An Instant Dad (2023) Movie Script
[upbeat music playing]
[music continues]
[laughing] Wake up sleepy head. Hey!
- What's this?
- Breakfast.
That's what we call it, I made you some.
And... [laughing]
It took me longer than usual, I mean like,
I don't know where anything is, obviously,
however, I hope you don't mind.
No.
The thought of someone walking
around my house while I'm asleep,
oh, that just gives me joy.
- Wow! Huh! Okay. But wow!
- How long have you been awake?
[laughing]
A couple of hours, I'm an early bird.
[both laughing]
[sighing]
Even better.
So why don't you enjoy your breakfast.
And when you're done,
we could, I don't know,
pick something out and watch.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh...
[laughing nervously]
So here's the thing, Sarah.
- It's Stacy!
- Yes!
- Yes, yes Stacy.
- Wow!
Right? I've been taking migraine medicine.
So my memory is a bit messed up.
- But yeah, I know it's Stacy.
- Oh, I'm, I'm sorry.
Ah! I didn't know that. I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
- I'm sorry. Sorry.
Um! [laughing] Uh, awkward.
Um, okay. Um!
So, what do you like to watch?
Ah!
Look, um, if you're not up
to watch some telly,
we could, uh, do something different.
[phone vibrating]
[grunting]
Mom!
[grunting]
Uh-huh!
What do you want?
[sighing]
Yeah! Mom, I can't host you right now,
it's too early in the morning.
Yes. Yes, I remember you hosted me
in your womb for nine months.
You tell me every week.
Okay. Okay, you can come. Okay.
You know what? I think I'll go.
- Yeah, yeah you should, Sarah.
- It's Stacy!
Yes. Stacy.
Migraine medicine.
[chuckling]
[bar music playing]
The old mom trick again, right?
You know Ricky
has been doing this forever.
No, remind me, please remind me.
What's the "mom trick" again?
How come you don't know
about this?
It's been a minute man.
Ah. It's like this,
when Ricky takes a girl home
which is like every other day?
Yeah.
And he wants to get rid of her
the next morning.
- Yeah.
- He has saved my number as "mom".
So he'll send me an SOS message.
Uh, then I'll call him,
claiming that I'm coming over.
- No, that's actually brilliant.
- No way!
But Ricky has overdone it.
It's too much man. Too much.
[sighing]
[groaning]
Let me call him!
[bar music continues]
What's up?
We're at our usual place. Are you
coming? Or has your lady not left?
She's about to leave. But I'm on my way.
- Ah. Awesome. You'll find us here.
- Nice.
- He's on his way.
- Nice.
So, the other day...
[laughing]
[upbeat music playing]
Hey.
[indistinct chattering]
- What's up?
- It's absolutely great.
- G!
- What's up?
- Ricky. Ricky.
- Mm!
- Another one down? Another one?
- You have already started?
How many girls have you
taken home this month?
I have as many women as you have children.
Am I lying or is it too soon?
How many kids do you have in Nairobi?
But George! George!
Relax, when you walk around Nairobi,
do you see kids with big heads like yours?
[all laughing]
First of all George.
George. George. George. George.
First of all, you should be quiet!
Because you leave the bar
later than all of us
- cause you're scared of going home.
- Wow!
[laughing]
Guys! It's a bit too early in the morning.
- Let Ricky relax first...
- I didn't come to fight. Waiter!
A glass with some ice!
But I won't lie. I won't lie!
Marriage is hard, my guys!
Bro, that comes from a deep place!
From inside! Catch me dead!
Too much of me to go around.
Catch me dead.
[all laughing]
Ricky, I'm telling you,
you have slept with every girl in Nairobi.
The only ones you haven't slept with
is this guy's baby mamas!
[all laughing]
No, guys, wait!
Guys. Guys. I'm just chilling here
sipping and enjoying my drink.
What's your problem?
But let me tell you this, uh,
when you have the chance
to enjoy your bachelor life,
enjoy it completely while you can.
Because when the wife comes along,
and the kids.
No one tells you
how hard it is to raise a kid.
You will suffer!
Bro, I'm not like this guy.
I keep it strapped up. Always!
- I'm strapped up right now.
- Mm-hmm!
That's how ready I am for war.
Don't mess with me.
- Never. Never.
- There you go.
Ah!
Excuse me, I need to take this.
It never stops, eh?
Wow, dude,
who's this you have saved as "FWB"?
Have you seen this guy's call log?
Big tatas. [indistinct grumbling]
Aha.
Early late night. Early.
Are you done? Are you done? Are you done?
Do you need a microphone?
- I have no issue.
- All right. All right.
Shut up before you ruin my chances.
- Okay. Hey Lorie?
- Hey Lorie?
[indistinct muttering]
[man] Lorie.
Do you want to come
do the walk of shame tomorrow?
Yeah?
Ah, eleven?
Okay. [laughing]
Haters.
[all laughing]
Shot. Shot. Shot. Shot. Shots!
You know what? No. No.
No. Guys, today I won't
take shots with you guys.
I won't take shots today.
Listen! Listen! Listen, my guys!
I know it's all downhill from here.
And tomorrow I have church and I have
a play date. So please excuse me.
You and your kids. Always with the kids.
You have a good example,
be just like Justin.
Do nothing with the kids.
- Father Abraham, have I hurt you?
- No Ricky. Ricky. Ricky.
Kim, why is Ricky like this?
[Ricki] Get Father Abraham the usual!
[indistinct chattering]
- Too much?
- Relax, Justin.
Waiter! For Justin, the usual! Hey.
Don't catch feelings!
[groaning]
It can't pass you?
You go home to your wife!
Shots! Shots! Shots!
[all cheering]
[upbeat music playing]
Arrest me, Mrs. Officer.
I've been really bad...
- Who are you?
- I'm Amy.
Okay, good.
Not your name, who are you?
- I'm your daughter.
- My what?
Yeah.
Okay, let's get this straight.
- So you're Patricia's child, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Okay. Okay, and Patricia passed away?
- Yeah. Two years ago.
Patricia's dead?
Mm.
Why didn't anyone tell me?
So you've been living
with your grandmother, yes?
Who's now sick and can't take care of you?
Okay.
Okay. And how do you get here?
Grandma got me a cab. She's had to go
to a home cause of her health.
- Uh, she told me to give you this note.
- Note? She couldn't call me?
- And how old are you?
- I'm ten.
Oh, you're ten?
You're ten?
[man sighing]
Patricia's dead?
[doorbell ringing]
[Ricky] Uh...
[piano music playing]
I hear there's a criminal living here
and I'm here to arrest him.
Are you really a criminal?
- Oh, sorry I didn't know...
- Yeah, we obviously can't do this today.
No, has he done something bad?
Are you taking him to jail?
No. No. No one's going to jail.
- I just...
- I'll call you. Yeah, I'll call you.
So, she wasn't coming to arrest you?
I need a drink.
[music continues]
What is the point of having a cousin
who works in child services
if you can't help me.
Look! It's possible that I can help.
I don't know yet.
It's a Sunday, Ricky,
I can't reach anyone.
So what am I supposed to do?
You stay with her overnight, obviously.
- We'll figure this one out in the morning.
- In my house?
I keep a ten-year-old
in my house overnight.
What is she supposed to do?
I guess you'll have
to figure that one out.
So, Ricky, it's possible that she's yours?
Who knows?
She does look like me
and I was with Patricia around that time.
The first time I've heard you say her
name out loud in a long time.
Oh, well.
Ricky, you guys were so in love,
it was the cutest thing ever!
Leah. No. We're not doing this now.
- No.
- Okay, fine.
So anyway, what home did Amy
say her grandmother is in?
Ah! Everything is in the note.
She wrote it down on the note.
[mysterious music playing]
I'll see what I can do.
Who have you left the child with?
Crap! Crap! Crap!
You can put down your bag.
So, you'll sleep here tonight
and tomorrow we'll figure it out.
- You're probably hungry.
- Mm.
Yeah, I should, I should feed you.
Yeah.
Ah... Would you like take-out?
What do you usually use?
Uh, no. Mom never let us order in.
She hated fast food.
- That never changed, huh?
- Yeah, she said it was really bad for you.
It is. It really is. So, pizza?
Yeah.
What's up?
My house, yeah?
The usual.
Okay. Okay.
TV? Come.
[Ricky grunting]
[exotic music playing]
Okay!
We will watch TV after I figure out
parental controls.
- Okay?
- Mm-hmm.
[gasping]
[Ricky exhaling sharply]
We should probably
find something else to do.
Dishes.
I'll do the dishes.
[phone beeping]
Oh, you have six messages
from the boys club.
- Can I read them out to you?
- No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
But Mom liked me to read her messages
and I tell her who's calling.
Okay. We... We, we don't do that, okay?
You don't get to go through my phone.
You don't read my messages.
Especially from the boys club.
[mysterious music playing]
- Especially from?
- The boys club?
You never read messages
from the boys club.
[sighing]
Let me check on the rider.
[music continues]
What's wrong?
We haven't prayed.
Mom always prayed for the food.
Of course, she did.
Mom's the one that prayed.
- What?
- Mom's the one that prayed.
[music continues]
[sighing]
Heavenly Father, bless the food. Amen!
You haven't said thank you.
[Ricky sighing]
Heavenly Father, bless the food,
thank you! Amen!
You haven't said
in the name of Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, bless the food,
in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
Thank you.
Amen!
Thanks for the food.
You can call me Ricky.
Thank you for the food, Ricky.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
[music continues]
[air pump whirring]
Give me this.
Get in.
Good night, then.
Oh, Mom always told me a bedtime story.
- Yeah, she loved stories.
- They always put me to sleep.
[laughing] They put you to sleep?
They kept me awake.
Did She tell you any good stories?
All of them.
I'd love to hear one.
Can you remember any of them?
Yeah, I remember them.
- Okay, how about you just sleep?
- Okay.
- Mm-hmm.
- Goodnight.
[soft piano music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
What do you mean she has no one else?
I contacted her grandmother.
Amy was telling the truth.
She's actually too sick
to take care of her.
And she has no other relatives
willing to take her in.
So all you need to do
is get a DNA test,
prove that she's yours
and you can raise her.
But I can't raise her.
- Why?
- I just can't.
- You can't or you won't?
- Is there a difference?
