Women Do Cry (2021) Movie Script
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This needs removing.
Better to cut it off.
You know that this is a mother stork
which hatched and raised
two little ones this year.
On the chimney where she was shot.
I hope she lives.
The shot probably cut through here.
And it wasn't just one but several.
She could be a mother
and give birth again
but she can't be released
back into the wild.
Sonja!
What?
What's your vest doing
in my underwear?
I haven't got enough space.
Only one drawer.
It's enough for you!
It's not even me who put it there.
My stuff's tidy!
You're messy
and you put it there by mistake.
I'll do whatever I want!
Mind your own business.
But now, why...
Don't touch them.
Stop, leave them here.
I bought this chest.
How can you just throw my stuff out?
You spoilt brat! Take your stuff!
- Little brat!
- Get out!
You're horrible, no sister to me!
Why are you like this?
Don't touch my clothes!
Take your rags and rubbish!
Pick them up yourself.
That's what you get
for throwing mine on the floor!
Get lost!
Are you mad?
- Get out!
- You get out!
What's going on?
Mum, she threw my clothes
off the balcony!
Lora, stop it!
I'm not taking lessons
from a failure like you!
Why've you just hit her?
Pick up your clothes!
Straight away!
Didn't you really fancy him?
Just another selfish man!
"This is what I want, Lora,
do it like this, Lora!"
He's only bothered about his own orgasm.
Didn't you come as well?
No.
I've never had an orgasm.
You mean you've had all those men,
and none have ever given you an orgasm?
That's right. What about you?
Of course, every time!
You come every time?
Yes, of course.
And I'm not even that keen on sex.
You're lucky, then.
You've pooed, haven't you?
What blue shirt?
Alright, then.
Fine.
With the long or short sleeves?
I washed them both, yes.
The baby's fine, of course.
Yes, she pooed.
And I'm wiping her bum.
I haven't given her too much food.
I gave her just one jar.
No, she pooed only once.
Her poo is normal, yes.
It's brown.
Wait, I'm putting her leggings on.
I'll hang up, okay?
Bye.
Your dad wants to know
if your poo is brown or green.
It's extremely important
if it's brown or green!
Now throw up here...
ant it'll be marvellous!
You're always tired.
Are you ill?
You're too hot.
Okay, team, we're here
to discuss the site, zone by zone.
How are you, Lora?
And your pussy cat?
It's a bit grumpy.
Did you give it sperm milk?
When can I stroke it?
Is it kind, playful?
Yes, but your little mouse
wouldn't satisfy it.
Yes, it is higher.
It's more or less
the height of the rails.
We haven't cut the lower mesh.
It doesn't matter.
Right now it's only held by the rails.
Lora, you're in zone 3.
We've agreed
what needs to be done there.
The team from the crossroads
is coming at 9.
The schedule is clear.
You need to get going.
- Alright.
- Any question?
- Lora!
- Go away!
Lora, come down.
I have to tell you something, please...
Sonja, I told you not to come here!
Come down, please.
Go away!
Come down, it's really important!
- What are you doing?
- I just want to tell you...
that I love you very much!
And I'm sorry for all the pain
I've ever caused you.
Like when I was little and...
Is this a farewell?
I hid your tiaras, ribbons.
And the ring Dad gave you
for the prom...
I scratched its stone out!
Remember your favourite book?
The 1001 Nights, Scheherazade...
I scribbled on it because it was yours
and I wanted the same.
- Take 20 lev and go!
- I don't want money!
What do you want?
- Speak quickly!
- Marin is married.
What a prick!
Have you dumped him?
His wife called me.
Wife?
Yes, he's got a wife and a kid.
And he's got HIV.
What HIV?
She told me I could have it too!
What's this nonsense, what HIV?
I'm scared, Lora, I'm so scared.
I want to puke.
I feel sick, like I'm covered in filth.
And your steamrollers here...
Why did you have unprotected sex?
Why, why?
He said I couldn't catch
anything from him,
not even a fungal infection.
Don't you get it?
- And you believed him?
- Yes, and I love him!
He's a man!
Men lie about everything!
Can Sonja wait up there for me
to finish work?
- Of course.
- Come on, get up.
Easy, get up.
You can't pass through.
Really? Where am I supposed to walk?
Fly up? Fly in the sky?
- Piss off!
- You can go around.
Dad, leave him alone.
I'm fed up.
I'll die before they fix this city!
You're never satisfied!
Yes, because you don't have a clue
about city-planning.
What are you busy with now?
Only...
de-meditation.
- Meditation, Dad.
- Whatever!
Moon calendars.
I bought you a south-facing flat.
It's sunny all day.
Why is your heating bill so high?
560 lev.
Come down to Earth.
And...
make money.
Are you listening?
Make money!
Do business.
I don't want your money anymore.
Where are you going?
I've always wanted men to look at me
the way they look at you.
He looked at me like that.
- Like a piece of meat?
- Not like meat, Lora.
Like someone you adore,
someone you worship.
Then, when I realised
he sleeps with men...
I thought
I have to be more open-minded.
After all, who am I to...
What does he do?
He sleeps with men?
Is he a faggot?
No, that doesn't make him gay.
Just because he's done something
with a man or a woman...
Why should we be...
so narrow-minded?
Let us be...
more open.
- Why should we decide...
- You're so dumb!
Are you very sharp?
You let someone who sleeps with men
fuck you up the arse?
Yes.
No one's fucked you from behind?
How many times
have you had anal sex?
Didn't you enjoy it?
You idiot!
Someone's waving at you.
What? Piss off!
Not only will I die before you,
but I'll also have shagged fewer people.
Big business owners
have Libra ascendant.
The second house
is Taurus' natural house,
where you'll find personal possessions
and valuation abilities.
People with the planet Pluto
in that position
quite often have
large amounts of money.
The sign at the top of the second house
shows you if this money will last
or will be earned just once.
I don't know
if she'll let you stroke her.
Why?
We took her from a shelter.
She was abandoned.
She clearly wasn't a good hunter,
and some men beat her.
She's particularly scared of men
carrying sticks or canes.
She totally panics.
We're trying to calm her now.
Lucky that she's with us.
Isn't it, girl?
Poor thing.
How's your sister?
Busy with events
around the Istanbul Convention.
Yes, everyone went bonkers.
They just don't get it.
It probably won't be ratified
in our lifetime.
Come on, Ira.
I need a drop of blood.
Wait a second.
Yes.
Turn your hand.
Good.
Press with the cotton wool.
Now we'll wait.
A minute, a minute and a half,
for the result.
I know this may be the longest minute
in your life.
But we'll know.
Unfortunately, I have to inform you
that the result from the fast test
is positive.
I'm going to ask you to sit down.
Easy, we have to talk.
HIV is no longer a death sentence.
There's excellent supporting therapy.
From now onwards,
we're on a journey together.
Until you start your therapy.
When you start the therapy,
your life can continue normally.
As for informing...
What does "normally" mean?
She's an outcast now,
she'll be treated like a leper!
No...
I've worked with HIV-positive patients
for over 18 years.
In Bulgaria it's still not
like in Western countries,
but...
You're together.
You've got to support her
and always be by her side.
Wait...
Easy.
- Do you want to lie down?
- I'm fine, don't touch me!
I'm fine.
- Do you have water?
- Yes.
- Do you want some?
- No.
I'll bring a glass.
Stay with her, ok?
Sonja, what have you done?
What have you done
with your life, Sonja?
Sonja, how could you!
Calm down. Don't!
Is it my fault?
It is your fault!
Why don't you use condoms, why?
Leave her!
Sit down! Calm down!
Have they laid
the concrete foundation?
Not yet.
- How come they haven't?
- The roll hasn't arrived yet.
The rails should have been installed.
There's a delivery delay.
I'm going to check.
See you.
Beer? When you haven't finished?
Fix it at once!
Lora!
Men! Worthless men...
Lora!
Sonja!
What are you doing here?
At school I had a friend...
He was called Marin.
He fell off a crane and died.
When I went to his funeral
his mother told me,
"Ana,
Marin loved you so much..."
I asked her, why didn't he tell me?
Why didn't your Marin tell you?
Why didn't he tell you?
Why didn't he warn you?
Why didn't you tell me?
Why didn't you and your sister tell me?
Why are you silent?
You all stay silent!
I am wind.
I am fire.
I am everything.
And I am water.
I've worked as a human rights' activist
for 27 years in hot spots.
The last two years in Donetsk,
I led the UN humanitarian mission...
Hi, I'm here for the book
you recommended.
- Can I come in?
- Yes.
I know the little one
isn't usually asleep at this time
and I can see her.
It's so quiet at mine and...
I wanted to see you both.
I've nearly finished,
then you can have it.
I can't have kids.
I can't have kids.
I feel so empty.
I adore kids.
Tony and I have tried so many times.
I don't know how I'm going to manage.
Everything is so expensive.
I wanted a child so much.
91% of Bulgarian women are raped
by a partner or a relative.
91% of the victims...
How can I help?
There is no way.
Come here if you like.
Come. We're here all the time.
I'm tied to the baby.
She always removes my bookmark,
and I don't know what page I'm on.
Let me see you.
You sweet little angel!
Bulgarian
and other Slavic languages
don't have the word "gender",
only biological sex: male and female.
"Gender" was translated as "social sex".
It was a mistake,
as the European Council confirmed.
