1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:03:33,458 --> 00:03:36,458 The river and the moon are splitting me in two 4 00:03:37,167 --> 00:03:39,875 And the night is like blood flowing from my mouth. 5 00:03:40,708 --> 00:03:43,792 We used to be one, we used to be one 6 00:03:44,583 --> 00:03:48,042 I never knew cliffs could be so wild. 7 00:03:50,708 --> 00:03:54,250 Falling like in a dream of sickles, There is the moon 8 00:03:55,292 --> 00:03:58,583 And the river splitting me in two, I say it again 9 00:04:00,042 --> 00:04:01,708 We used to be one, 10 00:04:02,833 --> 00:04:04,542 We used to be one. 11 00:04:13,667 --> 00:04:15,000 Dear Zahra, 12 00:04:16,083 --> 00:04:17,708 How are you? 13 00:04:20,208 --> 00:04:21,958 Did you arrive well? 14 00:04:24,833 --> 00:04:28,250 It's hard to realise we won't be classmates in the final year. 15 00:04:32,333 --> 00:04:34,833 Bucharest will be different without you here. 16 00:04:40,333 --> 00:04:44,667 After you left, I stayed there, on the bright sidewalk. 17 00:04:47,958 --> 00:04:50,625 When I turned to leave, my skin was too tight 18 00:04:50,833 --> 00:04:54,958 and the tree next to me had withered in the scorching sun. 19 00:04:58,292 --> 00:05:00,542 Its shadow had grown thin. 20 00:05:05,292 --> 00:05:09,208 I stayed there long enough to see you fly above me. 21 00:05:13,458 --> 00:05:15,958 I know which way the plane went. 22 00:05:17,583 --> 00:05:19,208 It went East. 23 00:05:23,417 --> 00:05:25,292 When will you be back? 24 00:06:15,833 --> 00:06:17,083 Dear Maria, 25 00:06:17,667 --> 00:06:20,042 I arrived safely home, in Tehran. 26 00:06:21,583 --> 00:06:24,292 The first thing I felt was emptiness. 27 00:06:24,958 --> 00:06:27,417 The emptiness of not being with you. 28 00:06:28,583 --> 00:06:33,250 I wish you were here, so I could show you my favourite places. 29 00:06:38,417 --> 00:06:43,250 I wish I could tell you I will return soon, but I don't know yet. 30 00:06:50,792 --> 00:06:53,000 Something important is happening here. 31 00:06:53,083 --> 00:06:55,167 Something I want to be part of. 32 00:06:56,583 --> 00:06:58,500 People are not afraid anymore. 33 00:07:00,458 --> 00:07:03,292 They feel the time has come for change. 34 00:07:04,167 --> 00:07:08,417 I work side by side with my father, writing manifestos. 35 00:07:10,042 --> 00:07:14,333 I write down his ideas and we hand them out to people. 36 00:07:18,167 --> 00:07:21,625 Each day we try to use fewer words, 37 00:07:21,833 --> 00:07:23,375 to write clearer messages. 38 00:07:26,458 --> 00:07:29,500 United, we will defeat the Shah. 39 00:07:32,833 --> 00:07:35,833 United, we will defeat imperialism. 40 00:08:21,167 --> 00:08:22,333 My dear, 41 00:08:25,208 --> 00:08:28,458 Now most of my memories include you. 42 00:08:30,583 --> 00:08:33,083 I have brought you into all of them, 43 00:08:33,208 --> 00:08:34,792 even my old ones. 44 00:08:37,917 --> 00:08:43,667 I feel like the voice in my head has always spoken with you. 45 00:08:48,833 --> 00:08:52,500 I went to the seaside for a few days, with my sister Anca. 46 00:08:56,208 --> 00:08:59,125 I sat on the beach, I looked into the distance 47 00:08:59,333 --> 00:09:01,458 and I imagined you. 48 00:09:03,333 --> 00:09:05,417 Over a sea and some mountains. 