Original subtitles

Asuncion, Paraguay

(Car engine)

(Group) Run, run, run!

Release her!

Paris, France

(agent) Good morning.

How long are you going to stay here?

Welcome.

Good morning.

(Agent) Welcome.

(Antonio) Thank you.

(Airplane flying in the distance)

(Music)

(Footsteps)

(Oswaldo) Antonio!

(Antonio) Oswaldo!

(Oswaldo) Brother!

(Antonio) Oswaldo.

(Antonio) Oswaldo, thanks for picking me up

(oswaldo) Please, you have a lot of time without coming.

(Antonio) Actually, I did not want to come here anymore.

(Oswaldo) Always, always, we go back to Paris.

(Antonio) Let's go.

(Oswaldo) Let's go.

(Oswaldo) I bought you a Merlot like the ones you like.

(Antonio) Now that you're rich and famous

you must have a limo out there waiting for us.

(Oswaldo) You are also a bit fatter.

(Antonio) It is cold in Paris?

(Oswaldo) No, cool Autumn.

(Antonio) Excuse me.

(Antonio) Very pretty.

(Stewardess) Thank you.

(Jean Claude) (Laughing)

(Antonio) At last, Jean Claude.

Ah, condemned frenchy you were going to let me freeze here.

(Jean Claude) Antoine, my friend,

always grumpy.

Welcome.

It's not so cold.

In Autumn nobody freeze in Paris.

Here.

Let's go.

Tell me...

How did you leave my beautiful Venezuela?

How was your trip?

(Antonio) Cool.

(Music)

Two autumns in Paris

(music)

(Jean Claude) Madame mouton, good afternoon.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

The owner of the property is a friend of your mother.

The price is 3.500, it's not expensive.

(Madame mouton) A room...

A bathroom and a kitchen.

(Antonio) It's okay.

(Madame mouton) Are you satisfied?

(Antonio) It's okay for me.

(Music) (Street ambiance)

(Waiter) Sit down. (Antonio) Thank you.

(Jean Claude) Two cabernet.

(Jean Claude) How do you feel?

(Antonio) I'm really well. Paris is beautiful.

(Jean Claude) You always need it.

(Antonio) But Paris is Paris, always surprises you.

(Jean Claude) That's true.

(Music)

(French teacher) Mirella's scarf.

What is it?

It's masculine or femenine?

But no, the, the, it's masculine.

(Maria Teresa) Excuse me.

Is it okay if I come in?

(French teacher) You have already come in.

(Maria Teresa) Thank you.

(French teacher) A!

As cat.

As that.

E!

As the.

C!

Good, I!

O!

Like a pain.

Do you feel a pain?

U, like up.

(French teacher) Up

below, below.

And up.

It's okay, it's okay, we have finish.

(French teacher) We do the homework.

Go, see you tomorrow

come on, see you tomorrow.

(French teacher) All right.

(Antonio) Hello.

I am Antonio from Venezuela.

What's your name?

(Maria Teresa) Maria Teresa, from Paraguay.

I was born in la asuncion.

(Antonio) May I invite you a cup of coffee?

If you want.

(Maria Teresa) Yes, why not.

But only for a moment, I live far away.

(French teacher) Well.

(Antonio) Let's go.

(Antonio) Did you like this class?

(Maria Teresa) Yes, I like it, I've learned vowels.

(Antonio) Well, it's the beginning, no?

(Music)

(Laughs)

Good afternoon.

(Maria Teresa) Thank you.

(Antonio) Thank you.

(Antonio) Why are you so in hurry?

(Antonio) Look.

Paris...

Is a beautiful city,

romantic.

(Antonio) And well,

anything may happen.

(Laughs)

(Maria Teresa) You are very funny.

(Antonio) Where do you live?

You said that you lived far away.

(Antonio) If you want I can accompany you.

(Maria Teresa) Yes, I live far away, yes.

Like an hour by train.

And the last one leaves at 6 in the afternoon.

(Antonio) Why do you live so far away?

I could not live like this, without enjoying Paris,

being always so far.

(Maria Teresa) Enjoy?

I live so far because I'm in a shelter for political refugees.

You do not know anything about what's going on around you.

(Antonio) And, you know, when you talk like that

you look even more beautiful.

(Maria Teresa) My train is leaving.

(Maria Teresa) Antonio...

It's true,

anything could happen in Paris.

(Music)

(Music)

(Music)

(Oswaldo) If I believed in god, I would ask for Patience.

Really, because your nonsense, I have never understood.

And I'm the artist.

Anyway,

you're the one who's going to be late.

(French teacher) It's going to be a dialogue.

For next week, you are going to do a dialogue between two.

Agree?

(Group) Agree.

(French teacher) Okay, that's it.

Thank you!

(Antonio) Yes.

(Antonio) May I join you for lunch?

(Maria Teresa) Of course.

Excuse me.

(Antonio) Sure.

(Maria Teresa) Looks like you don't have anything to eat.

(Antonio) Of course.

Of course.

Excuse me.