You missed making the salad,
you housewife!
Don't have a go at me
from the door.
You cook and wash Sasho's dirty socks.
And iron them.
Don't you iron your girlfriends' socks?
Unlike you, I take them off
and we have sex.
Auntie's lovely baby!
You're so mean.
Hi, Auntie.
Hi.
Veronica.
You live just around the corner,
and you always arrive last.
Didn't I ask you
to come at 12 o'clock to help?
I'm sorry, Dad.
Let's start.
Your dad and I didn't have breakfast.
It was Ekadashi yesterday
and if I don't eat soon
I'll get twitchy.
Come on, Sonja.
I haven't eaten yet,
we're just sitting down.
Oh, you mean she should eat.
Yes, I brought her food.
Veronica!
I'm coming, Dad. I have to feed her.
Her routine will be ruined.
This is sickening.
That's how it is in normal families.
When I hear "normal family",
I feel sick.
What, Tina?
I can't get over the fact
that my sister left her profession.
Now when they ask what her job is:
housewife!
A housewife!
Yoana, are you commenting
on my life again?
Yes, I'm commenting.
Because five years' pharmaceutics,
ridiculous amounts of study
and you end up...
pampering a baby!
Look at the doggie!
I'm not good at anything.
You tease me,
but being a housewife is important.
For whom?
For whom is it important?
Now you've fulfilled
your womanly mission.
You know the Constitution
defines women as mothers only.
Now you pass the test.
A mother!
You twins never stop arguing.
All we hear is you.
You'll be going on
about the Convention next.
What do you mean? It's her job.
What else to talk about, your mantras?
Lora, you're hard on your mother.
The Convention is forcing
a third sex on us.
So we must choose
to be male or female.
That's really weird!
I know very well what I am.
Don't I, kitty?
Yes, kitty.
You lovely kitty!
Tina, what third sex?
You're an engineer,
but you don't think logically.
They stuff your head with nonsense.
Even the President says the Convention
"contradicts
traditional values and morals".
- In what sense?
- Just like that!
And the first lady
compares cats' AIDS to Gay Pride.
They're all communists those.
How many years? 25, 30?
And they're still in power.
Tina, did you know that Dad
was fed by an eagle, as a baby?
Really?
An eagle snatched him from the garden,
where Grandma had put him,
and fed him from its beak.
That's why he looks a bit like an eagle.
What about cats and AIDS?
That woman is ridiculous...
The cat of the President's wife got AIDS
and she linked it to Gay Pride!
As if gays aren't fighting AIDS!
It's similar to the human virus,
but they're different strains.
Feline AIDS is completely different.
For example...
Basically, if your cat gets sick,
gay parades are to blame.
That's what the woman wrote.
And this nonsense went viral
in a few hours.
A goat found him
and brought him back.
Come on, a goat!
It was an eagle earlier.
No, "the Goat" was this prisoner
hiding in the mountain.
He heard a baby crying,
went to the eagle's nest
and brought Dad back to Grandma.
Enough of this.
I don't want to hear any more of this.
Cats only get infected
if they're bitten.
Sonja,
tell me about the Music Academy.
Sonja.
Are you on holiday now?
Yes.
What holiday? She quit.
What?
She quit?
- She left the Music Academy.
- What?
How come?
Hang on...
How many years have I been paying
for your classes?
- And you, first year and you leave!
- I didn't belong there!
Because Mum allows her everything.
How old are you, 48?
And the kids are paying your bills!
You've never kept down a job
in your life!
And now you want to turn Sonja...
into a failure like you.
The decision was mine,
Mum's not to blame!
What?
Horrible. Very deep.
Sis, there's Rivanol
in the bathroom cabinet.
Let me see.
Just use Rivanol, not alcohol.
Nobody eat the salad!
My blood's in it!
How many difficult lessons and exams!
No, Sonja broke a glass.
The child is...
Heaps of money blown away!
I'm shouting
because Dad's yelling.
She has her own path, does she?
Cretins!
When I was assigned a job,
I always, always did my best!
I wouldn't sleep
until I'd done it!
I could've taken it easy.
Why do you let him wind you up?
I'll never have a boyfriend again.
And a career either.
He's right!
What's happening?
And I'll never have a baby either!
Let me see before I go.
Sasho'll be home soon.
Don't go!
We're only here for two hours.
It's a wound. What's there to see?
- Give me some cash...
- Doesn't Sasho give you money?
He does, but I spent it coming here.
Here's 10 lev.
Why, girls?
I'm so disappointed with you all.
I hoped we'd finally get
to have a quiet lunch.
Then tell Dad to stop shouting.
It'll never work with you lot.
After his stroke, we agreed
that no one would anger him.
To keep him calm. Didn't we?
But you can't be trusted.
Hey, you've got an Adam's apple?
I told you, I'm a boy.
And I don't...
I began hormonal therapy,
but I changed my mind
because of my father.
Because of... your father?
I'm his spitting image.
You look like your father?
Yes, and I changed my mind because...
because...
he used to beat Mum.
I don't want to start looking like him.
You never told me this.
You know, when you start this therapy,
your tears stop.
Your emotions stop.
They reach up to here and stop.
And you can't cry anymore.
It's better to...
I cry a lot.
Women do cry, really.
I want you as a woman.
They won't let us.
The guards are around.
Can I get on the stage?
I want to speak about these women.
But I'm afraid they won't let us.
The convention's articles are unclear,
and are intended
to manipulate public opinion,
claiming that they're protecting
women from violence.
I've seen them before,
they want to speak.
NGOs should be able to speak.
The organisers told you not to do it.
And you drag yourselves...
The victims need legal representation.
It's important.
Who says it's important?
You're just publicising your NGO.
I don't need publicity.
We're working with the murdered women.
All these useless organisations
springing up!
"Gender" is individual
sexual self-identification.
Do you get the absurd if we accept
the Istanbul Convention?
NO GENDERS IN SCHOOLS!
NO THIRD SEX!
PROTECT THE BULGARIAN FAMILY!
In England 50 children a week consult
to change their sex...
MY MOTHER IS A VICTIM
OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
DON'T CONFUSE
FAMILY AND GENDER!
With so many rights for pseudo-women,
there won't be any men left.
- What's this?
- A sign.
- Where do you think you are?
- Leave me alone.
- Let me see it.
- Give it back.
Come on, don't make a fuss
in front of everyone.
Come here and explain!
Dirty faggot!
Get lost!
Why did you hit him?
Can't you see he's a faggot?
What are you, then, a real man?
He's got the balls to come here!
Twat. You frigid bitch!
You're not even fuckable!
Genders! Boo, genders!
Deary me!
Mental case.
I shouldn't have put you through this.
I did it for my mother.
Do you need help?
Don't worry, everything's fine.
I did it for my mother too.
What two lev?
No, I can tell you
what's on the receipt.
Look, you gave me 50 lev.
I've spent 15.15.
And that's what's left.
She's crying because she wants her doll.
Talk to you or pay attention to her?
Quiet, quiet...
You like to flirt.
Rumen, you're astonishing the viewers.
You were together last night
and today you are nominated
before Big Brother!
Do you like Rosalia?
She's not my type.
Then what did you get up to
last night?
Okay, she's pretty but not my type.
You see, basically,
I don't like the snacks you give us,
but I still eat them.
They were in a relationship...
Bloody hell, Veronica!
You obey the man!
You give him a blow job
and cook stew all day long!
That's all you do.
You take care of his kid.
I want to tell Granddad.
That won't help at all.
I think he'd just shoot him.
That's why I want to tell him.
Mum's backing up
Sonja's decision not to go to hospital.
I know that if I tell him,
he'll support me.
I think we can try something else.
What else, Mum?
Don't you see
she has to start treatment?
Don't you all see that?
Tell her that she's got to!
If you had a kid, would you send her
to hospital just like that?
Yes, I would.
This happened to my sister
because of you!
One daughter works in construction,
the other has HIV!
Should I have worked instead of you?
There's nothing to do.
My sister's sick because of you.
- I'll never forgive you this!
- Fine!
Lora, we have work to do.
Put your personal issues
to one side for now.
I can't manage alone.
The concrete is here.
What's your complaint?
Well, I have something like...
herpes.
Sonja Dimitrova, right?
Yes.
19 years old.
Something like herpes?
How long for?
I don't know. A week, two...
- Hurting, itching?
- It hurts, itches...
- And it secretes.
- Secretes?
Yes, it's uncomfortable.
I feel ashamed...
You shouldn't be ashamed.
It's just a check-up.
I have to go.
Bye, good luck.
Take your clothes off.
I'll take a vaginal discharge sample.
There, at the back.
How's your cycle?
Well, normal.
Normal?
Doctor, I should inform you
that I'm HIV-positive.
What?
I carry the HIV virus.
You know what... just get up.
Get up!
I have patients waiting.
Get up and get dressed.
CREATE LIFE
ORDER A STORK
There are organisations for this.
Go and apply there.
I can't examine you here.
Outside, I have a patient
with cervical cancer.
- Aren't you a gynaecologist?
- Yes, I am.
And I deal
with gynaecological problems.
Not with someone fucking left,
right and centre. Leave now.
Democracy.
That's what democracy brings.
Liberals!
Come on! Chop chop!
What's happening?
Won't you examine me?
- I can't contaminate my instruments.
