1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:16,354 --> 00:00:19,106 [knocking] 4 00:00:21,817 --> 00:00:25,613 [interposing voices] 5 00:00:32,078 --> 00:00:33,871 TEACHER: Please stop throwing those, unless you want to stay 6 00:00:34,163 --> 00:00:35,498 after and clean up my room. 7 00:00:35,790 --> 00:00:36,541 Thank you. 8 00:00:36,832 --> 00:00:38,376 OK, settle down, please. 9 00:00:38,668 --> 00:00:39,252 Excuse me. 10 00:00:39,544 --> 00:00:40,461 Settle down, please. 11 00:00:40,753 --> 00:00:42,630 Bobby, can you bring me that phone? 12 00:00:42,922 --> 00:00:44,090 Bring me the phone, please. 13 00:00:44,382 --> 00:00:45,841 You can pick it up at the office end of the day. 14 00:00:56,310 --> 00:00:57,603 Selfie! 15 00:00:57,895 --> 00:00:59,355 Just one, just one! I was just-- 16 00:00:59,647 --> 00:01:00,273 Mhm. 17 00:01:00,565 --> 00:01:02,900 Sit down, sit down. 18 00:01:03,192 --> 00:01:06,028 OK, so nothing here is as it seems. 19 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:13,286 Like Edgar, who seems-- Ladies, are you taking notes? 20 00:01:13,578 --> 00:01:14,245 GIRL: Yeah! 21 00:01:14,537 --> 00:01:15,538 Can I have that, please? 22 00:01:18,708 --> 00:01:20,501 I'll take both of them, thank you. 23 00:01:20,793 --> 00:01:23,129 GIRL: Oh, um, OK. 24 00:01:23,421 --> 00:01:24,088 Can you take your hat off? 25 00:01:29,594 --> 00:01:32,263 Just as Edgar, who seems weak in the beginning of the play, 26 00:01:32,555 --> 00:01:34,932 compared to his power-crazy brother Edmund, 27 00:01:35,224 --> 00:01:37,310 he turns out to be one of the heroes of the play, 28 00:01:37,602 --> 00:01:40,813 but only after he's disguised as Poor Tom. 29 00:01:41,105 --> 00:01:42,523 Eventually, he stands up to his brother. 30 00:01:42,815 --> 00:01:44,358 He tells him the truth, and he kicks his butt. 31 00:01:44,650 --> 00:01:45,735 It's like the guy said in the article-- 32 00:01:46,861 --> 00:01:48,654 TEACHER: Hand, please. 33 00:01:48,946 --> 00:01:50,072 Yes, [inaudible]. 34 00:01:50,364 --> 00:01:51,282 That's like what the guy said in the article 35 00:01:51,574 --> 00:01:52,533 that you gave us last week. 36 00:01:52,825 --> 00:01:53,534 Which guy? 37 00:01:53,826 --> 00:01:55,036 MOUSSA: The Wilde guy. 38 00:01:55,328 --> 00:01:57,204 [sigh] 39 00:01:57,496 --> 00:01:58,623 The Wilde guy said a lot of stuff. 40 00:01:58,914 --> 00:01:59,915 Which are you talking about? 41 00:02:00,207 --> 00:02:04,712 Yeah, but he said, um-- Oscar Wilde. 42 00:02:05,004 --> 00:02:05,880 TEACHER: Yes. 43 00:02:06,172 --> 00:02:10,343 He says, uh, "Give a man a mask 44 00:02:10,635 --> 00:02:14,221 and he'll tell you the truth." 45 00:02:14,513 --> 00:02:16,015 It's like Edgar. 46 00:02:16,307 --> 00:02:17,433 Edgar's only going to-- 47 00:02:17,725 --> 00:02:18,684 MOUSSA: --tell you the truth if he's pretending 48 00:02:18,976 --> 00:02:19,894 to be somebody he's not. 49 00:02:20,186 --> 00:02:20,895 And I'm pretending to be someone 50 00:02:21,187 --> 00:02:22,813 who gives a shit about this. 51 00:02:23,105 --> 00:02:25,816 Bobby, I've heard enough from you for one day, OK? 52 00:02:26,108 --> 00:02:28,944 If I hear from you again, you're going to the office. 53 00:02:29,236 --> 00:02:30,446 Please don't make me send you to the office. 54 00:02:33,908 --> 00:02:34,659 I'm sorry. 55 00:02:34,950 --> 00:02:36,952 That's exactly like Edgar. 56 00:02:37,244 --> 00:02:38,663 Thank you. 57 00:02:38,954 --> 00:02:41,707 Just as the fool is probably the sanest person in King Lear, 58 00:02:41,999 --> 00:02:45,670 Edgar is maybe the most authentic, 59 00:02:45,961 --> 00:02:50,049 even though he's hiding his real self from the world. 60 00:02:50,341 --> 00:02:51,717 Well done. 61 00:02:52,009 --> 00:02:54,553 [bell ringing] 62 00:02:54,845 --> 00:02:59,892 So I found these online. 63 00:03:00,184 --> 00:03:03,396 They're private scholarships for college. 64 00:03:03,688 --> 00:03:05,898 Rich families who don't ask for a social security number. 65 00:03:08,818 --> 00:03:10,236 - Thank you. - Mm-hmm. 66 00:03:10,528 --> 00:03:11,862 And there are copies there for Sophie and Alyssa, also. 67 00:03:13,531 --> 00:03:14,949 All right. 68 00:03:15,241 --> 00:03:17,076 You guys have your meeting today in Manhattan, right? 69 00:03:17,368 --> 00:03:18,035 Yeah. 70 00:03:18,327 --> 00:03:20,204 How you feeling? 71 00:03:20,496 --> 00:03:21,122 All right. 72 00:03:21,414 --> 00:03:22,790 We'll see what he says. 73 00:03:23,082 --> 00:03:24,917 Well, he's a good guy, so let me know what happens, OK? 74 00:03:27,461 --> 00:03:28,671 Tell me, why is it you're the only one who 75 00:03:28,963 --> 00:03:31,799 does the extra reading I give the class? 76 00:03:32,091 --> 00:03:34,885 Well, my sister never lets me watch what I want on TV, 77 00:03:35,177 --> 00:03:36,971 so what else am I going to do? 78 00:03:43,978 --> 00:03:45,646 Genocide is good. 79 00:03:45,938 --> 00:03:49,275 Genital mutilation also helps. Dictator's the best. 80 00:03:54,113 --> 00:03:56,407 Not going lie to you, this is not going to be easy, 81 00:03:56,699 --> 00:04:02,204 and each of your cases is obviously very different. 82 00:04:02,496 --> 00:04:05,291 I asked Jackie if I could meet with you together initially, 83 00:04:05,583 --> 00:04:07,501 but we'll be meeting separately from now on, you know, 84 00:04:07,793 --> 00:04:09,545 one on one. 85 00:04:09,837 --> 00:04:12,882 But just for today, I assume you all trust each other? 86 00:04:13,174 --> 00:04:15,426 I trust them more than I trust you. 87 00:04:15,718 --> 00:04:17,887 That's understandable. 88 00:04:18,179 --> 00:04:20,765 So, here's the deal. 89 00:04:21,056 --> 00:04:23,517 There has to be an official history of violence or abuse 90 00:04:23,809 --> 00:04:25,686 toward your family in your country of origin. 91 00:04:25,978 --> 00:04:28,355 Murders, disappearances, incarcerations of at least one 92 00:04:28,647 --> 00:04:29,648 of your relatives. 93 00:04:29,940 --> 00:04:31,317 I have to stress to the judge that you 94 00:04:31,609 --> 00:04:35,571 put one foot back in that border and you are done with. 95 00:04:35,863 --> 00:04:38,073 Now, political asylum isn't the only way to go, 96 00:04:38,365 --> 00:04:41,786 but it's my understanding it's best for, you know, 97 00:04:42,077 --> 00:04:45,748 young people like you. 98 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:47,875 So, let's see we got. 99 00:04:50,377 --> 00:04:51,045 Moussa? 100 00:04:51,337 --> 00:04:51,962 Moussa? 101 00:04:52,254 --> 00:04:52,880 Yep. 102 00:04:55,341 --> 00:04:58,969 And don't do your prepared thing, you know. 103 00:04:59,261 --> 00:05:00,429 I don't want to know your whole life story, 104 00:05:00,721 --> 00:05:01,889 just tell me the facts that can help. 105 00:05:04,642 --> 00:05:07,645 Well, I didn't know that I was illegal until last year, 106 00:05:07,937 --> 00:05:09,271 my junior year. 107 00:05:09,563 --> 00:05:11,440 That's when I needed my social security 108 00:05:11,732 --> 00:05:14,068 number to apply to colleges. 109 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,155 My mom brought my sister and I here to America, the Bronx, 110 00:05:18,447 --> 00:05:22,827 when I was-- about 10 years ago. 111 00:05:23,118 --> 00:05:25,746 She said that it was to get a real education 112 00:05:26,038 --> 00:05:28,916 and to get my sister's eyes fixed. 113 00:05:29,208 --> 00:05:29,959 She has trouble seeing. 114 00:05:33,420 --> 00:05:39,093 But it was all-- There were just some other reasons, too. 115 00:05:39,385 --> 00:05:40,010 Such as? 116 00:05:44,056 --> 00:05:45,266 All right. 117 00:05:45,558 --> 00:05:47,351 I mean, we can handle this in our one on one. 118 00:05:47,643 --> 00:05:48,227 Her husband. 119 00:05:51,272 --> 00:05:56,026 My sekou my step father. 120 00:05:56,318 --> 00:05:56,986 He was already here. 121 00:05:57,278 --> 00:05:59,446 We came here to join him. 122 00:05:59,738 --> 00:06:03,617 And about a year after we got here, 123 00:06:03,909 --> 00:06:09,039 like right after my mom had my little brother, sekou, he left. 124 00:06:09,331 --> 00:06:09,957 He went back to Guinea. 125 00:06:12,918 --> 00:06:15,713 He took on another wife. 126 00:06:16,005 --> 00:06:17,590 He lied about having papers. 127 00:06:17,882 --> 00:06:18,966 Mm-hmm. 128 00:06:19,258 --> 00:06:20,217 He just lied about everything, and so he 129 00:06:20,509 --> 00:06:21,260 left us here with nothing. 130 00:06:25,097 --> 00:06:25,806 Great, great. 131 00:06:26,098 --> 00:06:28,017 That's a good start. 132 00:06:28,309 --> 00:06:28,934 Alyssa? 133 00:06:29,226 --> 00:06:29,810 Alyssa? 134 00:06:33,272 --> 00:06:37,151 Um, I can't remember it, to be honest. 135 00:06:37,443 --> 00:06:38,068 I was too young. 136 00:06:41,030 --> 00:06:43,449 We flew out on my dad's work permit when I was four 137 00:06:43,741 --> 00:06:45,868 and my sister Lola was nine. 138 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,579 My dad worked for the airlines, and my mom had to come 139 00:06:48,871 --> 00:06:51,165 to the US a year before. 140 00:06:51,457 --> 00:06:55,836 So Lola had to make a decision for both of us. 141 00:06:56,128 --> 00:07:00,591 My mother here, or my father there. 142 00:07:00,883 --> 00:07:04,637 And my aunt, my mom's sister, she lives in Miami, 143 00:07:04,929 --> 00:07:09,433 and she told Lola not to look at it as choosing parents, 144 00:07:09,725 --> 00:07:14,355 but choosing a good job, and college, 145 00:07:14,647 --> 00:07:18,025 and living in a house with electricity. 146 00:07:18,317 --> 00:07:23,405 So when we landed in JFK, no one was there to meet us. 147 00:07:23,697 --> 00:07:27,076 And then Lola found out that my mom was at her babysitting job, 148 00:07:27,368 --> 00:07:29,745 and she was scared to tell her boss 149 00:07:30,037 --> 00:07:33,666 about her own baby's arrival. 150 00:07:33,958 --> 00:07:40,589 So, Lola stood there with me, terrified. 151 00:07:40,881 --> 00:07:43,133 She thought she made a mistake. 152 00:07:43,425 --> 00:07:44,677 And, I mean, it was too late. 153 00:07:44,969 --> 00:07:47,304 We couldn't go back. 154 00:07:47,596 --> 00:07:49,974 So, she chose wrong. 155 00:07:50,265 --> 00:07:52,267 [phone ringing] 156 00:07:52,559 --> 00:07:53,185 Sorry, Alyssa. 157 00:07:53,477 --> 00:07:54,895 Sorry, two seconds. 158 00:07:55,187 --> 00:07:56,814 Sorry. 159 00:07:57,106 --> 00:07:57,731 Hey, Murray. 160 00:07:58,023 --> 00:08:00,818 Where we at? 161 00:08:01,110 --> 00:08:01,735 Yeah. 162 00:08:02,027 --> 00:08:04,071 No, I know that. 163 00:08:04,363 --> 00:08:05,531 No, I know. 164 00:08:05,823 --> 00:08:06,615 That, that's not the point. No, this is not-- 165 00:08:06,907 --> 00:08:07,825 [clearing throat] 166 00:08:08,117 --> 00:08:08,993 No, we're not going to start talking 167 00:08:09,284 --> 00:08:10,077 like we're going to do a trade-off 168 00:08:10,369 --> 00:08:11,495 with exchange students. 169 00:08:11,787 --> 00:08:13,455 This is a international communications company, 170 00:08:13,747 --> 00:08:16,792 and if they want these specialists in the country, 171 00:08:17,084 --> 00:08:18,919 they're going to have to do the paperwork to get it done. 172 00:08:22,339 --> 00:08:25,300 Yeah, now, I'm aware of that. 173 00:08:25,592 --> 00:08:27,219 Hey, Murray, my case, my call. 174 00:08:27,511 --> 00:08:28,637 OK? 175 00:08:28,929 --> 00:08:30,139 You're just there in the media as my proxy today. 176 00:08:30,431 --> 00:08:37,563 I'd be there, but I-- I have this-- Murray, look. 177 00:08:37,855 --> 00:08:40,232 Do what I'm saying, OK? 178 00:08:40,524 --> 00:08:42,443 Do what I'm saying, OK? 179 00:08:42,735 --> 00:08:43,569 Great. 180 00:08:43,861 --> 00:08:44,486 Thank you, go. 181 00:08:49,241 --> 00:08:50,659 OK. 182 00:08:50,951 --> 00:08:51,702 I should-- OK. 183 00:08:51,994 --> 00:08:52,745 Sophie, go. 184 00:08:53,037 --> 00:08:54,163 My sister has papers, though. 185 00:08:54,455 --> 00:08:56,290 She married an American guy, Chris, he's great. 186 00:08:56,582 --> 00:08:59,084 And my aunt is covering her college tuition. 187 00:08:59,376 --> 00:09:00,919 My mom has a layaway for me. 188 00:09:01,211 --> 00:09:06,383 Um, I really want to major in medical technology, so. 189 00:09:06,675 --> 00:09:08,427 Yeah. 190 00:09:08,719 --> 00:09:09,344 Great. 191 00:09:12,514 --> 00:09:14,558 Sophie. 192 00:09:14,850 --> 00:09:15,476 Go. 193 00:09:18,562 --> 00:09:20,564 You got a girlfriend? 194 00:09:20,856 --> 00:09:23,233 No. 195 00:09:23,525 --> 00:09:25,611 You want me to find a girlfriend? 196 00:09:25,903 --> 00:09:26,779 MAN: No. 197 00:09:27,071 --> 00:09:28,822 I could, no problem. 198 00:09:29,114 --> 00:09:30,908 There are women, like, all over my projects. 199 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:32,618 Not just the ugly, dirty, desperate ones 200 00:09:32,910 --> 00:09:33,994 that would take anybody. 201 00:09:34,286 --> 00:09:34,870 You want me to sort something out, I can. 202 00:09:39,041 --> 00:09:40,834 OK. 203 00:09:41,126 --> 00:09:46,006 So, for the next time we meet, uh, on one on one, 204 00:09:46,298 --> 00:09:47,424 I want you guys to go ahead and bring me 205 00:09:47,716 --> 00:09:49,927 in a list of the names of all your family 206 00:09:50,219 --> 00:09:51,428 that are still in the old country. 207 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,181 Dates of disappearances, murders, 208 00:09:54,473 --> 00:09:55,557 incarcerations, like I said. 209 00:09:55,849 --> 00:09:57,267 The picture we have to paint for the judge 210 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:01,188 is that, you know, you guys go back there, you're buried. 211 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,692 Newspaper clippings, or links to websites, you know, 212 00:10:05,984 --> 00:10:06,735 newspaper websites. 213 00:10:07,027 --> 00:10:08,737 What about, like, straight As? 214 00:10:09,029 --> 00:10:10,906 I heard that helps when you apply. 215 00:10:11,198 --> 00:10:15,494 Um, like, what if you're like the smartest kid in your class, 216 00:10:15,786 --> 00:10:17,746 and have perfect attendance, does that help? 217 00:10:18,038 --> 00:10:20,207 It's more about genocide, genital mutilation, 218 00:10:20,499 --> 00:10:21,291 and dictators. 