1 00:00:02,180 --> 00:00:04,392 WEST INDIES PIER, LONDON, 1948 2 00:00:04,393 --> 00:00:07,496 Put the word "mother" before the word "country", 3 00:00:07,497 --> 00:00:12,113 and you will think of a safe place, where your potential will be enhanced 4 00:00:12,138 --> 00:00:14,562 and your faults will be forgiven. 5 00:00:16,030 --> 00:00:19,202 Hortense had never met a mother's love. 6 00:00:19,452 --> 00:00:24,390 Maybe that's why he cultivated I have long dreamed of arriving in England. 7 00:00:24,997 --> 00:00:27,487 But that would have been the place... 8 00:00:27,624 --> 00:00:30,407 in which they would be realized all his ambitions? 9 00:00:33,050 --> 00:00:35,633 www.subsfactory.it 10 00:00:36,547 --> 00:00:38,960 and the Pink Team 11 00:00:39,745 --> 00:00:41,934 are pleased to introduce you 12 00:00:42,841 --> 00:00:45,495 SMALL ISLAND - PART ONE 13 00:00:46,648 --> 00:00:51,443 Translation: Spigui, Debug, Lynx89, Arden, Francuz, MiaWallace, miahu 14 00:00:52,384 --> 00:00:54,384 Synch check: Spigui 15 00:00:55,598 --> 00:00:57,667 Review: MissPiggy 16 00:01:25,324 --> 00:01:28,445 Sometimes, for a dream to come true, 17 00:01:28,549 --> 00:01:30,540 You have to put pride aside. 18 00:01:31,926 --> 00:01:36,746 Hortense told herself that love was a luxury he could not afford. 19 00:01:45,459 --> 00:01:46,635 Good evening. 20 00:01:47,537 --> 00:01:51,285 This is perhaps the house by Gilbert Joseph? 21 00:01:51,286 --> 00:01:52,888 Aren't you going to be his wife? 22 00:01:53,024 --> 00:01:54,600 It's me, yes. 23 00:01:54,601 --> 00:01:57,371 The bumbling lazy man didn't he come to wait for you at the dock? 24 00:01:57,445 --> 00:01:58,777 He didn't come. 25 00:01:59,286 --> 00:02:00,357 Come in. 26 00:02:00,358 --> 00:02:02,836 No, I prefer to wait here, thank you. 27 00:02:04,351 --> 00:02:07,153 Gilbert! Your wife is here! 28 00:02:08,383 --> 00:02:09,412 Hortense! 29 00:02:10,788 --> 00:02:11,825 Hortense! 30 00:02:13,150 --> 00:02:16,010 “I'll be at the dock waiting for you,” you said. 31 00:02:16,011 --> 00:02:18,802 Hortense, let me explain, I went to the pier this morning... 32 00:02:18,803 --> 00:02:20,450 but there were no ships! 33 00:02:20,451 --> 00:02:22,229 They told me to come back tomorrow! 34 00:02:25,450 --> 00:02:28,319 You want all of England Does he know our business? 35 00:02:30,772 --> 00:02:32,136 I'm Mrs Bligh. 36 00:02:33,169 --> 00:02:34,823 Everyone calls me Queenie. 37 00:02:36,088 --> 00:02:37,496 Mrs Bligh. 38 00:02:39,522 --> 00:02:42,571 Come, I'll show you your new home, Hortense. 39 00:02:56,707 --> 00:02:57,884 And the rest? 40 00:02:59,211 --> 00:03:00,736 Where are the other rooms? 41 00:03:01,495 --> 00:03:04,056 There are no others, Hortense. It's all here. 42 00:03:04,226 --> 00:03:05,714 This is where I live. 43 00:03:05,715 --> 00:03:06,929 Only this? 44 00:03:07,617 --> 00:03:10,364 You make me come to the other end of the world just for this? 45 00:03:10,365 --> 00:03:13,130 Everyone lives like this. There was a war! 46 00:03:13,131 --> 00:03:14,943 Many people live even worse than this! 47 00:03:14,944 --> 00:03:17,307 Some have not not even a roof over your head. 48 00:03:17,311 --> 00:03:20,179 Look, see, we have just everything we need. 49 00:03:20,754 --> 00:03:23,394 The gas stove, which is our kitchen. 50 00:03:23,395 --> 00:03:24,889 Sink over there. 51 00:03:25,755 --> 00:03:28,698 Table, chairs... the dining room. 52 00:03:29,427 --> 00:03:31,942 And... the bedroom. 53 00:03:31,943 --> 00:03:33,953 Compact but efficient, right? 54 00:03:33,954 --> 00:03:36,416 - And the toilet? - Downstairs. But... 55 00:03:36,417 --> 00:03:39,018 there's this if we have to... 56 00:03:41,499 --> 00:03:44,050 I'm so sorry, I forgot... 57 00:03:48,341 --> 00:03:51,269 Wash the cups in the same place where you throw the... 58 00:03:51,410 --> 00:03:54,410 - I usually take her down to the bathroom when... - I can't believe... 59 00:03:54,411 --> 00:03:57,177 that you made me come here to live like an animal, 60 00:03:57,301 --> 00:03:59,924 that you think so little of me! 61 00:04:01,189 --> 00:04:03,646 Listen here, presumptuous lady. with-the-stink-under-the-nose, 62 00:04:03,647 --> 00:04:08,376 you will wash your plate, the vegetables and your behind in that sink too! 63 00:04:08,377 --> 00:04:12,842 And what you don't know yet because you're just off a ship, you're lucky! 64 00:04:13,195 --> 00:04:16,737 One day, not now but soon, you will realize it. 65 00:04:16,738 --> 00:04:21,623 It must snow in hell before that day comes, Gilbert Joseph! 66 00:04:21,624 --> 00:04:24,191 Don't forget this trunk, Gilbert! 67 00:05:10,363 --> 00:05:13,160 And God said, "Let there be light"... 68 00:05:14,925 --> 00:05:16,988 and God saw that the light was good, 69 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,085 JAMAICA, 9 YEARS BEFORE 70 00:05:18,086 --> 00:05:19,979 and separated it from the darkness. 71 00:05:21,757 --> 00:05:23,644 And he called the light "day"... 72 00:05:24,288 --> 00:05:27,297 and he called the darkness "night". 73 00:05:28,351 --> 00:05:29,387 Amen. 74 00:05:29,782 --> 00:05:30,832 Amen. 75 00:05:34,797 --> 00:05:36,620 Stay calm, Hortense. 76 00:05:41,978 --> 00:05:43,787 Actually, dad... 77 00:05:44,849 --> 00:05:48,182 it is the rotation of the Earth which causes night and day. 78 00:05:48,293 --> 00:05:52,309 I guess they taught you that in the expensive boarding school I'm sending you to? 79 00:05:52,570 --> 00:05:54,328 They taught me many things. 80 00:05:55,150 --> 00:05:56,226 For example, 81 00:05:56,227 --> 00:06:00,922 it has been irrefutably proven that man does not descend from Adam and Eve... 82 00:06:01,036 --> 00:06:02,636 but by monkeys. 83 00:06:02,659 --> 00:06:04,157 From chimpanzees, precisely. 84 00:06:04,158 --> 00:06:08,991 You dare to sit here and scoff of the Bible in my presence, Michael? 85 00:06:08,992 --> 00:06:13,039 - An inquiring mind is not part of... - I do not accept such blasphemy in my house! 86 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,333 It is perhaps blasphemy to acquire knowledge... 87 00:06:15,681 --> 00:06:17,882 want to understand how the world works? 88 00:06:17,883 --> 00:06:20,791 - Leave this table! - Don't hurt him, please! 89 00:06:22,947 --> 00:06:25,579 I think with my head now, dad. 90 00:06:25,626 --> 00:06:28,250 And hitting me won't make me obey. 91 00:06:28,446 --> 00:06:29,612 Not anymore! 92 00:07:00,437 --> 00:07:02,319 I'm grown up now, Hortense. 93 00:07:04,187 --> 00:07:06,225 I can defend my positions. 94 00:07:08,563 --> 00:07:10,734 And you have to learn to do it too. 95 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,783 DIOCESE OF JAMAICA, ST. ANDREW MISSIONARY SCHOOL 96 00:07:37,860 --> 00:07:39,920 I hope you are not neglecting your duties 97 00:07:39,921 --> 00:07:42,783 accompanying me to work every day, Michael Roberts. 98 00:07:42,987 --> 00:07:46,420 - It's a pleasure, not a duty. - Miss Hortense, good morning. 99 00:07:46,821 --> 00:07:48,287 Be a good little girl now. 100 00:07:49,004 --> 00:07:51,345 I've grown up too, Michael. 101 00:07:51,346 --> 00:07:53,546 How come everyone notices but you? 102 00:08:12,088 --> 00:08:14,110 ...in the green... 103 00:08:14,145 --> 00:08:18,999 and beautiful English land. 104 00:08:19,069 --> 00:08:22,212 Very good, children! Now return to your seats, please. 105 00:08:22,522 --> 00:08:25,102 Today we will study the reign of the Tudors. 106 00:08:25,590 --> 00:08:27,857 An urgent warning it just arrived via telegraph... 107 00:08:27,858 --> 00:08:29,114 There's a hurricane. 108 00:08:29,155 --> 00:08:31,349 Everyone must return home immediately! 109 00:08:31,350 --> 00:08:34,487 Did you hear Mr. Ryder, get your things, now! 110 00:08:34,488 --> 00:08:38,050 Stay here with Hortense, my love. Lock the shutters, lock the doors. 111 00:08:38,051 --> 00:08:39,845 Here you are! Quick! 112 00:08:51,676 --> 00:08:53,166 Michael always says... 113 00:08:53,362 --> 00:08:56,643 that storms happen when God moves the furniture. 114 00:08:56,644 --> 00:08:58,170 Keep talking to me, Hortense. 115 00:08:58,240 --> 00:08:59,852 Tell me about your brother. 116 00:09:00,444 --> 00:09:02,886 Oh, Michael is not my brother, Mrs. Ryder. 117 00:09:03,616 --> 00:09:05,822 Even if we live in the same house. 118 00:09:06,529 --> 00:09:10,616 You see... my parents... they were teachers... 119 00:09:10,696 --> 00:09:13,477 So I continued talking to calm Mrs. Ryder. 120 00:09:14,676 --> 00:09:19,041 How the parents died tragically when she was a child. 121 00:09:20,616 --> 00:09:25,917 He didn't tell her she was born outside from the wedding, in Savanna-La-Mar. 122 00:09:26,006 --> 00:09:28,520 My mother actually died holding me in your arms... 123 00:09:28,521 --> 00:09:31,001 That his father was a government official, 124 00:09:31,051 --> 00:09:34,647 and the mother a poor girl of country under him. 125 00:09:35,142 --> 00:09:39,178 How the mother begged him to send Hortense by her cousin, Mr. Roberts, 126 00:09:39,179 --> 00:09:40,724 to be raised by him,,, 127 00:09:41,477 --> 00:09:44,073 so he could learn to read and write. 