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

The Loner Leader leads a pig through the woods and digs wherever it stops, as if searching for something.

Scene 68 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Act oneAct two

Begins 50 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 68

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.
Scenes 25–62
He participates in the hunt, attempts a false match, then escapes into the woods.
Just before
Scene 65
The Loner Leader admits David to the forest community and explains that romance and sex between loners are forbidden.
Scene 66
Loner Swimmer gives David clothes, a player, a book, and a knife; David learns that a pair of flirtatious loners were punished with the Red Kiss.
Scene 67
David rubs tiger balm onto the part of his back he cannot reach.
Scene 68
This scene

68EXT. THE WOODS - MORNING

Loner Leader watches a pig eating some weeds. She creeps up without making a sound and slips a lead around its neck. They start walking in the woods. Wherever the animal stops, the leader digs into the ground with her hands as if looking for something. She then gets up, wipes the soil off her hands and continues walking the pig.