Anna, and Amy.
She'll be 2 next month.
She's very pretty.
Kids are great, don't you think?
Yes.
Scott, he's got two daughters. - Two?
Life is strange.
Yes.
Yes, a lot.
l love you ... - Josef, l love you.
Like that Portuguese nun, even more.
Much more. Come on, ca l l me.
Ca l l me, l know, it's not easy ...
lt's alright, l'm not sleeping.
l've been waiting for you.
Martin showed me ...
l don't want to hear about anything from the outside.
You tell me something then ... about yourself.
Can you keep a secret? - Yes.
Are you sure you can keep a secret? - Yes.
Alright.
l'll tell you but lean in close. l've got to whisper it in your ear.
One.
Lean in closer so l can tell you.
Closer.
Are you connected? - Yes.
l can't swim.
Ow.
lt,s pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
Alright, that's enough. lt's not that funny.
lt's just that ... with ...
With ... working here it seems a bit strange. - What ... ow.
People aren't lining up to jump off the diving board of the oil rig.
lt's not an aquatic park, yet.
Never was good in the water.
There was this television series when l was a kid.
You probably haven't heard of it, it's about a submarine.
lt was called ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,,.
And there was always these ...
There was this great noise that the submarine made. lt went ...
l can't do it. lt was something like ...
l was fascinated with this series, l ...
l had nightmares that there were sea monsters coming after me.
One summer my parents decided, ''We,re going to do a beach holiday,,.
Everything was alright, for a while.
l made sure my parents didn't realize l wasn't going anywhere near that water.
lt terrified me. l couldn't even go down to the water,s edge.
l couldn't even put my toe in, because l was convinced ...
that these monsters were there, waiting for me.
l was just busy building sand castles.
So, one day ...
my dad decides to rent a paddle-boat, and ...
he got really angry, because l wasn't going to go on the paddle-boat,
because l was very busy with my sand castes.
He got furious and he scooped me up and forced me on it.
And then he started to peddle furiously.
With this kind of uncontrollable rage.
l was trembling, l was sobbing, and he was saying,
''Spent 5 bucks on this. We're gonna have a good time if it's the last thing we do!''
Before you know it, we were pretty far away from the shore.
He stops pedaling, and ...
he stands up and he says something like ...
l,ve no idea what he said.
Picks me up ...
and he throws me in the water.
l start sinking to the bottom.
l keep going deeper, and deeper, and deeper down.
And there, l swear, Cora.
There's this big, black, gelatinous ... something.
lt had these big bulging eyes, and ...
tentacles.
And it saw me.
And it started coming after me.
And that was the last thing l remember.
l woke up in a hospital bed ...
You know what?
My father ...
When he ... when he threw me in the water.
He didn't know how to swim either.
Dr. Sulitzer? Yes ...
Well, we don't have that much to do, so ... No, it's fine. lt's okay. Just waiting.
Hanna, the nurse here, she wants to have a word with you.
Okay.
Hello.
Yes, no ... He's stable but he's ...
The problem is, he isn't getting any better, so ...
He still is running a high fever. lt comes in waves, morning, mid-afternoon.
l think he should be taken off the oil rig.
No, immediately.
The day after tomorrow?
You'll speak to ...
Okay. Good bye.
l think Sulitzer is looking for another job.
Aren't you?
The company can move me to another rig. Maybe in ...
Chile, or Cuba. Who knows?
Meanwhile, l stay here. As long as they want.
l get edgy on dry land. l get ...
Dizzy. - The accident?
How did it happen? - You really want to know that?
They were drilling in ground that's like ...
Cheese with holes ... Swiss cheese.
There are pockets of gas, down there.
And we hit one. lt's not the first time it's happened.
Could it have been avoided? - No. No.
Yes, maybe, if we'd stopped drilling a long time ago. But ...
What happened to the man who died, was no accident.
That man wanted to kill himself. He threw himself into the flames.
Sorry.
So ... and ...
Josef, he tried to save him, but ...
lt all happened so quickly.
We all saw how he threw himself into the ... into the blaze.
We haven't told the company everything. We let them believe it was an accident.
That man left a wife and 2 kids.
So, what's the point in telling the truth?
Let them believe it was an accident. That means some money for his family.
And ...
Deep down ...
everything is an accident.
He never speaks about him. - Doesn't he?
Well ...
Hanna? - Yes.
What? - Nothing.
Yes?
Nothin'. - What?
No, nothin'.
Oh, come on.
Nothing. - Simon?
What?
Nothing.
No, what?
What?
Hanna?
- Yes.
Look at this!
Remember that you're not 15 years old.
Bodalo. - What?
What do you think l just said?
ldiot? Dickhead? A little of both?
More or less, yes.
Which language? - What difference does it make?
Here we go. Aren't you getting tired of playing the mystery woman act with me?
Do you want more soup?
Come on, l've told you my little miseries.
Tell me something. No, l'm full up on soup.
Did you like ''Letters of a Portuguese Nun''?
l thought you didn't like books, just chicken and rice.
l used to read.
Yeah, well. l don't remember it all that well.
Read it ages ago. lt's a short book.
l only read short books. Don't have patience for long ones.