128 00:09:46,244 --> 00:09:49,615 And he didn't tell her how determined she was 129 00:09:49,616 --> 00:09:53,101 to honor the sacrifice that her mother did for her. 130 00:09:53,544 --> 00:09:56,598 I was five years old when I first met Michael. 131 00:09:57,598 --> 00:09:59,437 He has so many plans! 132 00:09:59,627 --> 00:10:02,257 He wants to go live to England one day. 133 00:10:02,753 --> 00:10:05,636 When I'm older, I'll catch up. 134 00:10:05,637 --> 00:10:08,025 And we will live under the same roof again. 135 00:10:10,288 --> 00:10:11,447 This time, 136 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,354 - it will be from... - Oh good God, what was that? 137 00:10:16,552 --> 00:10:17,729 It's the door! 138 00:10:17,923 --> 00:10:19,837 Mr. Ryder is back! 139 00:10:20,053 --> 00:10:21,761 Don't leave me, Hortense! 140 00:10:25,735 --> 00:10:28,681 I'm completely capable to look after myself! 141 00:10:31,544 --> 00:10:34,325 I saw your husband at the stop of the bus, with the children. 142 00:10:34,326 --> 00:10:36,419 I thought he left you here alone! 143 00:10:45,355 --> 00:10:48,569 I didn't know you knew so good Mrs. Ryder, Michael. 144 00:10:48,772 --> 00:10:50,398 We met in church. 145 00:10:55,213 --> 00:10:58,648 - Did I get distracted and miss it? - What does it matter where I met her? 146 00:10:58,658 --> 00:11:00,288 Make yourself useful! 147 00:11:00,511 --> 00:11:02,162 Go get some blankets! 148 00:11:02,524 --> 00:11:03,579 Go! 149 00:11:11,602 --> 00:11:13,862 Now I'm here, I won't leave you. 150 00:11:14,096 --> 00:11:15,762 If Joffrey returns... 151 00:11:15,885 --> 00:11:19,091 I'll say I'm here for Hortense. Just for her... 152 00:11:31,344 --> 00:11:35,776 Hurricanes never come without warning, and the same thing happens in life. 153 00:11:36,855 --> 00:11:41,258 But when you think he's already devastated everything, often the worst is yet to come. 154 00:11:41,315 --> 00:11:42,906 Where's Mrs. Ryder? 155 00:11:43,010 --> 00:11:45,218 Little girl, we need to talk with Mrs. Ryder! 156 00:11:45,220 --> 00:11:49,443 Her husband was returning to school, when a truck lost control... 157 00:11:49,479 --> 00:11:53,207 he didn't have a chance, we must inform you of his death. 158 00:11:53,646 --> 00:11:56,285 Oh, our God is furious! 159 00:11:56,813 --> 00:11:58,832 A scary God! 160 00:11:59,085 --> 00:12:01,187 It's his punishment! 161 00:12:01,230 --> 00:12:03,065 Hortense, calm down! 162 00:12:03,069 --> 00:12:04,524 Is he in there? 163 00:12:04,534 --> 00:12:07,017 It's in there, with Michael Roberts. 164 00:12:07,086 --> 00:12:09,127 They're in there, together, alone! 165 00:12:09,455 --> 00:12:12,829 This is God's punishment for their sin! 166 00:12:40,465 --> 00:12:45,553 You knew what my son was doing a mortal sin, with that woman? 167 00:12:47,382 --> 00:12:49,139 No, sir, I didn't know. 168 00:12:50,410 --> 00:12:54,035 - Not until today, when... -When did you bother... 169 00:12:54,172 --> 00:12:56,662 to tell the pastor and his wife. 170 00:12:56,938 --> 00:12:58,788 Now the whole island knows it. 171 00:12:59,466 --> 00:13:02,134 We have fallen from grace. 172 00:13:02,287 --> 00:13:04,271 My son died for me. 173 00:13:05,516 --> 00:13:06,717 Died? 174 00:13:07,013 --> 00:13:12,210 It's time he learned the meaning of the word "duty". 175 00:13:12,572 --> 00:13:14,510 War is about to break out in Europe. 176 00:13:14,553 --> 00:13:17,327 The motherland needs of men who defend it. 177 00:13:17,865 --> 00:13:21,339 The Royal Air Force is recruiting of volunteers, in Kingston. 178 00:13:22,103 --> 00:13:24,068 I spoke to the appropriate people. 179 00:13:24,499 --> 00:13:26,248 He's going overseas. 180 00:13:28,513 --> 00:13:31,053 As soon as things settle down, 181 00:13:31,116 --> 00:13:34,152 you too will have to leave this house, Hortense. 182 00:13:34,934 --> 00:13:37,523 You abused our hospitality. 183 00:13:47,098 --> 00:13:49,421 I'd like my dinner now, Mrs. Jewel. 184 00:14:07,257 --> 00:14:09,592 Be careful of the painted wall, please! 185 00:14:09,740 --> 00:14:10,945 Sorry, Queenie. 186 00:14:10,968 --> 00:14:14,178 - Slowly, slowly... calmly. - Lift it up! 187 00:14:14,217 --> 00:14:15,707 Don't push! 188 00:14:16,826 --> 00:14:19,274 - Sorry, I'm sorry. - I'm sorry, Queenie. 189 00:14:29,523 --> 00:14:33,721 One of the mysteries of life is the way in which people's lives are intertwined. 190 00:14:35,606 --> 00:14:39,151 But they say that God acts in a mysterious way. 191 00:14:40,925 --> 00:14:42,768 If God does not exist... 192 00:14:43,552 --> 00:14:47,183 someone is making fun of us. 193 00:14:52,850 --> 00:14:57,422 In Hertfordshire, Herefordshire and Hampshire... 194 00:14:57,432 --> 00:14:59,795 LONDON, NINE YEARS BEFORE 195 00:15:00,013 --> 00:15:03,913 In Hertfordshire, Herefordshire and Hampshire... 196 00:15:03,934 --> 00:15:06,294 hurricanes almost never happen. 197 00:15:09,905 --> 00:15:12,457 The frog, in Spain... 198 00:15:12,810 --> 00:15:15,579 croaks in the countryside. 199 00:15:18,746 --> 00:15:19,924 In 200 00:15:21,637 --> 00:15:25,929 Hertfordshire, Herefordshire and Hampshire... 201 00:15:26,113 --> 00:15:29,057 hurricanes almost never happen. 202 00:15:29,796 --> 00:15:31,714 I think I understand how it works! 203 00:15:31,802 --> 00:15:35,647 Queenie, the elocution lessons they can change the way you speak, 204 00:15:35,743 --> 00:15:37,751 but who you are will not change. 205 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:40,210 But it changes what people think of you, auntie. 206 00:15:40,450 --> 00:15:42,340 Which will open doors for me. 207 00:15:42,799 --> 00:15:44,077 I'll have a job... 208 00:15:44,509 --> 00:15:45,625 I will travel... 209 00:15:45,860 --> 00:15:47,418 I'll see the world! 210 00:15:50,628 --> 00:15:52,596 That man is a clock! 211 00:15:55,488 --> 00:15:56,537 For the checkout. 212 00:16:00,718 --> 00:16:02,793 Don't judge a book by its cover. 213 00:16:08,753 --> 00:16:11,352 - Good afternoon, Queenie. - Bernard. 214 00:16:11,745 --> 00:16:14,587 And a quarter of barley sweets. 215 00:16:18,692 --> 00:16:20,687 Mr. Bligh! 216 00:16:20,727 --> 00:16:23,378 I thought I heard his voice. How are you today? 217 00:16:23,401 --> 00:16:25,311 Well, Mrs. Montgomery, thank you. 218 00:16:25,321 --> 00:16:27,497 So, do you think war will break out? 219 00:16:27,528 --> 00:16:29,134 Or is it just talk? 220 00:16:29,166 --> 00:16:32,351 I'm afraid that, given the situation in Europe, war is inevitable. 221 00:16:32,357 --> 00:16:34,936 - Mr. Chamberlain too... - Four and a half pence. 222 00:16:48,213 --> 00:16:49,748 See you later, Queenie? 223 00:16:59,416 --> 00:17:02,901 Queenie, the way you treat him, he's so abrupt... you made him go away! 224 00:17:02,931 --> 00:17:05,387 I know it's respectable and reliable, auntie. 225 00:17:05,759 --> 00:17:07,894 And I'm fond of him, really, just... 226 00:17:08,443 --> 00:17:12,877 all these months, all the walks in the park, bus and boat trips. 227 00:17:13,134 --> 00:17:15,706 I only know about him that he works in a bank, 228 00:17:15,795 --> 00:17:18,912 who lives with his father and that he likes barley sweets! 229 00:17:20,069 --> 00:17:21,773 Let it slip away... 230 00:17:22,030 --> 00:17:24,614 and you'll regret it, Queenie. Seize the moment! 231 00:17:24,624 --> 00:17:25,907 Carpe Diem! 232 00:17:26,446 --> 00:17:27,489 Carpe Diem! 233 00:17:32,590 --> 00:17:35,327 Queenie, how come don't you ever talk about Yorkshire? 234 00:17:36,353 --> 00:17:39,402 About how your life was there, of your family, of the farm? 235 00:17:42,577 --> 00:17:44,207 We raised pigs. 236 00:17:45,210 --> 00:17:48,127 Wherever you were, everywhere you looked, 237 00:17:48,501 --> 00:17:50,102 there was dirt and blood. 238 00:17:50,858 --> 00:17:54,485 My mother forced me to watch my father who slaughtered pigs. 239 00:17:56,197 --> 00:17:57,671 For my own good, he said. 240 00:17:58,564 --> 00:18:00,563 I had to toughen up. 241 00:18:02,531 --> 00:18:04,666 Well, it worked. 242 00:18:04,722 --> 00:18:07,700 When I finished school, I knew I had to leave. 243 00:18:08,032 --> 00:18:11,079 There were so many things that I wanted to do and experience! 244 00:18:12,258 --> 00:18:14,621 I wrote to Aunt Dorothy, begging her to help me. 245 00:18:15,514 --> 00:18:17,923 He sent me the ticket to come to London. 246 00:18:20,916 --> 00:18:22,301 He saved me. 247 00:18:25,096 --> 00:18:26,264 And here you are. 248 00:18:34,552 --> 00:18:36,572 Queenie, ever since I met you... 249 00:18:38,107 --> 00:18:40,953 you introduced me feelings I didn't know I had. 250 00:18:41,976 --> 00:18:43,559 It's a gift you have. 251 00:18:46,259 --> 00:18:49,550 I know I'm not a guy cheerful or worldly like others or... 252 00:18:51,042 --> 00:18:53,413 - but no one will love you as much as me... - Bernard, please... 253 00:18:53,423 --> 00:18:55,523 No, please, let me finish. Let me finish. 