The Goat (2024) Movie Script
1
[audio logo]
Feels like a sleigh now.
[children giggling]
[techno music]
[horn honking]
[salem laughing]
[pump cranking]
[children laughing]
[children laughing]
[machine whirring]
Mrs. Anna.
Good morning, Abu Hashem.
Good morning.
We're looking for Mr. Julian.
He's on his way
back from the village.
Thank you.
No, wait!
You have no news for me?
We are having a small
issue with one of the locals.
Don't be concerned.
Don't tell me not
to be concerned.
We need to start
pumping that spring now.
Every day, we bleed money.
I understand how
frustrating the delays are.
Give me one week.
You have my word.
If you don't fulfill
your contract with us,
we're gonna change things.
Here, Sparrow.
I'm gonna throw it, and
you're gonna fetch it, OK?
Come on.
Stop it.
You know she'll never catch it.
She'll learn.
ANNA: Come on, guys!
I've told you a thousand times,
you cannot bring home these
dirty animals in from the
dunes and up on my car.
Don't send her away, Mom!
Please, Mom.
We want her to play with.
No!
We are not keeping a goat.
EMMA: I hate this place.
Look, we're gonna go
home very soon, I promise.
We're there every day!
Since Dad passed
away, we're alone,
running all over the place.
I lost him and all
my friends at once.
THEO: Please, Mom.
Please.
ANNA: No.
Uh-uh.
EMMA: Please.
ANNA: We're not keeping a goat.
It's not fair.
Should have left me at my
boarding school in Italy.
THEO: I lost that,
too, you know.
And how am I to become
a baseball player here
in the desert?
ANNA: All right.
Listen.
We are almost done.
But if we don't finish,
I don't get paid,
and then we can't go home.
You understand?
All right, go.
Come on, go.
Go on.
Go on.
Come on!
[sparrow bleating]
Come on.
Come on.
Let's go.
Come on.
Let's go.
Stop!
You're hurting her.
Is this your goat?
[sparrow bleats]
Do you want this goat?
Please, take her.
All right, kids,
wash your hands well.
And then we got to
go to the canteen.
Hey, is she OK?
Sorry about my mom.
She's in a bad mood
because of her job.
EMMA: Here.
Sparrow loves them.
You can take some for you, too.
I don't like candies.
EMMA: Hey, come back to visit!
What was your name?
[sparrow bleating]
[phone ringing]
I told you to keep
that door closed.
It's dangerous!
Hello?
Julian!
What the fuck, bro?
JULIAN (ON PHONE): How is Dad?
Look, look.
JULIAN (ON PHONE): How is Dad?
Your dad is fine.
Look, but we're very
concerned about your latest
African adventure.
JULIAN (ON PHONE):
Listen, this water
has special illegal elements
that can rejuvenate.
PETER (ON PHONE): Rejuvenate?
That's great.
Well, maybe you wanna
rejuvenate your track record?
You know, we lost $2.5 million
with your Congo gamble?
Not to mention the half
million lost in labor lawsuits.
JULIAN (ON PHONE):
This water is gonna
be on the menus of the
most luxurious restaurants
in the world in
less than a year.
I can't defend you anymore.
JULIAN (ON PHONE):
You don't understand.
These people are desperate here.
They'll work for nothing.
We can make millions.
PETER (ON PHONE): We did not
merge with a multinational
to have you fuck it up with
your crazy half-assed schemes!
Dad always said you're
a fucking loser.
This is your last chance.
I-- I told you not to burn the
plastic bottles during the day.
Only at night.
Julian, we need to go.
[sparrow bleating]
[ominous music]
[car door opens]
[car door closes]
[hadiya screaming]
[thuds]
[body thuds]
[hadiya screams continues]
[somber music]
[car engine rumbling]
[body thuds]
[fire crackling]
[chickens clucking]
[goat bleats]
[rooster crowing]
[children laughing]
[baby crying]
[baby crying stops]
[gun cocks]
[dramatic music]
[gunshot]
[body thuds]
[running footsteps receding]
[echoing singing]
[dramatic music]
[flames crackling]
[non-english singing]
REPORTER (ON VIDEO):
Developed countries
often buy coltan and
other precious minerals
in underdeveloped countries
where, obviously, they
cost less.