- Contaminate your tools?
- I'm a patient too...
- You fuck around and then come here!
- Who fucks around?
- You loose lot!
Don't you fuck around?
As a doctor don't you catch anything?
Leave my practice.
What?
- Am I a whore?
- Girl...
- You can't get HIV by...
- Say it out loud!
- Tell everyone you have HIV!
- Are you a doctor?
Go on, tell everyone!
- Auntie, let's go! He won't examine me!
- Stay here.
- I really insist...
- Insist as much as you like.
- I don't want him to examine me.
- She has rights!
Let's go!
He's not worthy of his profession.
Who are you?
- Did you examine her?
- No, and I won't.
- Tell me who you are.
- A colleague.
A colleague?
Then why don't you examine her?
Well...
Come on, let's leave!
- Why did you say you were HIV-positive?
- He didn't put gloves on.
Don't tell anyone.
I'll tell everyone!
You mustn't.
You have the right not to say.
I'm not a whore, am I?
We're all whores, Sonja.
What am I supposed to be doing?
We're at home.
No, nothing.
I'm not upset, I just can't wash myself
because of her!
Won't you ask how I am?
No, I won't go to her.
Let her cry a little.
I don't give a monkey's
about your money!
I'll stay here on purpose!
I'm staying put.
Cry as much as you like.
Cry all you want, I won't come.
Do you hear me?
The first step is done.
All tomcats will want you.
But you won't sleep with them. Never.
You'll only tease them.
And make them suffer.
Which of you cats is the strongest?
Which sister will win?
You'll both be healthy!
Now you kiss each other.
And you love each other.
Sonja, I'm sorry.
What have you done to the cats?
Awful.
I healed them.
You did what?
I healed them. You know they were sick.
Look how pretty they are.
What did you heal them with?
Some pills.
Now they're resting.
The cats were perfectly alright.
They were sick.
I'm putting an end to everything.
- So you'll stop playing?
- Yes, someone crushed my F Key!
Nothing works.
My hand doesn't, my flute doesn't!
That floozy Martina went to an audition
and I wasn't even called!
She can't play the flute!
All she can play is cocks!
Sonja, please calm down.
Calm down how?
They sleep around,
left, right and centre,
and have parents with connections!
Nonsense. Why have you made
yourself up like a transvestite?
So that everyone knows I'm a whore.
You're not a whore. You know that.
How can you say all this?
I want to be pretty for men
to fall in love with me,
but I'll never have sex with them.
I'll break the chain.
It won't be like Marin said.
I won't infect anyone
or go to bed with anyone.
Now get lost!
Go away right now!
- Where should I go?
- Get out!
Alright, I'll be in the kitchen.
May I go there?
Leave or I'll cut my arm!
- Do it!
- I will!
I bet you won't!
I bet I will!
Come on, I'm watching.
I won't do it in front of you.
Now the whole world
will know I have AIDS.
Sonja.
- Sonja.
- Bugger off!
Dear friends, today Sonja died.
A month ago...
the love of my life gave me HIV.
Now I have AIDS.
Now I'll go to Grandma.
We'll be together again.
I'm happy that...
we were together
in this universe.
I loved you.
They won't catch me!
You won't catch me!
Go away!
Go away!
They'll all go away. I'll disappear.
I'll run away and no one will catch me,
God help me!
Only positive energy!
Go away, evil demons!
Get away, demon! Don't touch me!
Off with you, Satan!
I don't want to look at you!
Sonja, open the door!
Go away at once!
I summon all powers
and command you to be gone!
They won't catch me!
They won't catch me!
No one will find me!
Everything will change!
I'll hide and you won't see me!
Now only the demons will get ill!
They'll be sick!
This cat food won't be needed.
The kittens will come with me.
This bowl won't be needed,
it should be empty.
I drank from these glasses.
Wash them well to not get infected.
I'll miss lots of things from here,
Lora.
Don't touch!
Why are you yelling?
You'll wake up the cats.
Grandma gave this to me
after my first performance.
I'll leave him here in his house.
Grandma,
I dreamt of you.
Granny, we should've visited your grave
but it was the night before All Souls.
I'd promised myself that I'd come,
but I had classes the next day.
No one came with me, I was all alone.
Only you supported me
for every exam and concert.
We can sing together.
You were the first to teach me.
You taught me how to sing that song...
What was that song, Granny?
I can't remember.
I'm starting to forget everything.
What was that song?
What was it called?
No, it wasn't that. Not that...
"Strati Spoke to Angelaki"!
We'll sing it together,
we'll play together.
You'll play the piano,
I'll play the flute.
We'll perform with the Choir of Angels.
It'll be perfect
because we'll be in Heaven.
We won't be
on this filthy, rotten Earth any more.
Now I'll make a wish and it will happen.
"How can we call them gods
"when they're neither powerful nor fair,
nor want to be good to people?
You know they aren't Gods.
Don't be afraid of them!"
Everyone is afraid here, Grandma.
It's a conspiracy to turn us
into dumb freaks
so that they can abuse and infect us.
I'll take my bags.
What more is there to do here?
Everything is fake here.
Sonja.
Stupid fake reality,
where you have to pretend
and play the clown.
I can't believe it!
Everything is rotten here.
It stinks of earth,
it's full of dirt here.
Sonja,
I'm Grandma Maria.
Sonja, please drink this elixir.
It will heal you.
And now, Sonja,
I ask you...
You aren't my Grandma!
Everything you do is fake!
Go, Auntie!
Go, Auntie!
Come on, get in!
You have to change this old banger.
Banger? Mum was
on a 10-year waiting list to buy it.
It's still a banger, Auntie!
Feel the suspension.
It drives like a Citron.
You don't need to tell me,
I love this car.
This is my only connection with Mum.
How great
that Mum is taking us to Sonja!
Auntie, where's the baby?
I left her behind.
So the penny's dropped at last?
I left her with the neighbour.
Are you divorcing Sasho?
She has to feel human again.
To do something for herself for once.
Not like poor Mum,
who endured because of us.
She told me once
that Dad would take care of us.
As if she knew...
As if she knew
her heart would give up.
Say something, Sis.
You witnessed these scenes at home.
Spit it out. Let's speak about it.
Let's admit what went on.
Look, a stork.
During meditation yesterday,
I had a vision of a stork.
There's a bone there.
Cut there.
Everything is fake in the city.
No one does anything real.
The things we're doing here...
are sacred, aren't they?
What's the origin of the fire dance?
Do you know?
- That's the ritual, right?
- Yes.
Legend has it
that hundreds of years ago here
a fawn would sacrifice itself.
- A fawn?
- Yes, a deer.
It would arrive at the sacred place,
lie there, and wait to be slaughtered.
That turned into an annual ritual.
When you chance upon a rabbit or deer
in the woods, it runs away from you.
But this deer didn't run away
because it was intended
to be sacrificed on that day.
It would just kneel down,
meaning that it had to be killed.
And cooked ritually.
I hope the Virgin Mary
hears your prayers,
and heals your child.
And after I make this bread...
This is bullshit, honestly.
Absolute bullshit!
Enough of this bread and nonsense!
Easy for you to say,
you don't have the problem.
- What do you mean?
- We'll talk when you do!
And how exactly will the bread help?
I'll try everything I can!
Make bread,
stay in church if I have to.
I'll offer up prayers,
I'll try anything.
And this will solve the problem?
Maybe it will. How can you know?
Who are you to say?
I'm no one.
Throw it against the table.
Take water from the place of ritual.
Make sure you do.
Take it from there,
for her to drink and wash with.
To clean herself with that water.
So are you healed now?
I will.
By hanging up your knickers?
This is a sacred place, Lora.
People come here to get pregnant.
If they're sick, they get healed.
If you don't start therapy, you'll die.
If you don't believe, you should leave.
Every day I imagine you in a coffin.
Since I found out about this.
I don't know what I'll do without you.
I don't want you to die,
I can't live without you.
I'd rather I'd got it myself.
I could have taken on this burden,
not you!
Believe, Lora!
You need more faith.
Then allow God to heal me.
There is no God!
What are you doing, Lora?
Are these rags going to heal you?
What are you doing? Stop!
You tie up laundry to heal yourself?
You have no right to do this!
That's enough, girl!
Do you know how harmful this is?
You mustn't do it!
Why are you doing this?
Why are you ruining
what I believe in?
- Believe!
- I won't!
Believe, if you want me to get better!
You have to believe and pray.
Why are you doing this, Lora?
Where was it?
Here.
Have you cried enough?
Why don't you want to be by my side?
But I helped prepare the ritual.
No, a woman can't carry the icon.
What'll happen if you give it to me
for a minute?
No, custom doesn't allow it.
Let's ask someone older.
They'll allow it.
I'm certain.
It's completely unacceptable
for women to carry the icon.
What's your name?
Georgi.
Georgi, it's really important.
Are you afraid
someone will tell you off?
You don't understand.
No, you don't understand.
You're way too young to understand.
Is woman
some kind of satanic creation?
Why can't she touch the icon?
As you see,
there's a problem on the road.
Do you know why?
Take a guess.
Because the icon belongs to me,
not to you.
Give it to me, just for a second.
I have to protect it
so I can get married.
It's what I have to do.
Do you want to get married now?
Next year.
Okay, I'll marry you next year.
No.
Don't you want to marry me?
It's not like you have much choice
in this village.