(Antonio) Now I have food.

Now I can join you.

(Maria Teresa) But I'm done.

(Music)

(Antonio) Let's take a walk?

(Maria Teresa) Okay.

(Maria Teresa) I had problems in Paraguay

and some nuns helped me come to Paris,

through a man who also lives here.

But let's not talk about it, it brings bad memories.

And where do you live?

(Antonio) I live nearby.

If you want, I invite you to know my house,

and talk and drink something.

Come on, say yes.

(Maria Teresa) I was not wrong.

You are so bourgeois.

This must be expensive.

How do you pay for it?

(Antonio) Well...

My family helps me.

(Maria Teresa) Your family doesn't know what to do with what it earns.

(Maria Teresa) It's not fair,

here can live several people. It's as big as the pampas.

(Antonio) Do not overreact,

it is just a one bedroom apartment.

(Maria Teresa) Thank you.

(Antonio) Cheers.

(Maria Teresa) Cheers.

(Maria Teresa) I miss him.

My mom.

The neighborhood guys.

My college...

Partners and resistance partners.

(Antonio) Sometimes I also feel lonely too.

But, well.

Here we are celebrating...

This new friendship that accompanies us and joins us.

(Maria Teresa) Bad news...

I missed the last train at 7:00 P.M.

(Antonio) If you want I pay you the taxi.

(Maria Teresa) A taxi from here to the shelter?

No, it would be a fortune, it would be abuse.

I can sleep on the couch.

I borrowed the phone, and I call and say

I'm going to stay with some friends, has passed other times.

(Antonio) Alright.

(Maria Teresa) May I?

(Antonio) I'll give you my bed,

I can lie outside to sleep on the couch.

(Maria Teresa) Thank you.

(Music)

(Car engine)

(Man) Be careful!

(Maria Teresa) Don't look at me, don't touch me.

(Door knocking)

(Antonio) Maria Teresa.

Maria Teresa.

(Antonio) Maria Teresa...

Hey.

(People screaming)

(Man) This is a dictatorship!

(Maria Teresa) My boyfriend Ramon and I

along with some classmates

from the national university of asuncion.

We created a resistance group of students

against the dictatorship of Alfredo stroessner.

That criminal dictator who still governs Paraguay.

(Maria Teresa) Ramon, my love,

what is going to happen to us here?

(Ramon) Stay calm,

we're just disgruntled students. We weren't armed.

(Woman) But if we...

(Ramon) Remember our oath...

If one of us fall,

the others will continue the struggle.

Rest as you can.

(Screams)

(Maria Teresa) Ramon made us promise that no one would talk

and I did not speak, I fulfilled, but he died for me.

(Maria Teresa) Ramon, Ramon, Ramon, Ramon, Ramon!

Ramon!

Ramon!

Ramon!

Ramon!

(Music)

(Antonio) Hey, no!

Stay.

(Maria Teresa) Don't be crazy.

(Antonio) A few days.

(Maria Teresa) Don't get up, I know the way.

Please, forget about my tragedy.

(Antonio) Good night.

♪ (Music) Summer ♪ ♪ is moving away. ♪

♪ (Music) My home ♪ ♪ is far away. ♪

♪ (Music) The cold ♪ ♪ invades my dreams. ♪

♪ (Music) Loneliness ♪ ♪ torments me. ♪

♪ (Music) The leaves ♪ ♪ lose their color. ♪

♪ (Music) Without waiting ♪ ♪ all has changed. ♪

♪ (Music) And this cold ♪ ♪ city, it's not now so bad. ♪

♪ (Music) Seeing your ♪ ♪ eyes I get lost in Paris, ♪

♪ by walking on your streets ♪ ♪ is that I understood, ♪

♪ that the cold does ♪ ♪ not exist if you are here, ♪

♪ next to me (next to me). ♪

♪ Autumn has ♪ ♪ arrived in Paris ♪

♪ and by your side, ♪ ♪ I want to live it. ♪

♪ If love is to be lost ♪

♪ I don't want ♪ ♪ to find myself. ♪

♪ (Music) ♪

♪ (Music) Autumn has ♪ ♪ arrived in Paris, ♪

♪ and by your side, ♪ ♪ I want to live it. ♪

♪ If love is to be lost ♪

♪ I don't want ♪ ♪ to find myself. ♪

♪ If love is to be lost, ♪

♪ I don't want ♪ ♪ to find myself. ♪

♪ If I lost my love... ♪

♪ I want to find you. ♪

(Don Manuel) How are you feeling?

Do you trust that Venezuelan lawyer?

(Maria Teresa) Antonio doesn't meddle in politics.

(Don Manuel) Maria Teresa, the problem...

Is that rich people who have no political conscience

can not understand our struggle...

(Don Manuel) And soon or later...

(Maria Teresa) Don Manuel, I trusted Antonio.

(Pedro) Sure?

You're very young and maybe be cheating.

(Maria Teresa) You're young too, do they deceive you?

(Pedro) Change the subject, your rich friend is here.

