Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Luigi can't wait for the tube to be removed and expresses how grateful he would be to Doctor Policari... Peppe is still hoping someone will remember him from two years earlier.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Luigi complains that all he hears doctors and nurses say is, un passo alla volta (one step at a time). He would love a little optimism and reassurance.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Luigi has another conversation with Zamagna, but isn't sure if it is really him. Luigi is not out of the woods yet.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Doctor Rapisarda seems to want to be elsewhere other than making his rounds. Peppe Silvestri is about to be operated on. Luigi is asked how things are going now that the tube has been removed.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Peppe comes out of the operating room where all seems to have gone well. Luigi has a fever and the doctors are discussing the possible causes and what to do about it. Meanwhile Luigi feels he has to try to get out of bed, to prove to his body that he can.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Amed is worried that the replacement chaplain will come and start talking, and never stop. He'll "press play" and tell stories ad nauseam. But on the good side, Luigi's fever is going down, even though he doesn't feel great.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Elena tries to keep Luigi from getting too depressed about his situation. He then gets a taste of what his roommates had been telling him about the friar.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Father Costa just wants to be left alone and chases Friar Marcello away. Luigi finally has his catheter and drainage removed.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Luigi spends the night tossing and turning. In the morning, a nurse comes to get him for the CT scan, but then he has to wait and wait.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
When Luigi finds out he could actually have had some water before his CT scan, he is totally demoralized. He talks about the different kinds of patients to be found in any hospital.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Luigi explains an unwritten rule at the hospital, and we see it in action. The priest is in crisi (having a hard time) and explains things to his roommate, who doesn't quite get it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
One doctor chooses to recite Baudelaire rather than listen to his patient. Luigi gets the results of the histological exam.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The doctor and Luigi finish discussing the results of his exam. The message is always the same, however. One step at a time. Captions 6-8 are a great example of how lei can mean different things and cause confusion.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A patient's hemoglobin count is very important. If it's high enough, a patient can make it to the hospital bar. But then?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Luigi makes it all the way to the bar, and once there, it is as his roommates predicted. He doesn't know what to order. He reflects on what metterci la testa (putting one's mind to it) means for him.
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