219 00:10:24,086 --> 00:10:27,464 So, until you meet next time, don't do anything wrong. 220 00:10:27,756 --> 00:10:29,758 I mean, swipe your metro card. 221 00:10:30,050 --> 00:10:31,552 That means you're buying things you need. 222 00:10:31,844 --> 00:10:33,470 Buy quickly, don't gather in groups in the street-- 223 00:10:33,762 --> 00:10:34,930 Yeah, we know, man. 224 00:10:35,222 --> 00:10:36,306 No you don't. 225 00:10:36,598 --> 00:10:38,517 Nobody knows how to handle this situation. 226 00:10:38,809 --> 00:10:41,270 We're all just, you know, schlumping 227 00:10:41,562 --> 00:10:43,313 along as best we can. 228 00:10:43,605 --> 00:10:45,107 That's not what I mean. 229 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:46,108 Schlump. 230 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,527 What is the-- What is the-- 231 00:10:48,819 --> 00:10:50,154 SOPHIE: Shlep. 232 00:10:50,445 --> 00:10:51,029 Schlep. 233 00:10:54,575 --> 00:10:55,576 Do you think that guy was focused? 234 00:10:58,787 --> 00:11:00,372 I hope he knows what he's doing. 235 00:11:00,664 --> 00:11:01,832 Yo, he better. 236 00:11:02,124 --> 00:11:05,127 I hear the food in the detention center sucks. 237 00:11:05,419 --> 00:11:08,088 [city sounds] 238 00:11:21,143 --> 00:11:21,852 [laughter] 239 00:11:22,144 --> 00:11:22,769 MAMA: Amadou, come here. 240 00:11:23,061 --> 00:11:24,062 Come here! 241 00:11:24,354 --> 00:11:26,481 Oh, Amadou, come here, you messy boy. 242 00:11:26,773 --> 00:11:27,357 Hello, Mina. 243 00:11:27,649 --> 00:11:29,568 Amadou, it's bath time. 244 00:11:29,860 --> 00:11:32,487 Amadou! 245 00:11:32,779 --> 00:11:33,947 Armina, please, all this noise. 246 00:11:34,239 --> 00:11:34,907 I can't hear myself think. 247 00:11:35,199 --> 00:11:37,451 Turn this down, now. 248 00:11:37,743 --> 00:11:39,661 Armina! 249 00:11:39,953 --> 00:11:42,456 Amadou, Amadou, stop jumping on that bed. 250 00:11:42,748 --> 00:11:44,166 OK, five minutes and then bath time. 251 00:11:49,546 --> 00:11:50,923 Amadou will wake up the landlord, 252 00:11:51,215 --> 00:11:53,008 and we don't have this month's or last month's rent. 253 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:54,968 Amadou, please, stop jumping, OK? 254 00:11:58,388 --> 00:12:00,682 What do you think we should do, huh? 255 00:12:00,974 --> 00:12:02,100 Armina? 256 00:12:02,392 --> 00:12:03,518 I spent the entire day getting six girls ready 257 00:12:03,810 --> 00:12:04,603 for a birthday party. 258 00:12:04,895 --> 00:12:07,147 Oh. 259 00:12:07,439 --> 00:12:08,190 They pay you well? 260 00:12:08,482 --> 00:12:09,066 Psh, no. 261 00:12:09,358 --> 00:12:11,401 Just $50 take home. 262 00:12:11,693 --> 00:12:12,778 Tomorrow I have ten. 263 00:12:13,070 --> 00:12:14,363 A wedding party. 264 00:12:14,655 --> 00:12:16,698 The bride sent me pictures of exactly what she wants. 265 00:12:16,990 --> 00:12:18,325 It should be $200 and tips. 266 00:12:20,994 --> 00:12:22,079 Brides are the most generous. 267 00:12:22,371 --> 00:12:23,205 They think they may actually be happy. 268 00:12:28,126 --> 00:12:29,878 $200 and we're still short. 269 00:12:32,673 --> 00:12:35,717 I don't know which one is better, give him the 200 270 00:12:36,009 --> 00:12:37,469 and have him remember that we owe more, 271 00:12:37,761 --> 00:12:40,681 or just wait until we have everything. 272 00:12:43,809 --> 00:12:44,476 Armina? 273 00:12:44,768 --> 00:12:46,228 Pay him the 200. 274 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,313 Pretend that we are trying. 275 00:12:48,605 --> 00:12:49,731 Maybe he'll feel sorry for us. 276 00:12:54,653 --> 00:12:55,320 Hello! 277 00:12:58,407 --> 00:13:01,159 MOUSSA: My man Amadou! 278 00:13:01,451 --> 00:13:04,997 Oh, I've got you. 279 00:13:05,289 --> 00:13:06,957 Bodyslam! 280 00:13:07,249 --> 00:13:08,375 How was your day in school, Amadou? 281 00:13:08,667 --> 00:13:09,751 - Good. - All right. 282 00:13:10,043 --> 00:13:11,253 Hey, Mama, has anyone in our family 283 00:13:11,545 --> 00:13:12,921 been murdered or locked up? 284 00:13:13,213 --> 00:13:14,381 MAMA: What? 285 00:13:14,673 --> 00:13:15,674 What are you talking about? Amadou, come here. 286 00:13:15,966 --> 00:13:17,592 Go get ready for bath time. 287 00:13:17,884 --> 00:13:20,762 In Guinea. 288 00:13:21,054 --> 00:13:22,431 Has any of our family been locked up or murdered? 289 00:13:22,723 --> 00:13:23,348 MAMA: Stop, stop. 290 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:25,267 Don't talk like that. 291 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:26,518 How did you go with the lawyer? 292 00:13:26,810 --> 00:13:27,728 We need to-- 293 00:13:28,020 --> 00:13:29,771 The lawyer is almost a guarantee. 294 00:13:30,063 --> 00:13:32,816 Two cousins on my father's side, they hired a lawyer 295 00:13:33,108 --> 00:13:34,609 and then they have their papers. 296 00:13:34,901 --> 00:13:37,362 And they have a friend, I think she's from Guinea too, 297 00:13:37,654 --> 00:13:39,364 she's now studying to be a doctor in Pennsylvania. 298 00:13:39,656 --> 00:13:40,991 She's not even as smart as you are. 299 00:13:41,283 --> 00:13:41,867 Oh boy, oh boy. 300 00:13:45,620 --> 00:13:46,913 What? 301 00:13:47,205 --> 00:13:48,040 Please don't tell me you believe those fantasies. 302 00:13:48,332 --> 00:13:49,458 MAMA: Fantasies? 303 00:13:49,750 --> 00:13:50,876 ARMINA: Everybody knows how it really is for us. 304 00:13:51,168 --> 00:13:52,461 What are you talking about? 305 00:13:52,753 --> 00:13:54,171 When you walk down the street near a police officer, 306 00:13:54,463 --> 00:13:55,756 eyes down on the pavement. 307 00:13:56,048 --> 00:13:58,300 You can't travel by bus because you need an ID. 308 00:13:58,592 --> 00:13:59,217 What's your name? 309 00:13:59,509 --> 00:14:00,135 Where are you from? 310 00:14:00,427 --> 00:14:01,470 Where are you going? 311 00:14:01,762 --> 00:14:03,347 Normal questions for everyone except us. 312 00:14:03,638 --> 00:14:07,851 Well, sekou will help us. 313 00:14:08,143 --> 00:14:08,810 ARMINA: Will he? 314 00:14:09,102 --> 00:14:09,728 Armina. 315 00:14:10,020 --> 00:14:10,604 What? 316 00:14:10,896 --> 00:14:11,772 How? 317 00:14:12,064 --> 00:14:13,148 How will the great sekou help us? 318 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:14,858 He would do anything for us. 319 00:14:15,150 --> 00:14:17,361 He's making a lot of money at the moment. 320 00:14:17,652 --> 00:14:19,237 Where? 321 00:14:19,529 --> 00:14:20,155 The borders. 322 00:14:20,447 --> 00:14:21,114 ARMINA: Which borders? 323 00:14:21,406 --> 00:14:22,449 Armina. 324 00:14:22,741 --> 00:14:24,993 He's selling purses and shoes and bags. 325 00:14:25,285 --> 00:14:25,869 ARMINA: Where, Mama? 326 00:14:26,161 --> 00:14:27,537 Which borders? 327 00:14:27,829 --> 00:14:29,539 All those things that people want in those big cities. 328 00:14:29,831 --> 00:14:30,749 - Which big cities? - Armina! 329 00:14:31,041 --> 00:14:32,000 ARMINA: How much money has he sent you 330 00:14:32,292 --> 00:14:33,293 from these great sales, Mama? 331 00:14:33,585 --> 00:14:34,628 Armina, all I have to do is ask him. 332 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:36,213 So ask him! 333 00:14:36,505 --> 00:14:37,214 I'm serious, Mama. 334 00:14:37,506 --> 00:14:38,840 Ask him. 335 00:14:39,132 --> 00:14:40,592 Let's see how much money the great sekou will send us. 336 00:14:40,884 --> 00:14:41,927 He would never desert his family. 337 00:14:42,219 --> 00:14:42,928 ARMINA: [scoffs] Which family? 338 00:14:43,220 --> 00:14:44,679 This one, or his new one? 339 00:14:44,971 --> 00:14:45,639 He's so far away. 340 00:14:45,931 --> 00:14:47,182 He's forgotten all about us. 341 00:14:47,474 --> 00:14:49,976 No matter far away he is, he is still my husband. 342 00:14:50,268 --> 00:14:51,770 Yeah, and He went and got a new wife. 343 00:14:52,062 --> 00:14:52,979 And I am still your mother. 344 00:14:58,902 --> 00:14:59,653 Amadou! 345 00:14:59,945 --> 00:15:00,737 Amadou! 346 00:15:01,029 --> 00:15:01,613 Bath time. 347 00:15:05,659 --> 00:15:06,368 ARMINA: What? 348 00:15:06,660 --> 00:15:09,830 [city sounds] 349 00:15:37,774 --> 00:15:38,483 LITTLE GIRL: Sophie! 350 00:15:38,775 --> 00:15:39,734 Sophie! 351 00:16:21,109 --> 00:16:21,860 Hey. 352 00:16:27,949 --> 00:16:30,452 Hey! 353 00:16:38,710 --> 00:16:39,336 SOPHIE: De nada. 354 00:17:23,922 --> 00:17:25,173 OK. 355 00:18:04,004 --> 00:18:04,754 LITTLE GIRL 1: Pizza! 356 00:18:05,046 --> 00:18:05,672 LITTLE GIRL 2: Pizza! 357 00:18:45,337 --> 00:18:46,338 You're not going to just sit there 358 00:18:46,630 --> 00:18:47,255 and whisper in front of me. 359 00:18:47,547 --> 00:18:48,590 That's rude. 360 00:18:48,882 --> 00:18:50,342 We're doing work. 361 00:18:50,634 --> 00:18:52,802 We were just talking, it had nothing to do with you. 362 00:18:53,094 --> 00:18:54,346 We're having a conversation. 363 00:18:54,638 --> 00:18:55,847 What's her name? 364 00:18:56,139 --> 00:18:57,223 What's her name? 365 00:18:57,515 --> 00:18:58,475 BOY: I'm not telling you what her name is. 366 00:18:58,767 --> 00:18:59,893 Don't make me go through roll call. 367 00:19:00,185 --> 00:19:01,728 What's her name? BOY: You don't have to do that. 368 00:19:02,020 --> 00:19:02,979 BOBBY: She ain't going through roll call. 369 00:19:03,271 --> 00:19:04,397 BOY: You don't have to do that. Listen-- 370 00:19:04,689 --> 00:19:06,024 GIRL 1: Brianna? 371 00:19:06,316 --> 00:19:06,900 Why would I tell-- 372 00:19:07,192 --> 00:19:08,526 Ashley? 373 00:19:08,818 --> 00:19:10,487 Maybe it's Nicole. 374 00:19:10,779 --> 00:19:11,529 Nicole? 375 00:19:11,821 --> 00:19:13,031 BOY: What is wrong with-- Like-- 376 00:19:13,323 --> 00:19:14,240 GIRL 1: Melissa? 377 00:19:14,532 --> 00:19:16,326 Yo, could you guys shut up, please? 378 00:19:16,618 --> 00:19:17,160 Thank you. 379 00:19:17,452 --> 00:19:18,453 Could you mind your business, please? 380 00:19:18,745 --> 00:19:19,162 Are you confused? 381 00:19:20,330 --> 00:19:21,247 ALYSSA: No need to be mean, OK? 382 00:19:21,539 --> 00:19:22,165 What the hell? 383 00:19:22,457 --> 00:19:23,875 Is she your keeper? 384 00:19:24,167 --> 00:19:24,751 That's your mama? 385 00:19:25,043 --> 00:19:26,252 Did she adopt you? 386 00:19:26,544 --> 00:19:27,420 GIRL 2: I'm not being mean, I'm simply reacting. 387 00:19:27,712 --> 00:19:28,213 She's my friend! 388 00:19:28,505 --> 00:19:28,922 GIRL 2: Why, how? 389 00:19:29,214 --> 00:19:29,798 Because she is. 390 00:19:30,090 --> 00:19:30,965 None of your business. 391 00:19:31,257 --> 00:19:32,050 GIRL 3: Alyssa? 392 00:19:32,342 --> 00:19:33,927 She never did anything to me! 393 00:19:34,219 --> 00:19:37,722 Oh my God, I'm about to ram this fucking pencil 394 00:19:38,014 --> 00:19:38,640 down your throat. 395 00:19:38,932 --> 00:19:39,557 Do it! 396 00:19:39,849 --> 00:19:40,642 I fucking dare you! 397 00:19:40,934 --> 00:19:43,603 [shouting] 398 00:19:48,650 --> 00:19:50,151 GIRL 2: No, let it roll. Let it roll. 399 00:19:50,443 --> 00:19:51,903 GIRL 1: I wonder what the fucking [inaudible] is for. 400 00:19:52,195 --> 00:19:54,030 [interposing voices] 401 00:19:55,198 --> 00:19:55,865 Why? 402 00:19:59,577 --> 00:20:01,037 GIRL 4: She's not even worth it. 403 00:20:01,329 --> 00:20:04,708 She's not even worth it. 404 00:20:04,999 --> 00:20:05,792 MAMA: Hello, Louie. 405 00:20:06,084 --> 00:20:07,043 Hello, darling, is Moussa home? 406 00:20:07,335 --> 00:20:08,628 MAMA: No. - He's not here? 407 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:10,171 MAMA: No, why? - All right, good. 408 00:20:13,550 --> 00:20:15,260 You can't just walk into our apartment! 409 00:20:15,552 --> 00:20:16,594 LOUIE: My. - What? 410 00:20:16,886 --> 00:20:17,679 It's my apartment. 411 00:20:17,971 --> 00:20:19,264 Until you pay the rent, then it becomes your apartment. 412 00:20:19,556 --> 00:20:21,057 That's how it works. MAMA: Sh, sh, sh. 413 00:20:21,433 --> 00:20:22,058 LOUIE: So he's not here? 414 00:20:22,350 --> 00:20:22,767 No. 415 00:20:23,059 --> 00:20:23,768 LOUIE: All right, good. 'Cause I don't 416 00:20:24,060 --> 00:20:25,186 need little Rambo trying to save the day, 417 00:20:25,478 --> 00:20:26,730 and I gotta call the cops. Close the door, sweetheart. 418 00:20:27,021 --> 00:20:27,772 You want the whole fucking building 419 00:20:28,064 --> 00:20:28,648 to hear our conversation? 420 00:20:32,110 --> 00:20:32,902 Six weeks? 421 00:20:33,194 --> 00:20:34,487 MAMA: I know. Do you? 422 00:20:34,779 --> 00:20:36,322 MAMA: Yes. - I got bills to pay. 423 00:20:36,614 --> 00:20:37,866 I've got a family. MAMA: I know, I'm sorry. 424 00:20:38,158 --> 00:20:38,992 LOUIE: Are you? 425 00:20:39,284 --> 00:20:39,868 Yes. 426 00:20:41,161 --> 00:20:42,078 LOUIE: Get it. 427 00:20:42,370 --> 00:20:43,663 - Get what? - Yankee tickets. 428 00:20:43,955 --> 00:20:44,622 The money, what do you think? 429 00:20:45,331 --> 00:20:45,957 OK. 430 00:20:53,506 --> 00:21:03,349 I know, it's my fault. You're 300 short. 431 00:21:03,641 --> 00:21:10,398 I know, it's my fault. You're 300 short. 432 00:21:10,690 --> 00:21:11,816 MAMA: I know. 433 00:21:12,108 --> 00:21:14,444 I was waiting until we had all of it. 434 00:21:14,736 --> 00:21:17,238 And you were hoping I'd forget until you did. 435 00:21:17,530 --> 00:21:18,323 MAMA: Yes. 436 00:21:18,615 --> 00:21:20,867 Well, I remembered. 437 00:21:21,159 --> 00:21:21,826 This what you got? 438 00:21:22,118 --> 00:21:22,827 MAMA: Yes. 439 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:24,329 Is it? 440 00:21:24,621 --> 00:21:26,831 All right, the rest in two weeks or you're 441 00:21:27,123 --> 00:21:27,749 MAMA: OK. 442 00:21:38,384 --> 00:21:39,719 Fuck it. 443 00:21:40,011 --> 00:21:41,513 This is everything you got? 444 00:21:41,805 --> 00:21:42,430 MAMA: Yes. 445 00:21:48,561 --> 00:21:49,646 Take it. 446 00:21:49,938 --> 00:21:51,147 I'm a Catholic. 447 00:21:51,439 --> 00:21:52,607 I can't sit upstairs and think of you two 448 00:21:52,899 --> 00:21:54,192 not having food for two weeks. 449 00:21:54,484 --> 00:21:55,860 I got enough to feel guilty about. 