[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR OPENING]
[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
FATHER SERGIO: [IN ITALIAN] She has a rare
and powerful gift.
[IN ENGLISH] I remember the first time
I heard Robin play.
It was really quite extraordinary.[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [IN ITALIAN] I'm sorry, Father. - FATHER SERGIO: No problem.
SAGRAVAS: It's time for her to go to conservatory.
- LUCA: Yes, sure. - SAGRAVAS: I've set up an interview for Robin tomorrow.
- LUCA: Ah, fine. - CLAIRE: An interview?
- Ciao. - LUCA: Ciao.
Siì, um... [IN ENGLISH] Very informal.
A friend of mine from admissions would like to hear Robin play.
Oh! When?
Uh, she has a small window tomorrow afternoon.
Robin can leave my class earlier.
- That's good. - CLAIRE: Oh, there she is!
[SPEAKS ITALIAN, CHUCKLES]
You were so wonderful!
I wasn't good.
No, no. It's the best I've ever heard you play.
Thanks...
Hey. Really proud of you, sweetheart.
[ROBIN SIGHS][KISSES, SPEAKS ITALIAN]
- MARCO: [IN ITALIAN] Hi Robin! - ADRIANA: You were fantastic! Good job.
- Marco loved it too. - Thanks.
MARCO: [IN ITALIAN] Mom, I'm hungry...[IN ENGLISH] Well done
tonight, Robin. Well done.
MARCO: [IN ITALIAN] - When are we going to eat? - SAGRAVAS: Sorry, I have to go.
- Bye, thanks. Bye. - Bye, Giacomo.
MARCO: Please, come on![IN ENGLISH] So...
Pizza to celebrate, huh?[ADRIANA SPEAKS ITALIAN]
Pizza? But Marco hates...
I love pizza!
[IN ITALIAN] Ah, good! Pizza![ADRIANA SPEAKS ITALIAN]
So pizza it is! Come on, let's go...
[IN ENGLISH] Uh, Claire, you're more than welcome
to come with us, if you...
Oh, no, no. I'm gonna go home.
- [IN ITALIAN] Thanks. - ADRIANA: [IN ENGLISH] Sure.
I have to study for an algebra test.
Oh, she's saying she has an algebra test.
LUCA: Yeah, I... I got it. Come on, sweetheart.
I won't keep you up late. Promise.
Should I?
Of course! Go, go. Go have fun. Go.
I'm so proud of you.
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] Thanks...
Ciao.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
LUCA: [IN ITALIAN] Have you seen, Marco?
She's so good.
CLAIRE: She had a recital tonight.
Renato, you would've loved it.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Who?
CLAIRE: Your granddaughter.
She plays beautifully.
Which one?
[SPEAKS ITALIAN]
She's Robin!
[GRUNTS]
Are you married?
You stood in for my father...
Remember?
You were so happy.
Was I?
PATIENT: You want to kill me. You want to kill me, don't you?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
PATIENT: It's poisoned, I know. I can feel it!
Was she there?
PATIENT: I'm not going - to eat this! Stop! - CLAIRE: Who?
PATIENT: I don't want to eat this!
[YELPS][METAL TRAY CLATTERS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
CLAIRE: [IN ENGLISH] It's okay.[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Give yourself a break, Claire.
You don't have to pretend for him.
It must be exhausting.
You're here. It's more than his own son ever does.
Thank you.
[PIANO PLAYING]
[DOOR OPENS][KEYS JINGLING]
[IN ITALIAN] What a sweet melody, Claire!
Thank you!
- Good evening. - Good evening.
[IN ENGLISH] Robin?
Why is your bike in the hallway?
[PIANO PLAYING STOPS]
I'm taking it to school tomorrow so I can ride to the audition.
CLAIRE: Hmm.
CLAIRE: Audition? Hmm.
Is that what Signor Sagravas said?
He said it was an audition?
He didn't use that word exactly.
Yeah, he did tell me it was very informal.
Mom, if they ask you to come
and play for them, it's an audition.
CLAIRE: Conservatory. That's a big step!
I'm ready.
I know. It's just all happening so fast.
It's just an audition, Mom. I'm not flying away.
Hmm.
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
[KIDS LAUGHING][INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SPEAKS ITALIAN]
Buongiorno, Signora Marino. Buongiorno, Maya.