49 00:09:05,708 --> 00:09:07,625 In the streets of Tehran. 50 00:09:07,833 --> 00:09:09,292 Among people. 51 00:09:11,792 --> 00:09:15,833 Happy and confident of the changes in your country. 52 00:09:18,208 --> 00:09:19,792 But please be careful, 53 00:09:20,083 --> 00:09:22,375 don't put yourself in danger. 54 00:09:28,542 --> 00:09:31,250 I would like you to come back, after all of this. 55 00:09:31,417 --> 00:09:34,500 And to go to the seaside with you. 56 00:09:36,708 --> 00:09:39,042 To jump into the water. 57 00:09:40,083 --> 00:09:44,750 This time I won't be afraid to jump. I will hold your hand. 58 00:10:36,083 --> 00:10:42,250 Between Revolutions 59 00:10:42,833 --> 00:10:49,292 Down with the Shah! 60 00:11:11,208 --> 00:11:18,708 Glory to Islam! 61 00:11:19,333 --> 00:11:23,500 Allahu akbar! 62 00:11:44,958 --> 00:11:50,125 Workers, peasants and the oppressed 63 00:11:50,417 --> 00:11:56,250 will be united to exterminate exploitation. 64 00:11:57,958 --> 00:12:01,250 The day Khomeini urges me to holy war, 65 00:12:01,708 --> 00:12:04,542 The whole world's armies will not stand against me. 66 00:12:56,708 --> 00:13:00,583 [The Shah has fled.] 67 00:13:04,958 --> 00:13:08,833 When the noise is so loud that you can't hear your own voice, 68 00:13:09,167 --> 00:13:11,542 but you know you do have a voice. 69 00:13:12,208 --> 00:13:14,833 When you are needed there. 70 00:13:15,833 --> 00:13:19,125 When the street has become a symbol of something else. 71 00:13:22,083 --> 00:13:24,375 When thousands are marching in the street, 72 00:13:24,583 --> 00:13:26,667 and you are one of them, 73 00:13:28,167 --> 00:13:30,542 and it is a force of nature. 74 00:13:35,583 --> 00:13:39,667 From some point on, the people engulf the geography of the city, 75 00:13:40,042 --> 00:13:44,125 their feet carve out a new road to lead them further. 76 00:13:47,208 --> 00:13:49,208 This gives you power. 77 00:13:59,042 --> 00:14:01,458 My father is very confident. 78 00:14:01,958 --> 00:14:04,750 He speaks with people in the streets. 79 00:14:05,083 --> 00:14:08,917 He tells them we need a fair, solidary society. 80 00:14:11,417 --> 00:14:14,083 He is so happy we're living this together. 81 00:14:16,583 --> 00:14:19,583 We don't want to start any ideological debate, 82 00:14:20,583 --> 00:14:24,750 despite the many scientific arguments 83 00:14:25,667 --> 00:14:29,042 and logical reasons supporting our beliefs. 84 00:14:29,458 --> 00:14:33,083 Our ideology is not a matter of today or yesterday, 85 00:14:33,542 --> 00:14:36,417 nor does it belong to this society. 86 00:14:36,667 --> 00:14:39,917 It is the outcome of man's evolutionary process. 87 00:15:38,958 --> 00:15:41,000 My dearest Zahra, 88 00:15:43,083 --> 00:15:46,333 I am happy for your enthusiasm. 89 00:15:46,958 --> 00:15:52,333 I know your energy can move mountains, I've always admired you for it. 90 00:15:54,792 --> 00:15:59,042 Here I only found a short article in a newspaper. 91 00:16:03,917 --> 00:16:08,417 It said the Shah had fled and Imam Khomeini had returned to Iran. 92 00:16:11,458 --> 00:16:18,583 I don't know who he is, but his photo looked stern and frowning to me. 93 00:16:21,667 --> 00:16:26,708 How is the mood there, how are you and your family? 