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00:00At Frank's poorest moment, I suddenly broke up with him.
00:05Later, he became a Don in the Mafia and married me by any means necessary.
00:12Everyone said he loved me to the bone.
00:14But every night, he brought different women home, deliberately trying to make me jealous.
00:20I asked no questions, shed no tears, and never disturbed his trips with his mistresses.
00:26He didn't know I was sick, dying.
00:30While he was furiously taking his revenge on me, I was slowly walking towards death.
00:36This is the third time I've had a nosebleed this morning.
00:39The doctor said I might be lucky enough to see the cherry blossoms bloom in Central Park next Springer.
00:44But before that, I would keep having seizures, losing my memory, and eventually I wouldn't even be able to walk.
00:51Death isn't what scares me.
00:53What truly terrifies me is watching myself lose my dignity piece by piece while still being fully aware of it.
01:03I waited for the sting of jealousy, but it never came.
01:07Jealousy requires energy, and my body had none left to give.
01:11I just wanted enough morphine to carry me to the end with dignity.
01:15But three weeks ago, Frank froze all my accounts.
01:18He realized he couldn't control my heart anymore, so he used money instead.
01:23For $50,000, I had no choice but to walk into the heart of the Chicago Outpad and beg the
01:30man who hated me most.
01:38Well, look who finally thawed off.
01:41Is Frank in?
01:43Hmm.
01:43He's in a meeting.
01:45Important business.
01:46You wouldn't understand.
01:48I understand that I am his wife.
01:52Wife on paper, Lumi.
01:54Everyone knows I'm the one he comes home to.
01:56Well, the home that matters.
02:00You look terrible, by the way.
02:02Like a corpse.
02:04Maybe you should get some sun.
02:05Or a plastic surgeon.
02:08She was glowing with obnoxious health.
02:11Her skin was flushed with life.
02:13Her hair thick and shiny.
02:15She was everything I used to be before the lies and the sickness ate me alive from the inside out.
02:22Watch your mouth, Daisy.
02:23She is still the Dawn's wife.
02:25If you displace her, the Dawn might kill you.
02:28For now, Enzo.
02:29Just for now.
02:32She was right.
02:33Soon I would leave Frank.
02:35Not through divorce, but through something far more permanent.
02:45Can I get you anything?
02:47Tea?
02:48Coffee?
02:49Vodka?
02:50No, thank you.
02:56He hates interruptions when he's looking at maps.
02:58She smiled.
03:00It reached her eyes, crinkling the corners.
03:02It was innocent.
03:03It was the exact same smile I used to give Frank ten years ago.
03:07Back then, he wasn't a Dawn yet.
03:09Just a nobody with nothing.
03:11And I had to tear his heart apart with my own hands to save him.
03:15That was when I realized why he kept her.
03:17It was because she was a ghost of the girl I used to be.
03:20He was trying to recreate the past with a cheaper substitute.
03:23He treats me so well.
03:25He bought me a villa in Tuscana.
03:27He says he wants to take me there next summer.
03:29Next summer.
03:31I wouldn't be here next summer.
03:33I would be nothing but ash in a ceramic urnth.
03:37That sounds lovely.
03:39He loves me, you know.
03:41Daisy, why do you settle for this?
03:45Settle for what?
03:46Being the Queen of Chicago?
03:48Being a mistress.
03:51If you think you have his heart, then convince him to sign the divorce papers.
03:55I had signed them a year ago.
03:57They were sitting in his safe, gathering dust.
04:01He had refused to sign them.
04:03He told me I didn't get to walk away until he was finished playing with his food.
04:09You think you're so superior?
04:11You're just a washed-up princess, Lumi.
04:13You're barren.
04:14You're cold.
04:15You're nothing.
04:16You abandoned him when he had nothing, didn't you?
04:20Look at you.
04:21You're withering away.
04:22You look like an old hag.
04:24No wonder he never touches you.
04:25No wonder he spends every night in my bed.
04:30You're right.
04:32I am withering.
04:34So take the advice.
04:35Get him to divorce me.
04:37She wanted a scream.
04:39She wanted a catfight.