Isn't that what you
are doing in Congo?
That's exactly why
we got kicked out.
[knocking on door]
[door creaking open]
Hey.
The issue with the
spring has been resolved.
What?
You have access to
your site tomorrow.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
I wish we could celebrate.
OK, um I don't think
we should do that.
No, I'm just trying to
be a friend, all right?
I know.
But you're my friend
who has a wife, so--
All right.
Relax.
Let's get some sleep.
We're going to have
a busy day tomorrow.
All right.
You, too.
Great job, boss.
Thank you.
[rooster crowing]
[chatter]
[dramatic music]
[chatter]
[chains rattling]
JULIAN: Try to
keep things moving.
We got a lot of time to make up.
[engine starts]
[clinking]
[intense pounding music]
JULIAN: Mr. Houssini,
I'm glad you made it.
Here, follow me.
We're modernizing
most of the machinery.
And we've created many
posts for workers.
Those with houses near the
spring, we've relocated them.
Excellent.
Excellent.
I assume to appropriate
housing alternatives?
Oh, well, all of the families
are being monitored constantly,
and they're all doing fine.
Follow me, please.
We found one outstanding
issue with the spring.
It's owned by Saube
family, right?
Correct.
So you can sell a
precious natural resource
without a signature of
a Saube family member.
Abu Hashem is married
to Salem Saube's daughter.
So he's the official
owner, and he can sign.
HOUSSINI: No, he can't sign.
Must be a living blood
relative in front of us.
[sighs] What if it's minor?
HOUSSINI: I came here
expecting the right paper,
and I found nothing.
So I came here for nothing.
JULIAN: Abu, hurry up.
Go get your wife ready
to travel at night
so she can be at their office.
Well, [clears throat]
until the document's signed,
you have to stop your work
immediately, Mr. Julian.
Immediately.
[dramatic music]
[sparrow bleats]
JULIAN: What do you
mean she ran away?
Go find her!
[motor rumbling]
Aah!
Hey!
How was the meeting?
Julian?
We have to stop production.
Why?
How-- how long?
Indefinitely.
What?
No.
No!
We can't work this way.
I can't work this way!
I've got to get home!
It's not my fault. You chose
to bring your brats out here
to the middle of nowhere.
Don't you dare call them that!
You have not gotten me
paid in eight months!
Look!
If you wanna go,
you just can go.
If you don't have the guts
to stay through this, fine!
Go back to frigging' Chicago!
I'll find myself somebody else.
Don't you talk to me that way.
I do everything here!
I cover for you when you're
out drinking, or drugging,
or whoring, whatever it is!
And I can't go back because
I don't have the money
to pay all the people!
I really don't care.
I hate this place.
I hate this place.
I can't stand it here.
I cannot stand it here.
All right, so how do we fix it?
Well social development
fund won't give us a penny--
unless we get the signature
of a 12-year-old girl.
What girl?
The daughter of Salem Saube.
The guy who owns the well.
So we'll just go to
her with whatever--
No--
--she wants.
-no, no!
She ran away yesterday!
Why?
How the heck do I know?
Abu Hashem is looking for her.
Why?
Why is he involved?
He's her husband.
Wait.
I-- how-- how old did you--
No, no.
--say she was?
All we have to do
is find the girl.
Finish the work.
All right, I'll do it for you.
I'll find her.
I'll get her to sign.
JULIAN: That's good.
But then, that's the
last thing I'm gonna--
Thank you.
ANNA: --do for you!
Thank you, I appreciate--
ANNA: That's it, Julian!
After that, you and
me, we're through!
I just want my money.