You're her father, Ricky. She needs you.
I'm not what's best for that child.
[soft piano music playing]
I've never asked anything of you.
Leah, please.
Please, just get someone to take her in.
Please.
[sighing] Okay.
Maria.
I will be staying with this young girl
for a couple of days.
Please keep an eye on her
when I am not around.
Yes, boss.
- Morning.
- Hm.
Morning.
You slept okay?
This is a good picture of your mom.
You know, you shouldn't put it outside.
You know why?
Why?
It can get damaged.
And we don't want that, do we?
If you want to look at it,
just get it out of your bag,
look at it, put it back in.
Okay? Breakfast is ready.
[indistinct TV chattering]
Oh, sorry.
[indistinct]
All right. Thanks.
[sighing]
Prayer?
Yeah.
Ah, okay.
[Indistinct TV chattering continues]
Thank you for the food, Amen!
You have to say,
in the name of Jesus Christ.
- I have to, huh?
- Yeah.
Okay, close your eyes.
Thank you, God, for food
in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
Amen!
Okay.
I figured out the parental control thing
on the TV.
Ah. Mom never allowed me to eat
while I'm watching TV.
Amy, it's a good thing she's not here.
How about this? We make our own rules now.
Ah, okay.
Rule number one, we watch TV
every time we eat.
- Every time. Take something.
- Okay.
Finally.
Uh, which cartoon do you want to watch?
Dexter's Lab. Uh, Samurai Jack?
Johnny Bravo?
Who?
Come on, you're messing with me.
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck.
- Who's Donald Duck?
- A duck.
- Yeah.
- Really?
Come on. How about, like what, let me see.
We have The Flintstones.
You know The Flintstones?
They live in a rock town. Yabadabadoo guy?
Yabadabadoo?
Popeye. Ah... You're gonna love him.
- He's a sailor, loves spinach.
- Spinach?
These are really good shows,
I think you just don't have taste.
Uh, okay.
What, what cartoons do you watch?
Like, Donald Duck is just a cartoon
about a duck.
A duck? I'm ten, not five.
As long as you're not eighteen,
those numbers are just the same to me.
Uh, okay.
Okay. Uh, let's see.
Which year were you born?
No!
[laughing]
There, there are people
who were born in 2013? Okay.
Yeah.
Okay, so this is Johnny Bravo.
That's good, no?
Why does it look like
it's been drawn with a hand?
It has! It has! That's the thing.
You see, like how nowadays all cartoons
are computer generated like...
[mimicking computers]
Back then when, when things had class,
you just needed an artist with a notepad
and a pencil and voila!
Yeah, it looks weird.
This is true art.
Can I just like choose
something different?
- Are you being for real?
- Yeah.
- You won't give it a chance?
- No.
[upbeat music playing]
- 2013, huh?
- Yeah, 2013.
Okay. [sighing]
- Hey, Ricky.
- Hey.
- Any updates?
- No, no. Nothing yet.
How's, how's it going?
I don't think she even likes me.
You haven't been in her life, Ricky,
she doesn't know you yet.
All the same.
- Please keep looking for her family.
- Yeah, I'll do what I can.
By the way,
when's the last time I told you
how amazing a cousin you are?
Ricky, what do you want?
Just to tell you that we're more
than family, you know.
Ricky?
Okay. I'm falling back on work.
And I have crazy deadlines,
I just need one night.
Could you keep her for one night?
Just one.
Okay, fine. Bring my niece in.
Amy! Come. Come.
Amy! Come. Come.
[indistinct] Amy this is my cousin Leah.
She's my cousin on Mom's side.
Leah, this is Amy. Bye, Amy.
- Hi.
- Hi.
[soft music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
[upbeat bar music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
And I want my share of the money.
Why am I your friend?
Your share of the money?
Are you the one who went with him?
- Share of the money?
- Share of the money?
[indistinct chattering]
Ricky has to come. Ricky has to come.
You guys think you can party without me?
Hey guys!
- Ricky.
- Hey guys!
- Are you good?
- Nice to see you, man.
You've been MIA, bro, where have you been?
I'm back by public demand.
- Yeah, man.
- Does it matter where I went?
Ah! Public demand, right?
Where have you been? Huh?
Let me tell you something.
This guy recently found out
he has a daughter.
[cheering, applauding]
So, you have a kid?
Ah. I thought you said you keep it
what strapped?
Oh, you don't have kids running around.
You see this thing
you are doing right now?
- That's why I didn't tell you.
- Relax, dad.
This is the kettle
calling the pot black, bro.
First off, it was a long time ago.
Second, I just found out.
- Stop ignoring us!
- It was his childhood sweetheart.
- What was her name again?
- This place is looking good tonight!
Stop ignoring us! Answer the question!
Are your eyes working? Look over there!
The women are looking this good
and you're asking me questions?
- Go away!
- This guy! This guy!
It's Ricky being Ricky.
- Yes, that's what I was telling you...
- Hey.
- How are you doing?
- I'm fine.
I didn't ask how do you look
but, well, that's amazing too.
- Um...
- I'm Ricky. You are?
- I'm Jackie and you're ridiculous.
- I am?
I would literally marry your brother
just to get into your family.
[laughing] Oh God.
You're like a loan, I have interest.
Please, stop.
- Father Abraham!
- You don't get to call me that, bro!
Do you have a spare heart by any chance?
Cause mine just got stolen?
[indistinct chattering]
At this point,
I'll pay you to literally stop.
Okay, I'll do you one better.
I will stop if you allow me
to buy you a drink.
Okay well, we are having brandy so
if you buying for me,
you have to buy for my girls,
we come as a package.
Do you?
[upbeat bar music playing]
[knocking]
Hey! Chill. Chill. Relax. Ai.
- I've been trying to call you all morning.
- And I am not deaf.
- Kindly lower your voice.
- You were supposed to come pick her up.
Now I have a work thing
I'm very late for.
- I'm sorry.
- Are you though?
- Yeah.
- You were out last night.
You didn't have a work thing,
did you?
I... I did have a work thing,
clients were on my neck. I told you.
Hey Ricky, what's all the noise?
Um, Amy, I think your dad's house
needs a bit of color.
So why don't you go around
and pick some flowers?
Yea, okay.
[soft music playing]
- You were working, were you?
- Okay
Oh! I didn't know we had company.
Really, Ricky, what is wrong with you?
I didn't know we were all meeting here.
How is this even possible?
Uh, get prepared,
I will get you guys a cab.
- [all] Hmm?
- Kindly just get ready.
Please.
You can't keep acting like a child
when you have one.
I didn't want this.
Any of this!
My life was perfect until she showed up!
- Perfect?
- Yes.
You call this perfect?
- Your life is an empty meaningless void.
- Don't tell me about my life.
Whether you like it or not,
she's your responsibility now.
You know what, you're right.
We are both in agreement,
I am not good for her.
So why don't you go out
and get someone who is?
What if I can't? Huh? What happens then?
See, I know this was sprung on you.
But she's here, she is here, Ricky!
There is a ten-year-old girl
whose life will be ruined
if you don't figure this out.
I can't. I just can't.
[soft piano music playing]
Um. Please just get the DNA test.
For once in your life, Ricky,
do what's right.
I just told you. I can't.
[sighing]
Our company does
search engine optimization.
That's what we are known for.
And to capitalize
on the next financial quarter,
we will work on the offset SEO
where we'll create brand assets.
This should increase brand visibility
and recognition.
- So we start with the...
- [phone vibrating]
Sorry.
We start with... Oh, I have to get this.
Aha.
[dramatic music playing]
How is she?
What has happened?
Where is she sick?
Don't stay with her there, get a cab
and take her to Nairobi clinic.
I'm coming. I'm coming.
Sorry, guys, my daughter is unwell.
I have to... Um...
Excuse me, and what about the presentation
with our clients this afternoon?
We cancel it.
[music continues]
Yeah, so I'm glad you brought her.
- Um, you say her father is on his way?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Ah, okay.
There you are.
- Hello, my name is Dr. Michelle. Yes.
- Okay.
What's wrong? What's happened?
Yeah, you don't have to worry.
I think you should just relax. Honestly.
Um, fathers and their daughters.
Let me tell you, my husband is exactly
the same with our last born.
- Like she's the only girl.
- I'm relieved to hear that.
Okay, so now the only thing
that we're going to do is just,
just an injection.
What? No, but I don't like needles.
Amy! Amy! They need to do this,
for you to be okay. Okay?
- Wait. Wait.
- It's okay.
You have to do this for you to get better.
Look at me. Just look at me.
It'll be okay, okay?
- Wait, but, but...
- Amy, I'm sure it will be quick.
- It will be quick, yes?
- Very quick.
- This arm?
- This arm is fine?
No. But...
- No, you are going to be fine.
- Look at me. Look at me.
Look at me, okay.
I'm here just look at me.
- Look at me. You're gonna be okay. Okay?
- Let's go.
Very brave girl.
- It's gonna be fine.
- There you go.
See? See?
You did a good job.
You did a very good job!
- Look at me.
- Very brave girl.
- There you go. That was it.
- Wait for me outside with Maria, Okay?
So, do I need any additional medicine?
Ah, no. No more medication.
I think that injection is gonna be fine.
It's just going to clear up on its own.
- Ah, thank you.
- Yes, you're welcome.
[soft music playing]
Thanks for the ice cream.
You deserve it.
You were very brave
at the doctor's office today.
You're a superstar.
S. U. P. E. R. S. T. A. R.
- Impossible?
- I. M. P. O. S. S. I. B. L. E.
Intelligent?
[laughing]
I. N. T. E. L. L. I. G. E. N. T.
Unbelievable.
U. N. B. E. L. I. E. V. A. B. L. E.
I used to be the spelling bee champion
at my school.
- Pollution.
- P. O. L. L. U. T. I. O. N.
- I'm the best in my school too.
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
- That isn't even a word.
- It is.
Have you not watched the movie?
Is it one of your movies
that were made in the 1900s?
Nineteen hundreds.
You haven't had a good meal today.
Let me order you something.
- What do you want?
- Can I have some home-cooked food?
I miss the smell
of mom's chapatis so much.
Chapatis?
You want me to cook you
the most difficult meal
to prepare on the planet?
It's not that hard.
I used to help mom cook it all the time.
I can help you.
Okay.