450 00:21:56,152 --> 00:21:57,278 But I meant what I said. 451 00:21:57,570 --> 00:21:59,572 Everything in two weeks or I gotta kick you out. 452 00:21:59,864 --> 00:22:00,490 I don't want to be this guy. 453 00:22:00,782 --> 00:22:01,908 You leave me no choice. 454 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,745 You're making me be this guy who I don't like. 455 00:22:06,037 --> 00:22:08,122 Two weeks. 456 00:22:08,414 --> 00:22:09,040 Thank you, Louie. 457 00:22:17,215 --> 00:22:18,299 SOPHIE: Your word against mine. 458 00:22:18,591 --> 00:22:19,551 Come on, I saw you. 459 00:22:19,843 --> 00:22:20,927 Saw me what? 460 00:22:21,219 --> 00:22:22,971 I saw you take that laptop oft of the cart 461 00:22:23,263 --> 00:22:24,681 and put it in your bag. 462 00:22:24,973 --> 00:22:25,682 Whatever. 463 00:22:25,974 --> 00:22:27,767 It's your word against mine. 464 00:22:28,059 --> 00:22:29,143 Sophie, I'm a teacher. 465 00:22:29,435 --> 00:22:31,604 Jackie, I'm an orphan. 466 00:22:31,896 --> 00:22:32,730 You know what? 467 00:22:33,022 --> 00:22:34,524 Don't push me, OK? 468 00:22:34,816 --> 00:22:37,569 A smart girl recognizes when someone's on her side. 469 00:22:37,861 --> 00:22:38,611 This-- 470 00:22:38,903 --> 00:22:40,780 I can tell you what this is. 471 00:22:41,072 --> 00:22:43,116 If the school police caught you, instead of me, 472 00:22:43,408 --> 00:22:45,952 you'd be sitting in custody right now, being shipped 473 00:22:46,244 --> 00:22:47,453 back to the DR within the week. 474 00:22:47,745 --> 00:22:48,788 Does that sound good to you? 475 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,081 No prom. 476 00:22:50,373 --> 00:22:51,583 Goodbye, all your friends. 477 00:22:51,875 --> 00:22:54,294 No graduation. 478 00:22:54,586 --> 00:22:55,378 You're not going to college. 479 00:23:04,596 --> 00:23:06,347 You need to start trusting someone. 480 00:23:06,639 --> 00:23:08,766 I don't even know why Moussa told you in the first place. 481 00:23:09,058 --> 00:23:11,811 Because he needed help, and he thought 482 00:23:12,103 --> 00:23:12,687 you and Alyssa did, too. 483 00:23:22,405 --> 00:23:23,406 When are you going to Isaac's again? 484 00:23:23,698 --> 00:23:24,449 Shit, what does it matter? 485 00:23:24,741 --> 00:23:26,075 Don't swear in my class again. 486 00:23:26,367 --> 00:23:28,036 As if they're going to give papers to someone like me. 487 00:23:28,328 --> 00:23:29,287 They're not going to give you papers 488 00:23:29,579 --> 00:23:30,496 if you keep stealing things. 489 00:23:34,417 --> 00:23:35,835 I can tell a mouse died in this fucking room. 490 00:23:36,127 --> 00:23:37,545 It's like shriveled, like a cafeteria's french fries. 491 00:23:37,837 --> 00:23:39,672 Swear in my class again-- Swear in my class again, 492 00:23:39,964 --> 00:23:41,883 I'm telling you right now, I'm putting you in detention. 493 00:23:42,175 --> 00:23:43,593 Oh my God, detention, oh no. 494 00:23:46,763 --> 00:23:50,016 Sit down. 495 00:23:50,308 --> 00:23:52,143 Sophie, sit down, please. 496 00:23:52,435 --> 00:23:53,061 Sit down! 497 00:23:53,353 --> 00:23:53,937 Sit down! 498 00:23:59,525 --> 00:24:00,735 I can't pay for the lawyer, Jackie. 499 00:24:01,027 --> 00:24:02,946 I know that. 500 00:24:03,237 --> 00:24:05,865 I know that. 501 00:24:06,157 --> 00:24:08,910 I spoke to Isaac, he's happy to help for free. 502 00:24:09,202 --> 00:24:11,913 And worst comes to worst, this goes on, I can help you. 503 00:24:12,205 --> 00:24:15,375 I don't want your charity. 504 00:24:15,667 --> 00:24:16,709 ALYSSA: Am I interrupting? 505 00:24:20,296 --> 00:24:21,047 Nope. 506 00:24:21,339 --> 00:24:21,923 Come on in, Alyssa. 507 00:24:25,885 --> 00:24:27,595 I had something I wanted to show both of you, anyway. 508 00:24:34,268 --> 00:24:37,939 Brochures for City College. 509 00:24:38,231 --> 00:24:38,815 It's pretty, right? 510 00:24:39,107 --> 00:24:40,483 Looks like Harvard. 511 00:24:40,775 --> 00:24:41,943 What would I know what Harvard looks like? 512 00:24:42,235 --> 00:24:43,319 If you've ever seen Harvard in a movie, 513 00:24:43,611 --> 00:24:45,863 it was probably filmed at City College. 514 00:24:46,155 --> 00:24:49,659 This is beautiful, but don't colleges 515 00:24:49,951 --> 00:24:51,494 check immigration status? 516 00:24:51,786 --> 00:24:53,621 Listen, if every City College in New York 517 00:24:53,913 --> 00:24:55,039 got rid of their students without papers, 518 00:24:55,331 --> 00:24:57,000 they would have lecture halls filled with rows 519 00:24:57,291 --> 00:24:58,584 and rows of empty seats. 520 00:25:01,713 --> 00:25:02,422 Give one to Moussa, too. 521 00:25:11,556 --> 00:25:12,348 Bitch. 522 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:13,474 What are you talking about? 523 00:25:13,766 --> 00:25:14,851 She's trying to help us. 524 00:25:15,143 --> 00:25:17,270 She's trying to be fucking Mother Teresa. 525 00:25:17,562 --> 00:25:18,396 I like her. 526 00:25:18,688 --> 00:25:20,648 SOPHIE: You like everybody. 527 00:25:20,940 --> 00:25:24,527 Well, I'm not liking you right now. 528 00:25:24,819 --> 00:25:25,778 Come on. 529 00:25:26,070 --> 00:25:27,530 Let's go see what the idiot's up to. 530 00:25:27,822 --> 00:25:29,407 ALYSSA: Probably with Sarah. 531 00:25:29,699 --> 00:25:30,491 Sarah the psycho? 532 00:25:30,783 --> 00:25:32,160 She's not that bad. 533 00:25:32,452 --> 00:25:34,996 ALYSSA: She's so annoying. 534 00:25:35,288 --> 00:25:37,415 Even her body isn't worth it. 535 00:25:37,707 --> 00:25:39,083 Actually, it kind of is. 536 00:25:39,375 --> 00:25:39,959 I know. 537 00:25:58,061 --> 00:25:59,353 I missed this. 538 00:26:07,028 --> 00:26:09,280 So? 539 00:26:09,572 --> 00:26:10,281 So what? 540 00:26:14,410 --> 00:26:15,119 Is it me? 541 00:26:19,624 --> 00:26:23,127 You'll have to choose. 542 00:26:23,419 --> 00:26:25,088 Do I have to choose right now? 543 00:26:31,594 --> 00:26:33,304 Once I leave, I'm not coming back. 544 00:26:37,308 --> 00:26:39,560 You have to know that. 545 00:26:39,852 --> 00:26:42,688 I'm not going to be in the mountains of Afghanistan 546 00:26:42,980 --> 00:26:46,275 or a desert in Iraq or anything. 547 00:26:46,567 --> 00:26:49,654 Camping out with some dirty, unshaven men. 548 00:26:49,946 --> 00:26:55,576 I'm gonna be on a cozy base in Georgia. 549 00:26:55,868 --> 00:26:58,913 All by myself, cute little car. 550 00:26:59,205 --> 00:27:00,414 Buzz around the city. 551 00:27:13,010 --> 00:27:14,887 I'm not coming back here. 552 00:27:15,179 --> 00:27:16,305 Not even for you. 553 00:27:20,184 --> 00:27:22,019 You lose if you don't sign on now. 554 00:27:30,611 --> 00:27:31,863 You'll miss these beautiful lips. 555 00:27:36,033 --> 00:27:38,286 Come with me. 556 00:27:38,578 --> 00:27:39,453 Sign up with me. 557 00:27:45,626 --> 00:27:47,587 Baby, it ain't that simple. 558 00:27:47,879 --> 00:27:49,463 No, it is. 559 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:50,548 No. 560 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:51,674 No it's not. 561 00:27:54,510 --> 00:27:56,345 Look, I have to take care of my family. 562 00:28:01,267 --> 00:28:02,727 SARAH: I need you to need me. 563 00:28:03,019 --> 00:28:04,478 And I do. 564 00:28:04,770 --> 00:28:05,646 I need you to need me more. 565 00:28:05,938 --> 00:28:09,025 Baby, I do. 566 00:28:09,317 --> 00:28:11,736 Then why have you never once invited me 567 00:28:12,028 --> 00:28:15,031 to your house to meet your mom? 568 00:28:15,323 --> 00:28:17,533 To meet this family you love so much? 569 00:28:23,206 --> 00:28:26,083 I get asked out almost every day by the boys from schools 570 00:28:26,375 --> 00:28:28,252 in our neighborhood. 571 00:28:28,544 --> 00:28:30,379 Most of them have jobs. 572 00:28:30,671 --> 00:28:31,297 That wasn't a threat. 573 00:28:34,759 --> 00:28:36,969 I don't want them. 574 00:28:37,261 --> 00:28:40,097 I want you. 575 00:28:40,389 --> 00:28:41,015 Don't you get that? 576 00:28:46,604 --> 00:28:48,356 Bae, it's not like I can just say to them, 577 00:28:48,648 --> 00:28:51,567 you figure out how to fill in the bank checks. 578 00:28:51,859 --> 00:28:53,861 You figure out how to pay the bills. 579 00:28:54,153 --> 00:28:54,987 How to sign the doctor forms. 580 00:28:59,408 --> 00:29:01,827 I read for them. 581 00:29:02,119 --> 00:29:06,999 I see for Them I sign for them, and I speak for them. 582 00:29:12,129 --> 00:29:13,881 OK. 583 00:29:14,173 --> 00:29:14,840 I get it. 584 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,932 Why did I fall for such a little baby attached to his family. 585 00:29:23,224 --> 00:29:24,517 Yo, don't talk about my family. 586 00:29:24,809 --> 00:29:27,186 Why not? 587 00:29:27,478 --> 00:29:29,063 That's all you ever talk about. 588 00:29:34,568 --> 00:29:35,278 ALYSSA: Sorry. 589 00:29:41,659 --> 00:29:42,827 We were just coming in here to-- 590 00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:43,786 We were done. 591 00:29:44,078 --> 00:29:45,121 ALYSSA: --lunch. 592 00:29:45,413 --> 00:29:46,080 MOUSSA: Are we still hanging out tonight? 593 00:29:46,372 --> 00:29:46,998 I don't know. 594 00:30:02,471 --> 00:30:04,181 Just tell her the truth. 595 00:30:04,473 --> 00:30:06,100 SOPHIE: Don't do that. 596 00:30:06,392 --> 00:30:07,768 What if she gets angry and they break up, 597 00:30:08,060 --> 00:30:08,728 and she wants to get even? 598 00:30:09,020 --> 00:30:10,229 She wouldn't do that. 599 00:30:10,521 --> 00:30:12,231 Only a crazy person would do something like that. 600 00:30:16,610 --> 00:30:19,322 You should just marry her. 601 00:30:19,613 --> 00:30:20,865 No, I'm serious! 602 00:30:21,157 --> 00:30:22,450 She'd marry you in a second, you'd get the papers, 603 00:30:22,742 --> 00:30:23,326 and then you'd be good. 604 00:30:23,617 --> 00:30:24,702 That's it. 605 00:30:24,994 --> 00:30:26,620 Everyone knows what fake marriage is like. 606 00:30:26,912 --> 00:30:28,956 Immigration, they grill you until you slip up. 607 00:30:29,248 --> 00:30:30,541 What kind of lotion does she wear? 608 00:30:30,833 --> 00:30:33,294 What's it smell like? - Moussa, you're her boyfriend. 609 00:30:33,586 --> 00:30:36,130 Don't you know what she smells like? 610 00:30:36,422 --> 00:30:38,591 I'm going to the cafeteria before all the food goes out. 611 00:30:46,140 --> 00:30:48,809 My whole family, they used to brag about him. 612 00:30:49,101 --> 00:30:50,895 They said if we ever got into any trouble then, you know, 613 00:30:51,187 --> 00:30:53,606 he could help us. 614 00:30:53,898 --> 00:30:56,817 But when he came to stay with us, 615 00:30:57,109 --> 00:31:01,864 I think what I was like seven, he kind of spooked us all. 616 00:31:02,156 --> 00:31:02,782 What do you mean, spooked? 617 00:31:06,077 --> 00:31:09,914 He would always get me to ask them about torture. 618 00:31:10,206 --> 00:31:13,959 He said that he was an expert in it, 619 00:31:14,251 --> 00:31:15,336 and it was about the best way to get 620 00:31:15,628 --> 00:31:16,796 anyone to tell you anything. 621 00:31:17,088 --> 00:31:19,465 ISAAC: Hm. 622 00:31:19,757 --> 00:31:23,094 Um well, he got kicked oft the police force 623 00:31:23,386 --> 00:31:24,220 and I'm not sure why. 624 00:31:27,014 --> 00:31:29,100 Is that what you mean? - No, I need more. 625 00:31:29,392 --> 00:31:31,727 I mean, a lot more. Like how high up was he? 626 00:31:32,019 --> 00:31:33,854 Did people generally know his name? 627 00:31:34,146 --> 00:31:35,606 Was he in jail? 628 00:31:35,898 --> 00:31:37,358 Is he alive? Is he still in Guinea? 629 00:31:37,650 --> 00:31:38,609 You know, you gotta help me out here. 630 00:31:38,901 --> 00:31:40,277 He was a captain, I think. 631 00:31:40,569 --> 00:31:44,156 And he got away with his three wives and his five kids 632 00:31:44,448 --> 00:31:47,535 before they could catch him. 633 00:31:47,827 --> 00:31:49,370 I mean, do you want me to tell you what country he's in? 634 00:31:49,662 --> 00:31:50,871 Or where he is now? - No, no, no, no, no. 635 00:31:51,163 --> 00:31:53,165 Don't tell me where he is, because I'd 636 00:31:53,457 --> 00:31:56,752 be obligated to tell the judge if he asked me about it. 637 00:31:57,044 --> 00:31:58,212 [phone ringing] 638 00:31:59,338 --> 00:32:00,548 Oh. 639 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,883 Sorry. 640 00:32:03,175 --> 00:32:04,635 I normally wouldn't do this, but I have to take this. 641 00:32:04,927 --> 00:32:05,928 Do you mind? MOUSSA: Do you want-- 642 00:32:06,220 --> 00:32:07,680 Hey. 643 00:32:07,972 --> 00:32:10,099 Listen, I'm, um, I can't talk right now, I'm with a client, 644 00:32:10,391 --> 00:32:13,811 but-- How'd it go? 645 00:32:14,103 --> 00:32:15,604 Yeah? 646 00:32:15,896 --> 00:32:18,441 What'd he say? 647 00:32:18,732 --> 00:32:20,067 That's great! 648 00:32:20,359 --> 00:32:24,196 Oh, God, what a relief. 649 00:32:24,488 --> 00:32:25,865 Yeah, no, I should get back to this meeting, 650 00:32:26,157 --> 00:32:29,410 but I can stop by after work, OK? 651 00:32:29,702 --> 00:32:32,246 [laughing] 652 00:32:32,538 --> 00:32:34,957 Yeah, a tuna sandwich. 653 00:32:35,249 --> 00:32:36,333 Right. 654 00:32:36,625 --> 00:32:39,211 No, no, I really-- I really, I can't talk. 655 00:32:39,503 --> 00:32:40,212 Yeah, you too. 656 00:32:40,504 --> 00:32:41,172 OK, bye. 657 00:32:44,842 --> 00:32:45,634 All right. 658 00:32:50,764 --> 00:32:52,308 Mothers. 659 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,185 Tell me about it. 660 00:32:54,477 --> 00:32:55,436 Look, this story's not enough. 661 00:32:55,728 --> 00:32:57,229 Not for asylum. 662 00:32:57,521 --> 00:32:58,856 All we have right now is you're the nephew 663 00:32:59,148 --> 00:33:00,983 of some unknown policeman, but we need something else. 664 00:33:01,275 --> 00:33:02,568 I don't know if I can get anything else. 665 00:33:02,860 --> 00:33:03,819 Find something. 666 00:33:23,297 --> 00:33:24,924 Are you awake? 667 00:33:25,216 --> 00:33:27,676 No. 668 00:33:27,968 --> 00:33:29,553 Tell me what happened at the lawyer today, please. 669 00:33:32,014 --> 00:33:32,848 It's pointless. 670 00:33:33,140 --> 00:33:33,849 Don't say that it's pointless. 671 00:33:34,141 --> 00:33:34,725 Tell me what happened. 