254 00:18:58,957 --> 00:19:00,840 I pray that one day... 255 00:19:00,909 --> 00:19:02,644 if you ever want... 256 00:19:03,881 --> 00:19:07,187 I'll wait for you, Queenie, I will wait as long as necessary. 257 00:19:15,381 --> 00:19:17,566 It belongs to you now, Queenie. 258 00:19:18,937 --> 00:19:20,192 Only to you. 259 00:19:58,124 --> 00:19:59,719 So, good night, Bernard. 260 00:20:17,271 --> 00:20:18,930 God bless you, Queenie. 261 00:20:35,913 --> 00:20:37,028 Bernard! 262 00:20:37,235 --> 00:20:40,192 The door is stuck, there's something blocking it. 263 00:20:47,305 --> 00:20:48,740 Stay there, Queenie. 264 00:20:57,372 --> 00:20:58,452 No... 265 00:21:00,139 --> 00:21:01,311 no, please... 266 00:21:03,164 --> 00:21:05,883 not this, everything, but not this. 267 00:21:23,608 --> 00:21:24,906 Thanks, Queenie. 268 00:21:33,839 --> 00:21:35,189 All right, Queenie. 269 00:21:38,634 --> 00:21:40,048 Have you met Bernard? 270 00:21:40,882 --> 00:21:41,919 My mother. 271 00:21:44,427 --> 00:21:47,485 Queenie, you need to pack. And then we'll go home. 272 00:21:47,687 --> 00:21:49,448 There's a train in the afternoon. 273 00:21:49,845 --> 00:21:52,069 Your father will pick us up at the station. 274 00:21:55,568 --> 00:21:57,914 The landlord wants you to leave. 275 00:21:58,228 --> 00:21:59,907 You don't have a roof over your head... 276 00:22:00,135 --> 00:22:02,091 you are unable to support yourself. 277 00:22:04,324 --> 00:22:06,706 It's time to see the world the way it is, Queenie... 278 00:22:07,291 --> 00:22:08,848 and not the way you would like it. 279 00:22:10,088 --> 00:22:12,558 You'll have a roof over your head, Mrs Buxton. 280 00:22:12,592 --> 00:22:13,971 He'll stay with me. 281 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:15,688 We will get married. 282 00:22:18,177 --> 00:22:19,431 Right, Queenie? 283 00:22:23,835 --> 00:22:25,634 As soon as we get the license. 284 00:22:26,375 --> 00:22:28,868 So, stop worrying. 285 00:22:29,447 --> 00:22:31,573 From now on, I'll take care of her. 286 00:22:31,690 --> 00:22:33,758 Lily? Lily? 287 00:22:44,609 --> 00:22:46,944 Do you really want it, Queenie? 288 00:23:06,798 --> 00:23:08,701 Carpe diem, auntie. 289 00:23:10,014 --> 00:23:11,218 Carpe Diem. 290 00:24:04,323 --> 00:24:06,736 This was your mother's quilt. 291 00:24:07,018 --> 00:24:09,868 I saved it for when you get married. 292 00:24:11,327 --> 00:24:14,017 You know I won't be able to see you, right? 293 00:24:16,918 --> 00:24:18,317 Go to Kingston, 294 00:24:18,318 --> 00:24:20,905 Give your best to the university. 295 00:24:20,906 --> 00:24:23,618 This way you will become a good teacher. 296 00:24:24,418 --> 00:24:25,844 Mrs Jewel... 297 00:24:27,095 --> 00:24:30,074 - when Michael comes back... - He won't come back, my child. 298 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:31,741 Never again. 299 00:24:32,690 --> 00:24:34,773 Get that into your head now. 300 00:25:20,946 --> 00:25:21,995 Michael? 301 00:25:28,105 --> 00:25:29,193 Michael? 302 00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:31,835 Michael! 303 00:25:33,992 --> 00:25:35,062 Michael! 304 00:25:44,015 --> 00:25:45,548 Can I help you? 305 00:25:50,274 --> 00:25:51,315 Excuse me. 306 00:26:00,725 --> 00:26:03,299 It's your lucky day, Gilbert. 307 00:26:03,336 --> 00:26:04,649 Step forward! 308 00:27:10,530 --> 00:27:13,578 They talk about using the subway as an air raid shelter. 309 00:27:13,591 --> 00:27:15,891 I was thinking of making one under the stairs. 310 00:27:16,004 --> 00:27:17,719 Dad, you'll help me, right? 311 00:27:18,482 --> 00:27:20,643 We could go there, when you have fixed it. 312 00:27:20,815 --> 00:27:22,448 We can spend a night there, 313 00:27:22,583 --> 00:27:24,471 have a midnight party. 314 00:27:24,579 --> 00:27:25,783 It'll be fun. 315 00:27:27,531 --> 00:27:29,216 I think it's difficult, dear. 316 00:27:35,271 --> 00:27:38,579 Why don't you use the rooms upstairs, Bernard? 317 00:27:41,841 --> 00:27:45,267 We used them when we gave them out rent. But since mom died... 318 00:27:45,305 --> 00:27:47,706 his war neurosis has worsened and... 319 00:27:48,199 --> 00:27:50,920 it has become unpredictable, especially with strangers... 320 00:27:50,921 --> 00:27:52,432 better to be reserved. 321 00:27:52,537 --> 00:27:55,959 We could open them and return them suitable to host a family. 322 00:27:56,176 --> 00:27:59,155 Why change just for the sake of change? 323 00:28:12,038 --> 00:28:15,294 Let's stop this program for a special edition... 324 00:28:16,417 --> 00:28:17,751 My God, here we are. 325 00:28:18,104 --> 00:28:19,846 Here we go, Queenie. It's really happening. 326 00:28:19,847 --> 00:28:23,640 This morning the ambassador British in Berlin... 327 00:28:24,039 --> 00:28:28,001 Hehanded it over to the German government the final note... 328 00:28:28,452 --> 00:28:33,657 in which he stated that if I enter 11 am had not declared... 329 00:28:33,807 --> 00:28:38,652 Be ready to withdraw immediately their troops from Poland... 330 00:28:38,934 --> 00:28:42,486 would begin the state of war between the respective countries. 331 00:28:43,124 --> 00:28:45,079 It is my duty to inform you now... 332 00:28:45,417 --> 00:28:48,357 that no news has been received. 333 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:54,669 And that, consequently, this country is at war with Germany. 334 00:28:55,688 --> 00:28:56,989 As you can imagine... 335 00:28:58,368 --> 00:29:00,371 Things will have to change now... 336 00:29:01,158 --> 00:29:02,717 whether we like it or not. 337 00:29:38,630 --> 00:29:40,093 Oh God, our roof! 338 00:29:40,309 --> 00:29:42,658 - We lost the roof. - I can't see it! 339 00:29:42,759 --> 00:29:43,948 No, Queenie! 340 00:29:44,742 --> 00:29:45,996 Queenie, no! 341 00:29:48,842 --> 00:29:51,213 Come back, Queenie, it's not safe. 342 00:29:51,867 --> 00:29:55,558 I can see it, Bernard, the roof is still there, it's still there! 343 00:29:55,623 --> 00:29:58,262 They haven't given us the green light yet. You have to go back inside! 344 00:29:58,263 --> 00:30:00,383 I can't breathe in there. 345 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:14,659 In Hertfordshire, Herefordshire and Hampshire... 346 00:30:15,095 --> 00:30:17,938 hurricanes almost never happen. 347 00:30:34,784 --> 00:30:37,359 - To fight for your country? - Yes'. 348 00:30:37,401 --> 00:30:39,870 To see black people in the Governor's house 349 00:30:39,871 --> 00:30:44,382 What do they do better than sweep? Yes, this is worth fighting for. 350 00:30:45,090 --> 00:30:49,700 We should fight the English, instead of licking his ass! 351 00:30:49,701 --> 00:30:52,467 You know how he defines Hitler we black men, Elwood? 352 00:30:52,683 --> 00:30:53,687 Anthropoids. 353 00:30:53,709 --> 00:30:55,249 I looked it up in the library: 354 00:30:55,250 --> 00:30:58,497 similar to a human being, but primitive, like a monkey. 355 00:30:58,498 --> 00:31:01,274 Don't we fight them? I'm telling you, we'll be slaves again. 356 00:31:01,275 --> 00:31:02,922 This is worth fighting for. 357 00:31:02,923 --> 00:31:05,116 And what's keeping me here anyway? 358 00:31:05,117 --> 00:31:07,548 I always wanted to go to university and study law. 359 00:31:07,549 --> 00:31:10,045 I can't even afford it the books I need! 360 00:31:10,046 --> 00:31:12,957 In this way, I fight for my country and I learn a trade. 361 00:31:12,958 --> 00:31:15,800 When the war is over, I will be able to pay for my studies. 362 00:31:15,891 --> 00:31:17,974 Where can I find such an opportunity? 363 00:31:18,217 --> 00:31:19,373 Gilbert! 364 00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:23,168 Our opportunities are here, with our taxi. 365 00:31:23,169 --> 00:31:25,303 And you even have night school... 366 00:31:25,304 --> 00:31:27,286 - for your studies. - How many times have I gone 367 00:31:27,287 --> 00:31:29,058 at night school this year, Elwood? 368 00:31:29,059 --> 00:31:32,008 Never! Not even once I went to night school, 369 00:31:32,009 --> 00:31:35,020 because every night I'm glued to that damn taxi engine, 370 00:31:35,021 --> 00:31:36,547 to try to fix it! 371 00:31:37,403 --> 00:31:40,520 The only law I know it is that of the internal combustion engine. 372 00:31:41,201 --> 00:31:42,272 Well... 373 00:31:42,606 --> 00:31:44,314 do whatever the hell you want. 374 00:31:47,515 --> 00:31:50,972 Remember this, Gilbert: the English are liars. 375 00:31:51,050 --> 00:31:54,706 All of them are damned liars! 376 00:31:56,515 --> 00:31:59,588 Good morning to you, sir, welcome to the Royal Air Force. 377 00:32:00,539 --> 00:32:02,104 The game is open. 378 00:32:02,109 --> 00:32:05,189 Be yourself. On the charge! 379 00:32:05,190 --> 00:32:10,206 Shout: "Harry and Saint George! God save England!" 380 00:32:10,222 --> 00:32:11,232 TEACHERS SCHOOL, KINGSTON 381 00:32:11,274 --> 00:32:12,987 Excellent, Hortense. 382 00:32:12,988 --> 00:32:17,225 A pleasant diversion, and an appropriate choice at the same time. 383 00:32:17,226 --> 00:32:18,740 Thank you, Miss Morgan. 384 00:32:19,593 --> 00:32:21,068 Finished, Miss Morgan. 