I run a digital marketing company.
I'm a smart guy. I can figure this out.
Let's go. Roar!
Roar.
No! No! We are conquering the kitchen.
Roar!
Roar.
Let's go!
- Roar!
- Roar!
Okay.
Oh.
- Okay, you put water.
- Okay. Okay.
Okay.
- No. No. You add, you add like a bit.
- What? No, that, that's good.
- No. No. No. You add like a bit.
- No, that that's good.
- That's good. That's...
- Then just like a drip. Like a drip
[soft music playing]
Yeah. Yeah.
- Nah!
- No. No.
- No. Are you sure?
- It's like a little...
No, let's not put...
- Come on.
- Listen.
- Sabotage.
- No, it's not sabotage.
- I need to eat this too.
- Okay. Okay. Okay
Ah.
- How dare you?
- Then do it right.
You do it right!
Okay. Okay. Okay. You do the sugar.
You do the salt.
Okay.
Ah!
Is that... Do you have a brain deficiency?
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
Yeah. Brain deficiency!
-Okay, okay, stop. Okay, that's me
-You started this.
Okay. Okay.
[upbeat music playing]
[laughing]
Yeah.
Oh, no! But, but there's actually
something on your face.
- Yeah, really, there is? Where?
- No.
Okay! You remember the rule?
Hm-mm! We must watch TV as we eat.
- We must.
- Must.
Very good. What do you wanna watch?
Um! Actually, can you put that cartoon
you put the other day?
Johnny Something.
Johnny Bravo? Oh, you like it now?
Oh, you like...
Okay, there you go.
Those chapatis were so bad.
- Imagine if we ate them.
- Ah, no!
No.
[grunting]
Thanks for everything, Ricky.
You're welcome.
- You should go to bed now.
- Can you please tell me a bedtime story?
I'm not very good at those.
Mom told the best stories.
Yeah, she did.
Anyway, I can tell you one
of the stories she told me.
Okay.
Okay, so once there
was a princess called Palma.
And Palma fell in love
with a boy called Richard.
Palma and Richard were so in love
that even lovebirds
were jealous of their love.
[laughing] That's a lot of love.
Hm-mm!
But one day Richard lost
something very important to him.
What did he lose?
He told Palma that he felt like
he lost everything.
So he went on a journey to find it.
And Palma hoped that when he found it,
he'd come back.
But he never did. Her heart was broken.
Until she gave birth
to a beautiful baby girl
who fixed her broken heart
and became her best friend.
[soft piano music playing]
I hope that baby girl made her very happy.
She did, but she never forgot Richard.
What if Richard never found
what he was looking for?
He should have come back.
Yeah.
He should have come back.
- Good night.
- Okay, I had fun today.
But now that I know
that we are both spelling champions,
can you get me a game of scrabble?
- That's what you want.
- Hm-mm!
I'll order one tomorrow.
Actually,
there's something I want to give you.
I always carry this with me.
So I want you to have one too.
Can you make,
can you make a copy so that you
have one and I have one too?
[music continues]
- Yeah. Good night.
- Good night.
So you don't want to stay with her
because you really believe
you can't take care of her?
Or is it because she's
making you feel something again?
You experienced loss
at such a young age, Ricky.
I mean, way before you had
the tools to know how to handle it.
So you numbed yourself.
The thing with numbing yourself, Ricky,
is that you can do it forever.
I see it so much in my line of work.
[grunting]
Ah! I just. I can't. I just can't.
Um, I found an Auntie
who's willing to take her in.
But she has seven kids, so,
Amy won't have the best of life
but I guess she'll be with family.
[phone vibrating]
What's up?
[woman] What do you mean?
Is that how you answer your phone?
Sorry, mom. I thought you
were someone else. How are you?
You must come and see me this weekend.
I'll send a car for you to come.
No, you can't.
You cannot keep avoiding your home, Ricky.
You must come and, please,
bring your daughter.
How can you find out that I have
a grandchild and you don't tell me?
- [mouthing] You told her?
- I am sorry.
I'm not staying with her, mom,
her family wants her back.
I don't care who wants her back!
That's my grandchild. Bring her to me.
And I won't argue with you.
Okay. Ah! Saturday at ten?
Good. I'll cook mukimo for you.
[upbeat music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
Ah.
- Oh, son! So good to see you. Ah, good.
- Hello, mom.
- And who is this, is this Amy?
- Yeah, I'm Amy.
- And how old are you, young lady?
- I'm ten.
Ten? Wow! I'm your grandma.
So please call me grandma.
- Okay, grandma.
- Good, so why don't we go in the house.
I've made chapatis, I've made mukimo.
Chapatis? Oh my gosh, I've missed chapati.
Good, let's go.
I'll get the bags.
[cows mooing]
Wow. I tell you this one.
There is nothing he hasn't shown me!
And spanking him? Oh, my goodness.
I have spanked him with slippers,
with a belt
This one. He was so naughty I tell you.
Was he really that naughty? What?
The neighbors had grown some maize.
It was much taller than us.
And every weekend, every single weekend,
they were stealing the maize.
They started a fire in the farm so they
could have a maize roasting party.
- Mom, that's enough.
- It is true.
And then there was this other game,
what was it called?
- Shake.
- Yeah, good. Shake.
They used to play on the main road!
- The main road?
- Where all the cars were passing!
All the cars would have to come
to a standstill.
But it was so much better
when he was outside,
when he was in the house...
the drama he has shown me!
I used to keep the TV under lock and key.
Yeah. I would lock it,
but he would always unlock it.
By the way, how did you do that?
Amy, what's the use of having a television
if you can't watch it?
I mean, there's no reason.
Or a telephone you can't call people on?
- I mean there's not...
- Mom!
Really, Ricky?
Would you have done your homework?
- Yeah.
- Honestly?
Would you have done your homework?
- I would have tried.
- He would have tried.
I have just remembered something else.
Let me tell you,
he took his father's pick-up truck,
your grandfather.
- What! Oh, yeah.
- I'm telling you.
Yes, he wanted to go pick his girlfriend.
That is your mom.
He wanted to take her dancing.
Meanwhile, he doesn't
even know how to drive.
- As he was reversing, he hit a tree.
- What!
I thought his dad was going to kill him.
Oh my goodness! But you know what?
It's just interesting because
there is nothing he said.
I'm telling you, I have never seen
two people who are so close.
- Oh!
- Like Ricky and his dad. Your grandfather.
So, where is my grandfather now?
[sighing]
Ricky, where is my grandfather?
You know what?
Why don't you finish eating first?
And then maybe he can take you
around the farm.
And then he'll show you
the game he used to play with his dad.
- Hm-mm.
- The wheelbarrow game.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- Eat.
- Yeah. Yeah.
[upbeat music playing]
[music continues]
[music continues]
- Some tea?
- Oh, thanks.
[woman sighing]
You know, you shouldn't let
anyone take her away from you.
- Mom, I'm not good for her.
- Why do you say that?
I have no idea how to be a good father.
[sighing]
From where I'm sitting,
you are a fantastic dad.
Just like the one you had.
I didn't know so much about grief
or what it could do to a young boy.
I wish I had known.
I would have helped you deal with it.
You were grieving yourself.
And you never grieved.
[gasping]
I should have
helped you navigate it better.
You never talk about him.
Look! That young girl adores you.
And there's nothing better than
a girl who has her father's love.
They go out there and conquer the world.
Yeah.
You know what?
I have decided,
she's going to be baptized.
Tomorrow morning at my church.
Mom, aren't you supposed to consult me
on such matters?
Please! Let's not argue over this.
She's my granddaughter.
She must get baptized.
Hi! I got a present for you.
Do you wanna see it?
Yeah, sure.
It's a secret rock.
- Do you like it?
- Yes. I like it a lot.
This is the best gift
anyone has ever given me.
Please don't throw it away.
Keep it forever and ever and ever.
I will.
I want to give you guys a job.
- Mm.
- You're ready?
- Yes! Yes! Yes!
- Ricky.
I want you to catch a chicken for dinner.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
It's this side. It's this side.
- Let's go.
- This side.
[upbeat music playing]
[sighing]
[panting]
[sighing]
Though dinner tonight will be amazing.
What! No! We can't eat it!
- I thought you liked chicken?
- I do, but this is a good chicken.
Let her go, please.
- A good chicken?
- Yes, it's a good chicken.
Come on, let her go. Please.
- I have been running for thirty minutes.
- I know but come on.
- Stop.
- So, what about supper tonight?
Well, I'm not hungry. Let her go.
[sighing]
Okay. Fly.
You're an empath.
- What?
- Like your mom.
What's an empath?
You have a good heart.
And you don't like seeing anything bad
happen to anyone or anything.
So, I'm like Mommy?
In all the beautiful ways.
Oh, lucky chicken.
[laughing]
Okay give me two seconds, I get up.
[Amy laughing]
- Or three. Just leave me here.
- No.
Hurry up. Come on. Come on. Get up.
- Leave me.
- No! Get up!
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Get up!
Okay, I'm getting up. I'm getting up
[instrumental music playing]
So I send you to go catch
a chicken for dinner, we eat.
Huh?
Now tell me, what has the chicken done?
So you want us to eat
sour milk and 'ugali'?
This meal has no meat!
[music continues]
Amy, what are you still doing in bed?
Grandma gave you a dress an hour ago.
- But I don't want to go.
- What do you mean?
- She's in church waiting for us.
- But I really don't wanna go.
We're going! Amy get up.
Get up, we're going.
- My hair isn't done.
- Give me your hair things.
[grunting]
Don't roll your eyes at me.
Go! Go! Go! Go! Amy!
- We'll be late to church.
- Fine!
Let's go.
- Stop!
- Okay.
- Stop touching my hair!
- Okay. I'll do it
- I'll do it slowly.
- Don't do it slowly, it doesn't matter.
- Okay, I'll add conditioner.
- Have you even put the oil?
The hair has conditioner. I'll add oil.
You have to add oil.
Wash it off.
Put the oil and then the conditioner.
So wash it off then start again?
Yeah, you have to wash it off,
put the oil and then the conditioner.
- You're being unreasonable.
- No, I'm not!
Do you want to do it?
No, I can't do it.
You know what?
I'm just not gonna go to church.
- We're going to church.
- No, I'm not.
- We are going to church!
