Waiting for Barcelona (2018) Movie Script
1
[suspenseful music playing]
[train horn blaring]
[hums]
[man singing]
Why we can't live all as one
And be together
Hunger stabbing
Black killing, people dying
So what's the reason
Oh, my god
[man] Nothing is there.
[trash bin lid clangs]
[man humming]
Sometimes like this places,
they put some balsas down here
so I can pick it.
Not only the trash cans.
Everywhere you can find.
My name is, uh, Mou.
See this.
I've been here almost ten years now.
[Mou] I already get married, you know.
I already get married.
So I'm going to do this
little time only, you know.
When I got my papers,
I start to look other things.
Then I will go with my music.
I want to have daughters,
I want to have my wife.
I want to have house.
But I am waiting for my papers
so I just try.
Okay, I am ready.
[pensive music playing]
[people chattering]
- [in Spanish] How are you, my friend?
- Good.
- Very hard, ain't it?
- Yes, of course.
[lighter clicks]
- I don't have any cigarettes.
- Don't worry.
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
[Mou whistling]
[in English] Wow, I love this. [chuckles]
This one is a soldier boy.
[chuckles] I am soldier.
Soldier of life. Soldier peace.
I'm a soldier of peace, man.
So this one, I am very glad to find it.
[Mou] When I was going out of Gambia,
I was 14 or 13, like that.
When you came here,
not looking for money only.
You look for ways. You know?
DON'T BUY FROM BLANKET SALESMEN
THIS IS PUNISHABLE WITH A 500 FINE
[sirens wailing]
[in Spanish] Well, I guess we have to...
The police is working... and we have to...
For example, that man in the park
is a plainclothes police officer.
There are more of them there.
I just let my colleagues know
there's policemen here.
Muhamete!
Psst!
I will give this to my colleague, okay?
[man] One, two, three, bass
- [beat boxing]
- Every day we Africlando
Africlando
Every day we Africlando
Africlando
Africlando
In the ghetto
- Africlando in the ghetto
- One, two, three, bass
- We can't even have no food to eat
- [mumbles]
No place to sleep
- And no work to go
- Go on, Boom. Rap something.
Check this out, bass
- [beat boxing continues]
- Go on, Boom. Go on my brother, go on.
Go on. Go on, you, rap.
One, two, three, bass
[raps in Spanish]
[raps in Spanish]
- Yeah.
- Here we are.
- One, two, three, bass
- Uh, Espacio Inmigrante, this one place.
IMMIGRANT AREA
This is where we live, you know.
This is my place, respect.
- [indistinct chattering]
- [beat boxing continues]
[in Spanish] Thank you, my friends.
- Thank you very much.
- One, two, three, bass
Thank you.
- [men shouting]
- [Mou chuckles]
[Mou humming]
- [mumbles]
- [coins clattering]
[Mou whistling]
[singing]
[man, in Spanish] Human slavery!
[in Spanish] Hey man, what did you say?
I'm showing all the bad
that's going on in here.
Let's see what's the real problem.
- [mumbles]
- [in English] It's nothing for you.
- [speaks in Spanish]
- Oh, sorry.
[in English]
It's good, no? To show them how we live.
[in Spanish] Uh, I speak Spanish. [laughs]
I'm showing them how we survive here
picking up scrap metal, nothing else.
- I love it, really.
- Thanks, man.
[in English] Thank you very much.
[Mou] Let's go.
[car horn honking]
[in Spanish] This is how
we're living here, ain't it so?
I do this every day. [laughs]
He said it's human slavery.
[in English] He's right.
[in Spanish]
We are the slaves of the people.
He is right.
I didn't understand him at first.
I thought he was talking bad
about me, but no.
Human slavery is us--
who gather the scrap metal
when there are so many things to do.
But then they don't give us
any opportunities.
We're just showing you guys
what we usually do.
[somber music playing]
Pfft.
[humming]
Yeah. [sighs]
[clattering]
[flies buzzing]
[classical music playing]
[metal clanking]
[man, in Spanish]
The scrap metal goes with the market.
Prices rise and fall--
Today, copper can be one euro,
and tomorrow it is three.
That's how it is, sir.
[classical music continues playing]
[man] They come around with the trolleys
and try to make a living out
in the streets
while cleaning up Barcelona
with their trolleys.
When a truck comes, we load it
and sell it to the scrap factories.
There are many types of metals:
coppers, leads, brass...
If I go on listing, we'll never finish.
- [speaks in Spanish]
- Stop filming!
- [talking in Spanish]
- [truck beeping]
[man] Daily, we receive
around eight, ten tons.
[in English]
When I finish collecting scrap metal...
the door is on the other side.
So I come here,
I play basketball with other friends,
or I come alone, doesn't matter.
But this is my first life.
[chuckles] Yeah.
[Mou] Now we are in the ramble.
So I try to cross here.
I'm going to one place.
I think I'll have something there.
But I don't promise nothing,
because nothing promised me.
[laughs]
[smooth jazz music playing]
[sirens wailing]
[siren wailing from a distance]
[in Spanish] I'm doing two things.
I'm also a top manta, a street seller.
When things get really hard
because of the police and all,
I take my cart
and find my living elsewhere.
They don't let us sell
and the police are stopping it
very aggressively.
They treat you like
an animal or a criminal.
They want to chase you or hit you.
You get really sick of it.
[indistinct chattering]
[in Spanish] Are you interested?
What are you looking for?
[speaks in Spanish]
[indistinct chattering]
[siren wailing]
[rhythmic drumming]
[singing]
Um...
[in English] What do you think
about this book? What is this mark?
Nazi mark or what?
[chuckles] You see, that's why...
It's okay. No problem.
This is why we can hardly survive.
Because of these people.
Uh... Okay.
Now Nazi have no power in Barcelona.
Only me, 15 Nazis, I can handle them all.
I'm joking. [chuckles]
But I'm talking about Nazi is not nice.
Nazi doesn't like nobody.
Okay, exactly. Somebody's coming out.
[in Spanish] Hello.
[Mou] Excuse me. Thank you.
[keys jingling]
[Mou] My love!
[speaks in Spanish]
[in English] I will leave it here
until I come back. Nice.
Baby? Are you all right?
Yeah. I'm coming back, okay?
[woman speaks in Spanish]
[speaks in Spanish]
- [Mou speaks in Spanish]
- [woman speaks in Spanish]
[Mou speaks in Spanish] I'm coming.
[suspenseful music playing]
[suspenseful music continues]
[whistle blows]
[crowd chanting]
This is good ball, you know.
[Mou chuckles]
[Mou] I pass already this.
My life is now to have the paper
and do the things--
very cool like,
waiter or singer or whatever.
When I was here, 17 years old,
I got papers and I lost it.
Don't see me like this...
Me, I went to jail.
I went to four years jail.
Because I was a street boy.
It's not the right way.
So still now,
I pay all the things I do in my life here.
I do some things but I go and pay,
because I sell some weed before
with [in Spanish] drug dealers.
[in English] Now I live this.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mou] The jails is not for human beings.
The jails is for... is to kill you,
is to make you crazy,
is to waste your time, to waste your life.
You know?
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mou] When I come out in jail,
I lived in the ghetto for two years.
I go stay that place.
One guy, I give him four beers in the bar.
I tell him to pay me and he's like,
"Yeah, let's go outside
and take out money."
We go outside, I tell him,
"Can you give me the money?"
And he just held this...
And he choked me, you know.
So I have to be very more careful
with what I'm doing, you know?
[Mou] But it's life. It's only life.
But I was almost finished my life there.
Okay, I give it to you.
[in Spanish] Espacio Inmigrantes
was founded three years ago,
after the Spanish government passed a law
that prohibits immigrants
from getting healthcare.
We have three doctors
who do basic check-ups.
And we have three psychologists.