[IN ENGLISH] Still don't know how you can take it.
Your mom's okay as a teacher,
but I would seriously suffocate if my mom was everywhere I was.
I don't mind. She's pretty okay as a mom too...
EMMA: "A mourner walked Among the children"
"I notwithstanding went about As one bemoaning a dominion"
"Itself the only prince Cast out"
"Elder, today, a session wiser And fainter, too"
"As wiseness is"
"I find myself Still softly searching"
"For my delinquent palaces"
"And a suspicion Like a finger"
"Touches my forehead Now and then"
"That I am looking oppositely"
"For the sight Of the Kingdom of Heaven"
Beautiful.
So, a lot has been written
about the underlying melancholy of this poem.
What do we think Emily Dickinson is so sad about?
- She lost something. - CLAIRE: Yeah.
What do you think she's referring to when she says,
"Still softly searching for my delinquent palaces?"
She's looking for the life she had.
Yeah. She's looking for the... the mystery
and the enchantment
of a world that's no longer available to her.
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS] CLAIRE: Okay. So,
your poems are due on Friday.
Please, keep working on them, enjoy the process.
If anybody has anything you'd like me to read
in advance, you can pass it in.
[BOTH SPEAK ITALIAN]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MOUTHS] Good luck.
[RAIN PATTERING][THUNDER RUMBLING]
[BOTH SPEAK ITALIAN]
Did he show up with the jail-bait wife?
Of course he did.[GROANS]
Still look like you?
Of course she does.
When I was a teenager![BUS HORN HONKS]
VIV: Some men are such pigs!
[BUS ENGINE REVVING] Especially the ex-husband variety. Hey!
- Wait! Wait! - NUN: [IN ITALIAN] Take my hand!
VIV: [IN ENGLISH] Wait!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
SAGRAVAS: Claire![DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]
Claire. [SIGHS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING] NURSE: No, no, no!
[IN ITALIAN] You can't go in!
[IN ENGLISH] But I think my daughter...[IN ITALIAN] You can't go in!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[ALL SPEAK ITALIAN FRANTICALLY]
No, no, no, no...
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING][VENTILATOR HISSING]
[DR. STANCIK SPEAKS ITALIAN]
DR. STANCIK: Defibrillator! - 200 joules! - NURSE: Ready. Clear!
[SPEAKS ITALIAN]
Get her out of here! Leave, ma'am!
[IN ENGLISH] You can't stay here! Go!
[MUSIC FADES]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLAIRE SOBS]
[DRIPS ECHOING]
CLAIRE: God, please don't take her from me.
LUCA: Claire...
[FOOTSTEPS ECHOING]
[IN ITALIAN] I got here as fast as I could.
Oh, my gosh.
[IN ENGLISH] Claire, I'm so sorry.
[RAIN PATTERING ON WINDOW]
[IN ITALIAN] There isn't a pulse.
Massage. Shift change!
[DEFIBRILLATORS ZAP][HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLAIRE SOBBING]
[SOBS]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]
[IN ENGLISH] Her finger moved.
Her hand moved.
Claire!
[GASPS]
[IN ITALIAN] There's a pulse! Oxygen mask, quickly!
CLAIRE: Robin.
[IN ENGLISH] She was clinically dead for 20 minutes.
The likelihood of brain damage is probable.
It's a question of to what degree.
We won't know until she wakes up.
And when will that be?
DR. STANCIK: It's hard to say.
[IN ITALIAN] He doesn't fucking tell us anything!
DR. STANCIK: I know it's not easy, I'm sorry.
We just have to wait.
[IN ENGLISH] I'll leave you alone.
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA]
You should...
I'll just take them home and come back, okay?
Claire.
I'm sorry, but I...
It's okay.
Okay. I'll see you soon.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[WATER BUBBLING][DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]
[DISTORTED CHATTER]
[ROBIN BREATHES HEAVILY]
Oh, my God!
You're awake.
Hi, Mamma.
Your voice.
[SOFTLY] Yeah.
You're speaking.
You're back.
Yeah.
I'm back.
[PENLIGHT CLICKS]
DR. STANCIK: [IN ITALIAN] Look straight ahead.
Close your eyes again.
Open.
Very good.
Good.
