" TRACES OF THE WOLF "
[ Playing the tar]
Photos, photos
Photos are everlasting
Will you allow me to have a picture standing with my hand over your shoulder?
I Wish you a happy life with Tal'at
Play on! I Want the sound of music to remain even in the photo
Come here Tal'at, over here
Sit over here Keep this spot for me next to my father
Fereshteh next to Sade-q Khan That's it
Come here Naser What's Wrong with you?
Come here photo man
Sit over here Come Naser
That's it, everything is all ready
Too bad We think it's always going to be this Way
Next it's Sadeq's turn and Fereshteh
But if your child is a boy...
Don't let my father to get him in fertilizer business
- Education - It's all up to God
Ask your father to join us in the photo too Tal'at
Get in the photo dad
Once Mr. Tehrani is in the photo and the photo is hung from the Wall it will never fall down
Come photo man
A real nice photo
Mr. Tehrani is as sturdy as a Wall
He can be leaned on forever
Wish you a happy marriage
Sadeq, when will you be ready to marry Fereshteh?
- When the nightingales sing - You are my hero
I would like to put my hands over your shoulder if you allow me to do so
I'd like to be as great as you are for even once
I'm going to hand in my knife in front of you
Tal'at asked me to and I will do as she Wants me
God bless you
Mr. Tehrani is the most respected here
I don't dare to sit down with him being present
Naser my pal
- Stand somewhere to be seen - I'll always be seen if not dead
I'm not all for this one at all
- Why not? - Just take the photo
Okay everyone gathers up, quiet
You keep playing
Good
Thanks
- Who is he? - It's Naser
And this one?
Him I don't know
Hello to the World of love and friendship
We've been much too long apart
I Went through a lot of trouble to find your address
I heard about your imprisonment when I was in prison myself
And it increased my sorrow
But you got released when I was still in prison and
Nobody should have intruded Without your permission
This comes from the bottom of my heart
It's an honor to have a pupil like you
Now the reason for my intrusion
I have a favor to ask you you'll complete friendship to me by doing it
And you are the type to do so
I've come down with an incurable illness
I've included an invitation to my son's Wedding Whom I've named Reza
I've named him after you to remind me of you when I call him
During the last days of my life...
I'd be a very happy man to see my son's Wedding
I'm asking you to forget all...
I owe you which is so much
That it's not even Worth counting
Come to Tehran I need your presence greatly
Now I will put my hands over your shoulders for a photo
You can't find true friendship these days
Come and here my side of the stoy as Well
If you help me by being here so I could die with you holding my hand...
I would Welcome that kind of death anytime
If you do decide to come...
To Tehran call me by this number...
I'd be thrilled to hear your voice in Tehran
I've always been indebted to you
I owe you an imprisonment which there's no compensation for that
For your imprisonment and your friendship
I owe you love
You Weren't the only one in prison...
I too was imprisoned by hearing you were in prison
I'll tell you What I would like you to do for me in person
You have to do something for me
Which is only done by you
I have a daughter the same age as your absence in my life
It takes your pride You've always been the closest to me
Come, I've fallen and need to lean on a Wall
God bless you
Sadeq Khan
I'm alone here
Can't fight all of you
Why are you destroying my booth?
Why are you doing it?
Don't destroy my goods
- Hello - Hi brother
I'd be very greatful if you let me make a phone call
Where are you from? Are you new in town?
I'm from here
Tehran
- I was gone - From Tehran yet a stranger?
- How long were you gone for? - About twenty years
Goon pal make as many calls as you Want to
What happened? I only crashed one bike
What have I done, God?
Why Won't they make it illegal?
Bikes are for one person to ride on
But the poor fellow is now the murderer of five people
They get on the bike with their Wives behind them
And they sit their poor children in the middle and one on the bar
It's not just this poor guy It can happen to many more
- The poor guy is the murderer of five people - You're here son
- And it's not his fault - I looked up and down to find you
Thank God
Where are you calling from?
It sounds busy there!
Listen Reza, I have to be hospitalized
You have my son's Wedding invitation
But my daughter is my problem
You're not Well at all are you? Why so late?
My son's Wedding will be called off if he finds out about my illness
But I Want to see him get married
You'd have to do one more favor for me
I don't like to be reminded of the old days Sadeq
Those Words don't mean anything anymore
You're here and that means you're still a man...
Before We meet in person
And before I get energy from you You need to something for me
My daughter's run away with a boy I have their address
The boy's said he'd ruin my son's Wedding if anything happens to him
I'd do it myself but I Wouldn't Want to be beat up by a boy
You're the only one I trust
You're the solution to my problem
Come to me with my daughter, bring her back
Listen Sadeq, that was long time ago
I'm not the same person anymore...
