- Can you keep it down, pal? - He fell.
- What fell? - The neighbor fell down.
Get the kid outta there!
Get a crowbar!
A man fell down.
Down the elevator shaft!
Don't break the door.
You seem fine, Lucky.
When did your mom and I scan you last? Two months ago.
You're right as rain.
Your mom and I looked and looked.
You know how she can be, a livewire. Nothing escapes her.
Don't you worry. You'll live to be 101.
You taking your medication?
You getting laid?
Why not?
I'm no good, am I?
Hello? Yes.
Yes, yes, it's great!
Outta my way, fuckin' snot!
What was that number again? Huh?
What number?
What do you need? Good afternoon!
Is Blagojce home?
Mr. Lazar, is that you?
Sorry, I didn't recognize you.
Mome, take the boy. Darko, get your grandpa.
I'm Paca, Blagojce's wife. Come in.
Please, come in.
Grandpa, a man's here to see you.
Whitman? Shit!
Welcome.
Here you go.
Do you put medicine on your burn? It's a birth mark. I was born marked.
- Looks like a burn to me. - It's not a burn.
My mother was telling me her brothers were shepherds.
They took a bag of grapes from somewhere. Stole it.
Hung it on the door at home.
Mother was pregnant with me, big as a house!
She didn't know their getting to do, took some of the grapes and ate them.
Maybe she didn’t know they were stolen.
It doesn't matter, she still took them.
And then she touched her arm like this...
It's red like grapes. See?
And here, half my breast, if you'd pardon me.
She says she never stole anything else. Not even a plum.
That’ show I was born, marked.
Marked.
Close the door. The baby will get a chill. Mr. Lazar...
Welcome.
Grandpa's brave boy.
Shoot'em, sheriff!
Leave the baby, alone, you old fart. Children. Great joy, Mr. Lazar.
Yes, great. I wanted to see my son, too.
Blagojce, do we owe you anything? We're the ones who owe you.
Are you sure? Both my son and daughter-in-law are unemployed. Me, too.
If it weren't for your mother, God bless her, bless her golden hand... Yeah, yeah...
Do you believe in souls?
We all have a soul, don't we?
Only the animals have no soul. But they feel pain, too, the poor things.
I mean, life after death, ghosts... Ghosts? No!
Only in the movies. We live in the 21 stcentury.
You got yourself a college degree. A good degree, Mr. Lazar.
Then, again... The old folks say there are people who can't leave.
They died, but can't leave.
They really want to, the poor souls. But something's in their way.
Some one's ruined it for them, Burnt their bridge. Insulted them.
- Their bridge? - Yes, their bridge, their gate.
They can't return until the damage has been fixed.
The old folks say these poor souls suffer plenty. They die over and over.
They die today. Then die again tomorrow.
They can't go back to their world.
They're stuck here, with us.
Dying once hurts enough, let alone a hundred times over.
Can't anybody help them?
Only if he figures out how himself. See, the souls can't tell you anything.
Hell, the regular folk can’t even see them.
Isn't that nonsense? Might be nonsense, but there are people who believe it.
Son, I bought you a cell phone.
You can call Daddy whenever you want. Do you want me to give you cell phone?
- May I speak with Aron, please? - Hello?
Mom, did Uncle Gasouse to live in America?
In America.
He came back with tail between his legs. You think it's easy?
They'll roll out the red carpet for you?
Home, sweet home. Sweet Macedonia.
You are so beautiful.
Come with me back to the city tomorrow.
Be careful. Your mother may come in.
You be careful not to wake your son.
I love you, sweetie.
Beautiful.
Water...
Want some? Too early for me.
That's what you keep saying all your life. Then you realize it's become too late.
Dad?
How do you manage? With mom.
Gordana...
Your wife doesn't want to return with you? She doesn’t.
I miss my son.
How do you do it?
Look how beautiful.
What are you doing here?
What now?
Will you come in?
Hey! Where are you going?
You lied to me.
- Very much. - Sugar?
No.
Your grandmother? My grandmother. She's very kind.
She looks like you.
She's soft like bread.
You've trapped different smells in every corner.
Every summer, I'd visit my grandfather in Kukush.