385 00:32:21,433 --> 00:32:23,201 Then start another one, dear. 386 00:32:24,108 --> 00:32:26,117 England is a very cold country. 387 00:32:26,118 --> 00:32:29,085 We have to make sure let our men stay warm. 388 00:32:31,352 --> 00:32:35,417 I'm here to become a teacher, not to learn how to knit socks! 389 00:32:35,418 --> 00:32:36,452 Celia! 390 00:32:36,837 --> 00:32:40,652 There may be a brother or boyfriend out there, risking their lives. 391 00:32:40,986 --> 00:32:43,042 I'll do a couple a day. 392 00:32:43,306 --> 00:32:48,044 All ruby red, like the red breast of our hummingbird'. 393 00:32:49,202 --> 00:32:50,297 Celia! 394 00:32:52,612 --> 00:32:53,624 Celia! 395 00:32:55,743 --> 00:32:57,754 I can't find it, Celia. 396 00:32:59,742 --> 00:33:00,819 Celia! 397 00:33:02,137 --> 00:33:05,309 I've looked everywhere, but... it's not there. 398 00:33:05,965 --> 00:33:07,138 Celia! 399 00:33:07,267 --> 00:33:09,055 Every now and then it gets confusing. 400 00:33:09,056 --> 00:33:10,784 Your father is gone! 401 00:33:11,463 --> 00:33:13,993 Mom, I told you never to come here. 402 00:33:14,954 --> 00:33:16,336 Let's go now, okay? 403 00:33:16,337 --> 00:33:18,640 Didn't I always tell you he would? 404 00:33:18,853 --> 00:33:23,556 Didn't I always tell you that good-for-nothing would he do this to us one day? 405 00:33:23,557 --> 00:33:26,669 He's with that slut from Spanish Town. 406 00:33:27,402 --> 00:33:29,830 We've lost everything, Celia. 407 00:33:29,831 --> 00:33:32,142 God has turned his back on us. 408 00:33:57,662 --> 00:34:00,463 Think about all that that we will see in England, Celia. 409 00:34:00,994 --> 00:34:02,617 Trafalgar Square! 410 00:34:03,336 --> 00:34:04,873 Buckingham Palace! 411 00:34:06,511 --> 00:34:08,939 One day, I'll see them too. 412 00:34:09,478 --> 00:34:13,418 I'll be a teacher in a prestigious English school. 413 00:34:13,588 --> 00:34:17,078 And I'll live in a nice house with electric light... 414 00:34:17,118 --> 00:34:21,347 and a bell at the front door. And I'll ring that bell. 415 00:34:25,351 --> 00:34:28,468 It's the dream that Michael and I have we had as children. 416 00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:33,947 When the war is over, he will understand his mistake... 417 00:34:33,948 --> 00:34:35,592 and he will come back for me. 418 00:34:35,737 --> 00:34:39,488 From what you say, he's not the type who learns from his mistakes, Hortense. 419 00:34:39,838 --> 00:34:42,047 He'll come back, you'll see. 420 00:34:42,815 --> 00:34:46,188 This island is too small for those with big dreams, Celia. 421 00:34:47,060 --> 00:34:48,889 And without dreams, 422 00:34:49,416 --> 00:34:50,795 we are nothing. 423 00:35:29,842 --> 00:35:31,810 They're moving people wherever they happen to be. 424 00:35:31,811 --> 00:35:35,083 If you get bombed in Rotherhithe, you should be relocated to Rotherhithe, 425 00:35:35,084 --> 00:35:36,379 not somewhere else. 426 00:35:36,380 --> 00:35:38,709 An idiotic Ministry hack 427 00:35:38,710 --> 00:35:41,508 he ordered that they be reallocated at number 29. 428 00:35:41,509 --> 00:35:43,646 This is just the beginning, listen to me. 429 00:35:43,647 --> 00:35:45,498 Next will be your house, then mine. 430 00:35:45,499 --> 00:35:47,084 The bombed families of Rotherhithe... 431 00:35:47,085 --> 00:35:49,787 Mr. Todd is writing a petition to the ministry 432 00:35:49,788 --> 00:35:51,636 to have them sent somewhere else. 433 00:35:51,699 --> 00:35:54,175 They need a roof on the head like everyone else, right? 434 00:35:54,176 --> 00:35:55,611 Have you seen the state I'm in? 435 00:35:55,717 --> 00:35:58,486 They are full of lice and only God knows what else. 436 00:35:58,986 --> 00:36:01,256 The invasion wasn't enough of Poles and Jews... 437 00:36:01,257 --> 00:36:03,757 and now these beggars they will take our homes. 438 00:36:03,959 --> 00:36:07,194 The neighborhood committee will keep in touch. A thousand thanks. 439 00:36:08,797 --> 00:36:10,098 Mrs Bligh. 440 00:36:12,534 --> 00:36:15,926 We should help those people, Bernard. Don't make things worse. 441 00:36:16,038 --> 00:36:18,338 With all the space that we have, it's not right. 442 00:36:18,373 --> 00:36:21,992 It's not our responsibility, Queenie. It's the authorities' job. 443 00:36:22,044 --> 00:36:25,279 Tell me, Bernard, have you ever thought what we will tell our children 444 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,280 if they ask us how we have it contributed during the war? 445 00:36:29,551 --> 00:36:32,054 As for me, I don't know what to say. 446 00:36:38,995 --> 00:36:41,964 War means different things for different people. 447 00:36:45,501 --> 00:36:49,304 For some it threatens to destroy everything they care about. 448 00:36:52,841 --> 00:36:57,480 For others it may mean new freedom and new experiences. 449 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,117 The future also for Queenie it represented a lifeline. 450 00:37:02,317 --> 00:37:06,522 For her, war meant giving up to old dreams for a new one. 451 00:37:06,822 --> 00:37:08,457 I'm afraid there's a problem. 452 00:37:09,357 --> 00:37:11,760 These are not the best of times to start a family. 453 00:37:12,060 --> 00:37:14,529 It's not time that I lack. 454 00:37:16,531 --> 00:37:18,881 I doubt a young woman and healthy like her, 455 00:37:18,883 --> 00:37:20,883 have a physical problem, Mrs Bligh. 456 00:37:21,436 --> 00:37:23,538 We have been married for over a year. 457 00:37:24,838 --> 00:37:28,542 I deduce, therefore, that you have regular marital relations with her husband. 458 00:37:32,214 --> 00:37:33,517 And what are they like? 459 00:37:35,017 --> 00:37:37,519 Do you like them? Are they satisfactory? 460 00:37:39,554 --> 00:37:43,189 If a woman doesn't get pleasure from your relations with your husband, Mrs Bligh... 461 00:37:43,230 --> 00:37:46,558 greatly reduces the possibilities of procreating. 462 00:37:47,061 --> 00:37:49,264 Is this a medical fact? 463 00:37:49,464 --> 00:37:51,066 It's a fact of life. 464 00:37:51,566 --> 00:37:53,569 You're not pregnant, are you? 465 00:38:25,631 --> 00:38:27,486 I have to prove I'm up to it. 466 00:38:29,803 --> 00:38:31,671 Not me, Bernard. 467 00:38:31,803 --> 00:38:34,975 No, but I have to prove it to our children. 468 00:38:59,834 --> 00:39:01,466 Oh, great! 469 00:39:02,335 --> 00:39:04,703 What a fantastic job you did. 470 00:39:04,803 --> 00:39:06,539 I'll be the envy of the squadron. 471 00:39:06,939 --> 00:39:08,842 Look how shiny they are, Queenie. 472 00:39:19,653 --> 00:39:22,922 There are opportunities in life in which the moment is not seized... 473 00:39:23,022 --> 00:39:26,091 It's an opportunity it can be lost forever. 474 00:39:27,894 --> 00:39:29,930 Such a moment can be fleeting... 475 00:39:30,530 --> 00:39:34,034 but the aftermath they can last forever. 476 00:39:53,300 --> 00:39:55,030 TWO YEARS LATER. 477 00:39:59,131 --> 00:40:02,800 ROYAL AIR FORCE BASE. FILEY, YORKSHIRE. 478 00:40:33,745 --> 00:40:37,310 Because they always do for us and only socks? Never a glove! 479 00:40:37,611 --> 00:40:40,111 Boss, what is this stuff? 480 00:40:40,212 --> 00:40:43,712 Little guy, you haven't learned anything since you've been in England. 481 00:40:43,713 --> 00:40:46,013 This is boiled mush! 482 00:40:46,514 --> 00:40:49,614 You have the white goo, you're the brown one. 483 00:40:49,879 --> 00:40:54,415 And this is the ultimate delicacy among all. It's the green goo. 484 00:40:54,717 --> 00:40:58,117 How did the English create a empire with a belly full of this shit? 485 00:40:58,118 --> 00:41:01,118 Look, it took years... what am I saying, centuries... 486 00:41:01,119 --> 00:41:05,101 to develop the advanced system to cook everything in boiling water 487 00:41:05,244 --> 00:41:07,758 so as to deprive it completely of any flavor. 488 00:41:07,819 --> 00:41:09,777 And that's quite a feat, man. 489 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,320 You have to understand that it's not easy at all. Not even for a white person. 490 00:41:14,706 --> 00:41:16,575 Which one of you is Joseph? 491 00:41:17,775 --> 00:41:19,244 It's me, sir. 492 00:41:19,744 --> 00:41:20,812 Sergeant. 493 00:41:21,812 --> 00:41:23,148 Excuse me, sir... 494 00:41:24,248 --> 00:41:25,282 Sergeant. 495 00:41:26,082 --> 00:41:28,452 The rest of you, get back to work. 496 00:41:30,655 --> 00:41:32,414 It says here you know how to drive. It is true? 497 00:41:32,456 --> 00:41:33,825 Yes, sir. 498 00:41:34,025 --> 00:41:35,311 Your orders have arrived. 499 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,979 You will report to Ground Transport. A driver is needed. 500 00:41:38,062 --> 00:41:41,467 There must be a mistake, Sergeant. I signed up to fly. 501 00:41:41,533 --> 00:41:44,735 To go overseas as a radio operator or navigator. 502 00:41:44,736 --> 00:41:47,427 They said the RAF we needed people and they would have trained us... 503 00:41:47,442 --> 00:41:48,637 Guess what? 504 00:41:48,772 --> 00:41:50,074 You're overseas. 505 00:41:50,174 --> 00:41:53,578 No, no, I mean across the Channel, at the front, sergeant. 