672 00:33:43,984 --> 00:33:47,905 We have to get facts and dates and pages and pages of them. 673 00:33:48,197 --> 00:33:49,240 ARMINA: OK. 674 00:33:49,532 --> 00:33:50,741 Letters from people that we cannot find. 675 00:33:51,033 --> 00:33:52,076 I don't understand why Mama wouldn't 676 00:33:52,368 --> 00:33:53,869 do this before we came here. 677 00:33:54,161 --> 00:33:55,746 That is the last thing she was thinking of. 678 00:33:56,038 --> 00:33:58,040 We are always the last thing she's thinking of. 679 00:34:01,377 --> 00:34:03,295 Why do you have to be so mean to her? 680 00:34:03,587 --> 00:34:04,171 ARMINA: I don't. 681 00:34:10,344 --> 00:34:12,638 Whatever. 682 00:34:12,930 --> 00:34:15,891 You know, Mama and I hear you on the phone, 683 00:34:16,183 --> 00:34:19,186 Moussa, talking to your friends in a thick American accent. 684 00:34:23,774 --> 00:34:26,527 Like what we offer to other people, 685 00:34:26,819 --> 00:34:29,113 or, um, just the qualities that we have 686 00:34:29,405 --> 00:34:31,323 and what we can give to others kind of 687 00:34:31,615 --> 00:34:32,825 identifies as ourselves. 688 00:34:33,117 --> 00:34:35,661 TEACHER: Very good. 689 00:34:35,953 --> 00:34:39,081 All right, let's hear your thing. 690 00:34:39,373 --> 00:34:40,916 I'm not someone who wants to sit around and talk 691 00:34:41,208 --> 00:34:42,126 about myself, that's for sure. 692 00:34:42,418 --> 00:34:44,962 I'm just asking for three, Tina. 693 00:34:45,254 --> 00:34:46,088 Artist? 694 00:34:46,380 --> 00:34:47,298 Sure, artist. 695 00:34:50,175 --> 00:34:51,844 I'm logical. 696 00:34:52,136 --> 00:34:53,220 What? 697 00:34:53,512 --> 00:34:55,097 I'm logical. 698 00:34:55,389 --> 00:34:57,224 I am. 699 00:34:57,516 --> 00:34:59,893 I don't know, and I'm a realist. 700 00:35:00,185 --> 00:35:00,853 TEACHER: Great. 701 00:35:01,145 --> 00:35:02,104 Yeah. 702 00:35:02,396 --> 00:35:03,689 TEACHER: Bobby? 703 00:35:03,981 --> 00:35:05,357 I'm the shit. 704 00:35:05,649 --> 00:35:06,692 TEACHER: Bobby. 705 00:35:06,984 --> 00:35:08,611 You just listened to some other examples. 706 00:35:08,902 --> 00:35:11,739 Give me three for you. 707 00:35:12,031 --> 00:35:14,033 I'd probably say cool. 708 00:35:14,325 --> 00:35:15,034 OK. 709 00:35:15,326 --> 00:35:19,371 Um, flirtatious. 710 00:35:19,663 --> 00:35:20,331 And, uh-- 711 00:35:20,623 --> 00:35:21,373 GIRL: Ooh, he got a smile! 712 00:35:21,665 --> 00:35:22,249 Stop it! 713 00:35:27,338 --> 00:35:28,881 What about-- what about you? 714 00:35:29,173 --> 00:35:32,051 You're awfully quiet over there. 715 00:35:32,343 --> 00:35:33,927 I'm compassionate. 716 00:35:34,219 --> 00:35:35,137 I'm hard working. 717 00:35:40,017 --> 00:35:41,185 And I'm lit! 718 00:35:41,477 --> 00:35:42,061 [laughter] 719 00:35:42,353 --> 00:35:44,480 BOYS: Yeah! 720 00:35:44,772 --> 00:35:45,939 BOY: Yes, yes, very good. 721 00:35:46,231 --> 00:35:48,150 Very good. 722 00:35:48,442 --> 00:35:49,068 I don't-- 723 00:35:50,611 --> 00:35:52,154 BOY: Oh, that was-- that was-- that was 724 00:35:52,446 --> 00:35:53,447 actually a solid interception. 725 00:35:53,739 --> 00:35:54,948 I don't want to be picking these up. 726 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:56,325 I don't want to be picking these up all afternoon. 727 00:35:56,617 --> 00:35:57,826 BOY: That was a solid interception, right. 728 00:35:58,118 --> 00:35:59,119 That was pretty good. 729 00:35:59,411 --> 00:36:00,579 That was pretty good. 730 00:36:00,871 --> 00:36:03,457 That was pretty good. 731 00:36:03,749 --> 00:36:04,833 BOY: Teacher's got game. 732 00:36:05,125 --> 00:36:06,794 TEACHER: All right, all right, all right. 733 00:36:07,086 --> 00:36:09,797 [Spanish TV program playing] 734 00:37:49,438 --> 00:37:51,690 SARAH: Don't even, don't even! 735 00:37:51,982 --> 00:37:53,400 You can check out Kerry Washington, 736 00:37:53,692 --> 00:37:55,778 but you know I'm gonna be checking out Idris Elba. 737 00:37:56,069 --> 00:37:56,695 Idris? 738 00:37:56,987 --> 00:37:57,571 Yes. 739 00:37:57,863 --> 00:37:59,156 Come on, Idris? 740 00:37:59,448 --> 00:38:00,115 SARAH: Stupid. 741 00:38:00,407 --> 00:38:01,867 Oh, come on. 742 00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:02,785 Oh, please. 743 00:38:03,076 --> 00:38:03,702 MOUSSA: Oh, he aight? 744 00:38:03,994 --> 00:38:05,621 Oh. 745 00:38:05,913 --> 00:38:07,498 MOUSSA: Hey. 746 00:38:07,790 --> 00:38:08,415 Hey. 747 00:38:08,707 --> 00:38:10,167 SARAH: Hey. - Hey. 748 00:38:10,459 --> 00:38:11,835 OK, that's done. Can we go, baby, I'm hungry. 749 00:38:12,127 --> 00:38:12,669 No. You aight? 750 00:38:12,961 --> 00:38:13,754 Yeah, I'm fine. 751 00:38:14,046 --> 00:38:14,797 SARAH: Moussa, I said I'm hungry. 752 00:38:15,088 --> 00:38:15,839 MOUSSA: Just hold on one second. 753 00:38:16,924 --> 00:38:18,383 TIFFANY: Hey, girl! 754 00:38:18,675 --> 00:38:20,052 I didn't know you were in the theater! 755 00:38:20,344 --> 00:38:23,055 SARAH: This is why I wanted to go. 756 00:38:23,347 --> 00:38:23,972 TIFFANY: Hey, bitches. 757 00:38:24,264 --> 00:38:25,891 SARAH: Hey! 758 00:38:26,183 --> 00:38:28,435 You see that dreadful movie? 759 00:38:28,727 --> 00:38:29,520 Oh, but Idris? 760 00:38:29,812 --> 00:38:31,605 SARAH: Yeah, girl. Come on. 761 00:38:31,897 --> 00:38:32,898 Oh, the Bobby? 762 00:38:33,190 --> 00:38:33,857 TIFFANY: No. 763 00:38:34,149 --> 00:38:36,193 What's going on? 764 00:38:36,485 --> 00:38:39,696 Nothing, I just, I'm just going for a walk. 765 00:38:39,988 --> 00:38:41,198 You sure? 766 00:38:41,490 --> 00:38:45,911 Yeah, shit, what is this, a fucking interrogation? 767 00:38:46,203 --> 00:38:46,912 What, Tiffany? 768 00:38:47,204 --> 00:38:47,913 Did I say something to you? 769 00:38:48,205 --> 00:38:50,541 No, good choice. 770 00:38:50,833 --> 00:38:54,211 We just obviously have two different fashion senses. 771 00:38:54,503 --> 00:38:55,587 Yeah, we obviously do. 772 00:38:55,879 --> 00:38:58,006 I mean, you don't get dressed for nothing. 773 00:38:58,298 --> 00:39:01,176 School, work, not even church. 774 00:39:01,468 --> 00:39:03,679 Well, I'm not desperately trying to get Bobby to let 775 00:39:03,971 --> 00:39:05,180 me suck him off, Tiffany. 776 00:39:05,472 --> 00:39:06,807 So maybe it's a matter of what you getting 777 00:39:07,099 --> 00:39:08,100 dressed up for, you know? 778 00:39:08,392 --> 00:39:09,309 TIFFANY: What did you just say to me? 779 00:39:09,601 --> 00:39:10,519 Yo, Sophie, you're a fucking bitch. 780 00:39:10,811 --> 00:39:11,603 Yo, you need to just stay out of it. 781 00:39:11,895 --> 00:39:12,896 BOBBY: Or what? 782 00:39:13,188 --> 00:39:13,605 SARAH: Why are you standing up for her? 783 00:39:13,897 --> 00:39:14,565 TIFFANY: Sarah. 784 00:39:14,857 --> 00:39:15,607 Nobody else will. 785 00:39:15,899 --> 00:39:16,942 Because she's a little freak. 786 00:39:17,234 --> 00:39:18,527 Hey, uh, Bobby, which one of the bitches 787 00:39:18,819 --> 00:39:19,820 you gonna be fucking tonight? 788 00:39:20,112 --> 00:39:21,113 Who the fuck are you calling a bitch? 789 00:39:21,405 --> 00:39:22,155 Fuck you! 790 00:39:22,447 --> 00:39:23,198 Don't call me a fucking bitch! 791 00:39:23,490 --> 00:39:25,742 Come on, Bobby, what the fuck? 792 00:39:26,034 --> 00:39:28,579 [shouting] 793 00:39:30,122 --> 00:39:31,123 MOUSSA: Yo, yo, Sophie! 794 00:39:31,415 --> 00:39:32,291 Sophie! 795 00:39:32,583 --> 00:39:34,418 You, yo, get the fuck out of here. 796 00:39:34,710 --> 00:39:35,377 Go! 797 00:39:35,669 --> 00:39:36,712 Get the fuck out of here! 798 00:39:37,004 --> 00:39:37,629 Go! 799 00:39:37,921 --> 00:39:38,547 TIFFANY: She's crazy! 800 00:39:39,631 --> 00:39:40,465 COP 1: Hey! 801 00:39:40,757 --> 00:39:42,259 COP 2: Hey! 802 00:39:42,551 --> 00:39:43,218 Fuck, shit! 803 00:39:45,929 --> 00:39:46,597 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 804 00:39:46,889 --> 00:39:47,598 Stop. 805 00:39:47,890 --> 00:39:48,599 Stop. 806 00:39:48,891 --> 00:39:50,475 Don't run, stop right there. 807 00:39:50,767 --> 00:39:51,643 What's going on, guys? 808 00:39:51,935 --> 00:39:53,645 Get your hands out of your pocket. 809 00:39:53,937 --> 00:39:57,190 Get your hands out of your pocket. 810 00:39:57,482 --> 00:39:58,358 This guy giving you trouble? 811 00:39:58,650 --> 00:39:59,484 SARAH: No, sir, he's my boyfriend. 812 00:39:59,776 --> 00:40:00,819 Man, we were just-- 813 00:40:01,111 --> 00:40:02,446 Hey, listen, did I ask you a question? 814 00:40:02,738 --> 00:40:04,031 No, I didn't ask you anything. Girls, come on. 815 00:40:04,323 --> 00:40:05,657 Benny, you got him? Come on, let's go. 816 00:40:05,949 --> 00:40:06,366 I got him. 817 00:40:06,658 --> 00:40:07,200 Back up slowly. 818 00:40:07,492 --> 00:40:08,535 Over here, come on. 819 00:40:08,827 --> 00:40:11,038 Back up slowly for me, man. 820 00:40:11,330 --> 00:40:12,706 What's going on, then? 821 00:40:12,998 --> 00:40:15,000 Two guys we don't know were hassling us after the movie. 822 00:40:15,292 --> 00:40:16,043 My boyfriend scared them away. 823 00:40:16,335 --> 00:40:17,169 That what happened? 824 00:40:17,461 --> 00:40:18,378 SARAH: Yeah. 825 00:40:18,670 --> 00:40:19,254 TIFFANY: He was just protecting us. 826 00:40:19,546 --> 00:40:20,547 GIRL: That's all he did. 827 00:40:20,839 --> 00:40:21,965 SARAH: Moussa was just protecting us. 828 00:40:22,257 --> 00:40:22,883 Moussa? 829 00:40:23,175 --> 00:40:23,800 GIRL: Mm-hm. 830 00:40:24,092 --> 00:40:25,886 SARAH: Yeah. 831 00:40:26,178 --> 00:40:27,429 Let me see some IDs. 832 00:40:27,721 --> 00:40:28,597 SARAH: We didn't do anything. 833 00:40:28,889 --> 00:40:29,765 Can I have your ID, please, ma'am? 834 00:40:30,057 --> 00:40:30,641 All three of you guys. 835 00:40:33,518 --> 00:40:35,228 What are you doing out here in the middle of the night? 836 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,272 Your name is Moussa? 837 00:40:37,564 --> 00:40:38,148 Is it? 838 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:39,066 Is your name Moussa? 839 00:40:39,358 --> 00:40:40,943 Yes. 840 00:40:41,234 --> 00:40:44,237 COP 2: You're going to take your ID out slowly for me, Moussa. 841 00:40:44,529 --> 00:40:45,614 COP 1: Put that right on here. 842 00:40:45,906 --> 00:40:47,616 SARAH: Yeah, just down there? 843 00:40:47,908 --> 00:40:49,534 OK. 844 00:40:49,826 --> 00:40:52,162 It's not a very good idea to be running 845 00:40:52,454 --> 00:40:53,956 around here in the middle of the night like this. 846 00:40:54,247 --> 00:40:55,415 You come here often, running around 847 00:40:55,707 --> 00:40:56,708 here in the middle of the cold? 848 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,168 SARAH: No, we just went to the movies. 849 00:40:58,460 --> 00:40:59,294 COP 1: It's pretty late, you know. 850 00:40:59,586 --> 00:41:00,420 Your parents know you're here? 851 00:41:00,712 --> 00:41:01,630 SARAH: Yeah, yeah. 852 00:41:01,922 --> 00:41:03,131 They're expecting us any many. 853 00:41:03,423 --> 00:41:03,799 COP 1: You don't know those guys who just ran away? 854 00:41:04,091 --> 00:41:04,466 SARAH: No. 855 00:41:07,177 --> 00:41:07,928 COP 2: Vance. 856 00:41:08,220 --> 00:41:09,096 Yeah? 857 00:41:09,388 --> 00:41:12,140 Can I talk to you for a second? 858 00:41:12,432 --> 00:41:13,058 Stay there, please. 859 00:41:13,350 --> 00:41:13,976 - 860 00:41:14,267 --> 00:41:14,851 - You good? - Yeah. 861 00:41:20,983 --> 00:41:23,777 Guy was just taking care of his girl, but. 862 00:41:24,069 --> 00:41:24,653 All right. 863 00:41:24,945 --> 00:41:27,447 Let's give him a pass? 864 00:41:27,739 --> 00:41:28,448 Get out of this fucking cold? 865 00:41:28,740 --> 00:41:29,825 Yeah, all right. 866 00:41:30,117 --> 00:41:32,869 Go tell him. 867 00:41:33,161 --> 00:41:35,831 All right, y'all, head home. 868 00:41:36,123 --> 00:41:36,873 Go. 869 00:41:37,165 --> 00:41:38,208 No more fighting in the street. 870 00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:41,086 SARAH: OK, thank you. 871 00:41:41,378 --> 00:41:42,004 Go! 872 00:41:55,392 --> 00:41:56,059 Thank you. 873 00:42:01,606 --> 00:42:04,317 You have a beautiful apartment. 874 00:42:04,609 --> 00:42:06,486 Thank you. 875 00:42:06,778 --> 00:42:07,696 My ex-husband got the cats. 876 00:42:12,367 --> 00:42:14,161 Those are lovely earrings. 877 00:42:14,453 --> 00:42:15,954 Thank you. 878 00:42:16,246 --> 00:42:18,040 My sekou bought them for me. 879 00:42:18,331 --> 00:42:19,416 Is that Moussa's father? 880 00:42:19,708 --> 00:42:22,252 His step-father. 881 00:42:22,544 --> 00:42:25,422 He's in Africa now, making money. 882 00:42:25,714 --> 00:42:26,673 You must miss him. 883 00:42:29,593 --> 00:42:31,970 We came here to be with him. 884 00:42:32,262 --> 00:42:37,059 He was here already, working, driving a limousine. 885 00:42:37,350 --> 00:42:42,230 So it's a little strange to be here without him. 886 00:42:45,317 --> 00:42:48,528 Is your family in New York? 887 00:42:48,820 --> 00:42:50,072 Mm-hmm. 888 00:42:50,363 --> 00:42:51,531 My parents live in the same apartment 889 00:42:51,823 --> 00:42:56,536 I grew up in, just a block away from here. 890 00:42:56,828 --> 00:42:59,081 I wish my mother could come here and live, 891 00:42:59,372 --> 00:43:00,791 be with her grandchildren. 892 00:43:04,669 --> 00:43:06,129 I can't stay here long. 893 00:43:06,421 --> 00:43:08,381 No, of course. 894 00:43:08,673 --> 00:43:11,468 I wanted to talk to you about what you said on the phone. 895 00:43:14,763 --> 00:43:17,808 Why don't you want Moussa to work with Isaac anymore? 896 00:43:18,100 --> 00:43:18,934 MAMA: I just, um-- 897 00:43:19,226 --> 00:43:20,435 Is that money? 898 00:43:20,727 --> 00:43:21,520 Because Isaac isn't-- 899 00:43:21,812 --> 00:43:24,439 I have a cousin in Rhode Island. 900 00:43:24,731 --> 00:43:29,111 He says that these stories about the lawyer might not be true. 901 00:43:29,402 --> 00:43:32,948 That we could all be deported if he fails, 902 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:34,866 and that we're better off waiting for these laws 903 00:43:35,158 --> 00:43:35,826 to change. 904 00:43:36,118 --> 00:43:37,828 But that could be years. 905 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,998 I'm sure it's scary, but Isaac is actually a very big 906 00:43:42,290 --> 00:43:42,958 corporate immigration lawyer. 