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[Birdsong]

[Typing]

[Creaking]

[Door opens]

[Quito's wife] Gosh and Delgado are back.

They have an audience with Ion and are to leave immediately.

Your father must let you go with him.

My father doesn't listen to me.

He doesn't listen to anyone anymore.

Sophie has started her period.

It won't be long before someone notices

and she goes into the breeding program.

[exciting music]

As a Zibbe, she won't have the same I had with you.

[sacred humming]

[rattling breathing]

[Ion] Speak!

Six dead brothers in eight months.

We must assume that someone is searching

is looking for them, finds and executes them.

[Coughing]

The Kring siblings.

How would you know that?

Where you, just like me are rotting here in these walls?

Kai Kring has never accepted of his ancestry.

He despises us, considers us a disease.

Now they are on a mission, to fight the disease.

Silence!

I will no longer remain silent.

No one here has the courage anymore, to tell you the truth

for fear of your anger.

There are now less than a thousand.

The blood of our young weakens with each birth.

We are not able to produce female offspring,

no matter how many times we try.

This is regressive evolution.

(We are aware of the situation

and are taking appropriate measures.

Rape cibbs and hope for a miracle?

(Fedor) We will find Magdalena Kring

and she will give birth to a new generation of us.

[Coughing]

Do we have the slightest idea where they are?

We have emissaries all over around the world looking for them.

195 countries, 4 million cities, 8 billion people.

- How many envoys do we have? - All those who are available to us.

How many?

28.

[Coughing]

We must adapt our way of life or we will die out.

Save me your speech about reformation.

What Stojan Demko did in the Oderbruch has made is our future.

(A symbiotic blood supply system.

We just have to improve it and implement it everywhere. No murders.

Stojan almost destroyed us.

Everything he created, were witnesses. [Ion coughs]

The Oderbruch...

...is the stain of our history.

And you...

...are the stain of my family.

My foolish son believes

that our laws must be adapted must be adapted to the new times.

[takes a deep breath]

I... I can smell...

...that he's no longer the only one who thinks like that.

[inhales deeply]

And I...

I smell...

...the stench of revolt.

[Whimpering]

[muffled gasp]

[panicked scream]

[Cracking]

[dull thud]

[Coughing]

(Ion) I have just adjusted our laws just now.

Death penalty...

[thud]

...for treason.

I ask to go with Delgado and Fayez.

[Ion coughing] Don't make a fool of yourself.

I know how the Krings think.

Where they'll turn up next. Please, Father.

Not another word!

You have one week, to find Magdalena Kring.

(Quito's wife) Go through the catacombs.

I'll tell them you're ill.

Then no one will notice that you're gone.

I'll continue here alone and wait,

until you come back with the woman.

She's our only hope.

If you control Magdalena, you control our future.

Promise me you'll find her.

[Door creaks]

[Door slams]

Where are you going?

I'll be back soon.

[Exciting music]

[automatic whirring]

I'll take over now.

Any problem with that?

[Electronic music, whispering voices in the background]

[Crickets chirping]

[Footsteps echoing]

[Wind rustling]

[fluttering]

[Cell phone vibrates]

(Arthur Kring) Dear Maggie, dear Kai.

When you read the following words, it means..,

that the Strigoi have found us...

...and we have taken our destiny in our own hands.

You two are something very rare.

The Strigoi call it "pure strong blood".

Born not only from mine,

but also from the strong blood of your mother.

Our strength lives on in you.

Especially in you, Maggie.

Use it when you need to defend yourselves,

because the Strigoi will never give up for you.

[ominous music]

(I found this address in Vera's room.

[Quito] Go there.

Find out everything about Vera. No detail is unimportant.

(Arthur Kring) I have one last request.

I want you to know that Roland Voit's Veronika's mother is alive.

Stojan demanded at the time that I kill her,

to make Justus Voit compliant.

I spared Veronika's life secretly

and sent her away.

She was never allowed to contact with Roland or Justus.

Otherwise the Strigoi would have found her.

She lives in Andorra, cut off from the outside world.

Please go to Veronika, you'll be safe there.

The coordinates of her house are enclosed.

Take care of yourselves.

With all the love we could never give you.

Your parents.

