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At the beginning
of the Second World War,
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Sweden wanted to help Finland,
its war-torn neighbor,
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by offering Finnish children
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to live for a while
in Swedish families.
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The "children of war"
were more than 70,000.
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Mom, do you still remember
how did it all start?
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You remember
how did the war start?
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Eero!
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Mom !
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THE BEST OF MOTHERS
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War?
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For sure...
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I remember
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of the war.
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Am I having a bad day?
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It's that...
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Tuomas is picking me up.
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Who is Tuomas?
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You missed my birthday,
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- but thank you anyway.
- I wasn't in town...
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As always.
Hello, Tuomas!
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Hello, Kirsti. How are you ?
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This is my son,
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Eero.
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So it's you, Eero.
Tuomas, home help.
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Let's go.
The shopping list is long.
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- Were you leaving?
- That's it.
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When can we talk?
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Do you hear? Now,
he wants to talk about the war.
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You never wanted to talk about it,
until now.
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I was in Sweden,
at a funeral.
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That of Signe Jönsson.
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Siv, Signe's niece,
invited me to his funeral.
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Signe wanted me to attend.
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I thought it was unnecessary
to go to Sweden.
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Today, they are all
strangers to me.
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But you went.
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Yes.
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Mom, do you remember
how was it?
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How different everything was,
before all this happened?
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Sleep, my little Eero.
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Don't act like a child.
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Nothing will happen to me.
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If I see a Russian,
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I hide in a bush,
like a mouse.
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I'll be back soon.
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And if their planes
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bombard you?
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So the Finnish planes
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will be reduced to pieces
these filthy Russians.
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Take good care of your mother.
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Understood ?
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I'll be back soon,
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and everything will be as before.
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- Given.
- It's too heavy for you.
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Mom ?
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Mom, you have to eat.
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Come on.
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Mom, let's take shelter.
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Mom !
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Come, if you dare!
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Are you crying?
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I don't want to leave!
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Listen, Eero...
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I can fix the house,
Dad taught me.
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Don't do this to me.
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Why are they
who decides?
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Eero Lahti.
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- Date of birth ?
- August 20, 1934.
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Why don't you come too?
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There is peace there,
you will be safe.
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I don't want to!
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Eero, remember.
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If you miss me there,
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I miss you here.
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I will always be with you.
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It's time.
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Think of it as a vacation.
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We'll meet again soon.
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Everything will be as before.
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Dad said that too.
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To the girls,
we were promised dolls,
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and the boys on the bikes.
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Young and pretty girls
were chosen first.
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The ones with the prettiest smile.
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Everyone feared the orphanages,
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and hoped to be welcomed
by a Swedish family.
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But not me.
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Finally,
I was put on a train,
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and I was happy.
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I believed
that I was being taken back to Finland.
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But this train
took me further away
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from home.
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Hello, my name is Eero Lahti,
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- and I'm coming from Finland.
- Yes hello.
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This is my wife.
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There we are.
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I often work here.
You will chop wood.
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We have a horse.
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The pigs.
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How do you say "pig"
in Finnish?
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That's it, she's here!
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I thought
that they would send a...
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Aunt Signe,
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- he has arrived!
- Another time, okay?
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You don't speak
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a word of Swedish?
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“Hyvä päivä!”, right?
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The cap...
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The shoes.
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Take off your shoes.
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Otherwise Mom Sign
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will be angry.
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The kitchen.
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And there you have it.
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We have a radio,
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a clock and Papi.
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He is sick and mute,
but he has very keen hearing.
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Right, old man?
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Aren't you eating anything, Signe?
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There is also a letter for him.
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From the Aid Committee
to Finnish Children.
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There is a list of translated words.
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The mother wrote a few lines.
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She says you talk
a little Swedish.
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- It's written...
- My name is
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Eero Lahti,
and I'm coming from Finland.
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And do you understand it?
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Let him learn Swedish,
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if he wants to stay here.
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Nobody here speaks Finnish.
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It will be a good help
for the farm, right?
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A good farm boy.
Perfect for geese.
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The Skåne goose.
Can you say that? Geese...
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Stupid!
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They did not put
that kind of word in there.
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Finished.
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Father is going to bed.
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THANKS !
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We put it
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- in the child's room?
- No, on the kitchen couch.
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Are you going to read this letter?
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It's after ten o'clock.
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Tomorrow is another day.
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Hello, geese.
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Say: “Skåne goose”.
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Pour that in there.
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Like that.
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Hold the bottom.
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Spread well everywhere,
that they all have them.
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It's Eero.
You will have to speak Finnish.
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Say hello.
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Hi ! Hyva!
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Take off your boots.
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Faster,
and come wash your hands.
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Your hands.
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Show your hands.
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The other side.
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Still dirty.
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Start again.
Let them be clean.
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You have to wash your hands
correctly.
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It wasn't enough.
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They were dirty.
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Hold your hands higher,
that I rub them.
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Rinse.
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We don't go to school
with dirty hands!
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School?
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Yes, you have to go to school,
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if you stay in Sweden.
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Here's your lunch,
Hjalmar drops you off at school.
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Pardon ?
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You go to school.
Hjalmar takes you. Come on !
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I don't understand anything.
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So go to school,
learn Swedish.
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Come on, get out now!
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Don't resist!
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I don't understand anything!
Go away!
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Go away.
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Put on your shoes and your jacket.
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Will you find the house?
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Hi !
See you !
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Stop!
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You are certainly
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the child of war.
Come!
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Welcome.
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Your name...
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GIRLS
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Do you pee sitting down?
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Come on, Siv!
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Where were you?
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Where were you going?
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Are you going to stay with Aunt Signe?
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My mother feels sorry for you.
She told me
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that children were coming to Sweden
because their parents
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died in the war.
And you ?
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Are your parents dead?
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Does Sign
will you become your mother?
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Are you coming to my house?
