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[dramatic music]

[seabirds squeeking]

[dramatic music]

Are you on that site again?

Look at him...

TORTU: How many dates can you go on?

Loads. Don't be such a prude.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary,

only women can be prudes.

Not girls, not me.

Mobile pings.

I've been sacked.

Mobile pings.

Me too.

It's got to be a mistake.

Not according to this.

Sorry, but we need to let you go, yours Michael.

What a shit!

Mobile pings.

TORTU: What am I going to do, Gary?

Clear your desk out as soon as possible.

GARY: Don't worry about it, Tortu.

TORTU: But we've worked here for four years.

Why now?

I have to call my dad.

What am I going to do?

TORTU: But we haven't finished this site yet.

Mobile pings.

'Clear out by the end of the day.'

After all I've done for him.

This is horrible.

Impersonal.

This is bad.

It can't be happening.

I'm this close to paying off my credit card bill.

I'm sending the bastard my own message.

What are you saying?

Fuck you!

I'd work for half pay.

Don't say that.

You're worth more than we get paid now anyway.

It's the Universe trying to tell us something.

Keep your karma crap to yourself.

Just trying to m make light.

[suspenseful music]

[sirens]

[piano music]

'Hey there. This is Adam Allard here.'

'Otherwise known as Tortu.'

'I'm not available right now.'

'Leave me a message.'

Tortu,

it's Gary here. How are you?

I've been worried sick about you.

I've tried to call you loads over the last few months.

Please call me and let me know you're okay.

I've got a new job and work for you.

Call me.

City noises, bus engines.

[street noise]

What your housing situation is

and then we conduct an evaluation,

assessment, you know,

just something to make you feel like someone cares

and we do.

Coffee shop chatter and noise.

Bird chirping. Trees rustling.

[birds chirping]

Gary!

Gary...

Adam.

Tortu.

Been like this since they sacked me.

Didn't you contact the agency like I suggested?

They never came back to me.

Can't you get a job?

Tried.

No job, no money, no rent, no home.

There's loads of work out there.

TORTU: It’s been so awful.

They're not hiring.

Me? Someone like me?

No fixed address.

Why didn't you call me?

No money. No credit on my phone.

The last of my wages went on hotel rooms.

This is dreadful.

Can't stay on the street.

[suspenseful music]

I don't believe this,

we’re the fourth richest country in the world.

No fucker should be homeless.

Door knocking.

TORTU: Come in.

Feeling better?

Yeah...

I am looking for a job, you know, it's just...

without an address, nobody will even look at you.

It's easy to slip through the net.

I will pay you back.

I promise.

Don't bother.

What happened at company?

They sacked everyone except the top table.

TORTU: After four years.

TORTU: It was brutal.

How'd you sack someone nicely?

TORTU: I thought it was illegal.

So’s murder.

GARY: But people still do it.

TORTU: My passport?

You left it at the office.

I tried to contact you to let you know.

Told the shelter I'd lost it.

It's a relief you found it.

It saves me buying another one.

I'll give you it after you get out the bath.

[water splashing]

[emotional music]

Early start?

Yeah, we're working on the servers in the library today.

I've got an audition and a casting commercial today.

That's good.

Exciting. I'm in town later on,

lunch?

Yeah, sure. That'd be great, Derek.

What's up?

Everything all right?

Nothing.

TORTU: Nothing.

It's just...

it's just moving quite fast. That's all.

I know. Great. Eh?

DEREK: We’re so lucky.

You've been really good to me.

It's nothing you don't deserve.

I...

asked for a pay rise the other day.

Don't push your luck, Tortu.

You've only been there six weeks.

You don't wanna piss anyone off.

I need to contribute more.

We agreed. You get the milk,

you get the shop.

That's it.

You need time to get on your feet.

Sure.

You're right.

Let's go have a shower.

[birds chirping]

Phone rings.

LUCAS: Hello?

LUCAS: I don't speak French, sorry.

I would like to speak to Gerrard.

This is Hugo Allard speaking.

I'm afraid I've got some bad news, he

died last week in Paris.

I still don't understand.

This is terrible news.

He was 83.

I have to speak about his pipe.

I don't know why he never called you back.

I know why, stupid old fool.

Look, would you like to speak to me about it?

I need to think.

It was still a shock.

Who are you?

Lucas DuPont.

His son.

Yes...

[soft music]

HUGO: His son...

Where has your old goat of a father been hiding you?

LUCAS: I came here a few weeks ago,

but I've lived in London all my life.

I've taken over my father's property,

and I don’t anything about business.