The project we're supporting the most
at this moment is--
The Union of Moving Salesmen of Barcelona.
It consists mostly of African,
Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants
who have been beaten
and persecuted for years.
Some have even been killed.
[man singing in Spanish]
[man singing in Spanish]
[man singing in Spanish]
[in English]
With my brothers, we're doing it.
And then these my friends, you know.
I'm just with them right now.
Because I can see my brother
in their blood.
This my brother. One big family, you know.
'Cause him do know
that these things are running,
things don't run me.
Yow.
- [Mou] Now let me put the charger.
- Peace.
[Mou] Open and try and fix this.
Love and unity.
Changing vibration.
Hey, brother! Let me tell you one thing.
In this life, there's only two guys.
A good guy and a bad guy.
Trust me.
It's the same like left and right.
[speaks in Spanish]
[man, in English] Is this true or false?
- Huh?
- It's true, it's true.
- [man] Who is this for?
- [chuckles]
It's for us.
Now you're talking this way, "for us."
I don't like it.
- Huh? Huh?
- And it's for you too, if you want.
[man mumbling]
[water running]
[Mou]
Today, I am not feeling good because--
I don't know... It's about my life.
It's my life, you know.
[slurps]
My wife went to Argentina
to see her family.
She's gone and I don't know
if she will be back or no.
- [dog barking]
- [people chattering]
[Mou] Two days, three days ago,
I tried to smoke little bit.
Now the police catch me,
they take me to jail.
And from there, I suffer a lot.
I take out all my stress, I have problem.
I tell them, "Please, please,
can you let me go out?"
"I smoke only. And you guys know I smoke."
I have... Now my body is taking more--
uh, taking more... more problem.
I'm going crazy, but one day just--
you will just see me I start to go
with, without leg-- without this.
Hey, brother, I tell you no lie,
when they take me to the jail,
I take all my clothes out, boy.
They see all my things!
I tell them, "Now, what do you want?
You want my body, here's my body now."
"Put your clothes, put your clothes!"
I say, "No, why should I put my clothes?"
They see in the camera.
They see I take all boy.
And it's normal, boy.
Somebody who take out his things, boy,
is not normal.
I was getting papers, now they block me.
Now I don't know
when I will get the paper.
They tell me, "Now you've gotta go
to court because we think that you sell."
When I get to court,
it's going... maybe they put me in jail.
Yes, they were always putting me in jail.
And this judge can say,
"Yeah, you are a drug dealer."
And if I got to jail,
when my woman come back to Argentina--
She will come back,
and when she come, she will leave me.
And I know.
We won't even have the kid.
We cannot have kid.
Because I have no job
and she's working for us... for us two.
She's gonna work again
two years more to help me?
Me, I think that if they put me
in jail this time,
that day they catch me,
if they put me there, my life is broke.
[metal clattering]
[man speaking in Spanish]
- [man] That is stupid!
- What are you saying?
[man] It's stupid to do a scene
for the camera.
[speaking in Spanish]
[man] The camera isn't good for you,
are you making a scene for them?
It's the best for me
because I work here, I live like this.
With the film, they'll make
a lot of money, but you?
Even if they don't make money,
they'll show how we live here.
[speaking in Spanish]
They're going to make money!
They're making an important movie.
[speaking in Spanish]
The money doesn't matter,
what is important is that they see.
You don't understand.
[Mou speaking in Spanish]
Thanks and bye! I skate and deal has his.
[man] Fuck Barcelona.
[Mou] What does he know?
[people chattering]
[woman, in Spanish] Do not let
the top manta salesmen be mistreated.
The union of the top manta
salesmen of Barcelona.
- [people cheering]
- Thank you.
REBEL MARKE[people chanting in Spanish]
[cheering]
I don't have my guitar, but okay.
[woman singing in Spanish]
Rebel song, rebel song
A melody we feel in our souls
Which gives joy to our hearts
Up and up I'll go
I don't believe in borders
I don't believe in them
I overcome them and fight on
Clap your hands!
I ask you, I ask you
I ask you from the bottom of my heart
To end this song
To end it and start another
Up and up I'll go
I don't believe in borders
I don't believe in them
And I overcome them
- Long live the rebel market!
- [crowd cheering, applauding]
[man] Salesmen, if you can hear me,
let's start packing
because our time is up.
SURVIVING IS OUR CRIME
We'll wait and see what will come
of this rebel market.
Give a hand to everyone involved.
Thank you!
[crowd applauding, cheering]
[somber music playing]
[Mou, in English]
Before, I was a happy person.
Always smiling.
But this happens since I went in the jail.
And all the time I spent there,
you know, it's given me stress
little, little, little.
And from there, I get anxiety.
If I don't take it really,
all my stress come out again.
I get stressed and angry with people,
I just insult people.
Just look, I said, "Fuck you, man.
Go away, don't look me."
No, I don't need this.
I need freedom. I need papers.
I need job to be cool.
So when I take it now,
it's just like nothing happen.
But only the pills can make me this,
and the weed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
[Mou] Everything sounds better now.
[Mou] Yo.
[Mou, in Spanish] This song is about those
who die in the sea every day.
Many die just trying to find
a better place...
No?
[in English] I feel so sorry
For my brothers and sisters
Crossing in the sea
I saw some people crying in the sea
I saw some people dying in the sea
So what's the reason?
Why are we here?
Because of the world
Is not equality, not reality
That's why my people are not free
In the street, in the city
I swear to the Almighty
My people are not free
Some of them are rich man
Some of them are poor man
Some of them are bad man
Some of them are mad man
No man, Rastaman say no man
All the people say no man
Why they wanna see us as the mad man?
Why don't you give me the key?
Then I can be the best man
Yeah. Thank you, everybody,
and this is just trying.
Thank you very much. Yeah.
- [music stops]
- Oh, sorry. [chuckles] Sorry, okay?
Respect. Go on.
Sorry, man.
[door opens]
- [beeps]
- [music playing]
Yeah
[Mou] The music in the Metro
is not allowed.
Yeah, yeah
[tense music playing]
[Mou] I only go in the Metro now
when I need some money,
really, really, when I need it.
When I have nothing, nothing.
So I don't know, uh, what to do,
and where to go.
[tense music continues]
[indistinct chattering]
[metal clanking]
[Mou] This is for now, for the people
who doesn't know here.
They can do this.
But now how can I pass this
and return back to this thing? No!
They should give me a good way.
I go there.
I have woman. I'm married here, boy!
Let them give my paper
but they say, "No, you have to wait."
I don't know until when I will wait? When?
Goddammit, when I will wait?
When? Until when?
It's not true.
These people are fucking me down,
fucking many people down.
I'm in prison still now.
[in Spanish] The EU should stop
sending money here
and let us free to go back there.
Or Spain opens the gates!
And everybody comes in.
If they knew, I'm sure
they would let people come in.
But the ones there are
the biggest sons of bitches!
They don't want us to come here, why?
Then I don't want anyone
to go to my country.
When I come here,
they say that I'm not from here.
Kids! Study, so you can change the world,
because the rats are fucking it up.
You will change the world!
- [kids cheering]
- [Mou] Yeah. Respect.
[in Spanish] Look, different families,
you are changing your life, relax.
[in English]
Yow. My friend, I'm tired now. [chuckles]
Fucking tired, man.
[people chattering]
[man, in Spanish] Friends, listen up...
Ana, close the door.
We'll talk about
some serious issues today.
We will also change our strategy.
Brothers, we have always said
you have many strengths.
The kind of strengths
the police cannot control.
One is being united
and the other is dispersion.
The police can go anywhere--
but if we are in 20 places
at the same time--
they can't control us. You understand?
- [indistinct chattering]
- [speaks in Spanish]
If 40 people confront
the secret police and say,
"Take it easy, we'll just leave,"
they'll surely think twice.
