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

The Maid leaves the coach to search for truffles after agreeing to return within fifty minutes.

Scene 71 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Maid
Driver Waiter

Act oneAct two

Begins 54 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 71

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 68
The Loner Leader leads a pig through the woods and digs wherever it stops, as if searching for something.
Scene 69
Shortsighted Woman’s voice-over says she first saw David exercising and found him presentable; the routine breaks when a loner is caught in a trap and the leader orders everyone to scatter.
Scene 70
Lisping Man catches David, who pleads friendship; Shortsighted Woman stabs Lisping Man, and David tranquillises him and takes his gear.
Scene 71
This scene

71EXT. A CLEARING IN THE WOODS - MORNING

The waiter-driver and the Maid, who joined him for the journey, sit outside the coach. The Maid is the one who helped David escape. She picks up a bag and slings it over her back.

MAID

I’m going to go hunting for

truffles. They’re delicious and

quite rare. A kilo can fetch up to

2,000 pounds.

DRIVER WAITER

You’re going to need a pig. They’re

impossible to find, otherwise.

MAID

I know.

DRIVER WAITER

Don’t be long. We have to take them

back in 50 minutes.

MAID

Okay.