[Sound of waves]

[Seagull cry]

[Woman, Polish]

Who were you talking to?

I didn't tell you the whole truth,

how I found your daughter.

I had Roland's diaries.

I found it at Demko's back then and never told anyone about it.

(Roland Voit) My diaries.

Can you give them to her?

Maybe she'll want to know who her father is, what he was like.

(Zajak) The Strigoi must have found them found them with me.

They found out about Vera the same way I did.

From Roland's letter to her.

It was in one of the diaries. I photographed everything.

(Roland) I also wrote something something for her.

Extra.

[melancholy music]

I'm sorry.

[Wind whistles]

Now you can make it up to me.

[Vera] Where are we going?

To your grandmother's.

What about Kai?

He'll be fine.

[Exciting music]

[Seagull cry]

[Whimpering]

[Seagull cries]

[Woman speaks Spanish]

[Man answers]

[Spanish conversation]

[Spanish conversation, dishes rattling]

[Spanish conversation]

[soft music]

[whispering voices]

[beeping]

[tires squealing]

How much do you need?

[quiet guitar music]

[singing]

[loud exhalation]

[Door slams]

[Vera] How well do you know her?

[Zajak] I've studied her.

I know everything about her, everything you can know about her.

Nevertheless, I know them no better than you do.

But you trust her.

(Zajak) I can understand what she wants.

And what is that?

To protect you.

[ominous music]

[Raquel, Spanish]

[Cell phone vibrates]

Yes?

[Fayez] The address on the note belongs to a vacation home.

Currently rented to Stanislav Zajak.

But there's no one here.

Except for a small dead dog.

Wait.

Does he have a white dot on his nose?

(Yes. An ugly critter.

Take him with you. Maybe we don't need him-

[Loud bang, Raquel screams]

[Gunshot with silencer]

[thud]

Yes?

[Ion coughs]

My son.

Someone here wants to tell you something.

[Quito's wife] I'm sorry.

You have Sophie.

[Ion sighs]

Now I know why you want to change our laws.

Because you love your Zibbe.

And your Zibbe daughter.

[Ion] Pathetic.

Pathetic, like everything about you.

I have the Kring siblings.

You have in my house

...your love of sheep.

You left my house against my will. you left my house.

And now you're lying to me.

Give me one more day.

Just one more day.

I'll bring you Magdalena Kring, if you release my family.

[Ion laughs] Family?

The Strigoi

...are the only family you'll ever have.

My men are bringing you back here now

and then we'll talk.

[shrill tones]

When will the hunter be here to pick up Sophie?

(He's on his way.

[Ripples]

[soft television noises]

[Spanish television]

[melancholy music]

Tell me something about him.

What was he like?

(Maggie.) He wanted me to give you this.

His diaries.

He also wrote you wrote you a letter.

(Roland.) Dear Vera,

I've been thinking for a long time, what I should write to you

and am struggling to find the right words.

These are my diaries from my youth, up to the age

about the age you are now.

I have stopped writing in them,

when your mother left me.

Maggie told me that you were never born.

Otherwise I would have done everything in my I could have done,

to be your father.

I'm sure your mother

had her reasons for her decisions...

But I want you to know that I was not involved.

You don't know me, but if you want to know who your father is,

you can read my diaries.

I loved your mother Maggie very much.

And I would have loved you just as much,

if I'd had the chance had the chance.

I very much hope that we will meet in person one day.

I don't know if you know it, but...

you have my mother's name Veronika.

We always called her Vera we always called her Vera.

She was a good woman, and when we meet,

I'll tell you all about about your grandma.

[Seagull Crying]

[Boy] [Spanish]

[Sizzling]

[Quay] Um, egg bread. Uh...

Pan de huevo.

[Seagull cries]

[melancholic music]

[ominous music]

[distant children's voices]

[sacred humming]

[ominous music]

[whispering voices]

[ominous music swells]

[shrill voice screams] Veraaa!

[Handbrake is applied]

[Car switched off]

[Crickets chirping]

[Birdsong]

[Creaking]

Veronika Voit?

I'm Maggie.

Maggie Kring.

(Veronika) For 40 years I've been waiting for this day.

You're here to pick me up.

Home.

