Dogville

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[Narrator] The period of spring and early summer
proved a happy one for Grace.

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Martha rang the hours,
conducting her through the day.

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So she could serve as eyes for McKay,
a mother for Ben,

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friend for Vera,
and brains for Bill...

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And one day it had occurred to Grace
to tread the pedals herself so to get Martha to agree

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to play a couple of paper notes,
just to empty the bellows naturally

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so that they wouldn't be left under pressure
and thus be spoiled.

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And now they had tacitly agreed that
as long as it was Grace who trode the pedals,

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Martha could play without feeling any guilt.

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To Tom's pop, the old doctor, who imagined
he had a new ailment every single day

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and was thus increasingly addicted to
the simpler coordination tests
from his medical school days,

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she had to be severe, telling him that
there was nothing wrong with him.

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And now, since the town had agreed that
everyone was to give according to his abilities

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she received wages, not much, but enough
to save up for the first of the tiny china figurines

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from the row of seven that had stood
for so long gathering dust in the window of the store.

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And she dreamed that in time she would
be able to acquire them all.

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Slowly those alabaster hands turned
into a pair of hands that could have belonged to
anyone in any little rural community.

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And three weeks later she triumphantly
moved into a place Tom and Ben had secretly restored,

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namely the old mill, which had once held
the town's ore crusher,

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but of which only the heavy
flywheel now remained.