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I'm here.

She's out of the coma. She's just sleeping.

I'm going home.

Wait, Marianne.

What?

How are you doing? How are you? How is the little one?

You mean your son Axel? Axel Junior?

Mm.

We're fine, thank you.

Wait, there's one more thing...

You know the car?

The one she crashed with?

No. The one we drove down here. The Beetle.

What about it? - It's registered in your name.

Why?

Because I owed duty on it and I couldn't pay.

So I transferred it to you.

And now the Greek authorities want 5,000 kroner.

What does that have to do with me?

It has to be driven back to Oslo.

It needs to be registered in Norway as soon as possible.

Then drive it to Norway!

Good luck. - Marianne, I can't do that.

I have to stay here with Patricia.

I can't leave her now.

And anyway, it's in your name.

You're the one they want the 5,000 from.

You expect me to drive a car through Europe to Norway,

with a little baby?

Marianne, relax! I've arranged a plane for Axel.

You are fucking incredible!

Where am I? Why?

No, easy, you have to have this on.

You have to have this on.

It's good for you.

Hi, mom. It's Marianne.

I'm calling because I have

a pretty big favor to ask.

♪ I loved you in the morning ♪

♪ Our kisses deep and warm ♪

Jesus!

I'm out here, my love.

What is wrong with you people?

Shh. - Who? Jews?

No, men!

What the fuck is wrong with men?

Well, how much time do you have?

What happened?

Shh.

First, um, watching over the mistress

to the father of my baby.

And then he tells me that he has transferred the ownership

to his car to me because he owes the Greek government money.

Ugh.

And now I have to drive the car back to Norway.

Well, how long does it take to drive there?

Uh, two weeks.

You know, two weeks is really not very long.

I think we could do that.

Easy.

Uh, we?

I'm coming with you, of course.

How much money do you have?

Um, I have 200.

But why would you do that?

Why would, you don't have to...

Well, I am in love with you.

I have, um,

200 also.

I think 200 plus 200 is 400.

And, $400, that should get us there

with gas and, and food, and...

You know, that would only take us one way.

Oh, no, but I'm very good at oral sex.

That's the whole thing.

- Oh. - It was part of the deal

that I'll be turning tricks in the street,

which I was very good at doing in Canada.

If he starts crying,

there's plenty of milk in here.

And my mother will meet you in the arrivals hall, and...

I promise, everything will be fine.

We both have children. Alice has three.

Thank you so much. - Hi there!

Thank you, thank you.

I love you, I love you, I love you!

Have a nice trip.

Thank you.

You alright?

Is there anything I can do?

Get me out of here.

Okay, where are we?

Well,

still in Albania,

I think.

There should be a village a few miles ahead.

So maybe we can stop and I can find a phone,

'cause they should have landed by now.

I just need to...

Ihlen.

It's Marianne. Is he home?

He came a couple of hours ago.

Has everything gone well? - Yes.

Listen, I have to go feed him and put him to bed.

Take care of him. Give him a hug from me.

Thank you. Bye. - Yeah.

He's fine.

And you?

Um...

I wanna get drunk.

- Great. - Mm-hmm.

I can help with that.

♪ Hey, baby, baby, don't you go ♪

♪ You gonna leave me with a (indistinct) ♪

Okay, so it's five more miles to the village.

Alright, we'll drive into town and find something to eat,

find some place to sleep.

We can afford that?

No. - No.

So we either, um, eat at a restaurant,

get some nice food and sleep in the car,

or we eat bread the rest of our life

and we sleep in a motel.

I vote for restaurant and car.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you. - Thank you.

Enjoy your meal. - Thank you.

Did you finish yours already?

Yeah.

Wow, I think it's an aperitif.

Well, you know, if it was an aperitif,

they should have served it

before the food came on the table.

I come from a very strict home,

and if they serve it after the food, it's a shot.

How strict is your home really?

I think I was seven or something

and my mother wanted to teach me table manners.

So she made me sit at the table

with our finest porcelain plates under my arms

so that I wouldn't put my elbows on the table while we ate.

It's true.

It's so strange, like,

I can't remember the last time I just

sat like this

knowing that no one is waiting for me.

What was your mother like?

Is, she's very much alive.

Mm.

Very unpredictable.

I wouldn't want to give a, uh, paltry diagnosis,

but I think she is, um, maybe, uh, manic depressive.

What was that like?