Times have changed too
Should I go to the cops? Have I ever done that?
Me and the cops?
I've gone beyond the point of cops and have stood by it
I'll bring her back
I'm Reza
- How are you Mr. Tehrani? - Are you lost?
No Mr. Tehrani, this is the only Way left for me
- You used to be proud - Prison doesn't leave you any pride
I left with pride
I didn't sell anyone out and I got out with pride
I Wasn't responsible for Naser's death
My I did the time for it
Tal'at and Sadeq got involved...
I got left with the sorrow and a broken heart
Why didn't you tell them you didn't kill Naser?
Tal'at would have gotten dragged into it
Sadeq was already involved
They're both the same
Just the same
But they were parts of my life
How was Tal'at involved? Fereshteh married Sadeq
- And Tal'at Waited for you to get out - Till when?
Till the very end
She was standing right here laughing
Her smile never did leave my mind
It was always with me
I came here hoping I'd see her
Where is she?
I had a heart attack
How much is that knife? The third one to the left?
The one with brown handle right?
It's used, and dull
- Five grand - You mean five thousand tomans?
The one next to it is new and it's prettier, five hundred
Why so much difference?
Want some tea?
- I'll be back - You Won't
You're not in the right path
My sons bring me here every morning to keep me busy
They go to make money and to cheat everyone
That's Why I told you that you Weren't in the right path
Take a spin
Don't open it Think it though
- Take a Walk - Don't make it sound like a big deal
I'll open it
I Won't sell it
Let go of my hand
Mind your own business
Here's five grand
Nowadays smart people have to Work for stupid ones
I'm not smart or I Wouldn't be here now
What's your name?
[ Door knocks ]
- Yes - Are you Hamid?
Who are you looking for?
Who is it Hamid?
Get ready, We have to be somewhere
Is Sadeq Khan's daughter here?
Was that her voice?
- Are you hamid? - Yes my name is Hamid
You Want to come in and do something to yourself?
No son, I don't Want anything to happen to neither of us
I have to talk to you and Sadeq's girl if you are Willing to hear me out
- Who is it Hamid? - I'm your uncle dear
Reza, your dad's old friend
Get your foot out pal
What's all the noise for?
I'm here to take you to your sick father girl
Hamid must come as Well
If you listen to me and come with me...
I'll get your dad's permission to let you marry him personally
I'll make sure you marry him
Your father Wants to give permission
He is sick though
He Wants to settle you down
Don't you Want to get married?
I promise you
No no
No
You're killing him, no
- What happened? - Don't let him get away
Let's go after him
Drag him down
[ door knocks I
Hi, yes
Hi, is this a Wedding dress tailor shop?
- Talat... - Mother!
Who is it? Let's go
It's for you mother
- Hi Tal'at - Hi Reza
- I thought to stop by - Aren't you a bit late?
Come in
You're bloody again
Come in
Sit down
What brings you here?
I don't know What to ask
I Wasn't able to find you during the past twenty years
Why aren't you coming?
You haven't changed
Neither have you the Way you're losing blood
This man has lost a lot of blood
Don't keep him standing
This is your uncle, he was gone for twenty years
- Oh mother, finally! - He finally came
Where has he been? It's no one's business
Why is he here to see me? God knows
Why is he like this? That's no one's business neither
Sit down
You shouldn't be seen like this just as usual
Is he the one you had lost?
No, he got lost
That's how he Wanted it to be
How did you get here Without being seen like this?
On a horse
A horse
Where is your gun then?
Mother, he's lost a lot of blood
It's cold here, let's go inside the Workshop
Sorry, I've intruded your business
I'll rest a bit and leave
You were gone for so long
We were very lonely, specially mother
I was a child
Mother used to Work
She used to talk about you a lot
She Wanted to curse you for having left so sudden
Forgive me
But she couldn't
She said you caused her to be lonely
When are you going to the hospital? You're running late
It was along time ago
I don't remember anything
But you don't say anything and Want me to stay quiet too
No, keep talking
Say the Whole thing
I guess you left three days before the Wedding
You were all she had
Come uncle, it's cold here
We have a customer mother
Mother called off the Wedding because grandpa had a heart attack that night
He has lost a lot of blood mother
He pretends to be fine
I'll be there as soon as I Write something
He needs a strong tranquilizer mother
Why do you pretend like it's nothing? Leave bone pickings for later
Daryoush doesn't have a traffic control sticker so he Works in the afternoons
Should Daryoush see him like this...
I don't know if he should even meet him or not
I'm leaving mother
He's Waiting for you
He's not Well
What's with you?
