Tomorrow Before After (2023)

[bunniefuu]

[mysterious instrumental]

[muffled screaming]

[woman] Stop!

[screaming]

[water trickling]

[sizzling]

Hello?

[voice echoing]

Anybody here?

[voice echoing]

Hey!

[voice echoing]

[woman] How did I get here?

Why am I all alone?

Where are the other survivors?

[soft nostalgic instrumental]

After the pandemic hit,

in less than a month,

more than a billion people had died.

Everything happened so quick.

Bodies just started to pile up everywhere.

Where did the dead bodies go?

The great and final w*r began right after,

and millions more would die.

Total chaos ensued.

The world collapsed.

[water rushing]

[clattering]

[creaking]

[soft guitar melody]

[woman] When I was a year old,

my parents died in

a horrible car accident.

My grandparents raised me.

Grandpa would make me walk

all the way here with him,

to his little cabin, his favorite

place in the world.

Under this tree, which he named

the Tree of Life,

he would tell me all these magical stories

of other planets,

the infinite universe,

and the beauty of life.

The opposite of

the destruction we created.

Why am I alive?

Maybe I'm dead.

I'm a ghost living in my purgatory.

I have no name anymore.

What use can it have in this empty world?

I'm nothing.

I'm dust on the road.

[gasps, panting]

[metal squeaking]

[ominous instrumental]

[woman] For a while, there was

a fog that had a strange odor,

like nothing I've ever smelled before.

Then, one day, the fog began to go away,

and with it that weird smell.

Anything that required gas

didn't work afterwards.

[metal squeaking]

Hello?

[muffled] I spent so much time with you.

You were the voice of reason.

You...

You fed me so many lies.

I don't know who I am.

We stopped talking to each other.

Because you were the focus.

You told us what we needed

to think, and who we were.

You became the god

we so desperately needed.

[panting]

[gagging]

[grunting]

[groaning]

[gagging]

[deep exhale]

[groaning]

[radio crackling]

[woman] During the last days

of the final w*r,

while I was working at the hospital,

in the middle of all the craziness,

I felt a bright white light shine upon me.

Next thing I knew, I woke up in the middle

of a lake on a small blue boat.

What happened?

How much time went by?

I'm not sure.

[distant screaming, explosions]

When the beings arrived,

many thought it was their god

coming to save them.

People cheered their arrival,

especially all the zealots.

But soon, we all realized that

they were here to exterminate us.

And why not?

We've been nothing more than

a disease to this planet.

A cancer slowly k*lling

everything that we touch.

Our time was up.

[suspenseful music]

[music intensifies]

[heart beating rapidly]

[breathing shakily]

[ominous instrumental]

[groaning]

[whimpering]

[grunting]

[grunting]

I will not.

I can't bring another

human being into this world.

[whispering voice] You are dead.

You're dead.

You're a ghost.

You are a ghost.

Ghost.

[indistinct Spanish]

Soy un fantasma.

[ominous instrumental intensifies]

[grunting]

[woman] This makes no sense.

For years with Marco,

and we never got pregnant.

And now I'm pregnant?

I thought I couldn't.

This is impossible.

I'm the last woman who should be bringing

another human into this world.

How am I going to take care of this child?

This is insane.

[sobbing]

- This is insane.

[sobbing]

Marco and I fought that night to

the point that I questioned

my own existence.

I didn't want him to

give his life defending

the corporations that

were k*lling us, the planet.

He believed that he

was fighting for our country.

For our way of life.

He was so brainwashed.

That day he rushed out of

the house like he always did.

Didn't even say goodbye.

But two hours later, he came back

and told me that things

were about to get very ugly,

and that he was not sure

if he was coming back.

Then he just kissed me.

And we made love like animals.

Between my screams and tears

he got up and left.

That was the last time I saw him.

[melancholy music]

[whispering]

Was that three months ago?

Yes.

Yes, that was it.

[calm instrumental]

[woman]

How am I going to give birth?

What about any possible complications?

We could both die.

The end of the world

didn't take me, but this will?

No. It cannot be.

I have to get everything ready.

I have to.

If we survive this,

I gotta make sure we're fed.

[ominous instrumental]

[gasps]

[metal squeaking]

[wind blowing]

[distant rustling]

[distant clattering]

[wing howling]

[distant scraping]

[barking]

[barking, growling]

- [breathing heavily]

What?

[radio crackling]

[distant thudding]

[gentle instrumental]

[barking]

[whistling]

Perro!

[whistling]

[dog panting]

[woman] After the beings arrived

animals began to disappear,

and then one day, just like that,

they were all gone.

Where did they go?

I don't know.

It's impossible to know.

Why is he here?

And how did he survive this insanity?

[whistling]

[whistling]

[inspiring instrumental]

[chuckling]

Hey.

[barking]

[dog whimpering]

Where did he come from?

It's so strange to feel hope.

I forgot about this feeling.

But I must be more alert now.

[barking]

- Here, here.

His arrival could come with a price.