94 00:16:36,333 --> 00:16:41,708 Meanwhile, I graduated and was assigned to a village clinic. 95 00:16:43,083 --> 00:16:47,375 Far away from my parents in Bucharest, in an unfriendly place. 96 00:16:54,458 --> 00:16:57,958 I asked to be transferred back to Bucharest. 97 00:16:59,333 --> 00:17:02,167 But they didn't approve my request. 98 00:17:09,083 --> 00:17:13,542 I would like to be in control of my own destiny. 99 00:17:15,917 --> 00:17:19,000 The women we are seeing on screen 100 00:17:20,208 --> 00:17:23,667 are only a few of those we constantly see around us, 101 00:17:24,208 --> 00:17:27,917 of the millions of women in Romania and around the globe. 102 00:17:28,083 --> 00:17:32,542 This year, which is dedicated to them, they do the same as always: 103 00:17:32,708 --> 00:17:35,000 they give birth, live happily, 104 00:17:35,583 --> 00:17:37,958 work, feel intensely, 105 00:17:38,458 --> 00:17:39,875 think, 106 00:17:40,083 --> 00:17:42,125 suffer, and hope. 107 00:17:42,833 --> 00:17:45,583 These are only a few of them. 108 00:17:53,208 --> 00:17:55,792 I build brick by brick up to my ankle, 109 00:17:55,958 --> 00:17:58,542 To my waist, to my breasts. 110 00:17:59,542 --> 00:18:02,583 My body becomes twofold inside the wall. 111 00:18:02,833 --> 00:18:06,042 My blood flows into the bricks through my palms 112 00:18:06,333 --> 00:18:09,250 Then flows back burning into my temples. 113 00:18:10,333 --> 00:18:12,708 My hair has a heady smell of mortar. 114 00:18:13,083 --> 00:18:16,500 My bricks are close together like blades of grass. 115 00:18:16,708 --> 00:18:20,208 I yearn for the supreme intimacy, when, strangely, 116 00:18:20,583 --> 00:18:24,375 The wall will start burning like me. 117 00:19:07,583 --> 00:19:11,042 Last night I thought I saw them again. 118 00:19:12,458 --> 00:19:14,833 Those men in black coats. 119 00:19:15,333 --> 00:19:18,333 The ones who followed us when we were in university. 120 00:19:20,167 --> 00:19:23,542 They were in a car, near my apartment. 121 00:19:31,583 --> 00:19:36,708 As I was walking, I looked towards the car and our eyes met. 122 00:19:38,167 --> 00:19:40,458 I froze suddenly. 123 00:19:48,917 --> 00:19:52,458 I picked up the pace to get away from their eyes. 124 00:20:15,708 --> 00:20:18,458 I read what you wrote and I shuddered. 125 00:20:19,667 --> 00:20:21,875 I hope you are safe now. 126 00:20:22,333 --> 00:20:24,292 Please, be careful. 127 00:20:28,292 --> 00:20:30,708 Write back as soon as you can. 128 00:20:35,583 --> 00:20:39,667 People here are already talking about an Islamic Republic, 129 00:20:40,083 --> 00:20:42,125 and that scares me. 130 00:20:44,333 --> 00:20:48,000 The ones who came to power have started the crackdown. 131 00:20:48,333 --> 00:20:50,833 They are after intellectuals, leftists, 132 00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:55,542 people who wanted something else, like my father. 133 00:21:00,917 --> 00:21:05,042 They are just like those men in black coats. 134 00:21:09,333 --> 00:21:13,000 Last week, they shut down my father's organisation. 135 00:21:13,333 --> 00:21:15,417 They consider it illegal. 136 00:21:16,583 --> 00:21:18,875 But we still have hope. 137 00:21:20,958 --> 00:21:23,333 The fight is not yet lost. 138 00:22:15,542 --> 00:22:18,375 Zahra, my dear, I am so sorry. 