An Apartment

Make yourself at home. No one's going to be using the apartment for the moment, so you won't be disturbed. Here are the keys. The funny one with the little holes or pits is for the downstairs entrance, the outside and the inside, then this one with the round end is for this lock and the other one is for the bottom lock. There's also a security chain on the door here. See?

And this other key?

Oh that one I'm not sure. But the other one, the silver one, it also opens the storage room just outside the door. This is the intercom. You push this button to open the downstairs door.

Which door? Both of them?

Yes. And there's the little peephole. It doesn't really work well but at least you can see more or less if anyone's there. Don't open to the gypsies. I have to go now, I'm late already, but I have to explain a couple of things first. Come to the bathroom. Here, this tube that goes into the back of the sink, it began to leak. That's why we have the pan there. It began to leak and so I asked the woman in the bakery downstairs and it seems you can turn the water off using these taps up here on the wall by the tub. So the water's turned off now, that's why you don't see any dripping into the pan.

So we can't use the bathroom?

What? (Slightly angry) What do you mean?

Well, if there's no water?

No, no. I didn't say there's no water. There's no water from the cold tap, which unfortunately means you mustn't use the toilet. But the hot water tap works fine still.

Yeah, but it's hot...

No, no. It's only hot if you turn the water heater outside on the balcony on, and it's off. Dolores is the one who knows how to light it. It's like the one my mother had, you know, very tricky.

So what about the toilet?

The toilet?

Yeah.

Well, you use the other one.