Nafas Page #3

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He gets well and they go home together.

We haven't finished the alphabet yet,

but Noroozi has read such a thick book.

Clap for her!

OK, that's enough.

I've drawn a beautiful picture too and

sent it to Children Programme on TV.

Wash hard or I'll wash

you with boiling water!

Good!

Go!

Don't move!

Take it.

Go!

The Aliens live downtown

in a dilapidated garage.

They have strange names. My dad

takes us to their house too.

One of them is called Izra'il.

Granny says their names are scary!

- Hello.

- Hello.

Hello.

Congratulations!

They have a chief, Babri Khan. He

doesn't have moustache or beard.

Bahar?

How are you?

Do you study well?

Yes. She's got 20 in all subjects.

- She tells dictation to Nader.

- Good.

You have a beautiful boat.

Who has bought it for you?

My dad bought it for her

when she became top student.

Well done!

Will you give it to me to sail around?

No?

Give it, darling.

Ghafoor!

When Bahar grows up, we

must marry her to Latif.

They match well.

It's not possible, Babri Khan.

I'll tell you why later.

She is my own daughter,

my brother's daughter.

- Why is it impossible?

- I'll tell you later.

Ghafoor!

Bring everybody to the Takiyeh this year.

All tribes have come. The

Aliens will all come.

We have a real mourning this Muharram.

God bless!

Mother?

You don't drink tea?

I am your mother?

You are old as my father!

Ghafoor, why madam doesn't approve of us?

She does.

It is offering for God and

begging Imam Hossein!

Drink!

Do you want money?

Don't bother.

Here.

Go and buy yourselves whatever you want.

- I won't set foot in their Takiyeh.

- Why not?

You heard me!

Because you don't know where

their money comes from.

My! They work.

They have a garage and minibuses.

They work and make money.

They used to be pedlars,

selling skewer and fortune.

How they settled down and became rich?

As soon as you see them, you

dress and look like them.

I just put on their shirt.

What are you eating?

Citric acid granule.

Don't! Your belly will be pierced!

Throw it away!

Do it, dear, when granny says so.

Don't be stubborn. There is a good girl!

Granny?

Why dad doesn't bring Bella

Shoes lorry home any more?

They have fired him. He isn't in the mood.

I don't know what it was to you to do that.

He was my friend, my colleague.

So what?

You must write 'martyr' on his obit?

To get from us this little money?

What was it to you?

Thank God they didn't arrest you.

Sit quietly!

Bring the jug, kid!

Hell with me, what have they done?

How you're going to feed them?

My God! Ghafoor!

Ghafoor!

I've made cutlets. Where are you going?

May God kill me and rid me of you!

He's going to the Aliens!

Kamal, bring the bread. Take

a morsel to your father.

Ghafoor!

Whenever my dad leaves home,

he doesn't walk like Samson.

He stoops.

I think he's forgotten

he's grown his hair long.

What did I say?

My dad likes films very much.

Especially Samson and Delilah.

Samson was a hero with long hair.

He could beat everybody and defeat

them because of his long hair.

The enemies wanted to know

why he was so strong.

They send a beautiful woman to Samson.

He falls in love with her and tells

her the secret to his strength.

Then the enemies cut his hair

one night when he was asleep.

Samson was not strong any

more and was defeated.

No way. It must grow longer!

May God put a little wisdom in your head!

Now my dad lets his hair

grow so he will be strong.

I'll stay here for some time.

When the dust settles, I'll return to Qom.

What if SAVAK agents raid here?

They aren't idle to come

to the middle of nowhere.

Ghafoor has brought you somewhere

SAVAK agents will never come.

Don't worry.

- That's the reason I built a house here.

- God does nothing without a reason.

Here.

- Me!

- Me!

Thank you. It's very delicious.

Bon appetite.

- Will you give me a book, uncle?

- No, because you can't keep books.

You tore up any book I gave you.

- Please!

- No!

Hossein! Come give a hand!

Don't touch the books, Bahar.

Where are you going?

Take the dishes to the brook and wash them.

Come back quickly.

The book Human Sellers of the

Twentieth Century is very hard.

I can't read many of its words.

It is the story of a rich girl, Badri.

She goes out with her friend, Mali.

But some strangers kidnap them in a car.

The thieves are beating them in the

car and taking them to another town.

Damn you!

You've been here for 3 hours.

What are you doing?

You didn't wash the dishes?

I'll show you!

Stop!

I'll catch you in the end!

Everybody is waiting for

you to go to Aliens' home!

Thank you.

How much?

Thanks.

Granny, you said you wouldn't

eat the Aliens' food!

Is it their food, naughty?

It is the 1st of Muharram.

It is Imam Hossein's food.

Eat!

Hurry!

- Have you seen Babri Khan's horse?

- No.

It is for the Takiyeh. Our

tribe love that horse.

Its name is Niyaz.

They say it goes to the field

in the morning at Ashura,

and returns at night with crying eyes.

- Telling the truth?

- She is fibbing!

It is the truth. I swear

to Babri Khan's head.

I think the tears of Babri Khan's

horse are the Shining Gems,

because granny says Babri Khan is rich.

Maybe he's become rich this way.

When they brought Babri

Khan's horse at sunset,

I looked into its eyes well.

There was no tear.

Surely its Shining Gems

have fallen on the field.

Oh, they hurt Badri very much!

The bad guys beat her and her friend.

They took them to Qazvin

and then to another town.

Badri and Mali cried.

Some parts of their bodies were bruised.

But the kidnappers had no mercy.

They beat them all the time.

I wanted to be in Badri's place.

Because the thieves said

Badri was beautiful.

But I didn't want to be in her

place when they were beating her!

The thieves took Badri to a

far-away place to a big house.

There was a fat woman there.

They called her Boss.

Damn you!

What are you doing in the loo for 3 hours?

Are you talking to yourself again?

Come on out!

- I fell asleep.

- And I believed you!

Come in.

The Boss took Badri to a man in the

party of the rich people one night.

He gave her a cherry, but Badri

dropped it and broke it.

I've never seen a cherry break.

They smash but don't break.

Are you here? You're reading a book?

Granny told you not to read books.

I'll tell granny! She'll sort you out!

Let's tell granny. Run!

So, every clock has two hands.

The bigger one shows the minute

and the smaller on the hour.

For example, in the picture on the right,

it is 2:
30.

What are you doing?

Get up!

Go to the blackboard.

Stand here.

Indeed!

What books a brat is reading!

How old are you?

What grade are you?

Second.

What are you reading?

Get out!

Noroozi!

Come here. Where did you go?

I told you not to get far from school.

Didn't I?

Are you deaf?

What were you doing among the rubbish?

Hold your hand up.

The other!

Don't pull it back!

Go, stupid girl!

Go to your class!

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