1 00:00:03,564 --> 00:00:08,431 One of the mysteries of life is the way in which people's lives are intertwined. 2 00:00:14,004 --> 00:00:19,104 For Hortense, living in England was the childhood dream shared with Michael. 3 00:00:19,233 --> 00:00:22,985 I'll be a teacher in a prestigious English school. 4 00:00:23,189 --> 00:00:26,737 And I'll live in a nice house with electric light... 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:28,767 and a bell at the front door. 6 00:00:28,768 --> 00:00:32,122 But war has its ugly side habit of shattering dreams. 7 00:00:32,578 --> 00:00:34,353 He will go overseas. 8 00:00:34,569 --> 00:00:37,317 The motherland needs of men who defend it. 9 00:00:37,704 --> 00:00:42,071 For Gilbert, the war was an opportunity to leave his little island 10 00:00:42,296 --> 00:00:45,293 while in England Queenie had her own dreams. 11 00:00:45,362 --> 00:00:47,915 I'll have a job, I'll travel, I'll see the world! 12 00:00:48,001 --> 00:00:49,608 We will get married. 13 00:00:50,298 --> 00:00:53,436 But the war took its toll also for his dreams. 14 00:00:55,577 --> 00:00:58,243 The chaos of war can bring people together... 15 00:00:58,244 --> 00:00:59,710 Mrs Bligh, I presume. 16 00:01:02,016 --> 00:01:03,986 just as you can divide them. 17 00:01:05,226 --> 00:01:07,040 Maybe some forever. 18 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,776 It's your own blood what you should be thinking now, Queenie. 19 00:01:09,811 --> 00:01:12,473 Not to a man that left you in the lurch! 20 00:01:12,474 --> 00:01:15,587 This is my home now. 21 00:01:15,588 --> 00:01:19,506 Hortense left only the loss of Michael made her lose sight of her dreams. 22 00:01:19,588 --> 00:01:22,624 Love was a luxury which he could no longer afford. 23 00:01:22,642 --> 00:01:24,457 I'll lend you the money... 24 00:01:24,496 --> 00:01:27,676 He'll make me come to England as soon as he finds a place to stay. 25 00:01:28,498 --> 00:01:32,100 While Queenie was paying the price of love. 26 00:01:34,774 --> 00:01:37,321 www.subsfactory.it 27 00:01:39,028 --> 00:01:41,468 and the Pink Team 28 00:01:42,875 --> 00:01:45,249 are pleased to introduce you 29 00:01:46,387 --> 00:01:48,935 SMALL ISLAND - PART TWO 30 00:01:51,069 --> 00:01:56,014 Translation: miahu, MiaWallace, Francuz, Arden, Lynx89, Debug, Spigui. 31 00:01:57,618 --> 00:01:59,618 Synch check: Spigui 32 00:02:01,277 --> 00:02:03,277 Review: MissPiggy 33 00:02:16,231 --> 00:02:17,567 LONDON, 1948 34 00:02:18,247 --> 00:02:21,680 A light sleep accompanies us in the moment before we wake up... 35 00:02:21,783 --> 00:02:24,841 in which reality can join the dream... 36 00:02:24,914 --> 00:02:27,033 becoming one. 37 00:02:29,713 --> 00:02:33,272 This is what happened to Hortense his first morning in England. 38 00:02:34,905 --> 00:02:38,901 He was having the same dream which he had often done in Jamaica. 39 00:02:39,915 --> 00:02:42,352 He dreamed that one day he would have lived in a nice house 40 00:02:42,382 --> 00:02:44,053 with its own bell... 41 00:02:44,658 --> 00:02:47,272 and a fire lit in the hearth. 42 00:02:47,941 --> 00:02:50,422 She would sit down next to the fire with his children... 43 00:02:50,491 --> 00:02:53,856 and he would tell him of the power of dreams. 44 00:02:57,079 --> 00:03:01,532 While Gilbert watched her sleep, he could feel the sweetness of his dream... 45 00:03:01,579 --> 00:03:06,431 and he remembered the dream he himself had, when he had just arrived in England. 46 00:03:17,248 --> 00:03:20,044 - What's this noise? - They're just rats! 47 00:03:20,682 --> 00:03:24,311 - Mice, just mice on the roof. - Did you take me to a house with mice? 48 00:03:24,346 --> 00:03:27,225 In every home in London there are mice, Hortense. 49 00:03:27,294 --> 00:03:29,135 They too were displaced. 50 00:03:30,255 --> 00:03:31,914 Isn't it day yet? 51 00:03:32,054 --> 00:03:34,795 English winter is like this. 52 00:03:35,433 --> 00:03:37,931 It's dark until nine in the morning... 53 00:03:38,128 --> 00:03:40,942 and four in the afternoon the sun goes away... 54 00:03:41,267 --> 00:03:42,958 and it gets dark again. 55 00:03:45,294 --> 00:03:48,832 Sometimes, all you have to do is blink... 56 00:03:49,361 --> 00:03:51,826 to waste a whole day. 57 00:03:54,858 --> 00:03:58,839 Be quiet up there. There's a lady here! 58 00:04:07,323 --> 00:04:11,448 I have to go to work now, Hortense. I lit the fire for you, see? 59 00:04:14,316 --> 00:04:17,232 If there is no more gas, put some coins in the counter. 60 00:04:17,516 --> 00:04:19,311 I'll leave these here for you. 61 00:04:20,991 --> 00:04:22,506 If you have to... 62 00:04:24,979 --> 00:04:26,975 I'll be back at six. 63 00:04:27,493 --> 00:04:30,001 In the pantry there is an egg and a potato. 64 00:04:30,070 --> 00:04:32,200 You can make french fries for dinner. 65 00:04:34,972 --> 00:04:37,166 You know how to prepare them, right? 66 00:04:37,431 --> 00:04:40,281 Do I look stupid to you, Gilbert Joseph? 67 00:04:40,298 --> 00:04:43,664 At university we learned everything in the home economy. 68 00:04:43,665 --> 00:04:47,181 - Do you want to see my diploma by any chance? - I swear, Hortense... 69 00:04:48,104 --> 00:04:51,598 sometimes you can be more prickly of a prickly pear. 70 00:04:56,329 --> 00:04:59,136 I bet last night you didn't sleep much. 71 00:04:59,610 --> 00:05:04,443 I wish I had a wife willing to do it all that way to be with me! 72 00:05:04,444 --> 00:05:09,488 I would give anything to get warmed up by someone like that. 73 00:05:10,592 --> 00:05:14,127 Winston... I'll see you outside, okay? 74 00:05:27,373 --> 00:05:30,387 - Did I wake you up? - In your opinion? 75 00:05:30,573 --> 00:05:35,568 My wife, Hortense, thinks she knows everything about England, but in reality he knows nothing. 76 00:05:35,569 --> 00:05:37,899 If I were to go out today, could you take her with you? 77 00:05:37,918 --> 00:05:40,350 Show her the surroundings and make sure he's okay? 78 00:05:41,378 --> 00:05:42,919 All right. 79 00:05:43,847 --> 00:05:45,170 Thank you. 80 00:05:45,295 --> 00:05:46,793 Oh, Queenie. 81 00:05:47,785 --> 00:05:49,539 Don't tell her I asked you. 82 00:05:49,903 --> 00:05:51,635 She's very proud. 83 00:05:52,033 --> 00:05:53,416 Agree. 84 00:06:10,346 --> 00:06:12,236 Some believe that destiny 85 00:06:12,306 --> 00:06:16,133 is a predetermined path that we have to go through during our life. 86 00:06:17,608 --> 00:06:22,272 Others think it is the roulette of fortune to shape us. 87 00:06:40,208 --> 00:06:41,706 If it's luck... 88 00:06:42,035 --> 00:06:45,163 isn't it perhaps in what happens to us... 89 00:06:45,334 --> 00:06:47,773 but rather in our nature... 90 00:06:47,809 --> 00:06:51,220 in the way we play our cards. 91 00:07:09,049 --> 00:07:10,362 THREE MONTHS BEFORE 92 00:07:10,419 --> 00:07:12,041 Gilbert? 93 00:07:12,525 --> 00:07:15,081 Gilbert? Gilbert? 94 00:07:17,097 --> 00:07:18,708 Gilbert! Wake up, friend! 95 00:07:18,743 --> 00:07:21,418 - Don't do it again! - It's my turn! Get up and leave. 96 00:07:28,452 --> 00:07:29,887 I'll tell you something... 97 00:07:30,358 --> 00:07:32,551 I won't last much longer, Winston. 98 00:07:32,602 --> 00:07:35,374 Well, then find us a place, as you promised! 99 00:07:35,397 --> 00:07:39,823 You said, "It'll be easy! We will easily find a job!" 100 00:07:39,859 --> 00:07:42,390 How many doors have I knocked on Since when have I been here, Winston? 101 00:07:42,678 --> 00:07:44,785 How many have they banged me in your face, dammit? 102 00:07:44,804 --> 00:07:46,077 You said you had friends. 103 00:07:46,078 --> 00:07:48,232 You said you knew people, since the war. 104 00:07:48,250 --> 00:07:50,862 All that good talk about the ship, huh? 105 00:07:51,133 --> 00:07:56,127 We've been locked up in this dump for months smelly and without a shred of work. 106 00:07:57,139 --> 00:07:59,306 Things were different during the war. 107 00:07:59,818 --> 00:08:01,643 Then they needed us. 108 00:08:19,154 --> 00:08:21,062 I see you were in the Royal Air Force. 109 00:08:21,171 --> 00:08:23,131 I was one of you too. 110 00:08:23,132 --> 00:08:25,575 - Where was he stationed? - In Yorkshire, sir. 111 00:08:25,576 --> 00:08:26,986 And for a period in Scotland. 112 00:08:27,004 --> 00:08:29,371 Oh, in Scotland? And how is it? 113 00:08:29,372 --> 00:08:32,787 It's a beautiful country, sir. Truly majestic. 114 00:08:33,026 --> 00:08:35,403 But it was cold. Never seen such a cold wind. 115 00:08:35,404 --> 00:08:38,148 I think any place It will seem cold to you, young man. 116 00:08:38,149 --> 00:08:40,217 How long ago did he return to Britain? 117 00:08:40,318 --> 00:08:42,112 For about two months now, sir. 118 00:08:42,113 --> 00:08:44,193 Finding a job was... 119 00:08:44,562 --> 00:08:47,245 every job I apply for it vanishes upon my arrival. 120 00:08:47,246 --> 00:08:52,111 Oh, believe me. If I could do something for her, I would do it. You bet! 121 00:08:52,112 --> 00:08:55,567 They told the employment office that there was a job as a warehouse worker. 