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While the wolf isn't there.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.

During the splendor and glory of the Roman Empire a child was born.

Now, this child was something special.

He was going to shake the foundations of that civilization as no one had ever done before.

Glory wasn't enough for the empire.

They lived in corruption and immorality.

What they didn't know is that in the forests of a distant rebel province

the poison that could kill them was brewing.

Every time they attacked that little village,

each time, this boy pleaded with his father to take him to fight.

The father knew that the right time was yet to come.

Finally, at the end of some battle,

the father, still hot blooded, takes his son from the feet

and holding him above the pyre

in which the bodies of the fallen were burning

makes him swear, makes him swear,

that one day he would destroy Rome.

Time passed, the child grew up,

the right time came.

He knew it wasn't going to be easy, that he would have to cross the darker paths.

He took his humble army and marched on elephants to Rome.

Arriving at the majestic Alps

his weak, hungry generals,

claimed that it would be impossible to cross.

Day after day they lost lives from famine, disease, cold.

And in that moment, that very moment,

when he thought that nobody believed in him anymore,

the man, becoming a child again,

began to doubt.

And then?

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.

I'll find a way, else I'll make one.

That's what the great Hannibal told his soldiers,

just for the sake of fulfilling his oath.

Lady, gentleman,

I also took an oath.

That same oath: find the way, or make one

so that these young people correct their path.

These are the only keys to the place.

Single entry.

Single exit.

What you did is very serious, but you came to the right place.

Ricardo. Welcome to Hell.

-Howdy? Hi, I'm Duck. -Alex.

-Have you seen the girls? -Just one.

It's difficult to see them.

They live by the other building.

Did you bring more cigars, or was the one you were going to light the only one?

A pack.

-Did you steal it from your dad? -What did you do to be brought here?

You are not here for nothing.

So?

I crashed my dad's car.

They wouldn't have brought you just for that.

He is lying.

What are you staring at?

Hey, did you hear?

You also heard it. Right?

They put me into that thing.

-He's a rat! -He always spies on us.

No, don't do it.

Don't interfere. He must die.

Leave him alone.

Mind your own business.

Come on, spank the damn shaggy rat.

Everyone to his bed.

We're doomed.

Someone else?

The others go to your bedroom.

What, didn't you hear?

Rat!

Look, son, the thing is very simple:

That boy sometimes gets confused and misconstrues the facts.

I don't think that being your first night here

you had the courage to participate in that stupid thing.

Is it so?

Now I want you to tell me who started all this.

So?

I think that after all I was wrong on my first impression of you.

I should have imagined it.

Now make a row.

Goodnight.

-I thought you were going to snitch. -Silence.

Assembled.

All present.

All present, except Jorge, Patricio, Rub�n, and the new one.

You may join.

All right.

Do you know what day is today?

Well, I'm going to tell you what day is today.

Who is she?

Today is just another day.

Don't even dream of it.

One more day here, in the middle of nowhere.

What's her name?

Where there's only you lot and me.

Don't.

This place has clear rules.

And the one who breaks them does so with full awareness of what he's doing.

Dismissed.

What have you got there?

-Nothing. -Nothing?

I saw you picking up no nothing.

Stop picking up garbage.

What does the paper say?

Nothing.

Don't tell me "nothing". Bring it here.

Daniela gave it to him. I have the right to know.

What does the paper say?

Cute pants, handsome.

She's mine. If you approach her or smile to her on our way back, I'll kill you.

She's not yours. And she does not even know who you are.

Of course she knows who I am.

Besides, it wasn't his fault that she fancied him.

-I don't fancy her. -He does not fancy her�

Someone else fancies her.

Isn't it so?

He is watching us.

We should spank him today again.

All night long, spank the hairy rat.

No. It's best not to get into trouble.

You are the worst chicken I ever met in my life.

Scaredy chicken.

There are many rumors, that's why.

Come on, there you go again.

Some people tried to escape.

Do you want to know what he does to them?

No, I don't.

You won't like to know what he does to them.

Yes, do mock. It seems that it's true.

Ann and Iesca escaped.

A few girls have managed to leave.

But do you know how many boys?