506 00:41:53,778 --> 00:41:56,913 - At the front line. - This is the damn home front. 507 00:41:56,914 --> 00:41:59,017 And you will follow your damn orders. 508 00:41:59,317 --> 00:42:02,054 Now clean yourself up and report to ground transportation. 509 00:42:03,755 --> 00:42:05,255 Yes, sir. 510 00:42:08,956 --> 00:42:10,056 Sergeant. 511 00:42:37,613 --> 00:42:38,948 Here we are. 512 00:42:49,224 --> 00:42:51,590 The housing manager sends us. 513 00:42:51,593 --> 00:42:54,129 He said he has quarters for the military. 514 00:42:54,429 --> 00:42:56,198 Of course, come in. 515 00:43:00,169 --> 00:43:03,739 Actually it would be Walter, but everyone calls me Ginger. 516 00:43:03,839 --> 00:43:06,506 - And her? - Kip! Diminutive of Kipling. 517 00:43:06,676 --> 00:43:08,911 My mother was a passionate admirer. 518 00:43:09,011 --> 00:43:12,179 It could have been worse. He also adored Trollope. 519 00:43:13,515 --> 00:43:15,217 I assume he's our comrade. 520 00:43:15,218 --> 00:43:16,918 Punctual as always. 521 00:43:20,988 --> 00:43:23,024 Mrs Bligh, I presume. 522 00:43:24,092 --> 00:43:26,128 Sergeant Michael Roberts? 523 00:43:26,328 --> 00:43:28,564 I think Kip and Ginger are here. 524 00:43:29,798 --> 00:43:32,001 Excuse me, yes. I... 525 00:43:34,736 --> 00:43:35,904 Thank you. 526 00:43:43,476 --> 00:43:46,147 Yes, yes, go ahead. They are waiting for her. 527 00:44:10,405 --> 00:44:12,108 Good evening, Mrs Bligh. 528 00:44:14,743 --> 00:44:18,078 - I hope I don't disturb you. - I thought you all went out tonight. 529 00:44:18,146 --> 00:44:21,016 The others could be seen with ladies they know. 530 00:44:21,017 --> 00:44:23,117 I decided to go to bed early. 531 00:44:23,185 --> 00:44:26,088 We have to be at the station Paddington at seven tomorrow morning. 532 00:44:28,857 --> 00:44:31,325 A sign of how much you appreciate his hospitality. 533 00:44:31,343 --> 00:44:33,429 Oh... it's not necessary, really. 534 00:44:33,529 --> 00:44:35,731 Please, I insist. 535 00:44:42,672 --> 00:44:44,174 Good evening, sir. 536 00:44:46,775 --> 00:44:49,444 Traumatic psychosis, in the last war. 537 00:44:49,544 --> 00:44:52,546 - Is he your father? - My husband's father. 538 00:44:53,782 --> 00:44:56,951 It's across the Channel. He's in the RAF like you. 539 00:44:58,153 --> 00:45:01,357 Maybe you might be interested play poker, sir? 540 00:45:01,406 --> 00:45:03,859 I prefer seven card stud. 541 00:45:04,008 --> 00:45:05,927 As long as it's okay with her. 542 00:45:48,504 --> 00:45:50,501 What are you doing, Queenie? 543 00:46:03,002 --> 00:46:04,519 I doubt he should play for money. 544 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:08,355 Your father-in-law can do it much more, Mrs Bligh. 545 00:46:08,724 --> 00:46:11,543 He's cheating. Not yet how, but... 546 00:46:11,604 --> 00:46:14,956 Even if he were able, It's not in his nature to do something like that. 547 00:46:15,031 --> 00:46:18,131 Human nature It's full of surprises, Mrs Bligh. 548 00:46:30,379 --> 00:46:34,547 Since I've known him I've never seen him do something similar. Arthur! 549 00:46:39,388 --> 00:46:41,223 Well, now... I should go to bed too. 550 00:46:41,224 --> 00:46:44,024 She's not tired yet. Please. 551 00:46:48,497 --> 00:46:52,766 Now you can ask me all the questions that he's been thinking about since I arrived. 552 00:46:53,968 --> 00:46:54,970 What is it? 553 00:46:54,971 --> 00:46:58,071 She's not curious about this black man living in his house? 554 00:46:58,073 --> 00:47:01,475 He didn't hear the expression "curiosity killed the cat"? 555 00:47:01,577 --> 00:47:04,746 I prefer the one about his nine lives. 556 00:47:06,312 --> 00:47:09,886 I come from an island in the Caribbean which is called Jamaica. 557 00:47:10,286 --> 00:47:11,888 Have you heard of it? 558 00:47:12,588 --> 00:47:13,857 Well, she must miss it. 559 00:47:14,557 --> 00:47:15,891 His family too. 560 00:47:15,892 --> 00:47:19,192 Unfortunately, you can't choose your family. 561 00:47:19,863 --> 00:47:22,932 The disappointment we feel is mutual. 562 00:47:25,034 --> 00:47:27,770 But she must miss being with her people. 563 00:47:27,938 --> 00:47:29,323 My people? 564 00:47:29,598 --> 00:47:32,213 Oh, no, no, no. I mean... being so far from home and... 565 00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:33,341 And to her? 566 00:47:34,412 --> 00:47:36,963 - Do you miss your husband? - Yes, certainly. 567 00:47:40,416 --> 00:47:41,660 I mean, tell me. 568 00:47:42,221 --> 00:47:44,702 Am I the first black man he's seen? 569 00:47:44,775 --> 00:47:45,891 No. 570 00:47:47,188 --> 00:47:49,526 I saw one on a school trip. 571 00:47:49,624 --> 00:47:52,394 At the Imperial Exhibition at Wembley. 572 00:47:53,863 --> 00:47:56,135 There... there was the jungle... 573 00:47:56,536 --> 00:47:58,336 with an African village. 574 00:47:59,935 --> 00:48:03,337 It was so real, it was like had come out of National Geographic. 575 00:48:03,338 --> 00:48:06,238 Like real life. And this, you know, this... 576 00:48:06,508 --> 00:48:09,746 large black man came out of one of the huts. 577 00:48:11,881 --> 00:48:15,386 It looked like it was carved out of dark chocolate. 578 00:48:17,088 --> 00:48:18,522 I was terrified. 579 00:48:21,620 --> 00:48:23,142 Then he smiled. 580 00:48:24,635 --> 00:48:28,356 He took my hand, and kissed it. 581 00:48:31,189 --> 00:48:33,618 Then I found out who was a tribal prince. 582 00:48:34,003 --> 00:48:37,009 But still a prince. 583 00:48:40,148 --> 00:48:42,962 I had such big plans when I was little. 584 00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:46,287 All the things I would have done, all... 585 00:48:46,612 --> 00:48:48,849 the trips and places I would see. 586 00:48:50,739 --> 00:48:52,971 I believed anything was possible. 587 00:48:53,379 --> 00:48:56,457 You can still travel. In here. 588 00:49:03,604 --> 00:49:05,646 We have a bird in Jamaica. 589 00:49:05,846 --> 00:49:09,308 The hummingbird'. It is the national bird. 590 00:49:09,723 --> 00:49:13,020 It's very small, just so. 591 00:49:13,610 --> 00:49:15,938 But really beautiful. 592 00:49:16,628 --> 00:49:18,045 When it flies... 593 00:49:19,869 --> 00:49:24,211 his wings beat so fast that the eye cannot see. 594 00:49:25,545 --> 00:49:28,351 Such a quick movement that you can't notice it. 595 00:49:30,208 --> 00:49:34,155 Then, suspended in the air, standing still like an armed man... 596 00:49:34,977 --> 00:49:38,260 plants its yellow beak in the cup of a flower... 597 00:49:38,389 --> 00:49:40,308 and sucks all the nectar. 598 00:49:42,268 --> 00:49:45,717 And once in London, during the Blitz... 599 00:49:46,069 --> 00:49:48,818 everywhere death and despair. 600 00:49:49,698 --> 00:49:51,902 There was so much dust that you could barely breathe. 601 00:49:51,990 --> 00:49:53,913 Do you know what I saw? 602 00:49:54,545 --> 00:49:57,819 Among all the rubble and desperation... 603 00:49:58,990 --> 00:50:00,667 a hummingbird'. 604 00:50:01,937 --> 00:50:04,456 I thought my eyes they were deceiving me... 605 00:50:05,548 --> 00:50:07,603 but it was really there. 606 00:50:09,854 --> 00:50:14,315 I didn't dare move, so as not to risk it to break the spell. 607 00:50:20,851 --> 00:50:22,776 Do you want me to stay, Queenie? 608 00:50:26,550 --> 00:50:28,275 It's up to you to decide. 609 00:50:35,182 --> 00:50:37,417 It has to be your choice. 610 00:50:44,796 --> 00:50:45,959 Stay. 611 00:50:55,952 --> 00:50:57,205 Stay. 612 00:51:37,859 --> 00:51:40,011 There are two types of love. 613 00:51:40,341 --> 00:51:44,920 The stable and long-lasting one, like the ground beneath our feet. 614 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,607 And the one similar to a hurricane. 615 00:51:48,952 --> 00:51:51,139 Impetuous and ardent. 616 00:52:16,548 --> 00:52:19,091 It can only happen once in a lifetime... 617 00:52:20,619 --> 00:52:24,061 but it leaves an imprint on the heart. 618 00:53:17,269 --> 00:53:18,827 A cup of tea? 619 00:53:43,842 --> 00:53:45,233 I... yes. 620 00:53:45,234 --> 00:53:47,235 His train doesn't leave until seven. 621 00:54:02,895 --> 00:54:04,025 Arthur! 622 00:54:05,102 --> 00:54:06,388 Arthur! 623 00:54:08,787 --> 00:54:10,914 Arthur! Arthur... 624 00:54:12,501 --> 00:54:14,381 It's okay, I'm here. 625 00:54:17,141 --> 00:54:20,248 I'm not leaving you, everything's fine. 626 00:54:22,943 --> 00:54:24,395 We'll go away. 627 00:54:25,397 --> 00:54:27,163 We'll go somewhere safe. 628 00:55:06,129 --> 00:55:08,206 Can I help you, sir? 629 00:55:09,229 --> 00:55:10,824 Maybe he got lost? 630 00:55:27,537 --> 00:55:30,674 How about we make a deal, you and me? 631 00:55:32,735 --> 00:55:34,623 She takes this rock. 632 00:55:35,357 --> 00:55:38,236 I'll find another place where to sit, what do you think? 633 00:55:47,596 --> 00:55:50,966 I tell you, sir, you're putting testing my patience. 634 00:55:56,256 --> 00:55:59,144 Calm down, sir. It's just a plane. 635 00:55:59,193 --> 00:56:03,493 A plane from the base, that's all. Lord, listen to me, do you see? 636 00:56:04,435 --> 00:56:06,345 It's a plane. 