Nick Like what?

Helen That you’d sneer.

Nick Did I sneer?

Helen Yes you did. Great big fucking sneer.

Nick Well …

Helen Well? What? What?

Nick It’s a bit petty isn’t it?

Helen To you. Maybe to you. But if you’re stuck on some shitty estate and the only way to get out, the only way to get to the shops is a bus / and at the moment there is no bus, then no it’s actually very important actually.

Nick Get to the shops? Get to the shops?

Helen We’re actually making people’s lives better. What did you ever do / Nick? What did we ever do? Sure talk, talk, talk, march, march, protest. Ban this, overthrow that, but what did we ever do?

Nick And what about the big targets? Why are there shitty estates? Why are they there in the first place? / You should be going for the big targets.

Helen Oh yes. Come the revolution, down they come. But while we’re waiting …

Nick Let’s fiddle with the fucking bus timetables. / So fucking petty.

Helen picks up Nick’s clothes.

Helen Tell me one concrete thing we ever did. Go on Nick. Fuck off. Fuck off.

Nick I’m sorry. I …

Helen I don’t want you here. I don’t want to see you. I don’t ever want to see you. Go.

Nick Helen I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do that. I…

Helen Goodbye. There’s a whole big bad world out there waiting for you. Fuck off.

Scene Two

Airport.

Nadia Because we all have our own journeys that we’re travelling. Each of us has our own path and, of course, we can’t always see the path, sometimes it seems like there’s no sense in anything, you know? But of course there is. Everything makes sense.

Victor You think so?

Nadia Oh yes of course, yes.

Victor I don’t think so.

Nadia No?

Victor I think everything is crazy. The whole world is fucking crazy.

Nadia Maybe it seems –

Victor Yes. Everything is totally crazy. I like that. I’m a crazy person.

Nadia No you’re not.

Victor Yeah, totally fucking crazy.

Nadia I don’t think you’re crazy.

Victor Everyday I wake up and I say ‘Another fucking crazy day. What am I going to do today?’

Nadia I think you’re a very beautiful person.

Victor You like my body?

Nadia On the inside. Beautiful on the inside.

Victor You don’t like my body?

Nadia Of course, you’ve got a great body.

Victor I’ve got a fucking fantastic body. I could have been in porno. Body like this I could be huge porno star. Guys go crazy for my body.

Nadia You’ve had lots of partners?

Victor Please?

Nadia You’ve had a lot of boyfriends?