-Zero. -One.

They say that the guy was as hard as the walls of this place.

He wouldn't bend on anything.

There was no punishment to made him give up.

Punishments were hard, and he endured them all.

Because he liked pain.

His face was the face of the devil himself.

It seems that every blow for him was like woman's caresses.

Until one day he got bored, he just got bored, and he didn't like it anymore.

Like you're boring us now.

That day he went to the bedroom, grabbed his suitcase, and with everyone watching,

the students, the nuns, the guards, and the Mustache,

he walked out through the main gate.

And never returned.

It's the stupidest story I've ever heard in my life.

Even if they wanted to stop him, they couldn't.

-And them girls? -Who?

The girls.

How did they get out?

They... just vanished.

I swear I don't understand how you do it.

It's black magic, I've checked everything.

Check this out.

-Is it useful? -Hey!

We take advantage of the generosity of our sponsors

to announce the World Fair of Inventions,

that you can't miss

A wonderful world full of innovations...

What's "innovations"?

Ingenious inventions that will make you stay awake 24 hours a day.

How I wish I could go to the world's fair of inventions!

Yes, me too.

So let's go.

Come on, we must go there. We must escape.

Good luck with that!

I hate this place.

What about that story, the story of the girls who ran away?

Ricky's always talking nonsense, making things up.

Forget it. We're never going anywhere.

Gabby Jorge!

I got it well?

Now it's your face.

-Cover me. -Hey! Where are you going?

Please, don't make a noise. I have to talk to you.

You can't be here.

Where are they?

They're all outside waiting.

Hey, I need to ask you something.

Where is everybody?

It's the last group.

-What's your name? -Isabel.

Isabel... Hello.

You must leave. Please.

Do you already know about the girls who ran away?

What? No, I don't know of anyone who has escaped.

We are looking for an exit.

So to leave here.

If you find one, let me know.

Excuse me, sir. I forgot this.

Look forward. Put your hands down.

Now, silence.

You, Patricio, comb your hair.

Lift up that forelock.

-Where were you? -In the bathroom. Sorry.

OK, are you all ready?

One, two, and...

-Where were you? -I went to the bathroom.

If only girls have escaped

there must be an exit that only they can see.

Well, and if only they can see it,

well... only they can see it. We can't.

Come on, don't be a chicken.

There it is. Isn't it so?

Seriously, you have to stop doing this.

I think we found an exit.

Forever.

Forever. Brothers of spittle.

If you snitch, I'll kill you.

You heard me? I'll kill you!

Hairy rat.

Do you know what I'm going to do after the World Fair of Inventions?

I'm going to travel around the world on a motorcycle.

I'm going to be a writer, and I'm going to have four children and a house with a fish tank,

and an octopus of those that they fish in Santa Cruz, and clean it.

Are you going to smoke, or not?

Chicken.

I'm going to have seven women,

one for each day of the week...

Busty!

Of all the colors and flavors.

But you can't marry seven.

And who said I'm going to marry them?

And you?

-I don't know. -Do you want to go back home?

-I don't. -But you have to want to go somewhere, right?

I already said that I don't know.

How do your classmates behave in classes?

-All right. -All alright. Except for Alex.

What does Alex do?

He puts ideas in the other's heads.

Ideas?

I don't know, all the time they are talking, and when I approach them, they just shut up.

Go to the laundry for my shirts.

Make sure they are well ironed and starched.

Then you go to the guards to collect the correspondence.

Come on.

Do you like music?

I know that you like music.

I was young sometime, too.

Believe it or not, I grew up in a place very similar to this one.

I never had anyone to care about me.

It's a gift.

For you.

Do you like it?

But you must leave it here.

Here I'll take care of it for you.

And when you come you can use it.

When you get out of this place, you can take it with you.

We have to hurry.

-What are you waiting for? She's not coming. -She's not coming. Either you come or you stay here with her.

Flashlight.

I can't believe it.

What, aren't we going to the World Fair of Inventions?

I hate this place! I hate it.

-Don't make a noise. -I don't care.

I don't care if I get caught and whipped, if they want to.

Anyway nobody cares.

We do care.

Come. Come on.

Who's there?