It was terrific.

Oh, it had its ups and downs.

No.

No joking, just what was that like?

Well, she's a refugee.

So I think childhood was very complicated.

The contradiction of Monday mornings crying on the floor,

the fits, and Monday evenings baking of a cake

was, was awfully confusing for a young burgeoning man.

But I think every time you walk in the door,

it's something different so you learn to adapt.

You learn to read people.

You learn to, uh, adjust.

Mm.

No, I love her, it's great.

I'm not saying anything poor of her.

No.

Just complex.

A lot of tears, a lot of laughter.

I don't really think that I ever, you know,

had a home.

My only childhood memories are from my grandmother.

My grandmother's house.

She was my favourite person in the whole world.

And in my room, my favourite drawer in the house

was her drawer with all her old stuff.

And it was filled, you know,

with old ladies' creams and jewellery

and it was like a treasure box.

And I, it all had the smell of her perfume

of, of, in a different time.

I felt like a time traveller.

She made me a princess once.

Made a beautiful paper crown and put it on my head,

and she said that only the finest, purest soul

can be reached by the speech of a golden tongue.

I fit that description.

You think you do, don't you?

Yeah, quite golden.

My superhero name.

Oh, really?

Yeah, they call me The Golden Tongue.

The stars look like they're dancing to me right now, so...

They're washing their hair in the rain.

My maternal grandfather

was named Rabbi Klinitsky-Klein.

He had a large moustache like myself.

Oh.

And he was a very stiff man,

very unhappy fellow.

And he spent his life writing in a 1,000-page thesaurus

for the Talmud.

The Talmud is a Jewish document.

And it doesn't mean anything to you,

but that's about the most Jewish thing you could ever do.

But isn't it strange though

that you feel like you can tell everything to one person

and then nothing to another?

You know, when I was...

A long story short,

my father slapped me and called me a whore.

Um, I left home and I wandered around the night

and I ended up at my grandmother's house in the city.

And she told me that, princess, yes, she can't be a whore.

But a whore, she can be a kind of a princess.

And after that, you know,

I wasn't scared of going home and...

Mama, Miumiu, Mimi?

I think I would've liked her a lot.

I would have dated her.

You're Mr. Ladies Man.

What did I do?

Why am I Mr. Ladies Man?

Saw the way that you were looking at that waitress,

the way she was flirting with you.

That's just my bad impulse control.

Right.

I think you should come here.

Why?

Why?

I don't know.

What is this?

This is my bad impulse control.

What's it telling you?

It's telling me

that I should fuck your brains out.

Oh.

Good God! - Oh, what happened?

I, yeah, really did cut myself.

You really almost fucked my brains out.

This is the worst ground I've ever felt.

I'm so sorry, Leonard.

You okay? - I really, really, really

would still like to make love to you.

I'm just- - I know.

It's...

But not now, right?

Come on, get it.

It's a beautiful morning.

How are you feeling?

I'm all right, my lips are a little

sore from kissing you all night.

Other than that, I'm alright.

So are mine.

Your papers, please.

Uh, yeah.

There you go.

Are you American?

Yeah.

Yeah, you?

No, man, I'm Canadian.

Right, well, that's close enough, huh?

No.

Where are you guys headed?

Uh, Norway.

Really? - Yeah.

Yeah, I was actually stationed up there for three months.

Oh, no. What?

Yeah.

It's beautiful up there.

Thank you. - Landscapes,

the fjords, the women.

Well, thank you very much.

I mean, everything's perfect up there.

Well, except for the weather.

Right. - Yeah.

Alright, you guys are all set

if you just stick to the west side of the city.

It's a little bit, uh, tumultuous right now.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

You're welcome.

I think he was flirting with me.

Oh, yeah?

Well, you're very beautiful.

Do you always drive so recklessly?

Uh, yes.

Give him a big hug from me.

Thanks. Bye.

Okay, what are we getting?

A German polse.

Oh, polse!

Hello. - Hello.

Um...

Let's go!

We have a little bit more of Germany

and, and then after Germany, we go into Denmark.

And then, um, I guess that should lead into Sweden.

If we find any of those.

And then we're home sweet home, Norway.

Let's just find a place to sleep.

Oh, no, it's okay, I can, uh,

I can drive through the night.

We can just, we, we'll, we'll just find a motel.

Okay. Why?

I mean, it's okay, I just...

