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-How's life Gjergji? -Good.

- Did you finish work for today? -Yes.

-What’s going on?

-Today I was at the hospital.

I saw that girl I’ve told you about.

I went by, but I didn’t have the courage.

How do you explain that?

-That needs maturity.

-This weeks she’s at the blood donation center.

I don’t mind donating blood, but...

I guess, I need some moral support.

Come with me to the hospital...

-When, today? -Now, pretend I’m sick.

-How come you’re here?

-I’m a lab technician during the day.

-What about at night?

-At night, I’m on call.

-So, you work double shifts.

-Usually yes.

My mother is very sick, she’s been hospitalized here.

-She’s been admitted here?

-What is she suffering from?

-It’s serious.

-Where?

-Oncology, your father’s ward.

-Can I be of any help?

I think you’ve slimmed down.

-Since earlier today?

-No, since last time I was here.

You have to stay still for ten minutes.

Branko!

Branko!

Have you been missing me?

-I came to save the nation with clean, youthful blood.

There was a good looking girl there today.

You’ve refined your methods at the hospital.

-She’s one of my students.

-I know. -How are things at the pharmacy?

-It's quiet, as usual.

-Have you looked for a new apartment yet? -There are plenty.

-I don’t understand how you can do nothing all day!

Look at your swollen face!

When did you wake up?

Are the papers ready for the month-end closing?

- No, you know that I can’t do it by myself.

-Ok.

I’ll be there as soon as I have a moment.

Come, let me show you something.

Hamlet!

Hamlet!

Hamlet...

-What’s this about?

-A patient left it.

I put it here because it is against the rules.

Do you want it?

-What for?

-Take it to the pharmacy.

-I’m not a five year old.

-Fine, take it home, to wake you up!

-Hello. -Hello.

Apologies if I’m late...

-No, I was here early.

-How are you doing? -Fine.

-Your father is an extraordinary man.

Yesterday we spoke on the phone.

He gave me your number because, he thought I should talk to you.

I know you’ve been abroad, but where did you study?

-In U.S.

The place where Kim Gordon and Lou Reed come from.

-Who else is from America?

-Malcolm X.

Duffy Duck.

Mickey Mouse.

-You’ve studied pharmacology?

-Pharmacology.

-When did you return?

-About a year and a half ago.

-Your mother was my professor.

She was a great person.

We were all very sorry when it happened...

...so suddenly.

-Thank you.

-As I said on the phone, we are working on an article.

About the medicinal drug crisis in hospitals.

If you have anything to add, feel free.

We won’t mention your name.

I’ve gathered data which I’ve prepared for publishing...

...but it needs to be verified, since its sources are numerous...

...if you think something is unclear, please let me know.

-No problem.

- Then, I’ll start.

Because of the scarcity of medicinal drugs in hospitals...

...hospital patients have resorted to pharmacies...

...where they buy drugs with their own expenses.

It is estimated that each year there are around 350,000 cronically ill people.

Who are hospitalized, or in constant treatment, in our country.

Many powerful pharmaceutical firms have found suitable terrain...

...for increasing their profits, by bribing hospital or primary care physicians...

...who advertise medications marketed by powerful corporations.

These medications are on the list of refundables, but they are very expensive.

This pressure is concealed, because the patients...

...are led by their doctors to buy expensive medications...

...marketed by powerful pharmaceutical firms.

Some pharmacists convince patients to take a given medication...

...defying the doctor who administers it with specific instructions...

...thus creating conflicts between the patient and that doctor.

According to pharmacists, the scarcity of drugs hasn’t led to excessive pricing.

Yet, exploitation is certainly not nonexistent.

In the majority of these pharmacies, medications are offered...

...at market prices, even when they are refundable.

Despite the fact that all citizens are legally...

...entitled to refunds for their medications...

...in many cases, pharmacies offer them at full price.

Citizens are thus forced to pay, despite being insured.

The patients who are cared for in hospitals...

...fall victim to the drug market, in terms of pricing.

This has become apparent as hospitals...

...are experiencing a notable lack of medicinal drugs.

Profiting from this situation...

...after examining their patients...

