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and saw them shooting.

All the boats burned...

Didn't you see?

Give me some light.

Sh*t... Going to run dry.

Must tie it with something.

There's nothing suitable here.

I've got a stocking. Let me.

Wait! You pee on it...

Then tie it up... Pee!

It doesn't matter

who does it... Pull hard.

I can't...

Yes you can... You must!

Stop that cranking.

Come, come here. Eat up.

Those with the jeep said no-one's

allowed to the sea any more.

Can't keep the boats either.

You'd better not look

towards the sea at all.

They said if you see something,

like someone with a boat,

you must tell them...

So the less you see the better.

One was talking and

the others just stood there.

He asked too why I had not left...

This Juhansen...

Now we've got this Kasper Juhansen...

The same doctor mother used

to see in that hospital in town...

How do you know it's Juhansen?

It's him alright.

I saw his papers... The same guy.

It was his leg you bandaged today...

With mother's stocking...

Juhansen.

Gone out... What the hell!

So it has!

I'll shoot the bastard!

Father!

What are you doing?

Wait!

Wait, you can't, you can't,

you can't do this, father!

You keep away! Get off!

It's the bloody gas!

Make some light!

Make some light!

Do you hear!

Here! And here!

Because you wanted to rape me!

Because you slept with my mother!

Because I wanted to kill you,

you bastard!

Because you wanted yourself...

You know, I dreamed that...

Winter

So what are the voices saying?

Well, did they say something?

- No.

No point in messing

with the radio for your spying.

These are the last batteries.

What spying?

- You know what I mean.

They come and take you

to your little wife.

That would be nice, wouldn't it?

- It would be very nice.

Father doesn't want you to smoke

here. Reminds him of mother.

Mother, you see, started smoking when

she returned from the hospital, from you.

One cigarette after the other.

Didn't do a thing, just smoked and stared

in front of her and warmed her feet.

Father said it was low blood pressure

that makes her feet so cold.

The pressure was low

because of all that smoking

and smoking is from nerves and nerves

from low blood pressure.

Mother didn't even listen to

what he said.

Sometimes said no wonder

your feet were cold

if you lived by this dark sea

and ate fish...

She kept saying she wanted dry land

where the sun was shining

and people drank red wine.

For thirst, and not like here -

just communion wine,

and that's diluted too.

She then said, I mean mother,

that she had dreamed she was

at a dried out salt lake,

looking for a post office...

Wanted to send us a letter

that she was not coming back here

to rot away... To gut fi sh and freeze.

That she could now go where she

wanted and she was doing just that.

Father thought

it must be a nice place indeed where

you had everything you wanted, and

perhaps she was going to be bored there...

Mother said she wouldn't.

Started shaking her head,

meaning no, no, no, no.

Father then shut up.

He knew what it meant

when she was shaking her head

like that. Mother then shut up too.

Just sat there for a while

and then said

the only thing she would miss

is the crying of the birds...

She would miss

the screaming of the seagulls.

Somnambulance...

The old man is back.

I write everything down, where I took

them and whose things these are.

Only stove-flues left in the village.

They sure know how to stoke a stove.

Burnt down all the houses.

Steal them clean and

then set fire to them.

Only privies still standing.

When people come back one day they'll

have nothing left and nowhere to stay.

If they come... Seven...

Of course they will... This mess

won't last until spring.

In autumn you said

it won't last until winter.

Winter is not yet over.

Twelve and more. Did you have a look

at the jolly near the boat sheds

or do you plan to wait until

this will be burnt as well? - Twelve.

I don't wait for anything.

Maybe someone else here does.

If that person wants the jolly,

let him come and talk to me.

I will go myself.

- Let him go, he who needs it.

Kasper is not going on his own.

It's dangerous on the shore.

They might be lurking there.

- There's nothing to lurk for...

Not a single boat left.

- There's yours.

Not any more.

Where did it get to?

- Wherever.

You leave it well alone, the jolly.

Let him go and look for it

himself if he's so desperate.

Where would I go with that

trough anyway?

Seal hunters have taken the jolly

across the sea to Finland many a time.

I must get to Sweden.

- You can go on to Sweden from there.

From Finland?

They send you back from there.

Why didn't you remain a doctor?

You could still have a job

and give advice to women.

What advice would I give them?

- Whatever women happen to need.

Mother told me.

Even the cheapest ones who made

money sleeping in the barracks

and then came to you

so you could empty their wombs...

Even they remembered

the doctor's hands.

You remember the faces

of these women, don't you?

I don't...

- But you looked at them?

I didn't see them in that way...

What way did you see them then?

Like a doctor.

Were they all the same

down there, you know?

Yes they were. And weren't.

Can you remember any of them?

- Some.

Mother...

She was...

- What was she?

She was what she was...

But she was...

Crazy...

Crazy about you.

What am I supposed to say to that?

Nothing.

They were all crazy...

Your patients, who parted their legs so

you could stick your hands between them.

Falco tinnunculus...

Nicely drawn...

And correctly too,

which is most important.

Kasper had a look at your cow...

Time to take her to town.

He said if she didn't want

the bull now, she never would.

What did you say?

- I said you must take the cow to town.

You are right, so I must.

Maybe tomorrow.

A long way for the animal to walk.

But if there are no bulls closer

there's really no choice, is there.

Yes you better go tomorrow.

And if she won't have

the bull this time too,

sell her for meat and buy

new batteries for the radio.

Stuck inside the birds

and I can't get them out.

Well, enjoy the food!

Thanks.

No news from Sweden yet?

- Silence.

It's the jolly then.

- Looks like it, yes.

Just mind you don't leave

any traces near the lighthouse.

You can have my old skis.

Not the new skis,

but the old ones are good enough.

Bless you.

And keep away from the girl.

Wait...

Lyon.

Strasbourg. Antwerp.

- Antwerp.

Odessa.

- Yes.

Then comes Bratislava, Paris,

Athens, Istanbul.

Stockholm.

- Stop there, let's hear that.

When mother left us and ran off

with her officer,

she said

they were off to Sweden.

So when you meet her there,

tell her that Eetla,

her daughter, sends her regards,

that she's still a virgin...

Tell her that the soldiers

are already eyeing me up...

How long will I last like that...

And mind you tell her that

I didn't let you near me, however

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