I just, I just don't know if I, uh,

want this to be over yet, so...

According to the map, we're in Russia.

I'm eating Germany. - No.

I didn't know you had that kind of greed in you though.

Hold on. - No.

Then there's the ocean.

I have so much more to eat.

♪ I loved you in the morning ♪

♪ Our kisses deep and warm ♪

♪ Your hair upon the pillow ♪

♪ Like a sleepy golden storm ♪

♪ Yes, many loved before us ♪

♪ I know you're not new ♪

♪ In city and in forest ♪

♪ They smiled ♪

♪ Like me and you ♪ - Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm alright.

We made it out alive.

♪ Your eyes are soft ♪

I was sure that was it.

♪ With sorrow ♪

♪ Hey, that's no way ♪

♪ To say goodbye ♪

Hydra is the one place where I, when I arrived,

I didn't have any kind of a culture shock, you know?

Like every cup that I saw, I, I knew it'd fit in my hand.

And every table I leaned on, it was the kind of table

that I always had wanted to lean on.

A 25 cent jug of wine was the kind of wine

that I'd always wanted to be drinking.

Oh, mostly because of the price, I guess.

Right, because of the price.

And then I met silly old you.

You went and ruined everything.

I remember.

It was, um,

yeah, outside Kasikas

and you had that green worn wool sweater and all-

No, that's not when we met.

I meant- - Yes.

No, no, we'd met when you were coming,

you were coming from the port

and you were carrying too many groceries,

I could barely see your head.

What? - And yeah,

you had jugs of water

and you were coming up

and there was a, a, a steed walking by

and it was making a whistling sound,

and there was a cat purring,

like, like an angel playing a string.

You know, like Babylon.

No. - And, uh,

and I saw you and the sun was shining out from you,

and you were coming from the monastery

and I thought, "It's Jesus Christ,

the blonde, blue-eyed Jesus Christ."

And you completely ignored me,

as I suppose, you know, Jesus would.

I, I don't remember.

I know, you don't remember, but I do.

I would never ignore you.

You did.

And I'll never forget.

Why did you come to Hydra?

Why?

Well, I mean, I...

It was, you know, Axel,

and I think when I met him,

he was just so different

from everyone and everything I knew.

And then it turned out it was all about him

and not about me

or us.

You can play anything.

It doesn't even have to be a song.

You can just...

Whatever you feel like.

My voice is very ragged.

I've been drinking and my nails are dirty.

Well, I think that's-

And I'm ugly and I'm hunchback.

You're beautiful.

And that's- - And I'm Jewish.

All the ingredients you need for a, to make a song.

Okay. - Yes.

It's perfect.

♪ Oh, the sisters of mercy ♪

♪ They are not departed or gone ♪

♪ They are waitin' for me ♪

♪ When I thought that I just can't go on ♪

♪ And they brought me their comfort ♪

♪ And later they brought me this song ♪

God, I like your body.

♪ Well, I hope you run into them ♪

♪ You who've been travelling so long ♪

♪ Yes, you who must leave everything ♪

♪ That you cannot control ♪

♪ It begins with your family ♪

♪ And soon it comes round to your soul ♪

♪ Well, I've been where you're hanging ♪

♪ I think I can see how you're pinned ♪

♪ When you're not feeling holy ♪

♪ Your loneliness says that you've sinned ♪

Where are we?

I'm not exactly sure.

I think we're somewhere in Denmark.

We should be in Oslo by tonight, though.

What kind of mother would rather sleep in a car

than go home to her own child?

Did you know that when I, um,

when I, after I had given birth to him

and I, I left the clinic,

I just, I wanted to,

I wanted to leave him behind.

I wanted to leave my own child behind

because I felt like I wasn't ready.

And I, I wasn't ready.

But that was because I knew that with Axel,

it was all just

ruined way, way before.

But I just,

I just pretended and I just pretended

and I just pretended because I knew

that I would have no husband

and I would have no father for my child to be with,

and I just wanted to be me.

And the thing is that with you,

I feel like I am me.

And so I just don't wanna,

I, I don't know.

I don't know, I...

No one is born a mother.

Nobody.

You're a fantastic mother.

I've seen you with him. - I know I'm not.

- You're fantastic. - I know I'm not.

It's true. - No.

When you look at each other, it's like, uh,

there's no sea,

there's no land, there's nothing,

it's just the two of you.

You see the birds?