The people preparing the meat
told me so yesterday.
So I'll marry you.
I'm afraid I won't get married
if you take the icon.
I promise I'll marry you.
You don't understand anything.
Why? Explain.
I've explained everything.
You haven't. You keep arguing.
You can't touch it.
You're the village idiot.
I mustn't be diverted from the task.
When your baby was born
and I saw her,
bags under her eyes,
like a little monkey,
big grey eyes,
and that look of concentration...
Do you know what I felt then?
That a rift had opened between us.
Really?
I felt like we'd never be as close
as we were before.
Why have you never told me this before?
I don't know.
I was extremely angry.
Everyone was talking about the baby.
"Oh, she's so pretty!
How marvellous
she's come into the world!"
No one cared if you were in pain,
or what you felt giving birth.
Everyone looked at the baby.
And you were sitting there
like a slaughtered cow in an abattoir.
Then I asked myself:
Do I want this to happen to you?
The baby is really cute, but...
you either make an effort
to carry on as you are,
or give it all up, without fear.
After all, you have to consider
what you want from life.
Being a woman is horrid.
Yes, it's horrible.
But you know what's even worse?
Being a man.
The river's carrying me away!
I'm cold now.
Sis, you've cooled down,
but you'll warm up pushing my Wartburg.
What's that smell?
Petrol.
More pushing?
After we stopped by the river,
I couldn't start the engine.
So you'll have to push a little.
Pushing again?
Yes.
Come on, girls, let's go.
What's the rush?
Why are you shouting?
Lora, fancy going back in?
Push her in!
Don't do it!
You wanted to go, now you don't?
Back in the water? Come on!
If we stay here any longer,
we'll never leave.
Enjoy life!
And stop being...
so fiery.
How can I manage my life otherwise?
As if you're so calm!
- Who are you talking about?
- Her.
I take after Dad.
He made a scene every time
we entered a restaurant.
Waitresses were afraid of him.
He threw tables and chairs around.
Why've we never gathered
all together like this before?
We did all meet up.
But not since Granma died.
Why did she leave us?
Because, you know...
Good people leave early
and don't burden others.
She simply spared us
from having to take care of her.
But I really wanted to take care of her.
I wanted to look after her!
And I wanted her help with the baby.
As she helped our sister
to bring up you two.
And I fell out with her
before she passed away.
Really?
You fell out with her?
What did you say to her?
I can't remember.
Only that we fell out badly.
You shouldn't feel guilty.
I do and...
I also feel incredibly guilty.
And so do I.
I'm really cold.
Close the window.
We'll suffocate.
- She's warm.
- Roll up the window.
Lora, roll it up.
Veronica, everything ok?
Sasho yelled at the neighbour.
And she panicked.
Wasn't she a baby expert?
I can't fly, for God's sake!
This happened
because they didn't give me the icon.
Had they given it to me
all would've been fixed.
If only they had given me the icon...
It's way too hot now.
How will God help me now?
I couldn't touch the icon!
They didn't let me touch it.
Sonja!
Your God betrayed you.
Get it?
Will I die now?
- Will you shut your mouth?
- No, I won't.
I'm fed up with icons and all that crap!
Can you stop insulting me?
Yes, because Sonja needed me as well.
When will you stop
treating me like this?
I've been thinking a lot these two days.
And now I know what I want.
Yes.
No, I'm not.
No, but I want to return to work.
You can't forbid me.
It's my life.
Yes, it's my life. I have a life too.
It's not just you and the baby.
I exist in this world as well.
You haven't slept?
I haven't for 8 months!
What are our friends up to?
They've gone somewhere today.
They've grown up.
These are the little ones.
Yes, I know.
The hygiene... Oh, hello.
That abandoned washhouse,
we've been told it's a breeding ground
for rats, mice,
you name it.
I don't think this should be tolerated
in a European hospital.
Yes, but we have
a family of storks here,
with little storks: our lucky charms!
Marvellous!
There are ways to move the nest
and demolish
that building
which doesn't belong in a hospital.
Speak to the administrator.
I've arranged a meeting but, please,
you show some initiative too.
They're feeding them now.
My baby stork...
Do you think it's healthy?
- Your baby is more aggressive.
- It's not.
- It is.
- It's really sweet.
- Your baby is really spoilt.
- No, it's just ill.
- It's not ill, it's spoiled.
- It's ill. You just don't get it.
Look, it's like a corpse.
- It's sleepy.
- Come on, it's ill.
It can't stand up.
That wasn't funny.
How soppy!
I hate all this.
I'm going to puke.
Come here, let me kiss you.
No, it's disgusting.
Let me jump from the window.
Give over, don't.
Dr Atanasova,
give some medicine to Lora.
Have you gone mad as well?
Why?
At least you don't have HIV.
Love sickness or what?
I've got to go.
No, please stay!
I'll see you tonight.
I have to go. I'll come back tonight.
The tiles are crooked.
Everyone's pressurising us.
You went missing for two days.
You said you could stay but you didn't.
You were here!
You promised, and it's your area.
You have to be there.
Have you managed your site?
Yes, and I will.
Like hell! I'm sick of this.
Stop shouting, it's not just my fault!
- I've tried to protect you.
- Crap, you've tried!
I told you to take a break!
I don't want a break!
Look, you have a problem. We all do.
Don't touch me!
I've told you hundreds of times,
we're here for you.
- I don't have problems.
- Well, you act like you do.
I don't!
You're behaving as if you do.
You're my problem now.
Stop shouting!
Don't you shout.
Respect my position and experience.
Don't touch me.
Close the door.
Someone will see us.
The door.
Do you have a condom?
No.
We don't need one.
- You must put a condom on.
- I don't have any.
Why are you pushing me?
We're not going to do anything.
- I don't want to.
- What's wrong with you?
We're not doing it.
That's your problem,
anything you start, you don't finish.
- Why don't you want it?
- No sex without a condom.
You think I'm infectious?
Don't touch me with that infected dick.
Screw you.
- Have you ever had a check-up?
- I have a wife and a kid.
It might be you who's infected.
You scum, get lost!
You're scum!
Have you ever been to a urologist?
That's why we have problems at work.
You start something
and you can't finish it.
Forgive me.
I don't even know how to address You.
I don't know any prayers.
I've never been to church.
I don't know...
I don't know what to say but...
I'm just begging You.
Please heal my sister.
Please!
What's all this noise?
We're in a hospital, not a market!
- Wait your turn.
- He has to queue.
Out of my way.
Do you know where Sonja Dimitrova is?
I can't tell you.
Do you know
which is Sonja Dimitrova's room?
The one with AIDS? 313.
It's always me they ask.
The filthy faggot.
Easy, kitty.
He's killed my dear child.
Hi.
My dear child.
Just say one word,
just a word,
and he'll disappear
from the face of this planet.
It's up to you. Just one word.
I've found people,
don't worry about anything.
Father, don't.
Yes or no?
Father, don't.
Yes. I want it.
I'll grab him by the balls
and swing him over the cobbles...
Filthy piece of junk!
The child said yes!
She said yes.
- We have to speak in private.
- Leave him alone at once!
This is family business.
Shut up!
Where are we going?
Why did you beat Mum?
It's none of your business.
You don't know what it was
to raise three kids back then.
You don't know
what suffering I went through.
For you to be fully protected.
All I needed from you was a thank you.
Just a thank you.
When I was small and you beat Mum,
I always hid behind the curtains
so you wouldn't see me crying.
I won't be silent anymore.
I won't hide.
I'm sick of being humiliated by you.
I don't want any murders, trials,
shouting and screaming.
Enough, stop it!
Your mother left the Opera
because of you!
I never heard you saying you loved her.
I also didn't.
Nobody told her.
Nobody told her!
Ana,
I was an officer for political prisoners
doing hard labour.
There was this guy, a violinist.
One of those... mummy's boys.
The petty officer took a piece
of metal equipment
and broke his fingers with it.
As a punishment.
I kept silent.
I said nothing
when my superiors abused me.
Leave Sonja alone, do you hear me?
I'm a mother,
I know how to protect her.
You're not the one to call the shots!
What do you want?
To be a saint?
I'm not a saint.
And I'll kill the bastard
who infected Sonja.
Something to remember me for.
And hate me even more.
Who killed it?
Gosho shot it with his rifle!
Gosho shot it with his rifle!
It was Gosho with his rifle!
What happened?
It was shot.
It's still alive.
Call someone, a doctor!
- Save it, make it fly.
- Give us some room.
Help it fly, Doctor, and live.
It's got a hole.
Kids, back off.
- An internal haemorrhage.
- A serious one.
Yes, and a gunshot burn.
Get inside with it.
- Careful with the head.
- Poor chicken!
Let's hope it survives.
Your mother was...
strong.
A strong person.
Gosho is nuts.
God will punish him.
It's a mother with two kids.
Two little chicks.
- It's a sin.
- Yes, a sin.
He's a mental case.
What was it called?
A nocturne. That's what it's called.
Can you play it?
Show me.
My hand still isn't working.
And mine doesn't work at all.
Look, this one works fine.
This we can remove.
We don't need it.
Now take my hand
and we'll do it together.
We'll have three hands.
Two. Mine doesn't work.
Mine works fine.
Does your brain work?
Apparently, it doesn't.
Because you're cuckoo.
And your mother...