139 00:22:20,708 --> 00:22:24,125 Why are good people always pushed aside? 140 00:22:26,042 --> 00:22:28,292 The ones who give us hope. 141 00:22:28,833 --> 00:22:32,750 Those who fight and sacrifice themselves for others. 142 00:22:34,958 --> 00:22:38,125 Remember when you told me this would be a new beginning? 143 00:22:40,042 --> 00:22:42,000 "The Shah is overthrown!" 144 00:22:42,833 --> 00:22:45,083 "Dictatorship is over!" 145 00:22:47,333 --> 00:22:49,792 You dreamed of a fair society. 146 00:22:51,583 --> 00:22:55,042 You told me about Mossadeq, about hope. 147 00:23:01,167 --> 00:23:04,208 Isn't this the revolution you dreamed of? 148 00:23:21,458 --> 00:23:25,458 Freedom is our culture! 149 00:23:25,833 --> 00:23:28,667 Silence is our disgrace! 150 00:23:30,458 --> 00:23:33,250 I don't think the revolution was in vain. 151 00:23:33,542 --> 00:23:35,583 I saw so much hope, 152 00:23:36,667 --> 00:23:39,333 so much joy on people's faces. 153 00:23:44,583 --> 00:23:46,833 We all thought it was a new beginning. 154 00:23:47,042 --> 00:23:49,000 Better, more dignified. 155 00:23:50,458 --> 00:23:55,417 I try not to think of the worst, to remain optimistic. 156 00:23:56,792 --> 00:23:59,042 Down with the conservatives! 157 00:23:59,458 --> 00:24:03,083 Down with the conservatives! 158 00:24:09,167 --> 00:24:12,583 Down with women not wearing the hijab! 159 00:24:14,792 --> 00:24:18,000 Glory to those wearing the hijab! 160 00:24:37,042 --> 00:24:40,875 I voted for the Islamic Republic, 161 00:24:41,542 --> 00:24:45,542 hoping that I will enjoy 162 00:24:46,292 --> 00:24:50,917 the same rights as a Muslim man, 163 00:24:51,958 --> 00:24:55,625 so that I can serve my country. 164 00:24:56,333 --> 00:25:00,250 Meanwhile, as I work in the law field, 165 00:25:00,458 --> 00:25:03,958 I hope to be able to pursue my activities. 166 00:25:04,833 --> 00:25:06,833 I haven't voted yet. 167 00:25:07,083 --> 00:25:13,292 I'd love to, but I have no idea about what the Islamic Republic involves. 168 00:25:14,958 --> 00:25:23,125 Unlike my wife, I intend to take part and vote for the Islamic Republic. 169 00:25:46,167 --> 00:25:50,750 In my small night there is fear of ruin 170 00:25:52,292 --> 00:25:56,417 Listen, do you hear the howl of the darkness? 171 00:26:02,083 --> 00:26:05,542 I, like a stranger, look at this good fortune, 172 00:26:05,833 --> 00:26:08,542 Addicted to my own despair. 173 00:26:11,667 --> 00:26:16,042 Listen, do you hear the howl of darkness? 174 00:27:59,792 --> 00:28:00,958 My dear, 175 00:28:01,583 --> 00:28:05,375 it's been three years since graduation, imagine! 176 00:28:06,833 --> 00:28:10,667 I felt captive at the clinic. 177 00:28:11,583 --> 00:28:14,917 I was finally transferred back home, to Bucharest. 178 00:28:16,917 --> 00:28:19,250 It wasn't easy getting the transfer. 179 00:28:26,458 --> 00:28:29,208 Now I work in a big hospital. 180 00:28:36,042 --> 00:28:40,125 But I quickly realised this place isn't much better. 181 00:28:42,708 --> 00:28:45,708 Everywhere, you have to obey the rules. 182 00:28:50,333 --> 00:28:53,083 To do as they say. 183 00:29:04,708 --> 00:29:09,083 I was glad to be near my parents, but now I feel constrained. 