Come, Robin. Eyes closed, slow.
Slow, right. Good, good.
Very good, Robin.
[IN ENGLISH] This is highly unusual.
Robin appears to be functioning within
a completely normal range in all aspects.
Other than scars and bruises, at the moment,
she seems to be walking away unscathed.
- CLAIRE: Hmm. - LUCA: Right.
Since you say she was verbal ten years ago,
the best I can surmise is that the trauma to her brain
simply caused her to forget she didn't want to speak.
[SPEAKS ITALIAN]
I'll let her go home today, but she needs to take it slow.
It can take time for the damage to show.
[CHUCKLES]
[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIRDS SQUAWKING]
Okay.
Here, I'll take those. I can put them in the kitchen.
Want me to take your coat, honey?
Oh, okay.
Um...
Should I put on some coffee or...
No, I'll...
I should go. Thank you.[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV]
- Thank you very much. - Thanks.
I'll call you tomorrow, sweetheart, okay?
Okay. Bye, Dad.
- Bye. - Ciao.
Ciao. Grazie.
[INDISTINCT AUDIO ON TV]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[ROBIN INHALES SHARPLY]
[UNEASY MUSIC PLAYING]
CLAIRE: Holy Mary, mother of God,
pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
Hail Mary, full of grace...
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[MUSIC FADES][PIANO NOTE PLAYS, STOPS]
[PIANO NOTE PLAYS, STOPS]
[PIANO NOTE RESUMES PLAYING]
Rob, what are you doing?
I want to go to school tomorrow.
Oh, the doctor says you need to stay at home and rest--
Can you stop that, please?
ROBIN: I want to go to school tomorrow.
Robin. Robin.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow...
Honey, okay. Let's...
Let's see how you're feeling in the morning.
[PIANO PLAYING STOPS]
[KITCHEN TIMER BEEPS]
Thank you.
[UNEASY MUSIC CONTINUES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
GIRL 1: I saw it fly through the window.
GIRL 2: Its neck is probably broken.
GIRL: It's only stunned.
[BIRD CHIRPING]
Stop! You're holding it too tight! You're killing it.
I know a secret.
[IN ITALIAN] Death is not the end.
[IN ENGLISH] What do you mean?
I'll show you.
CLAIRE: What's happening?
Robin? What is it?
Please, make her let it go, Signora Marino.
Sweetheart, put the bird down. Birds can carry diseases.
Are you worried I'll catch something?
And die?
[CHURCH BELL RINGS]
Robin, put the bird down.
[BIRDS CHIRPING][INDISTINCT MURMURING]
It's dead.
[SCHOOL BELL RINGING]
Come on, girls! Move along.
Come here.
Excuse me. Robin! Robin!
- Claire! Claire! Walk with me. - No. Hey--
- Walk with me. - No.
Please.
I spoke to Robin this morning,
and she seemed more confident than before the accident.
I told her that my friend from admission
could come here specifically to hear her play.
- Robin really wants to do it. - No, no, no, no.
She's not ready for that. I...
I don't want her under that kind of pressure.
No pressure at all!
Listen. I would only have her do the pieces
she could play in her sleep.
Ludovica is also aware of what Robin's been through.
- CLAIRE: Giacomo. No! - Think about it!
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
Hello! Earth to Claire![CHUCKLES]
Sorry.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Where are you? - Hmm.
[SIGHS]
I had such a strange morning with Robin.
She's been through an ordeal. You both have.
She just seems like a different person.
Teenage girls are a mess, no matter how you spin it.
One minute sweethearts, the next, le monstre.
All the surging hormones! It's totally normal, Claire.
Mm.
You didn't grow up Catholic?
- Hmm. - VIV: Well, I did. And listen...
a Catholic girl's inner devil
has to rear her ugly head at some point.
I was Robin. And look at me now.
I turned out all right, okay?
[BOTH LAUGH]
Hey!
Give her time to process all this.
Do you think maybe you're looking
for something to be wrong
because it's just so hard to believe she could be okay?
Don't do that.
[HUMMING] Don't do that!
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC BUILDS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SNIFFS][LOUD THUDDING]
[IN ITALIAN] Excuse me...
[CAT SCREECHES][IN ENGLISH] Oh, shit!