I'll send Daryoush
Bye
The siren isn't for you
I Washed your hands
I cleaned your Wound too
I didn't have a shirt for you to Wear though
I don't know if you've changed or not
But I don't know Why I'm in this situation
- I Went after Sadeq's daughter... - I don't Want to ask Where you were
Why did you leave though?
- But... - I was all alone
With all those demons in my head
Demons about Why I had to be in prison for two others to...
For you...
Had I come to Tehran directly after I got released...
I would have done something stupid to my friends and loved ones
I Went through hell trying to heal myself
Sadeq asked me to come to Tehran
Sadeq again
But this time it was for my own heart
My Whole being kept asking for you
I thought you and Sadeq got married and dropped me in prison
I couldn't have named neither of you
- What's Wrong? - I didn't Want to come to you like this
I was supposed to go after Sadeq's daughter...
I didn't come here to bring trouble for you
- I'm here to... - You don't even give me a chance to ask you
You're very late
But I'm glad you're here now
[ door bell ]
I'll get it
Hello ma'am
Is Reza here?
How do you know he is here?
Sadeq Khan said so He knows it
He must go to the doctor
I'll take him Then he can go anywhere he Wants to
- No ma'am, We'll take him - Like hell you will
I said he needs a doctor
Tell Sadeq that I didn't let you take him
Leave mister
- We have to go - Why?
Now I know Why you're in Tehran
And What Sadeq Wants with you
There's no time now I'll tell you later
Why do we have to leave? I know who that man was
So do I, let's go
Watch the car pal I have to bring a sick person
Hello Ms. Reza'ee, I brought the car
God bless you I'll help him out
Come
Come on
Come
Let me go
Come
You need to stay here for the night
Why did you come like this?
You don't know how I left to be judging me
No, but I do know mother's always talked about you
Ever since I met you...
I don't know...
We love you
How can I Walk with all that tranquilizers?
I Won't let you move from here
I have to go right now
I brought two clean shirts
And a jacket
This raincoat is big, it'll do
It fit him
Socks
I didn't know his shoe size but Il clean the blood on his shoes
He Won't Wear this jacket
But the raincoat is fine
Clean the shoes, thanks
I'll have them dry cleaned
I cleaned your shoes
- Where is Negin? - Here, she'll be right here
- Daryoush took care of you - We'd better leave here
We will, just Wait till you get a bit better
What if they come?
Who are they?
Do you know?
- Why don't I know? - 'l tell you later, I don't know it Well
Bring the car in front of the door Daryoush
Sure, you come from the upper door
Where are you going?
Your mother said to take your uncle I guess he Wants to leave
It's too early He's still dizzy
- Where was he Negin? - I swear I don't know it
I only know the Wound is from a knife
Don't get Worked up Tal'at will tell you everything
She may not Want to tell you now But he is a nice man
The type you Want to be...
Like him when you grow older's
Can you get UP?
I have to get Reza out of here
Daryoush is bringing the car in front
Come here for a moment mother
Why are you taking him mother?
You keep telling me you have to leave but Where to?
Do you think I'm still a child?
Do you think... l know who he is
Help me get him out of here
Don't say anything if they come looking for him here
Why was he stabbed?
It is a knife Wound isn't it?
He's running away But Whom from?
I'll take him to Darband to stay with father
Daryoush is Waiting outside
Turn around
Why do you Work in a taxi agency?
This is not a real job
I know Reza, but it's Work
It's hard to find a decent job nowadays
You must get your share right now
It'll only get harder as time goes by
I've finished serving in the military recently
So I'm making a living with this car
- I make ends meet - Work
That girl is very precious
Hurry UP
Get away from them
Go faster
Faster
Come
You're starting to piss me off
You keep holding your Wound
But you don't know What for
Who stabbed you? And Why?
Why did this story start so suddenly?
Did you ever Want to know?
Even your daughter realized you were adding insult to the injury
Did you Want to tell me?
Why does everything have to start just when you Want it to?
- Where were you for twenty years? - Shoushtar
You keep saying that
Yeah, Shoushtar The prison
Doing time for Naser
For Nasefis death Whom was Killed by Sadeq
And you knew about it
You both did it to me up till now
But I've had enough of all this
During the past twenty years every Wedding dress I sewed...
Every strike of my needle reminded me of those three days
A lot has changed now
I can't take it anymore You, Wounds
Yelling's and love and knives and all that
I can't take nights like this anymore
You told me to sit down and I did
This is useless Reza
What can I do for you?
I'll clean your Wound
I'll take you anywhere you Want to go
I don't even Want to know What you're up to
Where you are and Where you've been
I'm happy anywhere you Want to go
I just hope you stop bleeding
Here, eat this
I can't
I'll take you to my dad you'll be safe there
Why do I need to go somewhere safe?
