(C) Diāna
(A) Guna
(B) Gunta

All the women are standing still on the same cable machine.

C: Living together, we lost our essence.

Women exercise for a while (4-5 times) without speaking. Guna stops exercising and speaks.

A: I was never alone.
But maybe I was by myself for a couple of days in my life, and that's when I thought I should be sensible. Think about me.
C: I wanted to leave.

Guna gets off the cable machine and picks up an exercise ball, which she carries. Gunta and Diana also change their exercises. Then Guna continues talking.

A: I didn't want anyone English, no Poles, because in England everyone is either English or Polish. I looked around the gym.

Guna looks at the men in the audience.

Here, a Pole, Englishman, Englishman, Pole… And I thought: Oh, this one is handsome! I don't know where he comes from.
I threw my exercise ring at that guy to get him to say something. I need to hear the accent. But he just smiles and gives me the ring back. I say, "We'll train together tomorrow."

All women swap machines. Then, when they are all seated, they start exercising. After a while, Diana starts talking while continuing to exercise.

C: When we came, I said - a young family should build their own life, not together with the whole household.
A: And the next day he talks about his hometown. And that was my dream because I was always performing in the circus for these rich snobs in London and I thought, 'one day I'll just fade away, you'll never see me again. I will go to a nice place - there will be nature and trees, and there will be no one there. I came to Seda.

All women switch equipment. Guna lies on the flat padded bench. She lifts the bar a couple of times, the last time she struggles. Gunta and Diana help her push it. Guna sits facing forward.

C: I have one child - a daughter.
B: We also had a house, we bought it.
A: I had a child with this Latvian guy.

Diana and Gunta go and sit on a bench. Guna walks to the opposite side and picks up two kettlebells. As she walks, Diana unscrews a bottle, takes one small sip. Guna comes back, puts down the kettlebells and looks in the mirror.

A: He became depressed.

Diana takes a very long sip. She hands the bottle to Gunta. She puts the bottle down. Guna turns the other way.

A: We are not together anymore.

Diana gets up to her feet.

C: I left for my daughter.

Guna is the first to walk to the cycle rack. Then Diāna follows. They sit down (without pedalling yet). Gunta stays on the bench.

B: It was the first trauma where life split in two. But all my life I wanted to go back.
A: I came back in 2014.
B: Then 2014 began.

Guna and Diana start to cycle. Then they stop spinning, but they let the wheel turn for a while.

B: We had two backpacks. We had nothing.

Guna gets off the bike trainer, looks around. Then she goes back to the treadmill where she was standing at the beginning.

A: We had nothing. I took my daughter's clothes, toys and the most important things, but I didn't have Christmas decorations, curtains and things like that. I am a circus performer. I don't need practical things. But I looked at my daughter.
B: When you're a mom, everything changes completely.
A: This will be the fourth Christmas of her life and I don't have anything for the tree. We won't even have a Christmas tree!
B: Before that I thought ”What am I afraid of? Now I understand - from people. Now I fully understand and realize it. People can do things that you would never think of.
A: What kind of mother am I, right? I'll just cut some branches.
B: I understand - if something happens here, I have to take the documents and the child and just run, because I know that there are people around who will come directly to me.

Knocking. They all look at the door.

A: There was one of the old ladies.
B: They see a flag hanging on my balcony. I know what they call me behind my back.

Knocking. Pause.

A: I opened the door and she had a cardboard box full of Christmas decorations in her hands. She says they are old. They are very old, they are not nice and shiny, but this is what she and her family have put on the Christmas tree all her life, since she lived here. Her family is gone. She sat down and watched my daughter and I decorate the Christmas tree we found on the side of the road.

Pause

B: When I wasn't living in Seda, I saw Seda in my dreams almost every night.
C: They all grew up. Jobs were needed, but there were none.
B: Not so often now.