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- Did he tell stories?

- Wait a second, how did it go?

- All the birds got together, and

went to find Simurg. - Simurg?

The king of the birds, their

savior. Something like that.

They walked for years and years, face

to face with hunger, disasters, wars,

and conflicts. In the end

only thirty of them reached

the mountain where Simurg

lived. And what did they see

But that there was no savior

there. Nothing, no one.

Neither the king or Simurg.They waited

for months, years, but there was no one.

They looked down at the water and saw their

own images. One day someone emerged from

a midst the birds ans said, "We're Simurg.

Simurg means thirty birds. We're Simurg.

We're the saviors. What are we waiting for?"

You know, your father used to come here.

He used to say, now this is where I came to

know Simurg. In this valley. I have no use.

For worldly power, he used to say.

I'm leaving for the other world.

May I kiss you? May I kiss your elbow?

- What'd you do to my house? It looks great.

- Do you like it?

I'm really impressed.

Really! You even cooked.

- Did you come here to tell me this?

- What'd you say?

Nothing, where have

you been all this time?

It's a good thing for me to

disappear from time to time.

Not so, you can't just go off like that.

Where were you, I said?

Where were you? Aren't you

going to tell me? I'm asking you.

- Aren't you going to stay? - What's gotten

into you? - You really got me worried.

- You couldn't have called. - Come on,

don't act like all those boring husbands.

I thought I'd never see

you again, that I lost you.

- Please, don't touch me.

- Don't you want me any more?

I don't. Don't touch me. I said, lay

off, lay off me. Don't touch me you ape.

I don't want you. I

don't want you any more.

- When are you going back?

- You want me to go back?

Don't be ridiculous.

Who would want you to go

back? I was just asking.

I don't know I'm going to return. I

can't do it before I find my father.

What about everybody there? Your important

work, it before your important house,

- your important wife.

- Baby, was this your big problem?

- It's time for you to get your

ticket and go back. - I don't get it.

Why don't you just go? I've found

someone who knows where your father is.

- What'd you say?

- Don't ask too many questions.

It's a Mafia boss. He's

expecting us tomorrow.

You don't have to say a thing.

I did this because I wanted to.

Come on, say something nice to me.

- Maybe we could set up a farm here

together. - You mean a fish farm?

All kinds of animals.

Fish, horse, birds, giraffes.

- What about kangaroos and elephants?

- If that's what you want.

- I'd like that. Just like in a fairy tale, right?

- Just like a fairy tale.

Receptors begin to from in

the brain of heroin addicts,

- heroin receptors.

- And?

The receptors constantly need to be

supplied with heroin. They're permanent.

- You've done the same thing to me.

- I don't exactly understand.

It just occurred to me

that way... Animals, a farm.

A fairy tale isn't it?

Just like a fairy tale.

At one point they came to me. They were

really in a hurry. I didn't know who they were.

They tried to get me to

convince him to return home.

But he was after his

father like a tornado.

But he wasn't able to find him.

The men were insisted that he return.

But it was like he was being hurked around

inside a labyrinth with no ending. It

was like he had chosen his father's path.

He was desperate. The more he understood

his father the more he began to resemble him.

I had told him that a person returns

with fresh when he journeys into himself.

He laughed.

- Welcome. - Hello.

- Have you found your father?

That's why we're here. They say

that the gentleman knows quite a lot.

- But he doesn't want to see you,

to talk with you. - How's that possible?

He was your father's prison mate.

They told you he had a lot to say.

There's nothing I can do about

it. I can't interfere in his work.

Please go and speak with

him, help us. Please...

I told you, he doesn't want to talk.

If you'd like we could sit down

and have something to drink.

I don't want anything to drink, I don't

want anything. I'm not budging from here

until I find out where my father us.

I'm not moving. I'm here until morning.

I love you.

Now I'm really convinced

that you want to find him.

He left this letter for you.

Thought you might come one day.

My driver will take you to him.

Those were the best days of

my life and I lived them fully.

Maybe I flowed through life to be able

to say with such ease that I really lived.

I passed quickly, really quickly

through villages still in the stone age,

through supposedly civilized cities where

deceit was the order of the day, through

friendships, treachery, and

through the traps set by women.

If you ask me whether all of this had any

meaning for me, I'd say, with some anger:

For God's sake, wouldn't you think so?

I'd like to repeat this three times.

My son, my son, my son... I never

dealt with my mistakes or my defeats

with bitterness. I always tried

to handle things with reason,

with intelligence. How could a

father be so alone, so didactic?

Maybe it was just because of this

that my time on earth has ended.

Have you ever noticed the way cats disappear

with such grace when they're ready to die?

This really made me laugh. Well,

I really had a good laugh, I guess.

Maybe I should laugh at myself like

that now, at least I should try.

Those were the best days of

my life and I lived them fully.

Some day in some future never to

come, life will tell us who we are.

I hope at some unforeseen time, when life

confronts you and tells you who you are,

that it will also let you know who I'm.

Are you looking for someone?

Do you need something?

A tourist, I guess.

My life has told me who you are.

I'd been following them since

the big city. They were fugitives.

At first, I didn't understand why

they were coming to this seaside town.

Your father had been involved

in some covert work for years.

That's why the organization

kept a close eye on them.

It'd been six months since I began

the assignment. I was a real novice.

I spent those six months doing absolutely

nothing. Then one day they called on me.

I was really nervous. You see, your father

was my first job. They assigned me to watch

your father. He was considered

dangerous from the start.

You wouldn't know; you

weren't around then.

It was winter, January or February.

The town was completely deserted.

What if I lost sight of

them, even for a few minutes.

How would I explain that to my bosses?

I constantly lived with that fear.

Did you know your father did that to me?

I followed him for thirty-five years

and sent in reports to headquarters.

Them I retired. But I couldn't

leave him. I moved in with him.

I took care of all of his business, we

became friends. How could I have know then

that I would spend my life running after

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