But if two of you confront five policemen,
you are gonna get a kick in the ass! No?
The police know we are watching them.
They know that if they break someone's leg
it'll be on the TV the next day.
If they don't hit you,
it's not because they're good people.
They know it would become a scandal.
And we can hold them responsible.
We have made progress here.
Take note of this.
They don't hit us anymore.
We achieved this through our union.
They don't hit us.
We must prevent them
from starting to hit us again.
[murmuring]
[indistinct chattering]
[poignant music playing]
[dogs barking from a distance]
[cart rattling]
[cart rattling]
[string music playing]
[Mou, in English]
Every day I wake up angry, angry, angry
because I have problem with police.
I have to think about...
they're coming for me,
or I have to pay this,
I don't know.
- [mumbling indistinctly]
- [man talking in Spanish]
[sirens wailing from a distance]
[Mou] Sometimes
when I work, work, work very hard
I feel little pain here.
This is what happened in La Nave.
It was a knife, somebody chucked me here.
It... it's okay,
but sometimes when the cold comes,
I feel something here.
Do you understand?
So, this is all part of my life
and I still want to try.
- [speaking in Spanish]
- [clamoring]
[clamoring]
[police speaking in Spanish]
[man speaking in Spanish]
It happened to me at the Catalunya Square,
because I sell there every day.
Three secret policemen came
and they took us out.
They didn't attack us.
They were just showing,
"We are from the police."
[somber music playing]
Before we got to the metro,
there were two to three policemen,
who'd been hiding
in the last store of La Rambla.
They said that no one
was going to run after us.
So I didn't run,
I obeyed but walked very fast.
Then, the first three policemen came back.
They started running so I ran, too.
And after only five meters,
one of them was hiding in the store
and he kicked me with his boot.
I don't know if my leg will heal
or if I can go back to work.
COURTHOUSE
[Mou, in English]
I went to the courthouse.
They know who this boy is.
They think maybe I'm crazy or something...
but that one is off because I smoke only.
But they take the case, they keep it.
That means...
when one day they catch me
selling or something,
then they will take it out.
[Mou] Next year, I can, uh...
They say I can have the papers, maybe.
There is a little cancellation,
I don't know,
something like that
because I have problem with them.
[machine creaking]
[Mou] So, I should wait until next year.
[Mou, in Spanish]
Brother Ibra, where can I smoke?
[Ibra, in Spanish]
You can smoke on the other side. Mmm.
[Mou, in English] Wow.
[Mou, in Spanish]
I would also like to talk about my wife.
- [Ibra] Mmm.
- [Mou] Vikki.
- Mmm.
- Uh. Victoria.
Since we are no longer together,
[Ibra] Mmm.
...she left me and...
I don't know what to do.
- Mmm.
- Wow.
- I called her...
- Mmm.
...to ask her to come.
I cannot go because I'm paperless,
I cannot go see my family.
- But I gave her permission to leave.
- Mmm.
- She called me and asked me...
- Mmm.
...to live my life.
That is why I've decided
not to wait for her.
Now, I've met someone else whom I'm with.
[in Spanish] We have to turn the page,
and look for something better.
[rustling]
[Ibra] Nothing is impossible in life.
Everything is possible.
- [Mou scoffs] Okay, I'm learning.
- Mmm.
[woman, in English]
Oh, look. They're dancing.
You wanna dance with me?
- [in English] Yes.
- Yes!
- I will dance there with you.
- [giggles]
I don't know how to dance, though.
[giggling]
I am the worst dancer,
is that okay for you?
[laughs]
[giggles]
[laughs]
- Let's go?
- [in English] Yeah, let's go.
- We have to go to the other theatre now.
- What?
- To the other theatre!
- Yeah.
[woman] Ah, this one's closed, too.
[Mou] This one also is closed.
[woman]
Yeah, but look at the films they have.
- We can watch anywhere.
- You haven't been to the theatre...
- ...in a long time.
- No, no, one time only.
- You've only been--
- One time or two times.
- No, one time. Since I came here.
- Oh.
Well, then,
this is a very important movie date.
Okay.
And we need to pick
a good movie to see it with.
- [woman] So...
- [Mou] Mmm.
[Mou] Spiderman is not very interesting,
you know.
Spiderman is just jumping, jumping to--
- You know?
- He has webs, too.
- Yeah.
- He saves the world...
- [both laughs]
- ...and he's a little boy.
- Don't hate on my Spiderman.
- Yeah.
[downtempo music playing]
[woman, in Spanish]
They buy all their merchandise
like the shopkeepers.
Many buy from the shops around us.
We want to show our solidarity.
That's why I'm asking the police
not to tear up our friends' licenses
and not to persecute them,
not to be their enemies.
Hunger is the enemy.
The enemy is inside those banks
but the police don't go after them.
They go after the top mantas,
not the bankers.
[crowd applauds]
I'M NOT ILLEGAL
TOP MANTA RESISTANCE
[man, in Spanish on mic]
Surviving is not a crime.
It is impossible for the top manta to work
because the police have made
accusations that are directed at us.
And this coincides with a campaign
that is spreading lies.
Do not let the top mantas
be abused and mistreated.
You don't need papers to have rights.
Surviving is not a crime.
[crowd cheering, applauding]
- No one is illegal!
- [all chanting] No one is illegal!
[all chanting in Spanish]
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
[Mou sneezes]
[in English] We go?
I have all my... all the papers here.
I have the papers...
to go and do my processing.
You see?
Huh?
This and this I can...
do the process to... to fix my life.
Today, for me,
is very, very important day.
I would like to go and put this inside.
These papers are going to Madrid.
[footsteps approaching]
[Mou]
And from Madrid, they will decide that...
if I'm clean with Spain.
[door squeaking]
[slow rhythmic music playing]
I think I am lost.
Oh, yes.
[people chattering]
ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES
[Mou] Everything was locked here.
So now,
it's possible that they take out the lot.
If I have the certificate,
I can put my papers,
I can stay in the country,
I can do many things.
[suspenseful music playing]
[people chattering]
[dog panting]
- [dogs barking]
- [man speaking in Spanish]
[dogs barking loudly]
[men clamoring]
Yes! Yes! [chuckles]
We can always count God, the Almighty God.
- [man 1] Yeah, man!
- [man 2] You know?
[man 2] Yeah, because ghetto life
is not easy man, man.
- You know, in the interview?
- Yeah.
Ghetto life is not easy, man, bro.
You know, ghetto life, really God--
Even God, he knows that.
It's not easy, man.
- [indistinct chattering]
- Even me man.
Me, I'm just... I'm just past there.
- I'm passing there.
- [Mou sighs]
Yeah, man. Me have just crossed the fence.
- Yeah, yeah.
- In Melilla frontier, border to border.
- Whoa.
- Me, I'm from Liberia.
- Liberia to here.
- Damn.
- I'm struggling my... my food.
- Yes.
- I don't care, man.
- You jungle boy.
- We're in the jungle.
- Yeah...
I'm living two years.
- I don't got my own world, no protect.
- Yeah, man.
[man 1] Lack of money.
- [man 1] My father died a long time.
- Yeah, man.
The time I get 17 years, I cannot see my--
- I cannot recognize my father.
- [men chattering in Spanish]
See, man?
But a man has to be a man,
whatever, in all the struggle.
- Yeah, man. [laughs]
- [indistinct chattering]
- Be a man. Whatever, eh.
- See, be a man.
- All right, all right.
- [dog barking from a distance]
That's... [laughs]
[singing] I know how you do mama do
[hoop rattles]
[woman] You know, I just want to be happy.
Um. That's all I've ever wanted to be
and, um...
You know, Mou has really...
[laughs] ...helped me a lot with,
with that
through his...
his vibes and his positivity.
If we have house,
like house like this big,
I will be very happy.
And our kids...