She's the biggest cuckoo.
This needs removing.
Better to cut it off.
You know that this is a mother stork
which hatched and raised
two little ones this year.
On the chimney where she was shot.
I hope she lives.
The shot probably cut through here.
And it wasn't just one but several.
She could be a mother
and give birth again
but she can't be released
back into the wild.
Sonja!
What?
What's your vest doing
in my underwear?
I haven't got enough space.
Only one drawer.
It's enough for you!
It's not even me who put it there.
My stuff's tidy!
You're messy
and you put it there by mistake.
I'll do whatever I want!
Mind your own business.
But now, why...
Don't touch them.
Stop, leave them here.
I bought this chest.
How can you just throw my stuff out?
You spoilt brat! Take your stuff!
- Little brat!
- Get out!
You're horrible, no sister to me!
Why are you like this?
Don't touch my clothes!
Take your rags and rubbish!
Pick them up yourself.
That's what you get
for throwing mine on the floor!
Get lost!
Are you mad?
- Get out!
- You get out!
What's going on?
Mum, she threw my clothes
off the balcony!
Lora, stop it!
I'm not taking lessons
from a failure like you!
Why've you just hit her?
Pick up your clothes!
Straight away!
Didn't you really fancy him?
Just another selfish man!
"This is what I want, Lora,
do it like this, Lora!"
He's only bothered about his own orgasm.
Didn't you come as well?
No.
I've never had an orgasm.
You mean you've had all those men,
and none have ever given you an orgasm?
That's right. What about you?
Of course, every time!
You come every time?
Yes, of course.
And I'm not even that keen on sex.
You're lucky, then.
You've pooed, haven't you?
What blue shirt?
Alright, then.
Fine.
With the long or short sleeves?
I washed them both, yes.
The baby's fine, of course.
Yes, she pooed.
And I'm wiping her bum.
I haven't given her too much food.
I gave her just one jar.
No, she pooed only once.
Her poo is normal, yes.
It's brown.
Wait, I'm putting her leggings on.
I'll hang up, okay?
Bye.
Your dad wants to know
if your poo is brown or green.
It's extremely important
if it's brown or green!
Now throw up here...
ant it'll be marvellous!
You're always tired.
Are you ill?
You're too hot.
Okay, team, we're here
to discuss the site, zone by zone.
How are you, Lora?
And your pussy cat?
It's a bit grumpy.
Did you give it sperm milk?
When can I stroke it?
Is it kind, playful?
Yes, but your little mouse
wouldn't satisfy it.
Yes, it is higher.
It's more or less
the height of the rails.
We haven't cut the lower mesh.
It doesn't matter.
Right now it's only held by the rails.
Lora, you're in zone 3.
We've agreed
what needs to be done there.
The team from the crossroads
is coming at 9.
The schedule is clear.
You need to get going.
- Alright.
- Any question?
- Lora!
- Go away!
Lora, come down.
I have to tell you something, please...
Sonja, I told you not to come here!
Come down, please.
Go away!
Come down, it's really important!
- What are you doing?
- I just want to tell you...
that I love you very much!
And I'm sorry for all the pain
I've ever caused you.
Like when I was little and...
Is this a farewell?
I hid your tiaras, ribbons.
And the ring Dad gave you
for the prom...
I scratched its stone out!
Remember your favourite book?
The 1001 Nights, Scheherazade...
I scribbled on it because it was yours
and I wanted the same.
- Take 20 lev and go!
- I don't want money!
What do you want?
- Speak quickly!
- Marin is married.
What a prick!
Have you dumped him?
His wife called me.
Wife?
Yes, he's got a wife and a kid.
And he's got HIV.
What HIV?
She told me I could have it too!
What's this nonsense, what HIV?
I'm scared, Lora, I'm so scared.
I want to puke.
I feel sick, like I'm covered in filth.
And your steamrollers here...
Why did you have unprotected sex?
Why, why?
He said I couldn't catch
anything from him,
not even a fungal infection.
Don't you get it?
- And you believed him?
- Yes, and I love him!
He's a man!
Men lie about everything!
Can Sonja wait up there for me
to finish work?
- Of course.
- Come on, get up.
Easy, get up.
You can't pass through.
Really? Where am I supposed to walk?
Fly up? Fly in the sky?
- Piss off!
- You can go around.
Dad, leave him alone.
I'm fed up.
I'll die before they fix this city!
You're never satisfied!
Yes, because you don't have a clue
about city-planning.
What are you busy with now?
Only...
de-meditation.
- Meditation, Dad.
- Whatever!
Moon calendars.
I bought you a south-facing flat.
It's sunny all day.
Why is your heating bill so high?
560 lev.
Come down to Earth.
And...
make money.
Are you listening?
Make money!
Do business.
I don't want your money anymore.
Where are you going?
I've always wanted men to look at me
the way they look at you.
He looked at me like that.
- Like a piece of meat?
- Not like meat, Lora.
Like someone you adore,
someone you worship.
Then, when I realised
he sleeps with men...
I thought
I have to be more open-minded.
After all, who am I to...
What does he do?
He sleeps with men?
Is he a faggot?
No, that doesn't make him gay.
Just because he's done something
with a man or a woman...
Why should we be...
so narrow-minded?
Let us be...
more open.
- Why should we decide...
- You're so dumb!
Are you very sharp?
You let someone who sleeps with men
fuck you up the arse?
Yes.
No one's fucked you from behind?
How many times
have you had anal sex?
Didn't you enjoy it?
You idiot!
Someone's waving at you.
What? Piss off!
Not only will I die before you,
but I'll also have shagged fewer people.
Big business owners
have Libra ascendant.
The second house
is Taurus' natural house,
where you'll find personal possessions
and valuation abilities.
People with the planet Pluto
in that position
quite often have
large amounts of money.
The sign at the top of the second house
shows you if this money will last
or will be earned just once.
I don't know
if she'll let you stroke her.
Why?
We took her from a shelter.
She was abandoned.
She clearly wasn't a good hunter,
and some men beat her.
She's particularly scared of men
carrying sticks or canes.
She totally panics.
We're trying to calm her now.
Lucky that she's with us.
Isn't it, girl?
Poor thing.
How's your sister?
Busy with events
around the Istanbul Convention.
Yes, everyone went bonkers.
They just don't get it.
It probably won't be ratified
in our lifetime.
Come on, Ira.
I need a drop of blood.
Wait a second.
Yes.
Turn your hand.
Good.
Press with the cotton wool.
Now we'll wait.
A minute, a minute and a half,
for the result.
I know this may be the longest minute
in your life.
But we'll know.
Unfortunately, I have to inform you
that the result from the fast test
is positive.
I'm going to ask you to sit down.
Easy, we have to talk.
HIV is no longer a death sentence.
There's excellent supporting therapy.
From now onwards,
we're on a journey together.
Until you start your therapy.
When you start the therapy,
your life can continue normally.
As for informing...
What does "normally" mean?
She's an outcast now,
she'll be treated like a leper!
No...
I've worked with HIV-positive patients
for over 18 years.
In Bulgaria it's still not
like in Western countries,
but...
You're together.
You've got to support her
and always be by her side.
Wait...
Easy.
- Do you want to lie down?
- I'm fine, don't touch me!
I'm fine.
- Do you have water?
- Yes.
- Do you want some?
- No.
I'll bring a glass.
Stay with her, ok?
Sonja, what have you done?
What have you done
with your life, Sonja?
Sonja, how could you!
Calm down. Don't!
Is it my fault?
It is your fault!
Why don't you use condoms, why?
Leave her!
Sit down! Calm down!
Have they laid
the concrete foundation?
Not yet.
- How come they haven't?
- The roll hasn't arrived yet.
The rails should have been installed.
There's a delivery delay.
I'm going to check.
See you.
Beer? When you haven't finished?
Fix it at once!
Lora!
Men! Worthless men...
Lora!
Sonja!
What are you doing here?
At school I had a friend...
He was called Marin.
He fell off a crane and died.
When I went to his funeral
his mother told me,
"Ana,
Marin loved you so much..."
I asked her, why didn't he tell me?
Why didn't your Marin tell you?
Why didn't he tell you?
Why didn't he warn you?
Why didn't you tell me?
Why didn't you and your sister tell me?
Why are you silent?
You all stay silent!
I am wind.
I am fire.
I am everything.
And I am water.
I've worked as a human rights' activist
for 27 years in hot spots.
The last two years in Donetsk,
I led the UN humanitarian mission...
Hi, I'm here for the book
you recommended.
- Can I come in?
- Yes.
I know the little one
isn't usually asleep at this time
and I can see her.
It's so quiet at mine and...
I wanted to see you both.
I've nearly finished,
then you can have it.
I can't have kids.
I can't have kids.
I feel so empty.
I adore kids.
Tony and I have tried so many times.
I don't know how I'm going to manage.
Everything is so expensive.
I wanted a child so much.
91% of Bulgarian women are raped
by a partner or a relative.
91% of the victims...
How can I help?
There is no way.
Come here if you like.
Come. We're here all the time.
I'm tied to the baby.
She always removes my bookmark,
and I don't know what page I'm on.
Let me see you.
You sweet little angel!
Bulgarian
and other Slavic languages
don't have the word "gender",
only biological sex: male and female.
"Gender" was translated as "social sex".
It was a mistake,
as the European Council confirmed.