184 00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:17,125 My father was told by the Secret Police about our letters. 185 00:29:22,542 --> 00:29:25,125 He forbade me to write to you again. 186 00:29:30,833 --> 00:29:34,625 He insists that I get married and start a family. 187 00:30:07,083 --> 00:30:11,083 We all come to that 12 o'clock in our lives, 188 00:30:11,333 --> 00:30:14,542 when the clock hands are one, 189 00:30:14,708 --> 00:30:17,917 with the women and the men we love. 190 00:30:20,583 --> 00:30:24,458 The loveliest newlyweds are always the young ones. 191 00:30:25,083 --> 00:30:27,417 Their purpose on earth is, 192 00:30:27,583 --> 00:30:31,875 at the greatest hour of their biological destiny, 193 00:30:32,083 --> 00:30:37,333 to create new life from their life, new love from their love. 194 00:31:03,083 --> 00:31:05,958 I am afraid of all the eyes around me. 195 00:31:08,042 --> 00:31:10,500 Of all the suspicious gazes. 196 00:31:12,417 --> 00:31:14,833 I'm afraid of the innuendos. 197 00:31:16,833 --> 00:31:18,958 I'm afraid of words. 198 00:32:24,542 --> 00:32:27,875 Forgive me for not writing in so long. 199 00:32:31,083 --> 00:32:34,208 My father disappeared one month ago. 200 00:32:35,583 --> 00:32:40,167 We've searched for him everywhere, asked everyone. 201 00:32:54,208 --> 00:32:57,708 We were told it's best to stop searching. 202 00:32:58,958 --> 00:33:01,208 I can't stop looking for him. 203 00:33:22,208 --> 00:33:24,542 Sometimes I see him in the street. 204 00:33:25,167 --> 00:33:28,292 I run, I touch him, and he turns around. 205 00:33:31,792 --> 00:33:34,375 But it's not him. 206 00:33:36,833 --> 00:33:40,083 My father, who was my revolution. 207 00:33:42,708 --> 00:33:45,417 The one who taught me hope. 208 00:33:46,708 --> 00:33:49,917 The power to imagine the future. 209 00:33:58,958 --> 00:34:01,917 Now I can't imagine anything anymore. 210 00:34:48,417 --> 00:34:49,667 Zahra! 211 00:34:50,833 --> 00:34:54,000 I cannot imagine what you are going through. 212 00:34:59,042 --> 00:35:02,583 I'm so angry that I'm not allowed to visit you. 213 00:35:03,542 --> 00:35:05,667 To be close to you again. 214 00:35:12,958 --> 00:35:16,750 I will write to you whenever I can, no matter what happens. 215 00:35:19,042 --> 00:35:21,000 Even if words disappear, 216 00:35:21,333 --> 00:35:24,208 even if someone erases them by force. 217 00:35:24,583 --> 00:35:26,125 I don't care. 218 00:35:32,833 --> 00:35:36,958 I'll be your shield and nothing evil will touch you. 219 00:35:39,333 --> 00:35:42,417 Let us be one, let's fight together. 220 00:35:45,083 --> 00:35:49,000 Like that time, when you stayed by my side. 221 00:35:52,083 --> 00:35:55,833 When we had to whisper so no one could hear us. 222 00:35:58,917 --> 00:36:01,500 Back then, when we were followed. 223 00:36:03,333 --> 00:36:07,667 When everything between us had to stay between us. 224 00:36:10,333 --> 00:36:12,167 But it didn't, 225 00:36:12,958 --> 00:36:15,292 because they know everything. 226 00:36:19,583 --> 00:36:21,375 Everything we write, 227 00:36:21,667 --> 00:36:23,250 everything we speak, 228 00:36:23,417 --> 00:36:25,083 everything we think. 