122 00:08:55,889 --> 00:08:57,451 It's written here. 123 00:09:01,499 --> 00:09:03,394 Has this work also vanished into thin air? 124 00:09:03,412 --> 00:09:06,446 No, no, we're still looking for someone. It's just that... 125 00:09:06,587 --> 00:09:09,905 you see, in this factory women also work. 126 00:09:11,568 --> 00:09:15,321 What would happen if it had to talk to one of them while working? 127 00:09:15,872 --> 00:09:19,671 - Well, I would certainly be polite. - I don't doubt it, young man, but... 128 00:09:19,787 --> 00:09:23,422 if men saw her talking to a white woman, it would be an uproar. 129 00:09:23,464 --> 00:09:24,975 They couldn't stand it. 130 00:09:25,127 --> 00:09:28,600 And I can't ignore it the opinion of the workforce, right? 131 00:09:29,290 --> 00:09:31,477 Surely you can understand me. 132 00:09:39,143 --> 00:09:41,342 Can I ask you a question, sir? 133 00:09:41,547 --> 00:09:44,578 - Please. - Why didn't you tell me right away? 134 00:09:44,791 --> 00:09:47,427 When I still had sensitivity in my rear end? 135 00:09:57,641 --> 00:10:01,097 A black man looking of his way to London, 136 00:10:01,132 --> 00:10:04,787 can think often that his luck has run out. 137 00:10:05,025 --> 00:10:08,053 But everything can change suddenly. 138 00:10:12,238 --> 00:10:16,004 Just for a brief moment he can believe, after all... 139 00:10:16,124 --> 00:10:18,870 to be able to control one's own destiny. 140 00:10:19,348 --> 00:10:21,094 ROOMS FOR RENT. FREE ROOMS. 141 00:10:21,095 --> 00:10:23,074 ROOMS TO RENT. COMPLETE. 142 00:10:24,766 --> 00:10:26,313 NIGGERS, GO BACK TO YOUR HOME! 143 00:10:29,793 --> 00:10:35,524 But luck can present itself in the form of the memory of a friendly face. 144 00:10:36,529 --> 00:10:40,540 THE MILITARY POLICE KILLS A CIVIL. 145 00:10:46,939 --> 00:10:49,134 Queenie, I'm Gilbert. 146 00:10:49,153 --> 00:10:51,742 Gilbert Joseph. We met in Yorkshire. 147 00:10:51,756 --> 00:10:53,628 Gilbert Joseph. 148 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,147 Damn me! 149 00:10:55,182 --> 00:10:58,202 I remembered the address on the card that your father-in-law had with him. 150 00:10:58,237 --> 00:11:00,047 Well, don't just stand there. Come in. 151 00:11:00,129 --> 00:11:01,657 Enter! 152 00:11:04,124 --> 00:11:06,454 Good morning, Mr. Todd. 153 00:11:08,505 --> 00:11:12,072 I felt terrible about what happened that day, Queenie. 154 00:11:12,486 --> 00:11:15,834 I wanted to come and give my condolences to you... 155 00:11:15,850 --> 00:11:18,805 You have nothing to apologize for, Gilbert... 156 00:11:19,662 --> 00:11:21,662 nothing to feel guilty about. 157 00:11:22,939 --> 00:11:26,763 You know, it's fate that made you come here. 158 00:11:26,878 --> 00:11:30,393 I was just wondering where I could find a man. 159 00:11:33,218 --> 00:11:35,823 I've never been able to do it alone. 160 00:11:38,841 --> 00:11:40,388 Do you live alone? 161 00:11:40,928 --> 00:11:42,271 Your husband isn't... 162 00:11:42,272 --> 00:11:44,357 No, he's not dead. He's missing. 163 00:11:44,358 --> 00:11:45,788 Well, another plan! 164 00:11:48,266 --> 00:11:51,671 After the war he returned from India with his unit... 165 00:11:51,926 --> 00:11:54,416 but he thought there was no point in coming back to me. 166 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,120 Oh God... 167 00:11:59,009 --> 00:12:00,144 So... 168 00:12:00,693 --> 00:12:02,783 What plans do you have now that you're back? 169 00:12:02,903 --> 00:12:07,115 Well, I finally found a job. Driver for the post office. 170 00:12:07,146 --> 00:12:11,377 I was hoping for something better than being a damn driver anymore, but... 171 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,970 it means that some money is finally arriving. 172 00:12:14,545 --> 00:12:18,147 Now I just gotta find a place to stay, so I can make my wife come, 173 00:12:18,198 --> 00:12:20,054 - as I promised her. - Say it again! 174 00:12:20,656 --> 00:12:24,734 - My wife. I'm married now... - No, no, no! On the place to be. 175 00:12:26,055 --> 00:12:28,158 That's why I came looking for you. 176 00:12:28,633 --> 00:12:34,234 - I thought you might know someone... - Didn't I say that it was fate that you came? 177 00:12:34,924 --> 00:12:39,266 That's why there's all this fuss! I'm preparing the rooms to rent. 178 00:12:39,844 --> 00:12:42,862 We need a paint job, some other furniture... 179 00:12:42,888 --> 00:12:44,738 I have a friend! Winston. 180 00:12:44,828 --> 00:12:46,535 He needs a place too. 181 00:12:46,561 --> 00:12:50,306 Well, you can take one of the other rooms! Send it to me here, why not? 182 00:12:54,254 --> 00:12:55,801 Sorry, sorry! 183 00:12:57,290 --> 00:12:58,664 When will your wife arrive? 184 00:12:59,046 --> 00:13:01,360 As soon as I've saved up money for the trip. 185 00:13:01,390 --> 00:13:06,695 So... it's a childhood love, or was it love at first sight? 186 00:13:07,483 --> 00:13:09,027 Do you believe such a thing exists? 187 00:13:09,147 --> 00:13:12,333 It does not matter. The most likely thing is to end up alone. 188 00:13:13,037 --> 00:13:14,553 Aren't you mad at him? 189 00:13:15,246 --> 00:13:16,475 Your husband? 190 00:13:16,595 --> 00:13:18,361 No, what does anger solve? 191 00:13:20,901 --> 00:13:22,372 This is all beautiful. 192 00:13:22,871 --> 00:13:26,144 I see some English they are not that welcoming 193 00:13:26,177 --> 00:13:28,816 with us blacks, now that the war is over. 194 00:13:29,982 --> 00:13:31,192 At school... 195 00:13:31,529 --> 00:13:34,087 we learned everything about the motherland. 196 00:13:34,207 --> 00:13:38,363 At ten years old, I knew how to repeat the most great industrial canals of England... 197 00:13:38,435 --> 00:13:40,958 Then I told Queenie how, as a child, 198 00:13:40,992 --> 00:13:44,678 had learned everything on the Sheffield steelworks... 199 00:13:44,714 --> 00:13:48,034 on ceramic companies of Stoke-on-Trent, on the railways... 200 00:13:48,154 --> 00:13:50,329 on the Westminster parliamentary system... 201 00:13:50,375 --> 00:13:53,569 - and on all the great laws promulgated. - Not just me! 202 00:13:53,689 --> 00:13:57,183 All the children of the West Indies they have to learn it until they know it by heart. 203 00:13:57,229 --> 00:14:01,416 As Queenie listened, she succeeded to feel, perhaps for the first time... 204 00:14:01,526 --> 00:14:04,116 in another person's shoes. 205 00:14:04,136 --> 00:14:05,757 When I got here... 206 00:14:06,548 --> 00:14:08,887 the English saw my dark skin and they said: 207 00:14:08,912 --> 00:14:11,500 “You're from Africa!”, and I said “No!” 208 00:14:11,757 --> 00:14:15,588 "I'm from Jamaica, in the Indies Westerners. I'm English, like you!" 209 00:14:16,598 --> 00:14:19,216 And they looked at me dumbfounded... 210 00:14:20,934 --> 00:14:25,149 then I understood that the motherland, that all of us Jamaicans know so much about, 211 00:14:25,155 --> 00:14:28,451 he doesn't even know where his children live. 212 00:14:32,778 --> 00:14:35,775 They don't care about us. 213 00:14:58,239 --> 00:15:02,741 - At the baptism of the firstborn... - At the baptism of the firstborn... 214 00:15:02,776 --> 00:15:04,478 and the Duke of Edinburgh... 215 00:15:04,511 --> 00:15:07,047 Charles Philip Arthur George... 216 00:15:07,095 --> 00:15:11,498 - Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. - With a dress adorned with lace, which... 217 00:15:11,535 --> 00:15:14,278 Lace adorned dress. 218 00:15:14,747 --> 00:15:18,514 The ceremony was followed by a lunch family at Buckingham Palace. 219 00:15:19,976 --> 00:15:21,529 Who is it, please? 220 00:15:22,345 --> 00:15:24,335 I'm Queenie from downstairs. 221 00:15:24,676 --> 00:15:26,070 We met last night. 222 00:15:26,190 --> 00:15:27,794 Hortense, right? 223 00:15:28,443 --> 00:15:30,980 I just came up to see if everything is okay. 224 00:15:32,241 --> 00:15:36,509 You cleaned up, huh? It's not really Your Gilbert is good at things, isn't he? 225 00:15:37,005 --> 00:15:39,861 I'm glad you turned it on. It's freezing cold! 226 00:15:41,878 --> 00:15:45,195 We say "like dogs" when it's very cold. 227 00:15:46,011 --> 00:15:47,135 You know... 228 00:15:48,005 --> 00:15:50,420 we say "It's freezing cold." 229 00:15:51,048 --> 00:15:53,436 You will learn these things very soon. 230 00:15:54,796 --> 00:15:57,697 So how long have you and Gilbert been married? 231 00:15:59,251 --> 00:16:01,810 From the day before that he left for England. 232 00:16:02,689 --> 00:16:05,879 I met him during the war. Did he tell you? 233 00:16:06,084 --> 00:16:09,235 In a letter he wrote something like that, yes. 234 00:16:09,260 --> 00:16:10,614 He's a good man. 235 00:16:11,054 --> 00:16:12,846 Reliable, respectable. 236 00:16:14,189 --> 00:16:15,678 You're lucky to have him. 237 00:16:18,410 --> 00:16:22,648 Well, if you want, I can take you for shops, show you how it works. 238 00:16:23,411 --> 00:16:25,567 Show you how to use the ration card. 239 00:16:25,955 --> 00:16:27,451 Do you have a ration card? 240 00:16:28,118 --> 00:16:29,819 We will get it for you soon. 241 00:16:31,056 --> 00:16:32,195 Well... 242 00:16:32,478 --> 00:16:36,321 knock on my door when you're ready. I'm always around the house. 