637 00:56:11,155 --> 00:56:13,243 Tell me where you live. 638 00:56:14,453 --> 00:56:15,893 I'll take her home. 639 00:56:16,965 --> 00:56:19,038 Do you know which way is? 640 00:56:26,813 --> 00:56:28,568 "My name is Arthur Bligh. 641 00:56:28,605 --> 00:56:31,845 If you find me, please take me back to 21 Nevern Street... 642 00:56:32,546 --> 00:56:33,683 London". 643 00:56:34,997 --> 00:56:38,180 Dude, you're a long way from home. 644 00:56:38,943 --> 00:56:40,680 I know the feeling. 645 00:56:47,699 --> 00:56:48,827 All right. 646 00:56:50,372 --> 00:56:51,414 Let's go. 647 00:56:58,501 --> 00:57:00,411 Get out of the way, come on. 648 00:58:04,363 --> 00:58:07,498 You're going to worry me, Arthur. 649 00:58:07,567 --> 00:58:09,287 Where have you been? 650 00:58:10,528 --> 00:58:11,749 Where was he? 651 00:58:11,783 --> 00:58:13,026 On the beach. 652 00:58:13,401 --> 00:58:15,389 He's got a crush on me, ma'am. 653 00:58:16,749 --> 00:58:18,797 It's not him, Arthur. 654 00:58:18,818 --> 00:58:21,409 It's someone else. It's not Michael. 655 00:58:22,573 --> 00:58:26,064 He's from London. It gets confusing. Go inside. 656 00:58:26,718 --> 00:58:28,490 I'll make you something to eat. 657 00:58:33,434 --> 00:58:35,060 Who does he think I am? 658 00:58:36,152 --> 00:58:38,631 Someone we knew who looks like her. 659 00:58:38,958 --> 00:58:40,539 Another RAF soldier? 660 00:58:40,574 --> 00:58:42,753 No, no, no. Another black guy. 661 00:58:43,457 --> 00:58:48,058 I assure you, ma'am. There's not another black guy like me. 662 00:58:48,986 --> 00:58:51,926 Airman Gilbert Joseph. At your service, ma'am. 663 00:58:52,258 --> 00:58:53,887 Queenie Bligh. 664 00:58:54,244 --> 00:58:57,107 I can offer you a cup of tea as compensation for Mr. Tramp? 665 00:58:57,122 --> 00:58:59,074 I have to go back to base. 666 00:59:00,074 --> 00:59:01,852 Maybe another time. 667 00:59:19,870 --> 00:59:22,484 CORAL HILL PARISH SCHOOL, KINGSTON 668 00:59:34,597 --> 00:59:37,414 Congratulations on your efforts, my dear. 669 00:59:37,527 --> 00:59:41,382 - You transformed her. - I do what I can. 670 00:59:41,479 --> 00:59:43,733 I hope to do better when I go to England. 671 00:59:43,808 --> 00:59:45,602 A letter has arrived for you, Hortense. 672 00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,893 It was sent to the principal, but it's meant for you. 673 00:59:48,906 --> 00:59:51,293 From your guardian, Mr. Roberts. 674 01:00:04,472 --> 01:00:06,425 It's news from Michael! 675 01:00:16,648 --> 01:00:18,172 Thank you, Mrs. Morgan. 676 01:00:19,639 --> 01:00:21,926 Is it possible to keep the letter? 677 01:00:21,984 --> 01:00:24,435 Don't you want to talk about it, Hortense? 678 01:00:24,767 --> 01:00:27,947 Every News by Michael Roberts it's welcome to me. 679 01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:30,112 I've been waiting a really long time for you, you know. 680 01:00:30,149 --> 01:00:33,643 I don't think you understand the meaning of the letter, darling. 681 01:00:33,843 --> 01:00:36,512 This young man was officially reported missing. 682 01:00:36,547 --> 01:00:39,336 He'll show up sooner or later. He always does. 683 01:00:39,395 --> 01:00:41,535 Like an unwanted guest. 684 01:00:41,595 --> 01:00:43,947 He's always around creating discord. 685 01:00:45,304 --> 01:00:47,896 We designed to go to England, you know. 686 01:00:48,649 --> 01:00:50,059 When the war ends, 687 01:00:50,171 --> 01:00:52,768 - He'll come back for me, and then... - Sit down, little girl. 688 01:00:57,109 --> 01:00:58,364 Hortense... 689 01:00:58,385 --> 01:01:00,481 Hortense listened to what she was told... 690 01:01:00,531 --> 01:01:03,458 but he couldn't accept of having lost Michael. 691 01:01:06,638 --> 01:01:08,144 To do so meant acceptance 692 01:01:08,191 --> 01:01:12,636 than their hopes for their future in England they had vanished with him. 693 01:01:15,916 --> 01:01:18,743 The pain of broken dreams... 694 01:01:18,963 --> 01:01:22,546 It's too big to bear, for every human being. 695 01:01:48,273 --> 01:01:50,527 OUR FLAG. FIGHT FOR HER! WORK FOR HER! 696 01:01:52,192 --> 01:01:54,165 A nigga who can write. 697 01:01:55,156 --> 01:01:56,853 Now I've really seen them all. 698 01:01:56,926 --> 01:01:58,117 Arthur! 699 01:01:59,456 --> 01:02:00,726 Arthur! 700 01:02:01,757 --> 01:02:02,886 Arthur! 701 01:02:04,353 --> 01:02:05,643 Arthur! 702 01:02:06,408 --> 01:02:08,481 Don't tell me you lost it again. 703 01:02:15,355 --> 01:02:19,139 - I should keep looking for him. - We can watch from here, see? 704 01:02:26,188 --> 01:02:29,009 - Tea and scones, please. - The scones are gone. 705 01:02:29,129 --> 01:02:31,606 The pastries gone, the scones go, muffins gone. 706 01:02:31,648 --> 01:02:33,212 Gone? 707 01:02:33,788 --> 01:02:37,810 - Have they gone bad? - No, they're no longer on the menu. Finished. 708 01:02:38,500 --> 01:02:41,177 - Can I ask you what's wrong? - The rock drops. 709 01:02:41,262 --> 01:02:43,998 - Two of those, please. - Only one left. 710 01:02:46,365 --> 01:02:47,498 Just one then. 711 01:02:48,221 --> 01:02:49,500 For the lady. 712 01:02:52,129 --> 01:02:56,305 You English, why do you say things like “Damned if I feel like it,” or “gone”? 713 01:02:56,342 --> 01:02:58,423 Are you doing this to confuse us Jamaicans? 714 01:03:01,664 --> 01:03:04,185 So, what are you doing on base, Gilbert? 715 01:03:04,322 --> 01:03:05,641 I'm a driver. 716 01:03:06,491 --> 01:03:07,957 I was hoping for something better, 717 01:03:07,989 --> 01:03:10,531 but... the needs they have priority in war. 718 01:03:12,712 --> 01:03:15,254 My friend was also from Jamaica. 719 01:03:15,710 --> 01:03:17,787 The one Arthur confused you with. 720 01:03:18,675 --> 01:03:21,053 I only met him once but... 721 01:03:23,102 --> 01:03:24,933 when he talked about Jamaica... 722 01:03:25,164 --> 01:03:27,706 It made her seem so exotic. 723 01:03:29,583 --> 01:03:32,472 What I would like to know It's because any of you... 724 01:03:32,517 --> 01:03:35,990 he should want to leave a place like this, to come here and fight for us. 725 01:03:36,670 --> 01:03:37,722 Well... 726 01:03:39,521 --> 01:03:41,492 It's like having a relative 727 01:03:41,530 --> 01:03:44,441 who lives very far away, and who has never met. 728 01:03:45,107 --> 01:03:47,856 And it's very dear to you, 729 01:03:47,878 --> 01:03:49,652 so much so that you call her "mom". 730 01:03:49,836 --> 01:03:52,365 When he turns his birthday, we sing and have a party in his honor. 731 01:03:52,393 --> 01:03:54,871 At home and at school, everyone talks about her. 732 01:03:54,888 --> 01:03:59,072 She is so beautiful, so refined, so cultured. 733 01:03:59,105 --> 01:04:02,102 Like God, he cares for you from afar. 734 01:04:02,142 --> 01:04:04,345 And he loves you all, as if you were his children. 735 01:04:04,373 --> 01:04:07,593 And you have to work hard to be worthy of his love. 736 01:04:09,353 --> 01:04:10,699 And then one day... 737 01:04:11,402 --> 01:04:13,668 come to know that your mother is in danger. 738 01:04:13,782 --> 01:04:15,864 He calls you, he needs you. 739 01:04:16,429 --> 01:04:17,910 So you leave your house, 740 01:04:17,943 --> 01:04:21,201 and you cross seas with waves as big as mountains. 741 01:04:21,220 --> 01:04:22,960 You're cold and hungry... 742 01:04:23,612 --> 01:04:26,895 and you hear for the first time, in the mouth, the taste of fear. 743 01:04:26,928 --> 01:04:29,533 But you know you're doing your duty. 744 01:04:32,882 --> 01:04:34,454 That's why we come. 745 01:04:43,224 --> 01:04:44,801 We can do it halfway. 746 01:04:54,927 --> 01:04:57,633 A rock in name and in fact! 747 01:04:59,879 --> 01:05:01,181 There he is! 748 01:05:03,278 --> 01:05:04,796 Excuse me, do you mind if... 749 01:05:04,916 --> 01:05:06,096 Go ahead! 750 01:05:13,376 --> 01:05:14,511 Arthur! 751 01:05:17,489 --> 01:05:19,425 What should I do with you, huh? 752 01:05:20,786 --> 01:05:22,549 You have to stay close to me! 753 01:05:24,550 --> 01:05:26,039 Do you remember Gilbert? 754 01:05:26,076 --> 01:05:27,814 He brought you home that day. 755 01:05:33,198 --> 01:05:34,347 Let's go? 756 01:05:35,478 --> 01:05:36,632 Why not? 757 01:05:42,674 --> 01:05:43,781 You there! 758 01:05:44,309 --> 01:05:45,963 You're in the wrong queue. 759 01:05:47,578 --> 01:05:49,946 - Go wait your turn with them. - How, sorry? 760 01:05:49,992 --> 01:05:51,744 They can stay. You... 761 01:05:52,094 --> 01:05:54,383 - go wait over there! - I'm not American. 762 01:05:54,426 --> 01:05:56,008 I'm Royal Air Force. 763 01:05:56,050 --> 01:05:58,223 The blacks sit together at the back. 764 01:05:58,264 --> 01:06:02,014 We are not in America! There is no segregation in this country! 765 01:06:02,058 --> 01:06:05,293 I'll go where I want, and I will sit wherever I want. 766 01:06:05,321 --> 01:06:06,848 Don't make trouble, son. 767 01:06:06,877 --> 01:06:09,689 Once inside, in the dark... 768 01:06:09,809 --> 01:06:12,548 They won't see where you sat, right? 769 01:06:12,584 --> 01:06:14,717 Come on, nigga. I won't tell you again. 