[barking]

- Good boy.

Hey. Hey.

[chuckling]

What are you doing?

What do you want?

Oh. This?

[chuckling] Hey, hey, here.

[laughing]

Hey, let's go.

Here.

- [barking]

He looks like a wolf.

Como un lobo.

[grunting in effort]

[ominous instrumental]

[dog whimpering]

[barking]

Lobo, what?

What?

[barking]

[barking]

[barking]

[bubbling]

[ominous instrumental]

[quiet rumbling]

[gasps]

[quiet rumbling continues]

[panting]

[whispering] What was that?

[scoffing]

How did it survive?

Let's go.

[distant barking]

[creaking]

[woman] I can still smell his stench.

Almost hear his disgusting voice.

I don't regret k*lling him.

The pain he caused needed to disappear.

[frame thudding against floor]

[whispering voice]

You're a ghost.

[sniffling]

[indistinct whispering]

[indistinct whispering]

[indistinct whispering]

[distant barking]

You're still here.

The only thing that brought me

happiness in this filthy place.

[vocalizing]



[Lobo whimpering]

[sobbing]



[ominous sound]

[laughing]

[groaning]

[moaning]

[sobbing]

Die.

Die, die, die.

Die!

[fire roaring, crackling]

[distant humming]

[creaking]

[ominous instrumental]

[thudding]

- [gasps]

[leaves rustling]

[melancholy music]

[heavy breathing]

[wind gushing]

[ominous instrumental]

[Lobo whimpering]

[footsteps echoing]

[distant barking]

[heavy breathing]

[woman] This piece of paper

was the number one reason

humanity came to an end.

This paper dictated who was happy or not.

Who could live or not.

Who could have or not.

The world ended so quick that money

became insignificant.

And here it is.

Utterly useless.

[gasps]

[wood creaking]

[heart beating]

[creaking intensifies]

[distant barking]

[barking]

- [gasps]

[gasping for air, panting]

Thank you, Lobo.

[Lobo whimpering, barking]

[barking continues]

[barking]

[barking]

Stay.

[gasps, whimpers]

- [g*nsh*t]

[distant barking]

It's okay.

Lobo, good boy.

Stay there.

[heavy breathing]

[distant wind rustling]

[distant barking]

Who are you?

[light scoffing]

Why are you still here?

[unimpressed chuckle]

You should be dead.

You piece of sh*t.

[whispering voice, echoing]

Piece of sh*t.

You don't belong here.

- Hm?

[whispering voice, echoing]

You're not gonna make it.

Hm? What do you want?

[whispering voice, echoing]

Freak.

What do you want from me?

[whispering voice, echoing]

k*ll yourself.

k*ll. Yourself.

[whimpering] Mm-mm.

You don't belong here.

You never did.

[moaning, grunting]

You've done enough.

[whispering voice indistinct]

- [panicked grunting]

You've done enough!

You've had enough! Stop!

Just stop! Stop! Stop! Shut up!

Stop!

[panting]

Stop it.

Stop this. [Whimpering]

- [whispering voice indistinct]

Freak. Freak!

[screaming]

Freak. Freak!

[whispering voice indistinct]

- [screaming]

You should be dead.

You should be dead.

You should be dead.

You piece of sh*t!

You piece of sh*t!

You should be dead!

[whispering voices stop]

[screaming]

[distant barking]

You deserve this.

[grunting in effort]

[panting]

[distant barking]

[groaning, panting]

[ominous instrumental continues]

[barking]

[bird cawing]

[wind gushing]

[birds chirping]

[Lobo whimpering]

[crow cawing]

[barking]

[g*nsh*t]

[woman] Little by little, more birds

have been showing up.

Where are they coming from?

Where have they been?

I think it's a good sign.

Yes!

We did it.

This should work.

Vamos, Lobo.

Come on.

Come on.

[barking]

[sighs]

[grunting]

[deep exhale]

[barking]

Lobo!

Hey, no! Deja!

Lobo! Hey, no!

No, no, no.

[Lobo whimpering]

- Good boy.

Vamos, Lobo.

[chuckling]

[speaking Spanish]

[distant barking]

[Lobo whimpering]

I'm here. I'm here.

Lobo. Lobo.

Lobo.

[birds chirping]

[barking]

Lobo, stay.

Hello?

Hola?

[mumbling]

[barking]

[mellow guitar melody]

[grunting in effort]

[fire crackling]

[woman] My grandpa would

tell me that my hands

looked like my grandma's.

I thought that meant my hands looked old,

but now I'm so thankful

I inherited her hands.

Her hands of knowledge, makers of food.

Thank you, Grandma.

[whimpering]

[chuckling]

Lobo.

Lobo!

[thunder rolling]

[thunder crackling]

[rain pouring]

Lobo.

[thunder rolling]

[pouring rain continues]

[crashing, glass shattering]

[barking]

[screaming]

[barking]

f*ck!

[effort grunting, panting]

f*ck!

[barking]

Shut up!

Stop! Shh!