[TEDDY BEAR SQUEAKS]
[MUSIC FADES]
Oh, my God! I can't believe you've done all this!
Morning!
You're wearing your uniform.
I wanted to do something nice for you.
Oh, it's so beautiful.
Here.[CHUCKLES]
Oh... Sit.
Thanks, honey.
Were you in the storage room last night?
Which storage room?
The one up on the terrace, where we keep our things. I...
The door was open when I had to go in and wash the sheets.
It wasn't me.
CLAIRE: I thought, because you were up...
You know, when you came in my room--
ROBIN: I wasn't in your room.
Oh, you don't remember?
Did you have a nightmare?
Honey?
Why... Why don't you come sit and talk to me?
[ROBIN GRUNTS]
We'll be late for school.
No, you don't have school today. It's Saturday.
[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]
So talk.
Oh, uh...
Well, I just feel like you've been through so much and...
now that we can talk to each other,
I wondered what it was like for you.
What what was like?
You know, sometimes they say you can see a bright light or...
I don't remember.
Or you can look down at yourself and it's peaceful, or... No?
I told you...
that I don't...
fucking remember.
Robin!
[CHURCH BELL RINGING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
GIRL: Signora Marino? Siì?
[SPEAKS ITALIAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Um, I...
Could you come back at lunch time,
and we can talk about this?
Grazie. Yes.
[PIANO PLAYING]
[ROBIN HUMMING OFF-KEY][PIANO PLAYING STOPS]
[CHAIR THUDS]
Ludovica! I'm terribly sorry, Ludovica!
I've never seen her behave that way.
Giacomo. What's going on?
I told you, she's not ready.
Um...
Ludovica was in the building dropping off some music, so...
I thought it'd be okay if she listened to Robin play.
It wasn't. I pushed that too fast.
Yes, maybe.
- This was a bit premature. - Yes.
SAGRAVAS: Ludovica!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
Ah! [INHALES SHARPLY]
[MUSIC FADES]
VIV: Got a minute?
Jesus! What happened?
Nothing. I just... I scraped it.
- You okay? - CLAIRE: Yeah. Yeah.
What do you need?
Claire, maybe she wasn't ready to come back so soon.
Of course she wasn't ready, Viv.
This isn't perfectly normal teenage behavior.
Whoa! I'm not the enemy here.
I'm sorry, I'm just... I'm...
It's okay.
[SIGHS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[IN ITALIAN] Ouch! You're hurting me!
You've never liked that girl.
What are you talking about?
She was handful, that one.
Not what you were hoping for...
was she?
GIULIA: Okay. Stop watching TV. Time for bed.
Let's go to sleep, Renato.
[IN ENGLISH] I'll take him to bed.
[IN ITALIAN] Goodnight.
I need to tell you this because...
I didn't want to come back at first...
DR. ROMANO: What brought you back, Eva?
Something told me it wasn't over yet here.
GIULIA: [IN ENGLISH] Claire.
They're getting him ready for the night.
[IN ITALIAN] You have to help me understand... Sure...
- That's why I'm here. - EVA: Thanks.
[IN ENGLISH] Dr. Romano is such a comfort to her
and other residents.
Dealing with trauma,
or loss of loved ones. Grazie.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
GRETA: [IN ITALIAN] It's been like this for over an hour.
I never once complained about the piano,
but this is just noise!
CLAIRE: Robin!
Robin!
[MUSIC STOPS]
[TEDDY BEAR SQUEAKS][WATER RUNNING]
CLAIRE: Robin!
Robin? Rob!
[IN ENGLISH] Rob! I'm coming in.[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
Robin?
Honey. Oh, my God! What are you doing?
Ah! [WHIMPERS]
That's boiling water, honey. Get out. You have to get out.
Come on. You gotta get out. Come on!
Out, out, out! Right now. Oh!
Oh, my God!
[ROBIN WHIMPERS]
Oh, my God! Why was the water so hot?
ROBIN: I don't know, Mom.
CLAIRE: What's going on?
Robin.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
You're so needy, it's pathetic.
[SCOFFS]
[INDISTINCT MURMURING] FEMALE VOICE 1: Loser.
FEMALE VOICE 2: Coward.
[GIRLS GIGGLING]
[ALL MURMURING, LAUGHING]
Quiet!
