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(Noises from above)

(Polish) I'm finished. Should I leave the lights on?

You can turn everything off. I'll then lock up.

Thank you.

Have a nice vacation.

(owl hoot)

(Car door slams shut)

(Polish) Kai? Why are you sitting here in the dark?

(Polish) Sit down.

I have to tell you something.

Everything okay?

(Kai) I never told you the whole the whole truth about me...

Do you still remember the summer of 1990,

when mom and I were with you again?

(Polish) We have to be home , before it gets dark.

Otherwise my father will freak out again.

Let him freak out. He's just shouting.

Sometimes he also fetches a stick. Look here.

He hit it so hard, that it bled.

My father wants to kill me.

Once he pushed me under water in the bath,

until I passed out.

No shit?

That is why we are here.

Leave me alone.

Wow.

[Laughs.]

(Kai) Can I have some more? (German) Give Dagna her tea first.

(The piercing sound gets louder)

(Heartbeat gets louder)

(Intro music)

Kai, when you're finished, please come out to the stable.

Alone.

(goat mowing)

Do you trust me?

(goat grumbles)

Is that what you want?

Tell me if you feel anything.

We can go home.

What about our hut? We have to repair the roof.

You have to convince your father that he won't tear them down.

Say it's a family relic, or something.

You'll think of something.

Then we'll finish it, as soon as I get back.

Maybe you can come and visit us.

Your mom said that your father must never know,

who and where we are.

So that you can always can hide here.

Maybe I'll have to hide again soon.

[Muffled] Here we are again. I tested it.

He's not like you.

We will see.

Can sleep in your bed again if you want to.

Or here.

(Gentle piano music)

(Help your mother.

I won't hurt him.

Come out.

Where is the glass?

Come out.

(Ominous music)

The last flood damaged the dyke at the Zollbrücke bridge.

I'm going to help with the work today.

If you want, come along.

How... can a dike break?

A dike breach then happens...

when the soil

due to excessive water pressure is softened from the inside.

The more water there is in the Oder,

the more water flows through every hole, no matter how small.

Water always finds a way.

Unstoppable.

A small tunnel of a vole is enough...

and the water simply washes the dike away.

This is from before.

Good Kai, I want to believe you.

But if I find out that you are lying to me...

(bicycle bell)

(Roland) Hello, Mr. Kring.

Heard they're helping with the dyke. We want to lend a hand.

Nice to have you back, Kai.

How are you? Everything okay?

Here. For you.

Thank you. -I've found something, I have something to show you.

He won't tell me. It's a big secret.

We go there together.

Tomorrow after school. -The two of them have to work here.

Okay, then at the weekend.

Maggie, Kai. Get ready.

Wait at the car. We're about to leave.

(Ominous music)

(drone, muffled sound of chalk on blackboard)

(teacher, muffled) ...does anyone know another organ?

(Student, muffled) The kidney? -Yes.

(chalk on blackboard)

(Teacher) ...another organ?

(The liver?

(Muffled confusion of children's voices)

So... how was it in the loony bin?

I... wasn't in the loony bin.

That's what everyone says, who come out of the loony bin.

What's in that jar?

No! No, please!

Let go, you brainiac. Give me that!

August stop it! Get the fuck out!

All good?

(break bell sounds)

See you later, yes?

(Ominous music)

No....

So, what do you want to do now?

(Kai screams in pain)

(drone swells)

You listen to me carefully now and do what I tell you.

What happened?

I can't remember anything.

I hit August with a stone.

When you saw him, you fell over.

They say you're in shock.

(Knock on the door)

(Maggie, a visit for you.

(Roland) My father sorted that out.

The Conradys do not press charges.

From now on just keep your distance from them.

What's wrong with Kai?

(piercing sound)

(The piercing sound gets louder)

(Whispering voices)

She doesn't remember.

(Come here.

Your sister must never know,

what really happened.

What we both have, that must remain between the two of us.

We must from the truth.

You must from the truth.

And August?

August Conrady will take it to his grave.

Just like you!

Promise me.

Say it.

I promise.

(Soft groan)

(Cracking a branch)

(Whispering voices)

(A piercing sound swells)

(step)

(Who are you?

What do you want from me?

(I want to help you.

You're wasting your time.

I know exactly what you are going through.

You inherited it from your father, as I did from mine.

We don't know each other, but our fathers used to be allies.