243 00:16:36,339 --> 00:16:38,529 Just one thing, if I may ask... 244 00:16:39,047 --> 00:16:42,295 could you, by any chance, inform me what are "chips" about? 245 00:16:42,326 --> 00:16:46,053 - French fries? The ones you eat, or... - The edible variety, yes. 246 00:16:46,468 --> 00:16:49,794 They are... potatoes, cut into small pieces. 247 00:16:50,047 --> 00:16:52,401 A little salt and vinegar as a finishing touch. 248 00:16:54,955 --> 00:16:56,582 I want you to know, Hortense... 249 00:16:56,624 --> 00:16:59,125 which aren't like many around here. 250 00:16:59,245 --> 00:17:03,189 I don't mind being seen around with you, so don't worry, okay? 251 00:17:42,992 --> 00:17:46,164 Here you can buy practically everything. This is where you buy fresh fish. 252 00:17:46,201 --> 00:17:48,122 Cakes, bread, and so on. 253 00:17:48,223 --> 00:17:51,292 Oh, and there's the greengrocer, for fruit and, you know... other things, and... 254 00:17:51,330 --> 00:17:53,610 - Mrs Bligh? - Queenie. 255 00:17:53,642 --> 00:17:56,716 She's a meticulous teacher, Mrs Bligh. 256 00:17:56,924 --> 00:17:59,475 I know this because I'm a teacher. 257 00:17:59,827 --> 00:18:02,804 But maybe we can get there to an agreement, you and me. 258 00:18:03,081 --> 00:18:05,574 When I don't know what something is, 259 00:18:05,694 --> 00:18:07,493 I'll ask. 260 00:18:13,488 --> 00:18:16,723 Brooms, nails, clothespins... 261 00:18:18,921 --> 00:18:20,243 Can I help you? 262 00:18:21,398 --> 00:18:24,998 I would like to purchase three basins please. 263 00:18:25,065 --> 00:18:27,454 Of this size, approximately. 264 00:18:28,259 --> 00:18:29,353 Huh? 265 00:18:29,473 --> 00:18:31,207 Three basins. 266 00:18:31,233 --> 00:18:32,556 Big like that. 267 00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:34,430 What is he talking about? 268 00:18:34,847 --> 00:18:36,829 - What did you say? - Kisses... 269 00:18:37,078 --> 00:18:38,385 for the sink! 270 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:41,630 He means a basin. 271 00:18:41,750 --> 00:18:43,365 A basin for washing. 272 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,516 - Nine and a half pence. - I'd like three, please. 273 00:18:49,839 --> 00:18:51,707 Three? Why three? 274 00:18:53,038 --> 00:18:56,253 One for washing vegetables, one for dishes, and one for clothes. 275 00:18:56,282 --> 00:18:59,784 No! You can only use one, and rinse it afterwards. 276 00:19:00,310 --> 00:19:02,702 - One is fine. - That's still nine and a half pence. 277 00:19:11,888 --> 00:19:13,187 Over the counter. 278 00:19:17,494 --> 00:19:19,445 I wish you a good day, sir. 279 00:19:39,820 --> 00:19:42,408 Retreats here for the center Earls Court sorting station? 280 00:19:42,477 --> 00:19:45,364 -Did anyone speak? - I didn't hear anything. 281 00:19:46,083 --> 00:19:48,245 Can you please tell me which ones should I take? 282 00:19:49,709 --> 00:19:51,000 Here it is again. 283 00:19:51,733 --> 00:19:53,890 I don't see anything. You? 284 00:19:54,346 --> 00:19:56,457 Okay, I'll find them myself. 285 00:19:57,553 --> 00:19:59,573 Hey! Don't touch those! 286 00:19:59,816 --> 00:20:01,275 I'm not for Earls Court. 287 00:20:01,395 --> 00:20:03,618 - Put your filthy black hands down. - Are these? 288 00:20:03,648 --> 00:20:06,725 How many niggas does it take to change a roll of toilet paper? 289 00:20:06,754 --> 00:20:08,027 Well, nobody knows. 290 00:20:08,055 --> 00:20:09,616 They never do! 291 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,666 Just tell me which ones I should take, so I can leave. 292 00:20:12,697 --> 00:20:14,754 What is the nigga talking about? 293 00:20:15,134 --> 00:20:18,420 I'll tell you what. I will answer to your question, little black guy... 294 00:20:18,443 --> 00:20:19,867 if you answer mine. 295 00:20:20,922 --> 00:20:23,231 When are you going back to the jungle? 296 00:20:29,165 --> 00:20:30,851 Not yet, man. 297 00:20:31,602 --> 00:20:33,546 I mean, I just got here... 298 00:20:33,758 --> 00:20:36,568 and I still haven't fucked your wife! 299 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:40,619 What did you say? 300 00:20:42,878 --> 00:20:44,775 I'd think twice, little nigger! 301 00:20:44,825 --> 00:20:47,075 You want to keep your job and stay out of bars? 302 00:20:47,148 --> 00:20:50,501 Everyone here will say that you attacked a defenseless white man. 303 00:20:50,531 --> 00:20:54,746 The police will put you back on your boat bananas so fast you won't notice! 304 00:20:56,484 --> 00:20:57,999 Savages. 305 00:20:58,516 --> 00:20:59,655 Animals! 306 00:20:59,821 --> 00:21:00,907 Now... 307 00:21:01,196 --> 00:21:03,993 You owe me an apology, nigga. And I haven't heard them yet. 308 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,249 On your knees. 309 00:21:07,938 --> 00:21:09,599 On your knees! 310 00:21:11,435 --> 00:21:12,676 Say it. 311 00:21:25,446 --> 00:21:27,017 Excuse me. 312 00:21:50,345 --> 00:21:51,481 Good evening. 313 00:21:51,508 --> 00:21:54,228 - What are you doing, woman? - I clean the floor. 314 00:21:56,127 --> 00:21:58,439 My wife doesn't kneel in this country. 315 00:21:58,498 --> 00:22:00,209 Not now, not ever. 316 00:22:04,861 --> 00:22:07,022 Come to the table, I'll bring you dinner. 317 00:22:08,471 --> 00:22:09,938 You see? 318 00:22:10,435 --> 00:22:13,410 All ready at six, as you asked. 319 00:22:24,313 --> 00:22:26,245 Won't you take off your coat? 320 00:22:26,990 --> 00:22:28,434 It's too cold. 321 00:22:38,857 --> 00:22:40,254 What is this stuff? 322 00:22:40,668 --> 00:22:45,030 - Chips, as you asked. - They're not chips, chips are fried! 323 00:22:45,177 --> 00:22:48,690 How come you don't know what a potato chip is? And this? What is this? 324 00:22:48,748 --> 00:22:51,483 In your famous university Didn't they teach you how to cook an egg? 325 00:22:51,559 --> 00:22:54,882 They taught us how to be grateful for the food that God gives us... 326 00:22:54,966 --> 00:22:58,793 a lesson you would do well to learn. What are you doing? 327 00:22:58,862 --> 00:23:02,990 - You have to eat at the table! - I eat wherever I want, haughty young lady! 328 00:23:03,013 --> 00:23:05,679 I am cold. I eat here. 329 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,397 You don't even know how to cook something as simple as eggs and potatoes. 330 00:23:12,777 --> 00:23:14,748 Is there anything you can cook? 331 00:23:15,571 --> 00:23:18,582 You are ungrateful, Gilbert Joseph. 332 00:23:18,620 --> 00:23:21,415 I worked all day and this is what I come home for. 333 00:23:31,275 --> 00:23:32,944 This egg has gone bad. 334 00:23:33,770 --> 00:23:35,624 I can't take it anymore! 335 00:23:36,456 --> 00:23:37,847 Enough! 336 00:24:05,472 --> 00:24:07,414 Your glove fell off, dear. 337 00:24:07,966 --> 00:24:11,975 You lost it along the way, but you walk too fast for me. 338 00:24:19,539 --> 00:24:22,495 Hold a candy. It'll warm you up. 339 00:24:25,194 --> 00:24:28,248 Cursed. They always stick. 340 00:24:38,697 --> 00:24:42,568 It looks like a precious jewel under the light, right? 341 00:24:51,003 --> 00:24:52,036 Well... 342 00:24:52,975 --> 00:24:55,045 I'd better head home. 343 00:24:55,673 --> 00:24:58,226 It's the best place to be on a night like that. 344 00:25:00,995 --> 00:25:03,015 You should do the same. 345 00:25:07,183 --> 00:25:08,754 Good night, my dear. 346 00:25:16,717 --> 00:25:18,262 Good night. 347 00:25:37,219 --> 00:25:39,435 I'm so sorry, Hortense. 348 00:25:46,673 --> 00:25:49,921 Look, I... I took some things. 349 00:25:52,997 --> 00:25:54,869 Do you want to have dinner with me? 350 00:25:56,584 --> 00:25:58,075 My lady? 351 00:26:18,986 --> 00:26:21,908 This here is an English delicacy. 352 00:26:23,172 --> 00:26:25,041 Fish and chips. 353 00:26:25,994 --> 00:26:27,707 Do you know what the English do? 354 00:26:28,537 --> 00:26:31,125 They eat it straight from the newspaper. 355 00:26:31,149 --> 00:26:33,926 No plate, no cutlery. They only use their fingers. 356 00:26:33,985 --> 00:26:36,506 - Like monkeys? - Like monkeys. 357 00:26:40,411 --> 00:26:42,504 Lesson number one, Hortense. 358 00:26:45,157 --> 00:26:46,343 This... 359 00:26:47,324 --> 00:26:48,633 it's a potato chip. 360 00:27:01,953 --> 00:27:03,543 Lesson number two. 361 00:27:04,384 --> 00:27:06,231 Now listen to me carefully, Hortense. 362 00:27:07,130 --> 00:27:11,034 You know what they tell us in Jamaica, that everything in England is beautiful? 363 00:27:12,295 --> 00:27:13,779 It is not true. 364 00:27:14,522 --> 00:27:16,314 You have to be ready for this. 365 00:27:17,775 --> 00:27:20,558 I was born ready, Gilbert Joseph. 366 00:27:32,339 --> 00:27:34,670 You can turn off the light now. 367 00:27:38,391 --> 00:27:43,015 I have many talents, Hortense, but seeing in the dark isn't one of them. 368 00:27:44,398 --> 00:27:47,494 Or are you perhaps afraid to take a peek at me? 369 00:27:47,793 --> 00:27:51,294 You must be talking about yourself, Gilbert Joseph, certainly not about me. 370 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:08,194 Goodnight, wife. 371 00:28:09,756 --> 00:28:11,056 Good night. 372 00:28:12,427 --> 00:28:13,639 Husband. 373 00:28:29,279 --> 00:28:32,478 It's called "The Times Educational Supplement". 