He had an upstairs veranda.
My cousins and I ran up and down the wooden stairs.
"You're shaking the stairs," he'd laugh.
At dusk, fireflies would come out.
Thirty, forty fireflies. Like constellations.
Blinking and flying.
You walk and enter constellations.
You’re inside constellations. They’re around you... below you, above you.
You move, and they move.
At my grandfather's it always smelled of linden.
The two most beautiful fragrances in the world.
It's worth being alive just for them.
Linden and roasted peppers.
You are so beautiful.
That's what you tell your wife too. She is beautiful, too.
She is. She really is.
But I don't know her.
She’s distant.
I want to be with her, but she's not there.
Even when I am with her, she's not there.
She must love you.
I don’t think she loves anyone.
Hope you enjoyed your coffee.
What are you doing to me?
You feel so good. You’ll burn your peppers.
I'll roast new ones.
Menka?
Do you want to know my name?
No.
I knew you before I met you.
Menka?
Menka, where did you go?
Menka?
Menka, where are you?
Menka?
Menka, talk to me!
I'll be back soon.
I’m going to get you medicine.
Menka?
I'll be back.
Taxi! Taxi!
Taxi!
Nurse. Nurse!
Ma'am!
Call the chief resident!
Did you hear me? - Why, doctor? Did you hear me?
Can I help you? Hello.
Where's the old woman? - What old woman? -My old woman.
There was no old woman. You’re all lying. You stole her!
Lucky, take it easy, dude.
And you...
You get your daddy to take it easy.
His wife won't give him any.
What the fuck you want?
Lam crazy, right?
Very much.
Come.
It can't be easy.
Want some?
What's going on?
We are dying. We're all dying.
Some more often than others. Die-rise, die-rise...
I’m sick of it.
What is she saying?
She's from another time. You can't understand her.
She says, "Return me to Gluvovo, Return me my peace".
Gluvovo? My mother’s village? Let’s go!
You'll give us a lift? We don't need a lift, neighbor.
What do you need, then?
You don't want to know. You’re lucky you're not in my shoes.
You think it feels good to walk around with nails in your heels?
Spikes.
When I died... my brother nailed them into my heels.
So that I wouldn't rise, wouldn't come back.
Well, I did fucking comeback!
And then your mother fixed us up.
We've been waiting 34 years for someone who can hear us.
Someone who has touched us. Why me?
Because no one else can see us.
You think I wouldn't rather...
...chat with her?
For her I don't exist, neighbor.
And it's not because I'm old.
Leave me alone!
Had we left you alone after the crash, you wouldn't be alive now, you little snot.
What?
What did you say?
You remember the tunnel? The railroad gate?
You were neither here nor there. Won't shit nor get off the pot.
Daddy has a weenie.
You wanted to come back. So you gave us your word.
That's why we helped you come back.
The car was going to squash you like a bug.
Well, now it's time to payback.
Payback what?
You must figure it out yourself.
You should knowhow to show respect, you little shit.
Gerasim!
If your mother didn't teach you how to show respect, I can't, either!
You are from another time...
You are insane.
Whose are these bones? Where is your wife?
None of your business. And your son?
Good thing the apartment's in our name.
Whose bones are these? Give me the socks.
I want to know.
Nobody's. An abandoned grave, not even a real one.
Aegeans, refugees, suicides. It's their own fault.
And drowned. A baby, not baptized...
I gave them meaning, made them useful. Not like you, you parasite.
You don't care about anyone. You stole.
What?
Whose graves have you defamed?
Do you know the people? They want them back.
They want...
You need help. You have no respect.
- Put the bones back. - You give them back! They aren't yours.
- Give me back my keys. - No.
- Give me back my keys. Give me back my S.U.V.
- Giveback the keys! - No, Mom!
Mom...
Mom? Get out! Get out!
And don’t come back!
My mother’s village.
There they are, outside the cemetery.
Rejected, suicides. Aegeans.
You gave us back our peace.
Come.
Thank you.
No!
I have to.
Don't.
Then come with me.
Wait!
Come.
You were never here anyway.
Smile now. One day you'll be gone.
How are you going to live without me?