You missed making the salad,
you housewife!
Don't have a go at me
from the door.
You cook and wash Sasho's dirty socks.
And iron them.
Don't you iron your girlfriends' socks?
Unlike you, I take them off
and we have sex.
Auntie's lovely baby!
You're so mean.
Hi, Auntie.
Hi.
Veronica.
You live just around the corner,
and you always arrive last.
Didn't I ask you
to come at 12 o'clock to help?
I'm sorry, Dad.
Let's start.
Your dad and I didn't have breakfast.
It was Ekadashi yesterday
and if I don't eat soon
I'll get twitchy.
Come on, Sonja.
I haven't eaten yet,
we're just sitting down.
Oh, you mean she should eat.
Yes, I brought her food.
Veronica!
I'm coming, Dad. I have to feed her.
Her routine will be ruined.
This is sickening.
That's how it is in normal families.
When I hear "normal family",
I feel sick.
What, Tina?
I can't get over the fact
that my sister left her profession.
Now when they ask what her job is:
housewife!
A housewife!
Yoana, are you commenting
on my life again?
Yes, I'm commenting.
Because five years' pharmaceutics,
ridiculous amounts of study
and you end up...
pampering a baby!
Look at the doggie!
I'm not good at anything.
You tease me,
but being a housewife is important.
For whom?
For whom is it important?
Now you've fulfilled
your womanly mission.
You know the Constitution
defines women as mothers only.
Now you pass the test.
A mother!
You twins never stop arguing.
All we hear is you.
You'll be going on
about the Convention next.
What do you mean? It's her job.
What else to talk about, your mantras?
Lora, you're hard on your mother.
The Convention is forcing
a third sex on us.
So we must choose
to be male or female.
That's really weird!
I know very well what I am.
Don't I, kitty?
Yes, kitty.
You lovely kitty!
Tina, what third sex?
You're an engineer,
but you don't think logically.
They stuff your head with nonsense.
Even the President says the Convention
"contradicts
traditional values and morals".
- In what sense?
- Just like that!
And the first lady
compares cats' AIDS to Gay Pride.
They're all communists those.
How many years? 25, 30?
And they're still in power.
Tina, did you know that Dad
was fed by an eagle, as a baby?
Really?
An eagle snatched him from the garden,
where Grandma had put him,
and fed him from its beak.
That's why he looks a bit like an eagle.
What about cats and AIDS?
That woman is ridiculous...
The cat of the President's wife got AIDS
and she linked it to Gay Pride!
As if gays aren't fighting AIDS!
It's similar to the human virus,
but they're different strains.
Feline AIDS is completely different.
For example...
Basically, if your cat gets sick,
gay parades are to blame.
That's what the woman wrote.
And this nonsense went viral
in a few hours.
A goat found him
and brought him back.
Come on, a goat!
It was an eagle earlier.
No, "the Goat" was this prisoner
hiding in the mountain.
He heard a baby crying,
went to the eagle's nest
and brought Dad back to Grandma.
Enough of this.
I don't want to hear any more of this.
Cats only get infected
if they're bitten.
Sonja,
tell me about the Music Academy.
Sonja.
Are you on holiday now?
Yes.
What holiday? She quit.
What?
She quit?
- She left the Music Academy.
- What?
How come?
Hang on...
How many years have I been paying
for your classes?
- And you, first year and you leave!
- I didn't belong there!
Because Mum allows her everything.
How old are you, 48?
And the kids are paying your bills!
You've never kept down a job
in your life!
And now you want to turn Sonja...
into a failure like you.
The decision was mine,
Mum's not to blame!
What?
Horrible. Very deep.
Sis, there's Rivanol
in the bathroom cabinet.
Let me see.
Just use Rivanol, not alcohol.
Nobody eat the salad!
My blood's in it!
How many difficult lessons and exams!
No, Sonja broke a glass.
The child is...
Heaps of money blown away!
I'm shouting
because Dad's yelling.
She has her own path, does she?
Cretins!
When I was assigned a job,
I always, always did my best!
I wouldn't sleep
until I'd done it!
I could've taken it easy.
Why do you let him wind you up?
I'll never have a boyfriend again.
And a career either.
He's right!
What's happening?
And I'll never have a baby either!
Let me see before I go.
Sasho'll be home soon.
Don't go!
We're only here for two hours.
It's a wound. What's there to see?
- Give me some cash...
- Doesn't Sasho give you money?
He does, but I spent it coming here.
Here's 10 lev.
Why, girls?
I'm so disappointed with you all.
I hoped we'd finally get
to have a quiet lunch.
Then tell Dad to stop shouting.
It'll never work with you lot.
After his stroke, we agreed
that no one would anger him.
To keep him calm. Didn't we?
But you can't be trusted.
Hey, you've got an Adam's apple?
I told you, I'm a boy.
And I don't...
I began hormonal therapy,
but I changed my mind
because of my father.
Because of... your father?
I'm his spitting image.
You look like your father?
Yes, and I changed my mind because...
because...
he used to beat Mum.
I don't want to start looking like him.
You never told me this.
You know, when you start this therapy,
your tears stop.
Your emotions stop.
They reach up to here and stop.
And you can't cry anymore.
It's better to...
I cry a lot.
Women do cry, really.
I want you as a woman.
They won't let us.
The guards are around.
Can I get on the stage?
I want to speak about these women.
But I'm afraid they won't let us.
The convention's articles are unclear,
and are intended
to manipulate public opinion,
claiming that they're protecting
women from violence.
I've seen them before,
they want to speak.
NGOs should be able to speak.
The organisers told you not to do it.
And you drag yourselves...
The victims need legal representation.
It's important.
Who says it's important?
You're just publicising your NGO.
I don't need publicity.
We're working with the murdered women.
All these useless organisations
springing up!
"Gender" is individual
sexual self-identification.
Do you get the absurd if we accept
the Istanbul Convention?
NO GENDERS IN SCHOOLS!
NO THIRD SEX!
PROTECT THE BULGARIAN FAMILY!
In England 50 children a week consult
to change their sex...
MY MOTHER IS A VICTIM
OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
DON'T CONFUSE
FAMILY AND GENDER!
With so many rights for pseudo-women,
there won't be any men left.
- What's this?
- A sign.
- Where do you think you are?
- Leave me alone.
- Let me see it.
- Give it back.
Come on, don't make a fuss
in front of everyone.
Come here and explain!
Dirty faggot!
Get lost!
Why did you hit him?
Can't you see he's a faggot?
What are you, then, a real man?
He's got the balls to come here!
Twat. You frigid bitch!
You're not even fuckable!
Genders! Boo, genders!
Deary me!
Mental case.
I shouldn't have put you through this.
I did it for my mother.
Do you need help?
Don't worry, everything's fine.
I did it for my mother too.
What two lev?
No, I can tell you
what's on the receipt.
Look, you gave me 50 lev.
I've spent 15.15.
And that's what's left.
She's crying because she wants her doll.
Talk to you or pay attention to her?
Quiet, quiet...
You like to flirt.
Rumen, you're astonishing the viewers.
You were together last night
and today you are nominated
before Big Brother!
Do you like Rosalia?
She's not my type.
Then what did you get up to
last night?
Okay, she's pretty but not my type.
You see, basically,
I don't like the snacks you give us,
but I still eat them.
They were in a relationship...
Bloody hell, Veronica!
You obey the man!
You give him a blow job
and cook stew all day long!
That's all you do.
You take care of his kid.
I want to tell Granddad.
That won't help at all.
I think he'd just shoot him.
That's why I want to tell him.
Mum's backing up
Sonja's decision not to go to hospital.
I know that if I tell him,
he'll support me.
I think we can try something else.
What else, Mum?
Don't you see
she has to start treatment?
Don't you all see that?
Tell her that she's got to!
If you had a kid, would you send her
to hospital just like that?
Yes, I would.
This happened to my sister
because of you!
One daughter works in construction,
the other has HIV!
Should I have worked instead of you?
There's nothing to do.
My sister's sick because of you.
- I'll never forgive you this!
- Fine!
Lora, we have work to do.
Put your personal issues
to one side for now.
I can't manage alone.
The concrete is here.
What's your complaint?
Well, I have something like...
herpes.
Sonja Dimitrova, right?
Yes.
19 years old.
Something like herpes?
How long for?
I don't know. A week, two...
- Hurting, itching?
- It hurts, itches...
- And it secretes.
- Secretes?
Yes, it's uncomfortable.
I feel ashamed...
You shouldn't be ashamed.
It's just a check-up.
I have to go.
Bye, good luck.
Take your clothes off.
I'll take a vaginal discharge sample.
There, at the back.
How's your cycle?
Well, normal.
Normal?
Doctor, I should inform you
that I'm HIV-positive.
What?
I carry the HIV virus.
You know what... just get up.
Get up!
I have patients waiting.
Get up and get dressed.
CREATE LIFE
ORDER A STORK
There are organisations for this.
Go and apply there.
I can't examine you here.
Outside, I have a patient
with cervical cancer.
- Aren't you a gynaecologist?
- Yes, I am.
And I deal
with gynaecological problems.
Not with someone fucking left,
right and centre. Leave now.
Democracy.
That's what democracy brings.
Liberals!
Come on! Chop chop!
What's happening?
Won't you examine me?
- I can't contaminate my instruments.
- Contaminate your tools?