374 00:28:32,505 --> 00:28:36,894 It's a periodical where they are offered best places for teachers. 375 00:28:36,951 --> 00:28:39,973 I looked for it in the library before leaving Jamaica. 376 00:28:40,377 --> 00:28:42,986 - Don't mind us. Walk. - Are they talking to me? 377 00:28:43,013 --> 00:28:45,153 Stupid children. Keep walking. 378 00:28:45,618 --> 00:28:46,925 Come here! 379 00:28:47,228 --> 00:28:50,394 - Come here, now! - You're wasting your breath, Hortense, don't... 380 00:28:59,202 --> 00:29:00,392 Queenie... 381 00:29:03,018 --> 00:29:04,266 Queenie! 382 00:29:05,644 --> 00:29:07,410 Thanks, I'll take care of it. 383 00:29:10,326 --> 00:29:14,065 - I'm the husband, I'll take care of it. - She lives here, Bernard. 384 00:29:15,006 --> 00:29:17,278 In the room upstairs. I rented it out. 385 00:29:20,631 --> 00:29:22,587 It's all right now, Hortense. 386 00:29:30,113 --> 00:29:31,427 Come here. 387 00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:50,997 Catch your breath for a moment. 388 00:29:54,598 --> 00:29:56,354 It's not wise, Queenie... 389 00:29:56,527 --> 00:29:59,388 rent to similar people. You couldn't find anyone else to... 390 00:29:59,396 --> 00:30:02,718 You don't think I'm the one who should you ask questions, Bernard? 391 00:30:02,822 --> 00:30:05,523 I never heard from you again since the war. 392 00:30:05,780 --> 00:30:08,568 I didn't know if you were alive or dead, if I was a widow. 393 00:30:09,602 --> 00:30:12,247 Where the hell have you been all this time? 394 00:30:12,287 --> 00:30:14,056 It's complicated, Queenie. 395 00:30:16,571 --> 00:30:19,105 I... I didn't feel good. 396 00:30:20,395 --> 00:30:22,579 I spoke to the ministry, Bernard. 397 00:30:24,103 --> 00:30:28,057 They said you came back from India with your unit, and you weren't hurt. 398 00:30:28,354 --> 00:30:31,222 It's not that kind of injury. I lost my bearings. 399 00:30:31,562 --> 00:30:33,674 Have you lost your memory? What? 400 00:30:33,739 --> 00:30:35,210 Were you in hospital? 401 00:30:35,902 --> 00:30:37,035 In Brighton. 402 00:30:41,331 --> 00:30:43,441 Let's see if I understood correctly. 403 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,863 I'm here alone fighting to keep a roof over my head, 404 00:30:46,923 --> 00:30:51,197 and you are on the beach with a shovel and bucket an hour by train from here? 405 00:30:53,982 --> 00:30:55,671 Where's Daddy, Queenie? 406 00:30:58,869 --> 00:31:00,115 I wrote to you... 407 00:31:00,498 --> 00:31:01,574 in India. 408 00:31:02,598 --> 00:31:04,270 Didn't you receive my letter? 409 00:31:15,861 --> 00:31:18,293 We were in line outside a movie theater, and... 410 00:31:19,959 --> 00:31:22,734 some Americans have started to cause trouble. 411 00:31:22,906 --> 00:31:26,371 They called the military police. A bullet ricocheted off him. 412 00:31:27,133 --> 00:31:29,254 A tragic accident, they said. 413 00:31:32,034 --> 00:31:34,224 I had taken him to Yorkshire to keep it safe. 414 00:31:35,075 --> 00:31:36,961 I did a great job, didn't I? 415 00:31:37,014 --> 00:31:39,471 No one had done so much for him like you, Queenie. 416 00:31:41,975 --> 00:31:44,265 Queenie? Queenie? 417 00:31:44,701 --> 00:31:47,533 It's your favorite day. Rental day. 418 00:31:47,575 --> 00:31:49,816 That's right, buddy. Very punctual this time! 419 00:31:51,771 --> 00:31:54,580 Meet my husband, Bernard. 420 00:31:55,718 --> 00:31:59,490 Gilbert Joseph, husband of Hortense, you met, and Winston Seymour. 421 00:32:00,596 --> 00:32:02,627 - Nice to meet you, sir. - Likewise, sir. 422 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,570 We are discussing. Do you mind? 423 00:32:14,968 --> 00:32:16,599 Do they live here too? 424 00:32:17,066 --> 00:32:18,899 My God, Queenie, what were you thinking? 425 00:32:18,910 --> 00:32:23,263 How I was supposed to pay the bills while you were playing hide and seek in Brighton? 426 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,184 Sell ​​my body? Beat the pavement? 427 00:32:27,967 --> 00:32:31,197 Why did you come back, Bernard? Why now? 428 00:32:32,044 --> 00:32:33,507 You are my wife. 429 00:32:34,864 --> 00:32:37,850 So I should let you come back in my life and in my bed... 430 00:32:37,891 --> 00:32:40,768 because you regained your senses and you remembered... 431 00:32:40,875 --> 00:32:43,350 only now that, suddenly, it's convenient for you? 432 00:32:51,866 --> 00:32:54,104 You can sleep in your father's room. 433 00:32:59,254 --> 00:33:01,775 Islington is on the other side of London, Hortense. 434 00:33:01,847 --> 00:33:06,660 - Why do you have to go there? - It is the headquarters of the superintendent. 435 00:33:06,830 --> 00:33:11,822 I don't intend to spend my life cooking and clean like a servant, Gilbert Joseph. 436 00:33:11,889 --> 00:33:14,760 The newspaper is full of ads for teaching positions in London. 437 00:33:14,784 --> 00:33:19,262 And I'll be clear. I will consider only places in a good school. 438 00:33:19,305 --> 00:33:22,363 I'm not that desperate to accept anything. 439 00:33:24,742 --> 00:33:27,684 How do you plan to get there in Islington, Hortense? 440 00:33:27,739 --> 00:33:30,896 By bus, when I know which one to get. 441 00:33:30,913 --> 00:33:34,594 Better to go by subway to Earl's Court, take the Piccadilly Line. 442 00:33:34,712 --> 00:33:36,871 - The dark blue line. - Then go to King's Cross... 443 00:33:36,899 --> 00:33:39,992 - take the Northern Line, City Branch. - The black line. 444 00:33:42,118 --> 00:33:44,498 Maybe it's better if I come with you, Hortense, right? 445 00:33:44,598 --> 00:33:47,558 I'll do a half day on Wednesday. I'll take you there in the afternoon. 446 00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:50,159 You can accompany me if you wish. 447 00:33:54,498 --> 00:33:57,277 Queenie's husband doesn't appear very friendly, though, right? 448 00:33:57,278 --> 00:33:59,038 Queenie will talk to him. 449 00:34:01,098 --> 00:34:02,778 Will you join us, Winston? 450 00:34:02,978 --> 00:34:06,278 Tonight there's fish, fresh fish from the market. 451 00:34:06,279 --> 00:34:09,379 What? Home cooked? What a delicacy! 452 00:34:10,698 --> 00:34:14,878 You are lucky to have a woman who every evening he cooks you something good. What? 453 00:34:20,698 --> 00:34:21,818 Yes, my friend... 454 00:34:23,218 --> 00:34:25,398 but do you know what I just remembered? 455 00:34:26,299 --> 00:34:29,399 I promised to see me with some friends, so... 456 00:34:31,158 --> 00:34:33,418 Another evening, okay? 457 00:34:35,458 --> 00:34:36,478 See you soon. 458 00:34:41,798 --> 00:34:44,218 It doesn't matter if they ask us to leave. 459 00:34:44,318 --> 00:34:47,978 Soon I will be hired in a good school... 460 00:34:48,078 --> 00:34:50,798 and we can find a decent place to live. 461 00:34:50,898 --> 00:34:53,998 A house with a bell... 462 00:34:54,498 --> 00:34:57,178 electric lights in every room... 463 00:34:57,378 --> 00:35:00,438 and a garden to grow vegetables. 464 00:35:00,638 --> 00:35:04,838 An appropriate home for a teacher like me. 465 00:35:07,338 --> 00:35:10,318 Eat before it gets cold as hell. 466 00:35:11,438 --> 00:35:12,838 How long have you been here? 467 00:35:13,238 --> 00:35:16,398 "Doggy" means very cold. 468 00:35:56,337 --> 00:35:58,937 EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE - Here I am, here I am! Damnation! 469 00:36:02,398 --> 00:36:04,338 I'd like to say I was passing through, but... 470 00:36:04,539 --> 00:36:08,239 my father always says that the little ones lies are the passport to hell. 471 00:36:08,338 --> 00:36:09,858 Sergeant Roberts. 472 00:36:10,658 --> 00:36:12,404 I thought I'd never see you again. 473 00:36:12,517 --> 00:36:14,624 I'm just Mr. Roberts now. 474 00:36:15,163 --> 00:36:16,498 And you were wrong. 475 00:36:22,458 --> 00:36:23,458 Are you alone? 476 00:36:25,198 --> 00:36:26,938 Your father-in-law is... 477 00:36:27,538 --> 00:36:29,278 He's no longer with us. 478 00:36:31,598 --> 00:36:32,838 And your husband? 479 00:36:34,638 --> 00:36:35,838 The same. 480 00:36:37,458 --> 00:36:41,338 Well, listen, make yourself at home, while I, you know... 481 00:36:47,218 --> 00:36:52,478 Queenie once walked down the street with a cheeky yet elegant attitude. 482 00:36:52,578 --> 00:36:54,601 Heads turned as he passed. 483 00:36:54,698 --> 00:36:57,218 He owned that one which is called "presence". 484 00:36:57,975 --> 00:37:00,458 But since the war he had lost that attitude. 485 00:37:00,558 --> 00:37:03,318 Heads no longer turned when she passed. 486 00:37:03,518 --> 00:37:06,038 She had become invisible. 487 00:37:09,198 --> 00:37:14,158 But that day, in the park, the heads they would turn to look at her again. 488 00:37:14,658 --> 00:37:17,018 Queenie knew she wasn't the cause... 489 00:37:17,818 --> 00:37:20,918 but the sight of a black man and a white woman 490 00:37:20,953 --> 00:37:23,119 walking arm in arm. 491 00:37:26,438 --> 00:37:29,858 With Michael by his side, Queenie was visible again. 492 00:37:31,058 --> 00:37:32,678 It existed. 493 00:37:36,410 --> 00:37:39,852 We were flying over France on our way back from a night raid in Germany... 