They will be very like, "Come on in,"
or everything is clean.
Yeah.
- Let's go.
- We can have a nice...
...big kitchen.
- Yes.
- An open house.
- [woman] You feel better?
- [Mou] Yes.
I feel more better, com...
more comfortable, you know.
[woman] You don't feel as anxious, right?
- No, I'm fine.
- That's good.
[people clamoring]
[people chattering]
[man] Hey, hey, hey, hey!
[all clamoring]
[people chattering]
[speaking in Spanish]
For example, the blue or beige color.
The blue or beige color?
[merchant] Blue or beige?
[sinister music playing]
[sirens wailing from a distance]
A MAN SHOWS A PICTURE OF MOR
THE DEAD COMPATRIORIOTS IN SALOU AFTER DEATH
OF SENEGALESE MAN IN POLICE RAID
[siren wailing]
[film reeling]
[people arguing]
[indistinct yelling]
[sirens wailing continues]
[woman giggling]
[tires screeching]
- [radio playing in the background]
- [Mou talking in Spanish]
- [in Spanish] Enjoy your meal!
- [in Spanish] You too, my love.
[reporter on radio]
...signs against Catalonia's independence
filled the streets of Barcelona today...
Mmm.
[in English] So my parents came,
and they really loved Barcelona.
And so, my dad
was talking to me about, um...
possibly buying a property here.
Um, and, so...
that's something
that would happen like next year
or once we both have our papers,
and stuff like that.
- Um...
- [gulps]
Like this flat is nice,
but it has no personality.
It's all white. [scoffs]
It's so white in here. [laughs]
[scoffs]
- We are in the White House.
- We're in the White House?
- Yeah.
- No.
We don't know really
what will happen in the future, baby.
- Mmm.
- But we will like to have.
I know it's not easy, you know?
- Yeah.
- But we have to try.
- Everything--
- Well, we have to have patience.
Yeah, patience.
- Mmm.
- Correct.
[somber music playing]
[line ringing]
[picks up call]
[Mou] Baby? How are you, my love?
[Mou, in Spanish] Do you know where I am?
[Mou, in English]
When are you to come and see me?
[Mou's girl talking indistinctly
over the phone]
Okay, anything that you want?
[Mou spluttering] And that must...
And that must mean...
Bye.
[drops call]
[woman]
Everything I've heard is second-hand.
So, I'm a bit nervous to see
what he's like right now
'cause nothing has sounded too...
too good.
[man, in Spanish] I'm a psychiatrist
at the Vall d'Hebron
University Hospital in Barcelona.
I'm the coordinator
of the multicultural psychiatry program.
In psychiatry, we always try to see
the case as a whole.
It's like a movie.
If we look at a single frame,
it's hard to understand what's happening.
Referring to yourself,
other people speaking about you,
the TV sending messages.
These are very common
symptoms of psychosis.
Mou's clearly suffering
from a psychotic breakdown.
- And because Mou is not dumb...
- [reporter talking indistinctly]
Do you understand?
He'll notice at some point that
if he keeps talking about vampires,
about good and bad people
and hearing voices,
we'll keep him in the hospital.
We psychiatrists know
that people tend to deny,
and downplay their symptoms.
[somber music playing]
When the acute phase is dealt with,
the challenge is to make Mou
aware of his disease
and make him understand that his brain,
like anyone else's brain,
can cause symptoms like this.
[psychiatrist]
If he stops taking his medication
on his own and too early,
if he keeps using drugs,
if there are many
stressful factors in Mou's life,
and they keep disturbing him,
then the prognosis is bad.
[woman, in English]
He hasn't been taking his pills correctly.
And then, um,
he's been smoking weed on top of that,
which fuels the paranoia.
Um, and then with work,
he hasn't been able to find a job, um...
with his status as an illegal immigrant,
as an undocumented immigrant.
So, he's not able to, to find steady work.
The last job he had
was selling the blankets,
and because of the problems
that came from that,
he's been very paranoid
about police officers,
undercover cops, people in the park
being snitches, et cetera.
Everything that he is stressed about
before he started talking
about people eating him,
all of those things
were real legitimate stressors, you know?
And a human being can only take
so much before they break and...
it's not fair.
[woman] The reason why
he doesn't have anything to do
is because of his papers.
They would rather pay
for his entire hospital stay now
in the mental health clinic,
but they won't let him get his papers
so he can pay taxes?
That's the most...
backwards thinking to me.
So, he told me that he only had
like one pair of underwear
and one pair of socks.
So, I took pity on him
and bought him some new underwear
and some socks, and some slippers
so that he can go
to the bathroom at night.
So, that's what we've got.
[raindrops pattering]
[upbeat jazz music plays on TV]
[man, in Spanish on TV]
When you talk about top mantas,
people think it's something illegal.
We created our own brand
so we can stop selling brands
that exploit the workers.
We want to stop the talk about us
being in the Mafia, et cetera.
We want to fight with legal means.
These could be worn by politicians
and famous athletes.
We want Messi himself
to use the Top Manta brand.
And Cristiano Ronaldo, why not?
[cart rattling]
[woman, in English] Go faster!
[laughing]
[hoots]
- Hi, baby.
- Hi.
Both in and out, in and out.
Oh, this one's sad.
It doesn't have a tree.
It is.
[people chattering]
[woman] These are all quotes from...
Well, he and I just wrote them down
in a poetic way.
"There are cameras everywhere."
"My days are routine."
"We all eat, sleep
and shower at the same time."
Time.
"When I can't sleep,
they give me an injection
and my body gets heavy."
"I feel controlled,
like they're wearing me down."
"What are they wearing me down for?"
"There's a boy here
who keeps asking me questions."
"Every day, questions, questions."
"Is this an interrogation?"
"Are they wearing me down
for the interrogation?"
"But I didn't do anything.
How did I get here?"
"Why won't they let me out?"
"They must think I've done something
- and that's why I'm here."
- Mmm.
"Who do I tell I'm innocent?
Who will listen?"
- Mmm.
- "'I'm innocent,' I say to myself."
- That's true.
- Mmm.
[somber music playing]
[birds chirping]
[people chattering]
How much?
I say it her 25
because Neymar had this one.
[woman speaking in Spanish]
Twenty-four?
- Twenty?
- Okay, give 20.
- Hurry up because...
- How is that?
Okay.
Thanks. Ciao.
[sirens wailing from a distance]
[woman] So now,
he has a couple more possibilities,
couple more options
for getting his papers.
He could get a provisional NIA
for humanitarian reasons
as a result of his psychotic break.
The NIA is just the, uh...
National Identification Card,
and that proves
that you have the right to work.
[mumbles] Make it black.
Make it black, which black?
Spades or clubs?
- Black, no.
- Which one, though?
- Black card.
- Which one, though?
There's two. Spades, okay.
Regardless of what happens this year,
if he gets it for humanitarian reasons,
if his wife comes out,
or if she doesn't come out,
he's going to get his papers
within the next few months.
- Yes.
- Yes.
Maybe.
Oh, you're tired.
I don't know if in your current state
you'd be able to work.
- I don't know...
- I don't know.
- That's...
- We just wait for the penalties.
Yeah. Well...
Well, I'm just talking
about your, your mind after...
- after this incident.
- Mmm.
Um, because you...
you're tired and you get confused
a lot more easily.
Change to clubs.
- Yes.
- What's wrong, baby?
- Mmm. Let's go inside.
- Let's go inside.
- You're finished?
- Yes.
All right.
I think Mou is done.
I'm done.
[somber music playing]
[scraps rattling]
[fire roars]
[metal grinding]
[machine whirring]
[fire crackling]
[machine creaks]
[people chattering]
[fan whirring]
[cars horn honking]
[melancholy music playing]
[cart rattling]
[people chattering]
[birds chirping]
HERE
[birds chirping]
[music fades]
[people chattering]
[suspenseful music playing]
[train horn blaring]
[hums]
[man singing]
Why we can't live all as one
And be together
Hunger stabbing
Black killing, people dying
So what's the reason
Oh, my god
[man] Nothing is there.