770 01:06:14,754 --> 01:06:17,359 Who did you call nigger, asshole? 771 01:06:17,385 --> 01:06:19,016 Look, leave him alone. 772 01:06:19,065 --> 01:06:21,276 Why don't you keep your legs closed... 773 01:06:21,460 --> 01:06:23,532 - nigger whore! - Enough now! 774 01:06:23,568 --> 01:06:25,243 Apologize to the lady! 775 01:06:25,317 --> 01:06:26,812 Apologize now! 776 01:06:27,719 --> 01:06:28,799 Gilbert! 777 01:06:33,146 --> 01:06:34,307 Leave him! 778 01:06:35,966 --> 01:06:37,237 Leave him! 779 01:06:38,660 --> 01:06:39,780 Gilbert! 780 01:06:41,222 --> 01:06:42,370 Gilbert! 781 01:06:43,628 --> 01:06:44,776 Gilbert! 782 01:06:46,593 --> 01:06:48,096 Watch out for Arthur! 783 01:06:49,236 --> 01:06:50,753 Watch out for Arthur! 784 01:06:51,454 --> 01:06:52,561 Arthur? 785 01:06:53,650 --> 01:06:54,743 Arthur! 786 01:06:59,766 --> 01:07:01,174 Arthur! 787 01:07:02,540 --> 01:07:03,689 Arthur! 788 01:07:05,284 --> 01:07:06,582 Arthur! 789 01:07:18,287 --> 01:07:19,462 Oh God, no. 790 01:07:20,277 --> 01:07:21,835 Please, God, no. 791 01:07:21,864 --> 01:07:23,674 Back, make room for the lady! 792 01:07:23,747 --> 01:07:25,367 A ricocheted bullet. 793 01:07:25,487 --> 01:07:26,776 Stand back! 794 01:07:33,667 --> 01:07:34,815 Arthur! 795 01:07:37,089 --> 01:07:38,182 Arthur! 796 01:07:38,396 --> 01:07:41,260 - Stay away, nigger! Stay back! - He's one of mine... 797 01:07:57,393 --> 01:07:59,871 JAMAICA, 1946. 798 01:08:09,937 --> 01:08:11,785 It is said that military training 799 01:08:11,813 --> 01:08:14,298 It's not just for preparation men to fight 800 01:08:14,363 --> 01:08:16,287 but to make him want it. 801 01:08:19,077 --> 01:08:20,751 Everyone wants peace... 802 01:08:21,071 --> 01:08:23,019 but no one is prepared to have it. 803 01:08:25,808 --> 01:08:29,836 When you return from the war, you look the life we left behind 804 01:08:29,874 --> 01:08:31,370 with new eyes. 805 01:08:39,782 --> 01:08:40,903 Elwood! 806 01:08:45,838 --> 01:08:47,300 Friend! 807 01:08:48,044 --> 01:08:50,461 - It's nice to have you home again! - Yes, man. 808 01:08:51,046 --> 01:08:52,412 Damn beautiful. 809 01:08:56,027 --> 01:08:58,001 As if I had never left. 810 01:09:44,889 --> 01:09:47,976 The Ministry of War can't you tell you anything about Bernard? 811 01:09:49,011 --> 01:09:51,094 They have no idea where he is either. 812 01:09:51,343 --> 01:09:54,981 They confirmed that its division she returned to the country six months ago... 813 01:09:55,027 --> 01:09:57,255 that he was with them, that he wasn't hurt. 814 01:09:57,534 --> 01:09:59,849 The attendant looked at me with pity... 815 01:09:59,865 --> 01:10:02,563 as if to say: “He left you, baby, accept it!” 816 01:10:03,085 --> 01:10:05,291 He doesn't know Bernard like I know him. 817 01:10:06,223 --> 01:10:08,478 Maybe you know him less than you think. 818 01:10:09,324 --> 01:10:12,021 If he returned to England, but not at home... 819 01:10:12,724 --> 01:10:14,412 He made his choice, right? 820 01:10:15,421 --> 01:10:17,559 He chose a new beginning. 821 01:10:22,674 --> 01:10:26,013 Your father set his sights on a new pigsty, did I tell you? 822 01:10:26,897 --> 01:10:28,850 Extra space for pigs to grow. 823 01:10:28,896 --> 01:10:31,524 They will be ready to slaughter in half the time! 824 01:10:32,356 --> 01:10:34,987 The country needs food, fresh meat. 825 01:10:35,438 --> 01:10:38,212 There never was best time to expand. 826 01:10:45,282 --> 01:10:48,440 And then, his savings They won't last much longer, right? 827 01:10:48,969 --> 01:10:50,253 And after? 828 01:10:55,899 --> 01:10:57,353 Before leaving... 829 01:10:58,031 --> 01:11:01,597 he put the house in your name, in case something happens to him, right? 830 01:11:02,985 --> 01:11:05,629 A house like this It'll be worth quite a bit of money. 831 01:11:09,740 --> 01:11:12,815 Hey! You could invest money on the farm! 832 01:11:12,848 --> 01:11:14,851 Come home! Help us manage everything! 833 01:11:14,886 --> 01:11:16,720 What if Bernard came home? 834 01:11:17,567 --> 01:11:20,820 It's not enough that he lost his father, should he lose his house too? 835 01:11:20,853 --> 01:11:23,833 It's your own blood what you should be thinking now, Queenie. 836 01:11:23,884 --> 01:11:26,986 Not to a man that left you in the lurch! 837 01:11:41,513 --> 01:11:44,052 You always thought that you're worth more than us, right? 838 01:11:44,732 --> 01:11:46,072 This... 839 01:11:46,192 --> 01:11:47,707 it's my house... 840 01:11:47,833 --> 01:11:48,926 now. 841 01:11:57,587 --> 01:11:58,782 For Gilbert... 842 01:11:58,817 --> 01:12:02,432 his home was no longer a sweet refuge. 843 01:12:03,045 --> 01:12:05,751 After seeing something of the world... 844 01:12:06,211 --> 01:12:09,642 he realised of how small his island was. 845 01:12:39,592 --> 01:12:40,740 Every day... 846 01:12:40,795 --> 01:12:45,048 He could feel the hopes for the future shrink within its borders. 847 01:12:49,792 --> 01:12:50,998 And with them, 848 01:12:51,118 --> 01:12:52,423 its potential. 849 01:12:55,301 --> 01:12:59,569 But there is often hope the last thing that dies in a man. 850 01:13:07,538 --> 01:13:10,145 He has so many anecdotes Over England, Hortense! 851 01:13:10,194 --> 01:13:15,107 He was engaged in land transportation of the Royal Air Force, like your Michael. 852 01:13:15,121 --> 01:13:19,103 Michael was a navigator, he wasn't stuck on the ground. 853 01:13:19,223 --> 01:13:22,834 He flew over the skies of Europe for many missions. Also about Germany. 854 01:13:22,910 --> 01:13:24,659 He was returning from Germany when... 855 01:13:24,697 --> 01:13:26,072 Here it is! 856 01:13:26,783 --> 01:13:28,068 Gilbert! 857 01:13:31,681 --> 01:13:32,816 You come. 858 01:13:33,595 --> 01:13:35,186 Hortense Roberts... 859 01:13:35,432 --> 01:13:36,866 Gilbert Joseph. 860 01:13:37,310 --> 01:13:38,669 Miss Hortense. 861 01:13:41,868 --> 01:13:43,844 Have we already seen each other somewhere? 862 01:13:44,724 --> 01:13:47,078 Sooner or later, everyone here meets everyone. 863 01:13:48,017 --> 01:13:50,381 Well, now that we all know each other... 864 01:13:50,501 --> 01:13:52,621 shall we go to our picnic, Gilbert? 865 01:13:52,652 --> 01:13:55,817 I would be honored to serve as a knight to two ladies like you. 866 01:13:55,937 --> 01:13:58,615 Hortense has things to do at school. 867 01:13:58,813 --> 01:13:59,948 School? 868 01:14:00,339 --> 01:14:01,809 The school will be closed. 869 01:14:03,190 --> 01:14:04,545 Come on, Hortense. 870 01:14:04,665 --> 01:14:06,803 I think all men will envy me. 871 01:14:06,923 --> 01:14:11,555 They'll say, "What a lucky man to have two such beauties arm in arm!" 872 01:14:12,060 --> 01:14:13,891 Would it deprive me of such pleasure? 873 01:14:23,508 --> 01:14:25,449 I never forget a face, you know? 874 01:14:27,518 --> 01:14:31,003 We've never met before, Mr. Joseph, I assure you. 875 01:14:32,798 --> 01:14:35,804 And since he came back to Jamaica, Mr. Joseph... 876 01:14:35,982 --> 01:14:38,967 I can ask you what you do to earn a living? 877 01:14:39,135 --> 01:14:41,357 I have a taxi in partnership with my cousin. 878 01:14:42,104 --> 01:14:45,332 We hang around there, and everyone If you have money you can call us. 879 01:14:48,187 --> 01:14:50,483 Now I wonder why I came back here. 880 01:14:50,511 --> 01:14:54,038 This country is poorer now than before the war. 881 01:15:00,986 --> 01:15:02,112 Celia? 882 01:15:03,525 --> 01:15:06,767 I decided that was best is to return to England. 883 01:15:07,135 --> 01:15:08,775 Look what I saw in the paper! 884 01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:11,927 The Empire Windrush sets sail for London on May 28th. 885 01:15:11,928 --> 01:15:13,424 Only one month left! 886 01:15:13,425 --> 01:15:17,625 But the journey for one person is expensive only twenty pounds and ten shillings. 887 01:15:19,076 --> 01:15:25,031 Unfortunately I don't have that money yet, but I have four weeks to find them. 888 01:15:25,232 --> 01:15:28,796 And somehow I will find them. I have to find them. 889 01:15:29,529 --> 01:15:32,324 You knew it was just passed a law in Parliament? 890 01:15:32,492 --> 01:15:33,993 The Law of Nationality. 891 01:15:34,045 --> 01:15:36,703 We Jamaicans now we are not just citizens of the Empire, 892 01:15:36,738 --> 01:15:38,475 but citizens of the United Kingdom. 893 01:15:38,494 --> 01:15:40,432 We are like those born and raised there. 894 01:15:40,433 --> 01:15:42,438 We're English now, just like them! 895 01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:44,135 Is what they say true? 896 01:15:44,268 --> 01:15:47,449 In English houses every room does it have an electric light? 897 01:15:47,484 --> 01:15:51,402 Certain! More than one! Two, sometimes three. 898 01:15:51,403 --> 01:15:53,192 Oh, I'd love to see that! 899 01:15:55,697 --> 01:15:57,925 I could come to England with you, Gilbert. 900 01:15:58,197 --> 01:16:00,078 We could take the ship together. 901 01:16:00,269 --> 01:16:02,596 Do you have enough money to go, Celia? 