(Maria Teresa) Antonio, I didn't expect you.

(Antonio) Who are your friends?

(Maria Teresa) Don Manuel and Pedro, Paraguayans like me.

(Don Manuel) Nice to meet you.

Maria Teresa told us you are a lawyer, so am I.

(Maria Teresa) Pedro is a musician.

(Pedro) Nice to meet you.

I play with a Peruvian group on the street.

We are always at the pigalle Metro station.

(Antonio) Finished?

(Maria Teresa) Yes, they are leaving.

(Antonio) Silence, the rich guy is here,

you let them invade my house and also mock at me.

(Maria Teresa) Yes, you're rich and you haven't lived yet.

(Antonio) And those bums, they have lived.

(Maria Teresa) They are not bums, they are not bums!

Don Manuel is the head of the Paraguayan resistance in Paris.

He helped me to come here and he saved my life.

When some kind nuns pulled me out of those dungeons,

the one you call a bum gave me asylum.

(Antonio) But now you're here with me, Maria Teresa,

you don't have to keep fighting, your suffering is already over.

(Maria Teresa) Over?, how could you possibly say that, Antonio?

People like you don't realize what my people are suffering.

(Antonio) I know very well what happens in the world,

I also care about my country and the injustice...

(Maria Teresa) Come on, Antonio!

One thing is to live what happens in the world.

And another very different, as do the rich like you

when you watch it on television news.

Don't worry,

my comrades aren't going to walk into your apartment again!

Caracas, Venezuela

(man) Look who is there.

That old fool.

When I was a minister, I offered him business, and you know what he replied?

That he was honest and honorable.

You know what is that?

(Man) Goodbye, it was a pleasure.

(Man) Yes?

No problem.

(Music)

(Woman) Excuse me, please.

(Antonio's mother) What's wrong?

Why do you have that face?

You look like you are at a funeral.

What's going on?

(Antonio) Almost.

Here stinks the political stench.

I don't know why you invited me to these things.

(Antonio's mother) What's wrong?

(Antonio's father) You think your mom and I, we're very comfortable here?

Of course not, but public life demands it.

(Antonio) Yes, but you do not see the amount of flattering?

The candidate dreamed of the presidency of the republic

to steal the money as they have all done.

(Antonio's mother) Stop, stop, enough.

(Antonio) Meanwhile, people is suffering.

(Antonio's mother) Antonio, enough.

Enough, Antonio, we'll talk about it later.

Antonio.

(Maria Teresa) Forgive me.

(Antonio) No.

You forgive me.

(Maria Teresa) Yes.

(Music)

(Maria Teresa) Good night.

(Maitre) Welcome, your name?

(Antonio) Antonio Rodriguez.

(Maitre) Yes, please.

(Maria Teresa) Thanks.

(Maitre) Madam.

(Maria Teresa) Thank you.

(Maitre) Sir, wine?

(Antonio) Yes.

(Antonio) You're beautiful.

(Maitre) Sir.

(Maria Teresa) But this dress is expensive.

That money would serve for a fairer cause.

(Antonio) There is no more just cause than to show off your beauty.

(Maria Teresa) But it costs a fortune.

I just accepted it because it's your birthday.

I'll show it to you.

Happy birthday.

(Antonio) Cheers.

(Maria Teresa) It's him, that murderer, it's captain Martinez.

Murderer, henchman, criminal, you killed Ramon!

Let me go! Let me go!

(Martinez) I don't know who you are.

(Maria Teresa) Do not recognize me, coward, murderer,

you have murdered so many people that you do not remember all your crimes.

(Martinez) You don't know what are you saying.

Sir, please.

(Maitre) Madam.

Sir.

(Maria Teresa) What?

(Martinez) I don't know who you are, you are wrong.

Miserable, I should kill you like everyone else in jail.

(Maria Teresa) Antonio! Antonio!

(Maitre) The police! The police! The police!

(Maria Teresa) Antonio.

(Antonio) Maria Teresa.

(Martinez) (Growl)

(Car engine)

(Antonio) Antonio Rodriguez.

Please.

(Antonio) Ambassador?

Yes.

Of course.

Thank you very much, ambassador.

The ambassador is going to intercede.

(Jean Claude) Thank you.

Very well.

Thank you.

Officer.

That's all.

Thank you very much.

(Jean Claude) Antoine...

It's done.

The owner of the restaurant has been in solidarity with us

he's not filing charges.

(Maria Teresa) Thank you.

(Jean Claude) You have to pay attention, this can not happen again,

we are going to get into a problem.

(Maria Teresa) I don't even buy you a gift.

I'm sorry, it was my fault,

I just wanted you to have a happy birthday.

(Antonio) Hey.

If I'm with you, I'm glad.

Besides...

The night is barely starting.

(Maria Teresa) You were very brave, I'm so proud of you.

(Antonio) See?

That's my best birthday present.

(Maria Teresa) Cheers.

(Antonio) Cheers.

(Maria Teresa) Happy birthday.

(Woman) The ambassador will see you, come in.

