Mecava Page #2

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Mother, you know, when

there's a storm like this...

...I am sorry that

I refused my suitor.

By now, I would have my children

so it wouldn't be so bleak and empty.

I wouldn't even hear the snowstorm.

That's how I'm feeling,

like a barren heifer.

Oh my, don't say it like that

my daughter. - It's true.

When storm blows like this

and wind howls around the house,

I keep thinking how I hear

the crying of a child.

Just like moment before...

...even now.

Mum, I'm just hearing children cry.

- It will be like that when Ivan comes.

You know...

I wouldn't tell that to nobody,

not even in sacred confession.

It has been... two years now that

I dream about giving birth.

When I lay on my back...

...my back is in pain at once.

And... then I dream I give birth.

I thought he was asleep

when he calmed down.

You know he is restless

when it's a snowstorm.

I'm gonna go to milk sheep, mother.

Why are you standing

there in the dark?

Ha?

Damned snowstorm...

It's dark like in a mine.

Nice.

At least now we can see each

other when we are alone.

Put more wood in that fire.

It's winter.

Cold.

Dark.

Eh, what I experienced

in the old days...

...that I have to live

in the dark.

You speak like you were born

in some big city.

Your father, grandfather

and great-grandfather...

...they all lived like that.

And I also lived like that

my whole life.

So what.

When man doesn't try anything better,

he is satisfied with what he has.

I lived in America for 34 years.

Wherever you go

everything is in light.

Just press the button...

...and it flares up like bonfire.

If you could just see American

city in the night...

...you would think it's a fire.

Everything is lit, you would

scream:
'Oh people,

help me!'. Seriously.

You smoke too much.

You know that the doctor said

when he examined you in Grachac

that you shouldn't be smoking.

It's from the mine.

All those who work underground...

...more than 10 years...

...they all cough.

Their lungs are full of sh*t.

To me...

...in there is like in a chimney.

And what can be done anymore.

I need schnapps to wash it

from the inside.

It's stifling today here.

Like in mine... after the explosion.

Can you hear the wolf howling?

When this weather fits them.

Snowstorm and wolfs.

They howl the same.

You don't know who is worse!

I could together with them...

...holler!

Did Lukesha told that this

is the last one on debt?

He told.

Thief.

And Ivan

constantly

delays his arrival.

He has dollars on pile.

And me...

...I don't have...

...not even a red cent.

And the girl waits.

Girl waits...

You could let her marry

Jozo Kikin or Blazh Prpich.

They are good boys from the

decent families. -Blazh Prpich...

I could let her.

I want for her to go in house

where she will have

even birds milk.

And she can have

that only at Ivan's.

He will be able to buy her

all those fields

from Ronchevich,

down along the railway.

City, you understand? They will

build the city, bar, shop.

But the girl is running out of time.

Masha is a healthy and firm girl.

And, last year when Grgo

got her in the chaff

and started to tease her,

blood pumped into her head.

She was red like an apple.

What?

How could Grgo be

allowed to tease her?

Engaged girl.

- Come on, my Jole.

It's not like before.

Those times passed.

Today is...

- What today?

Masha knows that I would

strangle her if there was

even a bit of reason for

rumors to spread around village.

Ivan is rich and proud man.

He could let her go.

And then he goes.

Even bar perishes.

And the shop,

and hers and our life.

I can't work on land anymore.

You and Masha must know that.

To hell with you both!

You always swear and foul.

For 22 years I was under ground.

In Minnesota, Pennsylvania...

...Colorado.

For God's sake do you even

know where that is?

I wandered for 8 years.

And suffered along

the prairies of Texas.

Woods of Sierra Nevada.

For 4 years chased with the beasts.

Districts in Canada...

In the mine my leg was crushed.

In the woods a wolf

bit off a piece of live flesh.

And injured my eye.

My ear got frozen.

Now I fell down to

that I keep my own daughter

for a rich son in law.

So I could have

something to live from.

What devil made me

come back home...

God will punish you Jole

for speaking like that.

What kind of devil chased me

to come back, ha?

Fine, the first time I

came back to build a house.

Because of my son.

Because here was my son.

Because, the second time I came

back, I didn't have a son or money.

You came back to your wife!

Daughter...

You can find a woman

everywhere when you need her.

The daughter belongs

to the one you married.

And son...

Either you have or you don't.

I froze completely.

What did you do for so long?

I feeded animals.

Dad.

There is some hot water.

You can put your leg in it.

- Great.

Something in it again hurts.

As if you ripped

live flesh with jaw...

Somehow it hurts you more

and stronger this winter.

Maybe you should see a doctor,

so he can take a look at it a bit.

Eh, crazy old lady.

Those American doctors,

were looking at it, healing.

And now some charlatans

from Gospich will do good...

All that is bashed and crushed.

And they clinched it and tied

all together with a golden wire.

And now all those little bones

are held by the golden wire.

Like, for example a rim

holds a barrel.

If you remove the

rim of a barrel,

wood would fall apart

and there goes the barrel.

Just like that is with my bones.

If I die before you,

you cut the skin,

take out the wire

and sell it.

Dear God.

- What kind of evil is in gold?

I sold my health.

My leg, piece of meat.

All for gold.

I'm gonna go prepare the bed.

It's good that you survived back then

when you were burried in a mine.

I don't know how

people dare to enter a mine.

How they dare?

They are people, not old ladies.

Some of them were lucky to find

better jobs out on the open.

Out on the land is hard to live,

without knowing the language.

I wondered.

And found a job.

I ran into fellow countrymen.

They were felling the woods.

It was good to me.

I brought down huge trees.

Bigger,

than any beech in Velebit.

To bring down a tree,

I had to think of my son, on...

...late Makica.

I saw before my eyes,

scattered brain,

I couldn't do it.

Why are you whimpering now?

Wipe my leg.

Wolfs again.

Wolfs, wolfs...

I could bite them.

But why are you going

outside on that snowstorm?!

Hat!

Jole, wolf!

Wolf behind your back!

Oh my god!

Look out!

Jole, dear God, be aware.

You won't taste my meat.

Let's go.

We did our job.

If there was one rabbit wondering

we would have dinner also.

Wolfs almost had their dinner.

Better go back for

the axe and rifle.

Look at me crazy.

Who is that?

- Wife!

And who are you?

- I'm Perelja.

Perelja who?

- Perelja from Dunes.

Ah, Perelja from Dunes.

Nice, now I know.

But you could strand easily.

So what?

It's nicer to live after this.

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