04:41What she didn't know was that I had too little life left to waste on them.
04:58The man who ruled Chicago's underworld, the one they called the Reaper, he barely glanced
05:03at the scene before heading straight for Daisy.
05:05He took in the scene in a heartbeat.
05:07Let me see.
05:10Who did this?
05:13I did it.
05:14He turned his head slowly to look at me.
05:17He did not erupt.
05:18Instead, he fixed me with the cool, appraising gaze one might grant a piece of filth stuck
05:22to the sole of a shoe.
05:23There was no fire in it, only a heavy, suffocating disgust.
05:25You threw a cup at her?
05:27Sure.
05:30She called me a whore, Frank.
05:32She said I was trash.
05:35Don't cry, baby.
05:39I came here for my allowance, Frank.
05:41Of course.
05:42Greed.
05:43You smell money like a shark smells blood.
05:45I need $50,000.
05:48$50,000?
05:49For what?
05:50A new coat to hide those bones?
05:52$50,000.
05:54That would buy enough morphine to carry me to the end, to let me drift gently into nothingness.
06:02Here, Kara.
06:03Go buy yourself something nice to make up for this distress.
06:06You want money, Lumi?
06:08Yes.
06:09Then apologize to her.
06:12Lower your high-born head and say you're sorry.
06:16Then maybe I'll give you enough for a cab ride home.
06:19He never knew I'd sacrificed everything to protect him.
06:22Now he lays my last fret of dignity before his mistress, waiting to see me kneel.
06:30Then so be it, Frank.
06:34Wait!
06:37I was suddenly curious.
06:39If someday Frank found out that this money could have let me live longer, suffer less pain, what would he
06:46feel then?
06:50The penthouse was unnervingly silent.
06:53Frank hadn't been home in weeks.
06:57I was alone with the pain that was eating me alive.
07:03I didn't have the $50,000 for morphine, so I dry-shallowed two over-the-counter sleeping pills and hoped
07:10I'd make it through the night.
07:15I dreamt of that Christmas Eve ten years ago, when the streets were buried in snow.
07:20We were in Little Italy back then.
07:22Frank wasn't a Don yet, just a soldier, a nobody.
07:29It looks like snow, but sweet.
07:33He didn't have enough money for that cake.
07:36I could tell, and he knew it too.
07:39So I laughed and grabbed his arm, yanking him away before the moment got too heavy.
07:46I hate strawberries anyway.
07:48Let's go get pizza.
07:58For my princess.
08:02Frank worked three extra night shifts down at the docks just to afford that thing.
08:07The cake wasn't even pretty.
08:09Frosting was all smashed up, but it cost him every last cent he had back then.
08:20Do you like it?
08:23It's the best thing I've ever eaten.
08:25It tasted like cheap sugar and stale cream.
08:29It was the best thing I had ever eaten.
08:31I cried in the dream.
08:33I cried because I knew what was coming.
08:35I knew that.
08:38Eventually, I would have to kill that sweet boy to save the man.
08:46Hello?
08:47Lumi, where are you?
08:49I'm in bed.
08:50It's only eight o'clock.
08:53I'm tired, Frank.
08:56I closed my eyes again, drifting between the present and that snowy night ten years ago.
09:02The bakery from my dreams surfaced once more.
09:06The strawberry cake in the window, white as snow.
09:12Frank, it's snowing.
09:15What?
09:15I want the cake.
09:17What?
09:18The strawberry one.
09:20The one that tastes like snow.
09:24Lumi?
09:27I thought it was just a dying dream.
09:31I didn't know that on the other end of the line, Frank sat in silence for a long moment,
09:37then grabbed his coat and walked out into the Chicago snow.
09:50I awoke to the acrid scent of smoke.
09:53Frank sat in the velvet armchair in the corner.
09:55He was watching me.
09:56He hadn't been home in weeks.
09:58I knew, without asking, that he had been staying at the apartment he bought for Daisy.
10:06Your skin and bones.
10:09Let go.
10:11Are you anorexic?
10:12Is that it?
10:13Trying to get attention?
10:16Yes, Frank.
10:17That's it.
10:18I'm starving myself for your attention.