(Woman) Just you.

(Antonio) Ambassador.

(Ambassador) I've known your family for years,

that's why advocate for you.

(Antonio) Dr. Espinoza...

The diplomatic world should not have a murderer

like that among its officials.

(Ambassador) Each country accredits those who believe are necessary

for their interests.

(Antonio) You are the ambassador of a Democratic and free country,

that captain Martinez, what he is, is a murderer.

(Ambassador) You should thank the ambassador of Paraguay

for accessing my request,

so that the military attaché martínez would not file any charges.

(Antonio) Ambassador...

In the anteroom is my girlfriend Maria Teresa,

who would gladly like to extend her hand in

gratitude to all that you have done for us.

(Ambassador) What I did, I did just for you,

I'm not interested in meeting that girl.

(Ambassador) Wait.

Avoid meeting dangerous women.

(Antonio) Ambassador.

(Reporter) We are located in front of the embassy of Paraguay,

where a group of protesters

we observe several people from various backgrounds

who vigorously express their need for freedom

to the government of president stroessner.

(Reporter) Now we see the people who carry chains

and who seem to want to chain themselves to the door.

We are approaching to a woman...

Who seems to be attached.

(Antonio) Fuck, this is incredible.

(Maria Teresa) I want to draw attention to the situation we live in Paraguay

and how this regime tortures us.

(Reporter) Thank you madam, we see demonstrators

asking for freedom.

(Pedro) Must be going around the world and

in Paraguay, stroessner must be cursing us.

(Antonio) Shit, Maria Teresa, you don't stop getting in trouble.

And still with that big piece of crap.

(Maria Teresa) We were manifesting. Antonio: Come in.

And you, leave us alone!

(Maria Teresa) Don't bother us, what's wrong with you!

(Antonio) Maria Teresa.

Maria Teresa.

(Door closing)

(Women coughing)

(Music)

(French teacher) We're off.

And come on, how, please.

And if we say, please madame. Come on.

(French teacher) We're off.

Alright.

We're off.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're off.

(Antonio) Good morning.

(Antonio) I don't want to lose you, Maria Teresa.

(Maria Teresa) You'll never lose me.

(Music)

(Antonio) Madame mouton, good morning, come in please.

(Madame mouton) Good morning, this lady?, who is she?

Is she living here?

(Antonio) Yes, madam mouton, she's my fiancé, Maria Teresa.

Do you want drink coffee?

(Madame mouton) No, thank you.

This lady is not in the lease agreement,

which I signed with your mother.

(Oswaldo) Again in your the memories, Antonio, it seems that you were dreaming.

(Pedro) It is not the time to return to Paraguay.

(Man) We're not doing anything here.

(Pedro) What do you mean, we don't do anything?

And all the struggles we make every day?

(Woman) How to do to sleep at night?

(Pedro) It's not that I sleep at night, or I don't sleep at night.

(Man) It's very easy to say we're doing a lot.

(Soldier) Wake up, motherfucker.

(Maria Teresa) (Screaming)

(Group) Let her go, let her go, let her go!

(Maria Teresa) (Screaming)

(Maria Teresa) (Screaming)

(Soldier) Captain Martinez, here is another one of the detainees.

(Maria Teresa) (Gasping)

(Martinez) What's your name?

(Maria Teresa) (Gasping)

(Maria Teresa) (Sobbing)

(Martinez) I repeat, what's your name?

(Maria Teresa) (Sobbing)

(Martinez) Your name, what is it?, what's your name?

Who runs this subversive newspaper crap?

Who's running this shit?

Who's running this shit? Who's running this shit?

Who?

(Maria Teresa) (Coughing)

(Martinez) It will ignite.

Forget about your little boyfriend.

Do what you want with this fucking whore.

(Don Manuel) Calm down, guys.

Our bring is to get the resources for our comrades who fight in Paraguay.

Never forget that responsibility.

(Antonio) Don Manuel...

Allow me a few minutes, please.

(Pedro) Guys,

it's not that I want to keep fighting with you. It is not a question of...

(Don Manuel) Excuse us.

We were making a lot of noise.

(Antonio) I just want to tell you...

That Maria Teresa does not have to go back to asuncion.

I don't want her to go through everything she lived there, Don Manuel.

(Don Manuel) It's premature our return to Paraguay.

In the case of Maria Teresa more.

(Antonio) Here we are happy.

She does not have to suffer more.

(Don Manuel) I know you love her.

I'm not going to ask her to return to asuncion.

(Maria Teresa) Is something wrong? Any inconvenience?

(Don Manuel) No, no, no.

(Phone ringing)

(Phone ringing)

(Phone ringing)

(Antonio) Blessing, mother.

(Antonio's mother) Son, god bless you.

You look handsome.

Sit down.

Who's that young woman who lives in your apartment?

(Antonio) Always to the point, right?

That old madame mouton doesn't waste any time.

Old gossip.

(Antonio's mother) Don't mess with madame mouton,

she's a good friend.