229 00:36:38,458 --> 00:36:41,208 The river and the moon are splitting me in two. 230 00:36:41,583 --> 00:36:44,583 And the night is like blood flowing from my mouth. 231 00:36:45,458 --> 00:36:48,458 We used to be one, we used to be one. 232 00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:52,458 I never knew cliffs could be so wild. 233 00:38:54,792 --> 00:38:57,083 Back then, my dear. 234 00:38:59,042 --> 00:39:01,417 When I was afraid for us. 235 00:39:01,583 --> 00:39:05,208 When you told me not to leave. Not to leave you. 236 00:39:07,292 --> 00:39:09,750 But I didn't listen to you. 237 00:39:13,292 --> 00:39:16,375 Even my memories have grown tangled 238 00:39:16,583 --> 00:39:18,792 since my father disappeared. 239 00:39:20,792 --> 00:39:23,208 Their lines are all blurry. 240 00:39:25,583 --> 00:39:28,000 Time is wearing thin. 241 00:40:37,833 --> 00:40:40,417 No one has thought of love, 242 00:40:40,958 --> 00:40:43,583 no one has thought of triumphs, 243 00:40:44,792 --> 00:40:47,500 no one has thought of anything. 244 00:40:49,333 --> 00:40:53,292 Five years have passed since the start of the war with Iraq. 245 00:40:55,167 --> 00:40:58,292 It has turned our lives upside down. 246 00:40:59,583 --> 00:41:02,625 My oldest nephew has joined the military. 247 00:41:03,083 --> 00:41:04,625 He's only 15. 248 00:41:08,542 --> 00:41:13,208 If he dies, we'll become the family of a martyr. 249 00:41:14,292 --> 00:41:18,667 I am not a mother, so in my family my voice is not heard. 250 00:41:20,208 --> 00:41:24,708 I cannot talk with anyone about this child's sacrifice. 251 00:41:26,917 --> 00:41:29,708 But I would do anything to stop him. 252 00:41:30,542 --> 00:41:32,417 To stop this war. 253 00:42:01,458 --> 00:42:04,792 My sisters are more dedicated than anyone. 254 00:42:05,583 --> 00:42:11,458 Their shoulders bear the staggering weight of the revolution. 255 00:42:13,708 --> 00:42:18,792 After all, they are the messengers of Hussain. 256 00:42:19,458 --> 00:42:22,125 Messengers of the blood of their children, 257 00:42:22,542 --> 00:42:26,250 husbands and brothers who became martyrs. 258 00:42:27,083 --> 00:42:33,000 And the grenades they cast forth with their fragile hands 259 00:42:33,833 --> 00:42:38,917 seem to be the same grenades that their brethren launch 260 00:42:39,417 --> 00:42:42,417 against enemy tanks. 261 00:42:43,833 --> 00:42:47,583 Indeed, the strength in their arms 262 00:42:47,958 --> 00:42:51,792 is due to the healing blood in their veins. 263 00:42:52,292 --> 00:42:56,083 That is why they are sent to war. 264 00:42:57,083 --> 00:43:00,417 They are sent to avenge 265 00:43:00,708 --> 00:43:06,250 and to take back what rightfully belongs to this land. 266 00:43:08,458 --> 00:43:11,292 To avenge the injustice 267 00:43:11,458 --> 00:43:16,875 that turned our garden into barren, ruin-studded ground. 268 00:45:26,208 --> 00:45:27,458 My dear, 269 00:45:28,458 --> 00:45:31,917 I stand by the window and look far away. 270 00:45:35,417 --> 00:45:39,708 The sky is dark and low, like something is about to happen. 271 00:45:41,167 --> 00:45:42,792 We are waiting. 272 00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:56,000 We try to convince ourselves the cold is just a state of mind, 273 00:45:56,167 --> 00:45:58,667 controllable by willpower. 