907 00:43:43,250 --> 00:43:44,292 Well, my cousin says that-- 908 00:43:44,584 --> 00:43:45,335 I'm sorry, who is your cousin? 909 00:43:51,258 --> 00:43:52,092 Look-- 910 00:43:52,384 --> 00:43:54,427 Mubaka, - If we get deported-- 911 00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,221 Moussa's smart. 912 00:43:56,513 --> 00:43:57,764 He's not broken the law in this country, 913 00:43:58,056 --> 00:44:00,225 and his old country is dangerous. 914 00:44:00,517 --> 00:44:01,601 He fits all the criteria to get asylum. 915 00:44:01,893 --> 00:44:02,519 Mubaka-- 916 00:44:02,811 --> 00:44:03,395 Please, call me Jackie. 917 00:44:06,857 --> 00:44:07,566 Jackie. 918 00:44:21,288 --> 00:44:27,669 I didn't know anything about the laws before I came here. 919 00:44:27,961 --> 00:44:32,841 I didn't find them out, I didn't find out anything. 920 00:44:33,133 --> 00:44:34,801 I didn't know that my children would 921 00:44:35,093 --> 00:44:37,637 not be able to do all the things that other children can 922 00:44:37,929 --> 00:44:39,973 do here. 923 00:44:40,265 --> 00:44:41,850 And these are my babies and I failed them. 924 00:44:42,142 --> 00:44:42,767 No you didn't. 925 00:44:45,937 --> 00:44:47,063 Every night, when they're sleeping, 926 00:44:47,355 --> 00:44:51,026 I walk around the apartment like I'm lost. 927 00:44:51,318 --> 00:44:53,945 I don't know what I can do for them. 928 00:44:54,237 --> 00:45:02,704 I mean, I told Moussa and Armina that-- I told them 929 00:45:02,996 --> 00:45:04,789 that I brought them to this country for medicine, 930 00:45:05,081 --> 00:45:08,001 for education, safety, for happiness. 931 00:45:11,087 --> 00:45:19,304 But it was really so that I could be with sekou. 932 00:45:23,767 --> 00:45:24,684 I am the worst mother. 933 00:45:24,976 --> 00:45:25,852 - No, you're not. - I was-- 934 00:45:26,144 --> 00:45:26,770 JACKIE: No, no, no. 935 00:45:27,062 --> 00:45:27,729 --Really so selfish. 936 00:45:30,774 --> 00:45:31,775 And now sekou is gone. 937 00:45:32,067 --> 00:45:33,068 He's not coming back. 938 00:45:36,112 --> 00:45:41,743 He married another woman and he left us here, stranded. 939 00:45:44,955 --> 00:45:45,664 He lied. 940 00:45:49,292 --> 00:45:50,043 So stupid. 941 00:46:00,470 --> 00:46:04,808 Every woman I know, at least one time in her life, 942 00:46:05,100 --> 00:46:08,019 trusted the wrong man. 943 00:46:08,311 --> 00:46:09,229 I made a habit out of it. 944 00:46:15,694 --> 00:46:17,570 Can I ask where Moussa's biological father is? 945 00:46:21,366 --> 00:46:22,492 He wasn't-- 946 00:46:22,784 --> 00:46:24,119 I'm sorry. That's none of my business. 947 00:46:24,411 --> 00:46:26,371 He wasn't around for very long after Moussa was born. 948 00:46:29,958 --> 00:46:34,546 I told Moussa and Armina that-- that he abandoned us, 949 00:46:34,838 --> 00:46:40,010 but that's not-- that's not the truth. 950 00:46:40,302 --> 00:46:45,390 I just, I didn't want them to grow up and be frightened. 951 00:46:45,682 --> 00:46:49,936 And now it's-- it's too late to tell them the truth. 952 00:46:54,816 --> 00:47:00,655 I was-- I was behind the house hanging the washing 953 00:47:00,947 --> 00:47:03,700 and I heard this truck drive up. 954 00:47:06,411 --> 00:47:09,456 They were-- Moussa and Armina, they were inside the house 955 00:47:09,748 --> 00:47:10,373 with my mother. 956 00:47:13,168 --> 00:47:19,924 I saw the military man take their father, 957 00:47:20,216 --> 00:47:22,469 put them in the truck, some other men. 958 00:47:28,183 --> 00:47:31,227 We never-- We never heard from them again. 959 00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:32,812 Miriam, you need to tell that Moussa 960 00:47:33,104 --> 00:47:34,272 so that he can tell Isaac. - No, no, no. 961 00:47:34,564 --> 00:47:35,357 He would never forgive me. 962 00:47:35,648 --> 00:47:36,775 That will help him, that story. 963 00:47:37,067 --> 00:47:38,360 MIRIAM: No, he would hate me. - But that's-- 964 00:47:38,651 --> 00:47:39,235 No. 965 00:47:41,363 --> 00:47:42,072 No. 966 00:47:45,617 --> 00:47:47,786 Well, OK. 967 00:47:51,331 --> 00:47:55,460 At least let him keep working with Isaac. 968 00:47:55,752 --> 00:47:58,505 If he keeps-- If-- 969 00:47:58,797 --> 00:48:01,383 Miriam? 970 00:48:01,674 --> 00:48:02,342 Moussa's so smart. 971 00:48:05,929 --> 00:48:08,098 Your son has a real chance here. 972 00:48:08,390 --> 00:48:13,978 Not just to survive, but to really have a lovely life. 973 00:48:14,270 --> 00:48:15,939 That kid can be anything. 974 00:48:19,150 --> 00:48:20,318 Even with everything that's messed up 975 00:48:20,610 --> 00:48:22,195 about the American dream, at least 976 00:48:22,487 --> 00:48:25,990 you can be better than your past. 977 00:48:26,282 --> 00:48:28,034 You have the chance to try here, and Moussa 978 00:48:28,326 --> 00:48:29,285 deserves that chance. 979 00:48:36,418 --> 00:48:39,212 He can never know about his father. 980 00:48:39,504 --> 00:48:41,714 That's your decision. 981 00:48:42,006 --> 00:48:44,634 But please, let him keep working with Isaac. 982 00:48:52,350 --> 00:48:54,686 You are the first American that Moussa has ever trusted. 983 00:48:59,732 --> 00:49:02,694 So I will trust you too 984 00:49:16,875 --> 00:49:18,460 - Hey! - Hey. 985 00:49:18,751 --> 00:49:19,878 ALYSSA: Sophie, this is my sister Lola-- 986 00:49:20,170 --> 00:49:21,045 Oh, hi! 987 00:49:21,337 --> 00:49:23,465 --And her husband, Chris. 988 00:49:25,216 --> 00:49:28,261 Uh, this is-- that's Mikey, and Javier, 989 00:49:28,553 --> 00:49:29,471 and Emilio, and Carlita. 990 00:49:29,762 --> 00:49:30,513 I'm Emilio, nice to meet you. 991 00:49:30,805 --> 00:49:31,514 Nice to meet you. 992 00:49:31,806 --> 00:49:32,390 SOPHIE: This is Emily and-- 993 00:49:32,682 --> 00:49:33,308 Hi, nice to meet you. 994 00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:34,225 I'm Alyssa. 995 00:49:34,517 --> 00:49:35,310 Nice to meet you. 996 00:49:35,602 --> 00:49:36,227 MIKEY: Hello. 997 00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:37,353 Hi, nice to meet you. 998 00:49:37,645 --> 00:49:38,521 Javier. 999 00:49:38,813 --> 00:49:40,690 You know her from where? School? 1000 00:49:40,982 --> 00:49:41,900 You go to school? - Yeah. 1001 00:49:42,192 --> 00:49:43,234 So you do go to school. 1002 00:49:47,822 --> 00:49:48,490 So, it was-- 1003 00:49:48,781 --> 00:49:49,407 MIKEY: Nice to meet you. 1004 00:49:49,699 --> 00:49:51,534 Nice meeting you. 1005 00:49:51,826 --> 00:49:52,785 JAVIER: OK. Have a nice day. 1006 00:49:53,077 --> 00:49:53,661 ALYSSA: Bye. 1007 00:49:56,414 --> 00:49:57,165 MIKEY: You embarrassed? 1008 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:02,629 MOUSSA: Hey. 1009 00:50:08,301 --> 00:50:10,512 Hey. 1010 00:50:10,803 --> 00:50:12,055 What the fuck is wrong with them? 1011 00:50:12,347 --> 00:50:13,806 What the fuck is wrong with you? 1012 00:50:14,098 --> 00:50:15,308 What was that, Friday night? 1013 00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:17,894 Why'd you stick up for her like that? 1014 00:50:18,186 --> 00:50:20,396 You embarrassed me. 1015 00:50:20,688 --> 00:50:21,397 She's my friend. 1016 00:50:21,689 --> 00:50:23,733 You sure that's all she is? 1017 00:50:24,025 --> 00:50:25,068 Of course that's all she is. 1018 00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,487 Are you kidding me? 1019 00:50:27,779 --> 00:50:29,447 Look, she's just a little messed up. 1020 00:50:29,739 --> 00:50:31,074 Hey! 1021 00:50:31,366 --> 00:50:32,659 Babe, can you like, stop for two seconds? 1022 00:50:32,951 --> 00:50:33,576 I gotta go. 1023 00:50:33,868 --> 00:50:35,203 Baby, you-- just stop. 1024 00:50:42,710 --> 00:50:45,421 I want to thank you for what you said to the cops. 1025 00:50:45,713 --> 00:50:46,548 Lying, you mean. 1026 00:50:50,468 --> 00:50:51,135 Yes. 1027 00:50:54,013 --> 00:50:56,349 Thank you. 1028 00:50:56,641 --> 00:50:57,267 It meant a lot. 1029 00:51:01,563 --> 00:51:05,233 Are you gonna even offer to try to make it up to me? 1030 00:51:05,525 --> 00:51:06,150 Yes, babe. 1031 00:51:06,442 --> 00:51:08,695 Yes, of course. 1032 00:51:08,987 --> 00:51:09,696 I'm sorry. 1033 00:51:12,865 --> 00:51:15,410 Can I take you to the movies again on Friday? 1034 00:51:15,702 --> 00:51:17,537 That's not going to be enough! 1035 00:51:17,829 --> 00:51:18,454 No, just us. 1036 00:51:18,746 --> 00:51:19,747 Just us. 1037 00:51:20,039 --> 00:51:21,082 We can even go to the Upper West Side, 1038 00:51:21,374 --> 00:51:22,667 where ain't nobody gonna know us, OK? 1039 00:51:26,004 --> 00:51:33,052 It'll just be me and the most beautiful girl in the world. 1040 00:51:33,344 --> 00:51:33,928 OK. 1041 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:36,347 OK? 1042 00:51:36,639 --> 00:51:38,308 You talked me into it. 1043 00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:39,976 Moussa, Sarah, you two know better. 1044 00:51:40,268 --> 00:51:40,893 We were just-- 1045 00:51:41,185 --> 00:51:42,395 Don' say anything. 1046 00:51:42,687 --> 00:51:43,479 Then you don't have to lie. 1047 00:51:47,358 --> 00:51:49,235 'Til Friday? 1048 00:51:49,527 --> 00:51:51,070 I think I can clear my schedule. 1049 00:51:55,992 --> 00:51:58,536 You kidding me? 1050 00:51:58,828 --> 00:52:04,626 No, I'm-- Fuck. 1051 00:52:04,917 --> 00:52:07,462 Bae, am I going to see you at lunch? 1052 00:52:17,221 --> 00:52:18,598 I don't want to talk about it. 1053 00:52:18,890 --> 00:52:24,979 Good, neither do I. Meet me out front after school. 1054 00:52:25,271 --> 00:52:28,316 Why would I do that? 1055 00:52:28,608 --> 00:52:30,568 Because I saved your as on Friday and you owe me. 1056 00:52:38,993 --> 00:52:40,119 It's Sophie. 1057 00:52:40,411 --> 00:52:41,412 What? 1058 00:52:41,704 --> 00:52:42,830 She went ballistic the other night. 1059 00:52:43,122 --> 00:52:43,998 When? 1060 00:52:44,290 --> 00:52:46,876 This past Friday at the movies. 1061 00:52:47,168 --> 00:52:49,587 Isaac said that she missed her appointment last week. 1062 00:52:49,879 --> 00:52:51,464 Well, look, I'm going to take her with me today. 1063 00:52:51,756 --> 00:52:52,965 She can have my slot. - No, you can't do that. 1064 00:52:53,257 --> 00:52:54,008 No, no, it's fine. 1065 00:52:54,300 --> 00:52:55,051 I already did all of my work. 1066 00:52:55,343 --> 00:52:56,219 I just got to give it to Isaac. 1067 00:52:56,511 --> 00:52:57,470 Sophie hasn't done shit. 1068 00:52:57,762 --> 00:52:58,680 You need to look out for yourself. 1069 00:52:58,971 --> 00:52:59,972 MOUSSA: OK. 1070 00:53:00,264 --> 00:53:01,265 What material have you found so far? 1071 00:53:01,557 --> 00:53:02,475 Just the stuff that you know already. 1072 00:53:02,767 --> 00:53:03,935 And does Isaac think that's enough? 1073 00:53:07,897 --> 00:53:08,690 I don't know. 1074 00:53:08,981 --> 00:53:10,108 I don't-- 1075 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:11,818 You need to find him what he's asking for. 1076 00:53:12,110 --> 00:53:13,069 There is no guarantee here. 1077 00:53:19,742 --> 00:53:21,285 Have you asked your mom if she can remember anything? 1078 00:53:21,577 --> 00:53:22,662 I know everything that she knows. 1079 00:53:22,954 --> 00:53:25,415 Well, you should ask her again, just in case. 1080 00:53:25,707 --> 00:53:28,167 You don't know. 1081 00:53:28,459 --> 00:53:29,877 Maybe. 1082 00:53:30,169 --> 00:53:34,465 But I'm still Sophie my slot today and that's that, ma'am. 1083 00:53:34,757 --> 00:53:36,884 OK. 1084 00:53:37,176 --> 00:53:38,469 Just please don't call me ma'am, OK, because it 1085 00:53:38,761 --> 00:53:40,555 makes me feel like I'm 100. 1086 00:53:40,847 --> 00:53:44,100 I mean, ay-yi-yi. 1087 00:53:44,392 --> 00:53:46,853 [bell ringing] 1088 00:53:47,145 --> 00:53:47,979 Get to class. 1089 00:53:48,271 --> 00:53:48,855 MOUSSA: OK. 1090 00:54:02,618 --> 00:54:03,661 Yo, what the fuck am I doing here? 1091 00:54:03,953 --> 00:54:05,163 It's not even my day. 1092 00:54:05,455 --> 00:54:06,706 Because I'm scared and I need the moral support. 1093 00:54:09,709 --> 00:54:11,502 Did you have any luck with that additional material, 1094 00:54:11,794 --> 00:54:13,880 Moussa? 1095 00:54:14,172 --> 00:54:18,718 Oh, look who's alive. 1096 00:54:19,010 --> 00:54:20,470 I thought you were meant to see me last Thursday. 1097 00:54:20,762 --> 00:54:21,345 What happened? 1098 00:54:21,637 --> 00:54:23,890 I got busy. 1099 00:54:24,182 --> 00:54:27,268 Well, it's Moussa's appointment today, so-- 1100 00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:28,436 Good for me. 1101 00:54:28,728 --> 00:54:30,438 No, I actually want her to stay. 1102 00:54:34,901 --> 00:54:35,651 Whatever works. 1103 00:54:35,943 --> 00:54:36,527 What do you got? 1104 00:54:41,824 --> 00:54:45,244 No, read it to me. 1105 00:54:45,536 --> 00:54:48,623 I want to hear it in your own voice. 1106 00:54:48,915 --> 00:54:52,168 Well, this one is about my cousin. 1107 00:54:52,460 --> 00:54:53,836 Two years ago, my cousin was walking 1108 00:54:54,128 --> 00:54:57,173 to the market at sunrise, early to avoid 1109 00:54:57,465 --> 00:55:00,259 being teased by the kids. 1110 00:55:00,551 --> 00:55:01,969 Her body ripped when she had her baby, 1111 00:55:02,261 --> 00:55:06,265 and so urine used to drip down her legs sometimes. 1112 00:55:06,557 --> 00:55:07,141 It's called fistula. 1113 00:55:10,686 --> 00:55:15,191 Then, when her baby was one, a year ago, 1114 00:55:15,483 --> 00:55:18,069 two officials raped her. 1115 00:55:18,361 --> 00:55:20,029 She reported it, and so did my grandmother, 1116 00:55:20,321 --> 00:55:23,699 but the officials never got punished. 1117 00:55:23,991 --> 00:55:25,409 And a few months later, she killed herself. 1118 00:55:32,416 --> 00:55:33,167 OK. 1119 00:55:33,459 --> 00:55:38,673 Well, I hope that's enough. 1120 00:55:38,965 --> 00:55:41,092 As blunt as it may sound, it would have been better 1121 00:55:41,384 --> 00:55:43,177 if it had actually been someone in your family 1122 00:55:43,469 --> 00:55:45,638 who had been arrested or killed, but this is what we got, 1123 00:55:45,930 --> 00:55:48,599 so we work with what we got. 1124 00:55:48,891 --> 00:55:51,269 Double-check all those facts with your mother. 