Who's there?

Take it easy. Calm down, you.

-Come on. One, two... -Wait.

They will see them.

Breathe.

I'll go after you.

Come on. One, two, and...

Hey, you!

Where do you think you are going?

I catched him like this. Running in the middle of the patio.

I'll walk her.

What were you doing here?

I was thirsty, sir.

"I was thirsty".

Take him to my office.

What are you waiting for?

-Now what do we do? -We run off and shut our mouths.

-Can't we�? -What are you going to do, huh?

Who are you going to tell? Who will believe you?

God blessed for making paradise possible!

What breasts!

Hey, wait for me!

-Pervert. -What?

Oh, yeah, who knows what's he watching.

We already know what he's watching.

What, what is he watching?

Forget it, Ricky.

What do you do?

What are you going to do?

No, no!

What do you do? Are you crazy?

Why didn't you arrive the other day?

I could'nt.

But I did want.

Hey, hey!

Alex isn't here.

Are you crazy?

I thought you were going to escape.

If we can't escape this damn place

at least we're going to have a Christmas dinner as we deserve.

We're going to sit with them girls.

And that day the supervisor comes visit.

And the Mustache must report back.

If we're all together, he can't do anything to us.

What supervisor? The fat supervisor?

And if he wants to do something to us, the supervisor will know what the pervert does at night.

Will you go? Andrea is waiting for you.

Did you say something to her?

You have to get there on one breathe.

Are you getting crazy?

Don't do it!

Don't run.

How nice you look from below, girls!

Pervert!

Andrea, do you want to sit at dinner with me?

Yes.

But who told you that this was the way it was going to be?

You go.

-But I won't reach there. -You go!

But I still don't know who I'm going to invite.

But, while you make your mind,

you can return the favor to Duck and invite Daniela on his behalf.

You owe him. He saved your skin.

That's what women look like, in case you didn't know.

Duck asks if you'd want to sit at dinner with him.

Well, tell that scoundrel that if he wants to invite me, to do it himself.

-But he didn't come. -I don't care. I won't accept this like that, without romance.

Well, I'm leaving.

And so, you're not going to invite anyone?

God, Ricky! I'll go with you. Is it okay?

I think he's already drowned.

I got an appointment! I got an appointment!

Shh! Don't scream.

I got an appointment.

Everything in order, Julio?

Yes, everything in order.

Courtesy of the nursery.

I can't believe that scoundrel anymore.

Look where on earth he sit!

-I still don't understand how... -You don't have to understand anything, honey.

It's okay, it's okay, I see you're on one of those days.

Really, Ricardo? Don't be silly!

I don't know how you could invite this tadpole, Gabriela.

Come on.

You are a genious.

He's dead asleep.

It's always a pleasure to be here.

My best institute.

With an almost infallible record.

Almost, because with these kids you never know.

You clearly recognize how dangerous these children can be.

They didn't look so dangerous at dinner, sister.

I imagine that this gentleman here has everything under control.

He even grants himself the luxury of letting them spend Christmas dinner together.

That's very nice of you, Julio.

I don't imagine who would want to leave here.

What could have become of those who escaped?

Have you ever found them?

No, no, sir.

Sure, with this climate, here, in the middle of nowhere.

Only God knows what those lost souls may have suffered.

I hope, from the bottom of my heart,

that they find their way back home.

30 minutes. Not a second more.

See you in the bedroom.

Gentlemen, everyone on his own.

Ah...

Merry Christmas.

Hey! You!

My breasts are growing.

And it hurts a lot.

You know.

In case you want to...

I was about to lose hope on you coming.

I can't stay long.

What did you find that day?

Where did that door lead to?

Forget it.

It was silly.

No exit.

It was a warehouse.

What's wrong?

Nothing, just...

I don't want to be here anymore.

But you can't stay here forever.

I suppose.

Do you know what you can do?

You can think of a place out there.

A nice place.

Simple.

Just think of a place where you want to go.

Where do you want to go?

Why do you look at me like that?

You better hurry because all trains are full this afternoon.

So?

Maybe you want to travel to the Far East?

Or if you like, we have one last ticket just for you to the city of love.

