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you all year, though.

Did you crop that late?

Well, what's been happenin'?

- Quality crop, it's b1.

- No way, I can't go

b1, this is not b1.

You know that, look at

it, it's too much green,

too much brown, it's

not clean enough.

- That's b1 if it's anything.

- B2.

Look, that's all I got.

B2's the best I

can do, I'm sorry.

- Well, how much?

- 213 a pound,

that's pretty good.

- You're stealin' my

tobacco, you know that?

It's as good a quality

as any you got here.

- Right, look, take

it or leave it.

That's all I've got.

- Hey, come here.

- What?

Don't touch me.

Give it to me. Give it to me.

- What the hell

you keep this for?

- Give it to me, Uriah.

- I know about that ring.

It was her daddy's weddin' band.

He died when she was 10.

She said in her letters that was

all that she had left of him.

I hopin' better things

mighta come her way.

Mama, well here mama,

she got married again,

a couple years after,

and there I came.

I guess Gale and my daddy

never got along too well.

Can you tell me more about her?

- Ma'am, I'm sorry

to trouble you.

- Who are you?

- Name's Miller.

I'm workin' for your um...

Well, he gave me these

until I could get my own.

So uh, I'm returning them.

- I'll be sure he gets 'em.

- I'd appreciate that.

- Well?

- I uh...

I know it ain't my business,

but I saw what

happened this morning.

Well, I was just wonderin'

if you were okay.

- You were right the first time.

It ain't your business.

- Hey!

I saw you at my house.

My wife ain't none

of your concern.

That clear?

- I'm sorry about your loss.

It's late.

- All right.

Well, I'll be goin' then.

Hey, maybe I come by

again, if that's all right.

- There ain't no reason to.

I done what I can for you.

- You know anything

about workin' on a farm?

Don't look like it!

You cost me 100 a day!

- Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Jesus Christ.

- Get the hell off my farm!

All you f***ers!

I said get!

Hey! God damn it, wait a minute!

- I've had my fill of this!

To hell with you!

- All right, maybe I lost

my composure a little bit.

You done good, I'm

grateful to ya.

Hey.

Come on, now. It's late.

How 'bout you come on,

have supper with us.

I reckon I owe you that.

- Don't you want more?

- No. Thank you, ma'am.

- So, where you goin'

after season's out?

- South.

- Like what, Florida?

- No, way down,

Brazil, Argentina.

- What for?

- No reason, I just want to.

- I seen a lot pass

through here, driftin',

don't own nothin'

but their clothes,

and most of 'em are

runnin' from something'.

You ever done time?

Well, sh*t. I have.

Banker man, right

here on my property,

tellin' me he's

gonna take this farm.

He's talkin' and

talkin', I just watched

his jaw move until I

couldn't stand it no more.

I cracked his skull,

busted his eye socket in.

Looked more like a cut

of meat than a man.

And Gale here, she's

screamin' at me,

even turned the hose on me like

I was some kind of rabbit dog.

Didn't ya darlin'?

- God's sake, Uriah, you

gotta tell that story?

I did three years for that.

I got no regrets.

A man can't defend his

home, he ain't worth sh*t.

- Who's that?

- That looks like Jimmy.

Jimmy, come on in.

- Hey, Uriah.

Hope I didn't interrupt nothin'.

- You're okay.

What's up?

- Well, uh, I'm on

that construction

job they're doin'

up on route 70.

Could use a man

to run the paver.

- Yeah, startin' when?

- Well, tomorrow.

- You serious?

- I can ask frank if you can't.

I just thought I'd

come to you first.

- Don't bother 'bout it.

You want another

beer, or somethin'?

- No, I'm fine.

Place is real nice.

- You think so?

- How long you two been married?

- Now, why you wanna know that?

Well?

- They need someone for that

highway project, union wage.

- How long?

- A few days.

- Got another job, or somethin'?

- You think anyone's makin'

a livin' from farmin'?

Listen, I got to have that

crop done before the frost.

Looks like I'm a bit short

handed at the moment,

so uh, I appreciate you

stickin' around a bit longer.

- I guess I could.

- I need you to go

into town tomorrow,

round up some help

for the field.

Think you can do that?

- All right.

- Miller?

I know you're there.

I ain't goin' nowhere.

You deaf?

I brought you coffee.

I thought you might like some.

I'll just stay a little while.

- Look, I don't wanna do this.

- Do what? We're just talkin'.

What if I help you, then?

- Like how?

- Well, there's

gotta be somethin'.

I got two hands, don't I?

- Hold it steady, now.

Come on, you doin' this, or not?

- I'm doin' it.

Some things don't change.

- How's that?

- When I was just a girl, my

daddy never let me do anything.

I was always just holdin' stuff,

a flashlight, a screwdriver,

hold this, hold that.

- Yeah, well, that's

called apprenticeship.

- It's called borin'.

- When'd you see him last?

- A while, I guess.

- How come?

Somethin' happen to him?

- I don't mean to

be, I just don't know

if that's any of

your concern, is all.

- Ain't none of this my concern.

You're the one that come

here askin' questions.

Hell, my old man,

he beat on me, I mean good.

I grew up tryin' to be

invisible, hiding, you know.

I was five years old,

he knocked me out cold.

Hey, uh, hand me

that knife, would ya?

- That looks pretty painful.

- How it is, you know.

Old man up and died

some years back.

Funny thing though,

I'm sorry about it.

Now I just wanna see him.

- What for?

- I'd just like to

know him, is all.

More to a man than what he done

when he was too

young to know better.

Say he don't act the

same, or think the same.

Watch your fingers.

After a few years,

not a single piece

of you is what it

was, you know that?

Well, it's a fact.

Every cell in your body,

every hair on your head,

it's all dying,

and replaced by somethin' new.

You shed your skin 100 times.

What you done, well,

you can't shed that.

- I started havin' dreams.

- Dreams?

- Things I'm seein'

when I'm just a baby.

Same face in the picture,

but she's just a girl.

She's staring at me like she

needs to tell me somethin'.

Her mouth opens but she

don't have a voice to speak.

In my dream I'm...

I'm wonderin' what's she done to

make my daddy punish

her like that.

She was just 14 when she had me.

Hey Miller?

Why did he do it?

- Miller, they'll

be hangin' around

Montgomery street, get three.

- Yeah, all right.

- I'm back on Friday.

All the north fields

done by then, right?

- All righty then.

Same time tomorrow.

- Yep.

- Y'all good with that?

- Yep.

- I'm gonna drop the keys off.

- Okay.

- Have a good night.

We're done for the day.

- Somethin' else you need?

- I saw you lookin' for it.

A little bit for you, ain't it?

- Well, it...

Hey, all this about

you goin' south.

How come? You running?

- That Uriah's take on it?

- He thinks you're

kinda strange.

- Well, that's mutual.

- So?

- I'm just curious to see

somethin' in this world.

Ain't you?

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