1125 00:55:51,561 --> 00:55:52,395 We don't want any slip-ups. 1126 00:55:52,687 --> 00:55:53,354 That could finish this case. 1127 00:55:57,608 --> 00:56:01,821 So, um, I'm thinking, why don't we, why don't we, 1128 00:56:02,113 --> 00:56:05,449 uh, why don't we, um, spend the rest of the time today 1129 00:56:05,741 --> 00:56:07,743 catching up with what we missed with you, last week? 1130 00:56:08,035 --> 00:56:08,786 Is that-- is that OK with you? 1131 00:56:09,078 --> 00:56:10,329 Perfect. 1132 00:56:10,621 --> 00:56:11,581 OK. 1133 00:56:11,873 --> 00:56:13,124 I don't have any stories like that. 1134 00:56:13,416 --> 00:56:14,584 I don't even remember living in the DR, so I don't-- 1135 00:56:14,876 --> 00:56:15,501 Right. 1136 00:56:15,793 --> 00:56:16,919 Right. 1137 00:56:17,211 --> 00:56:18,296 Just thinking out loud, here. 1138 00:56:22,717 --> 00:56:25,511 Your case is a little different. 1139 00:56:25,803 --> 00:56:28,222 You're in this country under the age of 21, 1140 00:56:28,514 --> 00:56:31,267 you have no legal guardian, you have no mother and father. 1141 00:56:31,559 --> 00:56:32,727 I have a father. 1142 00:56:33,019 --> 00:56:33,978 He loves me. 1143 00:56:34,270 --> 00:56:36,022 Yeah, well. 1144 00:56:36,314 --> 00:56:38,357 Love has nothing to do with it. 1145 00:56:38,649 --> 00:56:40,818 Your fathers' not here. 1146 00:56:41,110 --> 00:56:41,736 So. 1147 00:56:45,197 --> 00:56:47,408 Could you just answer the questions when I asked them? 1148 00:56:47,700 --> 00:56:49,619 This can be practice for when you're in front of the judge. 1149 00:56:49,911 --> 00:56:50,703 I'm-- prepping is my specialty. 1150 00:56:50,995 --> 00:56:51,579 Is it? 1151 00:56:58,127 --> 00:56:59,170 Hey, Moussa. 1152 00:56:59,462 --> 00:57:01,881 Why don't you, um, go down the hall. 1153 00:57:02,173 --> 00:57:03,090 You know those vending machines are? 1154 00:57:03,382 --> 00:57:04,508 MOUSSA: Mm-hmm. 1155 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,011 Just go ahead and get us a soda or something. 1156 00:57:07,303 --> 00:57:08,137 You want a soda? 1157 00:57:08,429 --> 00:57:09,138 I do. 1158 00:57:09,430 --> 00:57:10,932 Get me, uh, get me whatever. 1159 00:57:11,223 --> 00:57:12,934 Doesn't matter just-- And something for yourself, too. 1160 00:57:13,225 --> 00:57:13,809 MOUSSA: All right. 1161 00:57:30,368 --> 00:57:32,411 How old were you when you were sent to the Bronx? 1162 00:57:32,703 --> 00:57:34,622 Seven. 1163 00:57:34,914 --> 00:57:40,711 And when you came here, did you think it'd be a short visit 1164 00:57:41,003 --> 00:57:43,631 or forever? 1165 00:57:43,923 --> 00:57:45,758 Just a short visit, see my cousins. 1166 00:57:46,050 --> 00:57:48,094 So your father didn't explain anything to you? 1167 00:57:48,386 --> 00:57:49,470 Well, no. 1168 00:57:49,762 --> 00:57:51,514 He was too drunk to take me to the airport, 1169 00:57:51,806 --> 00:57:53,849 so my grandmother took me. 1170 00:57:54,141 --> 00:57:55,184 I didn't even get to say goodbye to him. 1171 00:57:58,354 --> 00:57:59,605 So you've been here for 10 years, 1172 00:57:59,897 --> 00:58:01,148 and how many apartments have you lived in? 1173 00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:02,358 Moved almost every year. 1174 00:58:02,650 --> 00:58:06,529 Going from relative to relative. 1175 00:58:06,821 --> 00:58:11,325 I wanted to stay with my grandfather in New Jersey, But. 1176 00:58:11,617 --> 00:58:12,201 He died last year. 1177 00:58:12,493 --> 00:58:13,995 Diabetes. 1178 00:58:14,286 --> 00:58:18,082 Person I stayed with the longest was my uncle. 1179 00:58:18,374 --> 00:58:21,127 What's that like? 1180 00:58:21,419 --> 00:58:23,713 Favors all his own kids. 1181 00:58:24,005 --> 00:58:25,131 Gives them money for everything, you know. 1182 00:58:25,423 --> 00:58:27,133 McDonald's, sneakers, jeans, they get to watch 1183 00:58:27,425 --> 00:58:29,385 the TV shows and everything. 1184 00:58:29,677 --> 00:58:30,720 Orders me around like a slave. 1185 00:58:34,432 --> 00:58:38,019 Actually, I kept hoping that I'd get picked up by immigration 1186 00:58:38,310 --> 00:58:41,605 so I could get sent back to the DR, live with my father, 1187 00:58:41,897 --> 00:58:44,775 but he's in jail again, so. 1188 00:58:45,067 --> 00:58:47,194 Hm. 1189 00:58:47,486 --> 00:58:48,320 So who takes care of you? 1190 00:58:51,073 --> 00:58:53,117 Nobody takes care of me. 1191 00:58:53,409 --> 00:58:55,036 I take care of everybody else. 1192 00:58:55,327 --> 00:58:56,829 Who is everybody else? 1193 00:58:57,121 --> 00:59:02,168 My uncle, my cousin, Carlita, her boyfriend, and their kids. 1194 00:59:02,460 --> 00:59:05,838 And your cousin, Carlita? 1195 00:59:06,130 --> 00:59:07,173 How does she treat you? 1196 00:59:07,465 --> 00:59:08,215 She can't do nothing. 1197 00:59:11,177 --> 00:59:12,845 About what? 1198 00:59:13,137 --> 00:59:15,514 Just-- me being ordered around and shit. 1199 00:59:19,018 --> 00:59:20,352 What's Carlita's boyfriend like? 1200 00:59:23,856 --> 00:59:25,483 Orders me around, like everybody else. 1201 00:59:30,571 --> 00:59:31,906 Hey, I don't want to do this anymore, OK? 1202 00:59:32,198 --> 00:59:33,491 Do you think the United States government has 1203 00:59:33,783 --> 00:59:34,700 an obligation to help your father 1204 00:59:34,992 --> 00:59:37,787 if you become a citizen here? 1205 00:59:38,079 --> 00:59:39,497 I hadn't thought about that. 1206 00:59:39,789 --> 00:59:40,873 Your father and his family have been in prison on and off 1207 00:59:41,165 --> 00:59:43,334 almost their entire lives. 1208 00:59:43,626 --> 00:59:48,464 Do you think being a criminal runs in the blood line? 1209 00:59:48,756 --> 00:59:49,465 I don't know. 1210 00:59:49,757 --> 00:59:50,508 ISAAC: Answer the question. 1211 00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:52,051 I have no i-fucking-dea, man. 1212 00:59:52,343 --> 00:59:53,552 Can you guarantee that you won't become a criminal? 1213 00:59:53,844 --> 00:59:54,804 SOPHIE: I don't know. ISAAC: Answer. 1214 00:59:55,096 --> 00:59:56,138 SOPHIE: I don't know. ISAAC: Answer. 1215 00:59:56,430 --> 00:59:57,389 What kind of fucking question is that? 1216 00:59:57,681 --> 00:59:58,599 ISAAC: Answer. SOPHIE: I don't know. 1217 00:59:58,891 --> 00:59:59,850 ISAAC: Answer. SOPHIE: I don't know. 1218 01:00:00,142 --> 01:00:00,935 ISAAC: Answer. SOPHIE: I don't know. 1219 01:00:01,227 --> 01:00:02,311 ISAAC: Answer. - I don't know. 1220 01:00:02,603 --> 01:00:03,646 ISAAC: Answer the question. - I don't know. 1221 01:00:03,938 --> 01:00:04,730 Will you become a criminal just like them? 1222 01:00:05,022 --> 01:00:05,981 I don't have an answer for you. 1223 01:00:06,273 --> 01:00:07,650 I don't have a fucking answer for you. 1224 01:00:07,942 --> 01:00:08,901 ISAAC: Are you going to become a criminal just like them? 1225 01:00:09,193 --> 01:00:10,111 I don't have a fucking answer for you! 1226 01:00:10,402 --> 01:00:10,820 I don't have a fucking answer for you! 1227 01:00:11,112 --> 01:00:12,947 [clanging] 1228 01:00:26,585 --> 01:00:30,714 I've seen judges be a lot worse than that. 1229 01:00:31,006 --> 01:00:33,801 You got to keep your stuff together, Sophie. 1230 01:00:34,093 --> 01:00:37,054 But that's not what I'm interested in talking 1231 01:00:37,346 --> 01:00:37,972 about right now. 1232 01:00:44,270 --> 01:00:47,565 What your family is doing to you is not right. 1233 01:00:47,857 --> 01:00:48,482 It's called neglect. 1234 01:00:52,570 --> 01:00:53,237 This is neglect. 1235 01:00:56,073 --> 01:00:59,827 And I'm pretty sure it's something else, too. 1236 01:01:00,119 --> 01:01:00,828 Isn't it? 1237 01:01:10,963 --> 01:01:11,881 This can get you papers. 1238 01:01:17,052 --> 01:01:18,345 I can get you papers. 1239 01:01:23,058 --> 01:01:24,351 Will you let me do that for you? 1240 01:01:28,397 --> 01:01:29,899 Sophie, look at me. 1241 01:01:30,191 --> 01:01:31,400 Look at me. 1242 01:01:37,031 --> 01:01:40,784 You're my responsibility now. 1243 01:01:41,076 --> 01:01:42,870 You're my client. 1244 01:01:43,162 --> 01:01:45,623 Nobody else. 1245 01:01:45,915 --> 01:01:47,458 Let me get between you and them. 1246 01:01:47,750 --> 01:01:50,502 I'll fucking bury them. 1247 01:01:50,794 --> 01:01:52,421 Nobody's going to get past me. 1248 01:01:55,925 --> 01:02:00,471 Now, you gotta stay out of trouble. 1249 01:02:00,763 --> 01:02:02,556 This means some kid spits in your face at school, 1250 01:02:02,848 --> 01:02:04,391 you got to walk away. All right? 1251 01:02:04,683 --> 01:02:05,476 Understand? 1252 01:02:05,768 --> 01:02:07,811 No fighting back. 1253 01:02:08,103 --> 01:02:10,314 I do the fighting from now on. 1254 01:02:15,027 --> 01:02:16,320 No! 1255 01:02:16,612 --> 01:02:17,571 How y'all doing? 1256 01:02:17,863 --> 01:02:19,156 This is a piece of trash, right here. 1257 01:02:19,448 --> 01:02:20,741 No! Not me! 1258 01:02:21,033 --> 01:02:21,742 You forgot to take this. She gotta get in the can. 1259 01:02:22,034 --> 01:02:22,660 Here you go. [screaming] 1260 01:02:22,952 --> 01:02:23,577 [laughing] - Come on! 1261 01:02:23,869 --> 01:02:25,246 No, no, but thank you! 1262 01:02:25,537 --> 01:02:26,205 Have a good night, y'all. 1263 01:02:32,753 --> 01:02:34,296 No, but like, what if I couldn't be there. 1264 01:02:37,258 --> 01:02:38,926 You could. 1265 01:02:39,218 --> 01:02:41,595 But what if I couldn't? 1266 01:02:41,887 --> 01:02:43,222 Don't you trust me? 1267 01:02:43,514 --> 01:02:45,724 I do, but that's not what I'm asking. 1268 01:02:46,016 --> 01:02:47,977 What if I couldn't be there? 1269 01:02:48,269 --> 01:02:48,936 Then you wouldn't be there. 1270 01:02:49,228 --> 01:02:51,981 That's it? 1271 01:02:52,273 --> 01:02:53,983 But you'll be there. 1272 01:02:54,275 --> 01:02:55,985 [laughing] 1273 01:03:01,657 --> 01:03:03,909 Hey, mopey. 1274 01:03:10,624 --> 01:03:11,542 What if I couldn't be there? 1275 01:03:11,834 --> 01:03:12,501 [laughing] 1276 01:03:12,793 --> 01:03:13,419 Oh! 1277 01:03:13,711 --> 01:03:14,878 What was that? 1278 01:03:15,170 --> 01:03:15,879 [laughing] 1279 01:03:16,171 --> 01:03:16,755 Thank you. 1280 01:03:31,478 --> 01:03:32,521 MOUSSA: Mama, is this a joke? 1281 01:03:32,813 --> 01:03:33,522 It's for the best. 1282 01:03:33,814 --> 01:03:34,565 For the best? 1283 01:03:34,857 --> 01:03:36,066 What are you talking about? 1284 01:03:36,358 --> 01:03:37,443 He is the one who was actually meant to be here. 1285 01:03:37,735 --> 01:03:40,321 MIRIAM: It will be better for him. 1286 01:03:40,612 --> 01:03:41,739 Better how? 1287 01:03:42,031 --> 01:03:44,408 Don't-- Moussa, don't raise your voice at me. 1288 01:03:44,700 --> 01:03:46,910 Mama, how could you actually think about sending him back 1289 01:03:47,202 --> 01:03:48,746 to Africa? 1290 01:03:49,038 --> 01:03:49,747 Why? 1291 01:03:50,039 --> 01:03:51,957 I don't want to discuss it. 1292 01:03:52,249 --> 01:03:55,210 Whenever with him, Armina and I, we work all the time, 1293 01:03:55,502 --> 01:03:58,964 you're at school, at least now he'll be with his grandmother 1294 01:03:59,256 --> 01:03:59,965 all the time. 1295 01:04:00,257 --> 01:04:02,343 Yeah, Mama, but in Guinea! 1296 01:04:02,634 --> 01:04:04,470 He is an American citizen! 1297 01:04:04,762 --> 01:04:05,846 He deserves to be here! 1298 01:04:06,138 --> 01:04:08,390 I will send for him, I promise. 1299 01:04:08,682 --> 01:04:09,600 As you say, he's an American. 1300 01:04:09,892 --> 01:04:11,435 He has a passport. 1301 01:04:11,727 --> 01:04:13,395 It will be easy for him to come to immigration. 1302 01:04:13,687 --> 01:04:16,315 So when will you send for him? 1303 01:04:16,607 --> 01:04:18,859 When you graduate college and you had a good job. 1304 01:04:19,151 --> 01:04:21,945 Mama Mama, are you kidding me? 1305 01:04:22,237 --> 01:04:25,157 That could be up to five years from now! 1306 01:04:25,449 --> 01:04:27,076 He might not even remember us! 1307 01:04:27,368 --> 01:04:29,411 Moussa, I have decided. 1308 01:04:29,703 --> 01:04:31,288 That's it. 1309 01:04:31,580 --> 01:04:33,957 And Amadou comes back, I don't want to discuss it. 1310 01:04:34,249 --> 01:04:35,459 I don't want him to be scared. 1311 01:04:35,751 --> 01:04:36,919 Armina, are you hearing this? MIRIAM: Excuse me. 1312 01:04:37,211 --> 01:04:37,836 Armina! 1313 01:04:38,128 --> 01:04:39,713 What? 1314 01:04:40,005 --> 01:04:41,465 You know what, you've always got such a big mouth. 1315 01:04:41,757 --> 01:04:42,674 Why are you silent now? 1316 01:04:42,966 --> 01:04:43,884 Leave me out of it. 1317 01:04:44,176 --> 01:04:47,304 Leave you out-- What is happ-- Mama! 1318 01:04:47,596 --> 01:04:49,431 OK, so when is he going, huh? 1319 01:04:49,723 --> 01:04:52,976 My cousin said that you can get a cheap ticket if you 1320 01:04:53,268 --> 01:04:54,103 book a few weeks in advance. 1321 01:04:54,395 --> 01:04:55,729 MOUSSA: In a few weeks, Mama? 1322 01:04:57,189 --> 01:04:58,065 MIRIAM: I'm going to do the laundry. 1323 01:04:58,357 --> 01:04:59,233 I don't want to discuss it. 1324 01:04:59,525 --> 01:05:00,275 Mama, come on, you can't do that! 1325 01:05:00,567 --> 01:05:02,403 Excuse me, Moussa, excuse me! 1326 01:05:02,694 --> 01:05:03,320 Move! 1327 01:05:03,612 --> 01:05:04,196 Come on! 1328 01:05:08,534 --> 01:05:09,868 What the fuck is going on here? 1329 01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:10,869 Don't yell at me, Moussa. 1330 01:05:11,161 --> 01:05:11,870 How can you just let her-- 1331 01:05:12,162 --> 01:05:13,539 What do you want me to say? 1332 01:05:13,831 --> 01:05:15,916 That I want my little brother to be packed oft? 1333 01:05:16,208 --> 01:05:17,251 That I want him to forget me? 1334 01:05:17,543 --> 01:05:18,961 Is that what you want me to say, Moussa? 1335 01:05:19,253 --> 01:05:20,712 I want you to help me talk her out of it. 1336 01:05:21,004 --> 01:05:21,713 She decided! 1337 01:05:22,005 --> 01:05:22,965 And we can change her mind! 1338 01:05:30,139 --> 01:05:32,266 Armina. 1339 01:05:32,558 --> 01:05:33,392 It's because of you! 1340 01:05:33,684 --> 01:05:34,351 What? 1341 01:05:34,643 --> 01:05:35,602 It's all because of you! 1342 01:05:39,106 --> 01:05:40,482 What-- What are you talking about? 1343 01:05:40,774 --> 01:05:42,067 Why are you being so mean to me? 1344 01:05:42,359 --> 01:05:43,110 Don't you get it? 1345 01:05:43,402 --> 01:05:44,862 We can't afford this country. 