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We have a foal!
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Let go !
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So, the rumor got around
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only peace
had returned to Finland,
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and those who wanted it
and could
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were going to return.
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So the children wanted to leave
this strange country.
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Mom, is Dad
afraid of the Russians?
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It’s war.
Everyone is afraid.
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Foreigners and their guardians
laughed and said:
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“Go back?
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“Dear little innocents!
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"Don't you know
that you are
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"more than a hundred leagues away
from your house?”
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"Whatever",
replied the children,
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"of the moment
let's go home."
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“This is your home now.”
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Mom.
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Does Dad
afraid of dying?
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I think,
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because he wouldn't see you again.
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And you, are you afraid?
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Do you want to leave?
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Is that it?
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So!
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Say something.
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You want to leave!
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You want to go home.
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You want to go home to your mom.
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I don't like you.
You are mean.
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I don't want to be on vacation anymore.
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You should tell your mom.
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You don't love me...
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Bad... You can't
can't even pronounce it.
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Write all this to your mother.
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Come on !
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You don't have to go to school anymore
or feeding the geese.
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But don't go back to the beach again.
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The wall of the pigsty is rotten.
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I need wood.
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What are you doing ?
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I don't understand anything about it.
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He is hateful and ungrateful.
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The poor man thinks he
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on vacation.
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What an idiot!
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The wall
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will not stand
another storm.
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- I'm going to Ystad to buy wood.
- All right.
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You have the address
of the Aid Committee?
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I will also write a letter.
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Are you well, my sweet?
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What ?
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Of course,
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everything is fine.
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For what ?
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-Hjalmar Jönsson.
- Mrs Grävnäs.
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Welcome. Sign.
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So you want
get rid of the child.
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Actually, yes.
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You declared
have room for a child,
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and be very eager
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to help.
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Eager...
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Things are not always
as we hoped.
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Maybe we don't have...
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Anyway,
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he wants to leave.
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The first days,
children are often difficult.
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They don't know
what is good for them.
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What do you say, Mr Jönsson?
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Everything is new to him,
he is a war refugee,
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in a foreign country,
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lots of new faces.
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That's what I meant!
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This does not justify
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neither running away nor theft.
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How can we
keep an eye on it?
277
00:38:36,198 --> 00:38:37,975
Afterwards, what will it be?
278
00:38:39,581 --> 00:38:41,453
But I can't take it anymore!
279
00:38:48,074 --> 00:38:49,455
Understand me.
280
00:38:51,747 --> 00:38:52,614
We already have
281
00:38:52,741 --> 00:38:56,724
enough to do with the farm
and my sick father.
282
00:38:59,181 --> 00:39:00,417
We can bring him
283
00:39:00,553 --> 00:39:03,235
food and accommodation,
284
00:39:04,014 --> 00:39:06,007
but not against his will!
285
00:39:06,181 --> 00:39:08,996
The Committee is particularly keen
286
00:39:09,134 --> 00:39:10,773
so that the parents
287
00:39:10,901 --> 00:39:12,532
love the child,
288
00:39:12,781 --> 00:39:15,284
- and vice versa.
- Thank God !
289
00:39:15,887 --> 00:39:16,778
So...
290
00:39:17,535 --> 00:39:19,895
- are you taking it back?
- At home !
291
00:39:20,311 --> 00:39:23,286
Dear child,
how could you?
292
00:39:23,622 --> 00:39:26,497
- Where would you go?
- At my house. Mom is waiting for me.
293
00:39:27,313 --> 00:39:30,090
But your mother doesn't live there anymore.
294
00:39:31,702 --> 00:39:33,212
By the way,
295
00:39:33,341 --> 00:39:35,283
I brought a letter
296
00:39:35,422 --> 00:39:37,034
that his mother wrote.
297
00:39:37,343 --> 00:39:38,505
You see,
298
00:39:38,708 --> 00:39:40,491
send you back to Finland
299
00:39:40,621 --> 00:39:42,096
is out of the question.
300
00:39:42,623 --> 00:39:44,018
And where would he go?
301
00:39:44,307 --> 00:39:47,538
The Committee
will find a solution.
302
00:39:48,546 --> 00:39:50,940
Orphanages
are full of space.
303
00:39:51,192 --> 00:39:52,376
Orphanages?
304
00:39:55,490 --> 00:39:58,937
We will take care of it better
than an orphanage.
305
00:40:00,246 --> 00:40:01,698
So, should I take him?
306
00:40:22,143 --> 00:40:23,276
Hold.
307
00:40:32,982 --> 00:40:35,337
The Skåne goose.
308
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,771
The Skåne goose.
309
00:40:44,588 --> 00:40:48,185
- Tell me “scarecrow”.
- Test bowels.
310
00:40:49,253 --> 00:40:52,513
No, scarecrow.
311
00:41:22,420 --> 00:41:23,864
He speaks to you.
312
00:41:24,224 --> 00:41:25,160
Yes.
313
00:41:26,820 --> 00:41:27,749
GOOD.
314
00:41:30,666 --> 00:41:32,047
He doesn't say anything to me.
315
00:41:33,274 --> 00:41:36,073
Apart from “thank you”, at the table.
316
00:41:38,179 --> 00:41:42,056
He works, he eats,
he doesn't complain.
317
00:41:46,952 --> 00:41:48,092
It's good.
318
00:41:51,379 --> 00:41:52,921
It's you who knows...
319
00:41:55,253 --> 00:41:58,513
It is clear that both
320
00:42:00,244 --> 00:42:02,091
you get along well.
321
00:42:05,095 --> 00:42:07,807
It'll be OK.
The lady from the Committee said so.
322
00:42:07,936 --> 00:42:10,133
He's doing his best.
Give him time.
323
00:42:11,133 --> 00:42:13,448
- Don't be so harsh...
- Hard?
324
00:42:18,454 --> 00:42:21,010
It's not
a question of time.
