can you feel it? does it hurt? in valley of love a girl with deformed eyes and frozen canted aspect appears by the motel pool to gerard depardieu in the death valley desert. instantly it merges with a similar scene in under the skin. bodies, the dream of life grown into nightmare. the longing left over. and we merge or are merged and do not emerge except for the dream where we try to rub our eyes and think what is real, and drift back under the skin to dream.

they say

what are you doing here?
i'm waiting.
what are you waiting for?
i was waiting for you.
me?..what for?
to die.
i don't want to die. why do you want to die?
it's too hard.
dreaming?right?
it's too hard. for you too. you have to go to sleep now.
yes. good night.

valley of love.