274 00:46:01,458 --> 00:46:03,792 But it doesn't work anymore. 275 00:46:07,667 --> 00:46:11,125 Romania is not the place you used to know. 276 00:46:14,083 --> 00:46:16,417 It's gloomier, darker. 277 00:46:21,708 --> 00:46:24,625 A lot has changed in these 10 years. 278 00:46:24,833 --> 00:46:27,542 Just as we have changed. 279 00:46:33,958 --> 00:46:37,083 My only joy are the letters from you. 280 00:46:38,917 --> 00:46:42,292 I will reply, although I've been forbidden to. 281 00:46:59,792 --> 00:47:03,125 I married Marius, a hospital colleague. 282 00:47:05,167 --> 00:47:08,333 I couldn't keep fighting my parents. 283 00:47:10,458 --> 00:47:12,542 I felt cornered. 284 00:47:19,833 --> 00:47:21,667 I had to do it. 285 00:47:28,458 --> 00:47:30,958 I think about you often. 286 00:47:31,583 --> 00:47:35,083 Sometimes I wear the earrings you gave me when you left. 287 00:47:36,917 --> 00:47:41,917 I look in the mirror and imagine you getting closer to me. 288 00:47:44,917 --> 00:47:47,583 Our reflections become one. 289 00:48:25,667 --> 00:48:27,958 In the Name of God. 290 00:48:29,708 --> 00:48:33,542 Of God we are and to Him we return. 291 00:48:34,958 --> 00:48:38,083 The exalted soul of the leader 292 00:48:38,333 --> 00:48:41,292 of muslims and freedom-loving people, 293 00:48:41,458 --> 00:48:46,083 Imam Khomeini has ascended to Heaven. 294 00:49:19,167 --> 00:49:21,500 My house was broken into. 295 00:49:22,167 --> 00:49:25,333 My things were scattered everywhere. 296 00:49:25,667 --> 00:49:27,042 Turned upside down. 297 00:49:28,458 --> 00:49:31,792 My beloved books, my family albums, 298 00:49:32,333 --> 00:49:33,708 my diary, 299 00:49:34,208 --> 00:49:35,917 the letters from you. 300 00:49:36,708 --> 00:49:39,042 I knew they were not burglars. 301 00:49:41,458 --> 00:49:44,625 Because I am continuing my father's work. 302 00:49:44,833 --> 00:49:48,792 Because I still believe in what he believed. 303 00:49:50,333 --> 00:49:53,292 I saw my whole life pulled out of drawers. 304 00:49:57,833 --> 00:50:01,750 I breathed a sigh of relief that I was not home when it happened 305 00:50:02,167 --> 00:50:04,500 and that I'm still alive. 306 00:50:08,958 --> 00:50:13,958 I try not to question all that happened since my return from Romania. 307 00:50:14,542 --> 00:50:19,500 This is of utmost importance, not questioning anything. 308 00:50:21,208 --> 00:50:25,083 Believing in myself. 309 00:50:25,708 --> 00:50:29,583 As I was a few years ago. 310 00:52:22,833 --> 00:52:25,167 Down with Ceaușescu! 311 00:52:33,833 --> 00:52:36,958 [Friendship] 312 00:53:24,458 --> 00:53:29,083 The army stands with us! 313 00:53:49,917 --> 00:53:52,458 When thousands are marching in the street 314 00:53:52,583 --> 00:53:54,417 and you are one of them, 315 00:53:56,333 --> 00:53:58,625 and this is a force of nature. 316 00:54:03,208 --> 00:54:06,208 I remembered your stories about Iran. 317 00:54:07,958 --> 00:54:11,000 That energy in the streets. 318 00:54:14,333 --> 00:54:17,083 The hope that your voice is heard. 319 00:54:20,958 --> 00:54:23,500 Among the thousands of others. 320 00:54:42,417 --> 00:54:45,458 At the hospital, there were many wounded. 