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Better for business.

Are you hungry?

Yeah.

I hope you like spaghetti?

Do I look like it?

I like everything, just no sardines.

My God, you can't imagine...

In Vienna 10 youth welfare offiices,

one for each district.

In Munich six.

In Ulm you won't need to look so long.

But you have to watch out for police.

Don't dodge paying the bus fare.

This isn't not the Balkans.

Leave the key here, okay?

One more thing:

If they catch you,

don't tell anyone where you live.

Are you this friendly to all your guests?

Only to guests who are uglier than me.

Enjoy.

That was joke.

Aren't you Ms. Malkovic?

Yes.

I'm sorry, but we have no child

listed under this name.

Do you understand me?

Yes. Thanks.

My colleague told me

your daughter had asthma?

Yes, asthma.

In 1995 we had...

a nameless child,

a girl with asthma.

Do you have a picture?

Take it easy, we've got time.

Thank you.

One moment please.

It's possible.

Possible?

The eyes,

nose, the look.

Did you look at the mother?

I don't know,

how old is she there?

Two.

Excuse please.

You tell, my Aida?

You must be patient.

There isn't any evidence yet.

My Aida?

We have to research,

check everything.

Could we keep the picture here?

My Aida?

Thanks.

Okay, Ms. Malkovic.

Easy now, okay?

And be precise.

Do you understand me?

Give me your passport please.

No passport.

What, no?

But at the border you...

I see.

Do you have an address here,

where you live?

Here.

Drop by ifyou like.

Senada, sing us a song.

Have you told your husband yet?

I'm going to call him.

Senada's found her daughter again.

Dubrovnik Hostel.

One moment.

Telephone.

Yes. Senada Malkovic.

I have bad news for you, Ms. Malkovic.

Yes?

I'm very sorry but...

it was a mistake.

The lead I meant...

wasn't your daughter.

I'm truly sorry.

But we had so many children back then.

Perhaps you'll come this evening...

Senada,

I once saw something on telly

about a dog.

It was missing

and three years later it was found.

You wrong.

Sorry, you lie. I my daughter.

You know my daughter.

I told you it was an error,

a mistake.

I'm sorry.

You wrong,

wrong, wrong.

I right.

Have right.

Yes.

You aren't the only one with rights.

Yes, the other parents have rights too.

Sorry.

We can proceed.

Now the girl's starting too.

What do you think?

Open sesame and you're in?

User name, password?

Girl,

you can have 20 euros.

One PC.

I told you:
With one paying,

I don't want 5 or 10 occupying the room.

If it happens again, I'm kicking you out.

What's that?

Look.

Good day. What'll it be?

Pardon, I like drink coffee please.

Cup or pot?

Cup.

There, it's still hot.

Milk, saccharine, sugar.

Thanks.

Kristina Heinle speaking.

Yes please?

Aida?

I think you have the wrong number.

This is your mama.

Are you crazy?

Do you realize what you've done?

Where's the computer?

Where's the damn computer?

Do you know what it means

to break into a government offiice?

This isn't the Balkans.

I not stolen, my child stolen.

Your child wasn't stolen.

It was legally adopted.

I didn't give to other parents.

The Red Cross searched for a year

for the parents of the girl without a name.

I didn't give my Aida.

Hands off my car.

-Nobody's touching your bloody car.

I'm warning you, c*nt.

When you appeared,

many pieces fiit together:

your daughter's picture, the asthma.

Your daughter came during your war -

special circumstances.

But you can't give away your child,

then ask for her back years later.

Excuse me, I didn't give.

I know what a brutal war it was.

Oh, you were in the war?

You think I don't know...

what went on down there?

I kept well-informed, through TV,

newspapers.

I even read this book

about the rape camps...

where the soldiers abused women.

The awful green light on the turkey farm...

Yellow,

the lights were yellow.

If you've suffered injustice here,

Ms. Malkovic...

there are laws to correct that.

But you mustn't act on your own.

You've got to be patient.

How long?

How long?

I will do everything in my power.

Will go faster.

But don't do that again.

Promise?

And...

no contact with the foster parents.

Fine, that'll be 4.90.

Give my regards to Eve.

Hello.

Super weather...

You're always punctual.

How are you?

Nothing happened at the offiice all day...

but now they call me back.

Oh, to Ulm!

Maybe you can give her a lift.

She missed her bus.

But only if you don't tell my wife.

Don't be puzzled.

Nothing puzzles me anymore.

Lars.

My pleasure.

Buckle up, I'm in a hurry.

Senada, what kind of name is that?

Polish? Russian? Czech?

Russian.

And why are you in Lonsee, of all places?

And why are you in Lonsee, of all places?

Such a small town.

I'm in Ulm,

so far visit Austria...

and now Germany.

Yeah, great.

Way to go. You're still young.

And with the borders open...

Travel, to just travel,

see some of the world.

I used to do that too.

Ship, train, hitchhiking, the works.

My last trip, to Algeria,

Mauritania, the Atlas mountains...

I stayed three years.

Couldn't do that today.

If I leave my company for just two weeks,

everything stops.

Here,

who has to answer the call at 5 p.m.?

The boss.

Solar systems. We use solar energy.

The solar energy received by the Earth...

is 15,000 times greater than

our world energy consumption.

We tap this energy.

Rain tomorrow.

On such days we use water power.

Say, didn't we have a hair-dryer

in the bathroom?

Ask your daughter.

Kristina, the hair-dryer, subito.

Dinner's in an hour.

Just one meatball.

-I might as well have made meatballs.

I'm hungry.

All those terrible hunger edemas,

terminal stage.

Poor Lars.

Could you not pick on me for once?

I've had a really tough day.

I thought we were all going to

sit down at the table...

and end the day together over Cornish

game hen with cassis and dim sum.

Look, you can learn something.

Senada cleans windows like crystal.

Whatever you do, you do thoroughly.

Oh, that woman

from the youth welfare offiice phoned.

I don't know what she wants.

She wants to tell you herself.

Why didn't you tell me sooner?

I didn't give Aida.

Kidnapping.

I went to Cologne yesterday...

and saw your daughter's original fiile.

Written permission was given...

to move your daughter to safe territory.

A signature.

I not signature,

I in camp.

Do you recognize this?

Someone signed for your daughter...

to be evacuated for medical treatment.

The adoption was legal.

Did you give our daughter away?

Did you give her away?

Samir, do you hear what I'm asking?

Did you give our daughter away?

Did you give her away?

And all these years you never told me.

Why, Samir?

Why?

Aida's alive.

Our Aida's alive.

She's alive, but not living with us.

Tony thinks he can turn this dump

into a luxury hotel.

All it needs is a swimming pool

in the kitchen, right?

Why don't you use scissors,

it's much easier.

Why don't you go talk to those people?

If they love their daughter, they must be

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