The Breadwinner Page #6

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- Yes, I am Fattema.

- I am your second cousin.

Mohamed Abdul sent me

from Mazar.

Gather your family.

We must leave immediately.

No. You see, you weren't

supposed to come so soon.

My son is away, we must wait

for him to return.

- There is a war coming!

Have you not heard?

We have to leave now, before they

block the roads!

We have to wait until

she comes home!

I have to wait for my daughter!

Son, daughter!

Which is it? Gather your things,

we are leaving now!

- I am not leaving

without Parvana!

We have to wait!

Count yourself lucky

I am taking you, old woman.

The girl and the baby

are of more worth.

I didn't come all this way

for nothing!

If we do not go now, we won't

get out of here at all!

- Give me my baby!

- Let go!

- Give him to me! Please! Zaki!

Zaki! Give me my baby!

GIVE HIM TO ME!

NO! GIVE HIM TO ME!

- Let go! Let go!

- Salaam, little one.

- Salaam.

Where are you going to

with an old man's stick?

It belongs to my baba.

I'm taking it to him...

to the prison.

I see.

We are going that way.

- Give the baby to me!

- Let go!

Let go! If you want to keep

the baby, come with me!

Ah, Zaki, you... my daughter

is out there!

Then what kind of fool are you

to have sent her out alone?

Get in, or she won't be

the only child you lose today!

No, don't! Give me my baby!

Keep him quiet!

Zaki! Wait for my daughter!

Come, Soraya.

We must start a fire.

I am looking for Roshaan! Hey!

I am looking for Roshaan!

I am looking for Roshaan!

I am looking for Roshaan!

I am looking for Roshaan!

Open the door!

Get away from the door,

you stupid kid!

- I am looking for Roshaan!

- Get out of here!

- I am looking for Roshaan!

- Are you stupid? Shut up!

- What are you doing here?

It's all right.

He is my son.

You are wanted inside.

That boy needs

some discipline.

That's my business.

What in the name

of the merciful

are you doing here?!

It's Wednesday!

I've come to meet

your cousin, Roshaan.

There's a war started!

Roshaan has gone to fight.

We've been brought from the city

to clear the prison of anyone

who won't fight for us.

The teacher...

- Is he alive?

- I don't know.

- The teacher is my father.

I am Parvana, his daughter.

Help him.

Please.

If I'm not back before

the sun has gone down, you run.

Run as far away as you can from

here and you keep on running.

You can't stay here after

sunset, do you understand?

Thank you.

- Do you understand?

- Yes.

Hide yourself until then.

Once, there was a young boy...

called Sulayman.

He knew his heart

was fated to serve his people

and he was running out of time.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Come on. Get in the car.

We have to go

back for my daughter.

I said, Come here! Now!

We're not going with you.

- Mama-jan!

- You!

Come now! Do you hear me?

You come here

like I told you to!

You come now!

We will not go with you.

Just drive away from us!

Get in the car.

Get in the car, now!

Mama-jan!

Sulayman! Sulayman!

Be brave, Sulayman!

Run, Soraya!

- Take Zaki and run! Now!

- Mama!

GO! Keep running!

You... let... us... go.

Open the door.

- What are you doing with that?

- He's dead. I'm putting him

with the others. Open the door.

Let me through.

Move, move, move,

move, move, move!

- Stop!

- Get in a lineup, all of you!

STOP!

I said, stop!

It will be dark soon.

Razaq!

Razaq! Razaq!

Sulayman... Sulayman!

The mirror shines!

Use it to blind the jaguars!

And then the snares!

Throw it over them!

Razaq! Razaq! Razaq!

I have come for my father!

I have come for my baba!

Put him down!

I said, put him down!

Do you see what is happening?

Where are you taking him?

Who's out there?

Look away, can't you?

It is just one man.

What does it matter?

GO!

GO!

Go, unless you're going to kill me!

I will scream and curse you

until the last breath

leaves my body.

Go!

You're crazy.

Crazy!

You can die out here

for all I care!

Die!

Sulayman...

Sulayman...

Sulayman...

I have not come to kill you!

Sulayman!

Soothe him with your story!

The one that Mama-jan

can't speak of! Tell him!

Sulayman!

- My name is Sulayman!

- Tell him what happened!

Tell him your story!

My name is Sulayman!

My mother is a writer.

My father is a teacher.

And my sisters

always fight each other.

One day, I found a toy

on the street.

I picked it up. It exploded.

I don't remember

what happened after that...

because it was the end.

- It's working, Sulayman!

Tell him! Tell him!

My name is Sulayman!

My mother is a writer.

My father is a teacher.

And my sisters

always fight each other.

One day, I found a toy

on the street. I picked it up.

It exploded!

It was the end.

My name is Sulayman.

My mother is a writer.

One day, I found a toy

on the street.

My father is a teacher.

I picked it up.

And my sisters

always fight each other.

It exploded.

One day, I found a toy

on the street.

I don't remember

what happened after that.

I picked it up.

Because it was the end.

The elephant was transformed!

He took the bag of seeds

from the centre of the mountain

and gave it back to Sulayman!

Sulayman returned

to his village.

There was much dancing.

And singing. And laughing.

And eating.

Razaq!

Baba! Baba!

Is he alive?

It is not his blood.

He lives.

Get out of here now, child.

Go on!

As fast as you can.

It's the moon.

Soraya...

S... Sora... SORAYA!

- Mama?

- Soraya!

Soraya... Zaki...

We are a land

whose people

are its greatest treasure.

We are at the edges of empires

at war with each other.

Parvana...

We are a fractured land

in the claws

of the Hindu Kush mountains,

scorched by the fiery eyes

of the northern deserts.

Black rubble earth

against ice peaks.

We are... Auriana,

the land of the noble.

Raise your hearts,

not your voice.

It is rain that makes the

flowers grow.

Not thunder.

SETTE inc.

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