A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the ... See full summary »

Concha: [to Fenix] You can't atone for your sins with nightmares.
[Fenix glances at The Invisible Man poster]
Concha: Without me you are nothing. No one sees you and no one notices you. Just like your stupid hero.
The Tattooed Woman: She's a deaf mute and you can do whatever you want with her.
[last lines]
Police: [on megaphone] Put your hands up!
Fenix: [begins to raise hands] My hands... My hands! My hands.
[laughs]
Rubi: [to Fenix] With your hands and my body, we'll have an act that will be sensational.
Fenix: [Concha begins to control his hands] Watch out, Saint! For now you have to fight me off.
The Saint: What's happening to you? Are you going crazy?
Concha: Kill her! Kill her!
Fenix: Did you hear her? She wants me to kill you with my hands.
Concha: It's always roosters or swans! You never see anything else in your ridiculous hallucinations.
[Young Fenix sobs]
Orgo: Stop crying... like a little girl.
[pause]
Orgo: I'll give you a charm. That'll make you a man.
Concha: You know what you have to do.
Fenix: No, I don't want to!
Concha: This girl has defiled you with her lust.
Fenix: No, mum, it's not true! It's only a game!
[begins to lose control of his hands]
Fenix: No! I can't! Don't ask me to!
Concha: I'm not asking you, I'm ordering... my hands... and my arms... to kill her. Kill her!
[first lines]
[Fenix crouches naked atop a tree trunk in his barren asylum room]
Doctor: [enters along with orderlies pushing a food cart] Fenix. Please...
[offers him a normal meal]
Doctor: Eat like a human being.
[pause]
Doctor: [puts the tray back down and offers him a raw fish]
Fenix: [howls]
[jumps down and grabs the fish]
Fenix: Grr!
[sits and begins eating it]
Doctor: You can't just stay here all the time, not seeing anyone.
[pause]
Doctor: Now come on, stand up.
Fenix: I'm sorry... I was having an hallucination...
Pimp: [leads Fenix and the handicapped boys away from ticket counter] Vengan, vengan. Come, I have a present for you.
[points to movie posters]
Pimp: Listen, this kind of stuff will make you sick. If you promise not to tell, I'll take you somewhere else... that's much more fun that the movies. A little sniff of this...
[opens packet of cocaine]
Pimp: and we'll see.