10:20Because you give it so freely.
10:22He dropped my arm as if my skin had burned him.
10:25Turning away, he reached for the bedside lamp.
10:28He flipped the switch and sudden harsh light flooded the room, blinding me.
10:31Look.
10:34He had actually bought it.
10:35I realized it hadn't been a dream.
10:37That phone call had been real.
10:39I stared at the glossy red berries, and nausea rolled violently through my gut.
10:46My stomach had rejected solid food for days.
10:50I needed morphine, not sugar.
10:56You ungrateful bitch.
11:01I drove across the city for that.
11:04You asked for it.
11:08I was dreaming.
11:09I didn't mean it.
11:11You played me?
11:12I looked into his eyes.
11:14They were wild with rage.
11:16But beneath the anger lay something else.
11:18Hurt.
11:19He was hurt because he threw away his cake.
11:22He didn't care that he had thrown away my life.
11:24You're pathetic, Frank.
11:27You smell like medicine.
11:30Take this off.
11:32He wanted to claim me.
11:33He wanted to prove he owned me.
11:37He wanted to fuck the defliance right out of my soul.
11:40I didn't fight him.
11:42I didn't have the strength left to fight.
11:45Why are you so slim?
11:51Beg me.
11:52Beg me to stay, Lumi.
11:53Just once.
11:54Fight for me.
11:55You aren't worth it, Frank.
11:59The words were a lie.
12:00He was worth everything.
12:03That was why I was dying alone.
12:06Help me, Frank.
12:07There's a man at the club.
12:08I'm scared.
12:09I'm coming.
12:15Happy birthday, Lumi.
12:21He walked out of the room.
12:23He walked out of the penthouse.
12:25He left me alone in the dark with the ghost of a strawberry cake
12:29and the crushing silence of a dying house.
12:42The morning sun was an assault.
12:45I stepped out of the lobby of my apartment building
12:48in want of fresh air.
12:51I needed to feel something other than the lingering imprint
12:54of Frank's teeth on my neck.
12:56But waiting for me outside was another trial.
13:00One Daisy had carefully prepared.
13:07Mrs. Cavallara, is it true Frank spent the night with Daisy?
13:13Are you getting a divorce?
13:15Is it true you trapped him with a contract?
13:24They used to keep everyone away from me.
13:26Now everyone knows I've fallen out of favor.
13:29No one wants to protect something its owner has cast aside.
13:36Lumi, how does it feel to be the third wheel in a true love story?
13:42Move.
13:45Daisy says you trapped him.
13:49She says you used a contract to steal a man who belongs to her.
13:52Do you have any shame?
13:54Are you just holding on for the money?
13:57Is that why you look so haggard?
13:59Is the guilt eating you alive?
14:05She shoved the microphone into my face.
14:08It struck my cheek.
14:09The impact was light, but it was enough.
14:12The dam broke.
14:14I felt the warmth before I saw it.
14:16A thick, hot liquid gushed from my nose.
14:19It splashed onto the microphone.
14:21It stained the snow on the collar of my white coat.
14:25The stark, artillerial red.
14:27Ew!
14:28That's disgusting.
14:29Stop acting for sympathy.
14:33Look at her.
14:33She looks like she's dying.
14:35She's faking it.
14:36I'm not acting.
14:38I'm dying.
14:39I'm dying.
14:40I'm not acting.
14:40It's not.
14:41I'm dying.
14:46Look at her.
14:47No.
14:49I really have been sick too long.
14:53I actually thought Frank might come to save me.
14:56Oh, please.
14:57That's the oldest trick in the book.
14:58When he was poor, you dumped him.
15:01Now that he's rich, you married him.
15:04You deserve this.
15:06I didn't argue. I didn't have the energy to convince them. They had already judged me.
15:11The truth of a dying woman was never going to compete with Daisy's made-up love story.
15:24By noon, the video was inescapable. I sat huddled on the floor of the bathroom, my gaze fixed upon it.
15:31The title read, Mafia Wife Fakes Illness After Husband's Affair Exposed.
15:38The comments were vicious.
15:41No one believed I was sick. They only believed I was a gold digger.