- No, I'm not.
- What's your problem?
- No! What's your problem?
I'm doing the best I can, okay?
I'm doing the best I can here.
Well, it hurts. So obviously you're not.
Okay, let me try.
- No! Stop!
- What do you want?
If Mom was here she would know
what to do with my hair.
[soft music playing]
[crying] She always put the oil first.
You miss your mommy?
I don't want to go to church without her.
I miss my daddy too.
Grandma said he was your best friend?
He was.
Mommy was mine.
I want to show you something.
Come let's go.
- Aren't we going to be late for church?
- We will.
Let's go.
[music continues]
[water trickling]
So this used to be
your mom's favorite spot.
She used to read books over there.
She used to call it "maskan".
- Maskan?
- Yeah.
- Can I make it my favorite spot?
- Of course you can.
Do you think my mommy and your daddy
are together in heaven?
I think so.
I think they're looking down on us
right now.
You know, mommy used to say,
if you love somebody, you should say
all your favorite things about them.
So whenever I'm sad, I say
all my favorite things about mommy.
And they are?
She was beautiful and strong.
She loved telling stories.
Oh, and she liked telling jokes.
Yeah. I remember those.
She cooked the yummiest food.
Liked to dance and sing.
- Oh, and she gave the best hugs.
- I remember those too.
What are your favorite things
about your dad?
[soft music playing]
My dad?
He was...
He was strong.
He could carry the heaviest things.
He loved, loved cars.
He kept racing me,
I think he thought it made him look young.
He never raised his voice at me.
Never even spanked me.
But always had this look that let you
know he was disappointed in you.
I dreaded that look.
He was fast. He loved cars.
[music continues]
He was the smartest person I've ever met.
He's in heaven and he loves you.
[sighing] So, so is your mom.
So, can we leave now?
Okay.
- Yeah!
- There you go.
I don't wanna die. I'm way too young.
Oh.
[sighing]
Though you guys came to church late,
the day was great.
And I'm so happy
my granddaughter is baptized.
- I had such a good time grandma.
- You're most welcome.
Now I want you to do one thing for me.
Make sure that your dad
visits me more often.
Yes, Ricky. Can we come here again?
I love it here.
Yes, I will bring you back.
- Anyway grandma.
- Yeah.
Ricky bought me a game of scrabble.
Can we play, please?
Yes.
Mom, I get your point.
I haven't been visiting
as much as I should,
but I assure you
from now this will change.
I'm happy to hear you say that.
Okay, so Ricky taught me
how to play so I'm gonna teach you.
Everyone needs seven letters
that you put on your board.
- Okay. Hm-mm.
- I didn't just teach you the game.
I taught you how to spell.
Uh, no. I taught you how to spell.
If memory serves, I won.
- No, I won.
- So, I'll win.
- No, I'll win.
- No, I will.
- Wait, what?
- I am going to win.
- No!
- No, No, No, No, No.
Mom. No, mom! Mom, stop!
You'll embarrass yourself. Mom, stop!
Guys, you're not serious.
- We'll go easy on you.
- Yeah, we'll go easy on you.
Okay, take it
- Uncle! Auntie!
- Hey!
- Hey, I've been trying to reach you.
- I was driving.
This is Amy's Auntie Delicia
and Uncle George.
- Nice to meet you.
- Pleasure.
Ah! Show your uncle and auntie inside.
- No. No, no. I got those.
- Okay.
Get them something to drink.
Good news.
Amy's Auntie has agreed
to come and get her.
That's why I was trying to reach you.
- Ah!
- This is what you wanted.
- They want to stay with her?
- Yeah, they are going to raise her.
You didn't want her, Ricky.
I mean, you told me over
and over and over again
to get relatives who are willing
to come and get her from you.
I remember what I said.
Ah! We are leaving. We're running late.
- Yeah, Auntie Del, let's go.
- No, No, No, No.
You go back inside, Amy.
- Uh, no. Come on, auntie.
- Hold up. Hold up.
Uh! Give me a second, please.
- Okay.
- One, one second.
[sighing]
Amy.
I've asked,
now I'm going to tell you,
- I'm your father...
- No!
You're not my father!
Fathers want their daughters
and you don't want me.
Who told you this?
I heard you talking to Leah just now.
You didn't want me.
You asked her to get someone
to come and get me.
- You took that out of context.
- What does that mean?
That it doesn't mean
what you think it means.
But you didn't want me!
You didn't even know I existed!
- I was...
- You didn't care!
- I do.
- That's a big, fat lie.
You didn't want me. You don't love me.
- I do.
- That's a lie.
You never wanted me. You never cared.
You didn't.
And I know that for a fact.
You don't love me.
Is there something wrong with me?
- Am I really that bad?
- There's nothing wrong with you.
Then why don't you want me?
- Amy.
- No!
I asked my mom for you all the time.
All my other friends had their dads
and I wanted mine.
But you never came. You never cared!
- Amy, please.
- No!
I have to be strong now.
Mommy would have wanted me to be strong.
I'm going to be fine.
And I don't ever want to see you again!
[soft music playing]
[music continues]
[indistinct TV chattering]
[phone vibrating]
Hey mom, how are you?
[Kim] Listen to this idiot calling me mom.
What does mom mean?
Why do you always forget to
save my number back to my name?
Hey Kim, what's up?
We're at the local bar, come over.
It's been a while.
I'm not in the mood bro.
You still haven't found
a permanent nanny for your kid?
Actually, she's not even here.
Then you're all set. Come.
First round is on me. See you soon.
- Okay, I'm on my way.
- Cheers, man.
[upbeat bar music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
[Kim] Yes. Every discussion.
[man] It's just like those internet terms
and conditions, just...
[Kim laughing]
[man] Just know
you don't even know what they say.
You just agree. Agree, agree.
[indistinct chattering]
Yoh, Ricky. You are here with us?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure thing, yeah.
I know I just have a lot on my mind.
[indistinct chattering]
[man] It's just like those internet terms
and conditions...
[indistinct chattering]
[Kim laughing]
- Ricky, I missed you.
- Laura.
- Oh, my God, how have you been?
- Ah! Say hi to the guys.
- Guys, Laura.
- Hi.
[Kim] We heard stories about you.
- [woman] Hi girl.
- Hi.
- I buy you a drink?
- I have an even better idea.
[indistinct whispering]
- What do you say?
- Right now?
[indistinct whispering]
Uh! Sounds amazing,
but let me take a rain check.
- I'm just not into it right now.
- Are you okay?
Yeah.
Yeah, I am okay. In fact, guys. Uh!
Sorry, I have to go.
- I'm just...
- Yoh. Yoh. Yoh, you just got here.
It's okay. I'm just not feeling it today.
But I'll see you guys soon.
[Kim] But you are still hosting on Sunday?
It's Chelsea.
Of course, you'll get beaten.
You'll be smashed completely.
- [man] We'll see.
- Top of the table bro.
For how long? For how long? See you guys!
[soft music playing]
[man] Have a seat.
[indistinct chattering]
Thank you.
[Ricky sighing]
I didn't want to fail her.
I really didn't.
And that's exactly what I did.
Just like I did her mom.
[music continues]
I was young,
didn't know what depression was.
My dad just died.
And all of a sudden everything
became unbearable.
Even breathing.
So I started drinking.
- Maybe a bit too much.
- You were so young.
Maybe I just didn't know any better.
Life was just easier
when I wasn't feeling.
So I numbed it. I numbed everything.
It's just simpler when you don't feel.
Then she shows up.
She shows up to my doorstep.
And every single emotion
I have been fighting not to feel.
Every single one of them came back.
I just couldn't handle it.
She looks exactly like her mom.
Exactly.
And I loved that woman.
I loved her more than I ever
loved any other human being ever.
And I failed her just as much.
But you're here now.
You can't change the past,
it's gone, Ricky.
But you're here now.
And Amy, she needs her father.
What if I fail her?
You are never going to be perfect, Ricky.
But I know you're going to do your best.
Yeah!
I'll do my best. That I will do.
I took a DNA test.
Let's go get my daughter.
Let's go. Let's.
[soft music playing]
- You have arrived.
- Hm-mm.
From when you called
and told me you were coming,
I have tried to get her ready
but she has refused.
- She says she is not going with you!
- She has no choice.
Do you know how much
I have fought with her?
Call her for me!
Amy! Amy, your dad is here.
I'm staying with Auntie Del.
- Amy get your stuff, we're leaving.
- No!
Amy, get your stuff, we are leaving!
No we're not. I'm staying.
[sighing] Amy!
Just wait. Amy!
Amy! Amy, please, please, please, Amy.
Stop. Stop. Stop, just stop.
I just want you to come home.
That's not true.
You don't want me to stay with you.
- I do.
- What's with you and lying?
I do. I love you.
Before I met you,
I always dreamt about you.
That you're a pilot
going all around the world,
or a navy lost somewhere in the ocean.
But I never ever dreamt
that you just didn't want me.
I want you.
Then there must be
something wrong with me.
There's nothing wrong with you.
- You are perfect.
- Then why don't want me?
I was just scared.
What could you possibly be scared of?
That I wasn't good enough for you.
That you are better off with someone else.
[Ricky sighing]
Sometimes as adults, as parents,
sometimes we are wrong.
I was wrong.
- So, you want me?
- I do.
- You love me?
- I do.
[soft music playing]
I have something for you.
It's a magic rock.
But you have to promise
to keep it with you.
For ever and ever.
For ever and ever?
Also, I turned my office into your room.
- I have my own room now?
- Yes, you do.
- Is it pink?
- Yes, I painted my office pink.
- And your mom's picture.
- Mm?
You don't have to keep it in your bag
anymore. I blew it up for you.
I love you, Amy.
And I will never leave you.
Ever.
We go?
But I still miss grandma
and the wheelbarrow game.
I will take you to grandma every week
and we will play the wheelbarrow game.
- Okay. Can we go now?
- Yeah.
[music continues]
- Amy, chapatis are ready. Let's go.
- Chapatis? Yes.
- Come on, Dad, let's go.
- Dad?
Yeah, that's what you are. Right?
Okay!
Hey, Dad?
What do friends with benefits mean?
- I told you about my phone.
- What? No! It's a random question.
- I told you not to go through my phone.
- I didn't.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
- It was a random question!
- No.