Friends, two of the few heirs of our species.

Like you and me.

(Who... is your father?

Someone who can give you a future.

Why... are our fathers no longer friends?

The wolf has fallen in love with a sheep.

For your mother he betrayed his real family.

Even his own son.

Since then he has been poisoning himself with animal blood.

You're young, you'll get away with it with it for a while.

But soon that will no longer be enough.

Then you want the blood of a human being.

And then you need our help.

Human blood you will age more slowly.

And as soon as your father realizes that your thirst for blood is still there,

he will kill you.

Your mother and your sister are not like you.

For over a hundred years a woman of our kind.

Without us, you are alone.

You have to decide.

I will never kill anyone.

Never.

Join my house...

or die in yours.

(Kai, Polish) A few days later

there was an accident with a grenade from the Great War.

Adrian was seriously injured.

There was blood everywhere.

After the others have carried him away,

I tasted his blood.

But Maggie and my father have seen me.

Then my father wanted to stab me.

At the last moment, Maggie shot him.

(Buczek) Maggie killed your father?

No.

He survived.

But not even an ambulance.

Roland's father was the village policeman

and had once again swept it under the carpet.

As if it had never happened...

That same evening, my sister had threatened,

to shoot my parents if they not take me to a doctor.

He couldn't help me, but I got a dog.

For the next few years Maggie protected me.

My father didn't say another word to me.

My mother was only

like a ghost in a human shell.

And the carpenter never stopped watching me.

I have secretly continued to feed on animal blood.

But in the summer of '97 everything changed...

(piercing sound)

(Dog growls and barks loudly)

Leave me alone!

I want nothing to do with you have anything to do with you!

My father wants to talk to you.

(dog barks)

(father) Silence your dog.

Otherwise I do.

(dog barks)

No, Benni!

(dog whines)

Go home.

(father) Comm.

We are threatened with extinction.

Our rare gene is now only transmitted to the male sex.

There are no more women of our kind any more.

You are a wolf, your sister and your mother are sheep.

They can't help you. I can.

Your father and I used to used to hide the dead here.

Today we rarely use this cellar only rarely, but...

...many are still down there.

We want to make them disappear bit by bit make them disappear,

But it's not that easy.

[Kai groans]

[Groans, coughs]

You can't escape your fate escape your fate, Kai.

You have stomach cramps from animal blood.

Soon you will kill a human being.

And when the time comes, you will

throw the leftovers into this cellar, Do you understand me?

For everyone but us, this is a meaningless book.

On page 123 there is a nameless poem.

Anyone who does not know the background will

the message will remain hidden, but you will understand it.

It is our set of rules that you must must adhere to without exception.

Your survival depends on it.

For the trapdoor.

Hide it so so that no one can find it.

(Breathes in deeply through the nose)

You will soon be of age. My house is open to you.

All you have to do is to leave yours.

I am not like you.

You are right.

You are something special, Kai.

Your father's blood is purer than mine.

You are the...

what we call "strong blood".

We are getting weaker and weaker.

But maybe you can help us,

a female offspring to sire.

You can save our species.

If you succeed, you will live like a king.

I have to tell you something.

But not here.

I'll wait for you in the barn.

What I tell you now must forever remain a secret between us.

It is perhaps difficult to understand and also not easy to explain...

But...

(horn)

We have to go to the meeting. We'll talk later.

(Quiet whispering in the room)

Edith Trebur.

Don't do that Edith.

We have no choice.

You must face the truth.

This country is no longer worth anything.

You are the last, who have not yet sold

and this is the last offer that I can make.

I have said everything, answered all the questions.

I hereby hand over once again to one of you.

If you don't trust me, trust him. Stojan Demko.

(Breathes heavily)

As you all know,

we have already sold our land already sold to Mr. Jessen.

And for good reason.

(Maybe Adrian's father is right after all. is right after all.

(Stojan is a traitor.

Jessen uses the desperation of the farmers

and forces them to sell below value.

Stojan is just Jessen's sidekick. -He just wants to help people.

Stojan Demko helps no one except himself.

I don't want to hear the name anymore. No sale.

Who will run the farm for the next few years?

We'll manage that.

When Maggie is free, she will continue to help.

(Roland) You didn't tell them?

(What? -Maggie and I are moving to Berlin.

But only until my probationary period is over.

But Maggie never came back. Not even to help on the farm.

And then in July it was hot and dry.