Your father could have taught you a trick or two.

He always refused to come here.

I'm living in town next to the bar.

HUGO: Come and see me sometime.

I'd love to.

I need to make some friends.

[moaning]

I love you.

Music, chatter.

TORTU: This is a nice surprise.

DEREK: I thought I'd drag you outta that sweaty office.

I'm glad of that office.

Sweaty are not.

How's it going?

It's not the work I'm used to,

but it'll do for now.

I think.

I was thinking we should go on holiday.

I haven't been on holiday since last year

and...

it will do us both good.

Perhaps. Where were you thinking, Blackpool?

What? Blackpool?

Have you been?

Yeah, as a kid. My dad likes it there.

There you go. Your dad's got taste.

He prefers Florida now.

Florida?

I've never been.

I was thinking Spain.

Seven nights all inclusive,

in a place called Tomolinos.

Torremolinos.

My friend went there a few years ago, loved it.

Cruising on the beaches there.

Cruising?

Right.

I'm not monogamous.

Neither am I then.

[soft music]

Right. So, shall I book it?

I dunno.

I can't really afford it right now.

Four hundred pound? It’s a bargain.

It's too much.

I'm sorry.

We'll go later in the year.

Once you've settled in your job.

[birds chirping]

Tango music.

Clapping...

TORTU: This can't be happening again.

What did they say?

Lack of funding.

I tried to change their minds.

I’ll find you something else.

I will.

This is the second job I've lost in four months.

TORTU: It's ridiculous.

Is it my performance?

No. No. It's lack of funding.

[soft music]

Our revels now are ended.

These are actors. I foretold you,

were all spirits and are melted into air,

into thin air

DEREK: and like the baseless fabric of this vision,

DEREK: the cloud cap towers,

DEREK: the gorgeous palace,

DEREK: the solemn temples,

DEREK: the great globe itself.

Yah, All who it inherit shall dissolve.

And like this insubstantial pageant faded.

Leave not a rack behind.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

That was great.

Big audition next week.

TORTU: What's it for?

DEREK: The Tempest. Willy Shakespeare.

A big hero of mine.

I was fired today.

What? No? Really?

[suspenseful music]

What? Just like that?

TORTU: No contract.

TORTU: No union, no rights.

TORTU: It's the same crap I've been through before.

TORTU: I don't think I can take it anymore.

DEREK: Something else will come along.

I'm sick of it.

It's fine. We've got each other.

I'm gonna go to Gary's.

Why? This is your home.

Don’t, go. I won't throw you out.

I can't, I can't take the risk.

I need to take responsibility for myself.

What? Moving in with Gary?

He could just as easily throw you out.

He won't. He's my mate.

I'd feel safer there.

I'm going to France.

I'm gonna stay with my uncle.

I'll get a job there.

You can only stay in France for 90 days now.

You can't work there.

Bloody Brexshit.

I can get you a job here. I'm sure of it.

I can't rely on you.

I need to get away.

Find a new perspective.

Do something radical.

I know it sounds rash and stupid, but I've got to try, at least.

Will your uncle even let you stay?

You've never come out to him.

I've always been too afraid to.

Well, now’s your chance.

My family,

They only sent me as a kid to my uncle's

to keep my granny happy.

Well...

It sous like you've decided what you want to do,

that's something positive, at least.

Thank you. It's exciting.

But if it all goes tits up

you come right back here. Ok!

Don't get in the same situation in France.

Besides...

your French is lousy.

[birds chirping]

Though light streamed down from overhead windows,

the huge room was still gloomy.

[indistinct chatter]

Indiscriminate chatter.

Hugo, why don't you paint anymore?

Anna, I don't have it in me.

Monique is late. We'll carry on without her.

ANNA: Hugo, English, please.

I need to be at a dinner party later.

Today, we are reading. Harold goes underground.

FRENCH: It's a children's book.

Hugo, English.

It's a children's book.

So what?

But it's about a mouse.

Are you not enjoying it?

HUGO: It's not the point. But…

Harold's plight is an

analogy of man's capitalistic imprisonment.

HUGO: I would like something with a little more,

how shall I say?

Meat.

You mean sex.

ANNA: HUGO! English.

Oh, fuck...

Excuse my French. It's fine. It's fine, it's fine.

Have a biscuit?

ANNA: I don't need anymore spice. Thank you.

I'm still waiting for the plumber to finish the job at my home.

Did he say when he finish?

November.

Which year?

[birds chirping]

Gloria, will you read please Page 15?

His keeper rose and went to get a longer stick.