1346 01:05:45,154 --> 01:05:46,447 Mama can't afford to keep all three of us here-- 1347 01:05:46,738 --> 01:05:48,657 - But that's-- - So Amadou has to go back. 1348 01:05:48,949 --> 01:05:49,575 Mina. 1349 01:05:53,996 --> 01:05:54,705 Look at you. 1350 01:05:57,749 --> 01:06:01,336 You think you're an American? 1351 01:06:01,628 --> 01:06:05,466 Well, you're not, and they will never let you be. 1352 01:06:05,757 --> 01:06:09,761 You may talk like them, and wear the right clothes, 1353 01:06:10,053 --> 01:06:11,513 but you'll never be from this country. 1354 01:06:14,850 --> 01:06:15,559 So where am I from? 1355 01:06:18,479 --> 01:06:20,731 Guinea? 1356 01:06:21,023 --> 01:06:22,858 A place that I can't hardly remember. 1357 01:06:23,150 --> 01:06:27,654 No, you're just like me. 1358 01:06:27,946 --> 01:06:28,614 From nowhere. 1359 01:06:33,827 --> 01:06:35,746 ZOE: Come in. 1360 01:06:36,038 --> 01:06:36,788 Hey. 1361 01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:38,040 Hi. 1362 01:06:38,332 --> 01:06:39,500 Why don't you grab a seat? 1363 01:06:45,047 --> 01:06:45,756 Uh-oh. 1364 01:06:50,636 --> 01:06:51,303 What's going on? 1365 01:06:55,182 --> 01:06:57,059 Jackie, I feel really awkward having 1366 01:06:57,351 --> 01:07:01,563 to talk to you about this, but it's my job, 1367 01:07:01,855 --> 01:07:05,400 so I got to bring it up. 1368 01:07:05,692 --> 01:07:08,195 A couple of people have come to me 1369 01:07:08,487 --> 01:07:18,163 with, I don't know, I don't want to say accusation, um, 1370 01:07:18,455 --> 01:07:24,086 concern about the amount of time that you have been 1371 01:07:24,378 --> 01:07:29,049 spending alone with Moussa. 1372 01:07:29,341 --> 01:07:30,092 People have noticed it. 1373 01:07:30,384 --> 01:07:31,343 I've noticed it. 1374 01:07:31,635 --> 01:07:33,971 And I'm not suggesting that anything 1375 01:07:34,263 --> 01:07:38,684 inappropriate has happened, but, um, it's got to stop. 1376 01:07:38,976 --> 01:07:40,185 Zoe-- 1377 01:07:40,477 --> 01:07:42,896 Because if one more person comes to me with it, 1378 01:07:43,188 --> 01:07:44,273 I'm going to-- JACKIE: Zoe! 1379 01:07:44,565 --> 01:07:45,566 --Have to treat it as an actual complaint. 1380 01:07:45,857 --> 01:07:48,527 Look, I know, you believe in this kid. 1381 01:07:48,819 --> 01:07:50,571 You want to see him succeed, but I am telling you-- 1382 01:07:50,862 --> 01:07:51,405 Oh my God. ZOE: --as your friend-- 1383 01:07:51,697 --> 01:07:52,155 He's undocumented! 1384 01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:57,828 Oh. 1385 01:08:01,415 --> 01:08:03,750 Wow, of course. 1386 01:08:04,042 --> 01:08:04,668 [laughing] 1387 01:08:06,378 --> 01:08:07,421 OK. 1388 01:08:07,713 --> 01:08:09,423 Wow. 1389 01:08:09,715 --> 01:08:11,883 I'm sorry. 1390 01:08:12,175 --> 01:08:16,763 I just-- I panicked. 1391 01:08:17,055 --> 01:08:18,682 I never had to have this conversation with anybody 1392 01:08:18,974 --> 01:08:19,558 before. 1393 01:08:19,850 --> 01:08:20,809 Oh, God, I feel sick. 1394 01:08:23,228 --> 01:08:23,937 Wow. 1395 01:08:30,152 --> 01:08:30,986 OK. 1396 01:08:31,278 --> 01:08:32,571 I'm sorry I didn't tell you. 1397 01:08:39,202 --> 01:08:40,787 Who else? 1398 01:08:41,079 --> 01:08:41,663 You know what? 1399 01:08:41,955 --> 01:08:42,998 Don't tell me. 1400 01:08:43,290 --> 01:08:45,667 Zoe, I'll tell you if you want to know. 1401 01:08:45,959 --> 01:08:46,543 Mm. 1402 01:08:50,088 --> 01:08:50,797 Wow. 1403 01:08:53,675 --> 01:09:02,309 You know, I canceled all of the senior field trips last year. 1404 01:09:02,601 --> 01:09:07,606 I blamed it on lack of funds, but it was actually me. 1405 01:09:07,898 --> 01:09:12,819 I read about this kid who got deported because he had to show 1406 01:09:13,111 --> 01:09:16,823 a fake ID to get on a bus for a school field trip 1407 01:09:17,115 --> 01:09:17,741 to Washington. 1408 01:09:21,828 --> 01:09:25,415 I didn't want that to happen to any of our kids here. 1409 01:09:25,707 --> 01:09:28,794 So I squashed the whole thing. 1410 01:09:29,086 --> 01:09:32,756 You got some shit from parents. 1411 01:09:33,048 --> 01:09:34,716 They got over it. 1412 01:09:35,008 --> 01:09:36,968 JACKIE: Yeah. 1413 01:09:37,260 --> 01:09:41,264 Jackie, no more private chats. 1414 01:09:41,556 --> 01:09:42,182 Got it. 1415 01:09:42,474 --> 01:09:43,100 ZOE: Thank you. 1416 01:09:49,523 --> 01:09:50,232 MOUSSA: Miss! 1417 01:09:53,402 --> 01:09:55,654 Hi, what's up? 1418 01:09:55,946 --> 01:09:56,655 Did you know? 1419 01:09:56,947 --> 01:09:57,823 What? 1420 01:09:58,115 --> 01:09:59,366 Did you-- did my mother tell you? 1421 01:09:59,658 --> 01:10:00,534 What are you talking about? Why aren't you in class? 1422 01:10:00,826 --> 01:10:01,576 - Did you know? - What? 1423 01:10:01,868 --> 01:10:02,452 Shh. 1424 01:10:02,744 --> 01:10:04,705 Wait. 1425 01:10:04,996 --> 01:10:06,581 I know that my mom came to see you on Friday. 1426 01:10:06,873 --> 01:10:07,958 Did you know? Did she tell you then? 1427 01:10:17,426 --> 01:10:19,553 You knew. 1428 01:10:19,845 --> 01:10:20,971 How could you not tell me? - No, we can't. 1429 01:10:21,263 --> 01:10:22,264 I can't talk to you about this right now. 1430 01:10:22,556 --> 01:10:23,140 Come here, please. 1431 01:10:27,853 --> 01:10:30,981 Listen, we can't talk about these things at school anymore. 1432 01:10:31,273 --> 01:10:31,940 Why didn't you tell me? 1433 01:10:32,232 --> 01:10:33,191 JACKIE: I'm so sorry, I-- 1434 01:10:33,483 --> 01:10:34,693 You know when you saw me yesterday! 1435 01:10:34,985 --> 01:10:35,944 I couldn't tell you, I'm so-- Please calm down. 1436 01:10:38,405 --> 01:10:39,781 How could you know and not tell me? 1437 01:10:40,073 --> 01:10:42,868 Listen, what happened to your father was horrible, 1438 01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:44,494 but it is up to your mother whether or not 1439 01:10:44,786 --> 01:10:46,037 she wants to tell you. 1440 01:10:46,329 --> 01:10:49,666 She was just trying to protect you. 1441 01:10:49,958 --> 01:10:52,502 What are you talking about? 1442 01:10:52,794 --> 01:10:53,420 What do you mean? 1443 01:10:57,299 --> 01:10:59,134 My mother's sending Amadou back to Guinea. 1444 01:11:03,263 --> 01:11:05,015 What're you talking about? 1445 01:11:10,645 --> 01:11:11,354 Miss? 1446 01:11:15,442 --> 01:11:16,651 Did something happen to my father? 1447 01:11:19,780 --> 01:11:21,907 I'm so sorry. I got it wrong. 1448 01:11:22,199 --> 01:11:23,158 I was thinking of the wrong thing. 1449 01:11:23,450 --> 01:11:24,284 I was thinking of the wrong person. 1450 01:11:24,576 --> 01:11:25,660 I'm so sorry. MOUSSA: No. 1451 01:11:25,952 --> 01:11:26,620 I'm so sorry. 1452 01:11:26,912 --> 01:11:27,746 MOUSSA: No, don't do this. 1453 01:11:28,038 --> 01:11:29,289 Miss, miss. You don't-- 1454 01:11:29,581 --> 01:11:31,291 You know what? You need to let go of my arm. 1455 01:11:31,583 --> 01:11:33,210 MOUSSA: Miss. 1456 01:11:33,502 --> 01:11:35,003 Miss, did something happen to my father? 1457 01:11:35,295 --> 01:11:36,046 Let go of my arm! 1458 01:11:36,338 --> 01:11:36,922 I'm so sorry. 1459 01:11:42,969 --> 01:11:46,264 [crying] 1460 01:11:50,435 --> 01:11:52,813 [music - Eminem, "shake that"] 1461 01:11:53,939 --> 01:11:55,690 [singing] Aftermath. 1462 01:11:58,902 --> 01:12:02,864 There she go, shaking that ass on the floor. 1463 01:12:03,156 --> 01:12:04,366 Bumping and grinding that pole. 1464 01:12:04,658 --> 01:12:06,368 The way she's grinding that pole, 1465 01:12:06,660 --> 01:12:08,870 I think I'm losing control. 1466 01:12:09,162 --> 01:12:10,330 Get buzzed, get drunk, get crunk-- 1467 01:12:10,622 --> 01:12:13,333 [interposing voices] 1468 01:12:24,010 --> 01:12:24,803 Here's your punch, girl. 1469 01:12:25,095 --> 01:12:25,762 Thank you. 1470 01:12:26,054 --> 01:12:27,097 Welcome. 1471 01:12:27,389 --> 01:12:30,183 Come on, let's go dance, let's go have fun. 1472 01:12:30,475 --> 01:12:32,143 Come on, though! 1473 01:12:32,435 --> 01:12:33,186 You look miserable. 1474 01:12:33,478 --> 01:12:34,187 It's prom night. 1475 01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:35,272 Seriously! - I'm fine. 1476 01:12:35,564 --> 01:12:36,439 Fine. Let's go. 1477 01:12:36,731 --> 01:12:37,899 We're going. - Going where? 1478 01:12:38,191 --> 01:12:38,775 We have other plans. 1479 01:12:39,067 --> 01:12:39,734 I can't tell you. 1480 01:12:40,026 --> 01:12:40,777 But we're going. 1481 01:12:41,069 --> 01:12:41,862 Maybe alcohol will help you out. 1482 01:12:42,153 --> 01:12:42,904 SOPHIE: Ugh. - There you go. 1483 01:12:43,196 --> 01:12:43,905 Let's go. 1484 01:12:44,197 --> 01:12:44,823 Sorry! 1485 01:12:51,663 --> 01:12:53,790 Where are we going? 1486 01:12:54,082 --> 01:12:57,377 Somewhere where you're allowed to smile. 1487 01:12:57,669 --> 01:12:58,295 GIRL: No, not if we do it. 1488 01:12:58,587 --> 01:12:59,462 If we get caught. 1489 01:12:59,754 --> 01:13:00,797 Seriously? 1490 01:13:01,089 --> 01:13:02,132 GIRL: Things have changed since day one. 1491 01:13:02,424 --> 01:13:03,091 [knocking] 1492 01:13:03,383 --> 01:13:04,009 ALYSSA: Hi! 1493 01:13:07,846 --> 01:13:08,972 OK. 1494 01:13:09,264 --> 01:13:10,098 Happy prom, girls. 1495 01:13:10,390 --> 01:13:13,643 ALYSSA: Happy prom, finally! 1496 01:13:13,935 --> 01:13:15,061 Thank you, is that water? 1497 01:13:15,353 --> 01:13:17,355 Come get this cup, come on. 1498 01:13:17,647 --> 01:13:18,273 GIRL: Water. - Thanks. 1499 01:13:18,565 --> 01:13:19,149 GIRL: Definitely. 1500 01:13:19,441 --> 01:13:21,568 [laughter] 1501 01:13:21,860 --> 01:13:23,403 Come on. 1502 01:13:23,695 --> 01:13:24,863 Oh, sorry, we have to cheers first. 1503 01:13:25,155 --> 01:13:25,864 My bad. To us? 1504 01:13:26,156 --> 01:13:26,740 To us! 1505 01:13:27,032 --> 01:13:27,741 Fine bitches! 1506 01:13:33,455 --> 01:13:34,664 SARAH: Where is that boy? 1507 01:13:34,956 --> 01:13:36,249 This is my last time in a fancy civilian dress 1508 01:13:36,541 --> 01:13:37,417 and he's missing it. 1509 01:13:37,709 --> 01:13:39,044 Ooh, your first break in training, 1510 01:13:39,336 --> 01:13:42,297 I'm coming down to Atlanta, and we're going shopping. 1511 01:13:42,589 --> 01:13:44,132 - OK, OK, though. - For real? 1512 01:13:44,424 --> 01:13:45,342 What? 1513 01:13:45,634 --> 01:13:46,676 You going to make this poor girl 1514 01:13:46,968 --> 01:13:48,261 go shopping for a whole bunch of clothes 1515 01:13:48,553 --> 01:13:49,429 that you know damn well she can't 1516 01:13:49,721 --> 01:13:50,430 wear for the rest of the year. 1517 01:13:50,722 --> 01:13:51,765 I wasn't saying that! 1518 01:13:52,057 --> 01:13:53,725 I was just saying she can come shopping 1519 01:13:54,017 --> 01:13:55,060 with me while I buy clothes. 1520 01:13:55,352 --> 01:13:57,062 Because that makes it so much better! 1521 01:13:57,354 --> 01:14:00,106 OK, you have no idea what we're talking about, OK? 1522 01:14:00,398 --> 01:14:02,651 We have a different kind of friendship that you and her do. 1523 01:14:02,943 --> 01:14:04,194 Ooh, relax girls. 1524 01:14:04,486 --> 01:14:05,904 There's enough of Sarah to go around for everybody. 1525 01:14:06,196 --> 01:14:08,740 What the hell is that supposed to mean? 1526 01:14:09,032 --> 01:14:11,326 She was just saying it's prom. 1527 01:14:11,618 --> 01:14:13,620 You know, and we're not going to see each other for a while, 1528 01:14:13,912 --> 01:14:16,081 so we might as well have fun tonight, right? 1529 01:14:16,373 --> 01:14:18,625 Is that what you meant? 1530 01:14:18,917 --> 01:14:19,542 Yeah. 1531 01:14:23,588 --> 01:14:27,676 I'm about to sound so crazy, but Sophie is right. 1532 01:14:27,968 --> 01:14:30,553 I'm gonna miss my girls. 1533 01:14:30,845 --> 01:14:31,721 Come on! - 1534 01:14:32,013 --> 01:14:32,764 GIRL: Me too. 1535 01:14:33,056 --> 01:14:33,974 ALYSSA: I'm gonna miss you guys! 1536 01:14:34,265 --> 01:14:36,893 SARAH: Aw! 1537 01:14:37,185 --> 01:14:38,728 ALYSSA: We're going to be college living, guys? 1538 01:14:39,020 --> 01:14:40,397 Seriously! 1539 01:14:40,689 --> 01:14:41,982 Have you thought about that for like at least a second? 1540 01:14:42,273 --> 01:14:43,733 It's over! Oh, I can't wait. 1541 01:14:44,025 --> 01:14:44,609 GIRL: True. 1542 01:14:44,901 --> 01:14:46,027 I'm so excited. 1543 01:14:46,319 --> 01:14:47,195 Tina, what are you going to study, by the way? 1544 01:14:47,487 --> 01:14:48,071 Maybe singing. 1545 01:14:48,363 --> 01:14:49,489 Ooh, maybe psychology. 1546 01:14:49,781 --> 01:14:50,740 Yeah, Tina, girl. 1547 01:14:51,032 --> 01:14:52,158 Be one of them singing psychologists! 1548 01:14:52,450 --> 01:14:53,702 OK, OK. 1549 01:14:53,994 --> 01:14:55,328 I thought about going to college, 1550 01:14:55,620 --> 01:14:56,663 but then I realized in the army I 1551 01:14:56,955 --> 01:14:59,374 can study what I want for free, and then 1552 01:14:59,666 --> 01:15:01,084 have a job at the end of it. 1553 01:15:01,376 --> 01:15:03,545 Make some money. 1554 01:15:03,837 --> 01:15:05,463 Where is he? 1555 01:15:05,755 --> 01:15:07,007 ALYSSA: Maybe he's getting us weed. 1556 01:15:07,298 --> 01:15:08,550 I just want him to be here. 1557 01:15:08,842 --> 01:15:10,343 I love that little baby so much. 1558 01:15:10,635 --> 01:15:11,219 Is this all right? 1559 01:15:11,511 --> 01:15:12,554 GIRL: It's OK. 1560 01:15:12,846 --> 01:15:13,805 I'm surprised you know how [inaudible]. 1561 01:15:14,097 --> 01:15:14,639 Come on, I want everyone in the picture. 1562 01:15:14,931 --> 01:15:17,308 Come on. 1563 01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:18,268 Get in. 1564 01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:19,144 Come on. 1565 01:15:21,980 --> 01:15:23,064 OK, get in, get in, get in. 1566 01:15:23,356 --> 01:15:24,691 - Fix my hair! - Wait, wait, wait. 1567 01:15:24,983 --> 01:15:25,567 Oh, OK. 1568 01:15:25,859 --> 01:15:26,484 Are we done? 1569 01:15:26,776 --> 01:15:27,527 I'm so short! 1570 01:15:27,819 --> 01:15:28,611 OK, ready? 1571 01:15:28,903 --> 01:15:31,322 One, two, three. 1572 01:15:31,614 --> 01:15:33,241 Say prom! 1573 01:15:33,533 --> 01:15:34,951 - Prom! - Perfect. 