To Krewlow.

[sighs]

But these people, who did all this to us,

they should be long gone.

-These people are exactly why we're here, why we're here.

We are on the run. Just like you.

My father said that we are safe here.

Of course we are.

You can stay here, as long as you want.

And who are you?

This is Vera.

My daughter.

Your granddaughter.

I am overjoyed, to meet you.

(Veronika) And how is Roland?

And my husband?

[melancholy music]

I withdraw a little.

[Chair creaks]

Please make yourselves at home.

[ominous music]

[Door squeaks]

[Car rumbles]

[exciting music]

[crickets chirping]

(Maggie) We have to change your appearance,

so that at least at least at first glance.

Did you love him?

You could have just to my father.

Now I'll never get to know him.

[Silhouette]

What should I do now?

Just accept everything, do everything you say?

My old life is simply over.

I know how you feel. I also had a life that I-

You don't know how I feel.

You don't know who I am. You don't know me.

[Bang]

[Maggie] You're right.

I don't know who you are.

But you don't know me either.

You have no idea, what kind of life I've had.

What do you want to hear now?

No, I didn't I didn't love your father.

I didn't even know what that was, love.

All I learned from my parents I learned from my parents was to be afraid.

I was the age you are now, when I was pregnant with you.

Do you think you make the best decisions at that age? the best decisions at that age?

[ominous music]

[driving noises]

[exciting music]

[rattling]

[crickets chirping]

[humming]

[distant engine noise]

I grew up without love. I wanted to spare you that.

I've never had a real relationship.

Not with anyone.

I always wondered what was wrong with me.

I'm probably more like you, than I would like.

[Crickets chirping]

[exhales sharply]

Give me a chance, to get to know you.

That's all I want.

[quick steps]

Someone is coming.

[ominous music]

[Car door slams]

[Maggie sighs]

No more secrets.

Then I'll do.., whatever you say.

You're one of us now.

I'll treat you like one.

(Maggie) Veronica, this is...

(Simon.

(Zajak) Our son.

[Birdsong]

[ominous music]

[Braking noises]

[Bang from outside]

[Spanish shouts]

[shattering glass, banging]

You can trust them.

They're on our side.

[Satellite phone beeps]

[long inhale]

[Kai] That's the crest, that we saw on Cristobal.

Ordo Aeternus, the Eternal Order.

It's an ancient sect.

Small, but has facilities all over the world

and is protected everywhere under religious protection.

There is hardly any information about them.

But as a religious organization they have special rights.

Behind closed doors they can do what they want.

They are allowed to regulate internal independently.

Appointment of religious leaders,

management of property and finances.

They are allowed to make special demands

on the behavior of their members.

Religion is the perfect cover for the Strigoi.

"Walls of heaven, above the world,

the eternal order never crumbles.

The strongest home, your body a stone."

Walls of heaven, the strongest home.

The leader of the Strigoi,

he is somewhere in a church like this.

I'm sure of it.

Come with me.

[Exciting music]

There are 58 registered buildings,

we can find the headquarters.

And we will.

Eventually.

Kai, we can't take on a whole whole order of them.

Not yet.

(Maggie) Someone has to keep watch.

[mechanical clicking]

[Suspenseful music]

[Door creaks]

I'd rather sleep alone.

It's safer if... I...

Let me know, if you need anything.

(Maggie) Good night.

Good night.

[Knocking]

[Door squeaks]

Vera would like to sleep alone.

Oh, yes. I see.

[Maggie] No, please.

There's room.

Okay.

[Bed creaks]

[Zajak sighs]

Thank you.

[Soft guitar music]

[Water splashing]

[Crickets chirping]

[Heartbeat]

[loud breathing]

[whistling]

(Kai) I know the feeling.

That first curiosity.

But that's goat's blood.

It doesn't taste good.

And what does human blood taste like?

The healthier, the better.

But it's not about about the taste.

It's about the feeling it gives you, it gives you.

[Crickets chirping]

What is that feeling?

Pure power flows through your body.

You can feel how every cell regenerates.

You immediately feel incredibly strong.

Mentally too.

Everything slows down and becomes quiet.

All your senses are strengthened.

As if you had been blind and could suddenly see.