325
00:42:22,286 --> 00:42:24,214
It's because of him.
326
00:42:26,453 --> 00:42:27,736
I can't take it anymore!
327
00:42:29,036 --> 00:42:30,335
I'm devastated
328
00:42:30,460 --> 00:42:32,616
and you don't notice anything.
329
00:42:35,157 --> 00:42:37,014
For heaven's sake, Signe...
330
00:42:44,664 --> 00:42:46,772
You think everything is fine.
331
00:42:49,121 --> 00:42:51,698
Give Signe another child,
and everything will be fine.
332
00:42:53,745 --> 00:42:55,502
But not at all.
333
00:42:59,827 --> 00:43:03,936
I don't know this child.
I don't know who he is.
334
00:43:04,270 --> 00:43:06,700
He's a stranger!
335
00:43:08,473 --> 00:43:11,531
How could I be
a good mother
336
00:43:11,661 --> 00:43:14,446
for a child
which I don't want?
337
00:43:17,705 --> 00:43:20,202
I already didn't know how to protect
the one I had.
338
00:43:20,337 --> 00:43:22,297
We've had this conversation before.
339
00:43:23,428 --> 00:43:24,435
No.
340
00:43:25,691 --> 00:43:26,338
Never.
341
00:43:28,514 --> 00:43:29,653
Never really.
342
00:43:42,452 --> 00:43:44,173
Don't just sit there
like an idiot!
343
00:43:48,647 --> 00:43:50,194
You stare at me.
344
00:43:51,038 --> 00:43:52,697
Talk to me!
345
00:43:54,448 --> 00:43:56,671
What do you want me to do?
346
00:43:57,225 --> 00:44:02,138
Let me get on my knees
and I ask for forgiveness?
347
00:44:02,606 --> 00:44:05,214
That I disappear, too?
348
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,575
- That I pretend, like you?
- Shut up !
349
00:44:12,656 --> 00:44:13,734
Listen, Sign,
350
00:44:13,860 --> 00:44:16,135
it is you who make him a stranger.
351
00:44:16,259 --> 00:44:17,682
You alone!
352
00:44:49,461 --> 00:44:51,304
I brought you some wood.
353
00:44:52,399 --> 00:44:53,698
You are a real chef!
354
00:44:57,290 --> 00:44:59,875
Your father must have been a carpenter.
355
00:45:01,421 --> 00:45:04,949
A raft floats well.
But in case of storm,
356
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,157
he will be shaken
like a cork.
357
00:45:09,212 --> 00:45:11,497
I know what it is.
When you are there...
358
00:45:13,747 --> 00:45:15,737
I sailed
in France and England.
359
00:45:17,537 --> 00:45:19,119
Look...
360
00:45:22,257 --> 00:45:24,981
It was done in Bordeaux.
361
00:45:29,464 --> 00:45:32,394
The Bay of Biscay,
it shakes in high winds.
362
00:45:34,166 --> 00:45:36,039
You're getting seasick.
363
00:45:37,487 --> 00:45:38,319
I was leaving
364
00:45:38,422 --> 00:45:41,279
for America,
and I met Maman Signe.
365
00:45:41,410 --> 00:45:43,581
So, I decided to stay here,
366
00:45:43,707 --> 00:45:45,866
feet in the mud.
367
00:45:51,103 --> 00:45:52,256
Your father and you,
368
00:45:54,062 --> 00:45:57,052
- you were building together?
- I was helping him repair the house.
369
00:45:57,190 --> 00:45:58,457
That doesn't surprise me.
370
00:45:58,597 --> 00:46:00,537
The Russians bombed it.
371
00:46:02,081 --> 00:46:04,596
They also bombed Dad.
372
00:46:07,393 --> 00:46:11,174
I wanted to stay at home.
I'm not afraid of the Russians.
373
00:46:14,086 --> 00:46:16,453
At the end of the war,
you will return home.
374
00:46:17,728 --> 00:46:20,410
I will pack a bag of food
for your trip.
375
00:46:22,429 --> 00:46:24,496
When you anchor the raft,
tell me.
376
00:46:31,738 --> 00:46:33,553
Not a word to Signe.
377
00:46:37,639 --> 00:46:39,399
Not a word to Signe.
378
00:46:51,814 --> 00:46:53,568
“Dear Signe.
379
00:46:54,669 --> 00:46:58,338
“I hope you succeed
to take care of my son.
380
00:46:59,384 --> 00:47:02,339
"He needs to be protected,
no matter by whom.
381
00:47:03,310 --> 00:47:07,214
"Since the death of my husband,
I cried a lot.
382
00:47:07,628 --> 00:47:10,870
"Knowing that Eero is not well
would be unbearable for me."
383
00:47:13,128 --> 00:47:14,406
How can she
384
00:47:14,521 --> 00:47:17,514
write this to someone
that she doesn't know?
385
00:47:20,265 --> 00:47:22,457
Make me feel guilty?
386
00:47:22,623 --> 00:47:26,236
Feel sorry for this kid,
is that not enough?
387
00:47:26,822 --> 00:47:28,736
It is also necessary
that I cry for her?
388
00:47:29,911 --> 00:47:32,610
- She thinks she's doing the right thing.
- THANKS.
389
00:47:32,740 --> 00:47:34,146
Like that, there are two of you.
390
00:47:34,686 --> 00:47:35,986
It's good.
391
00:47:39,307 --> 00:47:40,294
My God.
392
00:47:40,423 --> 00:47:41,853
I'm so tired.
393
00:47:55,077 --> 00:47:56,495
What does she write?
394
00:47:57,419 --> 00:47:58,216
She left
395
00:47:58,344 --> 00:47:59,558
from her home.
396
00:48:02,270 --> 00:48:03,295
She works
397
00:48:05,054 --> 00:48:07,867
at the German HQ in Helsinki.
398
00:48:08,919 --> 00:48:11,137
She rented a room.