And when I get the signature,
you're giving me $100,000 bonus.
JULIAN: Why?
Why we--
Because I deserve it!
[engine rumbling]
[car door closes]
Good evening.
I'm looking for the
young wife of Abu Hashem.
Husband go.
Yes, but I--
I'm talking to you.
Do you realize that your husband
works for me, I'm his boss?
I'm sorry, do you understand me?
You understand.
OK.
Listen, if we don't
find this girl,
your husband will lose his
job, as will everyone here.
All your money gone.
Salem father.
Capital.
Do you think she would
follow him to the capital?
What is her name?
[sighs]
Hadiya.
Hadiya?
Can you tell me anything else?
The goat.
What?
Goat!
She took a goat?
Mm.
Thank you.
[car door closes]
[engine starts]
[sparrow bleats]
(SINGING) Fly into the sky
My wings fly so high
[sparrow bleats]
[hadiya humming]
[sighs] Let's have some sleep.
[sparrow bleats]
Oh.
Oh.
[somber music]
[sparrow bleats]
[dramatic music]
Sparrow, wait!
Oh!
[hadiya breathing heavily]
[dramatic music]
[sparrow bleating]
[engine rumbling]
[thud]
[breathing heavily]
[milk spurting]
[somber music]
[rhythmic music]
[chatter]
[engine humming]
[somber music]
[birds cawing]
[sparrow bleating]
[breathing heavily]
[hadiya groans]
[sniffling]
[sparrow bleats]
Ah!
[breathing heavily]
[giggling] Stop, Sparrow.
Have some.
[animal cries]
[animal cries continue]
[breathing heavily]
[eerie music]
[sparrow bleats]
[disturbing music]
[sparrow bleating]
[sparrow bleats]
[breathing heavily]
[car engine rumbling]
EMMA: Are we really
going back home?
ANNA: Yeah.
Once we find her, I'm gonna
be able to finish my job,
and then we're leaving.
I don't believe you.
I know you don't want
to go home because you
can't handle that Dad's gone.
When does it end?
What?
The road.
This road?
I-- I don't know.
I-- I don't know where it stops.
Is she running away, too?
She's running away, Theo.
She's also 12.
What?
She doesn't go
to school either.
We already have two
things in common.
Isn't that weird?
[sighs]
[sparrow bleats]
[sparrow bleating]
[dramatic music]
[sighs]
[chickens clucking]
[sparrow bleating]
[pounding music]
[dramatic music]
Aah.
[dramatic music continues]
[sparrow bleating]
[sparrow bleating]
[sighs]
[dogs barking]
[sparrow bleating]
Aah!
[body thuds]
[hadiya screaming]
[ethereal music]
[sparrow bleating]
[tired breathing]
[birds cawing]
[wings flapping]
WOMAN: [non-english speech]
[wings flapping]
[sparrow bleating]
[breathing heavily]
[wings flapping]
[phone ringing]
[phone beeps]
Mr. Julian.
Calm down.
There is only one
road to the city.
We will find her.
Don't worry.
[phone beeps]
[motorcycle rumbling]
[somber music]
[car door closes]
Excuse me, sir.
Yes?
Do you speak English?
Yes.
Thank you.
I can help you?
Yes, yes.
I'm looking for a
lost local girl.
She's about 12 years old.
She's lost.
She's on foot.
She has a goat.
LOCAL MAN: I saw her a few
days ago at the market.
ANNA: Oh, yes.
It's terrible that she's
out here by herself.
She has a baby, but need help.
ANNA: What?
She's pregnant?
Baby?
Do you know which way
she might have gone?
[engine rumbling]
[somber music]
[hadiya sobs]
[hadiya sobbing]
[dramatic music]
[wind howling]
[rhythmic pensive music]
[gasps]
[stones crumbling]
[melancholy music]
[upbeat dance music]
[music stops, body thuds]
[sparrow bleating]
[foreboding music]
[metal chains clinking]
We're the same age, but
with such different lives.