Gave that book as a present to someone, once.
A woman.
l know l shouldn't have, but l did. - Why?
Because it was another man's wife.
A man who loved her,
and whom she loved.
And who even l loved.
There's certain things one should never do.
Like what?
One should never ...
give a book as a present to someone who spends too much time alone.
One should never fall in love with one's best friend's wife.
Above all, one should never tell one's best friend.
lt's terrible to tempt compassion. lt's the last thing l want to arouse in you.
Cora? - Yes.
How does one live with what has happened?
The consequences.
How does one live with the dead?
l don't know. You'll have to go on, l suppose.
Everyone keeps on living for the future, some how.
Or not.
There are those who don't make it through.
A helicopter is coming to fetch you. Tomorrow, or the day after.
Are you coming with me? Are you?
You gonna hold my hand? Help me look at myself again?
l've lost at love before
Got mad and c losed the door
But you said try just once more
l chose you for the one
Now we're having so much fun
you treated me so kind
l'm about to lose my mind
you make me so very happy
l'm so g lad you came into my life
The others were untrue
But when it came to lovin'you
l'd spend my who le life with you
Cause you came and you took contro l
you touched my very sou l
you a/ways showed me that
Loving you is where it's at
you make me so very happy
l'm so g lad you came into my life
Don't you like the show?
l've seen it before.
Who do you work for, Martin?
The company.
And the company pays you to check on the mussels?
The company pays me to measure the wave impact strength, l told you.
The mussels are my business.
Sometimes l forget that we're out at sea. - No, we aren't in limbo.
We're up to our necks in water.
Do you know what the problem is?
The people think it's the oil.
But it's not true. lt's the water that we bring out with it.
For millions of years it rubbed shoulders with the oil, stuck at the bottom of the sea.
You see, when we crack the water from the oil and return it to the sea, it's shitty water.
lt corrupts everything it touches. You know what's happened to the fish that live here?
Contact with this water has altered their hormones.
lt's delayed spawning. Colder currents sweep the eggs away before they can hatch.
They're shutting down, anyway. - Not if l can help it.
What will you do?
This could be used for lots of things.
Use the drilling motors to purge the water. lt's possible to cleanse the water.
What will happen if nobody takes any notice of you?
Well, l'll keep on measuring waves.
Collecting mussels.
And l'll keep thinking that something can be done.
l envy you, Martin.
Really, l ... l didn't know there were still people like you about.
l wish you luck.
How did you pass the night? - The night?
l don't know. Lousy, l guess.
What time is it? - 12. Are you hungry?
No.
When l was studying in Dubrovnik,
l always dreaded when we had to clean the patients.
l felt ...
l felt uncomfortable.
Just thinking that they were uncomfortable.
But ...
l soon realized that ... people like being clean.
No matter how you do it, or ...
or who does it. They like being in your hands.
They like trusting you with their bodies.
As if they were saying, ''lt's only a body.''
''lt's only a body. You'll never know what l am thinking,
or who l am.''
l had a ...
l had a friend who studied with me.
We got on very well.
She was ... She was so cheerful.
l've never been cheerful.
l was so proud to be her friend.
We used to read all the same books and stay up, late into the night,
just talking about them. The books were always more real than ...
More real than anything else.
We lived together during the war, and ...
We were 20 years old when they closed the school.
And we decided to go back to the town where we were both from.
We couldn't get in touch with our families. They said terrible things were happening.
But you know, nobody really believed them. l mean ...
People always exaggerate. lt couldn't be true, l mean, war ...
Somehow it always happens somewhere else.
So we borrowed a car, she could drive, and we ...
We set off.
Nothing happened on the journey. We saw ...
We saw fires far off, and ... dead dogs.
Nothing.
Lots of dead dogs.
We listened to this cassette of ltalian disco music.
And we laughed.
We laughed so much on that journey.
Do you remember, there was this song called, La Do lce Vita?
lt was so stupid. lt was ...
We're livin' like a Do lce Vita
This time we got it right
We're livin' like a Do lce Vita
Got a dream ...
They stopped us just 2 kilometers from the town.
They took us to a hotel.
We thought they just wanted to steal the car.
We were very worried about how we would explain this to the owner.
lt's ridiculous, isn't it?
Your whole life is about to ...
change ...
And you are worrying about an old Fiat Turbo.
The soldiers were our soldiers.
They were soldiers, they spoke like me, they spoke my own language.
Some of them were only 18 years old.
l remember, one day, UN troops were brought in, and ...
We thought that day that they were going to take us out of there.
No.
Voices like yours, Josef.
Talking like you.
l remember that one of them ...
apologized all the time. He would apologize ...
while smiling.
lf you can imagine that they ...
rape you, time and again, and whisper in your ears, so only you can hear ...
l'm sorry, l'm so sorry.
Forgive me.
There were 15 of us women.
Sometimes more. We knew that when the food ran out, they'd kill some of us.
They made a woman kill her daughter.
They put a gun in her hand and her finger on the trigger.
They put the barrel of the gun in the girl's vagina. They made her pull that trigger.
Saying something like, now you're not going to be a grandmother.