902 01:16:03,207 --> 01:16:06,707 I'll ask my father to pay for my trip. At least he owes me this. 903 01:16:07,012 --> 01:16:10,759 While Hortense will write to us of hurricanes and rice shortages, 904 01:16:10,811 --> 01:16:13,962 we will have tea in luxury hotels... 905 01:16:14,237 --> 01:16:17,822 and we will visit the King to Buckingham Palace, please! 906 01:16:19,163 --> 01:16:20,912 - Agree. - Yes'! 907 01:16:20,914 --> 01:16:22,379 I'm coming too! 908 01:16:22,925 --> 01:16:24,400 Yes, yes! 909 01:16:24,472 --> 01:16:27,591 Oh, goodness! I'm going to England! 910 01:16:30,194 --> 01:16:31,466 In England! 911 01:16:31,518 --> 01:16:33,361 And what will happen to your mother, Celia? 912 01:16:37,207 --> 01:16:38,753 You said your mother was dead. 913 01:16:38,756 --> 01:16:41,911 Oh, Celia's mother She's alive and well, Mr. Joseph. 914 01:16:42,392 --> 01:16:43,653 But it's... 915 01:16:44,348 --> 01:16:45,962 How can I say this, Celia? 916 01:16:46,649 --> 01:16:49,469 He is not in possession of his mental faculties. 917 01:16:49,589 --> 01:16:51,397 A truly touching thing. 918 01:16:51,483 --> 01:16:53,324 And she was left alone... 919 01:16:53,445 --> 01:16:55,525 her husband abandoned her. 920 01:16:56,035 --> 01:16:57,275 It is true? 921 01:16:59,387 --> 01:17:01,239 I'll find her a place to stay. 922 01:17:01,550 --> 01:17:03,810 We won't take her with us. I'll leave it here. 923 01:17:03,828 --> 01:17:06,626 - Would you abandon your mother? - No, no, I'll find a place for her... 924 01:17:06,667 --> 01:17:08,513 where they know how to take care of people like her. 925 01:17:08,531 --> 01:17:10,766 And you will let it come cared for by strangers? 926 01:17:10,944 --> 01:17:13,018 I don't think I know you as well as I thought, Celia. 927 01:17:13,069 --> 01:17:14,815 Please, Gilbert. 928 01:17:15,207 --> 01:17:19,121 Sometimes he doesn't even know where he is and he doesn't recognize me. 929 01:17:19,156 --> 01:17:22,117 I promised Elwood that today I would have a shift with the taxi. 930 01:17:22,740 --> 01:17:24,437 See you, Celia. 931 01:17:25,212 --> 01:17:26,624 Miss Hortense. 932 01:17:32,432 --> 01:17:34,384 You just had to tell him, didn't you? 933 01:17:34,869 --> 01:17:37,599 You can't blame me for lying to him, Celia. 934 01:18:36,849 --> 01:18:38,183 Mr. Joseph? 935 01:18:41,710 --> 01:18:42,971 Miss Hortense. 936 01:18:43,023 --> 01:18:45,866 I would like to talk to you if you have a moment, Mr. Joseph. 937 01:18:47,027 --> 01:18:49,604 I hope he gave her just as strong. 938 01:18:54,354 --> 01:18:56,764 To what do I owe the honor, Miss Hortense? 939 01:18:58,164 --> 01:19:00,651 If he still wants to take that ship... 940 01:19:01,294 --> 01:19:04,470 I'll give you the money you need, Mr. Joseph. 941 01:19:04,798 --> 01:19:09,271 Every week I put in half my salary in a real estate inversion company. 942 01:19:09,596 --> 01:19:11,752 Over the years the sum that I had has increased. 943 01:19:11,804 --> 01:19:14,271 Now I have almost thirty pounds saved up. 944 01:19:14,358 --> 01:19:17,339 - That's a lot of money to give to a man who... - It's a loan... 945 01:19:17,463 --> 01:19:18,793 not a gift. 946 01:19:19,626 --> 01:19:21,276 Here is my proposal. 947 01:19:21,669 --> 01:19:23,321 I'll lend you the money... 948 01:19:24,227 --> 01:19:25,940 and before his departure... 949 01:19:26,825 --> 01:19:28,203 we will get married. 950 01:19:28,523 --> 01:19:31,931 He'll make me come to England as soon as he finds a place to stay. 951 01:19:33,081 --> 01:19:36,992 It's not appropriate that a single woman travels alone... 952 01:19:37,892 --> 01:19:40,877 but a married woman can go wherever she wants. 953 01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:45,819 And it's been a long time what a dream to go to England. 954 01:19:53,551 --> 01:19:55,068 This is my address. 955 01:19:55,347 --> 01:19:57,282 Let me know what you decide. 956 01:19:57,681 --> 01:19:59,299 Have a nice day, Mr. Joseph. 957 01:20:04,957 --> 01:20:08,131 Man, this one beats them all! 958 01:20:08,303 --> 01:20:10,541 Find a way to get out of here... 959 01:20:10,833 --> 01:20:12,662 and think it will be you. 960 01:20:13,874 --> 01:20:15,785 Try to buy yourself, man. 961 01:20:17,185 --> 01:20:19,037 Try to buy yourself. 962 01:21:02,124 --> 01:21:04,830 COMPLETE 963 01:21:11,476 --> 01:21:13,846 SINGLE TICKET, THIRD CLASS. 964 01:21:19,852 --> 01:21:22,139 Such a small bag to start a new life 965 01:21:22,242 --> 01:21:25,585 It doesn't seem adequate to me, Mr. Joseph. 966 01:21:27,198 --> 01:21:32,425 Well... I have you, Mrs. Joseph. 967 01:21:33,039 --> 01:21:35,524 She is more than adequate for my needs. 968 01:21:38,422 --> 01:21:40,325 I'm giving you full trust... 969 01:21:41,936 --> 01:21:45,829 promise me that once in England, he won't forget about me and leave me here. 970 01:21:48,436 --> 01:21:50,412 You are now my wife. 971 01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:52,948 I have duties towards you. 972 01:22:07,923 --> 01:22:10,739 I would like a place with a garden. 973 01:22:11,108 --> 01:22:13,692 A small garden will be enough. 974 01:22:14,158 --> 01:22:17,010 And don't choose the furniture for my house. 975 01:22:17,137 --> 01:22:19,257 I'll do it as soon as I get there. 976 01:22:19,403 --> 01:22:22,394 I prefer to do what I... 977 01:22:23,664 --> 01:22:25,709 Don't worry, Hortense. 978 01:22:25,976 --> 01:22:27,287 It's just my manhood. 979 01:22:27,340 --> 01:22:29,794 Put that thing away! Put it away! 980 01:22:29,830 --> 01:22:32,233 - But I'm your husband. - Don't come near me with that thing! 981 01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:35,693 Do you want everyone to hear us? Wait, wait. I would never hurt you, Hortense. 982 01:22:35,707 --> 01:22:38,631 I won't even lay a finger on you. Look, he's gone. 983 01:22:44,287 --> 01:22:45,671 He's gone. 984 01:22:53,317 --> 01:22:55,615 I'll sleep on the floor, okay? 985 01:22:55,639 --> 01:22:58,445 I won't touch you. I give you my word. 986 01:22:58,938 --> 01:23:01,259 I give you the RAF salute, see? 987 01:23:12,012 --> 01:23:14,555 Tomorrow, I'm leaving here. 988 01:23:14,893 --> 01:23:18,311 I will go to the motherland to prepare our new home. 989 01:23:19,627 --> 01:23:22,461 Although, aristocratic young lady... 990 01:23:22,783 --> 01:23:25,600 I sure hope England be ready for you. 991 01:23:46,794 --> 01:23:50,691 There are some thoughts which, pronounced out loud... 992 01:23:50,692 --> 01:23:53,349 they divide your world into two halves. 993 01:23:54,730 --> 01:23:57,077 There is life before they are expressed... 994 01:23:57,756 --> 01:24:01,427 and there is life, now changed, after they have been expressed. 995 01:24:03,904 --> 01:24:07,050 Therefore Hortense did not say to the man she married... 996 01:24:07,153 --> 01:24:08,904 that he was nothing else what a poor substitute 997 01:24:08,905 --> 01:24:12,035 of him who once she had loved deeply. 998 01:24:19,620 --> 01:24:21,916 And his first night in London... 999 01:24:22,096 --> 01:24:24,318 not giving voice to his thoughts... 1000 01:24:24,975 --> 01:24:26,938 his dream of living in England... 1001 01:24:27,754 --> 01:24:29,946 would have remained intact. 1002 01:24:33,103 --> 01:24:38,430 While below her, another soul he had felt the force of a hurricane. 1003 01:24:44,906 --> 01:24:46,384 Not one... 1004 01:24:46,780 --> 01:24:48,374 but twice. 1005 01:25:21,219 --> 01:25:24,900 He knew the devastation that that man had brought into his life... 1006 01:25:25,001 --> 01:25:27,157 it had just begun. 1007 01:25:32,176 --> 01:25:33,903 Did you take me to a house with mice? 1008 01:25:33,939 --> 01:25:39,355 My wife, Hortense, thinks she knows everything about England, but in reality he knows nothing. 1009 01:25:40,898 --> 01:25:42,613 Sergeant Roberts. 1010 01:25:42,818 --> 01:25:44,594 I thought I'd never see you again. 1011 01:25:44,595 --> 01:25:46,591 I'm just Mr. Roberts now. 1012 01:25:46,660 --> 01:25:48,170 And you were wrong. 1013 01:25:51,539 --> 01:25:54,909 You owe me an apology, nigga, and I'm not hearing them. 1014 01:25:55,717 --> 01:25:57,099 Queenie! 1015 01:25:57,822 --> 01:26:01,509 My wife doesn't kneel in this country. Not now, not ever. 1016 01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:03,741 Where the hell have you been all this time? 1017 01:26:03,779 --> 01:26:05,177 Where's Daddy, Queenie? 1018 01:26:05,294 --> 01:26:07,993 And they call this a civilized country! 1019 01:26:08,029 --> 01:26:10,860 You are crazy, Gilbert Joseph. 1020 01:26:11,441 --> 01:26:13,394 I never stopped loving you, Queenie! 1021 01:26:13,463 --> 01:26:15,589 She believes that her skin does white make her better than me? 1022 01:26:15,590 --> 01:26:18,128 I was born in this house And I don't want no niggers in here! 1023 01:26:18,147 --> 01:26:20,273 - What? - Pack your bags and leave now! 1024 01:26:20,647 --> 01:26:23,280 - Leave me! - She's my wife! 1025 01:26:27,339 --> 01:26:29,188 - Are you OK? - Call a doctor. 1026 01:26:29,284 --> 01:26:31,514 Please, now! 1027 01:26:31,605 --> 01:26:33,605 www.subsfactory.it