Johan is driving back home with a co-worker after a late night meeting.
Because he was forced to carpool by his boss, he is stuck with this guy he doesn’t like and to make things worse he’s not allowed to smoke in the car.
As the car heads towards a bridge he lights up a cigarette and the guy pulls over on the foot of the bridge.
He gets out of the driver seat and walks of to his side and tries to drag him out of the car.
During the struggle he loses his cigarette and lands face down on the sidewalk when his leg got stuck behind the curb.
After his co-worker drives away he gets up and he finds his last cigarette in the gutter, the tip still burning.
He leans against the side of the bridge and continues smoking it as if nothing had happened, staring at the buildings in front of him.
After inspecting all the stars in the sky, he throws away what is left of his cigarette.
He is left staring at the building in front of him again and his eyes are scanning it for signs of life or something else interesting enough to look at, while he thinks about how he will get home.
His eyes find an open window on the top floor and a woman dressed in nothing but air passes by it, the cold night air made her chilly and she wanted to close the window.
As she leans out of the window to close it, he sees her nude upper body and it’s the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.
She sees him standing there, looking up at her.
It resembled a moment from a typical American movie where the geeky neighborhood boy was looking at the bedroom window of the girl next door who he had a secret crush on.
She shouts at him in a language he recognizes as English but he can’t really understand the words but he knows she is angry at him.
He can’t make up anything of what she is saying and he tries to apologize as his eyes try to look away from her nude body he sees neon letters on the roof.
They spell out ‘HOTEL’ and he understands she’s a tourist and he tries to explain he is sorry for peeking and did not mean to do so.
As she keeps getting more and more upset and he starts to kneel a bit and keeps saying ‘Sorry!’ over and over again.
She keeps telling him to ‘Shoo’ and uses her hands to gesture sweeping him off the street, as if he was a stray dog howling to the moon.
He tries to apologize in his own language and explains why he was standing there, but she doesn’t understand a word he’s saying.
In the meantime she had covered herself with the curtains while she looked at him trying to explain it all.
So knowing she did not understand his language he tries it again using just his hands to draw out things just like a mime.
From the meeting coming to an end with him falling asleep, to him getting in the car with the guy he doesn’t like.
She laughs at his impressions and beckons for him to go on which looked like she was rolling a ball of yarn.
He then explains sitting in the car and someone boring driving and him really wanting to smoke a cigarette.
And than he reconstructs getting dragged out of the car and losing his cigarette in the gutter.
He then acts out smoking it again and she joins him for a smoke from her window.
He looks up at the sky and than points at the stars with both of his index fingers and then moves them to point directly at her window.
When he wants to explain how he first saw her, all he can do is stare at her and be amazed by how pretty she looked.
She smiles at him and smells her armpits he figured that meant she was about to take a shower before they met.
And as a desperate puppy he tries not to lose her and tries to tell her his heart feels weird and he would fly up to her window to meet her because he somehow feels that he can.
Even though she couldn’t understand his words she tells him to take the stairs instead and throws him the key to her room.
And even though he doesn’t understand a word of what she just said either, he hesitates for a moment but picks up the key and walks to the front of the motel.
Upon entering the motel he shows his key to the desk clerk and uses the stairs to get to the top floor.
When he gets to the door of her room he is out of breath, she opens the door before he could use they key.
He walks in and she points to the couch as she goes into the shower.
He doesn’t sit down right away but looks around the room first.
On the table before him there is a English newspaper and a paper sheet with writing on it, he can only read the lines in his language but not the English parts.
It has a couple of sentences on it so she can order food and tell the motel personnel what she needs.
On one of the chairs at the dinner table an expensive looking dress is hanging from a cloth hanger.
The window is still open and he takes a look outside.
Trying to straighten his thoughts seemed hopeless because they were running like a bunch of kids with ADHD on a sugar rush.
She taps him on the shoulder and shakes her head and points to the couch again.
As he is sits down she smiles at him and he points to himself and tells her his name ‘Johan’.