...the physicians recommend to the patients...

...even the pharmacies where they ought to purchase the medications...

...convincing them, that these are the only locations, where they can buy such drugs.

According to citizens, usually these pharmacies...

...belong to the doctors who are examining...

...or providing other services for them.

Are you aware that a large number of pharmacies are owned by physicians...

...and because of the lack of medications in hospitals...

...these white coats oblige their patients...

...to buy medications in their own pharmacies?

-When you were a baby, we'd take you on strolls.

We had a half broken stroller.

Once, you fell from your stroller.

You had a bump right on your head.

-You’ve told this story a hundred times.

It's obvious that you were irresponsible parents.

-We’ll see what happens when you become a parent.

-What is she doing here?

-Who, Sara?

The driver will take her to the hospital.

Her mother has been admitted to my department.

How about you, have you adopted all the street kids around here?

You’ve become like a film star.

What are those little deliquents doing around here?

They will get used to staying around all day!

Be a little more responsible...

-How about yourself, are you adopting your medical students?

-Why weren’t you at work now?

Good night.

-Hello, how are you? -Fine.

-Is Sara here? -No, I think she’s off today.

-I’m not here to rob the pharmacy.

-Everything is allowed here.

Theft is an obligation.

Except for Gjergji’s bicycle.

-So, it’s Gjergji’s?

I thought it was yours.

-Since I got it, I’ve never heard it sing.

Does it even sing?

-I think so.

-Are you sure?

-No.

-Do you think it's male or female?

-I've never heard it either.

-Well...

...let's wait until it starts singing.

-Then what?

-Then we’ll set it free, right there.

-Aren't they going to build new apartment blocks over there?

-I don't know.

I think they'll build a ring-road.

Have you seen that Hitchcock film?

-No.

The Birds.

-Good evening...

-Hi Sara, what's up?

-How are you doing? -I’m dying, exhausted...

-You can’t wait, you wanna get out of here?

-I just want to get out a bit earlier today.

-I could stay at the reception if you wish. -No, I have to stay for another hour.

What’s up with you?

-Nothing special.

-Long time no see.

-We haven't seen much of you for a while. -Long time no see.

-We haven't seen much of you for a while.

-I'm working all day long. There are people coming here all the time.

-I’m going to go buy a pack of cigarettes.

I came as a couple.

-What happens now?

-Whatever you wish.

We offer tonifying, relaxing massages and facial masks.

-Where is Sara? -She's over there.

-Is that the mudd that allegedly slims one down?

-It comes from the Dead Sea.

Do you want to try it?

-How long would I need to keep it on?

-Fifteen, twenty minutes...

You can stay even longer if you want.

Wanna try it?

-Fine.

-Take the mudd pot, please.

-Have you thought of me?

-How many treatments has your mother had this far?

-She just finished the second round.

Now she needs the third.

It’s very costly.

You know, the targeted therapy.

-So now it’s the last one left?

-Yes...

...but it’s not certain whether it will be effective.

-It's been found?

-It’s difficult, but it's been promised.

Even if we find it...

...it's not a safeguard.

-Sokrat has talked to me about you.

Do you know what’s being said about you and my father?

-What's being said?

-Whatever...

...Sokrat's a good doctor, he’ll do his best.

-I know.

-What kind of relationship do you and Sokrat have?

-A good one.

-I believe it is quite a good one...

...it’s my impression that you are quite close.

-What has Sokrat told you, in what sense?

-What has he told you?

-You tell me.

-I’m freezing.

-Fine, take a hot shower.

-Since you want to know, I’ll ask just one thing.

Please, let’s not ever have this conversation again.

I don't know how our relationship will evolve.

Your father has been very good to me.

He’s helped me with school.

He's said that he’ll help me this year as well.

Even though I have to work, since I haven't got anybody else.

He’s helped my mother.

He has found, very expensive treatments.

He got the first two, which were very expensive.

He’s been there for me.

He’s been kind about everything.

You’re special, he tells me, the hospital is not for you.

We have a normal relationship.

On the other hand, he has hit on me. Yes, it’s true.

I won’t say how.

He’s come on to me, but I’ve ignored it...

