doing? No! Leave me alone.
Come on, show me.
Pull out that thingy of yours I'll break it off!
I hoped for a little gratitude, no?
Do I have to submit or you'll fire me?
Is that it?
Lila?
Are you all right?
This time you were lucky.
But I swear... I don't give a shit if you fire me.
I'll make you regret the moment you put your hands on me.
I didn't do anything to you.
Lila, I didn't do anything to you! You hear me?
So, dear comrades, everyone has their reasons to be here.
"Lila loved Pasquale's passion for politics."
"One day, he brought them to meet the students and workers."
Although he'd been a great comrade.
He fought at the Ponte della Sanità and after the war he took sides.
But nobody helped my mother she was left on her own.
She didn't exist anymore for the party. The party!
Traditional left-wing parties are no longer able to respond to the masses.
"I immediately knew who was this special student"
"It was Nadia, the daughter of Mr. Galliani, Nino's girlfriend"
"She used to send him love letters to Ichiya"
I'd like to thank Nadia and all of you.
Tonight I've brought a dear friend from my neighborhood
Lila Cerullo, a comrade from the working class.
She works in the food industry
she's a mother...
She's my mother.
She makes many sacrifices and although she's exhausted
I persuaded her to come here tonight
because we have much to learn from a person like her.
Please say something.
"Lila could have said something better and maintained her calm"
"But she said "You ruined me"
"How could this neat, bad girl know anything about hard work?"
"You talk without thinking of the consequences"
"and of the problems that will grow bigger day by day"
I'm not like you.
You all talk about the working class
and I know nothing about the working class.
But I do know the workers in the factory where I work
and I can assure you there's nothing to be learned from them, except misery.
Can you imagine what it means to spend eight hours a day standing up
to your waist in mortadella cooking water?
Or to have your fingers covered in cuts from slicing meat off animal bones?
Or to go in and out of refrigerated rooms
at 20 degrees below zero and earn ten lira more.
Ten lira, for cold allowance?
If you can imagine that
what can you learn from people forced to live like that?
The women must quietly accept men squeezing their asses
If the boss feels like it, a woman has to follow him into his office
just as they used to with his father maybe even his grandfather.
We're searched because there's a thing called the partial.
The partial is at the discretion of the guard, who's the boss' spy.
He searches you if he thinks you're taking salamis out.
The partial is not just for thieves
it's especially for pretty girls they want to get their hands on.
This is the situation in the factory where I work.
The union's never entered
the workers are poor people who are blackmailed
subject to the law of the boss I pay you, so I own you.
I own your life, your family and all that surrounds you.
So, either you do what I say or you'll be in big trouble.
So what do you want to learn from us?
You were fantastic you speak so well
We still have a lot to learn your speech showed us many things
- Will you come back? - Where will I get the time?
I have a child, I work eight hours a day, not counting overtime.
At night, people like me only want to sleep.
You really work in those conditions?
Why, how do you work?
And the other workers?
Fuck off, you and the working class.
Why didn't you ever say anything?
- Who put their hands on you? - Nobody.
They don't dare with me.
"After a couple of days, she saw her words printed on a flyer"
"being distributed to people in front of the union's factory"
Lila, hi.
Don't you recognize me? I'm Dario from the union.
- Bye. - All the best.
And you've got the nerve to not even say hello. Stop.
- What do you want? - Listen up.
If you said the things written here, you're in deep trouble.
I don't know what you're talking about.
You don't? Well, read this.
We always got along here only you could say these things.
I'll turn on the partial whenever I like?
I put my hands on women? Me, the father of a family?
Bruno's going to make you pay dearly when he reads this garbage.
By God, I ought to smash her face with my own hands.
Where's Cerullo? There she is!
- Was it you? - No.
Tell me the truth, there's too many troublemakers in here.
- Have you joined them? - I said no.
So who was it?
Who had the nerve to write this bullshit?
It must have been an office worker.
The office workers don't do this stuff.
What are you going to do? Birds sing, take it out on them.
Lunchtime!
It's lunchtime, I said! Enjoy!
No, you stay here.
Come on, it's lunchtime! Quickly!
I gave you a job, I didn't say anything when you joined the union
my father would have kicked you out.
I made a mistake in the drying room, but I apologized.
You can't say I persecuted you. So what do you do?
You put my factory in a bad light.
You say that I take the women workers there.
Why, do I take them there? As if!
You make me regret how good I've been to you.
Good? I work myself to death and you pay me peanuts
I'm doing you a favor.
See? You talk just like those assholes!
Just admit you wrote those things!
Bruno, trust me I have a small kid.
I really didn't write those things.
You know what you're forcing me to do?
No, and I don't want to know.
I'll tell you anyway, if they're your friends, warn them.
