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they were told of their sins.

- What were their sins, what did they do?

- I will get to that young man... Be patient.

Five people were

missing from the village.

...six with Mehmed, one

of them was a girl.

These are what they looked like...

Mehmed is the first one. You

will all see. Sit down and...

...pass it around without fighting.

Before the Messenger came, no one

knew what had happened to them...

They say, no sin stays hidden forever.

And this one did not either.

Keep a lookout; make sure

no one is around to see.

Where is he?

It was as if God had

given the Messenger...

- Where is that lunatic?

... the intuition to see into the future.

He knew that danger was near,

and knowing so, he disappeared.

It was just at that moment that

this tyrant felt what real fear was.

Where are you?

Come out... Come out!

I know all...

I know everything.

- Get inside!

- Where is that voice coming from?

- What voice?

- Can you not hear it?

- I know all... I know everything.

- The voice... It is gnawing at my brain...

Where, where is it coming

from? Go! Go and find him!

Night became day but, the Messenger

was nowhere to be found.

It was as if he had vanished.

Mehmed was an innocent man,

a poor and good man.

I have come to avenge his death.

His, and the deaths of...

...the other five,

said the Messenger.

The man's legs were shaking,

he was so scared.

The Messenger actually

knew everything.

Our ancestors say that no sin

stays hidden forever.

When the time comes, even the plants

in the ground become witnesses...

...and reveal the truth.

The rest of the murderers

found themselves at...

...the gravesite of the other

five who had been killed.

The gravesite was a big hole in the

ground that no one knew about.

Everyone had returned to the spot where

they had committed the big sin.

Ikram, why did we come here?

I'm scared... Let us leave.

It hasn't been touched...

How did that a**hole know?

You are the ones who killed us.

Our sins are upon your heads.

Our graves are not claimed...

They are unattended and we

have no one to pray for us.

How can one man do

this to another man?

May God forgive us...

May God forgive...

They, who had never spoken

God's name before...

...now in fear of death, spoken

it for the first time.

But no one could save them.

Even the earth showed its power

and covered them under.

And it was at that moment that the

men understood what death meant...

What it meant to murder... What it

meant to lie under the earth.

I killed you.

Didn't you die?

Your father buried you here,

you son of a b*tch...

Are you a ghost?

Come!

- Drink... Drink!

- No, no, no!

He held him under water

till he was out of breath...

He wanted him to drink

the water from the well.

The mightiest of all men, the

Messenger let the man live...

But it was futile.

If you ask why...

When the man drank the water,

Mehmed's soul...

...thoughts and mind

entered him as well.

The next morning the sun rose...

But he awoke blinded.

No!

They say that only an oiled

rope could ease his pain...

They say that he killed

himself early that morning.

They say... The words

he wrote on the wall said...

The Messenger showed me

the darkness of my heart.

The darkness I saw there

blinded my eyes.

It is only God's right

to give life or take it.

What can you do? Man

has done evil upon man.

I do not deserve to go on living...

May God forgive me in hell fire.

It is not known if death is

an escape for the dead.

But the villagers thought

they had escaped.

They thought they could

now live in peace.

No one shed any tears for the man

they had cowered in front of...

Men always respect tyrants

when they are alive...

But never pray for them when they are

dead... They spit on their graves.

The Creator of Earth and the skies...

You are in my heart and soul.

Come, come...

May God forgive... The villagers all

thought themselves to be innocent.

...but as day turned into night,

they found out they were wrong...

That night something happened,

something unbelievable.

Those who knew and stayed silent are

as guilty as the ones who sinned.

You did not see, hear or speak.

What is a man, without his words?

We are there, right over there...

Lying in the ground.

Our grave is a bottomless pit.

There is no one praying for us.

Those who knew and

stayed silent are just...

...as pitiless as the ones who

have committed this sin.

A heavy and heartless shame

had covered the entire village.

They were all ashamed

of themselves.

The sun never shined

in that village again.

Even the roosters stopped their crowing.

Spring never came and...

...no plant ever grew.

No lamb or sheep bleated ever again.

All that was left was a crazy wind...

...drying every hand, every

lip it touched in its path.

A crazy wind was all that was left.

The wind was like a naughty child

as it blew upon this dry land.

The whole village had turned

into a silent graveyard.

Only this crazy wind was left blowing upon

the sealed lips of the living dead.

No one saw the Messenger again.

They said that the Messenger Abraham

had disappeared, had vanished.

All that was left was a crazy wind and

that wind whispered the Messenger's name.

It said, "Don't forget...

You mustn't forget... "

You haven't told us why those men killed

Mehmed and the other five.

- Come on tell us.

- Be patient son, I am going to tell you.

But this is enough for tonight.

You all go on home and sleep now,

and do not tell anyone anything.

Tomorrow night come

again at the same time.

Omar, take the children home quietly.

- Why don't you just finish the tale now?

- Omer...

Mary... I told the children

to come back, but...

When they come, you should

too tomorrow night.

I will be here.

Angela! Get up.

What is this sleep? Have you died?

Saffet, come on wake up...

You little sh*t, get up and take

the animals out to feed.

Have you been smoking weed?

Sleeping till this hour?

Why didn't you wake him up?

The sheep are going to starve to death.

How should I know he wasn't up? He gets

up by himself every morning. Ferhat!

The Messenger will come... He will

show you how dark your heart is.

He will blind you. Just wait...

Just you wait.

The Messenger Abraham will come for you.

Adem, don't!

Has anyone ever died of hunger?

We can take care of each other.

What do you want from that girl?

They lie. What have

I ever done to her?

Please don't Esma. Don't lie. Everyone

knows what you are doing.

Please forget about

selling your daughter.

- What? Are we supposed to starve to death?

- No one will starve here. Don't fear.

They said that to me

too in the past.

Everyone here is all mouth when

it comes to giving advise.

They knocked me up with Eve.

If it is a sin, it's their's to bear.

She will be like me.

It's our fate.

We don't know of anything else

and we cannot change it.

It's fortunate that Eve is not

aware of what is going on.

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