What benefits do these friends have?
[soft music playing]
[music continues]
[laughing] Wake up sleepy head. Hey!
- What's this?
- Breakfast.
That's what we call it, I made you some.
And... [laughing]
It took me longer than usual, I mean like,
I don't know where anything is, obviously,
however, I hope you don't mind.
No.
The thought of someone walking
around my house while I'm asleep,
oh, that just gives me joy.
- Wow! Huh! Okay. But wow!
- How long have you been awake?
[laughing]
A couple of hours, I'm an early bird.
[both laughing]
[sighing]
Even better.
So why don't you enjoy your breakfast.
And when you're done,
we could, I don't know,
pick something out and watch.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh...
[laughing nervously]
So here's the thing, Sarah.
- It's Stacy!
- Yes!
- Yes, yes Stacy.
- Wow!
Right? I've been taking migraine medicine.
So my memory is a bit messed up.
- But yeah, I know it's Stacy.
- Oh, I'm, I'm sorry.
Ah! I didn't know that. I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
- I'm sorry. Sorry.
Um! [laughing] Uh, awkward.
Um, okay. Um!
So, what do you like to watch?
Ah!
Look, um, if you're not up
to watch some telly,
we could, uh, do something different.
[phone vibrating]
[grunting]
Mom!
[grunting]
Uh-huh!
What do you want?
[sighing]
Yeah! Mom, I can't host you right now,
it's too early in the morning.
Yes. Yes, I remember you hosted me
in your womb for nine months.
You tell me every week.
Okay. Okay, you can come. Okay.
You know what? I think I'll go.
- Yeah, yeah you should, Sarah.
- It's Stacy!
Yes. Stacy.
Migraine medicine.
[chuckling]
[bar music playing]
The old mom trick again, right?
You know Ricky
has been doing this forever.
No, remind me, please remind me.
What's the "mom trick" again?
How come you don't know
about this?
It's been a minute man.
Ah. It's like this,
when Ricky takes a girl home
which is like every other day?
Yeah.
And he wants to get rid of her
the next morning.
- Yeah.
- He has saved my number as "mom".
So he'll send me an SOS message.
Uh, then I'll call him,
claiming that I'm coming over.
- No, that's actually brilliant.
- No way!
But Ricky has overdone it.
It's too much man. Too much.
[sighing]
[groaning]
Let me call him!
[bar music continues]
What's up?
We're at our usual place. Are you
coming? Or has your lady not left?
She's about to leave. But I'm on my way.
- Ah. Awesome. You'll find us here.
- Nice.
- He's on his way.
- Nice.
So, the other day...
[laughing]
[upbeat music playing]
Hey.
[indistinct chattering]
- What's up?
- It's absolutely great.
- G!
- What's up?
- Ricky. Ricky.
- Mm!
- Another one down? Another one?
- You have already started?
How many girls have you
taken home this month?
I have as many women as you have children.
Am I lying or is it too soon?
How many kids do you have in Nairobi?
But George! George!
Relax, when you walk around Nairobi,
do you see kids with big heads like yours?
[all laughing]
First of all George.
George. George. George. George.
First of all, you should be quiet!
Because you leave the bar
later than all of us
- cause you're scared of going home.
- Wow!
[laughing]
Guys! It's a bit too early in the morning.
- Let Ricky relax first...
- I didn't come to fight. Waiter!
A glass with some ice!
But I won't lie. I won't lie!
Marriage is hard, my guys!
Bro, that comes from a deep place!
From inside! Catch me dead!
Too much of me to go around.
Catch me dead.
[all laughing]
Ricky, I'm telling you,
you have slept with every girl in Nairobi.
The only ones you haven't slept with
is this guy's baby mamas!
[all laughing]
No, guys, wait!
Guys. Guys. I'm just chilling here
sipping and enjoying my drink.
What's your problem?
But let me tell you this, uh,
when you have the chance
to enjoy your bachelor life,
enjoy it completely while you can.
Because when the wife comes along,
and the kids.
No one tells you
how hard it is to raise a kid.
You will suffer!
Bro, I'm not like this guy.
I keep it strapped up. Always!
- I'm strapped up right now.
- Mm-hmm!
That's how ready I am for war.
Don't mess with me.
- Never. Never.
- There you go.
Ah!
Excuse me, I need to take this.
It never stops, eh?
Wow, dude,
who's this you have saved as "FWB"?
Have you seen this guy's call log?
Big tatas. [indistinct grumbling]
Aha.
Early late night. Early.
Are you done? Are you done? Are you done?
Do you need a microphone?
- I have no issue.
- All right. All right.
Shut up before you ruin my chances.
- Okay. Hey Lorie?
- Hey Lorie?
[indistinct muttering]
[man] Lorie.
Do you want to come
do the walk of shame tomorrow?
Yeah?
Ah, eleven?
Okay. [laughing]
Haters.
[all laughing]
Shot. Shot. Shot. Shot. Shots!
You know what? No. No.
No. Guys, today I won't
take shots with you guys.
I won't take shots today.
Listen! Listen! Listen, my guys!
I know it's all downhill from here.
And tomorrow I have church and I have
a play date. So please excuse me.
You and your kids. Always with the kids.
You have a good example,
be just like Justin.
Do nothing with the kids.
- Father Abraham, have I hurt you?
- No Ricky. Ricky. Ricky.
Kim, why is Ricky like this?
[Ricki] Get Father Abraham the usual!
[indistinct chattering]
- Too much?
- Relax, Justin.
Waiter! For Justin, the usual! Hey.
Don't catch feelings!
[groaning]
It can't pass you?
You go home to your wife!
Shots! Shots! Shots!
[all cheering]
[upbeat music playing]
Arrest me, Mrs. Officer.
I've been really bad...
- Who are you?
- I'm Amy.
Okay, good.
Not your name, who are you?
- I'm your daughter.
- My what?
Yeah.
Okay, let's get this straight.
- So you're Patricia's child, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Okay. Okay, and Patricia passed away?
- Yeah. Two years ago.
Patricia's dead?
Mm.
Why didn't anyone tell me?
So you've been living
with your grandmother, yes?
Who's now sick and can't take care of you?
Okay.
Okay. And how do you get here?
Grandma got me a cab. She's had to go
to a home cause of her health.
- Uh, she told me to give you this note.
- Note? She couldn't call me?
- And how old are you?
- I'm ten.
Oh, you're ten?
You're ten?
[man sighing]
Patricia's dead?
[doorbell ringing]
[Ricky] Uh...
[piano music playing]
I hear there's a criminal living here
and I'm here to arrest him.
Are you really a criminal?
- Oh, sorry I didn't know...
- Yeah, we obviously can't do this today.
No, has he done something bad?
Are you taking him to jail?
No. No. No one's going to jail.
- I just...
- I'll call you. Yeah, I'll call you.
So, she wasn't coming to arrest you?
I need a drink.
[music continues]
What is the point of having a cousin
who works in child services
if you can't help me.
Look! It's possible that I can help.
I don't know yet.
It's a Sunday, Ricky,
I can't reach anyone.
So what am I supposed to do?
You stay with her overnight, obviously.
- We'll figure this one out in the morning.
- In my house?
I keep a ten-year-old
in my house overnight.
What is she supposed to do?
I guess you'll have
to figure that one out.
So, Ricky, it's possible that she's yours?
Who knows?
She does look like me
and I was with Patricia around that time.
The first time I've heard you say her
name out loud in a long time.
Oh, well.
Ricky, you guys were so in love,
it was the cutest thing ever!
Leah. No. We're not doing this now.
- No.
- Okay, fine.
So anyway, what home did Amy
say her grandmother is in?
Ah! Everything is in the note.
She wrote it down on the note.
[mysterious music playing]
I'll see what I can do.
Who have you left the child with?
Crap! Crap! Crap!
You can put down your bag.
So, you'll sleep here tonight
and tomorrow we'll figure it out.
- You're probably hungry.
- Mm.
Yeah, I should, I should feed you.
Yeah.
Ah... Would you like take-out?
What do you usually use?
Uh, no. Mom never let us order in.
She hated fast food.
- That never changed, huh?
- Yeah, she said it was really bad for you.
It is. It really is. So, pizza?
Yeah.
What's up?
My house, yeah?
The usual.
Okay. Okay.
TV? Come.
[Ricky grunting]
[exotic music playing]
Okay!
We will watch TV after I figure out
parental controls.
- Okay?
- Mm-hmm.
[gasping]
[Ricky exhaling sharply]
We should probably
find something else to do.
Dishes.
I'll do the dishes.
[phone beeping]
Oh, you have six messages
from the boys club.
- Can I read them out to you?
- No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
But Mom liked me to read her messages
and I tell her who's calling.
Okay. We... We, we don't do that, okay?
You don't get to go through my phone.
You don't read my messages.
Especially from the boys club.
[mysterious music playing]
- Especially from?
- The boys club?
You never read messages
from the boys club.
[sighing]
Let me check on the rider.
[music continues]
What's wrong?
We haven't prayed.
Mom always prayed for the food.
Of course, she did.
Mom's the one that prayed.
- What?
- Mom's the one that prayed.
[music continues]
[sighing]
Heavenly Father, bless the food. Amen!
You haven't said thank you.
[Ricky sighing]
Heavenly Father, bless the food,
thank you! Amen!
You haven't said
in the name of Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, bless the food,
in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
Thank you.
Amen!
Thanks for the food.
You can call me Ricky.
Thank you for the food, Ricky.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
[music continues]
[air pump whirring]
Give me this.
Get in.
Good night, then.
Oh, Mom always told me a bedtime story.
- Yeah, she loved stories.
- They always put me to sleep.
[laughing] They put you to sleep?
They kept me awake.
Did She tell you any good stories?
All of them.
I'd love to hear one.
Can you remember any of them?
Yeah, I remember them.
- Okay, how about you just sleep?
- Okay.
- Mm-hmm.
- Goodnight.
[soft piano music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
What do you mean she has no one else?
I contacted her grandmother.
Amy was telling the truth.
She's actually too sick
to take care of her.
And she has no other relatives
willing to take her in.
So all you need to do
is get a DNA test,
prove that she's yours
and you can raise her.
But I can't raise her.
- Why?
- I just can't.
- You can't or you won't?
- Is there a difference?
You're her father, Ricky. She needs you.
