Enemies: A Love Story Page #2

I'll bring you some.

- No. First he has to eat the compote.

- What's the difference what he...

- Stop it.

Stop fighting. What...

- It all gets mixed up.

Will you two stop quarreling?

If you two can't

live together peacefully...

how can there ever be

peace on the Earth?

The last two people on Earth,

they would kill each other.

How can you understand God?

- You shouldn't argue

with her so much.

- She infuriates me.

She's more devoted to material

things than any atheist.

First she tells me

to marry Leon Tortshiner...

because he brings her

little cakes.

Later, she finds fault with him.

God knows why.

What difference

was it to me who I marry?

After all I'd been through,

what would it matter?

Speaking of marriage,

how is your little peasant?

Did you tell her you were

on a book-selling trip again?

- Tonight, I'm in Philadelphia.

- And what happens

if she finds out about us?

- She'll never find out about us.

- There's always the possibility.

She will never separate us.

If you can spend so much

time with an illiterate goose...

perhaps you don't need

anything better.

And what sense is there

in doing the dirty work

for that swindler of a rabbi?

- At least become a rabbi.

Swindle in your own name.

- I can't do that.

- Here's the compote. It's delicious.

- Thanks.

The truth is, you're still

hiding in that hayloft.

Yep. That's the truth.

This is very good.

This is... This is very good.

[Train Rumbling By]

[Rumbling Rises In Intensity]

[Train Wheels Screeching]

[Panting]

[Moaning]

I don't believe your peasant

is really as cold as you say she is.

- Well, don't believe it.

- What about your first wife?

Did you love her?

- Tamara is dead.

- Suppose I were to die?

Or commit suicide?

How long would you

remember me?

How long would you wait

before finding another?

Just this once...

be honest.

How long would you wait?

I would never

have anyone again.

- Is that the truth?

- Yes, you devil.

The whole truth.

[Both Laughing]

- [Laughing]

- Suppose... Suppose that there

were no men left on the Earth.

- Mm-hmm.

- Would you do it with a woman?

Sure. Why not?

Would you do it with a man?

- No. Absolutely not.

Out of the question.

- Why?

- Why? No.

- You know why?

- Because then I wouldn't

find my other half.

- [Laughs]

But an animal...

[Moaning]

- [Both Laughing]

- You get me a nice sheep or a goat...

- Mmm! That's another story, you know.

- [Laughing]

- You ever do it with a guard?

- Never.

Not that

they weren't interested.

Of course, there was

this lieutenant at Dachau.

No. Never.

Never, never.

It's time to go to work,

Herman.

- Before work comes pleasure.

- I have to go.

I have to go.

[Mumbles]

[Both Laughing]

## [Humming]

Yadzia?

Let's take a holiday.

[Applauding]

[Speaking Polish]

[Replies In Polish]

Want one pink one.

[Bell Rings]

- [Man] All right,

we got a balloon going up.

- [Chattering]

- [Talking, Indistinct]

- [Shouting, Indistinct]

[Herman]

Hit the hole! Hit the hole!

- [Bell Ringing]

- Yeah! I won! I won!

We have a winner!

We have a winner!

Mister, you have a winner!

All right!

We got a winner!

[Screaming]

[Laughing, Screaming]

[Chattering]

I'm so happy.

So lucky.

God himself

has sent you to me.

[Siren Blaring]

- [People Screaming]

- Herman, please.

I want to become a Jew.

I want to have your child.

[Barking]

- [Laughing]

- They drag animals here

from all over the world...

- and put them in cages.

- My cage was not

this comfortable.

Yeah.

- I have to call Yadwiga.

- Call her.

- Don't be angry.

- Call her.

But if you love me,

you'll take me to the Catskills

for my vacation...

just like you promised.

I promise.

I-I must stay here

in Baltimore another day.

[Animal Roars]

Uh, in a bookstore.

- I'm in a bookstore.

- [Animals Growling]

- Uh, what?

- [Bird Chirping]

It's, uh,

it's a jungle book store.

That's right... No.

Oh, sure. There are jungles

in Baltimore.

[Roars]

I know that, sweetheart.

I-I know.

- I-I miss you too.

- [Roars]

I will. Listen. I will... I will...

I will call you tomorrow.

I promise you.

That's right. Bye-bye. [Kissing]

Y-Y-You... Say hello

to the birds for me.

Yeah, bye-bye.

"Yadzia."

Come home with me

and I'll show you something

your Yadzia would blush at.

- [Roaring]

- [Roaring]

Would you still want me...

- if we both died young...

- Oh, Masha.

And were buried in the same plot

and I came to you...

- in your grave?

- [Moans]

Would you still want me?

Always.

Always, Masha.

[Groans]

Herman?

Herman?

- Herman, wake up.

- Mm.

Herman, Masha says

she's gonna meet you

in the cafeteria at 12:00.

And, uh... they're looking

for you in the newspaper.

See?

Nowadays, when someone

is looked for in the newspaper...

it's no small matter.

[Talking, Indistinct]

[Baby Crying]

Come in, Mr. Broder.

A miracle from heaven,

Broder. A miracle.

Call her in.

Your wife has returned.

Hello, Herman.

I didn't know

that you were alive.

That's something

you never knew.

[Door Closes]

- Our children?

- Dead.

Sit. Sit down.

Th-Th-They told me

that you were killed by a-a-a...

- a firing squad.

- They shot two bullets into me.

One is still here in my body.

It's as if you've...

you've risen from the dead.

We were dumped in

an open pit, hundreds of us.

They thought

we were all dead.

But I crawled over some corpses

and escaped at night.

It was raining or the Nazis

would have seen me.

Then I fled to Russia.

I lived in the woods,

for years.

How was it my uncle

didn't know where you were?

We had to put

an advertisement in the paper.

I-I don't have my own apartment.

I live with someone else.

What do you do?

Where do you live?

I didn't know

that you were alive.

- I think...

- Who's the lucky woman

who has taken my place, Herman?

She isnt Jewish.

She, uh...

She's the daughter

of the Pole in whose house

I lived during... during the war.

A peasant?

Who is she?

She was our servant.

You knew her.

Uh... Yadwiga.

Yadwiga?

You married her?

[Chuckles]

Forgive me.

Wasn't she a little

simple-minded?

I remember she didn't know how

to put on a pair of shoes.

Your brother used to tell me

how she used to put

the left shoe on the right foot.

Tamara.

- She saved my life.

- Was there no better way

to repay her?

[Chuckles]

Sorry. I shouldn't ask.

Do you have

any children by her?

Children? No.

Well, it wouldn't

shock me if you did.

I assumed you crawled

into bed with her even

when you were with me.

That's nonsense.

I never crawled into bed

with her with anyone.

- Oh, really?

- No.

We never really did have a marriage.

All we did was argue.

What was I supposed to do?

One minute, you were a Trotskyite...

You never had any respect for me,

for my ideas.

That's not true.

You know that.

Why don't you have

any children by her?

Why are you looking at me

like that? You married her.

Well, maybe for one minute there

I thought... I says... I said...

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