399
00:48:13,844 --> 00:48:15,897
She doesn't want
let Eero know.
400
00:48:16,576 --> 00:48:17,689
Not yet.
401
00:48:19,574 --> 00:48:20,945
Of course!
402
00:48:21,261 --> 00:48:22,374
A mother
403
00:48:22,501 --> 00:48:24,938
shouldn't she
be honest with your son?
404
00:48:27,581 --> 00:48:29,990
There is also a letter for you.
405
00:48:32,988 --> 00:48:34,878
“My dear little boy.
406
00:48:35,502 --> 00:48:39,077
"I'm so sad to hear
that you don't like it there.
407
00:48:39,430 --> 00:48:43,729
“Think a little about me.
See how lucky you are
408
00:48:43,860 --> 00:48:47,454
"to be able to play
and eat your fill every day.
409
00:48:47,786 --> 00:48:52,387
“It will be longer than expected
before you come home.
410
00:48:52,663 --> 00:48:53,578
"So,
411
00:48:54,543 --> 00:48:56,819
“try to be a good boy.
412
00:48:57,226 --> 00:49:00,233
“Remember:
Mommy still loves you.”
413
00:49:00,568 --> 00:49:02,552
Try to be a good boy.
414
00:49:03,380 --> 00:49:04,871
Hold on tight,
415
00:49:05,483 --> 00:49:07,571
and don't go far from the farm.
416
00:49:09,071 --> 00:49:14,116
- You won't be back anytime soon.
- Think about what is best for you.
417
00:49:14,481 --> 00:49:16,217
I only want your good.
418
00:49:18,709 --> 00:49:19,653
Don't walk away...
419
00:49:40,460 --> 00:49:44,128
"These poor children,
arrived in a bad condition,
420
00:49:44,259 --> 00:49:47,881
"thanks to the hospitality
of our Swedish families..."
421
00:49:48,010 --> 00:49:51,039
- Listen, this is about you.
- Shut up.
422
00:49:52,453 --> 00:49:54,947
"...regain health
that Finland,
423
00:49:55,090 --> 00:49:57,988
"torn by war,
could not bring them."
424
00:49:58,388 --> 00:50:00,748
“These children are grateful
425
00:50:00,893 --> 00:50:03,418
"towards their Swedish benefactors,
426
00:50:03,593 --> 00:50:06,194
"for their sacrifices,
in these difficult times."
427
00:50:06,328 --> 00:50:08,237
It says "grateful."
428
00:50:08,565 --> 00:50:12,217
We take care of you,
but you are still angry!
429
00:50:12,758 --> 00:50:15,138
They could have sent us
someone nice.
430
00:50:25,900 --> 00:50:27,360
Wait!
431
00:50:28,051 --> 00:50:31,449
I know something
that I have no right to tell you.
432
00:51:00,570 --> 00:51:02,858
This pretty dress,
she was for you.
433
00:51:07,157 --> 00:51:09,001
What's going on?
434
00:51:10,273 --> 00:51:12,055
What are you doing here?
435
00:51:13,656 --> 00:51:17,138
At home, you do what you want.
But not here.
436
00:51:22,688 --> 00:51:24,865
You have nothing to do here.
437
00:51:25,262 --> 00:51:27,054
You are not at home!
438
00:53:39,234 --> 00:53:41,005
Here's dinner.
439
00:54:09,983 --> 00:54:14,932
The letter we received
was from your mother.
440
00:54:21,197 --> 00:54:22,858
She sends you all her love.
441
00:54:33,485 --> 00:54:34,890
For Mom.
442
00:54:45,902 --> 00:54:47,136
That's nice.
443
00:54:50,111 --> 00:54:51,257
What did you write?
444
00:54:53,302 --> 00:54:55,816
“I help Papa Hjalmar
for the geese,
445
00:54:56,171 --> 00:54:58,213
“Aunt Signe cooks well,
446
00:54:58,340 --> 00:55:00,418
“and I feel good here.”
447
00:55:01,986 --> 00:55:05,279
You can see Siv after...
448
00:55:42,741 --> 00:55:44,643
Are you making the little one work?
449
00:55:45,939 --> 00:55:48,151
You get rid of the dirty work.
450
00:55:50,858 --> 00:55:52,494
Would you like to help
451
00:55:52,626 --> 00:55:54,357
all the children of war!
452
00:55:57,283 --> 00:55:58,911
It's almost Christmas.
453
00:55:59,023 --> 00:56:00,138
You're going to leave him
454
00:56:00,265 --> 00:56:02,089
a little rest?
455
00:56:41,528 --> 00:56:44,541
- I take care of the electricity.
- And goose too.
456
00:56:44,674 --> 00:56:46,413
Not now.
Sit down.
457
00:56:56,665 --> 00:56:58,175
It's the phone.
458
00:57:11,089 --> 00:57:12,719
Yes, it's me.
459
00:57:15,417 --> 00:57:17,198
Yes, he is there.
460
00:57:17,908 --> 00:57:20,212
Merry Christmas to you too.
461
00:57:22,460 --> 00:57:23,415
It's for you.
462
00:57:25,298 --> 00:57:27,014
Come on, hurry up.
463
00:57:31,627 --> 00:57:32,921
Faster.
464
00:57:35,508 --> 00:57:38,122
- Eero, darling, it’s Mom.
- Mom !
465
00:57:38,403 --> 00:57:41,101
I miss you so much.
Is everything okay?
466
00:57:41,326 --> 00:57:43,761
Merry Christmas!
Did you get any gifts?
467
00:57:44,035 --> 00:57:45,945
Mom, are you going to come?
468
00:57:46,141 --> 00:57:50,036
I can't talk for long.
I'm at HQ, everything is fine.
469
00:57:50,299 --> 00:57:53,617
The war is almost over,
you will be able to return soon.
