So What Are We Doing Now? 

Translated with support from the Institut Ramon Llull. 

After fifty years of working life, Vicky has finally retired. Lluís, her partner of thirty-five years (give or take a few breaks along the way), has been waiting for this day to arrive. At last, a life of leisure awaits, and the choices are infinite: ride the roller-coaster, drink the vermouth, travel the world… finally open that bottle of wine. But no sooner do they begin their celebrations, with a bacchanalian feast at their favourite restaurant, than the spectre of mortality presents itself at the table. Lucky for them, then, that the 21st-century economy has forced the next generation into some unusual portfolio careers: their waiter is a trainee doctor, earning some extra cash between hospital shifts. Disaster thus averted, the party can begin again, but the question remains: when you’ve waited your whole life for freedom, what do you do when it finally comes? So what are we doing now?

It’s quite something. Today, when I left work, and closed the door for the final time on an entire life of building a career, I thought to myself… ‘Today’s the day. Today I will tell Lluís to open the wine.’ But now… Are you sure enough, that this is the happiest and fullest moment of our lives together, to open it?

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