[trash bin lid clangs]
[man humming]
Sometimes like this places,
they put some balsas down here
so I can pick it.
Not only the trash cans.
Everywhere you can find.
My name is, uh, Mou.
See this.
I've been here almost ten years now.
[Mou] I already get married, you know.
I already get married.
So I'm going to do this
little time only, you know.
When I got my papers,
I start to look other things.
Then I will go with my music.
I want to have daughters,
I want to have my wife.
I want to have house.
But I am waiting for my papers
so I just try.
Okay, I am ready.
[pensive music playing]
[people chattering]
- [in Spanish] How are you, my friend?
- Good.
- Very hard, ain't it?
- Yes, of course.
[lighter clicks]
- I don't have any cigarettes.
- Don't worry.
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
[Mou whistling]
[in English] Wow, I love this. [chuckles]
This one is a soldier boy.
[chuckles] I am soldier.
Soldier of life. Soldier peace.
I'm a soldier of peace, man.
So this one, I am very glad to find it.
[Mou] When I was going out of Gambia,
I was 14 or 13, like that.
When you came here,
not looking for money only.
You look for ways. You know?
DON'T BUY FROM BLANKET SALESMEN
THIS IS PUNISHABLE WITH A 500 FINE
[sirens wailing]
[in Spanish] Well, I guess we have to...
The police is working... and we have to...
For example, that man in the park
is a plainclothes police officer.
There are more of them there.
I just let my colleagues know
there's policemen here.
Muhamete!
Psst!
I will give this to my colleague, okay?
[man] One, two, three, bass
- [beat boxing]
- Every day we Africlando
Africlando
Every day we Africlando
Africlando
Africlando
In the ghetto
- Africlando in the ghetto
- One, two, three, bass
- We can't even have no food to eat
- [mumbles]
No place to sleep
- And no work to go
- Go on, Boom. Rap something.
Check this out, bass
- [beat boxing continues]
- Go on, Boom. Go on my brother, go on.
Go on. Go on, you, rap.
One, two, three, bass
[raps in Spanish]
[raps in Spanish]
- Yeah.
- Here we are.
- One, two, three, bass
- Uh, Espacio Inmigrante, this one place.
IMMIGRANT AREA
This is where we live, you know.
This is my place, respect.
- [indistinct chattering]
- [beat boxing continues]
[in Spanish] Thank you, my friends.
- Thank you very much.
- One, two, three, bass
Thank you.
- [men shouting]
- [Mou chuckles]
[Mou humming]
- [mumbles]
- [coins clattering]
[Mou whistling]
[singing]
[man, in Spanish] Human slavery!
[in Spanish] Hey man, what did you say?
I'm showing all the bad
that's going on in here.
Let's see what's the real problem.
- [mumbles]
- [in English] It's nothing for you.
- [speaks in Spanish]
- Oh, sorry.
[in English]
It's good, no? To show them how we live.
[in Spanish] Uh, I speak Spanish. [laughs]
I'm showing them how we survive here
picking up scrap metal, nothing else.
- I love it, really.
- Thanks, man.
[in English] Thank you very much.
[Mou] Let's go.
[car horn honking]
[in Spanish] This is how
we're living here, ain't it so?
I do this every day. [laughs]
He said it's human slavery.
[in English] He's right.
[in Spanish]
We are the slaves of the people.
He is right.
I didn't understand him at first.
I thought he was talking bad
about me, but no.
Human slavery is us--
who gather the scrap metal
when there are so many things to do.
But then they don't give us
any opportunities.
We're just showing you guys
what we usually do.
[somber music playing]
Pfft.
[humming]
Yeah. [sighs]
[clattering]
[flies buzzing]
[classical music playing]
[metal clanking]
[man, in Spanish]
The scrap metal goes with the market.
Prices rise and fall--
Today, copper can be one euro,
and tomorrow it is three.
That's how it is, sir.
[classical music continues playing]
[man] They come around with the trolleys
and try to make a living out
in the streets
while cleaning up Barcelona
with their trolleys.
When a truck comes, we load it
and sell it to the scrap factories.
There are many types of metals:
coppers, leads, brass...
If I go on listing, we'll never finish.
- [speaks in Spanish]
- Stop filming!
- [talking in Spanish]
- [truck beeping]
[man] Daily, we receive
around eight, ten tons.
[in English]
When I finish collecting scrap metal...
the door is on the other side.
So I come here,
I play basketball with other friends,
or I come alone, doesn't matter.
But this is my first life.
[chuckles] Yeah.
[Mou] Now we are in the ramble.
So I try to cross here.
I'm going to one place.
I think I'll have something there.
But I don't promise nothing,
because nothing promised me.
[laughs]
[smooth jazz music playing]
[sirens wailing]
[siren wailing from a distance]
[in Spanish] I'm doing two things.
I'm also a top manta, a street seller.
When things get really hard
because of the police and all,
I take my cart
and find my living elsewhere.
They don't let us sell
and the police are stopping it
very aggressively.
They treat you like
an animal or a criminal.
They want to chase you or hit you.
You get really sick of it.
[indistinct chattering]
[in Spanish] Are you interested?
What are you looking for?
[speaks in Spanish]
[indistinct chattering]
[siren wailing]
[rhythmic drumming]
[singing]
Um...
[in English] What do you think
about this book? What is this mark?
Nazi mark or what?
[chuckles] You see, that's why...
It's okay. No problem.
This is why we can hardly survive.
Because of these people.
Uh... Okay.
Now Nazi have no power in Barcelona.
Only me, 15 Nazis, I can handle them all.
I'm joking. [chuckles]
But I'm talking about Nazi is not nice.
Nazi doesn't like nobody.
Okay, exactly. Somebody's coming out.
[in Spanish] Hello.
[Mou] Excuse me. Thank you.
[keys jingling]
[Mou] My love!
[speaks in Spanish]
[in English] I will leave it here
until I come back. Nice.
Baby? Are you all right?
Yeah. I'm coming back, okay?
[woman speaks in Spanish]
[speaks in Spanish]
- [Mou speaks in Spanish]
- [woman speaks in Spanish]
[Mou speaks in Spanish] I'm coming.
[suspenseful music playing]
[suspenseful music continues]
[whistle blows]
[crowd chanting]
This is good ball, you know.
[Mou chuckles]
[Mou] I pass already this.
My life is now to have the paper
and do the things--
very cool like,
waiter or singer or whatever.
When I was here, 17 years old,
I got papers and I lost it.
Don't see me like this...
Me, I went to jail.
I went to four years jail.
Because I was a street boy.
It's not the right way.
So still now,
I pay all the things I do in my life here.
I do some things but I go and pay,
because I sell some weed before
with [in Spanish] drug dealers.
[in English] Now I live this.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mou] The jails is not for human beings.
The jails is for... is to kill you,
is to make you crazy,
is to waste your time, to waste your life.
You know?
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mou] When I come out in jail,
I lived in the ghetto for two years.
I go stay that place.
One guy, I give him four beers in the bar.
I tell him to pay me and he's like,
"Yeah, let's go outside
and take out money."
We go outside, I tell him,
"Can you give me the money?"
And he just held this...
And he choked me, you know.
So I have to be very more careful
with what I'm doing, you know?
[Mou] But it's life. It's only life.
But I was almost finished my life there.
Okay, I give it to you.
[in Spanish] Espacio Inmigrantes
was founded three years ago,
after the Spanish government passed a law
that prohibits immigrants
from getting healthcare.
We have three doctors
who do basic check-ups.
And we have three psychologists.
The project we're supporting the most
at this moment is--
The Union of Moving Salesmen of Barcelona.