470
00:57:53,841 --> 00:57:55,708
See you soon.
471
00:57:57,914 --> 00:57:58,869
Mom!
472
00:58:01,089 --> 00:58:02,382
Mom ?
473
00:58:34,700 --> 00:58:36,604
Roll up your sleeves.
474
00:58:38,224 --> 00:58:39,866
- What ?
- Koi-koi?
475
00:58:43,270 --> 00:58:45,750
And now...
Koi-koi.
476
00:59:04,887 --> 00:59:05,704
The Russians
477
00:59:05,830 --> 00:59:07,039
bombed Helsinki!
478
00:59:07,622 --> 00:59:09,508
The Russians bombed Helsinki.
479
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,732
The city suffered greatly...
480
00:59:42,861 --> 00:59:44,303
What does it say?
481
00:59:44,585 --> 00:59:46,743
...explosions and fires.
482
00:59:46,870 --> 00:59:49,291
- The windows were shattered...
- What does it say?
483
00:59:51,566 --> 00:59:53,763
The Russians bombed everything.
484
00:59:54,862 --> 00:59:56,576
All of Helsinki?
485
00:59:59,620 --> 01:00:01,768
The Russians invaded Finland?
486
01:00:03,461 --> 01:00:06,955
The number of human losses
is important
487
01:00:07,084 --> 01:00:09,138
because no one sought shelter.
488
01:00:09,271 --> 01:00:11,874
- The injured and the dead...
- Mom...
489
01:00:30,505 --> 01:00:32,135
It's going to be okay.
490
01:00:35,421 --> 01:00:36,996
Mom...
491
01:01:38,070 --> 01:01:39,913
Do you realize?
492
01:01:41,580 --> 01:01:42,777
What would your mother have said?
493
01:01:42,906 --> 01:01:44,058
if you had drowned?
494
01:01:45,767 --> 01:01:47,258
How would she have survived that?
495
01:01:50,417 --> 01:01:52,978
Great Gods!
Sailing to Finland!
496
01:01:54,099 --> 01:01:57,455
Have you gone completely crazy?
497
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:03,955
I don't want Mom to die.
498
01:02:06,285 --> 01:02:07,377
You survived.
499
01:02:09,342 --> 01:02:10,218
But I didn't have
500
01:02:10,333 --> 01:02:12,280
no importance to you.
501
01:02:12,657 --> 01:02:14,738
You are still looking
502
01:02:15,020 --> 01:02:17,495
- to make me feel guilty?
- No, Mom.
503
01:02:18,142 --> 01:02:20,096
It's exactly the opposite.
504
01:02:20,227 --> 01:02:21,615
You never talked about it.
505
01:02:21,745 --> 01:02:24,729
I tried, often.
But you weren't listening.
506
01:02:24,860 --> 01:02:27,136
This is false.
I would have listened.
507
01:02:27,591 --> 01:02:30,618
- I am your mother.
- You just wanted everything to be okay.
508
01:02:32,603 --> 01:02:33,974
This is what you wrote to me,
509
01:02:35,587 --> 01:02:37,411
and I never knew
510
01:02:37,540 --> 01:02:39,089
how you were.
511
01:02:39,337 --> 01:02:43,058
You were a child.
You can understand that.
512
01:02:43,403 --> 01:02:46,493
I couldn't burden you
with my worries.
513
01:02:49,663 --> 01:02:52,138
Why didn't you speak,
514
01:02:52,820 --> 01:02:54,838
back home?
515
01:02:55,277 --> 01:02:57,057
- Whose?
- Who else?
516
01:03:04,671 --> 01:03:06,216
You don't understand.
517
01:03:08,180 --> 01:03:09,959
You were no longer my mother.
518
01:03:13,141 --> 01:03:16,306
Give me back my bike!
It's not funny!
519
01:03:18,151 --> 01:03:19,879
Give it back to me!
520
01:03:21,139 --> 01:03:23,178
It's not funny, stop!
521
01:03:46,478 --> 01:03:47,770
THANKS.
522
01:04:23,327 --> 01:04:25,014
Is that your mom?
523
01:04:28,019 --> 01:04:28,977
She is very pretty.
524
01:04:29,695 --> 01:04:30,933
Sign !
525
01:04:50,093 --> 01:04:51,892
Stop walking around on me.
526
01:04:52,024 --> 01:04:53,857
Go play somewhere else!
527
01:04:58,668 --> 01:05:02,492
Show me the letter.
I want to know.
528
01:05:35,377 --> 01:05:37,688
Eero, stop!
It's not funny.
529
01:05:39,224 --> 01:05:41,856
Stop!
Leave them alone!
530
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:45,275
Stop! Out !
531
01:05:45,419 --> 01:05:48,861
Isn't that okay? Out !
532
01:05:50,609 --> 01:05:53,572
Eero, calm down.
I want to talk to you.
533
01:05:55,649 --> 01:05:57,240
What are you doing ?
534
01:05:57,723 --> 01:05:59,657
Don't yell at me!
535
01:07:53,387 --> 01:07:54,970
We know now
536
01:07:55,100 --> 01:07:58,205
that Russia will win,
which fills us with terror.
537
01:07:58,582 --> 01:08:01,725
Hans-Jürgen, a peaceful man,
not a warrior,
538
01:08:01,855 --> 01:08:06,023
returns to Germany
and asked me to come with him,
539
01:08:06,495 --> 01:08:10,140
and without Eero,
I would have immediately said yes.
540
01:08:10,471 --> 01:08:14,760
Take Eero there
would be selfish and stupid,
541
01:08:15,041 --> 01:08:17,371
because the situation in Germany
542
01:08:17,505 --> 01:08:19,228
is far from certain.
543
01:08:19,426 --> 01:08:20,944
If I refuse my love,
544
01:08:21,074 --> 01:08:22,635
and I stay here,
545
01:08:22,779 --> 01:08:24,838
I fear I am losing all hope.