Nobody had expected it,

what problems a little rain would cause in the Oder Hills.

[Stabbing sound] [Kai groans in pain]

(door opens)

(Alarm siren sounds)

Large parts of southern Poland and the Czech Republic are flooded

and thousands of people homeless.

The Polish town of Opeln

is flooded in large parts and reported fatalities.

Numerous people are still missing.

The flood reached the the Oderbruch.

Kai?

Renewed heavy rainfall in the Czech Republic

caused a second wave of flooding,

which is spreading unstoppably.

(Alarm sirens continue to sound)

Where is mom?

Sleeps.

I'm sorry, I've had a lot of work the last few weeks.

We came here, to help with the dyke.

Close the stanchions, fill the sandbags...

The water levels continue to rise.

Are you coming?

(confusion of voices among the helpers)

When are you coming back?

But you don't love him not at all!

I am pregnant.

Leave him alone.

(Alarm siren continues to sound)

(piercing sound)

[Screams loudly]

(Heartbeat gets louder)

Kai? (Kai was only here for a short time.

(TV) ...pictures reach us, that confirm,

that another section of dyke near Krewlow has broken.

Emergency measures...

Nature is taking revenge on us.

Mom? I have to find Kai.

He went with Benni into the forest with Benni.

Kai?

Kai?

Kai!

(Heartbeat gets louder)

Kai!

You are a monster!

(Woman in the distance) Hurry up Rainer.

The water continues to rise. We have to get going.

(Rainer) Hurry up Elfriede. Do you already have the photo albums?

(Elfriede) No, not yet. One last course.

Hello, are you okay?

The dike is broken.

We can take you with us.

Come on. Give me a hand, then we're off.

Just a few belongings.

I am Rainer Seidel. My wife and I have lived here forever.

But I've never seen you here never seen you here.

Excuse me, may I... May I give you this?

(piercing sound)

What are you doing there?

(heartbeat races)

(Kai, Polish) I was hiding.

Also in front of the carpenter and his father.

But... I have to the rules in the book.

And killed many people.

I tried everything, to get away from the blood.

Svetlana?

Where is she?

Can you still still remember the day,

when you found me?

(Man and woman groan)

(moaning gets louder)

(moaning subsides)

(Svetlana laughs and sighs)

Some junkie... has taken up residence in the hut again.

Wadim has seen someone.

Is that what you're thinking about now?

Sorry, I just remembered.

We've been having sex outside of bed sex outside of bed again

and you think about your to-do list.

Your to-do list.

I've told you so many times.

I'll take care of it.

(Svetlana) You have to nail the windows and doors properly

or finally tear the thing down.

I find that scary to know,

out there there's a junkie in the hut.

I'm often alone here too.

(quiet humming)

(engine noise)

(Put that back.

Who are you?

Where did you get that from?

You gave it to me.

Please go.

You can't live like this.

My door is open to you.

(Buczek) He is far too young for his age.

Simply unbelievable. That makes no sense.

Maybe it's not him. It's his son or something...

I have no idea.

Maybe. In any case, I can't just chase him away. He needs...

(Knock on the door)

Come in.

I beg you. Don't ask him any questions.

He will talk by himself at some point. Or not.

I don't want that he leaves again.

(I'm addicted.

And there is something I need help with.

Getting away from human blood was very painful.

(choking)

But I made it, thanks to you and Svetlana.

(Kai) Can I ask you something?

(Buczek) Sure.

Do you have work for me?

(Conversation in Polish)

(alarm signal)

(Polish) Lunch break at last.

(Voices move away)

Are you coming?

Go on.

I still have to finish something before my vacation. It'll be late.

See you later.

You've been here for so long now, but you never talk.

Everything I know about you is from Marcin's stories.

He means, you were his best friend.

He often wondered what had happened to you.

At some point you have to start talk to us. Okay?

Listen, I don't believe you, that you're Kai.

But Marcin believes you. And I like you.

No matter who you are, we have to be honest with each other.

[Cries out, groans]

(Loud whistling)

(Heartbeat gets louder)

Where is Svetlana?

Where is Svetlana?

I didn't want that.

It was an accident. -Svetlana?

Svetlana?

Svetlana!

Svetlana.

(Weeps)

No!

I've lost control.

I was not myself. I thought I had it under control.

(gasp)

And then?

(Flies buzzing)

(Ominous music swells up)