She's from another
country, another culture.
We have to respect
their traditions.
12 is very different here.
It's only different if
you call it different.
No matter where we're
from, all children
should be treated the same.
Kids, she's out there
alone in this dark.
We're trying to find her, OK?
So let's get some
sleep, and we can
continue this in the morning.
[sighs]
[motorcycle rumbling]
[somber music]
[knocking]
Mrs. Anna.
Abu Hashem.
HASHEM: You shouldn't
be here at night.
Oh.
Uh, I was just taking
a little catnap,
and then I'm driving
the kids home.
The car is stuck?
No.
HASHEM: Let us help you.
No, no, we don't--
[door rattling]
[engine starts]
See?
Cars fine.
Who's that?
That's her husband.
What?
That's insane.
[sparrow bleats]
[sparrow bleating]
[sighs]
[big sigh]
[hadiya panting]
[sparrow bleating]
[intense music]
What happened?
Where's the girl?
With-- with the baby?
[anna crying]
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[sobs]
[fire crackling]
[motorcycle rumbling]
[distant chatter]
[gasps] [panting]
[somber singing]
[suspenseful music]
Aah!
[hadiya screaming]
THEO: Hurry up, Mom!
If we don't find her
quickly, she's gonna die.
ANNA: Are you kidding me?
It's a dead end?
Jeez.
[tires screeching]
OK, you guys have to
get out of the car.
You've got to go to
the front and push.
We're stuck in the
sand in the back.
Come on, hurry up.
[car doors close]
THEO: Mom, there, look!
I recognize the
people from Zarzora!
Mom, stop.
[wind howling]
[hashem sighs]
[phone ringing]
Hello?
[breathing shakily]
Yes.
[body thuds]
Yeah, well, let's just leave
that for the lawyers, huh?
JULIAN (ON PHONE): No,
Peter, you don't understand.
Listen, um, I
gotta wrap this up.
A cease and desist letter
has been sent to you.
You are legally now obliged
to stop all productions
in our name.
JULIAN (ON PHONE): No, Peter!
Please, let me explain--
what are you doing here?
In a few hours, Mr.
Houssini is coming here.
What do you mean?
Why is he coming here?
I don't know.
He changed his mind.
He wants to check everything
is OK with the local,
that your company is
treating them well.
No, you idiot!
You notice no more locals here.
You want him to see the girl in
these conditions, you asshole?
If he comes here, I'm screwed!
HASHEM: I want--
JULIAN: This is all your fault!
This is your fault!
[grunting]
Let me go!
HASHEM: I will tell him the
truth, about what you have done.
JULIAN: Don't you dare
open your fucking mouth!
HASHEM: Aah!
[squelch]
JULIAN: No!
[machine whirring]
Oh.
Hadiya.
Hadiya, listen.
Listen to me, honey.
[hadiya panting]
Hadiya!
[hadiya panting]
Hadiya.
Hadiya.
Hey, stop!
[wind howling]
Hadiya.
[hadiya panting]
Aah!
JULIAN: I need you to sign.
If you sign, it'll be so good
for you and all your people.
You'll have money.
I will never give
this spring to anyone.
The spring are ready
for the villagers.
[horn honking]
[panting]
Leave her alone!
Julian.
Julian, stop!
Please, what are you doing?
What, are you gonna
kill a little girl?
Please don't do this.
Let her go.
Come on, let her go.
[wind howling]
[dramatic music]
You're the girl
from the factory?
Is Sparrow OK?
I lost her in the desert.
My mom feels bad
about what happened.
Anyway, if you need
anything, just ask me, OK?
I need her.
Yeah, you need a mom.
No, I need an engineer.
[all clapping]
[laughs]
Hadiya, wait.
We want to say goodbye.
I'm so moved by you.
I can't wait to see
what you do next.
I won't forget.
ANNA: All right, kids.
Till the next time.