15:49Lumi Vitiero is my wife. Anyone who harasses her answers to me.
15:54The press is barred from the premises. Trespassers will be dealt with.
15:58That was it. He didn't deny the affair.
16:01He didn't care about my health.
16:03He just didn't want his property damaged by strangers.
16:13Everyone said I was a gold digger. That I threw Frank away.
16:19But no one knew that ten years ago, that betrayal was the deepest act of love I ever committed.
16:31It's confirmed, and this illness has a very high hereditary probability.
16:36I'm going to tell Frank.
16:38He loves me. He'll help us.
16:41No, Lumi!
16:43Why?
16:46Because your father knows.
16:49He knows you're seeing that soldier. He told me last night.
16:57If you stay with Frank, your father will kill him.
17:03He wouldn't.
17:04He would.
17:06He wants you to marry a maid man from New York.
17:10He needs the alliance far more than he values your happiness.
17:13He said if Frank comes near you again, he'll put a bullet in his head.
17:20But I love him, and he loves me.
17:22Then save him, Lumi.
17:24Break his heart.
17:26Make him hate you.
17:29It's the only way he'll stay away.
17:31It's the only way he'll live long enough to become something.
17:39Lumi, come with me.
17:41I have nothing now, but I swear I'll give you a good life.
17:45Come with you, and live in a slum?
17:57You're too poor, Frank.
17:58You're not good enough for me.
18:08Someday, you'll regret this.
18:24I saved Frank's life with the cruelest lie I could tell, and he carried that hatred for
18:29Naomi all the way to the top of Chicago.
18:32I had done my job too well.
18:34He had lived.
18:35He had become the king.
18:37And now, he was burying the girl who saved him, one shovel of dirt at a time.
18:46But I never thought that the boy I saved with my own hands would be the one to bury me.
18:56I needed to go to headquarters.
18:59Not for money.
19:00Not for Frank.
19:02I was going for my mother.
19:03When she died, she had left me a small porcelain doll.
19:08It was the only thing I had left of her.
19:10I needed to hold it when the end finally came.
19:20Mrs. Cavallaro, the dawn is occupied.
19:23I don't care, Enzo.
19:24Let me in.
19:27Boss, she's here.
19:28She looks bad.
19:29Let her in.
19:41Lumi.
19:51Where is it?
19:53What?
19:54My mother's doll.
19:55The porcelain one.
19:56The one with the blue dress.
19:58It was right here.
19:59Oh, that old thing.
20:00Frank gave it to me.
20:02What?
20:03I cut my hand yesterday, remember?
20:05I was upset.
20:07Frank told me to take whatever I wanted to make me feel better.
20:10I liked the doll.
20:11It looked... expensive.
20:13You gave her my mother's doll?
20:15It was just a trinket, Lumi.
20:17You never touched it.
20:18I didn't think you cared.
20:20Three years ago, on the day we were married,
20:23I had placed it on his desk when he wasn't looking.
20:25A silent, foolish wish for his safety.
20:28And he had given it to his mistress.
20:30To stop her from crying over a paper cut.
20:35It was my mother's.
20:39Give it to me.
20:40I don't think so.
20:41It's mine now.
20:43Frank said so.
20:44Frank.
20:44Tell her to give it back.
20:46Lumi, stop causing a scene.
20:48It's just a doll.
20:48I'll buy you ten more.
20:49You can't buy this!
20:50It's not about the money!
20:52With you, it's always about the money.
21:00Give it to me!
21:01Here, catch!
21:02I watched the doll spin helplessly in the air.
21:04My mother's hands pressing it into mine.
21:06A memory overlaying the present.
21:08It will take my place, Lumi.
21:10It will always be with you.
21:13No!
21:13No!
21:19I lunged for it.
21:21But I wasn't fast enough.
21:22The doll flew into a hundred jagged pieces.
21:25I stood frozen.
21:26I stared at the fragments.
21:29I saw my name written on the porcelain doll.
21:32It was shattered.
21:34Just like my life.
21:35Probably beyond repair.
21:40Oops.
21:41Butterfing sticks.
21:43In that moment,
21:44I had a premonition.