I'm not what's best for that child.
[soft piano music playing]
I've never asked anything of you.
Leah, please.
Please, just get someone to take her in.
Please.
[sighing] Okay.
Maria.
I will be staying with this young girl
for a couple of days.
Please keep an eye on her
when I am not around.
Yes, boss.
- Morning.
- Hm.
Morning.
You slept okay?
This is a good picture of your mom.
You know, you shouldn't put it outside.
You know why?
Why?
It can get damaged.
And we don't want that, do we?
If you want to look at it,
just get it out of your bag,
look at it, put it back in.
Okay? Breakfast is ready.
[indistinct TV chattering]
Oh, sorry.
[indistinct]
All right. Thanks.
[sighing]
Prayer?
Yeah.
Ah, okay.
[Indistinct TV chattering continues]
Thank you for the food, Amen!
You have to say,
in the name of Jesus Christ.
- I have to, huh?
- Yeah.
Okay, close your eyes.
Thank you, God, for food
in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
Amen!
Okay.
I figured out the parental control thing
on the TV.
Ah. Mom never allowed me to eat
while I'm watching TV.
Amy, it's a good thing she's not here.
How about this? We make our own rules now.
Ah, okay.
Rule number one, we watch TV
every time we eat.
- Every time. Take something.
- Okay.
Finally.
Uh, which cartoon do you want to watch?
Dexter's Lab. Uh, Samurai Jack?
Johnny Bravo?
Who?
Come on, you're messing with me.
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck.
- Who's Donald Duck?
- A duck.
- Yeah.
- Really?
Come on. How about, like what, let me see.
We have The Flintstones.
You know The Flintstones?
They live in a rock town. Yabadabadoo guy?
Yabadabadoo?
Popeye. Ah... You're gonna love him.
- He's a sailor, loves spinach.
- Spinach?
These are really good shows,
I think you just don't have taste.
Uh, okay.
What, what cartoons do you watch?
Like, Donald Duck is just a cartoon
about a duck.
A duck? I'm ten, not five.
As long as you're not eighteen,
those numbers are just the same to me.
Uh, okay.
Okay. Uh, let's see.
Which year were you born?
No!
[laughing]
There, there are people
who were born in 2013? Okay.
Yeah.
Okay, so this is Johnny Bravo.
That's good, no?
Why does it look like
it's been drawn with a hand?
It has! It has! That's the thing.
You see, like how nowadays all cartoons
are computer generated like...
[mimicking computers]
Back then when, when things had class,
you just needed an artist with a notepad
and a pencil and voila!
Yeah, it looks weird.
This is true art.
Can I just like choose
something different?
- Are you being for real?
- Yeah.
- You won't give it a chance?
- No.
[upbeat music playing]
- 2013, huh?
- Yeah, 2013.
Okay. [sighing]
- Hey, Ricky.
- Hey.
- Any updates?
- No, no. Nothing yet.
How's, how's it going?
I don't think she even likes me.
You haven't been in her life, Ricky,
she doesn't know you yet.
All the same.
- Please keep looking for her family.
- Yeah, I'll do what I can.
By the way,
when's the last time I told you
how amazing a cousin you are?
Ricky, what do you want?
Just to tell you that we're more
than family, you know.
Ricky?
Okay. I'm falling back on work.
And I have crazy deadlines,
I just need one night.
Could you keep her for one night?
Just one.
Okay, fine. Bring my niece in.
Amy! Come. Come.
Amy! Come. Come.
[indistinct] Amy this is my cousin Leah.
She's my cousin on Mom's side.
Leah, this is Amy. Bye, Amy.
- Hi.
- Hi.
[soft music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
[upbeat bar music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
And I want my share of the money.
Why am I your friend?
Your share of the money?
Are you the one who went with him?
- Share of the money?
- Share of the money?
[indistinct chattering]
Ricky has to come. Ricky has to come.
You guys think you can party without me?
Hey guys!
- Ricky.
- Hey guys!
- Are you good?
- Nice to see you, man.
You've been MIA, bro, where have you been?
I'm back by public demand.
- Yeah, man.
- Does it matter where I went?
Ah! Public demand, right?
Where have you been? Huh?
Let me tell you something.
This guy recently found out
he has a daughter.
[cheering, applauding]
So, you have a kid?
Ah. I thought you said you keep it
what strapped?
Oh, you don't have kids running around.
You see this thing
you are doing right now?
- That's why I didn't tell you.
- Relax, dad.
This is the kettle
calling the pot black, bro.
First off, it was a long time ago.
Second, I just found out.
- Stop ignoring us!
- It was his childhood sweetheart.
- What was her name again?
- This place is looking good tonight!
Stop ignoring us! Answer the question!
Are your eyes working? Look over there!
The women are looking this good
and you're asking me questions?
- Go away!
- This guy! This guy!
It's Ricky being Ricky.
- Yes, that's what I was telling you...
- Hey.
- How are you doing?
- I'm fine.
I didn't ask how do you look
but, well, that's amazing too.
- Um...
- I'm Ricky. You are?
- I'm Jackie and you're ridiculous.
- I am?
I would literally marry your brother
just to get into your family.
[laughing] Oh God.
You're like a loan, I have interest.
Please, stop.
- Father Abraham!
- You don't get to call me that, bro!
Do you have a spare heart by any chance?
Cause mine just got stolen?
[indistinct chattering]
At this point,
I'll pay you to literally stop.
Okay, I'll do you one better.
I will stop if you allow me
to buy you a drink.
Okay well, we are having brandy so
if you buying for me,
you have to buy for my girls,
we come as a package.
Do you?
[upbeat bar music playing]
[knocking]
Hey! Chill. Chill. Relax. Ai.
- I've been trying to call you all morning.
- And I am not deaf.
- Kindly lower your voice.
- You were supposed to come pick her up.
Now I have a work thing
I'm very late for.
- I'm sorry.
- Are you though?
- Yeah.
- You were out last night.
You didn't have a work thing,
did you?
I... I did have a work thing,
clients were on my neck. I told you.
Hey Ricky, what's all the noise?
Um, Amy, I think your dad's house
needs a bit of color.
So why don't you go around
and pick some flowers?
Yea, okay.
[soft music playing]
- You were working, were you?
- Okay
Oh! I didn't know we had company.
Really, Ricky, what is wrong with you?
I didn't know we were all meeting here.
How is this even possible?
Uh, get prepared,
I will get you guys a cab.
- [all] Hmm?
- Kindly just get ready.
Please.
You can't keep acting like a child
when you have one.
I didn't want this.
Any of this!
My life was perfect until she showed up!
- Perfect?
- Yes.
You call this perfect?
- Your life is an empty meaningless void.
- Don't tell me about my life.
Whether you like it or not,
she's your responsibility now.
You know what, you're right.
We are both in agreement,
I am not good for her.
So why don't you go out
and get someone who is?
What if I can't? Huh? What happens then?
See, I know this was sprung on you.
But she's here, she is here, Ricky!
There is a ten-year-old girl
whose life will be ruined
if you don't figure this out.
I can't. I just can't.
[soft piano music playing]
Um. Please just get the DNA test.
For once in your life, Ricky,
do what's right.
I just told you. I can't.
[sighing]
Our company does
search engine optimization.
That's what we are known for.
And to capitalize
on the next financial quarter,
we will work on the offset SEO
where we'll create brand assets.
This should increase brand visibility
and recognition.
- So we start with the...
- [phone vibrating]
Sorry.
We start with... Oh, I have to get this.
Aha.
[dramatic music playing]
How is she?
What has happened?
Where is she sick?
Don't stay with her there, get a cab
and take her to Nairobi clinic.
I'm coming. I'm coming.
Sorry, guys, my daughter is unwell.
I have to... Um...
Excuse me, and what about the presentation
with our clients this afternoon?
We cancel it.
[music continues]
Yeah, so I'm glad you brought her.
- Um, you say her father is on his way?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Ah, okay.
There you are.
- Hello, my name is Dr. Michelle. Yes.
- Okay.
What's wrong? What's happened?
Yeah, you don't have to worry.
I think you should just relax. Honestly.
Um, fathers and their daughters.
Let me tell you, my husband is exactly
the same with our last born.
- Like she's the only girl.
- I'm relieved to hear that.
Okay, so now the only thing
that we're going to do is just,
just an injection.
What? No, but I don't like needles.
Amy! Amy! They need to do this,
for you to be okay. Okay?
- Wait. Wait.
- It's okay.
You have to do this for you to get better.
Look at me. Just look at me.
It'll be okay, okay?
- Wait, but, but...
- Amy, I'm sure it will be quick.
- It will be quick, yes?
- Very quick.
- This arm?
- This arm is fine?
No. But...
- No, you are going to be fine.
- Look at me. Look at me.
Look at me, okay.
I'm here just look at me.
- Look at me. You're gonna be okay. Okay?
- Let's go.
Very brave girl.
- It's gonna be fine.
- There you go.
See? See?
You did a good job.
You did a very good job!
- Look at me.
- Very brave girl.
- There you go. That was it.
- Wait for me outside with Maria, Okay?
So, do I need any additional medicine?
Ah, no. No more medication.
I think that injection is gonna be fine.
It's just going to clear up on its own.
- Ah, thank you.
- Yes, you're welcome.
[soft music playing]
Thanks for the ice cream.
You deserve it.
You were very brave
at the doctor's office today.
You're a superstar.
S. U. P. E. R. S. T. A. R.
- Impossible?
- I. M. P. O. S. S. I. B. L. E.
Intelligent?
[laughing]
I. N. T. E. L. L. I. G. E. N. T.
Unbelievable.
U. N. B. E. L. I. E. V. A. B. L. E.
I used to be the spelling bee champion
at my school.
- Pollution.
- P. O. L. L. U. T. I. O. N.
- I'm the best in my school too.
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
- That isn't even a word.
- It is.
Have you not watched the movie?
Is it one of your movies
that were made in the 1900s?
Nineteen hundreds.
You haven't had a good meal today.
Let me order you something.
- What do you want?
- Can I have some home-cooked food?
I miss the smell
of mom's chapatis so much.
Chapatis?
You want me to cook you
the most difficult meal
to prepare on the planet?
It's not that hard.
I used to help mom cook it all the time.
I can help you.
Okay.
I run a digital marketing company.