But this gave Harold the chance to get out.

GLORIA: He ran from under the table

and headed straight for the door.

The feet of the keeper,

who had been burned

were just ahead.

STAMP! STAMP!

[dialing]

Finally, the plumber.

Hugo, what's wrong?

[soft music]

Music playing on the radio.

[train passing by]

People might see.

Who cares?

You don't live here.

Neither do you. You live in, Noyers.

[indistinct chatter]

[soft music]

What the fuck!

Pay attention!

Shit!

LUCAS: Fucking hell.

HUGO: Shall I make coffee?

TORTU: Yes, Uncle, thank you.

Then, I couldn't get another one, and

lost my home.

[soft music]

Change is in the air.

Hugo: Lucas?

LUCAS: Yes, that's right.

HUGO: Hugo Allard.

LUCAS: Ah. It's funny bumping into you like this.

HUGO: It’s normal in the arse hole of the world.

HUGO: Stand on any street

corner in this village long enough

and sooner or later

you'd have seen or fucked everyone.

Anyway, I was on the way to give you this.

What is it?

Plans for the pipe work.

Your father was supposed to speak to me himself.

I know, but it's, it's urgent.

We need the pipe through your fields

to water the crops.

There's just no water.

But that pipe was planning by your grandfather's grandfather.

There is no rush.

The field would be long dead

if there was a real problem.

But climate change and the damning of the river

upstream means there's no water.

It's a dire situation.

What's dire

is your father's handsome son harassing me.

Restaurant noise and chatter in French.

[birds chirping]

I don't speak French.

I'm a French citizen.

But you don't speak French.

Tourist. Same in English.

Adam Allard.

My Friends call me Tortu.

That's turtle.

It is.

Lucas Dupont.

Nice to meet you.

So why are you, uh, why are you called Tortu?

When I was a kid, I was slow.

TORTU: Not thick.

TORTU: I just used to take my time.

Used to drive my parents mad.

My dad started calling me and it stuck.

Anyway, I've, uh, I've gotta go back to work.

[water running]

Lucky you. You've got a job.

I've just been begging for

one in every place in the village.

Looking for work.

You can come work for me.

For you?

LUCAS: Yes.

I just inherited my father's estate.

LUCAS: Got loads of land and buildings, and...

you know, I could do with some help,

maintenance, stuff like that.

Maintenance?

I can't pay very much.

How much?

Eight Euros an hour. 20 hours a week.

I don't know anything about maintenance.

Neither do I.

I'm not really allowed to work either.

I'm on a tourist visa.

We could do it, you know, under the table.

TORTU: We've met before.

LUCAS: We have?

TORTU: We nearly ran you over yesterday.

You are er...

Hugo Allard's grandson?

Nephew. My dad was his brother.

I'm Gerrard Dupont’s son.

Who's that?

He was the biggest landowner in Noyers.

Would he mind me working for you?

Him?

He died a few weeks ago.

So, I'm in charge now.

I'm sorry. I'll take the job.

Meet tomorrow. 7:00am outside the town hall.

[water running]

Lucas Dupont.

I'll be working in maintenance for Lucas.

[soft music]

[birds chirping]

LUCAS: This is one of the ruins. We've got to do this up.

TORTU: How long have you had it?

LUCAS: It’s been on my father's estate for about four or five years now.

TORTU: So where does your land end?

LUCAS: The horizon.

TORTU: Don't tell me, more fucking land.

LUCAS: We own three or four pieces of land like this.

TORTU: Don't tell me, all yours too.

Muddy knees?

[laughter]

[soft music]

Come on then, let's get to work.

[soft music]

I've been wanting to do that since you nearly ran me over.

That was my uncle.

He's cute too.

There's something you should know

about my uncle and your father.

I thought you'd be pleased.

I love him...

Uncle.

What?

[soft music]

Thunder and lightening.

TORTU: I know a restaurant nearby.

What's on the agenda today?

Got another house to clear out.

Do we have to?

[birds chirping]

Uncle...

Always you.

And you Lucas...

For saving my life.

Let's get pissed...

I love this song.

♫ Song begins to play.

♫ Take on some danger,

♫ Change the way the wind blew

♫ I'd swallow any idea.

♫ Cheat or steal just for you.

♫ Anything, anything, anything

♫ I’d do for you.

♫ Anything, anything, anything

♫ this much is true

♫ Building bridge or chasing the moon

♫ this is what I’d do.

♫ Cause, anything, anything, anything

♫ I’d do for you?