And do not change the subject, do not play crazy.

Who's that girl?

(Antonio) She's just a friend, am I entitled?

(Antonio's mother) Of course.

I wish it was just that.

But the references that the ambassador gave me were other.

Son...

Don't get involved with dangerous women.

(Antonio) That's why you came from Rome?

That's why you left the international conference,

for some gossip?

(Antonio's mother) No.

I'm here...

Because you're my beloved son.

I wanted to see you.

But that doesn't mean

that I'm here

to warn you about some mistakes you can make.

And also to remind you why you are here.

Have you enrolled in the pg-dip course at the university of aix-en-provence?

(Antonio) I sent the papers,

but they still don't give me an answer.

(Antonio's mother) I'm getting heavy, I know.

I look like a nagging mother, right?

What do you say we toast with a nice wine and you tell me? Yes?

Yes?

(Maria Teresa) Anything bad?

(Antonio) Do you want to go with me to aix?

(Maria Teresa) I'd love to, we'd pass through avignon.

Knowing the riviera wouldn't be bad at all.

(Antonio) It's more than that.

I was accepted at the university of aix-en-provence.

(Maria Teresa) An university?

I didn't know that... why you didn't tell me anything?

(Antonio) Because I wasn't sure I'd be accepted.

And I feared that when the time came, you would not want to go with me.

Would you move in with me to aix?

(Maria Teresa) Move? Live there? No.

No, and my struggle?, I swore an oath, Antonio, you know.

(Antonio) I do not ask you to forget, Maria Teresa.

I ask you to live the present.

That you dare to conquer a new future.

To be truly reborn right.

(Maria Teresa) My only truth is the freedom of Paraguay.

(Nun) Daughter.

(Soldier) (Laughing)

(Maria Teresa) (Crying)

(Antonio) Stop!

It's her, it's Maria Teresa!

(Oswaldo) Are you crazy, bro?

What do you mean, Maria Teresa? You know it can't be her.

(Antonio) It's true, you're right.

(Oswaldo) Don't screw around, Antonio, you'll make me crash

and we're not going to arrive at the conference.

(Antonio) You're right, it can't be her.

Let's go, let's go.

(Oswaldo) 25 years have passed.

(Maria Teresa) It's good, no?

(Antonio) Mine is vanilla, and yours? Maria Teresa: Mine too.

(Antonio) It's delicious.

(Maria Teresa) What are they doing?

(Antonio) Maria Teresa, no! Come here.

(Maria Teresa) Murders!

I'm going to cut your throat!

I'm going to cut your throat!

Leave him!

(Maria Teresa) It's just a poor tramp, why was he beaten?

(Antonio) Nothing, pure evil.

Evil is not exclusive to our countries, that's the world is today, maría Teresa.

(Maria Teresa) Then we have to change the world, Antonio.

(Antonio) I was petrified, frozen.

(Maria Teresa) No, no, do not worry about that.

Those things happen.

When you defended me from captain Martinez, you were very brave.

(Antonio) What happened to me?

(Maria Teresa) Maybe you have to learn...

That injustice must be faced in all cases,

not only when it comes to your loved ones.

Let's go.

(Antonio) Let's go.

(Rector) You're the only stranger here, so the only Latin American.

Tell me a question. Why did you choose to study this specialization?

(Antonio) For the advisers of the country,

we need people

who are prepared.

(Rector) Very good.

That's all.

(Antonio) Thank you.

(Rector) Yesterday's party was very nice.

But remember especially for the next case that we will have

the exercise of the rights of man and citizens.

Good weekend, and it's all.

(Alex) Venezuelan...

(Antonio) Yes?

(Alex) You are not the only one, who is not from here.

From marseilles, I am from Paris.

Alexander.

(Antonio) My name is Antonio Rodriguez.

(Alex) If you want we can drink a few drinks tonight.

(Antonio) Yes?

(Alex) And the girls will be nice.

(Antonio) Yes.

(Maria Teresa) Honey, how'd it go?

(Antonio) Good.

(Antonio) Perfectly.

(Maria Teresa) Yes?

(Antonio) I'll give you the details.

I commented that we have an invitation to a party tonight.

(Maria Teresa) Oh, no!, please, I'm not good at nightlife.

My life is another, my commitments are others.

(Antonio) We'll talk about that later.

(Alex) Tomorrow, we're going to the beach.

(Alex) To the south of France,

there are very nice cities, there are cannes and nice.

Marseille, Monaco, then Italy.

Viva la France.

(Alex) Only in France.

(Oswaldo) Very nice.

(Antonio) What a cold water.

(Oswaldo) No!

(Alexandre) Of course.

(Alex) Antonio Rodriguez.

(Antonio) Yes?

(Oswaldo) From Caracas, right?

(Antonio) Sure, I thought I was the only Venezuelan here.

(Oswaldo) The second one, brother, nice to meet you.

Oswaldo, I study at the school of fine arts.

(Antonio) How are you? A pleasure.

Antonio, study at the faculty of law.

(Alex) The law.