I'm a smart guy. I can figure this out.
Let's go. Roar!
Roar.
No! No! We are conquering the kitchen.
Roar!
Roar.
Let's go!
- Roar!
- Roar!
Okay.
Oh.
- Okay, you put water.
- Okay. Okay.
Okay.
- No. No. You add, you add like a bit.
- What? No, that, that's good.
- No. No. No. You add like a bit.
- No, that that's good.
- That's good. That's...
- Then just like a drip. Like a drip
[soft music playing]
Yeah. Yeah.
- Nah!
- No. No.
- No. Are you sure?
- It's like a little...
No, let's not put...
- Come on.
- Listen.
- Sabotage.
- No, it's not sabotage.
- I need to eat this too.
- Okay. Okay. Okay
Ah.
- How dare you?
- Then do it right.
You do it right!
Okay. Okay. Okay. You do the sugar.
You do the salt.
Okay.
Ah!
Is that... Do you have a brain deficiency?
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
Yeah. Brain deficiency!
-Okay, okay, stop. Okay, that's me
-You started this.
Okay. Okay.
[upbeat music playing]
[laughing]
Yeah.
Oh, no! But, but there's actually
something on your face.
- Yeah, really, there is? Where?
- No.
Okay! You remember the rule?
Hm-mm! We must watch TV as we eat.
- We must.
- Must.
Very good. What do you wanna watch?
Um! Actually, can you put that cartoon
you put the other day?
Johnny Something.
Johnny Bravo? Oh, you like it now?
Oh, you like...
Okay, there you go.
Those chapatis were so bad.
- Imagine if we ate them.
- Ah, no!
No.
[grunting]
Thanks for everything, Ricky.
You're welcome.
- You should go to bed now.
- Can you please tell me a bedtime story?
I'm not very good at those.
Mom told the best stories.
Yeah, she did.
Anyway, I can tell you one
of the stories she told me.
Okay.
Okay, so once there
was a princess called Palma.
And Palma fell in love
with a boy called Richard.
Palma and Richard were so in love
that even lovebirds
were jealous of their love.
[laughing] That's a lot of love.
Hm-mm!
But one day Richard lost
something very important to him.
What did he lose?
He told Palma that he felt like
he lost everything.
So he went on a journey to find it.
And Palma hoped that when he found it,
he'd come back.
But he never did. Her heart was broken.
Until she gave birth
to a beautiful baby girl
who fixed her broken heart
and became her best friend.
[soft piano music playing]
I hope that baby girl made her very happy.
She did, but she never forgot Richard.
What if Richard never found
what he was looking for?
He should have come back.
Yeah.
He should have come back.
- Good night.
- Okay, I had fun today.
But now that I know
that we are both spelling champions,
can you get me a game of scrabble?
- That's what you want.
- Hm-mm!
I'll order one tomorrow.
Actually,
there's something I want to give you.
I always carry this with me.
So I want you to have one too.
Can you make,
can you make a copy so that you
have one and I have one too?
[music continues]
- Yeah. Good night.
- Good night.
So you don't want to stay with her
because you really believe
you can't take care of her?
Or is it because she's
making you feel something again?
You experienced loss
at such a young age, Ricky.
I mean, way before you had
the tools to know how to handle it.
So you numbed yourself.
The thing with numbing yourself, Ricky,
is that you can do it forever.
I see it so much in my line of work.
[grunting]
Ah! I just. I can't. I just can't.
Um, I found an Auntie
who's willing to take her in.
But she has seven kids, so,
Amy won't have the best of life
but I guess she'll be with family.
[phone vibrating]
What's up?
[woman] What do you mean?
Is that how you answer your phone?
Sorry, mom. I thought you
were someone else. How are you?
You must come and see me this weekend.
I'll send a car for you to come.
No, you can't.
You cannot keep avoiding your home, Ricky.
You must come and, please,
bring your daughter.
How can you find out that I have
a grandchild and you don't tell me?
- [mouthing] You told her?
- I am sorry.
I'm not staying with her, mom,
her family wants her back.
I don't care who wants her back!
That's my grandchild. Bring her to me.
And I won't argue with you.
Okay. Ah! Saturday at ten?
Good. I'll cook mukimo for you.
[upbeat music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
Ah.
- Oh, son! So good to see you. Ah, good.
- Hello, mom.
- And who is this, is this Amy?
- Yeah, I'm Amy.
- And how old are you, young lady?
- I'm ten.
Ten? Wow! I'm your grandma.
So please call me grandma.
- Okay, grandma.
- Good, so why don't we go in the house.
I've made chapatis, I've made mukimo.
Chapatis? Oh my gosh, I've missed chapati.
Good, let's go.
I'll get the bags.
[cows mooing]
Wow. I tell you this one.
There is nothing he hasn't shown me!
And spanking him? Oh, my goodness.
I have spanked him with slippers,
with a belt
This one. He was so naughty I tell you.
Was he really that naughty? What?
The neighbors had grown some maize.
It was much taller than us.
And every weekend, every single weekend,
they were stealing the maize.
They started a fire in the farm so they
could have a maize roasting party.
- Mom, that's enough.
- It is true.
And then there was this other game,
what was it called?
- Shake.
- Yeah, good. Shake.
They used to play on the main road!
- The main road?
- Where all the cars were passing!
All the cars would have to come
to a standstill.
But it was so much better
when he was outside,
when he was in the house...
the drama he has shown me!
I used to keep the TV under lock and key.
Yeah. I would lock it,
but he would always unlock it.
By the way, how did you do that?
Amy, what's the use of having a television
if you can't watch it?
I mean, there's no reason.
Or a telephone you can't call people on?
- I mean there's not...
- Mom!
Really, Ricky?
Would you have done your homework?
- Yeah.
- Honestly?
Would you have done your homework?
- I would have tried.
- He would have tried.
I have just remembered something else.
Let me tell you,
he took his father's pick-up truck,
your grandfather.
- What! Oh, yeah.
- I'm telling you.
Yes, he wanted to go pick his girlfriend.
That is your mom.
He wanted to take her dancing.
Meanwhile, he doesn't
even know how to drive.
- As he was reversing, he hit a tree.
- What!
I thought his dad was going to kill him.
Oh my goodness! But you know what?
It's just interesting because
there is nothing he said.
I'm telling you, I have never seen
two people who are so close.
- Oh!
- Like Ricky and his dad. Your grandfather.
So, where is my grandfather now?
[sighing]
Ricky, where is my grandfather?
You know what?
Why don't you finish eating first?
And then maybe he can take you
around the farm.
And then he'll show you
the game he used to play with his dad.
- Hm-mm.
- The wheelbarrow game.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- Eat.
- Yeah. Yeah.
[upbeat music playing]
[music continues]
[music continues]
- Some tea?
- Oh, thanks.
[woman sighing]
You know, you shouldn't let
anyone take her away from you.
- Mom, I'm not good for her.
- Why do you say that?
I have no idea how to be a good father.
[sighing]
From where I'm sitting,
you are a fantastic dad.
Just like the one you had.
I didn't know so much about grief
or what it could do to a young boy.
I wish I had known.
I would have helped you deal with it.
You were grieving yourself.
And you never grieved.
[gasping]
I should have
helped you navigate it better.
You never talk about him.
Look! That young girl adores you.
And there's nothing better than
a girl who has her father's love.
They go out there and conquer the world.
Yeah.
You know what?
I have decided,
she's going to be baptized.
Tomorrow morning at my church.
Mom, aren't you supposed to consult me
on such matters?
Please! Let's not argue over this.
She's my granddaughter.
She must get baptized.
Hi! I got a present for you.
Do you wanna see it?
Yeah, sure.
It's a secret rock.
- Do you like it?
- Yes. I like it a lot.
This is the best gift
anyone has ever given me.
Please don't throw it away.
Keep it forever and ever and ever.
I will.
I want to give you guys a job.
- Mm.
- You're ready?
- Yes! Yes! Yes!
- Ricky.
I want you to catch a chicken for dinner.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
It's this side. It's this side.
- Let's go.
- This side.
[upbeat music playing]
[sighing]
[panting]
[sighing]
Though dinner tonight will be amazing.
What! No! We can't eat it!
- I thought you liked chicken?
- I do, but this is a good chicken.
Let her go, please.
- A good chicken?
- Yes, it's a good chicken.
Come on, let her go. Please.
- I have been running for thirty minutes.
- I know but come on.
- Stop.
- So, what about supper tonight?
Well, I'm not hungry. Let her go.
[sighing]
Okay. Fly.
You're an empath.
- What?
- Like your mom.
What's an empath?
You have a good heart.
And you don't like seeing anything bad
happen to anyone or anything.
So, I'm like Mommy?
In all the beautiful ways.
Oh, lucky chicken.
[laughing]
Okay give me two seconds, I get up.
[Amy laughing]
- Or three. Just leave me here.
- No.
Hurry up. Come on. Come on. Get up.
- Leave me.
- No! Get up!
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Get up!
Okay, I'm getting up. I'm getting up
[instrumental music playing]
So I send you to go catch
a chicken for dinner, we eat.
Huh?
Now tell me, what has the chicken done?
So you want us to eat
sour milk and 'ugali'?
This meal has no meat!
[music continues]
Amy, what are you still doing in bed?
Grandma gave you a dress an hour ago.
- But I don't want to go.
- What do you mean?
- She's in church waiting for us.
- But I really don't wanna go.
We're going! Amy get up.
Get up, we're going.
- My hair isn't done.
- Give me your hair things.
[grunting]
Don't roll your eyes at me.
Go! Go! Go! Go! Amy!
- We'll be late to church.
- Fine!
Let's go.
- Stop!
- Okay.
- Stop touching my hair!
- Okay. I'll do it
- I'll do it slowly.
- Don't do it slowly, it doesn't matter.
- Okay, I'll add conditioner.
- Have you even put the oil?
The hair has conditioner. I'll add oil.
You have to add oil.
Wash it off.
Put the oil and then the conditioner.
So wash it off then start again?
Yeah, you have to wash it off,
put the oil and then the conditioner.
- You're being unreasonable.
- No, I'm not!
Do you want to do it?
No, I can't do it.
You know what?
I'm just not gonna go to church.
- We're going to church.
- No, I'm not.
- We are going to church!
- No, I'm not.
- What's your problem?