It consists mostly of African,
Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants
who have been beaten
and persecuted for years.
Some have even been killed.
[man singing in Spanish]
[man singing in Spanish]
[man singing in Spanish]
[in English]
With my brothers, we're doing it.
And then these my friends, you know.
I'm just with them right now.
Because I can see my brother
in their blood.
This my brother. One big family, you know.
'Cause him do know
that these things are running,
things don't run me.
Yow.
- [Mou] Now let me put the charger.
- Peace.
[Mou] Open and try and fix this.
Love and unity.
Changing vibration.
Hey, brother! Let me tell you one thing.
In this life, there's only two guys.
A good guy and a bad guy.
Trust me.
It's the same like left and right.
[speaks in Spanish]
[man, in English] Is this true or false?
- Huh?
- It's true, it's true.
- [man] Who is this for?
- [chuckles]
It's for us.
Now you're talking this way, "for us."
I don't like it.
- Huh? Huh?
- And it's for you too, if you want.
[man mumbling]
[water running]
[Mou]
Today, I am not feeling good because--
I don't know... It's about my life.
It's my life, you know.
[slurps]
My wife went to Argentina
to see her family.
She's gone and I don't know
if she will be back or no.
- [dog barking]
- [people chattering]
[Mou] Two days, three days ago,
I tried to smoke little bit.
Now the police catch me,
they take me to jail.
And from there, I suffer a lot.
I take out all my stress, I have problem.
I tell them, "Please, please,
can you let me go out?"
"I smoke only. And you guys know I smoke."
I have... Now my body is taking more--
uh, taking more... more problem.
I'm going crazy, but one day just--
you will just see me I start to go
with, without leg-- without this.
Hey, brother, I tell you no lie,
when they take me to the jail,
I take all my clothes out, boy.
They see all my things!
I tell them, "Now, what do you want?
You want my body, here's my body now."
"Put your clothes, put your clothes!"
I say, "No, why should I put my clothes?"
They see in the camera.
They see I take all boy.
And it's normal, boy.
Somebody who take out his things, boy,
is not normal.
I was getting papers, now they block me.
Now I don't know
when I will get the paper.
They tell me, "Now you've gotta go
to court because we think that you sell."
When I get to court,
it's going... maybe they put me in jail.
Yes, they were always putting me in jail.
And this judge can say,
"Yeah, you are a drug dealer."
And if I got to jail,
when my woman come back to Argentina--
She will come back,
and when she come, she will leave me.
And I know.
We won't even have the kid.
We cannot have kid.
Because I have no job
and she's working for us... for us two.
She's gonna work again
two years more to help me?
Me, I think that if they put me
in jail this time,
that day they catch me,
if they put me there, my life is broke.
[metal clattering]
[man speaking in Spanish]
- [man] That is stupid!
- What are you saying?
[man] It's stupid to do a scene
for the camera.
[speaking in Spanish]
[man] The camera isn't good for you,
are you making a scene for them?
It's the best for me
because I work here, I live like this.
With the film, they'll make
a lot of money, but you?
Even if they don't make money,
they'll show how we live here.
[speaking in Spanish]
They're going to make money!
They're making an important movie.
[speaking in Spanish]
The money doesn't matter,
what is important is that they see.
You don't understand.
[Mou speaking in Spanish]
Thanks and bye! I skate and deal has his.
[man] Fuck Barcelona.
[Mou] What does he know?
[people chattering]
[woman, in Spanish] Do not let
the top manta salesmen be mistreated.
The union of the top manta
salesmen of Barcelona.
- [people cheering]
- Thank you.
REBEL MARKE[people chanting in Spanish]
[cheering]
I don't have my guitar, but okay.
[woman singing in Spanish]
Rebel song, rebel song
A melody we feel in our souls
Which gives joy to our hearts
Up and up I'll go
I don't believe in borders
I don't believe in them
I overcome them and fight on
Clap your hands!
I ask you, I ask you
I ask you from the bottom of my heart
To end this song
To end it and start another
Up and up I'll go
I don't believe in borders
I don't believe in them
And I overcome them
- Long live the rebel market!
- [crowd cheering, applauding]
[man] Salesmen, if you can hear me,
let's start packing
because our time is up.
SURVIVING IS OUR CRIME
We'll wait and see what will come
of this rebel market.
Give a hand to everyone involved.
Thank you!
[crowd applauding, cheering]
[somber music playing]
[Mou, in English]
Before, I was a happy person.
Always smiling.
But this happens since I went in the jail.
And all the time I spent there,
you know, it's given me stress
little, little, little.
And from there, I get anxiety.
If I don't take it really,
all my stress come out again.
I get stressed and angry with people,
I just insult people.
Just look, I said, "Fuck you, man.
Go away, don't look me."
No, I don't need this.
I need freedom. I need papers.
I need job to be cool.
So when I take it now,
it's just like nothing happen.
But only the pills can make me this,
and the weed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah
[Mou] Everything sounds better now.
[Mou] Yo.
[Mou, in Spanish] This song is about those
who die in the sea every day.
Many die just trying to find
a better place...
No?
[in English] I feel so sorry
For my brothers and sisters
Crossing in the sea
I saw some people crying in the sea
I saw some people dying in the sea
So what's the reason?
Why are we here?
Because of the world
Is not equality, not reality
That's why my people are not free
In the street, in the city
I swear to the Almighty
My people are not free
Some of them are rich man
Some of them are poor man
Some of them are bad man
Some of them are mad man
No man, Rastaman say no man
All the people say no man
Why they wanna see us as the mad man?
Why don't you give me the key?
Then I can be the best man
Yeah. Thank you, everybody,
and this is just trying.
Thank you very much. Yeah.
- [music stops]
- Oh, sorry. [chuckles] Sorry, okay?
Respect. Go on.
Sorry, man.
[door opens]
- [beeps]
- [music playing]
Yeah
[Mou] The music in the Metro
is not allowed.
Yeah, yeah
[tense music playing]
[Mou] I only go in the Metro now
when I need some money,
really, really, when I need it.
When I have nothing, nothing.
So I don't know, uh, what to do,
and where to go.
[tense music continues]
[indistinct chattering]
[metal clanking]
[Mou] This is for now, for the people
who doesn't know here.
They can do this.
But now how can I pass this
and return back to this thing? No!
They should give me a good way.
I go there.
I have woman. I'm married here, boy!
Let them give my paper
but they say, "No, you have to wait."
I don't know until when I will wait? When?
Goddammit, when I will wait?
When? Until when?
It's not true.
These people are fucking me down,
fucking many people down.
I'm in prison still now.
[in Spanish] The EU should stop
sending money here
and let us free to go back there.
Or Spain opens the gates!
And everybody comes in.
If they knew, I'm sure
they would let people come in.
But the ones there are
the biggest sons of bitches!
They don't want us to come here, why?
Then I don't want anyone
to go to my country.
When I come here,
they say that I'm not from here.
Kids! Study, so you can change the world,
because the rats are fucking it up.
You will change the world!
- [kids cheering]
- [Mou] Yeah. Respect.
[in Spanish] Look, different families,
you are changing your life, relax.
[in English]
Yow. My friend, I'm tired now. [chuckles]
Fucking tired, man.
[people chattering]
[man, in Spanish] Friends, listen up...
Ana, close the door.
We'll talk about
some serious issues today.
We will also change our strategy.
Brothers, we have always said
you have many strengths.
The kind of strengths
the police cannot control.
One is being united
and the other is dispersion.
The police can go anywhere--
but if we are in 20 places
at the same time--
they can't control us. You understand?
- [indistinct chattering]
- [speaks in Spanish]
If 40 people confront
the secret police and say,
"Take it easy, we'll just leave,"
they'll surely think twice.
But if two of you confront five policemen,
you are gonna get a kick in the ass! No?
