A fanciful mind.

Martin was an introverted boy and scenarios very different from reality were normal in his mind. At school, this behavior brought him many problems with both teachers and classmates. He grew with his own thoughts and his world and lived with his parents… Until they died from old age and he was left alone. He was already over 40 years old, but he is only allowed to leave his house to shop and the rest of his time is always spent at home. At home there’s something he loves to do and that is to see through his window, towards the house in front of his.

Mary is a 35 year old single mother, she raises her two children by herself and there is no male figure at home. Together with her mother, she dedicates herself to giving her children everything they need to get ahead. Mary is a nurse and works in a psychiatric hospital. She has been there for many years and with her savings she was able to buy a small house on sale. The house met the conditions that she needed to continue with the education of her children and it’s also not very far from her work. She is a very kind woman with a very nice smile; wherever she goes she gives a smile to everyone.

But there is something that is bothering her and it's the house in front. She thinks there is someone there who is watching her through the window but she never sees anyone inside, this because Martin does not go outside his house while she is in hers. Mary's work routine is always the same, she works six days a week and has one day off. Today’s her day off so she goes out with her two children and her mother and they go shopping. There she saw the car that is always in the front house right in front of hers, but she didn't see the driver.

"Is it a coincidence, or is it just my head playing games?" She said to herself. ”…I always see that car parked here every Tuesday but I never see the driver” and so the days went by.

Mary cared for patients who came to see a psychiatrist. She takes the hospitalized patients from their rooms in a wheelchair to the office and then back. She attended to the patients who came from the private consultation with specific orders. And then there was Martin. He never missed his consultation. She received him with her best smile, like she does with everyone, but he was a very shy patient and he hardly speaks. He just looks at her and lately he's been bringing her some flowers. Mary always thanks him with that beautiful smile of hers. Martin himself is a patient who has an excessive imagination disorder. He has an introverted personality and does not like people, he always wants to be alone but Mary is a special woman.

Since he met her, he never fails to see her at Dr. Pietri's office; he felt that she offered him her friendship and maybe something more than that. He feels that he advances a lot in his interest in having a life with her. Now he brings her very beautiful flowers and she, as he suspects, accepts them with all her love… but he thinks that she also wants to formalize that relationship. He “could tell” by that beautiful smile that she gives him every time he visited. Now he had to keep looking for ways to please her more and more. He asks the doctor for more frequent consultations, he feels the need to go and comment on the things on his mind with him and the doctor accepts his request.

The doctor understands his life. He encourages him to continue treatment and tells you to him to socialize more and more. He assures him that people are eager to meet one another so long as they are friendly and respectful, so he should do everything possible to make the people around him feel like he is a kind person and that he’s concerned about getting to know them. He has told him that the most important ideas on his mind must be realized, he must have thoughts that he can carry out in society and that take him away from isolation.

Mary comes home from work. There is the green car, as always, the lights in the house are off and it seems that no one’s there, but she feels that someone is watching her. She talks to her mother and asks if she has seen anyone in the front house. To which her mother replies that since they live there she has never seen anyone look out, she doesn't even know who's driving the vehicle. This generally occurs in the afternoons. She goes out to dump her garbage and the green car isn’t there and just as she doesn't see it coming out, he doesn't see her coming either.

Mary finds it weird, but she thinks that maybe they work just like her; in the afternoons and with a more flexible schedule. So when Mary goes with her mother and children to the supermarket and returns to her car she notices the green car again. It’s behind hers, in the parking lot. She tries to see who is driving, but the driver is nowhere to be seen. She doesn’t know how he disappears! She is scared but doesn't say anything to her mother so as not to appear paranoid and scare her.

Mary is back at work. There are several patients today and in-between them is Martin, again. Now she sees him more often. But in the same way that he arrives, he leaves. The strange thing is that now in each consultation he brings her more gifts and she doesn’t refuse him because her kindness doesn’t let her.

Martin is sure that she is also in love with him so he brings her a ring and delivers it to her in a tightly wrapped gift box. She receives it with her beautiful smile and opens it, but she’s surprised and asks him what that is. To which Martin says: “Do you want to be my wife? I know you also like me and I would like to be together!" To which Mary, incredulous and returning the ring to its box, with her beautiful smile replied: “Martin I’m sorry, but I have no interest in you aside from you being a patient. I’m really sorry, take your gift and I would appreciate that from now on you do not bring any more gifts for me on the day of your consultations”.

Martin felt bad, he dejectedly took the box with the ring that she placed in his hand and left the office running. He was confused. Why didn’t she accept? Was it because she didn't like the ring? Was it small? Mary reacted to his outburst and ran out behind him, but she couldn’t stop him. He got in his car, and it’s there that she notices that he’s the driver of the green car; the same one that always follows her. Martin is her neighbor and her stalker! What to do now!? … Mary simply goes into the office and thinks about what happened.

Meanwhile Martin thinks about just happened. It was his mother's ring and she always liked it, so why didn't Mary like his gift? He would be careful from now on to see what things she liked. Mary didn't see the green car again when she got to the supermarket, but when she was leaving she found the car parked in the other row behind her. Again, she can't see the driver. The vehicle leaves and she is left with her questions. It can’t be that many coincidences, what is happening?

She tells a friend about this car, the neighbor and the patient thing. It seems that she is paranoid, and her friend tries to make her to forget those things and tries to make her as happy as always. But he doesn’t succeed

Martin does not attend his consultations anymore. He’s disoriented and does not know what to do. He has already known his beloved Mary for a year and doesn’t know how to communicate with her and now she doesn't want any more presents. How does he fix this? He’ll have to keep sneaking around her, so he'll follow her while she goes to the market.

Mary is definitely scared. When she leaves the house she knows that he is there. She knows it’s Martin but she has no evidence to go to the police. She has to fend for herself, until she gets proof of harassment from him. She goes to the police and tells them about everything that’s happening to her. But the police tell her what she feared; she has no proof that this is true, they can be just coincidences. They refute her and she leaves without any certainty that they will help her.

After several days, the police decide to go and review her claim. They arrive at the house of the address that Mary left them, there is no car outside. They knock on the door and nobody comes out so they just leave a note for her to come to the police station. But that same day Martin was parked outside the Doctor’s office. He was waiting for Mary to arrive and once she arrived, he leaned back in his seat so she wouldn't find him sitting there.

When Mary arrived and saw the green car, she got scared, but immediately thought: Martin’s here and he came to her office so I’ll talk with him. She didn't see him inside the car and thought he was inside the office and kept walking. But just as she opened the glass door to enter, someone pushed her; Martin took her by the arm and pulled her into the office. While Mary spoke softly with him, trying to calm him down, Martin confessed that he did not know what to do to make her accept him and he did not succeed. The solution, to him that is, is to die together. So he pulls out a gun and shoots, he gives Mary two shots: one in the head and one in the abdomen and then shot himself, placing the barrel of the pistol on his forehead and firing.

It was the only way he found in his sick mind to be with his beloved Mary. That after having more than two years after her, he never managed to be close to her, unless it was on the days of consultation… And she didn't accept that either. Now they would be together in death... or so he thinks.