.Ingrid objections, yet ultimately relentsu00e2 $” she comprehends her obligation to her close friend, however sheu00e2 $ s additionally familiar with the concerns, that include potential criminal fees if the police hear of her anticipation of Marthau00e2 $ s objectives. They take a trip up, but at that point right away need to go back to New York when Martha misplaces the pillu00e2 $” in a heart-pumping sequence they transform her condo inverted trying to find it. (To purchase an additional illegitimately, she claims, would be much also difficult.) When Ingrid situates it, in a pouch doodled with words u00e2 $ Goodbye, u00e2 $ you ponder if sheu00e2 $ ll hand it overu00e2 $” however she does.Over the next couple of days, back in their brand new country home, the pair lay out their ground rules: Martha firmly insists that Ingrid needs to try to enjoy herself (though certainly not blog about their adventure, lest the cops find itu00e2 $” though, naturally, she carries out), and also hang around up until sheu00e2 $ s all set.
After that, Ingrid is going to find Marthau00e2 $ s cherry-red room door shut, and also thatu00e2 $ ll be the verification that sheu00e2 $ s gone.Thereu00e2 $ s a kind of Hitchcockian hate within this part of the tale, especially the chances of Ingrid climbing the staircases to check the spot of the door once again as well as againu00e2 $” but likewise an invited dosage of pessimistic humor. Martha mentions would like to make love with a friend of a friend, Damien (Severanceu00e2 $ s John Turturro), againu00e2 $” a common fan coming from their past times, along with whom Ingrid is actually still in touch. Ingrid also heads to the health and fitness center, and also relapses to locate herself out of breath and haggard, all of a sudden involved about her personal mortality, as well.
In among my favorite patterns, Ingrid sees the door is finalized and also promptly throws up and also sobs, but at that point an ashen and also supernatural Martha, dressed in white, happens downstairs, mentioning sheu00e2 $ d opened up a window and the breeze had actually goofed closed. Ingrid is furious.Photo: u00c2 u00a9 El Deseo, photograph through Iglesias Mu00c3 u00a1 s.