494 00:37:40,019 --> 00:37:41,719 when the plane was hit. 495 00:37:42,969 --> 00:37:45,038 It turned into a ball of fire. 496 00:37:45,638 --> 00:37:48,898 As soon as it hit the ground, I saw the plane explode. 497 00:37:48,998 --> 00:37:51,258 I could see Ginger in the distance. 498 00:37:52,044 --> 00:37:54,098 His parachute had caught fire. 499 00:37:55,198 --> 00:38:00,438 It looked like the flame of a match floated in the dark sky. 500 00:38:00,938 --> 00:38:02,858 I could hear his screams. 501 00:38:04,158 --> 00:38:07,638 I landed in a turnip field. 502 00:38:08,926 --> 00:38:11,182 I had escaped with a sprained ankle. 503 00:38:12,498 --> 00:38:15,898 I spent days and days in that damn field... 504 00:38:15,948 --> 00:38:19,848 tearing turnips from the ground, eating them raw. 505 00:38:21,889 --> 00:38:24,438 Then some French kids they found me. 506 00:38:24,838 --> 00:38:27,058 At first they just stared at me. 507 00:38:28,258 --> 00:38:31,558 Then, one by one, they approached. 508 00:38:32,978 --> 00:38:36,174 They rubbed my skin, to see if the color came off. 509 00:38:37,078 --> 00:38:38,498 I wasn't angry. 510 00:38:40,218 --> 00:38:41,538 I thought... 511 00:38:42,138 --> 00:38:46,578 maybe, this time, my dark skin will save me. 512 00:38:48,558 --> 00:38:52,038 They will think I am an oddity, not a threat. 513 00:38:52,538 --> 00:38:54,458 They took me to their farm... 514 00:38:55,258 --> 00:38:57,518 and the farmer hid me. 515 00:38:57,918 --> 00:39:01,478 And when the Americans arrived, he handed me over to them. 516 00:39:04,558 --> 00:39:06,558 I was one of the lucky ones. 517 00:39:11,958 --> 00:39:13,738 Last time you left something. 518 00:39:14,998 --> 00:39:18,678 Good, good! My lucky charm! 519 00:39:19,378 --> 00:39:24,018 When I flew the first missions I was sure he kept me safe. 520 00:39:24,118 --> 00:39:25,378 Was she your sister? 521 00:39:26,878 --> 00:39:28,618 We grew up together. 522 00:39:30,996 --> 00:39:33,758 He was a really nice guy, believe me. 523 00:39:34,861 --> 00:39:37,356 Nothing could bring her down. 524 00:39:39,038 --> 00:39:41,738 I can't believe it that you've had it all this time. 525 00:39:42,138 --> 00:39:44,218 I want to keep this. 526 00:39:44,818 --> 00:39:47,938 It was my good luck charm. He brought you back to me. 527 00:40:28,878 --> 00:40:32,398 So how long will I have you this time, Michael Roberts? 528 00:40:33,098 --> 00:40:34,658 Until Monday. 529 00:40:36,058 --> 00:40:37,478 A weekend. 530 00:40:40,878 --> 00:40:44,198 Well, we have to enjoy it to the fullest. 531 00:41:49,709 --> 00:41:53,011 When you leave tomorrow... will you return to your family in Jamaica? 532 00:41:53,158 --> 00:41:55,098 You know, from the girl in the photo? 533 00:41:55,299 --> 00:41:57,558 Before I left there was a hurricane. 534 00:41:59,583 --> 00:42:02,698 After a hurricane things are never the same. 535 00:42:04,507 --> 00:42:06,818 Now there's nothing left for me down there. 536 00:42:09,276 --> 00:42:13,358 Have you ever felt the strength of a hurricane, Queenie Bligh? 537 00:42:14,261 --> 00:42:16,618 You know, you could stay here if you want. 538 00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,019 After all, there are a lot of rooms. 539 00:42:21,358 --> 00:42:23,278 Before coming to England... 540 00:42:25,067 --> 00:42:28,038 I had so many ideas about what it would be like. 541 00:42:28,338 --> 00:42:30,298 But it's just another island... 542 00:42:30,898 --> 00:42:32,918 just like the one I left behind. 543 00:42:34,104 --> 00:42:36,339 Full of mean people... 544 00:42:36,734 --> 00:42:38,287 just like the other one. 545 00:42:41,258 --> 00:42:42,822 I'm going to Canada. 546 00:42:44,738 --> 00:42:46,002 I'll tell you... 547 00:42:46,458 --> 00:42:48,538 there the land is boundless. 548 00:42:48,638 --> 00:42:50,521 There a man can breathe. 549 00:42:51,118 --> 00:42:54,418 We can build a good future in such a land. 550 00:43:07,558 --> 00:43:08,898 I'm waiting.. 551 00:43:09,698 --> 00:43:12,858 hoping he would ask her to follow him to Canada. 552 00:43:13,058 --> 00:43:15,238 If he had done so, he would have closed the house... 553 00:43:15,339 --> 00:43:18,639 he would have said goodbye to his life, and she would leave with him. 554 00:43:20,678 --> 00:43:22,578 But he didn't ask her... 555 00:43:23,178 --> 00:43:26,158 So she decided it would be her to ask him. 556 00:43:29,918 --> 00:43:31,598 But when the time came, 557 00:43:31,799 --> 00:43:34,199 I don't dare say the words. 558 00:43:40,798 --> 00:43:44,547 He was too afraid what he could have answered. 559 00:44:09,803 --> 00:44:12,340 So it was that, that Monday morning... 560 00:44:12,404 --> 00:44:14,804 he saw him leave his life... 561 00:44:15,118 --> 00:44:17,158 without looking back. 562 00:44:50,077 --> 00:44:51,497 In Hertfordshire... 563 00:44:51,579 --> 00:44:53,679 Herefordshire and Hampshire... 564 00:44:56,315 --> 00:44:58,827 hurricanes almost never happen. 565 00:45:36,738 --> 00:45:37,926 It's not just me who thinks so. 566 00:45:37,928 --> 00:45:41,828 Mrs. Lucas at number 25 thinks so similarly and so do the Reids at 19. 567 00:45:41,847 --> 00:45:43,827 The whole street is in revolt. 568 00:45:43,978 --> 00:45:46,478 They say either his wife gets rid of the blacks... 569 00:45:46,494 --> 00:45:49,397 or they will be forced to take matters into their own hands. 570 00:45:50,378 --> 00:45:53,458 Now that he's back, She can take care of it, thank God. 571 00:45:53,677 --> 00:45:55,817 But I wouldn't let too much time pass. 572 00:46:10,338 --> 00:46:12,778 There was a woman, right? 573 00:46:17,358 --> 00:46:18,738 There had to be a woman. 574 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:21,740 It's not what you think. 575 00:46:32,758 --> 00:46:34,418 India was... 576 00:46:36,438 --> 00:46:39,918 after a while you think you're immune to squalor and death. 577 00:46:41,998 --> 00:46:45,237 We lost more than half of the men in the unit in a month. 578 00:46:45,238 --> 00:46:46,878 Guys, for the most part. 579 00:46:47,778 --> 00:46:50,980 They were barely old enough to shave. They called me "Old Man". 580 00:46:59,278 --> 00:47:02,658 The day of victory over Japan, just being alive was... 581 00:47:03,818 --> 00:47:05,138 Some of the guys... 582 00:47:07,238 --> 00:47:11,418 they wanted to go to a brothel in Calcutta. 583 00:47:12,218 --> 00:47:16,054 They made me drink and they convinced me to go with them. 584 00:47:16,923 --> 00:47:20,337 On the ship returning to England, I developed inflammation on... 585 00:47:22,018 --> 00:47:23,577 I immediately understood that it was syphilis. 586 00:47:23,578 --> 00:47:27,578 When we came to India, a doctor I told us about the symptoms, what to expect... 587 00:47:29,235 --> 00:47:32,151 apoplexy, dementia, death. 588 00:47:32,748 --> 00:47:36,443 And all this, just for a few minutes spent with a whore in Calcutta! 589 00:47:36,871 --> 00:47:40,307 I thought I'd end it once and for all, but I didn't have the courage. 590 00:47:43,309 --> 00:47:45,299 When we returned to London, I... 591 00:47:46,070 --> 00:47:48,130 I knew I couldn't go home, so... 592 00:47:49,144 --> 00:47:53,411 I went to Waterloo station and took a train to Brighton. 593 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:59,090 And as I wandered, I saw an ad, in a shop window... 594 00:47:59,924 --> 00:48:03,768 "Looking for factotum in a hotel... 595 00:48:03,855 --> 00:48:06,183 in exchange for room and board." 596 00:48:06,184 --> 00:48:07,725 So I accepted, waiting to die. 597 00:48:07,726 --> 00:48:11,082 - We don't die of syphilis anymore, Bernard. - I wanted to die! 598 00:48:11,083 --> 00:48:14,116 It was my punishment for cheating on you. 599 00:48:15,110 --> 00:48:18,186 Why should I have lived, when many others had died? 600 00:48:20,702 --> 00:48:23,066 But nothing happened. No symptoms. 601 00:48:23,167 --> 00:48:25,234 So I went to a doctor and he said that 602 00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:29,042 after such a long period without penicillin I should have gone mad, or died. 603 00:48:29,790 --> 00:48:31,543 He said it wasn't syphilis... 604 00:48:32,466 --> 00:48:36,662 more likely an infection from insect bites. 605 00:48:43,820 --> 00:48:45,889 What kind of husband do you get, huh? 606 00:48:49,944 --> 00:48:52,218 You are human, like all of us, Bernard. 607 00:48:54,779 --> 00:48:56,383 None of us are perfect. 608 00:49:13,857 --> 00:49:15,479 You can go now, Gilbert. 609 00:49:15,530 --> 00:49:18,212 I don't want to distort your day further. 610 00:49:18,213 --> 00:49:21,665 Maybe they'll want to show me the school where I will work immediately. 611 00:49:25,301 --> 00:49:26,318 Hortense? 612 00:49:26,931 --> 00:49:28,977 Don't expect too much, okay? 613 00:49:29,663 --> 00:49:32,019 Things in England they work differently. 614 00:49:32,834 --> 00:49:37,585 A teacher will not be treated like any other low-ranking worker. 615 00:49:38,375 --> 00:49:40,055 See you at home. 616 00:49:44,744 --> 00:49:46,696 RECRUITMENT APPLICATIONS. 617 00:49:53,524 --> 00:49:54,610 After you! 618 00:49:58,141 --> 00:49:59,495 Good morning. 