[upbeat music]
[sparrow bleating]
[sparrow bleating]
[dramatic music]
[audio logo]
Feels like a sleigh now.
[children giggling]
[techno music]
[horn honking]
[salem laughing]
[pump cranking]
[children laughing]
[children laughing]
[machine whirring]
Mrs. Anna.
Good morning, Abu Hashem.
Good morning.
We're looking for Mr. Julian.
He's on his way
back from the village.
Thank you.
No, wait!
You have no news for me?
We are having a small
issue with one of the locals.
Don't be concerned.
Don't tell me not
to be concerned.
We need to start
pumping that spring now.
Every day, we bleed money.
I understand how
frustrating the delays are.
Give me one week.
You have my word.
If you don't fulfill
your contract with us,
we're gonna change things.
Here, Sparrow.
I'm gonna throw it, and
you're gonna fetch it, OK?
Come on.
Stop it.
You know she'll never catch it.
She'll learn.
ANNA: Come on, guys!
I've told you a thousand times,
you cannot bring home these
dirty animals in from the
dunes and up on my car.
Don't send her away, Mom!
Please, Mom.
We want her to play with.
No!
We are not keeping a goat.
EMMA: I hate this place.
Look, we're gonna go
home very soon, I promise.
We're there every day!
Since Dad passed
away, we're alone,
running all over the place.
I lost him and all
my friends at once.
THEO: Please, Mom.
Please.
ANNA: No.
Uh-uh.
EMMA: Please.
ANNA: We're not keeping a goat.
It's not fair.
Should have left me at my
boarding school in Italy.
THEO: I lost that,
too, you know.
And how am I to become
a baseball player here
in the desert?
ANNA: All right.
Listen.
We are almost done.
But if we don't finish,
I don't get paid,
and then we can't go home.
You understand?
All right, go.
Come on, go.
Go on.
Go on.
Come on!
[sparrow bleating]
Come on.
Come on.
Let's go.
Come on.
Let's go.
Stop!
You're hurting her.
Is this your goat?
[sparrow bleats]
Do you want this goat?
Please, take her.
All right, kids,
wash your hands well.
And then we got to
go to the canteen.
Hey, is she OK?
Sorry about my mom.
She's in a bad mood
because of her job.
EMMA: Here.
Sparrow loves them.
You can take some for you, too.
I don't like candies.
EMMA: Hey, come back to visit!
What was your name?
[sparrow bleating]
[phone ringing]
I told you to keep
that door closed.
It's dangerous!
Hello?
Julian!
What the fuck, bro?
JULIAN (ON PHONE): How is Dad?
Look, look.
JULIAN (ON PHONE): How is Dad?
Your dad is fine.
Look, but we're very
concerned about your latest
African adventure.
JULIAN (ON PHONE):
Listen, this water
has special illegal elements
that can rejuvenate.
PETER (ON PHONE): Rejuvenate?
That's great.
Well, maybe you wanna
rejuvenate your track record?
You know, we lost $2.5 million
with your Congo gamble?
Not to mention the half
million lost in labor lawsuits.
JULIAN (ON PHONE):
This water is gonna
be on the menus of the
most luxurious restaurants
in the world in
less than a year.
I can't defend you anymore.
JULIAN (ON PHONE):
You don't understand.
These people are desperate here.
They'll work for nothing.
We can make millions.
PETER (ON PHONE): We did not
merge with a multinational
to have you fuck it up with
your crazy half-assed schemes!
Dad always said you're
a fucking loser.
This is your last chance.
I-- I told you not to burn the
plastic bottles during the day.
Only at night.
Julian, we need to go.
[sparrow bleating]
[ominous music]
[car door opens]
[car door closes]
[hadiya screaming]
[thuds]
[body thuds]
[hadiya screams continues]
[somber music]
[car engine rumbling]
[body thuds]
[fire crackling]
[chickens clucking]
[goat bleats]
[rooster crowing]
[children laughing]
[baby crying]
[baby crying stops]
[gun cocks]
[dramatic music]
[gunshot]
[body thuds]
[running footsteps receding]
[echoing singing]
[dramatic music]
[flames crackling]
[non-english singing]
REPORTER (ON VIDEO):
Developed countries
often buy coltan and
other precious minerals
in underdeveloped countries
where, obviously, they
cost less.
