ROBERT
Are you comfortable? (she nods) Do you...
want to move to the bedroom?
FRANCESCA No.
I can't. Not yet.
ROBERT You
want to eat something?
FRANCESCA Are
you hungry?
ROBERT No.
(Silence. Robert shifts his body to face
her.)
ROBERT (cont'd)
Honey. Are you all right?
(She looks at him and starts to cry, shaking
her head. The room is filled with memories
of her family. She nestles
in his arms. He folds her. She closes her
eyes.)
FRANCESCA
Take me somewhere.
ROBERT
What?
FRANCESCA Right
now. Tell me someplace you've been -- someplace
on the other side of the world. Anywhere
but here.
ROBERT (thinks,
then:) How about Italy?
FRANCESCA Yes.
ROBERT How
about Bari?
FRANCESCA Yes.
Tell me about the day you got off the train.
ROBERT Have
you ever been to that station?
FRANCESCA Yes.
ROBERT You
know that little place nearby with the
striped awning
that sells sandwiches and little pizzas...