- I'm a patient too...
- You fuck around and then come here!
- Who fucks around?
- You loose lot!
Don't you fuck around?
As a doctor don't you catch anything?
Leave my practice.
What?
- Am I a whore?
- Girl...
- You can't get HIV by...
- Say it out loud!
- Tell everyone you have HIV!
- Are you a doctor?
Go on, tell everyone!
- Auntie, let's go! He won't examine me!
- Stay here.
- I really insist...
- Insist as much as you like.
- I don't want him to examine me.
- She has rights!
Let's go!
He's not worthy of his profession.
Who are you?
- Did you examine her?
- No, and I won't.
- Tell me who you are.
- A colleague.
A colleague?
Then why don't you examine her?
Well...
Come on, let's leave!
- Why did you say you were HIV-positive?
- He didn't put gloves on.
Don't tell anyone.
I'll tell everyone!
You mustn't.
You have the right not to say.
I'm not a whore, am I?
We're all whores, Sonja.
What am I supposed to be doing?
We're at home.
No, nothing.
I'm not upset, I just can't wash myself
because of her!
Won't you ask how I am?
No, I won't go to her.
Let her cry a little.
I don't give a monkey's
about your money!
I'll stay here on purpose!
I'm staying put.
Cry as much as you like.
Cry all you want, I won't come.
Do you hear me?
The first step is done.
All tomcats will want you.
But you won't sleep with them. Never.
You'll only tease them.
And make them suffer.
Which of you cats is the strongest?
Which sister will win?
You'll both be healthy!
Now you kiss each other.
And you love each other.
Sonja, I'm sorry.
What have you done to the cats?
Awful.
I healed them.
You did what?
I healed them. You know they were sick.
Look how pretty they are.
What did you heal them with?
Some pills.
Now they're resting.
The cats were perfectly alright.
They were sick.
I'm putting an end to everything.
- So you'll stop playing?
- Yes, someone crushed my F Key!
Nothing works.
My hand doesn't, my flute doesn't!
That floozy Martina went to an audition
and I wasn't even called!
She can't play the flute!
All she can play is cocks!
Sonja, please calm down.
Calm down how?
They sleep around,
left, right and centre,
and have parents with connections!
Nonsense. Why have you made
yourself up like a transvestite?
So that everyone knows I'm a whore.
You're not a whore. You know that.
How can you say all this?
I want to be pretty for men
to fall in love with me,
but I'll never have sex with them.
I'll break the chain.
It won't be like Marin said.
I won't infect anyone
or go to bed with anyone.
Now get lost!
Go away right now!
- Where should I go?
- Get out!
Alright, I'll be in the kitchen.
May I go there?
Leave or I'll cut my arm!
- Do it!
- I will!
I bet you won't!
I bet I will!
Come on, I'm watching.
I won't do it in front of you.
Now the whole world
will know I have AIDS.
Sonja.
- Sonja.
- Bugger off!
Dear friends, today Sonja died.
A month ago...
the love of my life gave me HIV.
Now I have AIDS.
Now I'll go to Grandma.
We'll be together again.
I'm happy that...
we were together
in this universe.
I loved you.
They won't catch me!
You won't catch me!
Go away!
Go away!
They'll all go away. I'll disappear.
I'll run away and no one will catch me,
God help me!
Only positive energy!
Go away, evil demons!
Get away, demon! Don't touch me!
Off with you, Satan!
I don't want to look at you!
Sonja, open the door!
Go away at once!
I summon all powers
and command you to be gone!
They won't catch me!
They won't catch me!
No one will find me!
Everything will change!
I'll hide and you won't see me!
Now only the demons will get ill!
They'll be sick!
This cat food won't be needed.
The kittens will come with me.
This bowl won't be needed,
it should be empty.
I drank from these glasses.
Wash them well to not get infected.
I'll miss lots of things from here,
Lora.
Don't touch!
Why are you yelling?
You'll wake up the cats.
Grandma gave this to me
after my first performance.
I'll leave him here in his house.
Grandma,
I dreamt of you.
Granny, we should've visited your grave
but it was the night before All Souls.
I'd promised myself that I'd come,
but I had classes the next day.
No one came with me, I was all alone.
Only you supported me
for every exam and concert.
We can sing together.
You were the first to teach me.
You taught me how to sing that song...
What was that song, Granny?
I can't remember.
I'm starting to forget everything.
What was that song?
What was it called?
No, it wasn't that. Not that...
"Strati Spoke to Angelaki"!
We'll sing it together,
we'll play together.
You'll play the piano,
I'll play the flute.
We'll perform with the Choir of Angels.
It'll be perfect
because we'll be in Heaven.
We won't be
on this filthy, rotten Earth any more.
Now I'll make a wish and it will happen.
"How can we call them gods
"when they're neither powerful nor fair,
nor want to be good to people?
You know they aren't Gods.
Don't be afraid of them!"
Everyone is afraid here, Grandma.
It's a conspiracy to turn us
into dumb freaks
so that they can abuse and infect us.
I'll take my bags.
What more is there to do here?
Everything is fake here.
Sonja.
Stupid fake reality,
where you have to pretend
and play the clown.
I can't believe it!
Everything is rotten here.
It stinks of earth,
it's full of dirt here.
Sonja,
I'm Grandma Maria.
Sonja, please drink this elixir.
It will heal you.
And now, Sonja,
I ask you...
You aren't my Grandma!
Everything you do is fake!
Go, Auntie!
Go, Auntie!
Come on, get in!
You have to change this old banger.
Banger? Mum was
on a 10-year waiting list to buy it.
It's still a banger, Auntie!
Feel the suspension.
It drives like a Citron.
You don't need to tell me,
I love this car.
This is my only connection with Mum.
How great
that Mum is taking us to Sonja!
Auntie, where's the baby?
I left her behind.
So the penny's dropped at last?
I left her with the neighbour.
Are you divorcing Sasho?
She has to feel human again.
To do something for herself for once.
Not like poor Mum,
who endured because of us.
She told me once
that Dad would take care of us.
As if she knew...
As if she knew
her heart would give up.
Say something, Sis.
You witnessed these scenes at home.
Spit it out. Let's speak about it.
Let's admit what went on.
Look, a stork.
During meditation yesterday,
I had a vision of a stork.
There's a bone there.
Cut there.
Everything is fake in the city.
No one does anything real.
The things we're doing here...
are sacred, aren't they?
What's the origin of the fire dance?
Do you know?
- That's the ritual, right?
- Yes.
Legend has it
that hundreds of years ago here
a fawn would sacrifice itself.
- A fawn?
- Yes, a deer.
It would arrive at the sacred place,
lie there, and wait to be slaughtered.
That turned into an annual ritual.
When you chance upon a rabbit or deer
in the woods, it runs away from you.
But this deer didn't run away
because it was intended
to be sacrificed on that day.
It would just kneel down,
meaning that it had to be killed.
And cooked ritually.
I hope the Virgin Mary
hears your prayers,
and heals your child.
And after I make this bread...
This is bullshit, honestly.
Absolute bullshit!
Enough of this bread and nonsense!
Easy for you to say,
you don't have the problem.
- What do you mean?
- We'll talk when you do!
And how exactly will the bread help?
I'll try everything I can!
Make bread,
stay in church if I have to.
I'll offer up prayers,
I'll try anything.
And this will solve the problem?
Maybe it will. How can you know?
Who are you to say?
I'm no one.
Throw it against the table.
Take water from the place of ritual.
Make sure you do.
Take it from there,
for her to drink and wash with.
To clean herself with that water.
So are you healed now?
I will.
By hanging up your knickers?
This is a sacred place, Lora.
People come here to get pregnant.
If they're sick, they get healed.
If you don't start therapy, you'll die.
If you don't believe, you should leave.
Every day I imagine you in a coffin.
Since I found out about this.
I don't know what I'll do without you.
I don't want you to die,
I can't live without you.
I'd rather I'd got it myself.
I could have taken on this burden,
not you!
Believe, Lora!
You need more faith.
Then allow God to heal me.
There is no God!
What are you doing, Lora?
Are these rags going to heal you?
What are you doing? Stop!
You tie up laundry to heal yourself?
You have no right to do this!
That's enough, girl!
Do you know how harmful this is?
You mustn't do it!
Why are you doing this?
Why are you ruining
what I believe in?
- Believe!
- I won't!
Believe, if you want me to get better!
You have to believe and pray.
Why are you doing this, Lora?
Where was it?
Here.
Have you cried enough?
Why don't you want to be by my side?
But I helped prepare the ritual.
No, a woman can't carry the icon.
What'll happen if you give it to me
for a minute?
No, custom doesn't allow it.
Let's ask someone older.
They'll allow it.
I'm certain.
It's completely unacceptable
for women to carry the icon.
What's your name?
Georgi.
Georgi, it's really important.
Are you afraid
someone will tell you off?
You don't understand.
No, you don't understand.
You're way too young to understand.
Is woman
some kind of satanic creation?
Why can't she touch the icon?
As you see,
there's a problem on the road.
Do you know why?
Take a guess.
Because the icon belongs to me,
not to you.
Give it to me, just for a second.
I have to protect it
so I can get married.
It's what I have to do.
Do you want to get married now?
Next year.
Okay, I'll marry you next year.
No.
Don't you want to marry me?
It's not like you have much choice
in this village.