They just fly without thinking.

That's you two.

The thing is, you and I...

That car is a moon vessel, you know, it's temporary.

That's why it works

'cause we know it's not gonna last forever.

And so every minute becomes valuable.

But

after a while,

you, you would miss, you'd miss Axel

and you'd miss being a mother.

And you'd take it out on me.

I know that.

You'd think my stories were old and worn.

Just like every relationship ever.

I mean, that's the problem with this kind of love

is that sooner or later the other person becomes habit.

And I'm not being pedagogical.

I'm saying that

from my side of the scene, where I am,

there's nothing more pure, loving and large.

There's nothing more special than what you have.

And we have a lot of things, but we don't have that.

One more night.

Oh, one more night's not gonna do it.

Two more nights is not gonna do it.

It's gonna go on and on until it stops, you know?

I will never grow tired of your stories or

let you become a habit.

It's a promise you can't make.

It's a promise I can't make either.

♪ Going home to fight what I can ♪

♪ My heart's torn, it's where the light is ♪

♪ I'm feeling you in everything I find ♪

♪ What can I keep ♪

♪ What can I leave behind ♪

Hello!

Marianne, Axel is asleep.

Hi. - Shh, shh, shh.

He's already in bed?

I gave him some food and he fell back to sleep.

Oh - Yeah.

Yes, he's asleep.

The baby.

So yeah.

This is, uh, Leonard.

Hi. - My mother.

Hello.

I've heard so much about you.

Ingeborg.

Yeah. - I'm meeting a celebrity.

What does that mean?

He called you a celebrity because I have talked so much about you.

Yes. I have prepared the guest room for you.

Yeah.

It gets so cold when the door is left open.

I don't know what this is.

Marianne! Wait until he's asleep.

Let me!

Do you think he likes it?

Do you like it? - It's like matzo...

Matzo ball.

Yeah, it's, uh...

He says it's like matzo ball.

It's called komle . - Komle.

Komle? - Komle.

Okay.

Potato and, yeah.

The meat was pink a few hours ago. Tell him that.

- And the gravy... - It's delicious.

The potatoes are cold.

It's the best meal we've had in ages.

Right, this is the best meal we've had in a long time?

Mm.

It's Norwegian.

It's Norwegian.

Very Norwegian.

I guess it depends on what you're used to.

Mm.

He's very skinny.

Does he eat enough?

Yes.

I think he's skinny.

Axel too. Skinny.

He's a child, mom.

Exactly.

I can see his ribs.

His name is Leonard.

You can say that. - Yeah.

Mother was just saying she thinks you're a bit too skinny

and that you have to eat more,

so just the plates. - Okay.

Sounds like my mother.

You know, Jesus, uh,

always said it's more important, uh,

what comes out of your mouth than what goes in it.

Yeah. - So.

Is he quoting Jesus?

Mother understands, uh, English,

she just doesn't speak it.

Oh, sorry.

I understand quite a bit.

Yeah.

Dear diary,

that

was a

car crash.

Really?

She

hates

me.

No, she liked you.

She liked you. - Oh, yeah, yeah,

she loves me.

No. - She hates me impossibly.

Axel, he didn't even make it through the hall downstairs.

You sat at her dinner table.

I'm flattered.

You should be.

Oh, my goodness, this is cracked.

Bad luck for seven years.

That's how I always see myself.

Broken?

♪ Hey, that's no way ♪

♪ To say goodbye ♪

Breakfast!

Eggs and omelette and bread,

that brings me right back home.

Oh.

Where are you from?

Marianne? Where is he from?

Oh, she asks where are you from?

I'm from Montreal.

Canada. - Oh, Canada.

That's far away.

And your family, is it over there?

Yeah, um, his family and relatives,

his mother are there and...

But his father is dead. Like... dad.

Oh, dead?

Yeah.

My condolences.

Condolences.

Oh, okay.

Um, you, uh,

you work?

Um, yeah, I am, uh...

Leonard's a poet.

No, I'm a writer.

Um, I've written, uh,

a few volumes of, of poetry and, uh,

and I've just written, written a novel.

I've written a few novels.

And one was uh,

uh, rejected,

uh, but another one, uh, is coming out soon.

And, hopefully, you know, in Norway.

And I'm, and I've been writing some songs as well.

Uh... - The guitar.

Yeah.

No, no! That's mommy's.

W-why didn't you just tell her

what I did before we got here?