546
01:08:25,232 --> 01:08:27,620
Would that make me
a better mother?
547
01:08:28,260 --> 01:08:31,625
Fate wanted
may my darling son be entrusted to you,
548
01:08:31,752 --> 01:08:34,997
to you who bring it
all the love he needs.
549
01:08:36,911 --> 01:08:40,738
That's why I ask you,
death in the soul,
550
01:08:40,862 --> 01:08:43,432
to keep Eero with you.
551
01:08:48,269 --> 01:08:52,428
Please think about it,
but don't tell Eero.
552
01:08:52,793 --> 01:08:57,533
Send him my love,
and tell him everything is okay.
553
01:09:43,220 --> 01:09:44,446
Come on.
554
01:09:57,870 --> 01:09:59,338
We discussed it,
555
01:10:01,584 --> 01:10:04,633
and there is something
what we would like to tell you.
556
01:10:13,527 --> 01:10:15,618
Let's go for a walk, you and me.
557
01:10:33,481 --> 01:10:35,211
We had
558
01:10:35,344 --> 01:10:37,853
a little girl, Hjalmar and me.
559
01:10:40,860 --> 01:10:42,378
Her name was Elin.
560
01:10:44,435 --> 01:10:46,144
Elin was so...
561
01:10:51,943 --> 01:10:53,178
full of life.
562
01:10:55,048 --> 01:10:57,320
Everyone said:
“As a Sign.”
563
01:11:00,061 --> 01:11:01,898
"Both the same,
564
01:11:03,744 --> 01:11:06,029
“always happy.”
565
01:11:17,429 --> 01:11:19,265
Elin, she...
566
01:11:20,446 --> 01:11:21,458
drowned.
567
01:11:23,464 --> 01:11:24,852
She was six years old.
568
01:11:29,432 --> 01:11:31,259
Some have seen...
569
01:11:32,945 --> 01:11:35,362
the will of God.
570
01:11:43,759 --> 01:11:45,418
But it was my fault.
571
01:11:50,396 --> 01:11:51,738
You see...
572
01:11:53,836 --> 01:11:55,779
Elin loved to swim.
573
01:11:59,350 --> 01:12:01,602
She ran so fast, so fast,
574
01:12:02,085 --> 01:12:06,656
that she was barely undressed,
when diving.
575
01:12:09,919 --> 01:12:13,018
She wasn't allowed there,
in too strong winds.
576
01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:18,014
I always told him:
577
01:12:18,145 --> 01:12:21,353
“Elin, don’t go
if the wind is too strong."
578
01:12:24,496 --> 01:12:25,770
And then,
579
01:12:27,001 --> 01:12:29,234
there was this storm.
580
01:12:30,587 --> 01:12:31,896
Two years ago.
581
01:12:33,469 --> 01:12:36,738
Elin wanted to go see.
582
01:12:42,041 --> 01:12:44,401
I told him I was busy.
583
01:12:45,301 --> 01:12:49,243
She kept asking,
to constantly ask for.
584
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:55,377
Finally I left her
go there alone.
585
01:13:03,898 --> 01:13:06,236
How could I have been so stupid?
586
01:13:08,656 --> 01:13:09,851
My dad too
587
01:13:09,980 --> 01:13:11,138
died.
588
01:13:13,985 --> 01:13:15,338
Why do people die?
589
01:13:16,398 --> 01:13:19,773
Why do people
change all the time?
590
01:13:21,247 --> 01:13:23,538
We are as we are, in my opinion.
591
01:13:26,586 --> 01:13:29,218
The Lord gives
and the Lord rebuke.
592
01:13:30,968 --> 01:13:34,818
You see, life is not always
as we imagined.
593
01:13:36,324 --> 01:13:38,817
We don't always know
594
01:13:39,531 --> 01:13:42,497
why we do things.
595
01:13:45,999 --> 01:13:47,038
Like your mom.
596
01:13:52,942 --> 01:13:54,617
Remember,
on the day of your arrival,
597
01:13:55,544 --> 01:13:56,840
by bus.
598
01:13:59,983 --> 01:14:03,492
I was hoping to welcome
a little girl.
599
01:14:04,004 --> 01:14:05,372
As if it was going to be
600
01:14:05,500 --> 01:14:06,568
easier.
601
01:14:09,534 --> 01:14:10,974
And I saw you.
602
01:14:13,344 --> 01:14:15,436
I didn't want you.
603
01:14:25,144 --> 01:14:26,914
The Lord reproves,
604
01:14:28,825 --> 01:14:30,652
but He also gives.
605
01:15:04,900 --> 01:15:06,850
We'll hang your clothes here.
606
01:15:19,538 --> 01:15:20,718
Come on.
607
01:16:04,900 --> 01:16:07,978
Come a little closer.
608
01:16:10,142 --> 01:16:11,318
Perfect.
609
01:16:13,943 --> 01:16:15,175
Take your hand away
610
01:16:15,305 --> 01:16:16,834
from his shoulder.
611
01:16:22,836 --> 01:16:23,775
Smile.
612
01:16:24,326 --> 01:16:26,417
It's not a funeral.
THANKS.
613
01:17:23,096 --> 01:17:24,402
Here it is!
614
01:17:25,387 --> 01:17:27,118
Look at me.
615
01:17:28,147 --> 01:17:29,316
Close your eyes.
616
01:17:29,917 --> 01:17:31,095
Don't look.
617
01:17:38,677 --> 01:17:39,654
Look at !
618
01:17:46,256 --> 01:17:48,364
We said to ourselves
that you would need it.
619
01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:51,257
To get home even faster
at home.
620
01:18:03,104 --> 01:18:04,337
“Dear Kirsti.
621
01:18:06,086 --> 01:18:08,491
"We thought a lot
622
01:18:08,620 --> 01:18:10,070
"to your proposal.