[soft music]

♫ I've never been this scared

♫ dreading I’d lose out

♫ when you’re near to me I’m thrown about.

♫ You’re tearing at me.

♫ Help me, please.

♫ All those lonely nights

♫ I’ve ached for you

♫ tossing and dreaming while the cold winds blew

♫ answer my pray

♫ say you’ll always be there.

♫ FRENCH: If you want, if you want,

♫ FRENCH: feel good about yourself.

♫ FRENCH: If you want, if you want,

♫ FRENCH: have a little of my warmth

♫ FRENCH: If you want, if you want,

♫ FRENCH: take me into your heart.

♫ FRENCH: If you want, it you want

♫ FRENCH: warm yourself inside me...

I’ve got to do something about these bloody bees.

Bees buzzing.

This is wonderful.

Tell me about it.

All despite my tragic beginnings,

my parents were killed when I was a teenager.

We've got a lot in common then.

How do you mean?

My mother was killed in a car crash

in the village not far from here.

My father was never the same again.

Hit and run in London mine.

That's terrible.

Driver was never found.

Makes us stronger.

TORTU: Do you think?

Yeah,

Look at us now.

We found each other.

[birds chirping]

The water is polluted here

It's all the pesticides the farmers use.

He has plenty of land.

Put the pipe in so that Lucas can irrigate his field. Please.

You will leave. Go back to England.

You'd be helping me.

No.

Your hate is eating you alive.

I was served as a cold dish years ago.

I’ve got to go back to England.

Marry me.

No.

What's wrong with him?

Don't be an ass. He loves you.

TORTU: We’ve gotta talk about this.

LUCAS: There's nothing left to say.

I've got a job back at home.

What about the life we’ve built here.

The last three months.

I can't go through the immigration process.

TORTU: My French is lousy.

We could learn together.

If you my husband, it'd just make it all that easier.

It's what Heteros do.

I don't like the words

they use for what we have.

TORTU: I don't want to live their life.

We’d just be living our own lives.

Nobody else’s.

[rain]

So, this is it then?

[soft music]

My visa will run out.

I don't have a choice.

Please don’t go.

My visa.

I love you.

I haven’t got a choice.

Why haven't you said that before?

[indistinct chatter]

[dramatic music]

Birds singing, wind blowing.

Can't believe three months flashed by.

Did you have a good time?

Wonderful.

Glad to be back?

Not sure.

I've met someone. Charles. He's a, he's a dentist.

A dentist.

GARY: I told you that new company would be a good one.

GARY: You'll be promoted before you know it.

TORTU: Back on track.

I dumped him because I had to come back.

Lucas?

LUCAS: I'm not drinking at the moment.

HUGO: Just a little tipple, no?

LUCAS: Go on then. Just one.

HUGO: Good.

What are we celebrating?

Life. Of course.

That old thing.

You are young. You will find someone else. We always do.

Did you?

No.

I won't find anyone in this god forsaken village.

HUGO: Come with me.

LUCAS: I'm missing Tortu.

I think I'm gonna sell everything.

Oh, pity.

I asked you here to tell

you to put your fucking pipe through my land.

Really?

[dramatic music]

I've let go of my forty year grudge.

HUGO: It's rather thrilling.

I have raging hard ons all the time now.

Thank you.

LUCAS: Thank you.

LUCAS: I just came in from the field.

LUCAS: It’s pissed down all week here.

I don’t what to do to myself.

I miss you horribly.

I'm not sure I'm gonna stay to be honest.

I might move back to Newcastle.

LUCAS: Come with me.

[dramatic music]

LUCAS: Your uncle and I just had a great evening.

LUCAS: He got me drunk.

LUCAS: The chickens miss you.

LUCAS: The sheep miss you. I miss you.

LUCAS: I don't care what you think. I do.

LUCAS: I miss you because I love you.

LUCAS: I love you. I always have and I always will.

[soft music]

LUCAS: There you are.

LUCAS: I've been looking for you everywhere.

TORTU: I know a restaurant nearby.

[birds chirping]

I heard you were back.

Who from?

A great little gay birdie.

How are you?

Good, thanks.

I'm moving to London.

Got an agent and everything.

That's great news.

I heard you were a builder in France.

I was briefly.

Well, I’d better get going. Take care.

[soft music]

LUCAS: I just came in from the field.

LUCAS: It’s pissed down all week here.

LUCAS: I don’t know what to do with myself.

LUCAS: I miss you. Horribly.

LUCAS: I'm not sure I'm gonna stay to be honest.

LUCAS: I might move back to Newcastle.

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music]

[upbeat music]