Come!
Come, you crazy goat!
It's beautiful!
It's crazy!
You are so beautiful.
SWORN VIRGIN
Pal!
The 7 pm bus for Milan will depart from platform 7.
The 7.15 pm bus for Home will depart from platform 8.
The 5.30 pm bus
from Tirana has arrived at platform 4
please note the change of platform.
Yes?
Lila?
Yes, who is it?
It's Mark.
What are you doing here?
Couldn't you have told me first?
Did you plan to stay here?
It's not a big house.
It doesn't matter.
There's no guestroom.
Maybe you could use
Jonida's room.
I won't be staying long.
What are you doing here?
I'm sorry to bother your family.
What are you doing here?
Mum, what the fuck is he doing in my room?
Jonida, he's sleeping here and you're on the sofa.
You're mad, I'll bugger my back.
I'll sleep on the sofa.
No, no.
Hear that? He'll sleep on the sofa.
No, I said.
What a pain, Mum!
Lila, give her some room.
You get undressed and sleep here.
We walked for hours.
Does she know her parents are dead?
Yeah, I told her.
She's got nobody up there, she'll stay here with Lila.
What's your name?
Hana.
Was it a long journey?
Yeah, long.
You left yesterday?
Yeah, yesterday.
Jonida, enough!
Yeah, enough!
Where are you from?
Ragam, you know where that is?
I don't know anything about Albania
just the capital, Tirana, isn't it?
Tirana.
Who are you exactly?
Mark.
Your uncle.
Whose brother?
We're cousins.
Cousins!
That's enough!
That's enough.
Raki?
Maybe Mark's had enough to drink.
Where we come from men drink raki, remember?
Katrina died so long ago.
I know.
Women don't make it past sixty up there.
How old was she, sixty-two?
Sixty-three?
Fifty-nine.
See, even one year less!
We haven't seen each other in 14 years.
Why didn't you come back?
Looking at you was too painful.
You've never looked at a man?
You're not a happy man, looking at an unhappy man is no fun.
That's not it, Lila!
When you don't want to see something, you run away, I stare at it.
Yeah, you stare at it
but that doesn't mean you can see.
It's always been like that
since your parents died.
Lend us your horse.
Are you crazy? You're a girl!
We didn't do anything wrong
Klodjan always goes out on his own.
Klodjan's a boy.
You steal bread and shame this house
next time I'll kill you!
I should've left you up there alone.
What are you doing? Don't do that!
We'll buy it.
You can't open the goods.
We'll buy it.
I'll have to open them all now to see what you've done.
I said we'll buy it!
Bitch.
Do you want to buy anything else?
Who used to cut your hair?
Artan, every twenty-eight days.
Let's go, I'm late.
Hang on.
Mum, I can't wait any longer.
I'm already behind!
It doesn't matter if you're late for once.
It does. Get him to move, please!
Don't use that tone with me!
Mum, you know my schedule.
If I miss the building-up
my whole training session just sucks
I can't miss the start.
Sir!
You can't be in here dressed, with shoes on.
I'm closing up.
What are you doing?
You have to go, understand?
Can you hear me?
Excuse me.
Don't touch me.
What's wrong? Are you okay?
Let's go.
When does Lila get back?
It depends.
Sorry, I got held up.
Don't worry, honey.
Let the bride pass.
Why's her face covered?
If she can't see the road, she can't go back.
Let's go home!
Come on!
It's not good to drink before a man drinks.
It's not good to smoke.
It's not good to touch a rifle.
It's not good to speak before a man speaks
or go into the woods on your own without a man.
It's not good to choose a husband.
It's not good to do a man's work.
It's not good to look at a man thinking he's not right.
We'll always be together.
It's not good to choose before a man does.
What do you think you're doing?
I earn my bread in your house.
Kneel down!
Is this what you want?
Show me who you are.
Hold it tight against your shoulder.
Hold your breath.
Pull the trigger gently.
Fire!
Again!
Fire!
You were lucky.
What is it?
I just wanted to see you sleeping.
You can't!
Why not?
You're the only person I've slept with.
That's not my fault.
Lila!
What's sex like?
What kind of question's that?
I don't know
the first time it's like raki.
You feel a burning and you don't understand a thing.
As you go, sometimes you understand but it was better when you didn't.
But when it works...
When it works
you're totally in and out of yourself.
Like at the top of the mountain and the wind's blowing?
Yes, lots of wind, lots and lots.
People are trying to sleep.
So go and sleep.
Lila, are you sure he's your cousin?
I'm going to work.
How come you never mentioned him?
Mummy with all these skeletons in the closet!
Who knows where you go, what odd jobs you do?