1574 01:15:35,243 --> 01:15:35,827 Oh. 1575 01:15:36,119 --> 01:15:37,328 OK. 1576 01:15:37,620 --> 01:15:40,665 [laughter] 1577 01:15:40,957 --> 01:15:41,958 OK. 1578 01:15:42,250 --> 01:15:43,126 Too many selfies. 1579 01:15:43,418 --> 01:15:44,502 Wait, fuck. Where's my phone? 1580 01:15:44,794 --> 01:15:45,670 GIRL: Filter that and send it to me. 1581 01:15:45,962 --> 01:15:47,047 What? You lost it? 1582 01:15:47,338 --> 01:15:49,591 Oh, no. Bobby has my phone. 1583 01:15:49,883 --> 01:15:50,675 Whatever. 1584 01:15:50,967 --> 01:15:52,969 Why does Bobby have your phone? 1585 01:15:53,261 --> 01:15:53,970 Huh? 1586 01:15:54,262 --> 01:15:55,013 SARAH: You know what I mean. 1587 01:15:58,099 --> 01:16:00,060 You're gonna tell me about Bobby later. 1588 01:16:00,351 --> 01:16:02,062 Oh, look who I found! 1589 01:16:02,353 --> 01:16:03,021 GIRL: Speaking of the devil! 1590 01:16:09,069 --> 01:16:09,736 Baby! 1591 01:16:10,028 --> 01:16:11,237 GIRL: Thank you! 1592 01:16:11,529 --> 01:16:15,033 Ooh, you smell like you broke the bottle. 1593 01:16:15,325 --> 01:16:16,034 Bobby had something. 1594 01:16:16,326 --> 01:16:17,577 Uh-huh. 1595 01:16:17,869 --> 01:16:18,495 Oh. 1596 01:16:27,337 --> 01:16:28,713 I got to drinking. 1597 01:16:29,005 --> 01:16:31,674 You can't hold your liquor. 1598 01:16:31,966 --> 01:16:32,884 He doesn't look good. 1599 01:16:33,176 --> 01:16:35,178 No, he's been like that all night. 1600 01:16:35,470 --> 01:16:38,056 We are gonna be the hottest couple on the base 1601 01:16:38,348 --> 01:16:40,266 when you sign up. 1602 01:16:40,558 --> 01:16:41,601 If you ever sign up. 1603 01:16:41,893 --> 01:16:42,852 Don't start that shit no more. 1604 01:16:43,144 --> 01:16:43,728 SARAH: Baby, come on! 1605 01:16:44,020 --> 01:16:45,063 Hey. 1606 01:16:45,355 --> 01:16:48,024 Give him a break. 1607 01:16:48,316 --> 01:16:51,528 And who the fuck are you? 1608 01:16:51,820 --> 01:16:52,946 I'm someone who maybe knows more 1609 01:16:53,238 --> 01:16:53,905 about the situation than you. 1610 01:16:54,197 --> 01:16:54,864 I know who you are, bitch. 1611 01:16:55,156 --> 01:16:55,824 You're a criminal slut. 1612 01:16:56,116 --> 01:16:56,991 Say that again. 1613 01:16:57,283 --> 01:16:57,909 No. 1614 01:16:58,201 --> 01:16:59,452 Talk to me. 1615 01:16:59,744 --> 01:17:00,411 ALYSSA: Guys, we're supposed to be having fun right-- 1616 01:17:00,703 --> 01:17:01,579 Shut the fuck up, Alyssa. 1617 01:17:06,709 --> 01:17:07,752 Come on. 1618 01:17:08,044 --> 01:17:09,254 Show us all how crazy you are. 1619 01:17:14,134 --> 01:17:14,843 You up for it? 1620 01:17:15,135 --> 01:17:16,219 Because I am. 1621 01:17:16,511 --> 01:17:17,512 Tonight, if you want to go. ALYSSA: Sophie. 1622 01:17:17,804 --> 01:17:18,513 I'm for real, let's go. 1623 01:17:24,769 --> 01:17:25,436 Come on. 1624 01:17:28,648 --> 01:17:30,400 Where's the tough girl gone now? 1625 01:17:36,114 --> 01:17:39,284 Oh, you good when you got the jump on someone, right? 1626 01:17:39,576 --> 01:17:41,828 Just not when someone's ready and waiting? 1627 01:18:00,513 --> 01:18:02,098 GIRL: Oh shit. 1628 01:18:02,390 --> 01:18:04,517 Oh shit. 1629 01:18:04,809 --> 01:18:05,476 Never did I ever. 1630 01:18:05,768 --> 01:18:08,354 I'll drink to that. 1631 01:18:08,646 --> 01:18:10,064 Oh, shit. 1632 01:18:10,356 --> 01:18:10,982 Nah, nah, nah, nah. 1633 01:18:11,274 --> 01:18:12,817 I'll drink to that. 1634 01:18:13,109 --> 01:18:14,569 You see that shit? 1635 01:18:14,861 --> 01:18:16,279 You did the right thing, OK? 1636 01:18:16,571 --> 01:18:19,365 MOUSSA: What the fuck is so funny? 1637 01:18:19,657 --> 01:18:22,243 I said, what the fuck is so funny, huh? 1638 01:18:22,535 --> 01:18:23,161 SARAH: What are you doing? 1639 01:18:23,453 --> 01:18:24,329 Oh my God! 1640 01:18:24,621 --> 01:18:25,705 MIKE: Moussa! ALYSSA: Oh my God! 1641 01:18:25,997 --> 01:18:26,831 MIKE: Moussa, what the fuck are you doing? 1642 01:18:27,123 --> 01:18:28,416 ALYSSA: Mike, get him off! 1643 01:18:28,708 --> 01:18:30,293 MIKE: Yo, Moussa! 1644 01:18:30,585 --> 01:18:31,669 What the fuck are you doing? 1645 01:18:31,961 --> 01:18:33,087 [interposing voices] 1646 01:18:33,379 --> 01:18:34,797 Moussa, Moussa, Moussa! 1647 01:18:35,089 --> 01:18:35,673 Moussa! 1648 01:18:36,507 --> 01:18:37,300 Fuck you! 1649 01:18:37,592 --> 01:18:38,176 Fuck you, man! Fuck you! 1650 01:18:38,468 --> 01:18:39,093 Man, let's go. 1651 01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:43,473 ALYSSA: Oh my God. 1652 01:18:54,943 --> 01:18:55,818 Moussa, what happened? 1653 01:19:01,991 --> 01:19:02,700 Moussa. 1654 01:19:11,251 --> 01:19:13,544 We're here for you. 1655 01:19:13,836 --> 01:19:14,879 Just talk to us. 1656 01:19:15,171 --> 01:19:16,631 Just leave me the fuck alone. 1657 01:19:16,923 --> 01:19:17,548 SOPHIE: Moussa. 1658 01:19:29,227 --> 01:19:32,397 SOPHIE: We need to get this shit cleaned up, all right? 1659 01:19:32,689 --> 01:19:33,314 Sophie, let's go! 1660 01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:40,071 What are you doing? 1661 01:19:40,363 --> 01:19:40,947 MOUSSA: Go Back to sleep. 1662 01:19:42,365 --> 01:19:43,199 ARMINA: I said, what are you doing? 1663 01:19:43,491 --> 01:19:44,117 MOUSSA: Go back to sleep. 1664 01:19:46,577 --> 01:19:48,288 What's with the suitcase? Why are you not at prom? 1665 01:19:48,579 --> 01:19:49,789 I am. I'm going there now. 1666 01:19:50,081 --> 01:19:52,125 ARMINA: Don't lie. 1667 01:19:52,417 --> 01:19:53,543 What's with the suitcase? 1668 01:19:57,046 --> 01:19:58,756 Amadou cannot go back there. 1669 01:19:59,048 --> 01:20:00,091 What are you talking about? 1670 01:20:00,383 --> 01:20:01,968 Mama is sending him back because of me. 1671 01:20:02,260 --> 01:20:03,094 You said so yourself. 1672 01:20:03,386 --> 01:20:04,220 I was angry, I didn't mean it. 1673 01:20:04,512 --> 01:20:07,181 MOUSSA: He can't go back there. 1674 01:20:07,473 --> 01:20:12,603 It-- things happen there. 1675 01:20:12,895 --> 01:20:13,604 It's not safe. 1676 01:20:17,275 --> 01:20:19,527 I won't let Mama send him back. 1677 01:20:23,740 --> 01:20:27,118 College is not worth it. 1678 01:20:27,410 --> 01:20:28,202 I'm not worth it. 1679 01:20:28,494 --> 01:20:31,581 Don't say that, Moussa, please. 1680 01:20:31,873 --> 01:20:32,582 Don't go. 1681 01:20:32,874 --> 01:20:34,083 I'm so sorry. 1682 01:20:37,253 --> 01:20:38,755 MOUSSA: Let go, Armina. 1683 01:20:39,047 --> 01:20:39,756 Let go. 1684 01:20:48,014 --> 01:20:49,140 Where will you go? 1685 01:20:52,727 --> 01:20:55,355 I will get a job and I will wait 1686 01:20:55,646 --> 01:20:57,607 it out until the laws change. 1687 01:21:02,779 --> 01:21:03,571 Please be safe. 1688 01:21:09,243 --> 01:21:12,538 Wait, what-- what do I tell Mama? 1689 01:21:17,210 --> 01:21:18,503 Tell her I love her. 1690 01:21:38,189 --> 01:21:45,571 I think that Moussa is a very resourceful young man, 1691 01:21:45,863 --> 01:21:51,160 and I think he'll do what he needs to do. 1692 01:21:55,790 --> 01:21:58,876 Last week I got some cash in the mail. 1693 01:21:59,168 --> 01:22:00,169 Has to be from Moussa, right? 1694 01:22:00,461 --> 01:22:01,045 For rent? 1695 01:22:04,257 --> 01:22:11,764 Which means that-- I wouldn't even know if my son is alive 1696 01:22:12,056 --> 01:22:24,110 or-- I have to, have to think about Armina. 1697 01:22:24,402 --> 01:22:26,446 Now I have to think about getting papers for her. 1698 01:22:26,737 --> 01:22:27,655 Yeah. 1699 01:22:27,947 --> 01:22:31,451 I think that's-- that's a good idea. 1700 01:22:31,742 --> 01:22:35,079 And for yourself, too. 1701 01:22:35,371 --> 01:22:37,457 I can never move or he won't know where to come home to. 1702 01:22:50,803 --> 01:22:52,680 Let us know if you hear from Moussa. 1703 01:22:52,972 --> 01:22:53,556 MIRIAM: Yes. 1704 01:22:56,142 --> 01:22:56,809 Miriam, um. 1705 01:23:00,062 --> 01:23:01,355 You should call me next week. 1706 01:23:01,647 --> 01:23:05,026 We'll get that started for you and your daughter. 1707 01:23:05,318 --> 01:23:06,527 Thank you, Mr. Miller. 1708 01:23:06,819 --> 01:23:08,154 Isaac. 1709 01:23:08,446 --> 01:23:10,156 Isaac. 1710 01:23:10,448 --> 01:23:11,115 Thank you. 1711 01:23:47,985 --> 01:23:49,737 I fucked up. 1712 01:23:50,029 --> 01:23:51,239 Ah, she's upset. 1713 01:23:54,951 --> 01:23:56,702 Her son is missing, and she can't even go to the police. 1714 01:23:56,994 --> 01:23:58,246 She can't talk to anyone. 1715 01:23:58,538 --> 01:24:00,498 She has no way of processing what's happening to her. 1716 01:24:04,835 --> 01:24:06,045 How could I think I had anything to teach 1717 01:24:06,337 --> 01:24:07,171 these kids about reality? 1718 01:24:16,305 --> 01:24:18,099 They could teach me about reality. 1719 01:24:21,727 --> 01:24:23,187 Sometimes I think he would have been 1720 01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:25,606 better off never filing, just waiting for the landscape 1721 01:24:25,898 --> 01:24:27,567 to change. 1722 01:24:27,858 --> 01:24:29,485 You know, I called up an old college buddy of mine 1723 01:24:29,777 --> 01:24:30,861 last week. 1724 01:24:31,153 --> 01:24:32,363 He works in a little firm up in the Bronx. 1725 01:24:32,655 --> 01:24:33,906 Deals with a lot of asylum-seekers. 1726 01:24:34,198 --> 01:24:36,284 I went up there to ask him some stuff, 1727 01:24:36,576 --> 01:24:39,870 to make sure I wasn't missing anything. 1728 01:24:44,292 --> 01:24:45,459 Man. 1729 01:24:45,751 --> 01:24:46,919 You want to see what it looks like, waiting 1730 01:24:47,211 --> 01:24:49,380 for the landscape to change? 1731 01:24:49,672 --> 01:24:50,756 Go up there during the week. 1732 01:24:51,048 --> 01:24:52,425 Visit his office. 1733 01:24:52,717 --> 01:24:54,677 So many people squeezed in there, waiting day after day, 1734 01:24:54,969 --> 01:24:59,223 hour after hour, no magazines, no windows. 1735 01:24:59,515 --> 01:25:02,643 Not one person has any idea if they'll be 1736 01:25:02,935 --> 01:25:05,229 able to stay in this country. 1737 01:25:05,521 --> 01:25:11,277 He said, he doesn't even set appointments anymore. 1738 01:25:11,569 --> 01:25:12,361 How does he stand it? 1739 01:25:12,653 --> 01:25:13,237 He drinks. 1740 01:25:25,458 --> 01:25:27,335 What about Sophie? 1741 01:25:27,627 --> 01:25:28,753 Well, you know. 1742 01:25:29,045 --> 01:25:33,758 I-- legally I have to talk to my client first, 1743 01:25:34,050 --> 01:25:40,139 but, um, well, let's just say it wouldn't be a waste of time 1744 01:25:40,431 --> 01:25:42,475 if Sophie started thinking about which college 1745 01:25:42,767 --> 01:25:43,976 she wants to apply to. 1746 01:25:52,151 --> 01:25:52,943 [inaudible] 1747 01:25:58,616 --> 01:25:59,408 And Alyssa? 1748 01:26:06,582 --> 01:26:08,709 Oh, shit. 1749 01:26:09,001 --> 01:26:10,086 Does she know? 1750 01:26:10,378 --> 01:26:12,797 Nope, not yet. 1751 01:26:13,089 --> 01:26:14,840 You know, she's giving the valedictorian speech tomorrow. 1752 01:26:15,132 --> 01:26:17,468 I know, I know. 1753 01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:19,595 I want her to have that moment first. 1754 01:26:26,936 --> 01:26:30,272 ALYSSA (VOICEOVER): I wasn't born with strength. 1755 01:26:30,564 --> 01:26:31,649 It came into me. 1756 01:26:34,610 --> 01:26:37,238 It was breathed into me from places in a country I 1757 01:26:37,530 --> 01:26:41,075 will probably never see again. 1758 01:26:41,367 --> 01:26:42,076 Far from the Bronx. 1759 01:26:44,870 --> 01:26:47,873 Today, I see all of the faces I've come to know 1760 01:26:48,165 --> 01:26:50,209 and love in this auditorium. 1761 01:26:50,501 --> 01:26:53,421 Not the blow-up faces we're told should inspire us, 1762 01:26:53,713 --> 01:26:57,341 but the real faces of the real people who lead by example. 1763 01:27:00,386 --> 01:27:02,680 Today, we celebrate our moment with you. 1764 01:27:02,972 --> 01:27:07,059 You've seen our students every day with no breakfast, 1765 01:27:07,351 --> 01:27:10,521 no sleep, and you would whisper something nice in our ear 1766 01:27:10,813 --> 01:27:11,647 when we looked sad or defeated. 1767 01:27:14,483 --> 01:27:17,403 Today, I hear each and every one of your voices. 1768 01:27:21,323 --> 01:27:23,117 The sound of your voice is so loud. 1769 01:27:28,289 --> 01:27:31,751 You have never left us. 1770 01:27:32,042 --> 01:27:33,753 And we will always be by you. 1771 01:27:36,922 --> 01:27:39,216 We're all in this together. 1772 01:27:39,508 --> 01:27:42,678 [applause] 1773 01:27:49,351 --> 01:27:52,104 [interposing voices] 1774 01:28:07,578 --> 01:28:08,829 ALYSSA: My thighs are killing me! 1775 01:28:17,546 --> 01:28:19,298 GIRL: Wait, Jackie has to get in it! 1776 01:28:19,590 --> 01:28:20,800 Jackie has to get in it! BOY: Jackie! 1777 01:28:21,091 --> 01:28:21,759 Come on! 1778 01:28:22,051 --> 01:28:22,718 Jackie! 1779 01:28:23,010 --> 01:28:25,179 Jackie! 1780 01:28:25,471 --> 01:28:28,098 [interposing voices] 1781 01:28:35,606 --> 01:28:36,857 ALYSSA: My hat kept falling off, I was like, 1782 01:28:37,149 --> 01:28:39,443 so like, self-conscious of it? 1783 01:28:39,735 --> 01:28:41,195 GIRL: Because I'm a midget! 1784 01:28:41,487 --> 01:28:43,656 [interposing voices] 1785 01:28:44,740 --> 01:28:47,409 GIRLS: Cheese! 1786 01:28:47,701 --> 01:28:48,619 ALYSSA: What, where's my thing? 1787 01:28:48,911 --> 01:28:49,912 GIRL: Let's do another one! Ready? 1788 01:28:50,204 --> 01:28:50,955 You guys, Sophie's calling. 1789 01:28:51,247 --> 01:28:52,373 Catch it, catch it, catch it! 1790 01:28:52,665 --> 01:28:54,333 [screaming] 1791 01:28:54,625 --> 01:28:56,794 SOPHIE: Alyssa, I don't want to-- [inaudible] 1792 01:28:57,086 --> 01:28:59,755 [interposing voices] 1793 01:29:02,383 --> 01:29:03,175 SARAH: Jackie! 1794 01:29:03,467 --> 01:29:04,635 BOYS: Yeah! 1795 01:29:04,927 --> 01:29:09,056 JACKIE: I can't-- Hi, very nice to meet you. 1796 01:29:09,348 --> 01:29:10,182 ALYSSA: These thighs are burning. 1797 01:29:11,809 --> 01:29:13,185 JACKIE: I'll come say hi to Alyssa's parents. 1798 01:29:13,477 --> 01:29:15,271 ALYSSA: Five, six, seven, eight, now! 1799 01:29:15,563 --> 01:29:17,398 [interposing voices] 1800 01:29:38,878 --> 01:29:40,462 [shouting] 1801 01:29:40,754 --> 01:29:42,590 [laughter] 1802 01:29:43,674 --> 01:29:46,844 [interposing voices]