I see you smiling but you are sad.
Do you want me to bring you a few words?
They'll cost you alot!
Stranger...
Stranger... exile.
Stranger everywhere...
Do you understand that word?
No.
The women at the village said it.
Do you want me to bring you others?
Where? On the island, Anna?
Mom, I am afraid that the sun can hurt you!
I've been dreaming of your father, lately.
Every night.
I miss him so much!
He left too early.
- You were on journey, as usual! - My first book was published in France.
You were never too close to him.
You always contradicted him,
and he suffered for that.
But I returned as soon as I could.
What are you two plotting?
Your hat, mother.
- I should have stayed with the baby. - Melpo and the children are with her.
I should have stayed with the baby!
Melpo is with her. don't worry!
"I try to kidnap you between a book and another.
"You live your life close to us, your daughter and me...
"but not with us.
"I know than one day you will leave.
"The wind pushes your eyes away.
"but today, give me this day
"as if it was the last.
"Give me this day!"
What are you thinking of?
I am going to climb up there!
Traitor!
Why you are angry, Anna? Please! it won't take long.
Please...
It won't take me long.
Traitor!
Christos... Vassilis... Alexandre... Summer '39.
Good evening.
Good evening, doctor...
Sorry, I was distracted.
I was worried for you. I feared that...
It's spreading faster than you thought… isn't it?
My body doesn't obey anymore...
my body, whose edges vanish in the mirror
and become a shade.
I'll go to the hospital tomorrow. You said: when the pain gets strong.
See...
I didn't know how to tell you,
my position was not easy...
I had such an admiration for you!
Our generation grew up reading your books and your poems.
I have to go...
Someone's waiting for me.
Why did you disappear? I looked for you...
What happened?
Sélim...
Good evening.
Who let you in? It's forbidden, don't you know?
A "boy of the red lights" was brought here this afternoon...
He was run over by a bus on the boulevard.
It's forbidden, I tell you.
Listen, the coroner knows me.
Does he?
Let me call him.
Hey! Sélim.
What a pity you can't be with us tonight.
Hey, Sélim!
I'm scared, Sélim. The sea is so big!
What waits for us in the place where you're going, Sélim?
What does the place where we'll all go look like?
Mountains or ravines, police or soldiers,
we never look back.
All I can see is the sea, now, the endless sea.
In the night I saw my mother in front of her door, in tears.
It was Christmas. The bells rang. The snow fell on the mountain.
If you only were here to speak to us again
of all those ports, Marseille or Naples,
of this vast world.
Hey! Sélim, speak, speak to us, speaks of this vast world.
Hey! Sélim, speak, speak to us...
Good evening!
Good evening. I'll be right back.
I'll leave you alone, it's better.
Mother...
Forgive me for not coming before.
You know, there's always something...
Mother...
I came to say goodbye.
I'm leaving.
The table is set!
I'm coming!
Maria, take good care of my big brother!
I'm not worth the effort! But others are...
Where were you? Your father-in-law got worried.
No, I didn't! But your mother...
And the left wing, Alexandre, what do they say?
About what?
Come, call the children!
The table is set. Alexandre is here!
What does the world look like, seen from above?
Magical!
- Am I late, mom? - You'll never grow up.
As a child you always ran away too. The table is set.
- Where is Anna? - I've seen her go that way.
Anna! Let's go to take refuge in the cave up there.
I am going to look for Anna!
Where are you going, Anna?
You lost your head!
Away, away, to the open sea...
"your island travels.
"One of your shirts forgotten on the balcony trembles in the wind.
"Oh you, protected by the shadow of a room
"kidnapped by the voices of the night,
"I look at you with closed eyes,
"I listen to you with sealed ears.
"With no mouth, I implore you."
The table settings...
the silver plate...
my dowry...
my dowry.
Where did you put them?
They were still there yesterday.
Yesterday...
they were still there.
Why mother...
nothing happens as we wish?
Why?
Why does one have to rot
in silence...
torn between pain and desire?
Why did I live my life in exile?
Why, when I felt at home...
only when I could speak my own language?
My language,
when I could find the lost words...
or bring the forgotten words out of the silence.
Why only at that very moment...
could I hear the echo of my own footsteps in the house?
Why?
Tell me, mother,
why can't one learn to love?
I wanted to say goodbye.
Are you leaving tonight?
Are you going to leave in the dead of night?
I thought...
You made me think...
You're leaving as well. I won't have anybody anymore.
You will.
You will go on a big journey soon,
the ports... the whole world.
Goodbye.
Stay with me!
You have 2 hours before the boat leaves.
I only have tonight.
Stay with me.
I'm scared!
I am scared as well.
Stay with me.
Shall we catch it?
"The bodyless".
50 drachmas more.
Two for students.
Maria, why do you leave while I'm speaking to you?
You don't have any reason to get annoyed.
We need new ways, Maria...
new ways of speech. And if we can't find them, none is better!
I love you, I love you with all my heart...
but you lead an absurd life.
You show off with that writer...
All the newspapers speak of you, and I'm tired of it!
And yet I love you! But why do you leave while I'm speaking?
"Conservatory".
Trembling with dew, the last star before the dawn
announced a radiant sun.
No trace either of clouds or mist
in the endless sky.
The breath of the breeze
was so soft to the face
that it seemed to whisper to the petals of my heart,
"Life is sweet".
and...
life is sweet.
Tell me...
tomorrow... how long will it last?
It's time, isn't it?
"Argadini".
What did you say?
It means: very late.
Very late.
Very late in the night.
I must leave.
Goodbye!
"I'm writing to you in front of the sea,
"again and again...
"I write to you, I speak to you.
"One day, when you remember this day...
"remember
"that I watched it with full eyes...
"that I caressed it with both hands.
"I am here waiting for you, trembling.
"Give me this day."
Alexandre!
Anna...
Wanna dance?
You don't like it, I know,
but today is my day.
I won't go to the hospital.
I won't go to the hospital, Anna.
I won't.
I'd like to make projects for tomorrow.
The unknown neighbour will always answer to me with the same music...
and there will be someone
to sell me words.
Tomorrow...
What is tomorrow, Anna?
I have asked you one day: "How long will tomorrow last?"
and you answered to me:
Eternity and a day.
I couldn't hear you.
What did you say?
Eternity and a day.
My passage to the other side, tonight,
with words, I brought you back.
You are there.
and all is true, and waiting
for the truth.
For the truth.
My little flower...
Stranger...
Me...
Very late...
My little flower...
Stranger...
Me...
Very late...
My little flower...
My little flower.
# Translation from French: lyliakar Special thanks to Alessandra for helping me with Greek #