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-It's Vedder!

Why do you want me to come in?

- Aren't we neighbours?

Walter?

What happened?

- I couldn't help it.

Why didn't you sell?

I wanted to, but Mr Henkenhaf

and the negotiations...

Mr Vedder? There's a reception

downstairs, everybody is there.

Even the King phoned.

Won't you have a glass of champagne?

Walter...

Jump!

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Jump, jump, jump--

Walter...

- Do come. All is forgiven.

Really?

- Who are you talking to?

Forgiven? Really?

- Of course.

Walter!

- Mr Henkenhaf forgives me.

What about the peat diggers?

- Henkenhaf here...

Let's raise a glass downstairs.

Walter...

They're in America.

- No.

It was never paid for.

They've probably been drowned.

I couldn't help it.

I wanted the best for everyone.

For Theo, for those people...

Has nobody contacted you

from the boat?

I don't know.

- Cousin Al?

I don't know anymore, Chris.

Mr Vedder?

Are you coming?

Yes.

No, no, Walter!

A bit more to the right, and a little higher.

Yes, a new era.

I wish you good luck.

- Thank you very much.

It's an honour to tread

in your footsteps.

Oh, well...

Good bye.

Diploma Doctor/Pharmacist

Christiaan...

I went to the pharmacist.

They said you'd be here.

This was forwarded to me.

It's for you.

- From the disciplinary tribunal?

I'm getting legal assistance.

- It's not from them.

Dear Dr Anijs...

...my apologies that I've only now found

the time and peace to write to you.

You, to whom we owe so much,

if not everything.

As an excuse, I may say that we had

quite an adventurous trip.

Sieger, go away-

Man overboard.

Man overboard.

The trip took several weeks.

Luckily we arrived in daylight.

In the early morning...

...so that the promised land

lay open to our eyes.

We were taken to Castle Garden,

an old fort.

We were supposed to have met

our agent there.

But there was no one. He wasn't there.

We didn't know what it meant.

We waited for days.

Some of us lost hope...

...when we got the devastating news

that the agency no longer existed.

The agent who should be our guarantor

was on the run for the authorities.

Nothing had ever been paid.

Can you imagine?

After everything you and your cousin

had done for us.

This agent, whose name I do not know,

left something behind...

...a violin.

The shipping company decided

to call in an expert...

...and it turned out to be

a very rare instrument.

A so-called Syde.

The violin was so valuable that

the company accepted it as payment.

Do you still make cabinets?

- Don't you trust my expertise?

Imitation Stradivarius.

Red, weak varnish. Poor inclination.

No signature. A winter job.

We can go, come along.

We all went in different directions.

We were now in the land

of unlimited possibilities.

Some went to Michigan,

Pennsylvania, Oklahoma.

We stayed in New York.

Look, Dad'.

- We changed our name to Benjamin.

That was my grandfather's name

whose mohel box is now yours.

I've found employment now

and the first thing I bought...

We will never forget the person

to whom we owe all this.

To you, Doctor Anijs...

...and Mr Vedder.

Give him our kind regards

when you see him.

With inexpressible gratitude

I sign off with the name...

...you will always remember me by...

...Pet Bennemin.

They are alive.

They made it.

The reason I went to the pharmacist...

I often feel sick in the morning.

Is there a cure for it?

Some opiates can...

No...

You're going to be a father, Christiaan.

After all.

I'm sorry, about everything.

Everything I said, and...

I've really come to ask if you...

...if you will take me back.

Please...

Our child will have a father.

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