- No! What's your problem?
I'm doing the best I can, okay?
I'm doing the best I can here.
Well, it hurts. So obviously you're not.
Okay, let me try.
- No! Stop!
- What do you want?
If Mom was here she would know
what to do with my hair.
[soft music playing]
[crying] She always put the oil first.
You miss your mommy?
I don't want to go to church without her.
I miss my daddy too.
Grandma said he was your best friend?
He was.
Mommy was mine.
I want to show you something.
Come let's go.
- Aren't we going to be late for church?
- We will.
Let's go.
[music continues]
[water trickling]
So this used to be
your mom's favorite spot.
She used to read books over there.
She used to call it "maskan".
- Maskan?
- Yeah.
- Can I make it my favorite spot?
- Of course you can.
Do you think my mommy and your daddy
are together in heaven?
I think so.
I think they're looking down on us
right now.
You know, mommy used to say,
if you love somebody, you should say
all your favorite things about them.
So whenever I'm sad, I say
all my favorite things about mommy.
And they are?
She was beautiful and strong.
She loved telling stories.
Oh, and she liked telling jokes.
Yeah. I remember those.
She cooked the yummiest food.
Liked to dance and sing.
- Oh, and she gave the best hugs.
- I remember those too.
What are your favorite things
about your dad?
[soft music playing]
My dad?
He was...
He was strong.
He could carry the heaviest things.
He loved, loved cars.
He kept racing me,
I think he thought it made him look young.
He never raised his voice at me.
Never even spanked me.
But always had this look that let you
know he was disappointed in you.
I dreaded that look.
He was fast. He loved cars.
[music continues]
He was the smartest person I've ever met.
He's in heaven and he loves you.
[sighing] So, so is your mom.
So, can we leave now?
Okay.
- Yeah!
- There you go.
I don't wanna die. I'm way too young.
Oh.
[sighing]
Though you guys came to church late,
the day was great.
And I'm so happy
my granddaughter is baptized.
- I had such a good time grandma.
- You're most welcome.
Now I want you to do one thing for me.
Make sure that your dad
visits me more often.
Yes, Ricky. Can we come here again?
I love it here.
Yes, I will bring you back.
- Anyway grandma.
- Yeah.
Ricky bought me a game of scrabble.
Can we play, please?
Yes.
Mom, I get your point.
I haven't been visiting
as much as I should,
but I assure you
from now this will change.
I'm happy to hear you say that.
Okay, so Ricky taught me
how to play so I'm gonna teach you.
Everyone needs seven letters
that you put on your board.
- Okay. Hm-mm.
- I didn't just teach you the game.
I taught you how to spell.
Uh, no. I taught you how to spell.
If memory serves, I won.
- No, I won.
- So, I'll win.
- No, I'll win.
- No, I will.
- Wait, what?
- I am going to win.
- No!
- No, No, No, No, No.
Mom. No, mom! Mom, stop!
You'll embarrass yourself. Mom, stop!
Guys, you're not serious.
- We'll go easy on you.
- Yeah, we'll go easy on you.
Okay, take it
- Uncle! Auntie!
- Hey!
- Hey, I've been trying to reach you.
- I was driving.
This is Amy's Auntie Delicia
and Uncle George.
- Nice to meet you.
- Pleasure.
Ah! Show your uncle and auntie inside.
- No. No, no. I got those.
- Okay.
Get them something to drink.
Good news.
Amy's Auntie has agreed
to come and get her.
That's why I was trying to reach you.
- Ah!
- This is what you wanted.
- They want to stay with her?
- Yeah, they are going to raise her.
You didn't want her, Ricky.
I mean, you told me over
and over and over again
to get relatives who are willing
to come and get her from you.
I remember what I said.
Ah! We are leaving. We're running late.
- Yeah, Auntie Del, let's go.
- No, No, No, No.
You go back inside, Amy.
- Uh, no. Come on, auntie.
- Hold up. Hold up.
Uh! Give me a second, please.
- Okay.
- One, one second.
[sighing]
Amy.
I've asked,
now I'm going to tell you,
- I'm your father...
- No!
You're not my father!
Fathers want their daughters
and you don't want me.
Who told you this?
I heard you talking to Leah just now.
You didn't want me.
You asked her to get someone
to come and get me.
- You took that out of context.
- What does that mean?
That it doesn't mean
what you think it means.
But you didn't want me!
You didn't even know I existed!
- I was...
- You didn't care!
- I do.
- That's a big, fat lie.
You didn't want me. You don't love me.
- I do.
- That's a lie.
You never wanted me. You never cared.
You didn't.
And I know that for a fact.
You don't love me.
Is there something wrong with me?
- Am I really that bad?
- There's nothing wrong with you.
Then why don't you want me?
- Amy.
- No!
I asked my mom for you all the time.
All my other friends had their dads
and I wanted mine.
But you never came. You never cared!
- Amy, please.
- No!
I have to be strong now.
Mommy would have wanted me to be strong.
I'm going to be fine.
And I don't ever want to see you again!
[soft music playing]
[music continues]
[indistinct TV chattering]
[phone vibrating]
Hey mom, how are you?
[Kim] Listen to this idiot calling me mom.
What does mom mean?
Why do you always forget to
save my number back to my name?
Hey Kim, what's up?
We're at the local bar, come over.
It's been a while.
I'm not in the mood bro.
You still haven't found
a permanent nanny for your kid?
Actually, she's not even here.
Then you're all set. Come.
First round is on me. See you soon.
- Okay, I'm on my way.
- Cheers, man.
[upbeat bar music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
[Kim] Yes. Every discussion.
[man] It's just like those internet terms
and conditions, just...
[Kim laughing]
[man] Just know
you don't even know what they say.
You just agree. Agree, agree.
[indistinct chattering]
Yoh, Ricky. You are here with us?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure thing, yeah.
I know I just have a lot on my mind.
[indistinct chattering]
[man] It's just like those internet terms
and conditions...
[indistinct chattering]
[Kim laughing]
- Ricky, I missed you.
- Laura.
- Oh, my God, how have you been?
- Ah! Say hi to the guys.
- Guys, Laura.
- Hi.
[Kim] We heard stories about you.
- [woman] Hi girl.
- Hi.
- I buy you a drink?
- I have an even better idea.
[indistinct whispering]
- What do you say?
- Right now?
[indistinct whispering]
Uh! Sounds amazing,
but let me take a rain check.
- I'm just not into it right now.
- Are you okay?
Yeah.
Yeah, I am okay. In fact, guys. Uh!
Sorry, I have to go.
- I'm just...
- Yoh. Yoh. Yoh, you just got here.
It's okay. I'm just not feeling it today.
But I'll see you guys soon.
[Kim] But you are still hosting on Sunday?
It's Chelsea.
Of course, you'll get beaten.
You'll be smashed completely.
- [man] We'll see.
- Top of the table bro.
For how long? For how long? See you guys!
[soft music playing]
[man] Have a seat.
[indistinct chattering]
Thank you.
[Ricky sighing]
I didn't want to fail her.
I really didn't.
And that's exactly what I did.
Just like I did her mom.
[music continues]
I was young,
didn't know what depression was.
My dad just died.
And all of a sudden everything
became unbearable.
Even breathing.
So I started drinking.
- Maybe a bit too much.
- You were so young.
Maybe I just didn't know any better.
Life was just easier
when I wasn't feeling.
So I numbed it. I numbed everything.
It's just simpler when you don't feel.
Then she shows up.
She shows up to my doorstep.
And every single emotion
I have been fighting not to feel.
Every single one of them came back.
I just couldn't handle it.
She looks exactly like her mom.
Exactly.
And I loved that woman.
I loved her more than I ever
loved any other human being ever.
And I failed her just as much.
But you're here now.
You can't change the past,
it's gone, Ricky.
But you're here now.
And Amy, she needs her father.
What if I fail her?
You are never going to be perfect, Ricky.
But I know you're going to do your best.
Yeah!
I'll do my best. That I will do.
I took a DNA test.
Let's go get my daughter.
Let's go. Let's.
[soft music playing]
- You have arrived.
- Hm-mm.
From when you called
and told me you were coming,
I have tried to get her ready
but she has refused.
- She says she is not going with you!
- She has no choice.
Do you know how much
I have fought with her?
Call her for me!
Amy! Amy, your dad is here.
I'm staying with Auntie Del.
- Amy get your stuff, we're leaving.
- No!
Amy, get your stuff, we are leaving!
No we're not. I'm staying.
[sighing] Amy!
Just wait. Amy!
Amy! Amy, please, please, please, Amy.
Stop. Stop. Stop, just stop.
I just want you to come home.
That's not true.
You don't want me to stay with you.
- I do.
- What's with you and lying?
I do. I love you.
Before I met you,
I always dreamt about you.
That you're a pilot
going all around the world,
or a navy lost somewhere in the ocean.
But I never ever dreamt
that you just didn't want me.
I want you.
Then there must be
something wrong with me.
There's nothing wrong with you.
- You are perfect.
- Then why don't want me?
I was just scared.
What could you possibly be scared of?
That I wasn't good enough for you.
That you are better off with someone else.
[Ricky sighing]
Sometimes as adults, as parents,
sometimes we are wrong.
I was wrong.
- So, you want me?
- I do.
- You love me?
- I do.
[soft music playing]
I have something for you.
It's a magic rock.
But you have to promise
to keep it with you.
For ever and ever.
For ever and ever?
Also, I turned my office into your room.
- I have my own room now?
- Yes, you do.
- Is it pink?
- Yes, I painted my office pink.
- And your mom's picture.
- Mm?
You don't have to keep it in your bag
anymore. I blew it up for you.
I love you, Amy.
And I will never leave you.
Ever.
We go?
But I still miss grandma
and the wheelbarrow game.
I will take you to grandma every week
and we will play the wheelbarrow game.
- Okay. Can we go now?
- Yeah.
[music continues]
- Amy, chapatis are ready. Let's go.
- Chapatis? Yes.
- Come on, Dad, let's go.
- Dad?
Yeah, that's what you are. Right?
Okay!
Hey, Dad?
What do friends with benefits mean?
- I told you about my phone.
- What? No! It's a random question.
- I told you not to go through my phone.
- I didn't.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
- It was a random question!
- No.
What benefits do these friends have?
[soft music playing]