[barking, whimpering]

Stop! Shh!

Callate!

Stop!

- [barking]

Callate! Callate!

Shh! Shut up!

No ms! Shh!

No ms! sh*t...

Out, out! Shut up!

- [Lobo whimpering]

[barking continues]

[thunder rolling]

- Stop! Callate!

[barking]

Go!

[panting]

[Lobo whimpering]

Lobo!

Lobo!

- [barking, whimpering]

[Lobo whimpering]

Lobo!

[thunder rolling]

[barking]

[grunting]

Lobo!

[thudding]

- [grunting]

[ear ringing]

[bird cawing]

[grunting in effort]

[gagging]

[coughing]

[grunting]

Lobo!

Lobo!

Lobo!

We have to follow the river.

All the way back to the cabin.

We're gonna find Lobo.

[sullen instrumental]

Yes, we can do this.

[grunting]

[grunting]

[woman] It's incredible that I traveled

all that distance...

but that's the way home.

[wind rustling]

[grunting]

[door creaks, slams shut]

[whispering voice]

It's your fault.

[grunting]

k*ll yourself.

k*ll yourself.

[panting]

[chuckling]

[groaning]

[engine turning over]

[laughing]

What?!

[engine putters out]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[engine putters out]

- f*ck!

[engine stalls]

[engine turns over]

- Stay.

[laughing]

Yes, yes, yes.

S, s, s!

[expl*si*n]

No, no. No!

No. [Speaking Spanish]

[grunting] Puta...

[grunting]

[grunting in effort]

[crickets chirping, frogs croaking]

Lobo!

Lobo!

[melancholy music]

Lobo!

Lobo!

[whistling]

[woman] I had to come

and say goodbye to him.

I have to get used to the idea

that I'll never see him again.

But it's too hard.

Can he forgive me?

I think he would.

[sighing]

In his eyes, I saw the

closest thing to God's eyes.

And if there's a God, he forgives.

Right?

[ominous melody]

[quiet humming]

[majestic instrumental]

[ethereal choir]

[woman] No.

I don't think he ever really loved me.

An excuse he had,

he would leave to his job.

I hated it.

Sometimes he would leave for months.

Yeah.

I guess that is one of the

reasons why we lasted so long.

Our dysfunctional addiction to each other.

I'm scared to death.

There are so many things

that can go wrong.

I wish I knew what they want.

Why are they keeping us alive?

I keep dreaming

that I'm on another planet

where everything is so peaceful.

And there's this woman...

she appears and touches my tummy

and tells me,

"You are the source."

Then I wake up.

Yes. I agree.

We should stay close to the cabin.

Plus, I barely fit on the bike.

I feel it moving.

Like he's ready to get out

and see this world.

[sighs]

[woman] We gotta look for Lobo.

[door creaks, slams shut]

We gotta do this.

I'm not going crazy.

[melancholy melody]

Stop saying that!

Of course I am.

You know what?

You're staying. I'll go alone.

You don't get it.

You can't do it alone.

[inspiring instrumental]

[distant rumbling]

What the hell is that?

[daunting melody building]

[grunge music]

[bubbling]

[panting]

[grunting]

[eerie music]

[panting]

[gagging, coughing]

[panting]

[grunting]

[sobbing]

I didn't have to see that.

Why are you keeping us alive?

What the...

We're nothing.

We're nothing.

We're nothing.

[grunting]

We gotta calm down, right?

We gotta calm down.

[panting]

We're gonna be fine.

[gagging, coughing]

[groaning]

[panting]

[approaching steps]

[calm melody]

[distant panting]

Lobo!

[barking]

Lobo!

[laughing]

Hey, where were you?

Where were you?

I'm sorry.

[speaking Spanish]

Let's go. Come on. Vamos.

Lobo! Let's get out of here.

[woman] Where did he go?

And that rope on his neck?

What the hell?

[birds tweeting]

Aww.

Lobo. [Smooching]

[birds tweeting]

Lobo!

Lobo!

[grunting]

[water trickling]

[loud exhale]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[loud exhale]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[tense music]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[screaming]

[screaming]

[screaming]

[loudly panting]

[screaming]

[screaming, sobbing]

[grunting]

[screaming]

[ethereal choir music]

[screaming]

[grunting]

[baby crying]

[woman panting]

[baby crying]

[birds chirping]

[baby cooing]

[woman cooing]

[woman whistling]

[woman cooing]

Lobo.

[woman] When did we start

to hate ourselves

to the point that we sacrificed

our own existence?

When did our egos take over

and make greed and consumption a priority?

We forgot to truly connect with Earth,

to love each other,

to grow in harmony with

the laws of the universe.

As I look at my child,

I feel the planet speaking to me,

showing me through him

the map of the universe.

We are all connected

in such a profound way

that if one of us hurts, we all do.

[barking]

- Lobo!

Lobo!

Lobo! Hey!

[distant barking]

[ominous music]

[barking]

[baby crying]

[music intensifies]

[music fades]

[epic orchestration]