I Dreamed of Africa
Mohamedsayed1993@yahoo.com
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Great job. Oh, no, I know where we'll go.
Let's go to Harry's Bar.
Yeah, come on, come on!
I'll buy you all a drink at Harry's Bar.
But there's no room for Kuki.
Kuki, come on.
Come in our car. Hurry now.
Take Gabriella.
She won't fit in the Alfa anymore.
Come here. Come in.
Come on.
Let's go!
What are you going to call it,
this bump here?
If it's a girl, Valentina.
It won't be long now, Gabriella.
I know. Eleven weeks, three days.
Not that she's counting.
Do you have children?
Emanuele. He's seven.
Oh, Emanuele! What a lovely name.
- Hey, look at the truck!
- What's he doing?
He's going to hit us!
My baby.
- Help me.
- Please, God.
Help us.
Somebody.
Marina.
Oh, God! Marina!
Kuki! I don't see Kuki.
- I'll stop the bleeding.
- Just help!
No. No!
Hi, Pep.
What happened to it?
Does it look frightful?
It looks like this, only bigger.
Remember when Christian broke his leg?
That's what happened to your mother.
When will you be home?
It won't be long.
Not for a few weeks, though.
You can come see me every day.
Even school days?
Sure.
We can do your homework together.
Are you in pain?
Not too bad.
I'm so sorry.
It was...
This shouldn't have happened to you.
- I don't know how to help or...
- It's nobody's fault.
It's nobody's fault.
Nurse.
She's in pain. Please do something.
You should go home.
Is there someone there with you?
Yes. Thank you.
For a while, I couldn't remember
who else was in the car.
Go home.
"Gravity.
Gravity holds objects on the ground.
"It is called gravity.
Gravity is very important."
- You need to get drunk.
- That's not what I heard.
Look, that's the blanket
your mother gave her.
Sweet, huh?
- She is so beautiful.
- I know, I know.
Well, she's not so beautiful
at 3:
00 in the morning.Emanuele must miss you.
He's been here almost every day.
That's his snake.
It's a full moon tonight. Can you see it?
No.
May I?
Of course.
May I turn off the light?
Have they found the driver?
The police...
...have given up.
Can you see it now?
Not quite.
There.
It's beautiful.
It's 4:
00 in the morning.I can hear the traffic in the street below.
The doctors say that next week
I'll be leaving.
But for now I do nothing
but lie here and think.
I am divorced, raising a child on my own.
I feel a terrible sense of failure.
Everyone tells me I'm lucky to be alive.
I know this is a chance to find meaning
in my life, to give it value.
But I'm afraid that I'm only a dreamer
who hasn't the courage to change.
But there's always Ema.
At least I got that right.
I was nearby. A bridge repair in Treviso.
Come in.
If it's no trouble.
No, no, of course not.
It must be great to be home at last.
He remarried. I think they're in the States.
And he keeps in touch with Emanuele?
Not even when we were married.
So you came back to live here?
It seemed easiest.
I run things here for my mother.
She's too busy between the museum
and the university.
And I like to be home for Ema.
You know, when he gets out of school.
That's Lake Rudolf. And is that you?
That's me.
My father spent a lot of time in Africa
when he was younger.
He wanted me to see
all the places he loved.
with my brother.
Really?
Near Kilimanjaro.
He had an accident out there.
What happened?
I'll tell you one day.
Anyway, the idea was to learn the ropes,
buy a place.
I felt I belonged there. I was at peace.
After the accident,
I told myself all the usual things.
How lucky I was to be alive.
Pep, Pep! Come quickly.
Excuse me.
Bad dream.
You know how to get rid of bad dreams?
You draw it.
Now tear it up.
And again.
Yes.
Now give it to me.
Don't set fire to the bed.
'Bye.
That's how you get rid of bad dreams.
- Says who?
- Says me.
You think you're the only one
who has them?
'Night.
- Lf you're out this way...
- Thank you.
Thank your mother for me.
Of course.
No more cast.
No more cast.
This man has come into our lives,
and for the first time in many years...
... I feel a sense of hope, of life returning.
He loves Emanuele. My son adores him.
But there is a restlessness in him.
He's afraid I won't understand, but I do.
I understand that most of all.
These last few months,
you, me and Paolo...
...we've been happy, right?
Paolo's selling his house.
He's giving up his job.
He wants you and I to go to Africa
and live with him.
He wants to take care of us.
You mean leave here?
Leave Nonna and Grandpapa?
Wouldn't it be fun to make a new start
in a new place?
Yeah.
You see...
Ema, look at me.
I've stopped growing.
Out you go.
Well?
- Will there be elephants where we live?
Go to bed.
- And giraffes?
- Bed. Now!
I'll never go to bed in Africa.
It's Paolo.
I'm not surprised.
We're talking about going to Kenya
to live...
...after we're married.
I know it seems sudden to you.
It's not Venice.
I mean,
have you given any thought at all to...
...how it would be for you and Ema
actually living in Africa?
I mean, it's so unpredictable.
You were always the one that said
I was afraid of a challenge.
Well, not all challenges
are worth accepting.
I'm not afraid.
Well, then you should be!
You're not thinking about the hardship
and the risks.
You are responsible for a child now.
It's the experience of a lifetime for Ema.
He'll find happiness and freedom!
You say freedom to make it sound noble,
but it's just your willfulness.
And you never think things through.
Listen to me, Kuki, because I love you.
Because you're afraid of being Ionely.
And you don't want me to take Ema away.
I am afraid. And who isn't?
- And I don't want you to take...
- Madam.
Not now, Gregorio.
I don't want you to take Ema away.
But just listen to me.
I adore Paolo.
But now you're planning to...
You are planning to go off to Africa
with a man you hardly know.
I love him, Mother.
- I really do.
- Do you?
We're not easy people, you and I.
I haven't gone out of my way
to make it easy.
'Bye. Nonna! I love you!
Come and see us!
Zebras, down there.
Africa!
Look, vultures.
Vultures.
What kind of people do this?
Poachers, for the ivory.
They probably did this
while it was still alive.
Butchers.
They'll destroy everything.
Let's get Ema away from here.
Come into my tent.
Your son seems so happy.
Why the tents?
Everyone lives so far away, when we have
a party they seem to stay for days.
You'll get used to it.
Life has a different rhythm here in Kenya.
Whoa, look at that plane.
I tell them not to do that.
Duncan!
This is a precision instrument.
You might want to try looking
at the Cameron place.
Old Harry's getting tired
of fighting off the poachers.
Come on, Mike, give it a go.
Well, there's another place at Kipini
near Ras en Nogomeni.
- It's...
- On the coast.
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