(Oswaldo) The finger?

(Antonio) No, no, no, the law.

Oh, well. I'm staying here in the negrecoste.

(Oswaldo) Holy shit!

What a cold water, I say now. It must cost a fortune.

(Antonio) Well, I'm looking for an apartment for rent, if you know one.

(Oswaldo) Yes, there a lot.

(Alex) You can stay at my place, whenever you want.

(Antonio) Thank you.

(Oswaldo) Hey, what happened?

Go ahead. Listen, French girls love Venezuelans, brother.

(Antonio) Someone is waiting for me.

(Alex) Come on, I don't understand Spanish.

(Oswaldo) Alex, you're going to learn Spanish.

(Alex) Let's eat something.

(Antonio) Yes.

(Oswaldo) Sure.

(Oswaldo) It was easier to get the onoto than the leaves.

(Antonio) Oh yes.

(Antonio) They say that here in aix, it's not cold in winter, and it's snowing.

Fucking cold!

(Oswaldo) The most important thing is that we find all the ingredients.

It took a while, but here they are.

Do you know how to make hallacas, Maria tere?

(Maria Teresa) No, what's that?

(Antonio) The typical Venezuelan Christmas dish.

(Oswaldo) Don't worry, I'm an expert at making them.

And since it's your first time, we're going to give you the most fun.

Tie them up.

What's the typical Paraguayan dish?

(Maria Teresa) None.

(Oswaldo) No?

(Maria Teresa) That fucking dictator stole our Christmas.

We are here preparing food while in Asunción

my mom shouldn't have or what to eat.

(Oswaldo) Hey, well let's do one thing, help me wash the leaves. Yes?

(Maria Teresa) With soap?

(Oswaldo) Do you eat soap?

No, no soap, water, water.

(Antonio) One moment, please.

It is 12 and the son of god was born, is in his crib.

And, I'd like to get ahead of the gift-giving, if you'll let me?

(Maria Teresa) Sure.

(Antonio) This present is for you, Maria Teresa.

(Antonio) This brilliant symbolizes our love.

With your permission.

And as that stone is

our love,

eternal,

magical.

(Oswaldo) He's romantic, he's romantic, come on,

let's celebrate ourselves, now yes, come on. Not bad.

(Antonio) Well, you can eat.

Don Manuel, yes, hi, it's me.

I've got news and I want you to be the first person to know.

The dictator is gone, Maria Teresa, is gone.

(Maria Teresa) It's Don Manuel, the dictatorship fell.

Stroessner left the power and ran away to Brazil.

Don't stop calling, Don Manuel.

And if I have to go to Paris, I'll be there.

(Street ambiance)

(Music)

(Antonio) Do you plan to go back to Asunción?

I don't want to lose you, Maria Teresa.

(Maria Teresa) No, no, I have nothing to do in Paraguay.

I'll bring my mother.

They're going to hide all the horrors.

I can finally know where Ramon's body was buried.

(Antonio) You always avoid talking to me about Ramon.

You loved him very much, didn't you?

(Maria Teresa) What a commitment to always talk about Ramon.

You seem to be jealous of a ghost.

Ramon's dead he was murdered!

(Antonio) 35 years of Paraguayan dictatorship

and only now discover the archives of terror.

(Oswaldo) After all these years,

what happened to those murdering flunkies?

At first, they were imprisoned,

then pardoned and fled the country.

But they have no longer where to hide.

(Oswaldo) The world has changed.

(Antonio) Universal justice.

(TV news)

(Antonio) What the fuck is going on in Venezuela?

It's a mess and they're killing people.

No, I need to call my family.

(Antonio) Damn, the lines are impossible.

(Maria Teresa) You have to stay calm, you are new to this,

you will see worse things.

(Ambassador) Yes?

(Antonio) Ambassador, how are you? Antonio rodríguez speaking.

(Ambassador) How are you, Antonio?

Well, yes, there are any dead.

Yes, misfit people.

Where your family lives nothing happening.

(Antonio) What the fuck is going on with this ambassador?

He is seeing that they are killing people and still tells me to remain calm.

(Maria Teresa) The strange thing is that you in Venezuela

do not live a dictatorship like us in Paraguay.

(Antonio) Anyway,

we live the dictatorship of us those of the upper class to the poor.

(Maria Teresa) If you really believe what you just said?

Then we're finally on the same side.

I'm going to Paris to meet my people.

(Antonio) Yes, I accompany you.

There we always know what's going on in the world.

I can finally find out what's going on in Caracas.

(Maria Teresa) Good afternoon, fellows.

(Pedro) Good afternoon, Maria Teresa.

(Maria Teresa) How are things going?

(Pedro) Here we are planning everything.

Be sure, nothing's going to happen.

We have to keep fighting, wherever we are.

For our family.

For you, for me, for everything.

Of course.

(Don Manuel) Maria Teresa...

The companions return to Paraguay.

Do you need anything? Any paperwork?

Anything?

(Maria Teresa) Yes, just two things.

Deliver this letter to my mom.