21:45I was probably really going to die.
21:48Something inside me finally snapped.
21:50The leash I had held on my anger for ten years broke.
21:54I screamed.
21:55It was a raw animal sound that tore from my throat.
22:03You bitch!
22:04You evil bitch!
22:06Get off me!
22:07You're crazy!
22:09You can take Frank.
22:10You can take my place.
22:12But why did you have to take the only thing my mother left me?
22:17Lumi!
22:22Are you insane?
22:23Look at you!
22:24You're acting like a wild animal!
22:28Daisy, are you okay?
22:30She tried to kill me!
22:33I opened my mouth to speak.
22:35But nothing came out.
22:37Just a warm rush.
22:38My nose started to bleed again.
22:41But this time,
22:42it wasn't a trickle.
22:44It was a river.
22:49What are you playing at now?
23:01Lumi?
23:02Lumi?
23:06Call the medic!
23:07Now!
23:09I'm tired, Frank.
23:25She's dying, Frank!
23:26How did you not see it?
23:28I thought she was lying.
23:31Lying?
23:32Do you imagine coughing up one's own lungs is a parlor game?
23:36That this skeleton in the bed is some grand performance?
23:41Fix her.
23:43Whatever it costs.
23:45Mr. Cavalayo, she stopped treatment months ago.
23:48The condition has severely worsened.
23:51Why?
23:52Why did she stop?
23:57Why did she stop?
23:59She couldn't afford it.
24:00The course of immunotherapy she required is not covered by any conventional insurance.
24:05It demanded substantial cash payments up front.
24:08Money?
24:10Yes.
24:12I have millions.
24:14I have billions!
24:15I need 50,000.
24:17You want money, Lumi?
24:18Then apologize to her.
24:20I cut her off.
24:21I froze everything.
24:23Even her jewelry.
24:24I left her with nothing.
24:27I killed her!
24:30This is her living will.
24:35This is her living will.
24:36What is this?
24:37What living will?
24:38It says do not resuscitate.
24:40It says no extraordinary measures.
24:42It says she wants to go without pain.
24:44It says she doesn't want you to extend her suffering just to make yourself feel better.
24:49This living will. I signed it months ago.
24:51Back when Frank was still using Daisy to humiliate me.
24:54When he froze my accounts and forced me to beg.
24:56I had already chosen my ending.
24:58I wasn't going to ask him for a shred of dignity.
25:00He had taken that from me long ago.
25:02No.
25:03Burn it.
25:04I'm taking her to Switzerland.
25:06I'm taking her to the best specialists.
25:08I will buy every doctor in the world.
25:10You can't buy life, Frank!
25:12You can't buy back the time you wasted!
25:14Frank had billions.
25:16He could make all of Chicago bow to him.
25:18But he didn't realize until this moment that my time couldn't be bought with all the money in the world.
25:24You've been hating her all these years for leaving you when you were poor, haven't you?
25:29Wasn't she?
25:30No!
25:31She left you because her father was going to put a bullet in your brain!
25:36She broke your heart to save your life!
25:38She has loved you every single day for ten years!
25:49She let you hate her for ten years, but she loved you for ten years too!
25:52And how did you repay her?
25:54You cut off her treatment!
25:56You humiliated her with your mistress!
25:58You shattered her mother's only keepsake into pieces!
26:00Frank turned slowly to look at the bed.
26:03He looked at me.
26:04He saw the tubes, the bruises, the skeleton under the sheets.
26:08He was, at last, looking upon the truth of his own making.
26:13Let me open your eyes.
26:16Open your eyes, baby.
26:17Please, tell me it's a lie.
26:20I saw the man I loved.
26:22And I saw the man whose cruelty I had so carefully cultivated.
26:28This was the first time in three years I had truly rejected him.
26:31It was the last answer I would ever give him.
26:33He finally knew how much I loved him.
26:35Too bad.
26:36By the time he knew I was done waking up.
26:41I woke up again.
26:43Still alive.
26:45Thirst was the first thing to register.
26:47A dry, abrading sensation in the back of my throat.
26:51As if I had swallowed a measure of grit.