The police know we are watching them.
They know that if they break someone's leg
it'll be on the TV the next day.
If they don't hit you,
it's not because they're good people.
They know it would become a scandal.
And we can hold them responsible.
We have made progress here.
Take note of this.
They don't hit us anymore.
We achieved this through our union.
They don't hit us.
We must prevent them
from starting to hit us again.
[murmuring]
[indistinct chattering]
[poignant music playing]
[dogs barking from a distance]
[cart rattling]
[cart rattling]
[string music playing]
[Mou, in English]
Every day I wake up angry, angry, angry
because I have problem with police.
I have to think about...
they're coming for me,
or I have to pay this,
I don't know.
- [mumbling indistinctly]
- [man talking in Spanish]
[sirens wailing from a distance]
[Mou] Sometimes
when I work, work, work very hard
I feel little pain here.
This is what happened in La Nave.
It was a knife, somebody chucked me here.
It... it's okay,
but sometimes when the cold comes,
I feel something here.
Do you understand?
So, this is all part of my life
and I still want to try.
- [speaking in Spanish]
- [clamoring]
[clamoring]
[police speaking in Spanish]
[man speaking in Spanish]
It happened to me at the Catalunya Square,
because I sell there every day.
Three secret policemen came
and they took us out.
They didn't attack us.
They were just showing,
"We are from the police."
[somber music playing]
Before we got to the metro,
there were two to three policemen,
who'd been hiding
in the last store of La Rambla.
They said that no one
was going to run after us.
So I didn't run,
I obeyed but walked very fast.
Then, the first three policemen came back.
They started running so I ran, too.
And after only five meters,
one of them was hiding in the store
and he kicked me with his boot.
I don't know if my leg will heal
or if I can go back to work.
COURTHOUSE
[Mou, in English]
I went to the courthouse.
They know who this boy is.
They think maybe I'm crazy or something...
but that one is off because I smoke only.
But they take the case, they keep it.
That means...
when one day they catch me
selling or something,
then they will take it out.
[Mou] Next year, I can, uh...
They say I can have the papers, maybe.
There is a little cancellation,
I don't know,
something like that
because I have problem with them.
[machine creaking]
[Mou] So, I should wait until next year.
[Mou, in Spanish]
Brother Ibra, where can I smoke?
[Ibra, in Spanish]
You can smoke on the other side. Mmm.
[Mou, in English] Wow.
[Mou, in Spanish]
I would also like to talk about my wife.
- [Ibra] Mmm.
- [Mou] Vikki.
- Mmm.
- Uh. Victoria.
Since we are no longer together,
[Ibra] Mmm.
...she left me and...
I don't know what to do.
- Mmm.
- Wow.
- I called her...
- Mmm.
...to ask her to come.
I cannot go because I'm paperless,
I cannot go see my family.
- But I gave her permission to leave.
- Mmm.
- She called me and asked me...
- Mmm.
...to live my life.
That is why I've decided
not to wait for her.
Now, I've met someone else whom I'm with.
[in Spanish] We have to turn the page,
and look for something better.
[rustling]
[Ibra] Nothing is impossible in life.
Everything is possible.
- [Mou scoffs] Okay, I'm learning.
- Mmm.
[woman, in English]
Oh, look. They're dancing.
You wanna dance with me?
- [in English] Yes.
- Yes!
- I will dance there with you.
- [giggles]
I don't know how to dance, though.
[giggling]
I am the worst dancer,
is that okay for you?
[laughs]
[giggles]
[laughs]
- Let's go?
- [in English] Yeah, let's go.
- We have to go to the other theatre now.
- What?
- To the other theatre!
- Yeah.
[woman] Ah, this one's closed, too.
[Mou] This one also is closed.
[woman]
Yeah, but look at the films they have.
- We can watch anywhere.
- You haven't been to the theatre...
- ...in a long time.
- No, no, one time only.
- You've only been--
- One time or two times.
- No, one time. Since I came here.
- Oh.
Well, then,
this is a very important movie date.
Okay.
And we need to pick
a good movie to see it with.
- [woman] So...
- [Mou] Mmm.
[Mou] Spiderman is not very interesting,
you know.
Spiderman is just jumping, jumping to--
- You know?
- He has webs, too.
- Yeah.
- He saves the world...
- [both laughs]
- ...and he's a little boy.
- Don't hate on my Spiderman.
- Yeah.
[downtempo music playing]
[woman, in Spanish]
They buy all their merchandise
like the shopkeepers.
Many buy from the shops around us.
We want to show our solidarity.
That's why I'm asking the police
not to tear up our friends' licenses
and not to persecute them,
not to be their enemies.
Hunger is the enemy.
The enemy is inside those banks
but the police don't go after them.
They go after the top mantas,
not the bankers.
[crowd applauds]
I'M NOT ILLEGAL
TOP MANTA RESISTANCE
[man, in Spanish on mic]
Surviving is not a crime.
It is impossible for the top manta to work
because the police have made
accusations that are directed at us.
And this coincides with a campaign
that is spreading lies.
Do not let the top mantas
be abused and mistreated.
You don't need papers to have rights.
Surviving is not a crime.
[crowd cheering, applauding]
- No one is illegal!
- [all chanting] No one is illegal!
[all chanting in Spanish]
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
No one is illegal! No one is illegal!
[Mou sneezes]
[in English] We go?
I have all my... all the papers here.
I have the papers...
to go and do my processing.
You see?
Huh?
This and this I can...
do the process to... to fix my life.
Today, for me,
is very, very important day.
I would like to go and put this inside.
These papers are going to Madrid.
[footsteps approaching]
[Mou]
And from Madrid, they will decide that...
if I'm clean with Spain.
[door squeaking]
[slow rhythmic music playing]
I think I am lost.
Oh, yes.
[people chattering]
ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES
[Mou] Everything was locked here.
So now,
it's possible that they take out the lot.
If I have the certificate,
I can put my papers,
I can stay in the country,
I can do many things.
[suspenseful music playing]
[people chattering]
[dog panting]
- [dogs barking]
- [man speaking in Spanish]
[dogs barking loudly]
[men clamoring]
Yes! Yes! [chuckles]
We can always count God, the Almighty God.
- [man 1] Yeah, man!
- [man 2] You know?
[man 2] Yeah, because ghetto life
is not easy man, man.
- You know, in the interview?
- Yeah.
Ghetto life is not easy, man, bro.
You know, ghetto life, really God--
Even God, he knows that.
It's not easy, man.
- [indistinct chattering]
- Even me man.
Me, I'm just... I'm just past there.
- I'm passing there.
- [Mou sighs]
Yeah, man. Me have just crossed the fence.
- Yeah, yeah.
- In Melilla frontier, border to border.
- Whoa.
- Me, I'm from Liberia.
- Liberia to here.
- Damn.
- I'm struggling my... my food.
- Yes.
- I don't care, man.
- You jungle boy.
- We're in the jungle.
- Yeah...
I'm living two years.
- I don't got my own world, no protect.
- Yeah, man.
[man 1] Lack of money.
- [man 1] My father died a long time.
- Yeah, man.
The time I get 17 years, I cannot see my--
- I cannot recognize my father.
- [men chattering in Spanish]
See, man?
But a man has to be a man,
whatever, in all the struggle.
- Yeah, man. [laughs]
- [indistinct chattering]
- Be a man. Whatever, eh.
- See, be a man.
- All right, all right.
- [dog barking from a distance]
That's... [laughs]
[singing] I know how you do mama do
[hoop rattles]
[woman] You know, I just want to be happy.
Um. That's all I've ever wanted to be
and, um...
You know, Mou has really...
[laughs] ...helped me a lot with,
with that
through his...
his vibes and his positivity.
If we have house,
like house like this big,
I will be very happy.
And our kids...
They will be very like, "Come on in,"
or everything is clean.