And, locate the place where Ramon's body is buried.

Someday I'm going to come back too

and I'd like to honor his grave.

(Don Manuel) Girls...

Boys...

Now's the time.

Paris is crowded with tourists from all over the world.

We must organize,

with great intelligence, a mobilization.

May all people find out, be aware,

and join us in our struggle,

our struggle for full freedom,

our struggle for real, true democracy.

(Pedro) Guys...

This is the last time here for you.

The companions who return to our homeland.

(Maria Teresa) Come back...

But don't be fooled.

The dictatorship is still alive.

They are opening the prisons, so the world believes that they are democrats.

But they remain the same tyrants.

(Companion) That's right.

(Maria Teresa) Be careful.

(Companion) That's right.

(Pedro) That's right.

(Group) Get the assassins out! Get the assassins out!

Get the assassins out! Get the assassins out!

Get the assassins out! The new ones are the same assassins!

The new ones are the same assassins!

The new ones are the same assassins!

The new ones are the same assassins!

The new ones are the same assassins!

(Ramon) Sister.

Maria Teresa?

In Paris?

A year?

But does she have any contact there?

Thank you, thank you very much.

(Alex) Listen, guys,

the Germans are moving unarmed from east to west.

(Girl) Hello. Longtime.

(Oswaldo) It's magnificent.

(Alex) Let's eat.

(Maria Teresa) No, no, no, no!, we have to wait for Antonio.

We have to wait for him.

(Oswaldo) Where were you? We wait an hour for you.

(Maria Teresa) Antonio, freedom!

(Antonio) Yes, baby, freedom.

(Maria Teresa) Freedom, Antonio. The world is changing and for the better.

The Berlin wall has finally fallen.

(Alex) The cold war is over.

(Girl) It was amazing.

(Oswaldo) It's gone for the cold war, bro.

They've knocked down the wall!

(Girl) At last the two germanys will unite.

(Antonio) On the streets, people don't talk about anything else.

(Maria Teresa) The wall of shame has already fallen.

At last we will enjoy true freedom in Paraguay.

(Oswaldo) Ready and cheers!

(Alex) It's a good wine.

(Girl) Was he the one who bought it?

(Alex) I don't know.

Very good.

(Girl) What's that?

(Alex) It's cheese. Do you want?

(Maria Teresa) Excuse us.

(Oswaldo) But not that.

(Maria Teresa) Look how cute.

(Antonio) Yes.

(Maria Teresa) Good evening.

(Fortune teller) Come here, girl, get closer.

I want to read you the good adventure.

Do not be afraid.

And call your lover, I know he's over there.

For a few coins,

I'm going to read your fortune.

You both need it.

(Fortune teller) Girl, take a card.

(Fortune teller) And you, another.

(Antonio) Do we have to do this?

(Fortune teller) You love each other, and a lot.

(Fortune teller) The cards don't lie.

And you're going to be together forever.

But in another life.

(Antonio) Excuse me, what do you mean by the another...

(Maria Teresa) The lady spoke, Antonio.

See? Our love is true, the cards say.

(Antonio) Thank you.

(Music)

(Phone ringing)

(Phone ringing)

(Phone ringing)

(Phone ringing)

(Phone ringing)

(Phone ringing)

(Maria Teresa) Yes, good evening.

Don Manuel...

I brought you with my thought.

I fell asleep and dreamed of Paraguay.

Are you sure, Don Manuel?

And how do you know?

(Antonio) Maria Teresa?

(Antonio) Baby?

(Antonio) Baby.

Did something happen?

(Maria Teresa) Things from Paraguay.

(Antonio) But baby, you've cried.

(Maria Teresa) A little bit.

You know...

The usual problems.

The encounter with my dreams.

My commitments,

my oaths.

(Antonio) I'm going to take a bath and go out, walk for a while.

(Maria Teresa) Better not, not tonight.

I want to be with you, without seeing anyone else.

I'm going to Paris early tomorrow.

(Antonio) Suddenly?

But something's wrong?

(Maria Teresa) They need me for a special case.

Come...

Love me.

(Nun) You leave for Paris tonight.

It is necessary.

(Maria Teresa) But my mom?

(Nun) Come here.

(Maria's mom) My baby.

(Maria Teresa) Forgive me, mom.

Forgive me.

Sorry for all I did to you.

(Maria's mom) There's nothing to forgive, daughter.

Nothing.

Always, always, I'll give you the reason.

You've been very brave.

I have nothing to forgive you for.

Aix en provence, France

(Antonio) Good night.

I'll be waiting for you.

(Antonio) Hey!

(Maria Teresa) My beloved Antonio...

I think of you, even though I know it's all over,

I write this farewell letter,

even when saying goodbye is a dilemma that I am not yet deciphered.

Maybe like a flower that grows and becomes beautiful but it wilts in summer.

Yes,

the summer of our love.

And while saying goodbye, cause me pain,

not saying it would be a sin.

Because the worm grows

and becomes a butterfly of a thousand colors,

but in the end, it dies.