The people preparing the meat
told me so yesterday.
So I'll marry you.
I'm afraid I won't get married
if you take the icon.
I promise I'll marry you.
You don't understand anything.
Why? Explain.
I've explained everything.
You haven't. You keep arguing.
You can't touch it.
You're the village idiot.
I mustn't be diverted from the task.
When your baby was born
and I saw her,
bags under her eyes,
like a little monkey,
big grey eyes,
and that look of concentration...
Do you know what I felt then?
That a rift had opened between us.
Really?
I felt like we'd never be as close
as we were before.
Why have you never told me this before?
I don't know.
I was extremely angry.
Everyone was talking about the baby.
"Oh, she's so pretty!
How marvellous
she's come into the world!"
No one cared if you were in pain,
or what you felt giving birth.
Everyone looked at the baby.
And you were sitting there
like a slaughtered cow in an abattoir.
Then I asked myself:
Do I want this to happen to you?
The baby is really cute, but...
you either make an effort
to carry on as you are,
or give it all up, without fear.
After all, you have to consider
what you want from life.
Being a woman is horrid.
Yes, it's horrible.
But you know what's even worse?
Being a man.
The river's carrying me away!
I'm cold now.
Sis, you've cooled down,
but you'll warm up pushing my Wartburg.
What's that smell?
Petrol.
More pushing?
After we stopped by the river,
I couldn't start the engine.
So you'll have to push a little.
Pushing again?
Yes.
Come on, girls, let's go.
What's the rush?
Why are you shouting?
Lora, fancy going back in?
Push her in!
Don't do it!
You wanted to go, now you don't?
Back in the water? Come on!
If we stay here any longer,
we'll never leave.
Enjoy life!
And stop being...
so fiery.
How can I manage my life otherwise?
As if you're so calm!
- Who are you talking about?
- Her.
I take after Dad.
He made a scene every time
we entered a restaurant.
Waitresses were afraid of him.
He threw tables and chairs around.
Why've we never gathered
all together like this before?
We did all meet up.
But not since Granma died.
Why did she leave us?
Because, you know...
Good people leave early
and don't burden others.
She simply spared us
from having to take care of her.
But I really wanted to take care of her.
I wanted to look after her!
And I wanted her help with the baby.
As she helped our sister
to bring up you two.
And I fell out with her
before she passed away.
Really?
You fell out with her?
What did you say to her?
I can't remember.
Only that we fell out badly.
You shouldn't feel guilty.
I do and...
I also feel incredibly guilty.
And so do I.
I'm really cold.
Close the window.
We'll suffocate.
- She's warm.
- Roll up the window.
Lora, roll it up.
Veronica, everything ok?
Sasho yelled at the neighbour.
And she panicked.
Wasn't she a baby expert?
I can't fly, for God's sake!
This happened
because they didn't give me the icon.
Had they given it to me
all would've been fixed.
If only they had given me the icon...
It's way too hot now.
How will God help me now?
I couldn't touch the icon!
They didn't let me touch it.
Sonja!
Your God betrayed you.
Get it?
Will I die now?
- Will you shut your mouth?
- No, I won't.
I'm fed up with icons and all that crap!
Can you stop insulting me?
Yes, because Sonja needed me as well.
When will you stop
treating me like this?
I've been thinking a lot these two days.
And now I know what I want.
Yes.
No, I'm not.
No, but I want to return to work.
You can't forbid me.
It's my life.
Yes, it's my life. I have a life too.
It's not just you and the baby.
I exist in this world as well.
You haven't slept?
I haven't for 8 months!
What are our friends up to?
They've gone somewhere today.
They've grown up.
These are the little ones.
Yes, I know.
The hygiene... Oh, hello.
That abandoned washhouse,
we've been told it's a breeding ground
for rats, mice,
you name it.
I don't think this should be tolerated
in a European hospital.
Yes, but we have
a family of storks here,
with little storks: our lucky charms!
Marvellous!
There are ways to move the nest
and demolish
that building
which doesn't belong in a hospital.
Speak to the administrator.
I've arranged a meeting but, please,
you show some initiative too.
They're feeding them now.
My baby stork...
Do you think it's healthy?
- Your baby is more aggressive.
- It's not.
- It is.
- It's really sweet.
- Your baby is really spoilt.
- No, it's just ill.
- It's not ill, it's spoiled.
- It's ill. You just don't get it.
Look, it's like a corpse.
- It's sleepy.
- Come on, it's ill.
It can't stand up.
That wasn't funny.
How soppy!
I hate all this.
I'm going to puke.
Come here, let me kiss you.
No, it's disgusting.
Let me jump from the window.
Give over, don't.
Dr Atanasova,
give some medicine to Lora.
Have you gone mad as well?
Why?
At least you don't have HIV.
Love sickness or what?
I've got to go.
No, please stay!
I'll see you tonight.
I have to go. I'll come back tonight.
The tiles are crooked.
Everyone's pressurising us.
You went missing for two days.
You said you could stay but you didn't.
You were here!
You promised, and it's your area.
You have to be there.
Have you managed your site?
Yes, and I will.
Like hell! I'm sick of this.
Stop shouting, it's not just my fault!
- I've tried to protect you.
- Crap, you've tried!
I told you to take a break!
I don't want a break!
Look, you have a problem. We all do.
Don't touch me!
I've told you hundreds of times,
we're here for you.
- I don't have problems.
- Well, you act like you do.
I don't!
You're behaving as if you do.
You're my problem now.
Stop shouting!
Don't you shout.
Respect my position and experience.
Don't touch me.
Close the door.
Someone will see us.
The door.
Do you have a condom?
No.
We don't need one.
- You must put a condom on.
- I don't have any.
Why are you pushing me?
We're not going to do anything.
- I don't want to.
- What's wrong with you?
We're not doing it.
That's your problem,
anything you start, you don't finish.
- Why don't you want it?
- No sex without a condom.
You think I'm infectious?
Don't touch me with that infected dick.
Screw you.
- Have you ever had a check-up?
- I have a wife and a kid.
It might be you who's infected.
You scum, get lost!
You're scum!
Have you ever been to a urologist?
That's why we have problems at work.
You start something
and you can't finish it.
Forgive me.
I don't even know how to address You.
I don't know any prayers.
I've never been to church.
I don't know...
I don't know what to say but...
I'm just begging You.
Please heal my sister.
Please!
What's all this noise?
We're in a hospital, not a market!
- Wait your turn.
- He has to queue.
Out of my way.
Do you know where Sonja Dimitrova is?
I can't tell you.
Do you know
which is Sonja Dimitrova's room?
The one with AIDS? 313.
It's always me they ask.
The filthy faggot.
Easy, kitty.
He's killed my dear child.
Hi.
My dear child.
Just say one word,
just a word,
and he'll disappear
from the face of this planet.
It's up to you. Just one word.
I've found people,
don't worry about anything.
Father, don't.
Yes or no?
Father, don't.
Yes. I want it.
I'll grab him by the balls
and swing him over the cobbles...
Filthy piece of junk!
The child said yes!
She said yes.
- We have to speak in private.
- Leave him alone at once!
This is family business.
Shut up!
Where are we going?
Why did you beat Mum?
It's none of your business.
You don't know what it was
to raise three kids back then.
You don't know
what suffering I went through.
For you to be fully protected.
All I needed from you was a thank you.
Just a thank you.
When I was small and you beat Mum,
I always hid behind the curtains
so you wouldn't see me crying.
I won't be silent anymore.
I won't hide.
I'm sick of being humiliated by you.
I don't want any murders, trials,
shouting and screaming.
Enough, stop it!
Your mother left the Opera
because of you!
I never heard you saying you loved her.
I also didn't.
Nobody told her.
Nobody told her!
Ana,
I was an officer for political prisoners
doing hard labour.
There was this guy, a violinist.
One of those... mummy's boys.
The petty officer took a piece
of metal equipment
and broke his fingers with it.
As a punishment.
I kept silent.
I said nothing
when my superiors abused me.
Leave Sonja alone, do you hear me?
I'm a mother,
I know how to protect her.
You're not the one to call the shots!
What do you want?
To be a saint?
I'm not a saint.
And I'll kill the bastard
who infected Sonja.
Something to remember me for.
And hate me even more.
Who killed it?
Gosho shot it with his rifle!
Gosho shot it with his rifle!
It was Gosho with his rifle!
What happened?
It was shot.
It's still alive.
Call someone, a doctor!
- Save it, make it fly.
- Give us some room.
Help it fly, Doctor, and live.
It's got a hole.
Kids, back off.
- An internal haemorrhage.
- A serious one.
Yes, and a gunshot burn.
Get inside with it.
- Careful with the head.
- Poor chicken!
Let's hope it survives.
Your mother was...
strong.
A strong person.
Gosho is nuts.
God will punish him.
It's a mother with two kids.
Two little chicks.
- It's a sin.
- Yes, a sin.
He's a mental case.
What was it called?
A nocturne. That's what it's called.
Can you play it?
Show me.
My hand still isn't working.
And mine doesn't work at all.
Look, this one works fine.
This we can remove.
We don't need it.
Now take my hand
and we'll do it together.
We'll have three hands.
Two. Mine doesn't work.
Mine works fine.
Does your brain work?
Apparently, it doesn't.
Because you're cuckoo.
And your mother...
She's the biggest cuckoo.