Isn't that what you
are doing in Congo?
That's exactly why
we got kicked out.
[knocking on door]
[door creaking open]
Hey.
The issue with the
spring has been resolved.
What?
You have access to
your site tomorrow.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
I wish we could celebrate.
OK, um I don't think
we should do that.
No, I'm just trying to
be a friend, all right?
I know.
But you're my friend
who has a wife, so--
All right.
Relax.
Let's get some sleep.
We're going to have
a busy day tomorrow.
All right.
You, too.
Great job, boss.
Thank you.
[rooster crowing]
[chatter]
[dramatic music]
[chatter]
[chains rattling]
JULIAN: Try to
keep things moving.
We got a lot of time to make up.
[engine starts]
[clinking]
[intense pounding music]
JULIAN: Mr. Houssini,
I'm glad you made it.
Here, follow me.
We're modernizing
most of the machinery.
And we've created many
posts for workers.
Those with houses near the
spring, we've relocated them.
Excellent.
Excellent.
I assume to appropriate
housing alternatives?
Oh, well, all of the families
are being monitored constantly,
and they're all doing fine.
Follow me, please.
We found one outstanding
issue with the spring.
It's owned by Saube
family, right?
Correct.
So you can sell a
precious natural resource
without a signature of
a Saube family member.
Abu Hashem is married
to Salem Saube's daughter.
So he's the official
owner, and he can sign.
HOUSSINI: No, he can't sign.
Must be a living blood
relative in front of us.
[sighs] What if it's minor?
HOUSSINI: I came here
expecting the right paper,
and I found nothing.
So I came here for nothing.
JULIAN: Abu, hurry up.
Go get your wife ready
to travel at night
so she can be at their office.
Well, [clears throat]
until the document's signed,
you have to stop your work
immediately, Mr. Julian.
Immediately.
[dramatic music]
[sparrow bleats]
JULIAN: What do you
mean she ran away?
Go find her!
[motor rumbling]
Aah!
Hey!
How was the meeting?
Julian?
We have to stop production.
Why?
How-- how long?
Indefinitely.
What?
No.
No!
We can't work this way.
I can't work this way!
I've got to get home!
It's not my fault. You chose
to bring your brats out here
to the middle of nowhere.
Don't you dare call them that!
You have not gotten me
paid in eight months!
Look!
If you wanna go,
you just can go.
If you don't have the guts
to stay through this, fine!
Go back to frigging' Chicago!
I'll find myself somebody else.
Don't you talk to me that way.
I do everything here!
I cover for you when you're
out drinking, or drugging,
or whoring, whatever it is!
And I can't go back because
I don't have the money
to pay all the people!
I really don't care.
I hate this place.
I hate this place.
I can't stand it here.
I cannot stand it here.
All right, so how do we fix it?
Well social development
fund won't give us a penny--
unless we get the signature
of a 12-year-old girl.
What girl?
The daughter of Salem Saube.
The guy who owns the well.
So we'll just go to
her with whatever--
No--
--she wants.
-no, no!
She ran away yesterday!
Why?
How the heck do I know?
Abu Hashem is looking for her.
Why?
Why is he involved?
He's her husband.
Wait.
I-- how-- how old did you--
No, no.
--say she was?
All we have to do
is find the girl.
Finish the work.
All right, I'll do it for you.
I'll find her.
I'll get her to sign.
JULIAN: That's good.
But then, that's the
last thing I'm gonna--
Thank you.
ANNA: --do for you!
Thank you, I appreciate--
ANNA: That's it, Julian!
After that, you and
me, we're through!
I just want my money.
And when I get the signature,
you're giving me $100,000 bonus.