I didn't tell her

because I wanted her to meet you first and,

and see what kind of person you are

without just judging you and what you do

based on her impression of Axel.

Leonard, please don't, don't pay attention to my mother.

She's just very insecure and that's-

Well, your mother's a lot of things,

I don't know if insecure is one of them.

It's just her coping mechanism.

And when you've, if, if you feel like she's judging you,

it's not you, it's all, she's judging me

because she feels that I am ruining and wasting my life.

Oh, you're ruining wasting your life with me, okay.

Very nice. - No.

You know that's not what I meant at all.

Ah.

Alright, let's not get nasty, okay?

Let's just, um, I'll go for a walk.

Mm, yeah, that's a great idea.

Forgive me. - Mm.

Where did your mother, uh, put my shoes?

I don't know, they're probably in the hall.

Go look.

Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah.

Irving, thank you so much for the letter.

Great news about the book.

For the last two months, I felt gradually more isolated

from the world and from myself.

So I can't say how much it meant to me right now.

Unfortunately, we spent all our money getting to Norway

and Marianne has her son to take care of.

At the same time, of course, I agree with you

that all the endless hours of work I put into it

mustn't go to waste.

I don't know how much longer I can take it.

You know, actually I was talking to her this morning

and, um, she did say that we can,

we can stay as long as we like.

So, I was thinking maybe I'll find a job and, uh,...

I was wondering

if there is anywhere else

we could stay, you know, and sleep.

We can sleep under a bridge if that's what you want.

No, just, um, you know, a friend.

I thought you had maybe a friend or...

All my friends have families and kids.

And, I mean, you,

you could find a job here as well, you know?

And doing what?

Journalist maybe.

In Norwegian?

'Cause I'm so fantastic at the language.

Pretty good.

You can just stay in and write, like you usually do,

and we will be out of your way.

Do you wanna come up or...

Yeah, I'll be in, I'm just,

I need to finish the cigarette.

Is there really anything left to cut off?

Sorry?

I mean, isn't that the second time in a row

that you're shaving?

No.

Like, you've been shaving for what, half an hour now?

So you can just go for a walk

and it'll make you feel better.

No, it's not, I, I don't wanna offend her.

Well, you won't offend her

because I'll just tell her

that you had an important errand to go to.

It's fine, really.

Marianne, breakfast!

Yes, we're coming.

Hey.

You look fantastic.

Thank you.

You too.

Oh.

Shouldn't light the table on fire.

Where's little Micro? Oh, hey.

Welcome. - Thank you.

Uh, my mother took him to the park.

Okay, the, the invitation was for him as well.

I know, but I think my mother felt

that it was a little bit inappropriate

to bring a child here,

because this place here is quite, um,

it's an institution, really.

But you do know that this place is

um, quite expensive.

That's okay, 'cause Irving, um,

Irving's lent me a little money.

A wire came in today.

Amazing.

Yeah.

What?

Hmm? - Hmm?

I love you.

I love you too.

I'm going to Canada.

When?

Just for a little while.

I, um,

my book has finally come out.

Uh, so they're, uh, you know, paying my fare

and giving me the whole, uh,

star-spangled banner treatment, uh,

if I go and I promote it.

So, um,

I figured I'll, uh, you know,

just go away for a little while

and make enough money to send to, uh,

to you and, uh, little Micro,

and you, you all can come to Montreal

and, um, come enjoy the freezing cold.

I mean, why can't you just, why can't you just stay here

and you can find a job?

Because that's not...

I am, I'm, I'm not,

I'm not completely well, you know,

I, I don't know if you can see it in my eyes,

but, but

every time I shave,

it takes a lot of self-control.

Please don't say that.

No.

I just,

I just really don't want you to leave.

Uh...

You won't like what I become if I stay.

So you're going home.

I'm going to Montreal.

Home is, home is wherever you are.

Marianne,

it's not the end, okay?

Look at me.

It's not the end.

How do you know that?

♪ Oh, why ♪

♪ Why must I be the one ♪

♪ To always be alone ♪

♪ My love ♪

♪ Always ♪

♪ Why can't I be the one ♪

♪ To believe ♪

♪ That love will go ♪

♪ That way ♪

♪ So why ♪

♪ Don't you take me along ♪

♪ For the ride ♪

♪ Oh, my love ♪

♪ My love ♪

♪ My love ♪