Pass forward your poems,
and turn to Whitman in your anthologies.
[WIND BLOWING]
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
CLAIRE: My God!
Signora Marino.
Everything okay?
CLAIRE: No.
Why would you...
MOTHER SUPERIOR: What is it?
How dare you?
[MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY]
I don't understand.
They are just poems.
What? No, they...
No, they-- I... No, they had written terrible...
MOTHER SUPERIOR: Signora Marino!
Claire!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SHUSHES]
Signora Marino!
[RAIN PATTERING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[GROANS]
[SIGHS]
[LOUD THUDDING]
[CLOCK CHIMES] Robin!
What's wrong?
Robin, you have to tell me what's wrong--
Shut up!
Robin!
It's not Robin.
[MACHINE WHIRRING]
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING][KEYBOARD CLICKING]
Very good, Robin.
[IN ITALIAN] Very good.
CLAIRE: [IN ENGLISH] Something's wrong with her.
DR. STANCIK: She's getting better every day.
No, no, no, no. I mean...
Maybe... Maybe physically, but... but...
her behavior is... is not normal.
Normalcy will take time.
We talked about it.
But you said that...
that the damage might show up later.
It's... It's showing.
I know you're worried about Robin,
but don't forget to take care of yourself.
I could prescribe an anxiolytic.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
Wanna swing by Giolitti's and get some...
gelato?
Robin, what's wrong?
Robin.
Robin, can you please try
to help me understand what's happening?
[ROBIN HUMS] Ever since the accident...
[ROBIN HUMS]
How come you didn't ask if I saw her?
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
LUCA: She seemed fine to me when I was with her.
You're not listening to me.
She's changed. There's... There's something...
different since the accident.
LUCA: Well, she-- And...
- she mentioned her today. - LUCA: Oh.
It makes sense, Claire.
What she's just been through, of course she'd think of her.
Doctors always say she doesn't remember.
[MAN SPEAKS ITALIAN] Uh...
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN ITALIAN]
[IN ITALIAN] I'll be there in a minute.
[IN ENGLISH] Um... Claire, why don't Adriana and I
take Robin for a week, hmm?
- Just to give you a break. - CLAIRE: I don't need a break.
- I need my daughter back. - I really gotta go. Sorry.
I'll call you back, all right?
I gotta go. Ciao. Ciao.
[INDISTINCT AUDIO ON TV]
[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING] Everything okay, Mamma?
Yeah. Everything's fine.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT WHISPERING][GIRL BREATHING HEAVILY]
What's going on in there?
[DOOR SLAMS OPEN][GIRL COUGHING]
What's the matter, honey? What happened?
- What's going on? - She was choking me.
Robin...
I was only trying to show her that death isn't the end.
Robin.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[MUSIC FADES] What Robin's been through,
it must have been very difficult, for both of you.
But, Claire, I think even you can agree that her behavior
is beyond the normal scope of readjustment.
There's something wrong with her.
I'm not saying that.
CLAIRE: I am.
There's something desperately wrong with my daughter.
MOTHER SUPERIOR: I'm going to recommend...
that you get Robin some help readjusting.
Until then, Claire, I think it's best
if she doesn't come to school.
You're expelling her.
That's a harsh way to put it.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLAIRE SIGHS]
FATHER SERGIO: [IN ITALIAN] As human beings we are guilty.
Guilty of bad thoughts, of selfish deeds.
So many people...
live in fear that their past sins will be discovered.
There's a darkness that follows us...
when we try to outrun our guilt.
What we must understand...
if we don't stop and deal with guilt...
It will deal with us.
[IN ENGLISH] Come on.
Let's go.
Oh, no.
Father, please help her? Cara. What's the problem?
[ROBIN GAGS]
- FATHER SERGIO: What's trouble? - Oh my God! Oh my God!
[IN ITALIAN] Sister, please come here!
[IN ENGLISH] Claire, do you understand
- what you're saying? - Yes, I do.
- Have you spoken to Luca? - Luca doesn't listen.
Luca can't help. Doctors can't help.
Only God can help.
Only the Church. That's why I'm here.
That's why I came to you. You don't understand.
I can't lose her. - Father, please. - Okay, okay, okay. Don't worry.
Go inside and stay with her.
I'll try to find someone.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR OPENS]
Luca?