She smiles and repeats it ‘Johan’ followed by a small giggle, ‘Haley’ she tells him.
‘Haley’ He repeats and with the use of the few English words he knows, he tells her what he does for a living.
‘I count money.’ is what he uses to explain he’s an accountant.
He acts to yawn throughout most of the day and they both laugh, and she closes the window.
She grabs a blanket and pillow from the closet and puts them on the edge of the couch.
He looks at the carpet and how her feet have sunken in it and how parts of the soft hairs on her toes shine as if there was a silver layer on her skin.
She points to herself and uses her hands to act out a old wind up camera and swaps position with it and talks funny.
Then she acts to faint, they begin to laugh and she takes a seat next to him on the couch.
She begin to softly cry and rests her head on his shoulder.
He seems shocked by whats happening and how something so beautiful as her could be so sad.
After a while she wipes away her tears and kisses him on his lips and drags him to her bed.
Before he could make up what she wanted from him, she had already begun to jump up and down on the bed in just her panties and shirt.
And as if he was possessed by something else he started to sing a improvised song about jumping on a bed that she couldn’t understand.
She lands on her knees with heavy breathing she leans over to him and grabs him by his belt and drags him closer to the bed.
He kisses her this time and she raises her arms in the air and he takes off her shirt, and he is amazed by her beauty and a big smile appears on his face.
She lets herself fall onto the bed and he watches her smiling and crying at the same time, and in just a matter of seconds she falls sound asleep.
He smiles and sheds some tears too, even though he doesn’t fully understand why, he wraps her in the blanket that’s on the bed.
Together with her shirt he sleeps on the couch that night.
The next morning he woke up and saw everything was gone, her smell, the dress, the newspaper even the paper sheet.
The only thing left was a envelope on the table.
On the front she had drawn a heart with a question mark inside of it.
He opened the envelope.
Inside there was a invitation to the premier of a film called ‘Speechless‘ tonight, in which she played the leading role.
He opened the window and took a deep breath holding the invitation tightly in his fist.
Because he was forced to carpool by his boss, he is stuck with this guy he doesn’t like and to make things worse he’s not allowed to smoke in the car.
As the car heads towards a bridge he lights up a cigarette and the guy pulls over on the foot of the bridge.
He gets out of the driver seat and walks of to his side and tries to drag him out of the car.
During the struggle he loses his cigarette and lands face down on the sidewalk when his leg got stuck behind the curb.
After his co-worker drives away he gets up and he finds his last cigarette in the gutter, the tip still burning.
He leans against the side of the bridge and continues smoking it as if nothing had happened, staring at the buildings in front of him.
After inspecting all the stars in the sky, he throws away what is left of his cigarette.
He is left staring at the building in front of him again and his eyes are scanning it for signs of life or something else interesting enough to look at, while he thinks about how he will get home.
His eyes find an open window on the top floor and a woman dressed in nothing but air passes by it, the cold night air made her chilly and she wanted to close the window.
As she leans out of the window to close it, he sees her nude upper body and it’s the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.
She sees him standing there, looking up at her.
It resembled a moment from a typical American movie where the geeky neighborhood boy was looking at the bedroom window of the girl next door who he had a secret crush on.
She shouts at him in a language he recognizes as English but he can’t really understand the words but he knows she is angry at him.
He can’t make up anything of what she is saying and he tries to apologize as his eyes try to look away from her nude body he sees neon letters on the roof.
They spell out ‘HOTEL’ and he understands she’s a tourist and he tries to explain he is sorry for peeking and did not mean to do so.
As she keeps getting more and more upset and he starts to kneel a bit and keeps saying ‘Sorry!’ over and over again.
She keeps telling him to ‘Shoo’ and uses her hands to gesture sweeping him off the street, as if he was a stray dog howling to the moon.
He tries to apologize in his own language and explains why he was standing there, but she doesn’t understand a word he’s saying.
In the meantime she had covered herself with the curtains while she looked at him trying to explain it all.
