City of Joy Page #4

...allowing me to be of use.

I told you, my passport is lost in

the mail, but I can't believe...

...it's going to take three weeks to

transfer a couple of hundred dollars.

I just gave it to you.

One-one-zero-zero-one-six-two.

Two.

I don't know, my visa...

Hello?

Goodbye!

No dinero, no bucks for three weeks.

- This is driving me crazy

- Max...

...the bill.

I'll need you plane ticket.

- My plane ticket.

- Yeah.

It's just a little guarantee.

With a face like mine

you don't trust me?

- It's not a question of trust, Max.

- Oh, of course not.

The government renuires foreign exchange.

So it's the government's fault?

My husband is a very strict man.

And, er-- we have to tell your husband.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

And there is absolutely no other way

out of this place?

Hunched back camel--

burrow, nothing?

No not until the bill is paid.

Not until the bill is paid, all right.

Here you go.

Please take care of it.

Can I leave this here?

Mm-mm.

Thank you.

For you.

...not contagious.

I don't know that, all I know is...

You don't know it, you don't know.

You know nothing.

Please, please...

I've been vvoring with these

people for five years...

Let them go to hospital.

Just a minute, just a minute, just a minute.

You stay out of it!

Listen-- just a minute.

Leprosy is not infectious.

I am leper.

But my daughter...

...but my daughter is not leper.

Oh, I'm not interested in all that.

All I know is that

lepers shouldn't come here.

Joan Di. Joan Di.

Hello, Anouar.

Hello-- tell us

...Dotor Lowe was telling us-

that many of us could be helped.

...that all it would take-

is money for medication.

Please-- would you buy us

the medication?

Anouar, it, it'd cost a fortune.

Well-- as we are not allowed to

come to the clinic...

...then perhaps Doctor Lowe would

come visiting us occasionally.

Anouar, Doctor Lowe is no longer a

part of this endeavour.

There is only his cherished memory.

...because I am having visions.

Good morning, good morning!

Hell of a good morning.

I may have the body of a sparrow

but I have the eyes of an eagle.

What are you doing, Sister Joan...

...practising medicine without a license?

Oh God, junior, you're great.

Oh, what a surprise!

Now don't get carried away,

I'm just here to get you organised.

Will you shut up?

What made you change your mind?

Well, I had a religious experience.

You see, I talked to Jesus to day...

Oh yeah, and I'm a bloody

bathing beauty.

Actually-- I am temporarily

deprived of my plane ticket.

Ah...

...so, how long am I stuck with you?

Couple of weeks, till I get you organised.

No, six months, not a day less.

- You're crazy, lady.

- Not worth the aggravation.

One month and not a day more.

Three months-- and that's my

final offer.

Nine weeks-- or until my plane flies...

...and that's my final offer.

You're on.

Olay, now sit down.

Here...

...write.

We need detailed case histories...

...we need an IV.

Er, you need a truch load of broad

spectrum antibiotic...

...pain killers...

...basic vaccine...

God save me from knights

in shining armour.

Hey!

Good morning, Doctor Max.

- What are you doing?

- Good morning, doctor.

Hi, Hasari.

Er, Kamla...

...I was wandering if you would

like to be my assistant.

At the clinic, what do you think?

Hasari...

...I need Kamla as my assistant

at the clinic

Is it all right?

You are staying here?

Well-- for a bit.

What do you think?

Yeah.

Yeah?

Cool!

All right.

Twist and shout-- twist and shout.

Come on, come on baby...

Hasari, where have you been?

I've been waiting almost five minutes.

I'm sorry-- it was the traffic.

Oh no, mum, come.

Oh, you're looking very different today.

Yes.

You not go to school?

No, we are going baara bizarre.

She is getting married, Hasari.

Oh-- that's very nice.

Soon I'll take her children to school.

Hasari, you must remember

the shop where we are going.

Because it is the nicest shop in the city.

And when your daughter gets married--

you should, you should take her to this shop.

Am I not right?

Turn to the right please

and don't mind her.

She's just a little chatterbox.

But mama, you get such beautiful saris.

Come on, let's get down.

Dipti dear, how do you think he

can afford a shop like this?

But mama, I didn't mean it.

Don't take it so seriously.

That was very insensitive, my dear

Mama, just look at the sari.

Well, youy shouldn't say these things.

One you know what I mean.

I said it again.

One every two days, okay?

Understand---great.

Only four hours to go, junior.

Oh, go for it!

Okay, little fella,

let's check you out.

Let's check you out.

How are you doing?

How are you doing?

This baby's not gaining weight.

Are you giving him the

extra milk we gave you?

Some, not all.

She's probably selling it.

Selling it?

Gotta pay the rent.

On that dump?

Well now Poomina's going to school

somebody's got to pay the rent.

That's the way things work round here.

I'm not liking the school to be in,

okay. From tomorrow I'll not go.

I will go back to work...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, okay, yo!

We have the technology.

Okey dokey.

This.

...Is the extra milk for the baby.

And this is the extra

extra milk for the rent.

So it's very simple, give it to

the kid or I'll kill you.

Thank you, sir.

And Poomina...

you, young lady will stay in school.

Come here little

You're gonna need all the luck you can get.

Gonna be a fireman

when he grows up.

I get no respect.

Hey!

Take me to 'Rifles' building.

Baba...

...I'm cooking, baba.

I'm cooking rice,baba.

Where's your mother?

Careful go get me some water.

Kamla, do you have any water in there?

I am fried!

Hasari.

Hasari, you have three fine

potential scholars here.

This one will be ready for a proper

school in another couple of years.

It's more than a father could hope.

Fifteen years from now, Dallas,

Texas, Doctor Manooj Pal.

Thanks.

Joan we can't keep going out to

that leper colony, it's wasting...

...like what, two hours a day walking.

I know but

Well Poomina...

where have you been, young lady?

You should be in school!

I know who this is from.

It's a summons to see 'himself

Now Mr Ghatak, I understand

there should be an increase in rent

if we have larger quaters, but

I don't see why we should have to

pay more protection.

More people, more problems

the strangers.

And if I don't charge you

what will I tell others?

We can't afford it!

If you can expand, you can

afford to pay more.

Excuse me, sir, this isn't a

drinking den, this is a free clinic.

You are from a rich country, doctor.

For you money is a piece of paper

with which you buy something you want.

For me it's a wall.

A beautiful wall.

A protective wall.

A wall that separates me from

the degradation oh the other side.

This wall is my achievement,

Miss Bethel.

I am proud of it.

And what you don't understand is...

...that those poor souls on the other side...

...they are also proud of it.

Do you understand?

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