The next time they come here
I'll have them beaten up so hard they'll lose the will to go on.
And get rid of this fucking Christmas tree!
It's still Christmas in here... Christmas is over!
"She was mad, especially from Nadia because she was in love with Pasquale"
"who was a part of our world and defended us fiercely"
"Nadia didn't do that"
Nadia's not here but come in and wait for her, this way.
"She caused her troubles without risking anything"
- He can play with my grandson - So pretty!
We didn't get one.
Go and play with the little boy.
- Come in, please - "As soon as I got inside"
"I felt that she shared my tiredness after being with me at the party"
"I felt like the air was poisonous and got to her"
It's mine!
- Stop it or we'll go home! - Leave them, they're just kids.
"Mrs. Galliani was so kind, caring and understanding"
"But Lila was convinced that it was a mere act of courtesy"
"it was all a lie"
Do you want to make Mamma cross or will you behave?
He never behaves, but he's clever.
He can read and write all the letters, capitals and lower case.
I try not to speak to him in dialect, to encourage him.
"Teaching Gennarino, Italian speaking and reading it, was in vain"
"Mrs. Galliani, Nadia and people like them will remain always superior"
I want him to succeed.
"Mrs. Galliani's grandson will be the one bossing around"
"Gennarino will execute his orders"
"She was thinking of all the deeds that ruin the personality and morals"
"But she kept her calm"
Good morning, there are guests.
- Hi, Mamma. - Give Mamma a kiss.
Lila! Thank goodness you're here, need to talk.
That's why I'm here I don't have much time.
All right, let's go.
- Guys, we're going to my room. - Okay
Hi.
You've unleashed hell!
The boss is threatening to bring some ugly people.
How scary!
Don't ever show up there again you risk causing real trouble.
- Of course I'm going to show up. - Wait, listen to me.
What you told us is too important
we decided it was our duty to divulge it.
We'll protect you and your comrades.
- What job do you do? - What do you mean?
- What job do you do? - Doctor.
- Like your father. - Yes.
Are you risking your job?
Could you end up on the street with your son?
It's not a contest to see who risks more, how can I put it?
He was arrested I have eight charges against me
it's not about risk Then what is it about?
No! We're all on the front line
and ready to assume our responsibilities.
So if I lose my job I can come and live here?
- Yes, you can! - If you like, yes.
You can't work in those conditions
you have to fight to change things.
Don't get in the way.
Stretch your legs out.
- Breathe! - Take her coat off.
Give her some air.
I'm fine.
Hand me my bag
- Are you sleeping well? On what? - It depends.
My thoughts.
- I have to go now. - Wait, Lila.
- Lisa, can you... - Of course.
Thank you. Do you ever feel pain in your chest?
Like a weight, but light.
Have you fainted before?
No.
- Are you regular? - With what?
- Menstruation. - No.
- When did you last have it? - I don't know!
- Don't you keep track? - Why, should I keep track?
Yes, it'd be better.
Do you use birth control? The spiral, condoms, the pill?
What pill?
It's a new medicine for not getting pregnant.
But why are we talking about these things?
You've pushed your body too far you need to slow down.
Meaning?
You're malnourished you've neglected yourself.
Your liver is enlarged you need to do some tests.
I don't have time for that give me some medicine.
No point mincing words with you I think I heard a murmur.
- A murmur? - A murmur is a heart problem
we have to see how serious it is.
- You mean I'm dying? - No.
You need to see a cardiologist come to the hospital tomorrow...
Hold on.
On Monday I'm going to work
Pasquale, take me home.
- Gennarino, put that car down - No, it's a gift.
- You taking me home or not? - I'm right here.
You're all very generous in this house, thank you!
What did Armando tell you?
- I need to eat more. - See? You neglect your health.
You're not my father, you're not my brother, you're nothing.
What do you want from me?
- Can't I worry about you? - No.
And watch what you say and do, especially with Enzo.
If you tell him I wasn't well you've lost me as a friend.
And anyway it was just a dizzy spell.
Lila, listen to me.
Take a couple of days off don't go to Soccavo's.
We're trying to get the union involved, it's better that way.
It's a political opportunity.
The fuck do I care about political opportunities?
You got me into trouble and now I'll do what I want.
Stay home for a couple of days.
Again...
Listen to me.
Come, Gennarino.
- Bye, Gennarino. - Bye.
Take care.
"Pasquale was trying to warn her"
"He knew there will be more loath and grudge than ever"
"and that Bruno will talk to the fascists"
Go and wash your hands.
You go out and come back with Pasquale.
Why? What secrets do you have?
Nothing, he bugs me Him and the union...
What's wrong?
Pasquale's a friend But what are you?