So knowing she did not understand his language he tries it again using just his hands to draw out things just like a mime.
From the meeting coming to an end with him falling asleep, to him getting in the car with the guy he doesn’t like.
She laughs at his impressions and beckons for him to go on which looked like she was rolling a ball of yarn.
He then explains sitting in the car and someone boring driving and him really wanting to smoke a cigarette.
And than he reconstructs getting dragged out of the car and losing his cigarette in the gutter.
He then acts out smoking it again and she joins him for a smoke from her window.
He looks up at the sky and than points at the stars with both of his index fingers and then moves them to point directly at her window.
When he wants to explain how he first saw her, all he can do is stare at her and be amazed by how pretty she looked.
She smiles at him and smells her armpits he figured that meant she was about to take a shower before they met.
And as a desperate puppy he tries not to lose her and tries to tell her his heart feels weird and he would fly up to her window to meet her because he somehow feels that he can.
Even though she couldn’t understand his words she tells him to take the stairs instead and throws him the key to her room.
And even though he doesn’t understand a word of what she just said either, he hesitates for a moment but picks up the key and walks to the front of the motel.
Upon entering the motel he shows his key to the desk clerk and uses the stairs to get to the top floor.
When he gets to the door of her room he is out of breath, she opens the door before he could use they key.
He walks in and she points to the couch as she goes into the shower.
He doesn’t sit down right away but looks around the room first.
On the table before him there is a English newspaper and a paper sheet with writing on it, he can only read the lines in his language but not the English parts.
It has a couple of sentences on it so she can order food and tell the motel personnel what she needs.
On one of the chairs at the dinner table an expensive looking dress is hanging from a cloth hanger.
The window is still open and he takes a look outside.
Trying to straighten his thoughts seemed hopeless because they were running like a bunch of kids with ADHD on a sugar rush.
She taps him on the shoulder and shakes her head and points to the couch again.
As he is sits down she smiles at him and he points to himself and tells her his name ‘Johan’.
She smiles and repeats it ‘Johan’ followed by a small giggle, ‘Haley’ she tells him.
‘Haley’ He repeats and with the use of the few English words he knows, he tells her what he does for a living.
‘I count money.’ is what he uses to explain he’s an accountant.
He acts to yawn throughout most of the day and they both laugh, and she closes the window.
She grabs a blanket and pillow from the closet and puts them on the edge of the couch.
He looks at the carpet and how her feet have sunken in it and how parts of the soft hairs on her toes shine as if there was a silver layer on her skin.
She points to herself and uses her hands to act out a old wind up camera and swaps position with it and talks funny.
Then she acts to faint, they begin to laugh and she takes a seat next to him on the couch.
She begin to softly cry and rests her head on his shoulder.
He seems shocked by whats happening and how something so beautiful as her could be so sad.
After a while she wipes away her tears and kisses him on his lips and drags him to her bed.
Before he could make up what she wanted from him, she had already begun to jump up and down on the bed in just her panties and shirt.
And as if he was possessed by something else he started to sing a improvised song about jumping on a bed that she couldn’t understand.
She lands on her knees with heavy breathing she leans over to him and grabs him by his belt and drags him closer to the bed.
He kisses her this time and she raises her arms in the air and he takes off her shirt, and he is amazed by her beauty and a big smile appears on his face.
She lets herself fall onto the bed and he watches her smiling and crying at the same time, and in just a matter of seconds she falls sound asleep.
He smiles and sheds some tears too, even though he doesn’t fully understand why, he wraps her in the blanket that’s on the bed.
Together with her shirt he sleeps on the couch that night.
The next morning he woke up and saw everything was gone, her smell, the dress, the newspaper even the paper sheet.
The only thing left was a envelope on the table.
On the front she had drawn a heart with a question mark inside of it.
He opened the envelope.
Inside there was a invitation to the premier of a film called ‘Speechless‘ tonight, in which she played the leading role.
He opened the window and took a deep breath holding the invitation tightly in his fist.