321 00:54:47,958 --> 00:54:50,833 I felt I was truly on the front line. 322 00:54:54,667 --> 00:54:59,250 Marius wasn't with me, he stayed home. 323 00:55:01,292 --> 00:55:02,958 I felt alone. 324 00:55:38,083 --> 00:55:40,917 Things are happening so fast, 325 00:55:42,417 --> 00:55:45,708 I don't have time to think about them. 326 00:55:47,708 --> 00:55:49,958 We are supposedly free now. 327 00:55:51,208 --> 00:55:55,083 But I know from you that victories can be confiscated. 328 00:57:20,833 --> 00:57:22,125 Dear Zahra, 329 00:57:23,083 --> 00:57:24,917 I hope you are well. 330 00:57:25,167 --> 00:57:28,000 I kept waiting for your letters. 331 00:57:31,583 --> 00:57:36,000 I have a feeling something bad has happened to you. 332 00:57:37,167 --> 00:57:39,500 But I hope I am wrong. 333 00:57:42,667 --> 00:57:46,083 We were so happy about the fall of the regime. 334 00:57:46,833 --> 00:57:48,458 We felt free. 335 00:57:52,958 --> 00:57:54,708 But it's been a year, 336 00:57:55,458 --> 00:57:57,875 and our money is becoming worthless. 337 00:57:58,292 --> 00:58:00,667 We can't afford anything anymore. 338 00:58:02,708 --> 00:58:04,833 We've lost our bearings. 339 00:58:05,083 --> 00:58:08,292 We fear for our jobs. 340 00:58:20,833 --> 00:58:23,667 My parents are in constant panic. 341 00:58:25,458 --> 00:58:27,458 They've just retired. 342 00:58:28,208 --> 00:58:30,500 They barely manage. 343 00:58:38,333 --> 00:58:40,292 At least Marius is doing something. 344 00:58:40,417 --> 00:58:43,667 He left the hospital and opened a small business. 345 00:58:48,042 --> 00:58:52,125 He sells tobacco and sweets that be brings from Turkey. 346 00:59:08,042 --> 00:59:11,083 I've been thinking about us lately. 347 00:59:12,958 --> 00:59:15,417 I quite hesitated to ask you... 348 00:59:18,458 --> 00:59:22,125 All this time I thought you left for your revolution. 349 00:59:22,417 --> 00:59:25,417 But maybe there were other reasons. 350 00:59:26,542 --> 00:59:29,208 Maybe you chose the safer path. 351 00:59:29,917 --> 00:59:33,917 Maybe you thought you'd protect me by leaving. 352 00:59:35,333 --> 00:59:38,500 I wish we could stand face to face. 353 00:59:39,667 --> 00:59:43,083 Look at each other, talk to each other. 354 00:59:43,708 --> 00:59:46,417 Tell each other all these things. 355 00:59:49,417 --> 00:59:52,000 I wish we could start all over again. 356 01:01:46,667 --> 01:01:49,042 I can't remember your voice. 357 01:01:52,958 --> 01:01:55,417 I look at our photos. 358 01:01:56,083 --> 01:01:59,125 We were always so close to each other 359 01:02:00,083 --> 01:02:04,292 that I found it easy to cut out our silhouettes. 360 01:02:11,458 --> 01:02:15,542 I want to zoom into them, because they are fading. 361 01:02:24,542 --> 01:02:28,292 When do people start to fade away from paper? 362 01:02:29,917 --> 01:02:31,958 We are fading together. 363 01:02:37,542 --> 01:02:39,833 When I imagine you talking to me, 364 01:02:39,958 --> 01:02:43,250 I'm not even sure it's your voice I'm hearing. 365 01:02:45,667 --> 01:02:48,500 Sometimes I think it's my own, 366 01:02:49,083 --> 01:02:51,500 just myself in my head, 367 01:02:53,542 --> 01:02:55,792 and that frightens me. 368 01:03:02,417 --> 01:03:04,333 Where are you now? 369 01:03:10,167 --> 01:03:13,125 Please, at least tell me you are well.