Simon and the Oaks Page #3

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Hey Erik, have you heard this one:

A Jew walks into a butcher's shop and

says:
I want ten ounces of that fish.

The butcher says:

That's not fish, that's ham.

The Jew answers:
Excuse me,

did I ask for the name of the fish?

Did you hear that, Karin?

So Isak. How many cupboards

have you made today then?

Last week we made chairs, more than a hundred!

That's how you learn.

But what I really want to build is this.

A boat.

It's not a boat, dad.

It's a double-ender Koster.

It's going be the biggest and fastest

Koster in the harbour.

Isn't it so, Erik?

Why wait? Start building it now.

I'd be happy to order and pay for

a boat. Give me an estimate.

On one condition...

You have to go back to school.

- I'm not.

- You have to catch up.

- Why?

- It's a good idea.

I don't want to go to school.

I want to stay here, with Erik.

How are you today?

I'm fine, thanks.

That's what it's going to cost.

She'll be clinker-built

with oak planking.

It might not mean so much to you,

but it will be the finest Koster on...

What's the matter?

Just pay what I wrote on the note.

Save your charity for someone else.

When you and Karin

took care of Isak-

That was Karin's decision, not mine.

So the time you spent, teaching him carpentry...

...was that pity or charity?

The boy needed something to do with his hands.

If I double your salary,

it's only for my own peace of mind.

If I pay half the price, will I only get half a boat?

By the way...

I would like to invest in a shipyard.

As soon as this blasted war is over...

But I'll need an expert.

First we're talking about one boat.

One.

And all of a sudden you're

talking about a goddamn shipyard.

Are you out of your mind, Lentov?

Do you think your f***ing money can buy you anything?

Every time you come around, you bring something.

Coffee, sugar, books...

We don't need it.

We've done damn well without you.

What are you so afraid of?

It's not a bad idea.

A shipyard.

Think about it.

Don't dismiss it just because Ruben came up with it.

Hello, kids.

I'm done with the keel now.

How do we go about the planking?

Let me see.

Oh my...

You're almost getting good at this, huh?

You've designed the keel just the way it should be, right.

We start with the bow down here, then upward like this.

But we have to attach it to something.

So we'll make a rough draft

we can use for other boats later on.

War is over, Karin! It's over!

Hundreds of people look out from every office window.

Jubilant crowds cheer the long awaited Victory.

The Spring of 1945

...the most despicable crime against

humanity ever committed.

When the camps now are liberated,

the death toll, mostly Jews

has risen to an unimaginable

3 million in Germany and Poland.

The number keeps growing and the

few survivors fill the roads of Europe

as they return on foot to what mostly are ruins.

The conditions in the camps were beyond comprehension.

Inhuman... disease... emaciated

corpses everywhere.

This would never have happened

if the Russians had done their part.

...told by eyewitness Count Folke

Bernadette, head of the White buses.

And now Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson:

Dear listeners.

The message that the war in Europe's

over doesn't come as a surprise.

We've been waiting a long time for this message...

Mum?

Mother!

You have no idea of how much I love you.

Mr Larsson?

The heart attack has caused severe

damage to the cardiac muscle.

H' she makes it through the night, there's good hope.

But for now we'll just have to wait and see.

You can't leave me...

Don't leave me, mum...

She slept all night through.

She's going to be fine...

I'm going to rebuild everything.

I'm going to...

...build a toilet and

a bathroom in the hall.

She won't have to go outside in the cold anymore.

No more lugging firewood...

We'll have central heating, Simon.

Central heating's what we'll have.

And running water, cold and hot.

And we will have one of those stainless steel sinks.

They're so easy to clean, you know.

And we'll extend.

Here, we'll build her a big new living room.

With that porch she's always talked about.

That'll be great, right, Simon?

How's Olga doing?

She is a bit better.

She'll soon be permitted longer leaves from the hospital.

- Take care...

- Thank you.

Aren't they lovely?

But I prefer tulips.

I really do.

Me too.

Coffee?

What is this? Capitalist chocolate.

No way.

- I'd love some.

This one's mine.

Traitor.

- You shouldn't smoke so much.

- You shouldn't drink so much.

Cheers.

- Have you baked something?

- Done!

Welcome home, Karin.

It's electric. You... well...

you turn the...

Watch out so you don't burn...

It's hot.

Are you alright?

You didn't like it...

Hitler, Churchill and Moses celebrated Christmas together.

Hitler asked them:

What do you want for Christmas?

What do you want, Winston?

I want a big Cuban cigar, he said.

Okay. He asked Moses: What

do you want? For Christmas, said-

Quiet!

You're welcome!

I love it! It must have cost a fortune.

Where did you get it?

That's my secret.

The west coast of Orust will be colder than usual...

I haven't said a word...

I've let him play it all day long.

But it's starting to drive me insane!

It's f***ing Christmas!

You haven't left your room since

that machine came into this house!

Who do you think we are? Huh?

Your servants?

You're coming downstairs now!

Bring all the sh*t you've piled up.

You destroyed it...

What's wrong with my music?

My music isn't sh*t, just because

I don't belong in your world.

I love it! It means something to me!

What's the matter with you?

What are you so f***ing afraid of?

What?

We meant to tell you sooner, but...

We were unable to have children.

You came to us when you were three days old.

You were so tiny, Simon...

Inga... met a man...

...your father... in the woods.

Inga's my mother?

Yes, but back then she was young and beautiful.

Yeah well... yeah.

Who was he?

He was a music teacher.

He played the violin, he did.

She thought he was the Water Spirit.

I knew it...

I knew I didn't belong here.

- Love, don't say that!

- Why didn't you tell me before?

- Because of the war, all the hatred.

Your father...

...was a German Jew, Simon.

And in Norway the Nazis were

hunting down quarter Jews, even.

You know what people are like.

What they're still like today.

A Jewish violinist.

Finally it all makes sense.

So it's not my fault after all...

That I was never good enough for you.

- Please Simon...

- Let's go inside! Please.

- Stop it!

What happened to him?

- He disappeared.

- What do you mean?

We got a letter from Berlin

a couple of years later, and...

Well, we assumed that he went back there.

What did it say?

We don't know German, Simon...

- Let's go inside.

- Where is the letter?

- Inga burned it.

- Why?

We asked her to... when we heard

what the Nazis were doing.

Simon, what if they would have found you...

You knew about it, didn't you?

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