623
01:18:10,970 --> 01:18:13,524
"If your love for this German
624
01:18:13,769 --> 01:18:15,232
"is so strong,
625
01:18:15,984 --> 01:18:18,300
"so I wish you
a lot of happiness.
626
01:18:18,900 --> 01:18:20,535
"I guarantee you that the little
627
01:18:21,381 --> 01:18:23,829
"is like our son now.
628
01:18:24,712 --> 01:18:27,123
"I'm certainly not
a better mother
629
01:18:27,267 --> 01:18:29,330
"that you would be one yourself,
630
01:18:29,713 --> 01:18:31,291
"but I will do my best
631
01:18:31,420 --> 01:18:34,245
"to be the best mother.
632
01:18:43,819 --> 01:18:47,392
Accept this proposal
from Finland
633
01:18:47,809 --> 01:18:51,749
seems to be too
in the interests of Germany.
634
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,417
If the Germans
came to accept it,
635
01:18:55,933 --> 01:18:58,334
we would consider them forever
636
01:18:58,936 --> 01:19:01,454
like our brothers in arms...
637
01:19:01,782 --> 01:19:03,855
These bastard Germans
will stay...
638
01:19:03,984 --> 01:19:05,118
Shh!
639
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,917
- The Russians are going to take the country.
- Shut up !
640
01:19:11,190 --> 01:19:13,135
Citizens!
We did
641
01:19:13,265 --> 01:19:15,288
the first steps to find
642
01:19:15,417 --> 01:19:18,753
peaceful relations
with our big neighbor to the East.
643
01:19:18,961 --> 01:19:20,616
It’s a step towards...
644
01:19:20,744 --> 01:19:23,367
I'll have to pack your bag, Eero.
645
01:19:24,318 --> 01:19:25,652
My bag?
646
01:19:25,780 --> 01:19:27,590
Happy days are over.
647
01:19:28,216 --> 01:19:29,737
Don't say that.
648
01:19:30,605 --> 01:19:33,256
No one said anything like that.
649
01:19:33,945 --> 01:19:36,066
Won't Eero go back,
650
01:19:36,201 --> 01:19:38,547
like all children
of war?
651
01:19:40,798 --> 01:19:42,697
I guess they are telling the truth...
652
01:19:45,946 --> 01:19:49,777
The children must be at home.
653
01:20:01,102 --> 01:20:04,349
I believed
that Hjalmar liked me.
654
01:20:05,947 --> 01:20:08,665
Oh yes, he loves you.
655
01:20:09,457 --> 01:20:10,717
A lot.
656
01:20:12,478 --> 01:20:15,088
But he also likes
657
01:20:15,221 --> 01:20:18,013
that everything is done according to the rules.
658
01:20:18,150 --> 01:20:20,413
And these rules say
that I have to leave?
659
01:20:20,543 --> 01:20:22,417
Only those who can.
660
01:20:23,433 --> 01:20:24,735
And I can't?
661
01:20:29,278 --> 01:20:30,178
Sleep.
662
01:20:33,196 --> 01:20:34,992
You have school tomorrow.
663
01:21:03,341 --> 01:21:05,537
Hjalmar told me
that he was leaving for America,
664
01:21:06,039 --> 01:21:09,378
but his boots
got stuck in your mud.
665
01:21:15,022 --> 01:21:16,394
Did he say that?
666
01:21:19,888 --> 01:21:21,056
This is insane.
667
01:21:22,793 --> 01:21:24,656
I want to do that too.
668
01:21:32,725 --> 01:21:34,896
You will stay here,
with Hjalmar and me.
669
01:21:36,886 --> 01:21:40,392
No one will take you
far from us.
670
01:21:41,926 --> 01:21:42,617
Never ?
671
01:21:43,401 --> 01:21:44,612
Never.
672
01:21:46,176 --> 01:21:47,018
Promised.
673
01:21:49,975 --> 01:21:51,618
But not a word to Hjalmar.
674
01:23:21,425 --> 01:23:23,398
Did you explain it to him?
675
01:23:28,117 --> 01:23:29,527
Explain ?
676
01:23:31,241 --> 01:23:33,107
Explained what?
677
01:23:36,210 --> 01:23:38,471
That the German left her,
678
01:23:40,062 --> 01:23:41,740
and that finally,
679
01:23:43,523 --> 01:23:48,339
she takes her kid back.
Is that what I have to explain?
680
01:23:53,261 --> 01:23:54,567
Lord !
681
01:23:57,563 --> 01:23:59,090
We don't even know
682
01:23:59,220 --> 01:24:00,755
if she is in Helsinki!
683
01:24:02,820 --> 01:24:05,150
- You are unfair.
- Unfair?
684
01:24:08,279 --> 01:24:11,338
Am I unfair?
685
01:24:12,076 --> 01:24:14,030
What is fair, then?
686
01:24:14,159 --> 01:24:17,870
Let us forgive him
and call her Mom?
687
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:20,962
A woman who voluntarily
abandoned his son!
688
01:24:21,099 --> 01:24:25,401
And I have to accept that
without saying anything?
689
01:24:27,301 --> 01:24:28,177
First,
690
01:24:28,306 --> 01:24:31,305
I lose a child,
and now another.
691
01:24:31,857 --> 01:24:33,262
Is that fair?
692
01:24:35,966 --> 01:24:37,676
That's how it is.
693
01:24:38,766 --> 01:24:40,384
There is no question of it.
694
01:24:43,301 --> 01:24:44,734
No way...
695
01:24:45,501 --> 01:24:47,226
I won't be able to...
696
01:24:49,947 --> 01:24:51,257
give him back his child.
697
01:24:51,383 --> 01:24:52,851
He's not our child.
698
01:24:52,981 --> 01:24:55,112
Don't make him believe that.
699
01:24:56,275 --> 01:24:58,976
I did so much for him,
700
01:24:59,817 --> 01:25:01,255
he needs me...