26:54I tried to lift my hand to reach for the cup on the bedside table.
26:57But the limb was a foreign object.
26:59A leaden weight that refused all instruction from my mind.
27:03Someone was sleeping in this dark plastic chair next to my bed.
27:06Lucia, she looked wrecked.
27:08Dark circles bruised the delicate skin under her eyes.
27:11And her hair, usually so pristine, was pulled back in a messy, fraying knot.
27:18I was doing this to her.
27:20I was the anchor dragging her down into the depths with me.
27:23I needed to use the bathroom.
27:26I glanced at Lucia again.
27:28She had greater need of sleep than I had of my own dignity.
27:30Okay.
27:35Lumi!
27:38What are you doing?
27:40Why didn't you call me?
27:42I didn't want to wake you.
27:45Get away from her!
27:47Don't you touch her!
27:49Move!
27:50This is your fault.
27:51If you hadn't put her through that ordeal, she would not be on this floor.
27:59Let me help you.
28:01I looked at him.
28:02Really looked at him.
28:03This man was a complete stranger.
28:05This was not the arrogant Don who had thrown money at his mistress.
28:08This was a man watching the elaborate architecture of his own life collapse into ash before his very eyes.
28:15I don't need your help.
28:20The skeletal figure reflected in the glass did not move for a full three seconds.
28:25And it took me that long to comprehend that the image was my own.
28:31Don't look.
28:34His palm was warm.
28:36It smelled of tobacco and expensive cologne.
28:39It was the scent of my husband.
28:40The scent of the man who had authored my destruction.
28:43I pulled my head back.
28:45Contact of his skin sudden.
28:47Searing heat I could not endure.
28:49Don't touch me.
28:53Lumi, please.
28:54She helps me up.
28:56Not you.
28:57You've done enough damage.
29:02Where did those come from?
29:03From living.
29:04From dying.
29:05From you not noticing for three years.
29:08Frank looked down at his hands.
29:10He had billions.
29:11He was the most feared man in Chicago.
29:14But in front of death.
29:15All his begging meant nothing.
29:17The hands that had once controlled life and death were now empty.
29:21Completely empty.
29:27Frank stayed.
29:29He took up a post in the corner of the room.
29:32Like a sentinel carved from granite.
29:35Unmoving.
29:36And silent.
29:37Watching me sleep.
29:39Watching me breathe.
29:41It was unnerving.
29:44Why are you here?
29:46Because you're my wife.
29:49Wife?
29:50Or just a possession you finally realized you broke?
29:53I never wanted you to be sick, Lumi.
29:55I wanted to punish you, yes.
29:56But not this.
29:57I thought, I thought you were just cold.
29:59Punish me.
30:00The word pulled me back to that night three years ago.
30:03The night Frank forced me to marry him.
30:08I had walked in.
30:09My heart a frantic drum against my ribs.
30:11Ready to lay myself bare.
30:13Ready to tell him everything.
30:15Ready to tell him about my father's threats.
30:18Ready to tell him I loved him.
30:20I found him in the VIP section.
30:22He had a woman on his lap.
30:23Her hands were tangled in his dark hair.
30:25His tongue was down her throat.
30:27Then he saw me.
30:28He did not push her away.
30:30He showed no trace of guilt.
30:31He smiled.
30:33It was a cruel, sharp curving of the lips that held no congress with his eyes.
30:37Well, well.
30:38The princess returns.
30:39Ran out of daddy's money?
30:42Frank, I need to talk to you.
30:45We have nothing to talk about.
30:48Unless you're here to beg.
30:49I'm not here to beg.
30:51Then leave.
30:54Actually, I have a proposition.
30:59Actually, I have a proposition.
31:01What?
31:04Marry me.
31:07My father is dead, Lumi.
31:09I am the dawn now.
31:12And I want what was promised to me.
31:15I want you.
31:16You hate me.
31:17Yes.
31:18I do.
31:21Marry me, and I'll settle your father's debts.
31:25Refuse, and I'll burn everything you have left.
31:28You can't threaten me.
31:29Including your little friend, Lucia.
31:33She's your only family, isn't she?