You'd rather clean strangers' asses than care for who's close to you.
Don't speak to your mother like that.
You can't tell my daughter what to do.
Out you go, little nurse!
Hold it!
Good, Jonida.
Annapaola, rhythm, okay?
What are you doing here again?
It annoys me, I'm ashamed.
Tie your hair up.
Good morning.
Good morning, Artan.
You see that man there?
He used to be a woman.
Now he's a sworn virgin.
He swore he'd never love, his friends call him Pal.
Fire!
A friend was looking for someone and I thought of you.
A man needs to work, doesn't he?
What's a man without work?
Let's go.
Good night.
You should tidy yourself up a bit.
All right.
Garage?
You come here a few times during the night, look around
and count the cars.
Then you're alone in the cubicle.
You have time to sort out the tickets tor the next day
and check the cars that come and go.
Do you think you can do anything you want?
A woman can't have a rifle.
You can't keep going on like this!
What's wrong?
Nothing, I'm fine.
Sit down.
You know what this is?
A bullet.
You know what it means?
That you're planning to kill someone, Dad?
No.
It's time you got married.
This bullet will go with your dowry.
If your husband has any reason to complain
he'll use this bullet, offered by your father.
Hana, take me to the sea.
Please.
Who's she?
My sister.
Why are you doing this to me?
You're promised to another man.
I love Stjefen, could you ever understand?
You'll stay home until Zef arrives.
Look what you've become, you sound like father
move like him, boss like him.
He saved my life, he understood me-.
Can't you see? It's a cage, you'll never be anything here.
He's my family, you're my family.
Not sleeping?
You?
I'm working.
What are you doing?
A breathing exercise.
Try it.
Blow.
Are you a fag?
Then you're a cross-dressing lesbian.
No.
You're not a man.
So what's under here? Does it hurt?
No, it's itchy.
You didn't come here for that loser job.
No.
So what are you looking for... Uncle Mark?
Good evening, everyone.
Come on, Hana!
It's so beautiful.
Lila!
What are you doing?
You shouldn't have deceived me.
Nor should you.
Come with me.
I'm nothing outside of those mountains.
You can't know that.
She won't be back.
Did you like the sea?
I liked it and it frightened me.
I didn't think she'd leave like that.
You go as well, find your place.
This is my place, you're my place.
You'll become a piece of rock, my child.
He's firing.
He's telling the village this house has a son now.
I swear.
No hand will touch me.
As God created me, life will preserve me.
I swear my eternal virginity.
You want to touch it?
You want to use your mouth?
Okay.
Mark!
Which do you want to try first?
Lacy black, very aggressive
or blue, a bit more pure.
Come on!
Try it!
Don't pull back.
That's enough.
What do you know?
It's only a trial.
The trials decide the result.
Voila!
The kitchen.
It's small, but comes with everything.
But the kitchen...
Bathroom in here.
With all the bathroom things.
And the bedroom, with the bed.
Everything you need, right?
Yeah, everything.
You can strip this and do it better.
The first two months' rent are paid, I deal with it.
Thank you.
Buy skin, no drink raki, only talk Italian
answer questions, look Bernard in eyes.
You'll soon be better.
Your daughter's a hurricane.
She likes you.
Sometimes I'd like to understand her
but I haven't managed yet.
I'm sorry you had to leave my house.
A bit looser.
Now?
A bit looser.
How can that annoy you?
It's worse with the bandage.
We all wear them like that.
I don't.
Yeah, you're not like us.
I can't hold the verticals
the passage between one position and another.
You're good at holding your breath.
Someone once told me we're more free than we think.
Free from what?
I don't know.
Free from being forced to be something.
Free from being... it's complicated.
You don't speak much, but when you do, I don't understand shit.
Whisky?
Two whiskies.
The place is nothing special, but I can sing whenever I want to.
Thank you!
That's my table over there.
I thought I could become someone by leaving.
I stayed and I didn't become much.
It was hard for both of us.
Yeah.
In the end, we both left.
Yeah.
Before she died, she asked me to give you this.
She's been dead for ages.
You waited all this time before leaving?
I had a sore shoulder.
All that time?
Up there time flies.
It's damp.
Your mother gave me this.
Our mother.
Dear daughters
now that you are finally together, I can rest in peace.
I'm writing badly all the words I never said,
the words a woman cannot talk.
You were born upside down...
Upside down?
You are each other's strength
you, my brave daughters.
Mum.
You're beautiful today.
Hana.
Shall we sing?
Come and sing!
Lila!
Thanks for putting me up in your house when I was nothing.
Come and sing!
Come on!
You remember this?
Translation Charlotte Lantery
subtitles TITRA CALIFORNIA INC.