...or tried to.

Thinking that every man in his place would do the same.

I’ve thought that he is quite lonely.

Perhaps, to justify him.

There have been moments when he has provoked me.

Sometimes...

...he has threatened me.

However, I’ve tried not to take it too seriously.

-What has he offered you help for?

-I have told him that I'm self-sufficient.

And that I don’t need anyone’s help.

What has he told you?

This is the truth.

-This story continues?

-Which story?

-Does it continue?

There are moments when it ends...

There are moments when it begins again.

-So, you came close to me, to protect yourself from him?

-I'm not garbage.

-The times that I’d skip class in primary school, I’d come here.

I was sure that nobody would find me.

Not even Sokrat.

-I can’t stand looking at animals in cages.

Sherif!

What's new?

-Nothing.

I’m going for a coffee.

-How about a roundabout?

-No, I'm moving on.

Let’s take a hike, the three of us.

-My mansion's over there.

-Where?

-Over there.

Branko!

Branko!

-Yeah, what? -I’m here to get the bicycle.

-What?

-My bicycle is at the pharmacy.

-Alright.

-Who is it? -Gjergji, he wants the bike.

Come on, grab the keys.

I don’t want to be late for work.

-Are you the son of Dr. Sokrat?

Your father told me that, he couldn’t wait for you.

-Was he accompanied? -No, he was alone.

-Did he eat by himself here? -No, today he didn’t sit down at all.

But your lunch has been paid for.

Will you sit down?

We have different kinds of seafood.

Lobster, bass, bream, mussels.

We have venison, lamb, pork.

Whatever you want.

Traditional cuisine, Italian, French, Turkish.

-What’s your house wine? -Australian Shiraz.

-Thank you. -Goodbye.

-Something is bothering you.

-No, there's nothing.

-Sorry that I asked.

-You see...

Sara’s mother is hospitalized in my father’s ward.

According to her...

...my father has asked her to sleep with him.

He’s using that to pressure her.

However, I know my father enough to know that...

...if he could save a person’s life, he would.

From what Sokrat has told me...

...Sara’s mother will probably not survive.

She says, “It’s in Sokrat’s hand.”

It's probably wishful thinking, but...

...regardless the circumstances...

...it does not preclude that Sokrat...

...has solicited her.

I don’t know what to believe.

-Perhaps that’s not exactly true.

Maybe she has misunderstood him.

Who knows what the situation really is.

-That's hot air.

-Things are not to be taken personally, however they turn out to be.

It takes a long time to know who people really are.

Trust takes a life time to gain.

You want things to happen immediately...

...as you wish them to be.

...but no...

...you got to have belief...

...to know what the truth really is.

-I don't know.

-Truthfulness...

...and sincerity are the only remedies for these things.

-The truth and nothing but the truth, right?

Or am I out of my mind?

-How would I know?

I come from the middle of nowhere.

Maybe I don’t know much about these things.

But, when you meet real love...

...everything becomes clear.

-Have you ever really loved, Sherif?

-I...

...do not understand people, at all.

Gjergji, will you come with us?

-Where’s your dad? -He left with mom.

-When will they return?

-I don't know.

-Which way are we going?

-Come change in the girls’ room.

-No.

-Come and take a shower! -No.

Hey guys...

Gjergji come here, I won’t look at your wiener.

-Don't drink the water, it's chlorinated!

Good.

It's ice cold...

The water is cold.

-Let's go to the sauna.

This one's cold.

You knew that he was coming and you brought us here?

Please take me home.

I do not need this situation. Please take me home.

I do not need this situation.

-Why what's wrong?

-Did you put all the documents and the invoices in the bag?

-Yes, it's all in the bag.

-Did you make a slate? -No.

-No itemizing either, I guess.

Have you ever watered those lemons?

-Sure, I water those lemons every day.

-Great, don't ever do it.

Go turn on the water.

What is going on here?

What are these prescripitons?

Don’t you know that nobody accepts them?

-The partial or the totally reimbursable ones?

-The reimbursables.

You are completely useless.

I just don't get it. It blows my mind.

-You really mean it?

Listen I have wanted to say this for a while...