619 00:50:03,148 --> 00:50:04,162 Please? 620 00:50:04,765 --> 00:50:10,062 I guess I should introduce myself here to have a teaching job. 621 00:50:10,261 --> 00:50:11,699 Are you a teacher? 622 00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:13,196 Exact. 623 00:50:17,847 --> 00:50:19,723 My letters of recommendation. 624 00:50:19,824 --> 00:50:23,524 As you can see, one is from the principal of my last school. 625 00:50:23,755 --> 00:50:26,419 Excuse me, where are you from exactly? 626 00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:27,604 Jamaica. 627 00:50:27,805 --> 00:50:30,986 This letter has been written from the principal of my last school. 628 00:50:30,987 --> 00:50:33,052 - and as you can see... - Where was the school? 629 00:50:33,417 --> 00:50:36,532 It was Coral Hill Parish School in Kingston, Jamaica. 630 00:50:37,149 --> 00:50:41,406 And here's the recommendation of Alexandria Hall Teachers College, 631 00:50:41,407 --> 00:50:45,847 - which I attended under the tutelage... - Is it always in Jamaica? 632 00:50:46,624 --> 00:50:48,009 Yes, certainly. 633 00:50:48,060 --> 00:50:51,059 If it has not been enabled here, he can't teach here. 634 00:50:51,311 --> 00:50:52,901 It's not possible. 635 00:50:54,478 --> 00:50:59,606 If you read the letters, you'll see what I have studied for three years to become a teacher. 636 00:51:00,583 --> 00:51:04,315 I even received praise, in my teaching diploma. 637 00:51:04,335 --> 00:51:07,856 I don't doubt it, but his qualification is not recognized here. 638 00:51:07,876 --> 00:51:09,500 It has no value here. 639 00:51:12,393 --> 00:51:16,982 The Ministry of Education it dictates the rules and we must follow them. 640 00:51:23,891 --> 00:51:26,990 Do I have to start studying again? 641 00:51:28,231 --> 00:51:29,757 Is that what you're telling me? 642 00:51:29,902 --> 00:51:31,974 Assuming she gets accepted. 643 00:51:32,375 --> 00:51:33,663 I warn you... 644 00:51:33,865 --> 00:51:37,583 the competition is truly fierce. 645 00:52:04,906 --> 00:52:06,293 How did it go? 646 00:52:08,308 --> 00:52:10,414 Hortense? What... what happened? 647 00:52:11,155 --> 00:52:14,457 - Wait! - Why these questions? What do you care? 648 00:52:14,499 --> 00:52:17,871 - You are my wife! - I can take care of myself. 649 00:52:17,872 --> 00:52:21,008 I did this for years, before that if you showed up, and I can do it again! 650 00:52:21,009 --> 00:52:25,605 - I don't need you... - In the name of God, woman! What did they tell you? 651 00:52:29,210 --> 00:52:31,616 They said I can't teach here! 652 00:52:35,688 --> 00:52:37,450 Tell me, tell me... 653 00:52:37,551 --> 00:52:39,084 tell me what they said. 654 00:52:40,529 --> 00:52:43,815 My teaching qualification it is not recognized here. 655 00:52:45,403 --> 00:52:48,056 I have to start all over again. 656 00:52:50,598 --> 00:52:52,888 And when I got up to leave, 657 00:52:54,077 --> 00:52:56,493 I ended up in a closet. 658 00:53:00,197 --> 00:53:01,305 A wardrobe? 659 00:53:02,006 --> 00:53:05,917 I thought it was the exit door. But it was a closet. 660 00:53:08,210 --> 00:53:10,810 And the ladies laughed at me. 661 00:53:13,330 --> 00:53:15,029 What was in that closet? 662 00:53:17,365 --> 00:53:18,909 A broom and some rags. 663 00:53:18,944 --> 00:53:22,796 You know, it happened to me too to enter the closets. 664 00:53:23,197 --> 00:53:26,111 Broom cupboard, stationery cabinet. 665 00:53:26,346 --> 00:53:28,209 There were cards in this too. 666 00:53:28,229 --> 00:53:31,013 Papers and brooms? You should really tell him... 667 00:53:31,197 --> 00:53:35,407 what a strange wardrobe you have. The tools to clean together with stationery? 668 00:53:37,454 --> 00:53:39,751 As long as you were in front of this closet? 669 00:53:39,752 --> 00:53:42,302 Enough to see all the mess! 670 00:53:42,819 --> 00:53:44,718 Everything thrown away in bulk... 671 00:53:45,254 --> 00:53:47,673 I also stubbed my foot against a bucket. 672 00:53:47,674 --> 00:53:52,053 Stamp your foot because these people are not able to keep closets tidy? 673 00:53:52,154 --> 00:53:54,797 And they call this a civilized country! 674 00:53:54,898 --> 00:53:59,536 You should go back and say that in your In the country it is customary to keep cupboards tidy. 675 00:54:01,211 --> 00:54:04,300 You are crazy, Gilbert Joseph. 676 00:54:05,549 --> 00:54:07,079 Maybe... 677 00:54:07,935 --> 00:54:09,790 only God knows. 678 00:54:12,712 --> 00:54:14,190 I have an idea. 679 00:54:15,988 --> 00:54:19,251 We will do what the English do in times of difficulty. 680 00:54:20,634 --> 00:54:23,144 We'll have a cup of tea. 681 00:54:25,329 --> 00:54:26,589 But first... 682 00:54:26,843 --> 00:54:29,183 we will go to visit the king. 683 00:54:42,043 --> 00:54:44,128 Look at all those rooms. 684 00:54:45,068 --> 00:54:48,319 After all, you can sleep only on one bed at a time. 685 00:54:48,766 --> 00:54:50,534 But he's still the king. 686 00:54:51,526 --> 00:54:53,541 Maybe he jumps from bed to bed, huh? 687 00:54:54,085 --> 00:54:57,176 You have no respect, Gilbert Joseph. 688 00:55:02,541 --> 00:55:04,697 What should I do, Gilbert? 689 00:55:05,331 --> 00:55:08,190 Teaching here has always been my dream. 690 00:55:08,651 --> 00:55:09,727 Well... 691 00:55:11,643 --> 00:55:12,761 can you sew? 692 00:55:12,862 --> 00:55:13,909 Certain. 693 00:55:14,552 --> 00:55:16,802 I have known how to sew since I was a little girl. 694 00:55:16,959 --> 00:55:19,036 In an atelier, near where I work... 695 00:55:19,037 --> 00:55:21,397 There's an ad in the window for a seamstress. 696 00:55:21,691 --> 00:55:25,840 - I'm a teacher, not a seamstress! - And you will be. 697 00:55:26,621 --> 00:55:28,062 You could sew... 698 00:55:28,610 --> 00:55:30,336 and I will drive the post office van. 699 00:55:30,337 --> 00:55:34,950 And we'll earn enough to do so allow your studies at university. 700 00:55:36,725 --> 00:55:38,503 Would you do this for me? 701 00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,613 I once dreamed of studying law. 702 00:55:48,639 --> 00:55:50,457 It was an impossible dream. 703 00:55:52,733 --> 00:55:55,563 But we can still do it may yours come true. 704 00:56:08,525 --> 00:56:10,808 Of course I also know how to cook. 705 00:56:11,209 --> 00:56:13,029 My teacher, Miss Plumtree, 706 00:56:13,045 --> 00:56:16,425 he said that my lemon sponge cake it was the best he had ever felt. 707 00:56:16,426 --> 00:56:20,480 Even better than what they serve in the most prestigious café in London. 708 00:56:20,789 --> 00:56:22,969 Did he tell you where this cafe is? 709 00:56:24,332 --> 00:56:27,270 Because we have to make sure never to set foot there. 710 00:56:28,890 --> 00:56:32,612 You're me again kidding, Gilbert Joseph! 711 00:57:10,804 --> 00:57:15,823 The trauma of war is like a wound which never heals completely. 712 00:57:22,147 --> 00:57:26,804 When a man comes home he can feeling like an impostor in your own life. 713 00:57:29,872 --> 00:57:35,615 His internal conflict leads him to act in ways that not even he recognizes as his own. 714 00:57:51,521 --> 00:57:53,409 What have you come to do, Mr Bligh? 715 00:57:53,410 --> 00:57:56,775 To tell you to leave. I don't know how you managed to get around Queenie... 716 00:57:56,851 --> 00:58:00,542 but I'm back now, and I mean to look clean and respectable tenants. 717 00:58:00,543 --> 00:58:03,508 Are you saying we're not respectable? That we are not clean? 718 00:58:03,509 --> 00:58:06,777 And last night? You have infected the whole home with the stench of your kitchen. 719 00:58:06,778 --> 00:58:08,304 Don't insult my wife's cooking! 720 00:58:08,322 --> 00:58:11,759 - You're really exaggerating! - Don't tell me what to do or say in my house! 721 00:58:11,792 --> 00:58:14,007 - I want you all out tonight! - What's going on here? 722 00:58:14,059 --> 00:58:15,754 You can hear it from downstairs. 723 00:58:15,770 --> 00:58:18,518 - I was born here and I don't want niggers! - Blacks? 724 00:58:18,528 --> 00:58:21,632 They have to pack their bags and leave. Actually, even better... 725 00:58:21,651 --> 00:58:24,410 - Dude, what do you think you're doing? - You have no right to be here! 726 00:58:24,420 --> 00:58:26,874 - Stop! Stop! - I want you to leave! 727 00:58:26,884 --> 00:58:30,927 Listen to me, this is my house now, You made it out to me when you left. 728 00:58:30,937 --> 00:58:33,247 You are the one who has no right to be here. 729 00:58:37,466 --> 00:58:38,809 I am very sorry. 730 00:58:39,263 --> 00:58:41,688 It's not easy to deal with with that man, Queenie. 731 00:58:51,618 --> 00:58:54,461 Go get the doctor, please! Right away! 732 00:58:55,899 --> 00:58:57,232 Help me get down. 733 00:58:57,242 --> 00:58:58,706 Help me get down, please! 734 00:59:02,655 --> 00:59:03,940 Help me undress! 735 00:59:03,950 --> 00:59:06,599 The doctor will come and help her. 736 00:59:10,849 --> 00:59:14,559 - But she's pregnant! - Take it away from me. Smash me, quick! 