Paris!

So? Where do you want to go?

I don't know.

What about you?

I�

I am fine here with you.

... let's not forget that in the end the Almighty is the one who dictates and determines

everything that happens in this world.

Now, sister, don't bother the supervisor anymore with your God chat.

He's a man of institutions.

Believe it or not, I'm quite a believer

and I believe in a very powerful one who punishes if one does not follow his precepts.

Of course, sir.

In this institution we also have precepts. The rules are followed.

But this is not the corner of the world God feels most proud of, with all due respects.

However, the goal justifies the means.

Sister, why don't you go find that boy Alex

so that the supervisor can see his enormous advances?

You'll see that although he is quite young and spent just a few months here,

he learned quite quickly that there are also precepts here.

Has someone betrayed you?

Ouch!

Forgive me, Duckling.

You thought I didn't love you anymore, right?

You'll always love me. You got it?

Maybe... Maybe.

What?

Then his uncle came in, and caught him there, kissing his daughter,

the uncle's daughter, that is, his cousin.

He was kissing his cousin.

And then the uncle hit broke a tooth of him, like that, a single punch.

Aha. Aren't you cold?

A little.

Let yourself be carried by the flow.

We shouldn't be doing this.

I have to leave.

Hey, don't leave! Nothing's going to happen.

You don't know him.

The supervisor will leave, and...

I need to get out of here.

I need to tell you a secret.

Get up.

Why do you sleep dressed up?

Where did you get this from?

I found it in the courtyard.

Come with me.

Good evening, sisters. We can retire. Excuse us.

-Good evening, Mr. Supervisor. -Good evening, Mr. Supervisor.

-God bless us. Merry Christmas. -Excuse us.

Come closer. Mr. Supervisor wants to meet you.

Alex, right?

How have you felt in these last days, son?

Don't look at me. Answer the supervisor. He's talking to you.

-Fine, sir. -Any complaint about the place?

Something you want to share with me?

Don't look at him.

Feel free.

Nothing, sir.

At this moment I see him standing here and it seems to me that he's a good boy.

Are you a good boy, Alex?

He's on his way to be.

We can be sure of that. Isn't it so?

However, Mr. Supervisor, this child is not one of those who only play ball.

He has a pretty interesting file.

Subversion, problems with authority, taking things not belonging to him...

-A thief? -I've never stolen anything, sir.

Thief and liar. Don't let yourself be fooled.

His poor mother didn't stop crying when she brought him.

As you see him, this child is quite dangerous and guilty of a terrible crime.

Without any conscience and without caring about anything

he took his father's car and ran over an innocent girl only five years old.

It was an accident!

If it were not for the emergency services that were about around the corner

the girl's father would also have died.

Isn't it so, Alex?

He doesn't even regret it.

We should never forget what he really is.

Keep running the machine.

Charmed.

It was an honor to have you with us tonight, Mr. Supervisor.

I don't know what this pig is doing here.

I found it in the boy's bed.

Move, girls.

All upright. Raise.

Didn't you hear?

Raise!

Cold water is what they need.

You think I'm too naive.

You think I'm an imbecile.

Not just rebellion.

This is not simple rebellion.

This is treason.

Treason to what in this place we try to teach you.

Treason to the values by which we are governed here.

Who told you you could sit with the girls at dinner?

Whose was this brilliant idea?

Who's the traitor?

Who was it?

-I don't know. -Tell me.

Aren't you supposed to be a rat?

Aren't you a rat?

Didn't you come out of a crappy sewer?

Always trying to do whatever it takes to get a better well-being than the others,

at the expense of their skin.

Your own mates, your own race!

Filthy rat!

So, aren't you going to tell me?

Won't you? Not a word?

Since you arrived, you had no intention of changing.

You are a waste.

Your mother was right.

Have you already told your classmates that also your mother thought you were a waste?

Did you tell them how she came to trash you here in this place?

-My dad is coming. -What did you say?

What did you say?

That my dad is going to come one day to take care of you.

No, your dad's not coming. And he won't come...

Do you know why he won't come?

Because he abandoned you.

Do you know why he abandoned you and your mom? Because you are a waste.