Where was it that they tore your stomach apart?
Why did you go there?
Sadeq Wrote me a letter to come
Then he asked me to go somewhere to bring back his daughter
That she was running away with a boy
I told him I no longer did things like this
- But you Went there and got stabbed - Yeah
You got fooled
- He dragged you to Tehran to kill you - Why?
Sadeq didn't think you'd get out of that house alive
They planned to kill you right there
- Why? - Sadeq started getting rich after you left
He got into building houses
And establishing companies
They took a lot of money
He's not alone, there are many
He became the director of a large company dealing fertilizers
Fertilizers for agriculture
They get in deep stealing money Up to a billion
They plan to Kill Sadeqg
But they get him out so he doesn't sell anyone
They plan to find his past
They chase him and the story gets in newspapers
They came to me
They said I had his past
That if Sadeq Went to court he would take many big-timers down with him
Sadeq called me three days before our Wedding
He said there was a corpse to take to Kashan
That it didn't have a permit for burial but it was a good deed
I put the corpse on top of the 180
They stopped me on the Way
The corpse had fallen down
Who was it? Naser
He was killed
Sadeq had killed him
He was given poison
So I turned up in Shoushtar prison
We're here
They're leaving they have to turn in the place
I asked and found out Sadeq is up there
Do you have the invitation?
Do you really Want to... Do you have to meet him tonight?
You can lose the Whole thing but you urge for another hand
- You leave - 'l stay till you come
Daryoush' car doesn't run anymore
I asked them to come to pick me up with Negin
It's cold
I may not come back
I'm leaving now
- I don't know Where to - No it's not cold
I neither can go nor stay
That's how it's been till now
We all were after one another in our thoughts
But now that everything is clear
A life time's gone by and you're bleeding...
And I feel I'm back at the beginning of those three days Waiting for you
It'll take three days till you get back down from up there
Look, you've messed up my life again
You're leaving and don't know Whether you're coming back again
How will it end though?
I'm talking to myself though
They Want me down there
Take it easy, add up the bills once more
Include the fruits and I'll be right back
Talk to me a bit
All the calculating's
How about a bit of calculated talk?
- You're finally here - You told me to come and here I am
Am I late?
You've gotten soft Sadeq Khan
Is it a bad Wound?
Have you lost a lot of blood?
Do you feel sorry for my Wound?
What else you got up your sleeve?
I'm still alive
- Are you here to finish the job? - That I will do regardless
What must happen will happen
Tell me the bottom line
Neither of us has the time
You should have been Killed
Not me, it Wasn't my intentions
But you will sympathize with me if you hear me out
You're talking like they do in plays
The bottom line is good
I had left you alone
I had left everyone alone
I never sold out an enemy let alone a friend
I used to Worship the ground you Walked on pal
I did jail time for you
I removed the crown tattooed on your arm
It brought you luck
You handed me a corpse three days to me Wedding saying it had burial permit
But it didn't
You got me thrown in prison
So Why do you Want to kill me after all these years?
- You still Want me to sympathize with you? - Yeah
I had to kill you
Just like now that you have to kill me
This is the kind of talk for those bigger
You are still the very same person
- I knew you'd come here tonight - You are Wise
I swear I'm helpless
Helpless and Weak
You caused this Wound
But you claim you're Weak
You are Wise
But I will kill you even if you're Wise
You used to roll good dice
You rolled and you got a house and you got a company
You rolled and got huge percentages
But you realized you couldn't handle it
Now you know it was all crap
That's Why I Wanted you to come and stick it to me
That's Why I made sure you got here alive
That's Why I thought of you
Are you promising me empty packages?
Stop talking so much pal
Come and stab me before anyone comes
Don't stand there and stop talking shit
How about some respect
I asked you to shut it and I'm asking you to open it now
How about some manners?
I know What I'm talking about when I tell you to stick it to me
I'm not the prison type
I don't Want any money anymore I've lost all my reputation
You have to end it
Come and hit me if you're still the same
The one you opened, come
You're Wrong if you think I'll get fooled this once anymore
This is a game too
You kept playing me and yourself too
You are right though I will finish it
Careful not to get any blood on your hands to be able to get out of here
To leave
It's gonna kill me, it's over
Put me down and leave
I got happy when you got out of that trap
I figured you'd come to me next
And you did, that's good since you'll end it now
No courts, no prison
You are better
I was very lonely
Negin is your daughter
I know the Whole thing
I just Wanted to hear it from someone else too
Naser Wanted to...
I know that as Well
Get out of here