737 00:59:22,637 --> 00:59:25,759 I feel like it's coming! It's about to be born! 738 00:59:25,985 --> 00:59:28,026 I can feel it, it's about to be born. 739 00:59:28,036 --> 00:59:30,060 But the doctor hasn't arrived yet. 740 00:59:33,452 --> 00:59:36,596 It's like in Gone with the Wind, when they deliver the baby. 741 00:59:36,606 --> 00:59:39,108 Is it Rossella or that other one? Oh, I don't remember! 742 00:59:39,118 --> 00:59:42,208 Think it's like the stupid slave from Gone with the Wind! 743 00:59:42,218 --> 00:59:47,071 - I am an educated woman, a teacher... - For the love of God, Hortense, not now! 744 00:59:52,167 --> 00:59:55,170 Get some towels, quick, some towels! 745 01:00:11,315 --> 01:00:13,711 I see your head, Mrs Bligh! 746 01:00:15,943 --> 01:00:17,997 The baby is coming, Mrs Bligh! 747 01:00:18,007 --> 01:00:21,764 Now he has to push! Push, Mrs Bligh, push! 748 01:00:21,774 --> 01:00:25,005 By God, call me Queenie! 749 01:00:25,015 --> 01:00:27,046 Push, Queenie, push! 750 01:00:46,278 --> 01:00:48,309 He is waiting for you. 751 01:00:48,667 --> 01:00:50,028 Hortense... 752 01:00:56,399 --> 01:00:58,230 My perfect darling. 753 01:01:30,917 --> 01:01:33,785 Hey... hey, man, I had nothing to do with it! 754 01:01:35,437 --> 01:01:37,317 I swear to you, I'm not the father! 755 01:01:39,704 --> 01:01:43,556 Damn, this story It has nothing to do with me! 756 01:01:44,342 --> 01:01:46,470 I'm not the only black person in England! 757 01:01:54,301 --> 01:01:55,478 Hortense? 758 01:01:56,133 --> 01:01:57,528 Let me in, will you? 759 01:01:59,660 --> 01:02:01,267 Hortense, please! 760 01:02:02,592 --> 01:02:05,402 Just fixed up I'll send someone for the trunk. 761 01:02:05,412 --> 01:02:06,755 Where are you going? 762 01:02:07,226 --> 01:02:09,040 Wait, no! Hortense? 763 01:02:10,682 --> 01:02:11,746 Hortense! 764 01:02:14,851 --> 01:02:15,967 Hortense! 765 01:02:31,618 --> 01:02:33,467 - She'll get all wet! - Please? 766 01:02:39,158 --> 01:02:40,676 - Hortense? - No! 767 01:02:41,181 --> 01:02:42,229 Hortense! 768 01:02:42,713 --> 01:02:45,434 Leave me! Let me go! 769 01:02:45,934 --> 01:02:49,736 Stop, this is not a slut, this is my wife! 770 01:02:53,314 --> 01:02:54,465 Are you OK? 771 01:02:57,134 --> 01:02:59,482 Only God knows who the father is! 772 01:03:00,058 --> 01:03:03,163 Some idiot Jamaican with a weakness for beautiful women. 773 01:03:03,241 --> 01:03:04,781 But it's not me! 774 01:03:05,779 --> 01:03:08,118 I've only been here six months. 775 01:03:08,803 --> 01:03:11,117 It can't be my son! 776 01:03:13,663 --> 01:03:15,024 Hortense? 777 01:03:15,828 --> 01:03:18,061 It can't be my son. 778 01:03:54,782 --> 01:03:56,662 I met him during the war. 779 01:03:58,619 --> 01:04:00,605 He was in the Royal Air Force, like you. 780 01:04:02,421 --> 01:04:04,252 Once the war was over, he showed up again. 781 01:04:06,508 --> 01:04:08,670 I wish I could tell you that I regret it. 782 01:04:09,622 --> 01:04:11,000 But it's not like that. 783 01:04:12,500 --> 01:04:16,492 You once said I'd let you try feelings you didn't know you had, which was... 784 01:04:16,753 --> 01:04:18,201 a gift, what I had. 785 01:04:20,008 --> 01:04:21,822 This is the gift he gave to me. 786 01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,678 And so I told him about when she had discovered she was pregnant 787 01:04:32,688 --> 01:04:35,465 How he had tried everything to get rid of the child. 788 01:04:35,723 --> 01:04:37,153 Hot baths... 789 01:04:37,363 --> 01:04:39,491 move heavy furniture... 790 01:04:39,579 --> 01:04:41,906 even throwing yourself down the stairs. 791 01:04:42,568 --> 01:04:44,028 But nothing had worked. 792 01:04:44,852 --> 01:04:46,597 Then, one night... 793 01:04:46,771 --> 01:04:49,349 told him that he had heard like a little kick 794 01:04:50,172 --> 01:04:52,579 like a beat in Morse code. 795 01:04:53,575 --> 01:04:57,354 And she understood that the enemy was not inside her, as he had always thought... 796 01:04:57,790 --> 01:05:00,158 but in the outside world. 797 01:05:00,801 --> 01:05:03,592 And that only she could protect him. 798 01:05:11,459 --> 01:05:15,758 And so it was that Queenie's son came into the world in a drawer... 799 01:05:16,395 --> 01:05:18,279 and in one of the low ones. 800 01:05:20,831 --> 01:05:23,118 The beauty of starting life from the bottom 801 01:05:23,778 --> 01:05:26,185 it's that you can only go back up. 802 01:05:38,412 --> 01:05:40,383 But what do you have today? 803 01:05:40,592 --> 01:05:42,501 Friend, today is a special day! 804 01:05:42,511 --> 01:05:44,863 Today is the day I play my cards. 805 01:05:45,030 --> 01:05:47,718 - What are you talking about? - I told you I had a plan, right? 806 01:05:47,719 --> 01:05:50,158 To do what? To sweep the street? 807 01:05:50,168 --> 01:05:54,183 I have something in my hands, something big, my friend. 808 01:05:54,357 --> 01:05:57,573 At home, my grandmother sold his land at a great price, 809 01:05:57,583 --> 01:06:00,120 to one of those very stupid ones Yankee movie stars, right? 810 01:06:00,130 --> 01:06:01,602 He sent the money to me! 811 01:06:02,108 --> 01:06:03,757 - Really? - Yes, man! 812 01:06:03,767 --> 01:06:07,489 It's enough to buy me a house in London. In Finsbury Park, do you know him? 813 01:06:07,499 --> 01:06:10,143 - Of course I know him! - The house is a bit run down... 814 01:06:10,352 --> 01:06:14,282 but, now that the sale has been successful, I want you to fix it, Gilbert. 815 01:06:14,527 --> 01:06:16,166 You can live there, with Hortense. 816 01:06:16,176 --> 01:06:18,680 And we rent the other rooms to people who come from home. 817 01:06:18,690 --> 01:06:21,934 You collect the rent, move on the place and keep it tidy... 818 01:06:21,944 --> 01:06:23,759 and you pay me a small percentage. 819 01:06:26,784 --> 01:06:28,326 But you can do it yourself! 820 01:06:28,336 --> 01:06:32,162 But I have my eye on another house. And I'll do the same, there too! 821 01:06:33,995 --> 01:06:37,368 - And you don't want money right away? - No, man, not until the rent starts. 822 01:06:37,378 --> 01:06:40,524 - And Hortense and I can live there? - Yeah, man, that's the plan! 823 01:06:44,923 --> 01:06:46,181 Why do you do so much... 824 01:06:46,598 --> 01:06:47,644 for me? 825 01:06:48,463 --> 01:06:52,502 Of all those I've known since I've been around arrived, only you cared about me. 826 01:06:52,629 --> 01:06:55,788 You put a roof over my head when I needed it, so... 827 01:06:55,798 --> 01:06:57,678 Now I return the favor. 828 01:06:58,781 --> 01:07:00,229 Do you know what you are? 829 01:07:00,910 --> 01:07:02,113 The chivalry! 830 01:07:02,123 --> 01:07:04,229 That's what you are! 831 01:07:04,503 --> 01:07:06,404 Chivalry, man! 832 01:08:08,378 --> 01:08:12,459 Queenie, about what happened Between you and the child's father, it's my fault. 833 01:08:13,532 --> 01:08:17,596 If I hadn't gone to Brighton, if I had the courage to face you, I would have been here. 834 01:08:19,626 --> 01:08:22,504 All this time I never stopped loving you, Queenie. 835 01:08:25,336 --> 01:08:27,447 If that's what you want, I'll take care of the baby. 836 01:08:27,457 --> 01:08:29,191 I'll be his father. 837 01:08:30,369 --> 01:08:32,462 Or I'll leave. As you prefer. 838 01:08:40,137 --> 01:08:41,602 It's beat up, okay? 839 01:08:42,284 --> 01:08:44,430 So don't expect a palace. 840 01:08:53,782 --> 01:08:55,784 It was empty for a long time. 841 01:08:56,172 --> 01:08:58,091 There was a war, remember. 842 01:09:00,185 --> 01:09:01,539 Hortense? 843 01:09:11,276 --> 01:09:13,544 Well, it's really stuck. 844 01:09:37,574 --> 01:09:38,917 You come. 845 01:09:55,399 --> 01:09:56,446 Is this it? 846 01:10:00,300 --> 01:10:01,332 Only this one? 847 01:10:01,342 --> 01:10:03,960 Don't make hasty judgments, Hortense. 848 01:10:03,970 --> 01:10:07,326 - Give her a chance, right? - It's a nice room, Gilbert. 849 01:10:08,010 --> 01:10:09,806 But do we only have this? 850 01:10:10,242 --> 01:10:11,725 Or are there others? 851 01:10:13,413 --> 01:10:16,902 - Do you like the room? - It's a gorgeous room! 852 01:10:19,730 --> 01:10:21,691 - She's in very bad shape... - What? 853 01:10:21,701 --> 01:10:23,725 Do you get scared by a little work? 854 01:10:24,021 --> 01:10:26,429 There's nothing we can't fix. 855 01:10:26,450 --> 01:10:29,942 A little paint and some carpet... 856 01:10:29,943 --> 01:10:32,604 a table with some chairs here, near the window. 857 01:10:32,723 --> 01:10:34,899 Some cozy tents... 858 01:10:34,958 --> 01:10:36,047 and here... 859 01:10:36,048 --> 01:10:39,077 two armchairs, facing the fireplace. 860 01:10:39,616 --> 01:10:40,673 Yes'. 861 01:10:41,366 --> 01:10:43,289 It will be beautiful, 862 01:10:43,290 --> 01:10:47,150 just how home should be of a teacher, which is what I'll be. 863 01:10:49,724 --> 01:10:52,222 So I ask you again, Gilbert Joseph... 864 01:10:52,361 --> 01:10:54,941 we only have this room... 865 01:10:55,766 --> 01:10:57,177 or are there others? 866 01:10:57,371 --> 01:10:58,445 Oh, no... 867 01:10:59,042 --> 01:11:02,087 there are others, Hortense! Many more! 868 01:11:02,088 --> 01:11:04,566 You come! I'll show them to you! 869 01:11:19,016 --> 01:11:20,197 Is Queenie there? 870 01:11:20,693 --> 01:11:21,869 Not at the moment. 