He did well. I would have done the same.

You are doomed to be a good for nothing.

Turn around.

Turn around!

It was me.

Release the belt.

I said it was me.

Should I tell you a secret?

I already knew that it was you from the beginning.

I hope you've had a good time with her.

Now I'm going to have to tell her what you really are.

A murderer.

Your mates betrayed you.

And I'm going to tell you what we're going to do.

You're are going to punish them as traitors.

A row.

Now, if you don't treat them like traitors,

that makes you traitors too.

And as traitors you will be treated.

Sorry.

Are you alright?

Hey!

Are you alright?

Yes.

Isabel sent it to you.

When you were in the infirmary.

Don't go see her, at least until things calms down a bit.

Let him.

Anyway he'll do as he pleases.

He wants to be beaten to death.

I need to see you. There is no time anymore.

What do you do?

I think you dropped something.

Did you?

You already know that this is very important to me, right?

What am I going to do with you?

When I ask you a question, I expect you to answer it.

So?

Tell me. What do I have to do with you?

Punish me?

You know it's for your own good, right?

That boy is not for you.

He's very dangerous.

If he goes on this way he won't leave here. Never.

He likes to steal things that are not his.

And if there's something we dislike, it's the thieves.

Do you like thieves?

She's not there, she's not there!

Who's not there? Speak clearly.

Isabel. I followed him. He was already there when I arrived.

She wasn't in her bed.

Where is she?

Where the fuck is she?

I'm going to make you talk.

Tell Sister Lourdes to alert the guards immediately.

Now your time has come, son.

And there is nothing you can do to prevent it.

God knows why He makes things, and then he puts us on the same path.

Where the fuck is she?

Where is she?

Won't you talk?

I'll have to draw it out of you the bad way.

Get up.

What are you waiting for?

I said "what are you waiting for?"

Where is she?

Bitch!

Isabel!

Isabel!

Isabel!

It's harder with the rain.

Because of the wet grass.

Find her.

Isabel!

How far do you think she could have reached?

I don't know.

I hope very far.

Nobody came out this way, sir. I assure you.

Don't assure me anything.

Are you saying that the girl vanished,

that she vanished like a rabbit in a hat?

Pigs!

Sir.

We have to go. There is nothing else we can do for the time being.

We're going to have to draw record of the disappearance.

We will keep you informed of any news.

God save you, Mary, full of grace,

the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among all women

and blessed be the fruit of your womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God,

pray, Lady, for her, and for us, sinners,

now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Alex, Alex, Alex.

You know?

Sometimes life seems so insignificant...

But what happens when you reduce man to his most essential instincts?

Life or death.

That's when we really start to live.

When we have to pray for one more minute

in the paradise of the Lord.

For example,

there next to my boot is a cockroach. Do you see it?

Doesn't matter.

What happened?

Nothing happened.

Now, if I granted that dirty insect one more day of life,

something in the course of the world would have changed, right?

Maybe for him, but not for the big picture of humanity.

I never finished telling you the story of that child who made an oath, right?

Do you know how the story of the great Hannibal ends?

He crosses the Alps,

he gets to his destination giving a great fight,

and just when it seems that victory smiles

the Empire gets tired, gets fed up with his insolence

and crushes him with all its fury and splendor

reducing him to the size of a small cockroach.

Rome prevailed.

I'm asking you again,

what am I going to do with you?

I'm going to ask you one more time.

Where is she?

Please!

How did she escape?

What did she said to you?

I don't know.

Please.

Let's forget everything that happened.

I hope this time you put peace on your part.

What did they do to you?

Do you want my cookie?

No, thanks.

Come in.

Come closer, son.

I see you go through a difficult time.

I had difficult times, too.

But precisely those times

are the ones which make and determine a man.

I've been thinking

that being closer to me would help you in that process.

To fulfill some responsibilities.

What's he doing? What's he doing?

He's a rat. That's what he does.

Can I sit?

You know�

I've been thinking about it...

just thinking�

and I think I know what I'm going to do when I get out of here.

I don't know, something that has to do with aviation.

Be in the air.

Breaking the wind up there.

How about?