Do not bring expired medications in the pharmacy any more!

-How's that?

Expired medicine?

I provide you with expired medicine?

Have you no shame?

-If not fully expired, they are very close to their expiration date.

Don’t bring me such medicine again!

-What are you talking about?

Are you out of your mind?

Aren't you capable of auditing the dates?

Check the date!

-This is idle talk. - It’s not idle talk at all.

-Is that so?

Because you are spending all day, thinking about the zoo...

...the lion, the fox, the wolf.

Learn to work.

Do you get it?

-To work?

Do you call that work?

I stand there as a stump.

-Well then...

Just quit.

If you can’t do it, just quit.

-I could have picked any career.

You brought me here, to use me for your frauds.

You needed an idiot to sign your documents.

You think that I am a fool...

-Hey you...

Useless squirt.

You drug addict.

You degenerate!

You scum! You junkie!

How do you dare talk to me like that!

I have been working for forty years.

I’ve invested an entire life for my career, and you dare raise such issues.

Idiot!

How dare you moralize me, your face.

Instead of focusing on that work...

...that your mother and father have left you after thousands of sacrifices.

That pharmacy, which everyone would dream about to have.

Instead of getting up and banging your head on the wall.

Working, creating, competing with your peers.

You treat the pharmacy as though it were a night club.

With dirty windows, plastic curtains...

...stinking of tobacco... where any...

...trash from the street can enter.

How dare you moralize me.

Your face!

I’ve been working my whole life, and I've been where you can’t even imagine.

I’ve been to every shithole village and I’ve plunged in dirt.

Everyone, everywhere respects me!

You didn’t want to stay in the U.S., you came here.

Because you didn’t have the balls!

You couldn’t make it without daddy!

You spoiled brat!

Your friends are finishing...

Yale and Oxford.

To hell with your worthless schooling.

Your photography.

Your philosophy.

You put venom in your parents’ lives.

Go make me a coffee, hurry!

-Fuck off, douchebag!

-I need your signature.

You need to sign all of them.

-Do you remember that riddle?

In a boat for two...

A wolf, a sheep and a cabbage need to cross the river...

-Shall we eat the fish?

-You didn’t tell me what you think about Sara?

-Who?

Sara.

- Why are you putting on a show?

You know her well. You are helping her mother.

-She’s my student...

I will help her mother.

I discharged her mother from the hospital.

-You discharged her? -Yes.

-When?

-This morning,

There's no reason for her to be hospitalized.

-So you think she’s hopeless?

-Her mother’s condition is grave. It’s unlikely that she’ll survive.

-I’m talking about her daughter.

-She’s not that worth being talked about.

-Does this topic tire you?

-Very much so.

-Why?

-How come, that you keep asking like a kid.

If you have something going over there, that’s your own business.

I don’t care about your little love stories.

How come that you are so insecure?

-Insecure about what? -Because you keep asking questions.

I don't know anything, at all.

I do not care for my student's personal affairs.

That doesn’t suit a man.

-Are you sure that you are that correct?

However...

I hope that one thing remains clear to you.

This story should remain only an adventure.

Listen to your old man.

Only an adventure.

Tomorrow, go to Saranda.

Do something worthwhile.

-Good morning.

-I’m getting the prescriptions that were here.

I’m going to do the month-end closing later today.

You didn’t go to Saranda

-I’m not your attendant.

-So, you didn't go.

-No.

-Shall we take a look at the apartments you’ve seen?

-One of them is right here, on the sixth floor.

It's owner left, its for sale.

It’s sort of an attic.

The another one is a bit further.

-Fine.

In spite of everything, tomorrow you should go to Saranda.

We’ll make a decision, when you return.

Have a nice day.

-Can I find Sara around here?

-Her mother has been discharged. She has taken a few days off.

-How is she?

-She's alright.

-Did she finish the treatment?

-Well I hope so, but I'm not exactly sure.

-Thanks. -You're welcome.

-Hello.

-I am a friend of Branko’s.

-You are Branko’s friend?

Please, sit down.

-Thank you.

-What is your name?

-Sherif.