JULIAN: Why?
Why we--
Because I deserve it!
[engine rumbling]
[car door closes]
Good evening.
I'm looking for the
young wife of Abu Hashem.
Husband go.
Yes, but I--
I'm talking to you.
Do you realize that your husband
works for me, I'm his boss?
I'm sorry, do you understand me?
You understand.
OK.
Listen, if we don't
find this girl,
your husband will lose his
job, as will everyone here.
All your money gone.
Salem father.
Capital.
Do you think she would
follow him to the capital?
What is her name?
[sighs]
Hadiya.
Hadiya?
Can you tell me anything else?
The goat.
What?
Goat!
She took a goat?
Mm.
Thank you.
[car door closes]
[engine starts]
[sparrow bleats]
(SINGING) Fly into the sky
My wings fly so high
[sparrow bleats]
[hadiya humming]
[sighs] Let's have some sleep.
[sparrow bleats]
Oh.
Oh.
[somber music]
[sparrow bleats]
[dramatic music]
Sparrow, wait!
Oh!
[hadiya breathing heavily]
[dramatic music]
[sparrow bleating]
[engine rumbling]
[thud]
[breathing heavily]
[milk spurting]
[somber music]
[rhythmic music]
[chatter]
[engine humming]
[somber music]
[birds cawing]
[sparrow bleating]
[breathing heavily]
[hadiya groans]
[sniffling]
[sparrow bleats]
Ah!
[breathing heavily]
[giggling] Stop, Sparrow.
Have some.
[animal cries]
[animal cries continue]
[breathing heavily]
[eerie music]
[sparrow bleats]
[disturbing music]
[sparrow bleating]
[sparrow bleats]
[breathing heavily]
[car engine rumbling]
EMMA: Are we really
going back home?
ANNA: Yeah.
Once we find her, I'm gonna
be able to finish my job,
and then we're leaving.
I don't believe you.
I know you don't want
to go home because you
can't handle that Dad's gone.
When does it end?
What?
The road.
This road?
I-- I don't know.
I-- I don't know where it stops.
Is she running away, too?
She's running away, Theo.
She's also 12.
What?
She doesn't go
to school either.
We already have two
things in common.
Isn't that weird?
[sighs]
[sparrow bleats]
[sparrow bleating]
[dramatic music]
[sighs]
[chickens clucking]
[sparrow bleating]
[pounding music]
[dramatic music]
Aah.
[dramatic music continues]
[sparrow bleating]
[sparrow bleating]
[sighs]
[dogs barking]
[sparrow bleating]
Aah!
[body thuds]
[hadiya screaming]
[ethereal music]
[sparrow bleating]
[tired breathing]
[birds cawing]
[wings flapping]
WOMAN: [non-english speech]
[wings flapping]
[sparrow bleating]
[breathing heavily]
[wings flapping]
[phone ringing]
[phone beeps]
Mr. Julian.
Calm down.
There is only one
road to the city.
We will find her.
Don't worry.
[phone beeps]
[motorcycle rumbling]
[somber music]
[car door closes]
Excuse me, sir.
Yes?
Do you speak English?
Yes.
Thank you.
I can help you?
Yes, yes.
I'm looking for a
lost local girl.
She's about 12 years old.
She's lost.
She's on foot.
She has a goat.
LOCAL MAN: I saw her a few
days ago at the market.
ANNA: Oh, yes.
It's terrible that she's
out here by herself.
She has a baby, but need help.
ANNA: What?
She's pregnant?
Baby?
Do you know which way
she might have gone?
[engine rumbling]
[somber music]
[hadiya sobs]
[hadiya sobbing]
[dramatic music]
[wind howling]
[rhythmic pensive music]
[gasps]
[stones crumbling]
[melancholy music]
[upbeat dance music]
[music stops, body thuds]
[sparrow bleating]
[foreboding music]
[metal chains clinking]
We're the same age, but
with such different lives.