Father!
- LUCA: Claire. - FATHER SERGIO: He's her father.
I felt he needed to be included in this conversation.
An exorcism? Really?
Come on, sweetheart, let's go to my place.
Luca, stop.
You don't know what's going on. Please, let Father Sergio help.
I can't help her, Claire. Not the way you want me to.
So you're not even gonna try? You'll shrug it off
and put her to bed and hope she's better in the morning?
That's not going to happen.
There's something wrong with her.
And it's getting worse.
Claire, we've all been through hell.
- I get it. - CLAIRE: No.
No, you're not getting it. You're not getting it.
Our daughter is not herself. She's not right.
LUCA: And whose fault is that?
She's been with you night and day.
Come on, sweetheart. Come on.
I... I think you both...
need some space.
[MUSIC FADES]
OMAR: [IN ITALIAN] It's beyond human experience.
It was all so free, so peaceful.
And love!
Love was an entity there.
Not just a feeling, not just an emotion...
but something tangible.
I saw it.
It was real.
I've heard others say the same.
That love exists
in the hereafter as a presence.
That you not only felt it, but saw it.
My daughter didn't see that.
Wherever she went...
It wasn't what you're all saying it was.
She...
came back from a very dark place.
No, no. It's not dark. It's not a wicked place.
[CHURCH BELL RINGING]
It's God.
I don't know if it's God.
I was there by choice.
A handful of Halcion
and I thought all my troubles would die with me.
But then he was there.
My late husband.
I didn't expect that.
It's like he was stuck in that place because of me.
He told me I had to let go.
He said I wouldn't find what I was looking for there...
I had to come back to the living to find it.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING]
And did you find it?
It's an ongoing search.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
THE MIRACLE AFTER DROWNING IN FREEZING WATER
- [IN ENGLISH] Claire, right? - Yes.
Listen, I haven't eaten all day.
I'm heading across the street for a pasta. Join me.
CLAIRE: I was really moved by the man
who talked about the hereafter
as very freeing and, um...
- peaceful. - Omar.
A year ago, up in Livigno,
he was hiking around Lago Vago with his grandsons
and found a baby deer stranded on the frozen lake.
He went out to push it to the shoreline,
but not before the ice broke.
His grandsons called 1-1-2,
but it was 45 minutes before rescuers could get there
and break through to pull out his body.
But paramedics still performed CPR
while getting him to the hospital.
And they were able to bring him back.
How is that even possible?
When someone drowns in freezing water,
they may appear clinically dead,
but in rare instances they can be revived
with little to no neurological defect.
The body attempts to thwart the cold
and preserve blood flow to the brain and the heart.
The doctors were able to slowly warm him
and bring him back once he was at the hospital. [CHUCKLES]
That's unbelievable.
One of the many fascinating mysteries of the human body.
[SIGHS]
You mentioned...
your daughter's experience on the other side was difficult.
Yeah.
I've heard many near death stories over the years.
And in the less peaceful ones, what comes up, time and again,
if someone dies with unresolved issues, the journey becomes...
- more challenging. - CLAIRE: And the journey...
What is that? Where do they go?
There's a place beyond this one.
At least according to those who've been there and back.
Is there anything...
your daughter has been through that she may have internalized?
It is usually some sort of emotional trauma
that's been repressed.
A loss.
A trespass. Something... Something difficult to discuss.
Claire?
Can you tell me...
about this place?
This place they go, what it's like?
- There is no simple answer. - CLAIRE: Is it...
loving and peaceful?
For some.
What are you looking for, Claire?
[SIGHS]
But where are you going? Stop!
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
CLAIRE: What?
How many times have I told you?
[ROBIN WAILS]
LUCA: [FAINTLY] What are you doing Claire?
[ROBIN SOBS]
LUCA: Claire, please...
Claire, stop!
[IN DEEP VOICE] Claire!
Claire, where are you going?
I did everything to make this family happen.
There's no way you deserve us.
LUCA: Claire!
♪ Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells!
ROBIN: ♪ Jingle all the way! ♪
♪ Oh, what fun It is to ride... ♪
LUCA: [ECHOING] ♪ All the way. Hey!
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRIES]
[HORN HONKS][SCREAMS]
A mourner walked among The children
[MUSIC FADES]
LUCA: [IN ITALIAN] Open your eyes!