871 01:11:22,647 --> 01:11:25,832 Please tell her we're leaving at the end of the week. 872 01:11:26,137 --> 01:11:27,439 All of us. 873 01:11:28,694 --> 01:11:31,857 I spoke without knowing get the facts right. I was wrong. 874 01:11:36,475 --> 01:11:39,819 She thinks her skin is white Makes her better than me, right? 875 01:11:40,584 --> 01:11:45,303 We both fought a war for a better world. We were allies! 876 01:11:45,432 --> 01:11:49,225 And after what we've been through, she still thinks I'm worthless... 877 01:11:49,226 --> 01:11:51,297 and that she is better than me! 878 01:11:54,309 --> 01:11:55,681 So tell me... 879 01:11:56,244 --> 01:11:58,495 What did we fight for, exactly? 880 01:12:44,422 --> 01:12:45,461 Gilbert... 881 01:12:48,361 --> 01:12:49,403 Gilbert! 882 01:12:54,924 --> 01:12:56,019 Gilbert! 883 01:12:56,861 --> 01:12:57,896 The mice? 884 01:12:58,267 --> 01:12:59,818 It's not mice. 885 01:13:02,796 --> 01:13:04,942 Do you want to come to bed with me? 886 01:13:07,687 --> 01:13:08,898 Say it again? 887 01:13:09,167 --> 01:13:12,535 I said... do you want to sleep in bed with me? 888 01:13:16,474 --> 01:13:19,942 It's freezing cold here, Gilbert Joseph... 889 01:14:28,825 --> 01:14:30,506 It straightens you out right away, huh? 890 01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:36,459 I also managed to have a couple of decent steaks from the butcher. 891 01:14:38,220 --> 01:14:41,428 That black man He just seems ready to leave. 892 01:14:47,983 --> 01:14:50,400 I'll make myself useful in the garden, I think... 893 01:14:51,377 --> 01:14:53,310 - while the weather holds. - Bernard... 894 01:14:54,865 --> 01:14:57,378 he never told me that you were born in this house. 895 01:14:58,387 --> 01:15:00,199 Yet you registered it to me. 896 01:15:02,831 --> 01:15:03,876 I love you. 897 01:15:10,288 --> 01:15:13,262 I was thinking of planting some vegetables, for next year. 898 01:15:14,050 --> 01:15:16,144 He'll be eating solid foods by then, right? 899 01:15:27,677 --> 01:15:29,915 I'll get used to being a father, you'll see. 900 01:15:54,288 --> 01:15:57,739 I haven't had a chance to thank you yet for all the help you have given us. 901 01:15:59,369 --> 01:16:00,830 I put the water to heat. 902 01:16:00,907 --> 01:16:02,191 Do you want to keep it? 903 01:16:08,718 --> 01:16:10,381 Hello beautiful... 904 01:16:10,975 --> 01:16:12,369 hi... 905 01:16:12,415 --> 01:16:14,353 You're really talented, Hortense. 906 01:16:14,354 --> 01:16:17,881 - I've always had a talent with children. - And if she says so... 907 01:16:17,882 --> 01:16:21,325 It's as good as bread, really. It doesn't bother you at all. 908 01:16:21,498 --> 01:16:23,099 You can tell he likes you. 909 01:16:23,300 --> 01:16:24,700 Show it to Gilbert. 910 01:16:27,326 --> 01:16:29,838 So you scare the creature! 911 01:16:31,246 --> 01:16:32,920 Do you already have a name for him? 912 01:16:32,951 --> 01:16:33,998 Michael. 913 01:16:36,841 --> 01:16:38,576 Will you call him Michael? 914 01:16:39,307 --> 01:16:40,582 Do you like it? 915 01:16:40,841 --> 01:16:42,937 It's my favorite name. 916 01:16:44,609 --> 01:16:46,893 Hello little Michael. 917 01:16:47,552 --> 01:16:48,709 Hello... 918 01:16:49,010 --> 01:16:51,253 Well, I'll make some tea. 919 01:17:11,611 --> 01:17:13,228 Better get it now. 920 01:17:16,039 --> 01:17:18,499 I want you to have it, Hortense. 921 01:17:18,994 --> 01:17:21,471 - I can't drink tea while holding... - No... 922 01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:25,179 I'm saying I want you and Gilbert take it with you when you leave. 923 01:17:25,836 --> 01:17:27,376 What are you saying, Queenie? 924 01:17:29,073 --> 01:17:31,450 I want you to raise him as your own son. 925 01:17:32,673 --> 01:17:35,256 I know it's a big ask, but you are good people. 926 01:17:35,438 --> 01:17:38,194 You will take care of him. You will give him... the family he deserves. 927 01:17:38,295 --> 01:17:41,248 - Don't you want your son? - Yes I do! 928 01:17:41,971 --> 01:17:43,709 Of course I want it! 929 01:17:44,701 --> 01:17:47,739 But I want the best for him, and I can't give it to him. 930 01:17:49,561 --> 01:17:51,146 Look, say yes, please... 931 01:17:52,286 --> 01:17:54,283 Please, if that's what you want! 932 01:17:54,300 --> 01:17:57,231 I thought about it... I didn't think about anything else, it's the only solution! 933 01:17:57,332 --> 01:18:00,137 - Queenie? Dear God, what is it? - He wants to give us the baby. 934 01:18:00,138 --> 01:18:03,937 - It's the best thing for him! - You are his mother, you are the best for him! 935 01:18:03,938 --> 01:18:07,493 I'll be there to help you, you know. For God's sake, get up! 936 01:18:07,494 --> 01:18:09,324 You say it now that he's just a newborn! 937 01:18:09,325 --> 01:18:11,921 But what will happen when a well built young man 938 01:18:11,922 --> 01:18:14,700 who thinks for himself and maybe Does he do something not very nice? 939 01:18:14,701 --> 01:18:18,266 - You'll think, "Nigga! You little bastard!" - I could never think that! 940 01:18:18,267 --> 01:18:22,158 You won't be able to do anything about it, Bernard, because you will be angry. 941 01:18:22,174 --> 01:18:25,326 Angry all the time that the neighbors will have avoided you... 942 01:18:25,327 --> 01:18:29,580 for the bricks thrown at the windows, for the giggles behind your back. 943 01:18:30,202 --> 01:18:33,331 He will see the anger in your eyes... 944 01:18:34,329 --> 01:18:36,457 and he will know that he is the cause. 945 01:18:41,609 --> 01:18:45,038 If he's the only black among whites he will never feel accepted. 946 01:18:45,602 --> 01:18:49,233 I want you to walk with your head held high and not that he is humiliated 947 01:18:49,234 --> 01:18:52,615 because people shout insults at him everywhere... 948 01:18:54,297 --> 01:18:56,496 Oh, I beg you, please take it! 949 01:18:56,497 --> 01:18:58,848 Not for me, but for him, please! 950 01:18:58,849 --> 01:19:00,640 You've been through a lot, Queenie. 951 01:19:00,641 --> 01:19:04,259 - You're not the one talking. - God, if you don't help us, who will? 952 01:19:05,015 --> 01:19:06,151 Oh, God... 953 01:19:06,474 --> 01:19:08,720 While Gilbert comforted Queenie... 954 01:19:08,721 --> 01:19:11,752 noted on Bernard's face an expression he knew. 955 01:19:12,313 --> 01:19:13,536 The disgust. 956 01:19:14,326 --> 01:19:16,959 He had seen it too many times to be wrong. 957 01:19:17,860 --> 01:19:19,098 Hortense, come... 958 01:19:19,798 --> 01:19:21,098 give her the baby back. 959 01:19:21,938 --> 01:19:23,275 Come, come. 960 01:19:23,415 --> 01:19:26,459 He knew that expression would haunt him forever... 961 01:19:26,860 --> 01:19:28,880 and yet he fights it. 962 01:19:30,610 --> 01:19:35,514 - How will we feel, knowing that we have turned... - We can't do it, Hortense, how do we do it? 963 01:19:35,515 --> 01:19:38,990 We have our own lives! We already have enough to think about, without this! 964 01:19:38,991 --> 01:19:42,173 - It's not our responsibility! - But if we leave him here alone... 965 01:19:42,174 --> 01:19:44,088 Look, he's not... look, he's not alone! 966 01:19:44,089 --> 01:19:46,802 - Has Queenie! - She's not enough for him! 967 01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:48,567 She knows it! 968 01:19:49,081 --> 01:19:50,837 My mother knew it too. 969 01:19:57,498 --> 01:20:00,061 Give that up what you love most in the world... 970 01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:03,566 I doubt I would have that courage. 971 01:20:27,855 --> 01:20:29,915 This was the Michael I knew. 972 01:20:32,464 --> 01:20:35,246 We were raised together, like brother and sister. 973 01:20:37,460 --> 01:20:39,455 He was reported missing in the war. 974 01:20:40,911 --> 01:20:42,644 I was a little girl at the time. 975 01:20:43,657 --> 01:20:45,739 Now I'm a grown woman... 976 01:20:47,657 --> 01:20:49,423 and I'm old enough to be a mother. 977 01:23:48,193 --> 01:23:51,372 Let's take a look at your diaper, shall we? 978 01:24:00,718 --> 01:24:01,857 Here we are. 979 01:25:01,962 --> 01:25:04,549 TODAY 980 01:25:13,489 --> 01:25:14,623 Hi, dad. 981 01:25:16,346 --> 01:25:17,479 Hello lads. 982 01:25:18,293 --> 01:25:19,786 Come on, get your things. 983 01:25:19,828 --> 01:25:22,382 We were talking about genealogy again. 984 01:25:23,350 --> 01:25:25,503 Is this the house they moved to? 985 01:25:26,697 --> 01:25:28,382 And, a few years later... 986 01:25:28,882 --> 01:25:29,949 they bought it. 987 01:25:31,610 --> 01:25:32,713 And this... 988 01:25:33,422 --> 01:25:35,318 she's your great-grandmother... 989 01:25:35,798 --> 01:25:39,004 Hortense, the woman who raised me. 990 01:25:39,069 --> 01:25:40,163 Who is this? 991 01:25:43,285 --> 01:25:44,351 She... 992 01:25:45,052 --> 01:25:46,505 she's my mother. 993 01:25:54,291 --> 01:25:56,219 Quick! Take your things. 994 01:25:56,590 --> 01:25:59,045 Let's go to the park. Do you want to come with us, dad? 995 01:26:03,470 --> 01:26:04,611 Why not? 996 01:26:15,811 --> 01:26:18,612 www.subsfactory.it and the Pink Team 997 01:26:19,610 --> 01:26:24,074 they give you an appointment see you next story Pink!