31:35Say yes, and she lives.
31:37Say no, and I'll make sure she loses everything right alongside you.
31:42I'll do it.
31:45I sold myself to the devil to save my friend.
31:48And now, that same devil was sitting in my hospital room, looking at me with an expression that looked sickeningly
31:55like pity.
32:01I hate your pity.
32:03You forced me into this, Frank.
32:05You used Lucia to trap me.
32:07You told me every single day that I was worthless.
32:09Why didn't you tell me the truth?
32:11Why didn't you tell me you saved me?
32:13I tried.
32:14I tried that night at the club.
32:16You told me to leave.
32:18I tried on our wedding night.
32:20When you left me alone in that cold bed.
32:22To go to her.
32:24I tried every time you looked at me with that disgust in your eyes.
32:28But you were too busy hating me to listen.
32:30My medical reports were on the table.
32:33At eye level if you just looked down.
32:36But you never looked.
32:37You didn't want the truth, Frank.
32:39You wanted a villain.
32:41But now, you're the only one I want.
32:45I'm sorry.
32:53Frank was attempting to depurchase my life.
32:56He flew in specialist from Switzerland, from Germany, from Japan.
33:01They all said the same thing, too late.
33:07Wait.
33:09The condition has reached its final stage.
33:12Her body cannot withstand new treatment.
33:14I'm sorry.
33:16It's too late.
33:17I want a treatment plan, not too late!
33:22He was a man raging at the tide, demanding that it turn back by the force of his will alone.
33:28But when death finally came knocking, even the most powerful Don in Chicago couldn't bargain his way out.
33:50Give her another round of chemo.
33:52She needs rest, not another round of aggressive chemo.
33:55It will only inflict more pain.
33:58I do not care about pain!
34:00I care about life!
34:01You will keep her alive!
34:02Stop it! Stop being selfish!
34:05Selfish?
34:06I am trying to save her.
34:08You are trying to save your own conscience.
34:10You want her alive so you don't have to live with the guilt.
34:13But look at her, Frank. Look at her!
34:17You want her alive because you can't accept that you killed her.
34:21But she's had enough!
34:23Are you going to torture her one more time just to ease your own guilt?
34:29Lucia was fighting for me.
34:30Frank was falling apart because of me.
34:33My death hadn't even come yet.
34:35And it had already turned them into animals tearing each other apart.
34:48Let me...
34:51Open.
34:52It tasted of nothing.
34:53Everything tasted of nothing now.
34:55The cancer had stolen my taste.
34:57Just as it had stolen my future.
35:01Do you hate me?
35:03No.
35:05I do not have the energy to hate you, Frank.
35:08Hate requires passion.
35:10And I... I am just Ash.
35:15Please, do not leave me.
35:19I'm already gone, Frank.
35:23I am just waiting for my body to catch up.
35:27He thought that as long as I was still breathing, there was time.
35:31He didn't know that the Luvi who loved him for ten years had died long ago.
35:35Every time he chose Daisy over me.
35:44Time had long since lost its demarcation, dissolving into a uniform grey haze.
35:50Frank had left the hospital for the first time in a week.
35:54Lucia had gone to the cafeteria to get coffee, leaving me in the silence.
35:58I was alone.
36:07You looked terrible.
36:08She looked healthy.
36:10Vibrant.
36:11Alive.
36:12She looked like everything I was not.
36:14I didn't have the breath to waste on her.
36:17You need to let go, Lumi.
36:20Why are you here?
36:23To tell you the truth.
36:27I'm pregnant.
36:32Pregnant?
36:33Yes.
36:34It's Frank.
36:35We found out yesterday.
36:37He's happy.
36:38He wants a family.
36:40He wants an heir.
36:41You could not give him that.
36:42You are barren.
36:44And now you are dying.
36:45Do him a favor.
36:46Die quickly.
36:48Let us be happy.
36:49It was a lie.
36:50Deep down, I knew it was a lie.
36:52But in my weakened state, the poison of doubt found Patchesh.
36:56Even at the end of my life, she wouldn't let me go in peace.
36:59Get out.
37:11Frank!
37:12I'm pregnant!