Maybe... I could see you from up there while you're on that motorcycle.

How'd you like to go for a walk?

I have nowhere to go.

I don't have anywhere to go either.

But any place is better than this one.

Listen to me,

there is an exit.

And if she found it, we can too.

It's now or never.

It's our opportunity.

Forget it. We're never going anywhere.

Come in.

There, leave them.

What's this?

I always tell them and they don't listen to me.

What do I have to do to be understood?

Is it too much to ask that the shirts be ironed as God intended?

Do you think it's a lot to ask?

They'll have it tomorrow.

You can go to sleep. Goodnight.

What do you do?

Two... three�

Four. -What?

There is one floor below.

Under the one below, I heard him go by.

What are you talking about?

It was him.

He whistled in the pipe, and here too.

And when he stepped on my face he had mud on his boots.

They were full of mud.

We must learn what is happening.

I have no idea what you're talking about,

but I knew you weren't a rat.

Go to your room.

What do you do? Turn it off.

What?

Look.

Alex?

What's going on? I thought we were friends.

It's better that you leave that in its place. It's a very expensive piece.

-What did you do to her? -To whom?

To Isabel.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

She never escaped.

Why don't you want to change, son?

Everything is going well with you until out of the blue you get a devilish idea in your head.

And you become a different person like this, in a snap.

Why don't you sit down and tell me what's going on?

They all had the same brooch.

They never left here. You killed them!

You know?

It's a pity that nobody cares a shit.

Your truth is insignificant to the world.

Anyway, who will believe a criminal?

Anyway, we're all very proud of you, Alex, bravo.

He was very intelligent... too bad he could not stand it.

He didn't want to change and he escaped.

And here, in the middle of nowhere,

with this climate and at this time of year,

only God knows what could have happened to the poor boy.

-Enough already! -Get the keys.

Go get the girls.

We have to go.

Wake up.

Get up, get up.

What are you doing here?

What's going on?

Help awaken the others.

But, what's happening?

There's no time. We have to go. Quick.

Jorge?

We agreed to meet in the courtyard.

Nobody's going anywhere.

You have no idea what's happening.

Are you there?

I know hear me, so listen carefully.

Your mate Alex suffers what is known as a paranoia attack

because he has a disease in which he can not distinguish what is real from what is not.

Don't listen to him.

They never left here. They never escaped.

You must understand...

that if you don't open the door and this is not dealt with the urgently needed measures,

this can get much worse

and put your own lives at risk.

Isn't it so, Alex?

Deny to your mates that they're in there with a murderer.

Deny to them that you killed a five-year-old girl.

It's true.

Now, someone please take the key from him and open the door for me.

It was an accident.

He's making up everything. It wasn't an accident.

-Shut up. -You killed her.

Don't believe him. He's sick.

He's a rat.

People are starting to panic.

So do the right thing, take the fucking key from him,

before someone really gets hurt.

He killed them. He killed Isabel!

He's delirious. Someone open the door!

I promise not to punish you.

I give you three seconds to open the damn door.

One�

two�

three.

Run!

What are you waiting for, come here!

Don't stay there sanding still.

What are you doing there standing still?

Sister, take this child.

Girls, get out!

The key. The key, we have to open the door.

-Where is it? Don't go near the door. -The key!

Quick.

It's down below. We have to follow the pipes.

You go over there.

-On our own? -The one who finds it screams.

There's nothing here.

Wait. There's something here.

Is it you, Duckling?

I'm going to eat your intestines.

I know you are there.

I can smell you.

Do you know what I smell?

I smell duck!

Where are you, Duckling?

Where are you?

Where are you, Duck?

Where are you?

You're awful!

I detest the sound that comes out of your mouth.

You're nothing but a nasty duck.

I hate your damn stench.

Leave him alone.

What will you do me?

You won't do anything to me.

You know why?

Because you're a coward.

I'll give you some advice, son,

if you want to do something to me.

Make sure I don't get up, because if I get up you're dead.

-No! -Run.

No! Not Alex!

Let me in! Let me in!

Alex!

We'll play in the forest

while the wolf's not there.

Because if the wolf appears

he will eat us all.

Wolf, are you there?