Ah!
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
LUCA: Look at the little hand! There, there.[ROBIN LAUGHS]
LUCA: There she is, there she is. Inside there!
Look at her! There, can you see her?
There she is, look at Mommy!
ROBIN: Where? LUCA: Here she is.
ROBIN: Where? LUCA: She's in there, in there.
LUCA: Look at her! There, there. In there, can you see her?
ROBIN: There? LUCA: Yes, in there!
LUCA: Look, it's beautiful! ROBIN: It's a bracelet!
LUCA: Wait, wait.
This way...
So beautiful! Give me your wrist, do you like it?
Let me see! Say hello to Mom!
[SPEAKS ITALIAN] Ciao.
[ROBIN BABBLING][TV CLICKS OFF]
[RAIN PATTERING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[PANTS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[PANTS]
[WHIMPERS]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
VIV: Jesus Christ, Claire![MUSIC FADES]
[COUGHS]
You were drowning six inches from the edge of the pool?
What the hell is going on?
She was trying to kill me.
Who?
Nobody's here, Claire.
[BREATHES HEAVILY] VIV: Nobody's here.
[PHONE RINGING]
I think you need to talk to someone.
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING]
CLAIRE: I can't find my keys.
VIV: Are you going to pick that up? [SIGHS]
Luca, it's Viv.
Yes, Claire is here with me. But...
What?
Since when?
What?
Robin's gone missing.
Luca?
Claire, let me drive with you.
I don't think you should be alone.
Claire, wait!
Maybe you should've given a shit and learned sign language.
LUCA: Look, I'm doing my best, okay?
She was scaring Marco. I stopped her and she ran off.
But you're right.
She isn't herself. No. No, she's not.
I don't know who she is.[RADIO CRACKLES]
RADIO ANNOUNCER: [IN ITALIAN] Hell exists... Luca?
RADIO ANNOUNCER: it is a place... it is real! Luca!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO] Luca!
RADIO ANNOUNCER: The time for salvation is now!
There is no salvation in hell!
It awaits all those who are unsaved!
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO]
ROBIN: [IN ENGLISH] Mamma, are we going to hell?
[HORN HONKS][SCREAMS]
[TIRES SCREECH]
CLAIRE: I don't know what's happening anymore.
Do you believe in hell?
I'm not a religious man.
I don't see it in terms of heaven and hell.
But I do believe we make choices in life that might...
follow us.
But you've... you've talked about unresolved issues.
And...
if love can become tangible in the afterlife,
could that be true for other emotions?
I'm not sure I understand.
CLAIRE: Well, I'm wondering if that can happen
for other emotions, like guilt.
Because...
Can guilt...
You know, if you've...
Can your past sins become demons?
I don't believe in sins and demons.
But...
But guilt...
I've known it to take on a...
life of its own.
My daughter brought someone...
back with her.
From the other side.
[GIGGLES]
I think I know who it is.
LUCA: Beautiful robin!
It's not mine! I'm Rose!
LUCA: Oh! You're Rose! Oh, my God! I made a mistake!
[CHUCKLES] Oh, this is for Robin!
[ROSE GIGGLES] LUCA: Robins for Robin!
And roses for Rose!
ROBIN: Papa!
CLAIRE: They were in vitro.
Seven years of miscarriages and false starts.
We lost all our savings and...
ended up moving back to Luca's...
childhood home to take care of his father here in Italy.
Luca didn't want to...
keep trying to get pregnant, but I did, I needed it, I...
I needed those girls, I needed that.
Our marriage needed it.
I really hoped that...
you know, that would fix all the problems.
But where are you going in the middle of the night
with the girls?[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]
They were five when it happened.
The girls.
And Robin's twin?
Rose.
She died.
The doctors all said Robin...
was dealing with the trauma of losing her twin
in her way, you know.
So, talking, or not talking, is...
a way to control something.
So we moved to the city, we moved to Rome.
We buried everything about our life.
Robin found her voice through the piano.
I found...
nothing, really.
Everybody kept saying, "You have to move on," but...
I don't know how to do that. How do you do that?
And...
And so I just started to fake it.
Because it just makes it more comfortable for everybody.
You have to make it more comfortable,
so people don't feel awkward over cocktails.