The only problem is that it numbs your conscience.

Your senses become sharp,

but your emotions become dull.

As a result, you no pain either.

Neither physically nor mentally.

You feel like a god.

But in truth, you are a monster.

[melancholy music]

I always have the same dream.

A river turns blood red and then...

someone rises out of the red water.

A girl, covered in blood.

And then I see: The girl is me.

Behind me, many more many more rise from the blood.

[Footsteps]

You should go to sleep.

[Maggie sighs]

[Maggie] Let me talk about these things ...with her.

Please.

Did you hear about her dream?

[muffled footsteps]

[sacred humming]

[quiet sobbing]

[Door creaking]

Sophie?

The Great Hunter is here, to pick you up.

[Exciting music]

[Fayez] We'll be right there.

[Vera] "Bearer of all hope.

Above all right stands rare and precious is the female sex.

She is our aspiration, otherwise we are doomed.

Purity is lost, the downfall begins.

Embers and time are fading, the woman is sacrosanct.

Embers and suffering are gained,

Posteritas is her body."

What does posteritas mean?

[sighs]

Descendants?

Future generation?

[Birdsong]

Kai thinks he'll have to kill me, if they find me.

- I won't - And if you look at the big picture?

Then it's the lesser of two evils.

And he says, there's another lesser evil.

We have to irreversibly sterilized.

That means cut out the uterus.

[Clears throat]

[Birdsong]

[Squeaking]

[Maggie] I told you,

I want to have these conversations. -She asked.

No more secrets.

Vera, look.

- You can have this. - Thank you.

Your water pump isn't working.

Where do you get your water from?

Yes, yes, I know.

Someone from the village is kind enough to bring it to me.

(Veronica) Vera...

It's your father.

Arthur sent it to me.

It's the only picture I have of Roland.

Forgive me for saying this, but...

you take more after him than your mother.

Can I ask you all something?

I'd like to have a small funeral for for my son and my husband.

Do you have anything personal from Roland?

The only thing I have from him is Vera.

[ominous music]

[birdsong]

[Sighing]

That was a whistle from Justus.

I don't know why I took it with me.

It was the only thing of his,

that I could I could grab quickly.

I didn't like the smell.

I always wanted for him to stop.

[quiet laughter]

Maybe that's why that's why I took it with me.

[melancholy music]

It wasn't always easy.

But I loved them both very much.

[Loud breathing]

[Maggie sobs]

If I hadn't come back to the Oderbruch had I not come back...

all those children at school would still be alive.

Justus wouldn't be dead.

Roland wouldn't be dead.

And if I hadn't protected my brother from my father...

then all his victims would still be alive.

I only cause harm.

(Maggie) You should go.

If you stay with me, you'll die too.

[Soft guitar music]

[Sobbing]

Justus never smoked a pipe.

My father smoked a pipe.

She got them mixed up.

[Exciting music]

[Telephone rings]

[Fedor] I stopped the driver.

Where are you?

[Quito] I have Maggie and her daughter.

Protect my family at all costs.

(I'll take care your family,

but I don't know how how much longer I can.

[Door squeaks]

[Loud breathing]

She didn't.

One more lie and your brother is dead.

[Gun clicks]

[Gun clicks]

Veronica's been dead a long time.

Arthur was a good friend.

[Laughing]

I want you to know, the message from him was real.

I only changed the last part about Veronica.

When you learn to understand the purpose,

you will see that it justifies my means.

Please, give me the opportunity not have to do anything to you.

Not to any of you.

Who are you?

Your only chance.

[Exciting music]

We're on our way. Call the council.

[Engine noise]

[Car door slams]

[Engine starts]

[Soft moaning]

[Smacking]

Stop!

[Muffled sounds of fighting]

[Gunshots]

[screams]

[groaning]

[gunshot]

[exciting music]

[Organ music]

What are we doing?

-We can't compete with a strong blood.

The risk is too great, or we'll lose both women.

[thud]

(Shoot the car! Don't let them follow us!

[Gunshots]

[Engine won't start]

[Engine fails]

[Quito] Drive, drive, drive!

[Music swells]

[long, shrill scream]

Subtitle: Lea Inselmann, digital images GmbH, Halle (S.), 2025