She's from another
country, another culture.
We have to respect
their traditions.
12 is very different here.
It's only different if
you call it different.
No matter where we're
from, all children
should be treated the same.
Kids, she's out there
alone in this dark.
We're trying to find her, OK?
So let's get some
sleep, and we can
continue this in the morning.
[sighs]
[motorcycle rumbling]
[somber music]
[knocking]
Mrs. Anna.
Abu Hashem.
HASHEM: You shouldn't
be here at night.
Oh.
Uh, I was just taking
a little catnap,
and then I'm driving
the kids home.
The car is stuck?
No.
HASHEM: Let us help you.
No, no, we don't--
[door rattling]
[engine starts]
See?
Cars fine.
Who's that?
That's her husband.
What?
That's insane.
[sparrow bleats]
[sparrow bleating]
[sighs]
[big sigh]
[hadiya panting]
[sparrow bleating]
[intense music]
What happened?
Where's the girl?
With-- with the baby?
[anna crying]
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[sobs]
[fire crackling]
[motorcycle rumbling]
[distant chatter]
[gasps] [panting]
[somber singing]
[suspenseful music]
Aah!
[hadiya screaming]
THEO: Hurry up, Mom!
If we don't find her
quickly, she's gonna die.
ANNA: Are you kidding me?
It's a dead end?
Jeez.
[tires screeching]
OK, you guys have to
get out of the car.
You've got to go to
the front and push.
We're stuck in the
sand in the back.
Come on, hurry up.
[car doors close]
THEO: Mom, there, look!
I recognize the
people from Zarzora!
Mom, stop.
[wind howling]
[hashem sighs]
[phone ringing]
Hello?
[breathing shakily]
Yes.
[body thuds]
Yeah, well, let's just leave
that for the lawyers, huh?
JULIAN (ON PHONE): No,
Peter, you don't understand.
Listen, um, I
gotta wrap this up.
A cease and desist letter
has been sent to you.
You are legally now obliged
to stop all productions
in our name.
JULIAN (ON PHONE): No, Peter!
Please, let me explain--
what are you doing here?
In a few hours, Mr.
Houssini is coming here.
What do you mean?
Why is he coming here?
I don't know.
He changed his mind.
He wants to check everything
is OK with the local,
that your company is
treating them well.
No, you idiot!
You notice no more locals here.
You want him to see the girl in
these conditions, you asshole?
If he comes here, I'm screwed!
HASHEM: I want--
JULIAN: This is all your fault!
This is your fault!
[grunting]
Let me go!
HASHEM: I will tell him the
truth, about what you have done.
JULIAN: Don't you dare
open your fucking mouth!
HASHEM: Aah!
[squelch]
JULIAN: No!
[machine whirring]
Oh.
Hadiya.
Hadiya, listen.
Listen to me, honey.
[hadiya panting]
Hadiya!
[hadiya panting]
Hadiya.
Hadiya.
Hey, stop!
[wind howling]
Hadiya.
[hadiya panting]
Aah!
JULIAN: I need you to sign.
If you sign, it'll be so good
for you and all your people.
You'll have money.
I will never give
this spring to anyone.
The spring are ready
for the villagers.
[horn honking]
[panting]
Leave her alone!
Julian.
Julian, stop!
Please, what are you doing?
What, are you gonna
kill a little girl?
Please don't do this.
Let her go.
Come on, let her go.
[wind howling]
[dramatic music]
You're the girl
from the factory?
Is Sparrow OK?
I lost her in the desert.
My mom feels bad
about what happened.
Anyway, if you need
anything, just ask me, OK?
I need her.
Yeah, you need a mom.
No, I need an engineer.
[all clapping]
[laughs]
Hadiya, wait.
We want to say goodbye.
I'm so moved by you.
I can't wait to see
what you do next.
I won't forget.
ANNA: All right, kids.
Till the next time.
[upbeat music]
[sparrow bleating]
[sparrow bleating]
[dramatic music]