37:15Liar!
37:20I never touched you, you rat.
37:22You think I do not know?
37:25You stayed at my apartment.
37:27I slept on the couch!
37:30I went there to escape the silence.
37:32I used you as a cover so I did not have to face my wife.
37:35I never touched you, not once!
37:38He had never been with her.
37:39He had simply used the fact of her existence as an instrument of torture against me.
37:43And she had used his indulgence to push me closer and closer to the edge.
37:50Frank, stop!
37:52Not here.
37:53Not in front of her.
37:58Get out.
37:59Before I kill you.
38:07It is not true.
38:08I swear on my mother's grave.
38:12I only went there to hide.
38:14I was a coward, but I was not unfaithful.
38:19I believed him, but faithfulness was never just about his body.
38:24The preference, the indulgence, the protection he gave Daisy had already butchered our marriage beyond recognition.
38:31Get out.
38:32What?
38:33What?
38:34Get out.
38:35Both of you.
38:37Just...
38:37Get out.
38:38I need silence.
38:40Come on.
38:41Let her breathe.
38:55I woke up with a terrifying, crystalline clarity.
39:00The pain was still there, but the fog that had smothered my thoughts was gone.
39:04Shh.
39:05The world seemed sharp at the edges, unnaturally bright.
39:10I knew this wasn't recovery.
39:12It was my body giving me one last gift of time.
39:21I want to go out.
39:23Shh.
39:23What?
39:24I want to leave, just for an hour.
39:30Please, Lucia.
39:34Okay.
39:45The nurses loved Lucia, and perhaps they saw the resolve in my eyes and decided to look the other way.
39:53Or maybe they just knew that keeping me here would not save me.
40:03Stop here.
40:05I took a bite.
40:07It was sweet.
40:08Earthy.
40:09The heat bloomed in my chest.
40:12It tasted like forgotten memory.
40:15It tasted like life.
40:18Where do you want to go?
40:20The bridal shop.
40:22Lumi.
40:23Today, you are getting married in the spring.
40:26I want to see you in a dress.
40:39I want to see you in a dress.
40:49Too poofy.
40:50Too itchy.
40:52Too white.
40:54I look like a cake.
40:55That was the first time I'd truly laughed since being admitted.
40:58Lucia didn't treat me like a dying patient.
41:00She just treated me like Lumi.
41:03Complaining with me.
41:04Nitpicking with me.
41:05Wasting an ordinary afternoon with me.
41:07Shhhh.
41:12You are beautiful.
41:17Now you.
41:19I cannot.
41:20I look like a scarecrow.
41:22Do it for me.
41:24It took every last particle of my strength to remain standing while Lucia fastened the back.
41:30It hung off my frame.
41:33My collarbones stood out against the fabric like sharp ledges of rock.
41:37Do it for her.
41:38Do it for her to be.
41:40As you are ready for it.
41:41Hello.
41:44Click.
41:45The image was captured.
41:48The final testament sealed in light.
41:50She was about to step into a new life.
41:52And I could only stand outside the door of that future.
41:56Taking one last picture with her.
42:02He had re-activated the cards.
42:04Filled the accounts with millions.
42:07too late the money that could have saved my life was now useless paper I am buying them no put
42:16that away but I am paying you are not using his money for this this is our moment not his
42:28Lucia knew that money wasn't Frank's compensation it was his ransom to ease his own guilt
42:36even at the end she was still protecting what little dignity I had left
42:45we drove to the cemetery on the way back my mother's grave was covered in a pristine blanket
42:50of snow I looked at the headstone next to hers the empty space reserved for me it did not look
42:56scary anymore it looked peaceful it looked like rest do not cry when I am gone live your life be
43:07happy do not let Frank ruin you the way he ruined me I promise don't cry I'm just finally going
43:18to
43:19find my mother I am ready Lucia take me back I'm ready to sleep the snow fell and I finally
43:38stopped
43:38waiting for Frank to turn around the love I had spent my whole life waiting for it didn't matter
43:43anymore in my final moments Lucia was holding my hand my mother was waiting for me in another world
43:49this time I wasn't the unwanted Lumi