I don’t know where to start, so I am going to ask you directly.

Are you aware...

...of Branko’s relationship with Sara?

-I know that they stay together.

I know that she is a nurse here.

Of course that you know.

-Excuse me?

-I am aware of your relationship with a girl here.

I am aware of your relationship.

I don’t know...

...the extent to which your son is aware of it.

That is why I’ve come to talk to you.

-My duty is to treat people.

That is my job.

I’ve worked in this hospital for forty years.

This hospital is everything that I have.

This is all that I have.

Everything that I have attained is...

...what you see, me, right here.

I have worked very hard to attain it.

For forty years, have I lived, in this hospital.

I don’t know what I’ve been like as a father.

But, everything that I have, I have it because I deserve it.

Anyone can come to this hospital.

In my room.

To make appeals about whatever they want.

Yet, this hospital is mine.

With all the suffering that it contains.

With all the despair.

The hopes.

The pain.

The anguish.

It is mine.

I know the value of life...

...better than anyone.

But, I’m of a certain age...

...and I can not leave this.

I can not escape from this world, which has kept my life hostage.

Here...

I do as I wish.

This is my home.

Do you understand that?

With all the people I’ve seen...

...to live, or die...

Do you know what the greatest fear is?

It is not death.

It is...

Loneliness.

I’ve saved many people and many lives.

But no one can save you, from the terror of loneliness.

Loneliness...

An invisible monster which is with you in every moment.

As a curse.

It humiliates you.

It depraves, it pollutes...

It takes you outside of yourself.

It turns you upside down.

It makes you stick your nose in what doesn’t concern you.

Loneliness.

A revenant.

Deforming you, unexpectedly.

You try to escape.

Precisely, at the same moment...

You err.

I...

I'm not a philosopher.

I’m exactly what you said, a mere policeman.

I’ll tell you only one thing.

Let go of that girl.

Good night.

-I am looking for nurse Sara.

Where can i find her? I was told she is on call.

-Yes, she is here. Check out at the fourth floor.

Third door on your left.

-Thank you.

-How are you Sherif?

Why are you here?

-For what reason?

To see you.

-To see me?

Perhaps now it’s not the right time.

We could leave it for later.

-Why later? What’s going on?

-What’s going on Sara?

-What do you mean?

-We could leave it for later.

-What do you mean with later? What’s going on?

Follow me.

What’s concerning you?

I’ve seen you with Sokrat these days...

...walking around.

-So what?

Sherif.

The doctor has promised that he’ll help my mother.

Without going through all the formalities.

If it were for formalities, her turn may never come.

I can only hope, that they will take care of my mom.

What happens, is that they move you along the line.

It’s not like a crime is being committed.

It is an exception that's being made on my behalf.

Sokrat categorically demands, that the word doesn’t come out.

This is why he has come to talk to me these days.

-Only about that?

-I love Branko.

If this gets out, my mother is hopeless.

I don't understand, why you’ve gotten involved.

These are my concerns.

This is my life, and you are all forcing me to bring you here.

The doctor knows about my relationship with Branko.

I don’t know why he doesn’t his son to know.

I don’t know why he doesn’t want Branko to know.

Maybe when all of this is over, I will tell him.

-Why did you tell him, that his father has come on to you?

I don’t know what to say.

It seems like saving my mother’s life, is taking my own life.

Because, everybody is a coward.

Everyone is afraid.

Afraid of this, afraid of that.

He asked me and I confirmed it.

Because it is true.

Wait!

I love Branko.

Stay.

- Why have you disappeared?

-I needed time to think.

-Did you think enough?

-It’s beautiful here.

-Do you want some water?

Have you fucked Sokrat?

Have you fucked Sokrat?

Have you fucked Sokrat?

Say, "Yes, I have fucked Sokrat".

Say, "I have fucked Sokrat".

Have you fucked Sokrat?

No.

Say, that you love only me.

Say, "I'm a whore".

Say, that you love only me.

Say, that you love only me.

-I love only you.

-Say, that you love only me!

Say, that you love only me.

I love only you.

-I am going to the zoo.

Have you told me the truth?

Have you told me the truth?

What is the truth?