The Lobster · written by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou · 2015

Heartless Woman enters a room and finds a woman engaged in sex with three waiters.

Scene 57 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Act oneAct two

Begins 45 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 57

After his wife leaves him, David has 45 days to find a partner at a hotel or become an animal; he escapes, falls for a shortsighted loner, and must decide whether to surrender his sight so they can stay together.

Scenes 1–15
David moves from his broken home into the hotel, where couplehood is imposed as the norm.
Scenes 16–24
He must find a partner before the 45-day limit turns him into an animal.
Scene 25
David loads a tranquilliser gun and joins the hotel’s hunt, entering its violent courtship system.
Scene 52
Heartless Woman stages a choking fit; David stays still, and she declares they are a match. The double room follows in scene 53.
Just before
Scene 54
David kicks Limping Man’s daughter and explains he is giving her a limp; Heartless Woman suggests he should also give her a nosebleed.
Scene 55
Heartless Woman tells David she killed Bob; he hides his grief, breaks down in the bathroom, and she announces they are going to the Hotel Manager for punishment.
Scene 56
David kicks Heartless Woman in the stomach and escapes by lift while she runs after him.
Scene 57
This scene

57INT. HOTEL FIRST-FLOOR CORRIDOR - EVENING

Heartless Woman reaches the first-floor corridor and tries each door one by one. She sees a door slightly ajar. She pushes it open and enters. She sees a WOMAN giving a WAITER a blow job. A second waiter, the 30-year-old waiter, is fucking her while a third, the 50-year-old waiter, sits watching in a chair and wanks off.