So, that's what I do. I fake it.
And we never speak of Rose.
Ever.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING][HUMMING]
♪ ...what she could See, see, see... ♪
♪ But all that she could See, see, see... ♪
♪ Was the bottom Of the deep blue sea, sea, sea ♪
[ROSE CRIES]
Please, stop, Rose! Please!
Please, stop!
[WAILS] I want Papa! I don't want you!
[HORN HONKS][SCREAMS]
[ROSE CRIES]
I need to get your seat belt. Give me your arm, please.
Oh! Okay, come on.[ROSE CRIES]
- Come to Mommy! - ROSE: Mom! Mom!
Come on, Rosie! Rosie, we gotta get you out of here!
Please, stop! Rosie! Rosie! Rosie!
I got this![CRIES]
CLAIRE: Rose! Please stop it! Oh, my God!
Rosie! Come on!
[ROSE CRYING][CLAIRE YELLS]
Rosie! Please, Rose!
[YELLING INDISTINCTLY][CRIES]
You need to pull your arms out! Pull your arms out!
Please, pull your arms out!
[MUSIC FADES]
[SOFTLY] I couldn't save her.
[SOBS]
I'm so sorry.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
I've never told Luca.
I told him I... I couldn't remember the details.
But of course I remember everything.
It's with me all the time.
The last words I said...
to my daughter...
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIREN WAILING]
I've done so much damage to my girls.
[PHONE CHIMES]
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[PHONE CHIMES]
LUCA - THEY FOUND ROBIN! THEY'RE TAKING HER TO THE HOSPITAL
DR. ROMANO: Claire...
PARAMEDIC: [IN ITALIAN] She's in hypothermia.
Get her inside, we need to heat her up!
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
DR. STANCIK: Her blood pressure is very low.
Her body is decomposing.
While the heart keeps beating and we don't understand why.
[MUSIC FADES]
[IN ENGLISH] No brain activity.
She's not in there anymore.
You have a difficult decision to make. I'm sorry.
[LUCA SIGHS]
[RAIN PATTERING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[WATER RUNNING]
OPERATOR: [IN ITALIAN] Emergency number.
I'm calling to report an overdose...
OPERATOR: What's the address?
Via Maria Ragazzi, number five.
OPERATOR: Are you still there? Stay on the line...
[CLAIRE WHIMPERS]
[WHIMPERS]
[IN ENGLISH] ♪ A sailor went Down to sea, sea, sea ♪
♪ To see what she could See, see, see ♪
♪ But all that she could See, see, see ♪
♪ Was the deep blue Sea, sea, sea ♪
[SIGHS]
[CLICKS TONGUE]
[PHONE DIALING]
CLAIRE: [IN ITALIAN] Hi, this is Claire. Leave a message.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[IN ENGLISH] I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!
Stop it, Rose![HORN HONKS]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
[BREATHES HEAVILY, GURGLES]
[PARAMEDIC SPEAKS ITALIAN][BANGING ON DOOR]
[SIREN WAILING]
[WATER RIPPLING]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING][GURGLES]
[MUFFLED SCREAM]
[MUSIC FADES]
[ROSE HUMMING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
CLAIRE: Forgive me.
[GASPS] PARAMEDIC 1: [IN ITALIAN] Come on, quickly!
- Get her out of the tub. - PARAMEDIC 2: Okay! Let me help you.
Ready? 2, 3!
Go!
There's no pulse.
- PARAMEDIC 1: 150 joules. - PARAMEDIC 2: Clear!
DR. ROMANO: Claire.
Claire!
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
PARAMEDIC 1: Try again!
PARAMEDIC 2: Clear!
[IN ENGLISH] Claire! Claire, come back.
PARAMEDIC 1: [IN ITALIAN] I heard a heartbeat!
She's trying!
PARAMEDIC 1: [FAINTLY] Check the saturation.
Take deep breaths, ma'am.
[IN ENGLISH] Claire, can you hear me?
PARAMEDIC 2: [IN ITALIAN] Pressure is rising!
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
NURSE: How is it possible?
Doctor!
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
ROBIN: [IN ENGLISH] Ready!
Beautiful![ROBIN CHUCKLES]
Okay.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES][AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]
[APPLAUSE FADES]
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]