Why am I the only one who never knows anything?
Can I sleep with you?
- Sleep how? - You decide.
- And do you want to? - As long as you hold me close.
You don't want me.
I want you but I don't feel anything.
So why do you want to sleep with me?
I'm scared you'll send me away.
Let's go to bed.
Each in our own room?
No, in mine.
You're trembling?
My feet are freezing Can I put them near yours?
Shall I caress you?
Don't bother.
Can I sleep?
Sleep.
Cerullo!
Gino.
This is where you ended up?
You acted the lady and look at you now.
- What is it? - Can you still read?
I do, but when did you fascists learn to write?
Be careful, I asked your husband for permission to smash your face in.
And he said yes.
And to smash my face in
you went to ask for my husband's permission?
It's not even good as toilet paper.
Pick it up right now.
Or else?
- I said pick it up. - Or else what'll you do?
Pick it up!
Who's this, Cerullo?
The neighborhood idiot.
Is this asshole bothering you?
- What the fuck are you doing? - Piece of shit!
God damnit!
Let's get out of here.
- I'm going to kill him. - No, you'll get hurt!
Communist shit bag! Asshole! Next time I'll kill you!
Before you wanted to tear his ear off now you're helping him?
- He helped me. - Did you?
I'm going to smash her face not some fascist.
- Did you call the Communists? - No, but I know who called the fascists
- Who called them? - Soccavo.
- What a piece of shit! - We got to do something.
Who'll help us, the union?
First, we got to realize that all our problems are connected.
We still need to figure out what to fight for.
All our illnesses are linked to our working conditions
problems with our hands, our lungs...
The factory is pitiful, the hygienic conditions are disgusting.
There's no need to wait for the union
we got to speak with Soccavo.
- You go. - I get pissed off too easy.
- Better. - No, you go
You know how to talk you'll put him in his place
Forget it.
Lila! What a pleasure! How are you?
And you kept Miss Carracci hidden among the salamis?
- I'll come back later. - Sit down.
Sit down, or you'll get tired.
How are you?
Everything's okay.
We've restructured the store in Piazza dei Martiri.
There are new shelves modern light fittings...
I'm not interested in your store
Our store. We invented it together.
I didn't invent anything with you.
If you'd kept working with me you'd be a queen.
You know I'm marrying Gigliola?
I'd invite you to the wedding but I can't embarrass your husband.
He's having a hard time too his grocery stores aren't doing so well.
The competition's growing.
Even Marcello sells bread, pasta...
You and your brother had the nerve to put Stefano under too?
What are you thinking?
We help our friends.
Isn't that right, Mr. Soccavo?
You know who Marcello got in to help?
- No. - Your brother.
You're making Rino work as a clerk?
What could he do? You disappeared.
He's got the whole family on his shoulders
Pinuccia's pregnant again.
He asked Marcello for a hand and he helped him.
- Aren't you glad? - No, I'm not glad.
I don't like anything you do.
This girl is determined she has the courage of a lion.
She can turn shit into gold she could reorganize your business.
She has a brain like no other woman, or even us men.
But she's crazy in the head.
And so one day she didn't show up for work, she disappeared.
This is because she still hasn't found a real man to put her in her place.
She can't cook? She learns.
The house is dirty? She cleans.
A real man has the woman do everything.
Just to give you an example...
I met a woman who didn't know how to whistle
We were together for two hours of fire
And then I said to her "Go on, whistle."
You won't believe it but she whistled.
If you know how to educate a woman, fine
If you don't, forget it she'll only hurt you
But with her it's difficult.
Just look at her, small eyes tits you can't even see...
An ass like a little kid a broomstick.
With someone like her you can't even get it up.
But it only takes a moment and you want to fuck her.
- Piece of shit! - Bitch. You think I'm nobody?
You really think you depend on Mr. Soccavo?
You're wrong.
Mr. Soccavo is in my mother's red book.
Michele, you're taking it too far.
Remember, you depend on me always and only.
And if I want you you come running, is that clear?
I don't know what trouble you're in to end up in the Solaras' hands.
Maybe you better go to work.
To work?
I could whistle when I was five.
Go away! Go away! Please, go away!
Mamma, Mamma, help! I beg you... don't hurt me.
"Now that Miguel Solara is back"
"her world with Enzo and Gennarino disappeared"
"The limits were fading again"
"It was pouring and this made her so tired, she collapsed"
"I let her talk, now we were in a room in St. Giovanni"
"I felt so guilty"
"I thought this is the life I could be leading"
"If this didn't happen it's because of her too"
Remember what I told you about Gennaro.
I'll stay for a while longer.
Watch over me until I fall asleep.
Watch over me always even when you leave Naples.
So I'll know you're watching and I can relax.
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