701
01:25:04,543 --> 01:25:05,291
What if Elin
702
01:25:05,420 --> 01:25:07,878
had left
and couldn't come back?
703
01:25:20,049 --> 01:25:20,976
Elin...
704
01:25:25,778 --> 01:25:28,647
Hjalmar, please. Elin...
705
01:25:29,785 --> 01:25:31,375
is no more.
706
01:25:32,585 --> 01:25:34,946
She won't come back to us.
707
01:25:36,089 --> 01:25:37,013
She won't come back
708
01:25:37,141 --> 01:25:38,627
never again.
709
01:27:18,251 --> 01:27:20,527
You have to go, Eero.
710
01:28:10,023 --> 01:28:12,174
Mom !
Mom Sign!
711
01:28:16,713 --> 01:28:18,439
Mom Sign!
712
01:31:11,345 --> 01:31:12,850
Eero, my darling.
713
01:31:13,742 --> 01:31:15,176
How you have grown.
714
01:31:26,787 --> 01:31:27,978
And your trip?
715
01:31:37,768 --> 01:31:38,955
Let's go back.
716
01:31:59,920 --> 01:32:02,657
They called me back to the office.
717
01:32:04,897 --> 01:32:05,893
I will surely
718
01:32:06,021 --> 01:32:07,186
have this job.
719
01:32:09,540 --> 01:32:10,894
Don't you think so?
720
01:32:25,778 --> 01:32:27,970
Kirsti Lahti lives here?
721
01:32:33,283 --> 01:32:35,981
Sender: Signe Jönsson
Sweden
722
01:32:38,780 --> 01:32:39,828
No.
723
01:32:40,685 --> 01:32:41,537
On ?
724
01:32:59,391 --> 01:33:00,397
Who was it?
725
01:33:18,490 --> 01:33:20,093
All these nasty things,
726
01:33:20,220 --> 01:33:21,572
it's over.
727
01:33:27,440 --> 01:33:29,498
Mom is here with you.
728
01:33:33,100 --> 01:33:35,415
I couldn't believe it.
729
01:33:36,090 --> 01:33:37,857
I thought you could...
730
01:33:38,596 --> 01:33:40,138
disappear at any time.
731
01:33:42,563 --> 01:33:44,233
I had the impression...
732
01:33:45,727 --> 01:33:47,697
that I could lose everything.
733
01:33:49,298 --> 01:33:50,972
Anytime.
734
01:33:58,060 --> 01:33:59,132
This letter...
735
01:34:00,234 --> 01:34:02,619
Finally, these letters.
736
01:34:04,497 --> 01:34:06,680
Signe wanted to give them to me.
737
01:34:12,452 --> 01:34:15,639
She always hoped
that I would have them...
738
01:34:16,501 --> 01:34:18,559
or us.
739
01:34:20,166 --> 01:34:21,134
They were
740
01:34:21,263 --> 01:34:22,417
with the invitation.
741
01:34:23,825 --> 01:34:25,498
I couldn't open them.
742
01:34:28,185 --> 01:34:29,953
Not until we get there.
743
01:34:49,641 --> 01:34:54,217
"Dear Kirsti. Life on the farm
is very empty without Eero.
744
01:34:54,786 --> 01:34:56,889
“Giving it back to you was very difficult
745
01:34:57,008 --> 01:34:59,342
“and I curse you for it.
746
01:35:03,913 --> 01:35:07,538
"To tell the truth,
I don't think you liked him.
747
01:35:10,179 --> 01:35:14,589
"Eero never knew
that you want to take it back.
748
01:35:16,471 --> 01:35:19,314
"I realize today
that it was wrong of me.
749
01:35:19,989 --> 01:35:21,853
“Please, Kirsti,
750
01:35:21,986 --> 01:35:25,952
"read this letter to him,
so that he knows.
751
01:35:26,631 --> 01:35:29,295
“He needs to know.
752
01:35:29,922 --> 01:35:31,293
“Sign.”
753
01:35:53,418 --> 01:35:54,865
“Dear Signe.
754
01:35:55,391 --> 01:35:57,053
“Finland is finally at peace.
755
01:35:57,171 --> 01:35:59,298
“It’s a big relief
for all of us.
756
01:36:00,685 --> 01:36:03,777
"Hans-Jürgen left
in Germany, without me.
757
01:36:05,097 --> 01:36:09,109
"He loves me more than anything,
and I love it too.
758
01:36:10,877 --> 01:36:12,333
"But I also know
759
01:36:12,461 --> 01:36:14,151
“who I love the most.
760
01:36:14,689 --> 01:36:17,370
"It was necessary
that I am blind and crazy.
761
01:36:17,500 --> 01:36:20,712
"How could I have thought
abandon my child?
762
01:36:22,103 --> 01:36:25,298
"I will feel guilty
all my life.
763
01:36:25,821 --> 01:36:31,788
"But very grateful
of the love you gave him,
764
01:36:32,406 --> 01:36:36,498
"I ask you to give me back
my beloved son as quickly as possible.
765
01:36:37,030 --> 01:36:38,496
“Kirsti.”
766
01:36:40,445 --> 01:36:42,098
Sixty years, one life.
767
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:48,746
It sounds ridiculous, but...
768
01:36:51,468 --> 01:36:53,752
in a way,
it seems to me...
769
01:36:57,747 --> 01:36:59,290
that a part of us
770
01:36:59,421 --> 01:37:00,714
stayed there.
771
01:37:01,431 --> 01:37:02,671
In Sweden.
772
01:37:07,779 --> 01:37:10,056
The day I decided...
773
01:37:10,842 --> 01:37:13,371
that I wouldn't miss you
never again.
774
01:37:16,040 --> 01:37:17,938
But you missed me.
775
01:37:29,248 --> 01:37:32,706
Yes, Mom.
Now I understand it.
776
01:38:30,888 --> 01:38:36,752
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