I feel like dying by saying goodbye.

Although I would like to write a poem full of colors in the middle of spring,

love is pain and weeping,

knowing that I will never see you again,

but no one can stop me from imagining you,

I say goodbye in this letter,

though I mean I love you.

(Antonio) At that moment, many things have changed.

All was happening for her to teach me.

(Oswaldo) Are you sure?

You guys argued?

Did she leave you?

(Oswaldo) She left this letter and went away.

(Alex) It's impossible.

The love between you is very great.

Let's calm down.

(Antonio) She's going to Paraguay, Alexander.

But I have to do something.

I can't keep my arms crossed.

I have to do something.

(Oswaldo) Let's go.

(Antonio) I do not know where they are living.

(Oswaldo) And if we go to the police?

Those Paraguayans are all communists,

they probably have them signed.

It's dangerous,

not knowing if they've committed any crime.

(Oswaldo) Take it easy. Look...

I really with is hungry and anguish of shit, I can't think.

Let's eat?

Paris, France

(Alex) Hello.

Good afternoon.

(Oswaldo) Hey, good afternoon!

(Police) Good afternoon.

(Alex) Hello, sir, we're looking for a girl.

Paraguayan, she's a refugee here.

Please, her name is Maria Teresa.

(Police) We do not have permission.

(Alex) Sir, please.

We're looking for a whole day.

Sir, please.

(Police) I'm sorry.

Sir, she's Paraguayan.

I'm sorry.

(Alex) Sir, is she here?

Sir.

Madam, hello.

Madam, hello, excuse me.

Madam.

(Oswaldo) Alex, come on.

(Oswaldo) I've already imagined this crap.

This asshole Algerian,

didn't cost anything to tell us something.

(Antonio) The musician.

The musician friend of Maria Teresa.

He must know where she is!

(Alex) Where is this musician?

(Antonio) In a subway station.

(Oswaldo) Which subway station, Paris has millions subway station.

Pigalle.

Metro station pigalle.

(Alex) Are you sure?

(Antonio) Yes.

(Oswaldo) Let's go.

♪ (Musicians) (Singing) I walk ♪ ♪ away from you, it's because I ♪ ♪ understood, ♪

♪ that I am a gray cloud ♪ ♪ that clouds your path, ♪

♪ I'm going to leave... ♪

(Oswaldo) This is Alexander!, it's there!

(Antonio) It's him, oswaldo, that's him, Alexander.

Stop over there!

Where is she?

Where is she?

(Pedro) I do not know.

(Oswaldo) You know, or you want us to give you a few blows.

(Pedro) No, no, no, no, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

(Antonio) Look, Pedro, we have nothing against you.

But where is Maria Teresa?

Where is she?

(Pedro) I don't know.

(Alex) Speak!

(Pedro) I don't know, I don't know.

But, I know who does.

I know who does.

(Antonio) Where are they?

Where is she?

Where is she?

(Don Manuel) Returned to asuncion.

(Antonio) You promised me you weren't going to let her go back to Paraguay.

(Don Manuel) I fulfilled.

Maria Teresa wanted to return.

(Antonio) She had it all.

All with me.

We wanted to have a child.

Why, why, why did she do it?

(Don Manuel) For many reasons.

All important.

For the love of his homeland.

Love that grew in exile.

She wanted to go back to fighting for freedom.

Be part of the consolidation of democracy.

Fight against the murderers who are still ruling.

You must never forget...

What she lived and why she was in Paris.

If you love her...

You must respect her decision.

(Antonio) No, I have to go to Paraguay.

I have to be with her.

(Don Manuel) I suggest you don't. (Antonio) I have to fight with her.

You don't understand, Don Manuel, for me, Maria Teresa...

Maria Teresa taught me everything.

(Don Manuel) You'd suffer a lot more.

Antonio.

Ramon, her boyfriend is alive.

Now she's with him.

She knew you would follow her and...

She wrote you this note.

With you I dreamed again.

I will always love you.

Antonio, hey, Antonio.

(Oswaldo) Well, Antonio, we're here.

Everything's going to be fine.

(Man) Ladies and gentlemen.

We introduce you to mister Antonio Rodriguez.

Our guest today needs no introduction.

(Antonio) Thank you a lot for the introduction.

Thank you very much.

First of all, I would like to thank the president

of the organization for your invitation.

And also to the delegates of the member countries

at the conference.

Today I want to talk about

the human rights and democracy in the countries

of Latin America.

A few years ago, a refugee

who had an extraordinary light in her heart,

inspired me to this struggle.

What will end the day

when we end with indifference

and hypocrisy in the world.

(Maria Teresa) Excuse me,

may I come in?

(Antonio) I met her in Autumn like the one we see today.

I'll tell you her story,

that it's my story too.

A story marked by each of the dead leaves falling in Autumn.

Paris always reminds me of her name

her name?

Her name?

Maria Teresa.

When the United Nations organization was founded,

the development of human rights really began...

(Subtitles) Carlos Daniel Leon