Something like that.
So, the woman died soon after, of sorrow.
One day dawned and she had died of sorrow.
Know what they did to the ones who dared to scream?
They said ...
''Now we are really going to give you reasons for screaming.''
And they made hundreds of cuts all over their bodies, with a knife.
And they rubbed salt in the wounds and sewed up deeper cuts with sewing needles.
That's what they did to my friend.
And l couldn't ...
They wouldn't let me clean her wounds, so ...
She slowly bled to death.
lt was just so ... lt was so slowly.
And the blood ran down her arms, and her legs.
l just prayed that she would die quickly.
l counted the screams.
The moans, l measured ... l measured the pain.
And l thought ... ''She can't suffer anymore.''
''Now she'll die.''
''Now. Please.''
''The very next minute, please.''
What was her name?
Your friend.
What was her name?
Hanna.
Hanna?
Hanna!
Josef.
Your bag. - That's not mine.
lt's yours.
Would you come with me?
Did you have a good trip? Do sit down. - Yes, thank you.
ls this your first time in Copenhagen? - Yes, it's quite nice.
lt's lovely.
What do you need from me?
Well, l've been thinking about what l would say to you this entire journey.
l'm not quite sure.
As l told you on the phone, l met Hanna when she was my nurse.
l never really ... got to see her.
Do you want a photo of her, see if she's as beautiful as her voice?
No. - No.
You wouldn't have come all this way just for a photograph.
l was Hanna's councilor for 2 years.
Since then l receive a phone call, from time to time.
She doesn't speak, she doesn't say anything, but l know it's her, l know she's alive.
Why doesn't she say anything? - That's between Hanna and me.
She ... she told me something.
About what happened ... in the hotel.
She must have trusted you. - But l know ...
l know, don't ask me how or why, but l know ...
There's something she didn't tell me. And many things ..
she didn't tell me, and l want to know.
And you want me to tell you. Haven't you had your ration of horror?
What do you want?
What do you really want? Didn't you read the newspaper during those 10 years of war?
What? l don't know.
l think l want ...
to spend the rest of my life with her.
Oh, the rest of your life.
How romantic.
The rest of your life with a refugee from a war that everybody has forgotten?
With a woman you've never even seen?
With a woman that you only know has suffered things ...
neither your nor l could bear?
Have you ever thought that what Hanna needs, most of all, is to be left alone?
Yeah. Yeah, l've thought about that.
But ... l know she needs me.
And l need her.
l know it.
Come with me.
This is Hanna Amiran.
Here is everything you want to know.
But, even if you really feel the way you say you do,
does that give you the right to see this tape?
Without her consent?
Do you know how many Hannas there are here?
Do you know how much blood? How many deaths?
Do you know how much hatred these tapes hold?
Do you know why we record them? - No, why?
Before the Holocaust, Adolph Hitler called his collaborators together,
and in order to convince them that he could get away with his plan,
he asked them, ''Who remembers the extermination of the Armenians?''
That's what he said.
30 years later,
nobody remembered the million Armenians exterminated in the cruelest possible way.
10 years later ...
Who remembers what happened in the Balkans?
The survivors.
Those who managed, by some twist of fate, to tell it.
lf they can.
Those who are ashamed ...
of having survived.
Like Hanna.
That's the irony of it, if you can call it that.
The shame they feel for having managed to survive.
And that shame,
which is greater than the pain, which is bigger than anything else,
can last forever.
l believe l have a photograph of Hanna, somewhere.
Hanna.
l knew you were blond.
l came to bring you your backpack.
Thanks.
You have done it, now you can go.
l ... l took a bar of soap. Hope you don't mind.
No, l have lots.
lt's a nice scar that you've got.
Yeah, well, they said it won't look so bad, after a while.
They also told me that the nurse that took care of me did a real good job.
Good.
They shut down the rig.
Where is everyone going? - They offered us work in Chile.
Simon is going to go back and try the restaurant business.
Chile. - l haven't decided what to do.
Still thinking about it.
Good.
l thought ... you and l ...
Maybe we could go away somewhere, together.
One of these days. Today.
Right now.
Come with me, Hanna.
No, l ...
l don't think that's going to be possible. - Why not?
Because l think that if we go away, to someplace together ...
l am afraid that, one day ...
Maybe not today ...
Maybe not tomorrow either, but one day, suddenly ...
l may begin to cry and cry so much that nothing and nobody can stop me.
And the tears will fill the room, l won't be able to breathe,
and l will pull you down with me, and we,ll both drown.
l'll learn how to swim.
l swear.
l'll learn how to swim.
l left a long time ago.
Only sometimes, in these Sunday mornings, when he's buying the papers and the bread.
And she hears her children shouting from the house next door, where they've gone to play.
Yes, yes she has 2 children now.
My brothers.
These cool and sunny winter mornings when she has the house to herself.
And she feels strange and fragile and empty.
And for a moment she doesn't know it all has been a dream.
Then l come back to her and she cuddles me and strokes my hair.
And nothing, nothing at all what happened will ever come between us.
But l can hear the children coming back. l go away.
l'm far away, now.
Perhaps, l'll never come back.