Yeah.
- Let's go.
- We can have a nice...
...big kitchen.
- Yes.
- An open house.
- [woman] You feel better?
- [Mou] Yes.
I feel more better, com...
more comfortable, you know.
[woman] You don't feel as anxious, right?
- No, I'm fine.
- That's good.
[people clamoring]
[people chattering]
[man] Hey, hey, hey, hey!
[all clamoring]
[people chattering]
[speaking in Spanish]
For example, the blue or beige color.
The blue or beige color?
[merchant] Blue or beige?
[sinister music playing]
[sirens wailing from a distance]
A MAN SHOWS A PICTURE OF MOR
THE DEAD COMPATRIORIOTS IN SALOU AFTER DEATH
OF SENEGALESE MAN IN POLICE RAID
[siren wailing]
[film reeling]
[people arguing]
[indistinct yelling]
[sirens wailing continues]
[woman giggling]
[tires screeching]
- [radio playing in the background]
- [Mou talking in Spanish]
- [in Spanish] Enjoy your meal!
- [in Spanish] You too, my love.
[reporter on radio]
...signs against Catalonia's independence
filled the streets of Barcelona today...
Mmm.
[in English] So my parents came,
and they really loved Barcelona.
And so, my dad
was talking to me about, um...
possibly buying a property here.
Um, and, so...
that's something
that would happen like next year
or once we both have our papers,
and stuff like that.
- Um...
- [gulps]
Like this flat is nice,
but it has no personality.
It's all white. [scoffs]
It's so white in here. [laughs]
[scoffs]
- We are in the White House.
- We're in the White House?
- Yeah.
- No.
We don't know really
what will happen in the future, baby.
- Mmm.
- But we will like to have.
I know it's not easy, you know?
- Yeah.
- But we have to try.
- Everything--
- Well, we have to have patience.
Yeah, patience.
- Mmm.
- Correct.
[somber music playing]
[line ringing]
[picks up call]
[Mou] Baby? How are you, my love?
[Mou, in Spanish] Do you know where I am?
[Mou, in English]
When are you to come and see me?
[Mou's girl talking indistinctly
over the phone]
Okay, anything that you want?
[Mou spluttering] And that must...
And that must mean...
Bye.
[drops call]
[woman]
Everything I've heard is second-hand.
So, I'm a bit nervous to see
what he's like right now
'cause nothing has sounded too...
too good.
[man, in Spanish] I'm a psychiatrist
at the Vall d'Hebron
University Hospital in Barcelona.
I'm the coordinator
of the multicultural psychiatry program.
In psychiatry, we always try to see
the case as a whole.
It's like a movie.
If we look at a single frame,
it's hard to understand what's happening.
Referring to yourself,
other people speaking about you,
the TV sending messages.
These are very common
symptoms of psychosis.
Mou's clearly suffering
from a psychotic breakdown.
- And because Mou is not dumb...
- [reporter talking indistinctly]
Do you understand?
He'll notice at some point that
if he keeps talking about vampires,
about good and bad people
and hearing voices,
we'll keep him in the hospital.
We psychiatrists know
that people tend to deny,
and downplay their symptoms.
[somber music playing]
When the acute phase is dealt with,
the challenge is to make Mou
aware of his disease
and make him understand that his brain,
like anyone else's brain,
can cause symptoms like this.
[psychiatrist]
If he stops taking his medication
on his own and too early,
if he keeps using drugs,
if there are many
stressful factors in Mou's life,
and they keep disturbing him,
then the prognosis is bad.
[woman, in English]
He hasn't been taking his pills correctly.
And then, um,
he's been smoking weed on top of that,
which fuels the paranoia.
Um, and then with work,
he hasn't been able to find a job, um...
with his status as an illegal immigrant,
as an undocumented immigrant.
So, he's not able to, to find steady work.
The last job he had
was selling the blankets,
and because of the problems
that came from that,
he's been very paranoid
about police officers,
undercover cops, people in the park
being snitches, et cetera.
Everything that he is stressed about
before he started talking
about people eating him,
all of those things
were real legitimate stressors, you know?
And a human being can only take
so much before they break and...
it's not fair.
[woman] The reason why
he doesn't have anything to do
is because of his papers.
They would rather pay
for his entire hospital stay now
in the mental health clinic,
but they won't let him get his papers
so he can pay taxes?
That's the most...
backwards thinking to me.
So, he told me that he only had
like one pair of underwear
and one pair of socks.
So, I took pity on him
and bought him some new underwear
and some socks, and some slippers
so that he can go
to the bathroom at night.
So, that's what we've got.
[raindrops pattering]
[upbeat jazz music plays on TV]
[man, in Spanish on TV]
When you talk about top mantas,
people think it's something illegal.
We created our own brand
so we can stop selling brands
that exploit the workers.
We want to stop the talk about us
being in the Mafia, et cetera.
We want to fight with legal means.
These could be worn by politicians
and famous athletes.
We want Messi himself
to use the Top Manta brand.
And Cristiano Ronaldo, why not?
[cart rattling]
[woman, in English] Go faster!
[laughing]
[hoots]
- Hi, baby.
- Hi.
Both in and out, in and out.
Oh, this one's sad.
It doesn't have a tree.
It is.
[people chattering]
[woman] These are all quotes from...
Well, he and I just wrote them down
in a poetic way.
"There are cameras everywhere."
"My days are routine."
"We all eat, sleep
and shower at the same time."
Time.
"When I can't sleep,
they give me an injection
and my body gets heavy."
"I feel controlled,
like they're wearing me down."
"What are they wearing me down for?"
"There's a boy here
who keeps asking me questions."
"Every day, questions, questions."
"Is this an interrogation?"
"Are they wearing me down
for the interrogation?"
"But I didn't do anything.
How did I get here?"
"Why won't they let me out?"
"They must think I've done something
- and that's why I'm here."
- Mmm.
"Who do I tell I'm innocent?
Who will listen?"
- Mmm.
- "'I'm innocent,' I say to myself."
- That's true.
- Mmm.
[somber music playing]
[birds chirping]
[people chattering]
How much?
I say it her 25
because Neymar had this one.
[woman speaking in Spanish]
Twenty-four?
- Twenty?
- Okay, give 20.
- Hurry up because...
- How is that?
Okay.
Thanks. Ciao.
[sirens wailing from a distance]
[woman] So now,
he has a couple more possibilities,
couple more options
for getting his papers.
He could get a provisional NIA
for humanitarian reasons
as a result of his psychotic break.
The NIA is just the, uh...
National Identification Card,
and that proves
that you have the right to work.
[mumbles] Make it black.
Make it black, which black?
Spades or clubs?
- Black, no.
- Which one, though?
- Black card.
- Which one, though?
There's two. Spades, okay.
Regardless of what happens this year,
if he gets it for humanitarian reasons,
if his wife comes out,
or if she doesn't come out,
he's going to get his papers
within the next few months.
- Yes.
- Yes.
Maybe.
Oh, you're tired.
I don't know if in your current state
you'd be able to work.
- I don't know...
- I don't know.
- That's...
- We just wait for the penalties.
Yeah. Well...
Well, I'm just talking
about your, your mind after...
- after this incident.
- Mmm.
Um, because you...
you're tired and you get confused
a lot more easily.
Change to clubs.
- Yes.
- What's wrong, baby?
- Mmm. Let's go inside.
- Let's go inside.
- You're finished?
- Yes.
All right.
I think Mou is done.
I'm done.
[somber music playing]
[scraps rattling]
[fire roars]
[metal grinding]
[machine whirring]
[fire crackling]
[machine creaks]
[people chattering]
[fan whirring]
[cars horn honking]
[melancholy music playing]
[cart rattling]
[people chattering]
[birds chirping]
HERE
[birds chirping]
[music fades]
[people chattering]