All language subtitles for I Dreamed

(CARS PASSING)

(BELL TOLLING)

(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

(ALL CHATTERING)

WOMAN 1:
Wonderful meal.

WOMAN 2:
Yes, dancing.
I want to go dancing!

WOMAN 3: And now?
Where shall we go?

(MAN SPEAKING ITALIAN)

Great job.
Oh, no, I know
where we'll go.

Yeah, what?
Let's go to
Harry's Bar.

Yeah,
come on.
Come on!

I'll buy you all
a drink at Harry's Bar.

(ALL CHEERING)

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

WOMAN 3: There's
no room for Kuki.

Kuki.
Come on, Kuki.

Come in our car.
Hurry now.

I'll take Gabriella. She
won't fit in the Alfa
anymore.

Come here. Come in.

Come on. Let's go!

(LAUGHS)

(CAR HORN HONKING)

(WOMEN LAUGHING)

MAN: Can you
believe that?

(ALL SINGING IN ITALIAN)

(ALL LAUGHING)

MAN: What are you gonna
call it, this bump here?

If it's a girl, Valentina.

Nice.
It won't be long now,
Gabriella.

I know.
Eleven weeks, three days.

(LAUGHING) Not
that she's counting. Do
you have children, Kuki?

Emanuele. He's seven.

Oh, Emanuele.
What a lovely name.

DRIVER: Hey,
look at that truck.
What's he doing?

He's coming
straight at us!
What's he doing?

Paolo!
He's gonna hit us!

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(ALL SCREAMING)

GABRIELLA: (CRYING)
My baby! Help me!

PAOLO:
Please, God, help us!

(CRYING) Help me.

Someone!

Marina. Marina!

(SOBBING)
Oh, my God. Marina!

Marina!

MAN: Gabriella!

(CAR APPROACHING)

Gabriella!

(CAR DOOR OPENS)

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

WOMAN: Kuki!
I don't see Kuki!

MAN: I'll stop the bleeding.
PAOLO: Help!

Someone!

(PRAYING IN LATIN)

No! No!

(GASPING)

(KUKI GROANING)

(SCREAMS)

MAN ON PA:
Nurse Marini to
Pathology, please.

Nurse Marini to Pathology.
Thank you.

WOMAN 1 ON PA: Dr. Furi
in Emergency, please.

Dr. Furi in Emergency.

WOMAN 2 ON PA:
Dr. Ricci to Radiology.
Dr. Ricci to Radiology.

Hi, Pep.

(GROANS)
What happened to it?

Does it
look frightful?

It looks like this,
only bigger.

FRANCA: Remember when
your friend Christian
broke his leg?

That's
what happened
to your mother.

Well,
when will
you be home?

(GROANS)

It won't be long.

Not for a few
weeks, though.

You can come
see me every day.

Even school days?

Sure.
We can do your
homework together.

Are you in pain?

Not too bad.

Paolo, I'm so sorry.

(SIGHS) It was...

This
shouldn't have
happened to you.

(STAMMERING) I don't
know how to help or...

It's nobody's fault.

It's nobody's fault.

(GROANS)

Nurse.

(CALL BUTTON BUZZING)

She's in pain.
Please do something.

Paolo, you should
go home.

Is
there someone
there with you?

Yes. Thank you.

For a while,
I couldn't remember
who else was in the car.

Paolo. Go home.

EMANUELE: "Gravity. Gravity
holds objects on the ground.

"It is called gravity.
Gravity is very important.

"If there was no gravity..."

That's not the way
I heard it.

GABRIELLA:
Oh, lookit, Kuki. That's the
blanket your mother gave her.

Sweet, huh?
She is so beautiful.

I know, I know. Well,
she's not so beautiful
at 3:00 in the morning.

Emanuele must miss you.

Mmm-hmm. He's been
here almost every day.

(CHUCKLES)
Oh, that's his snake.

It's a full
moon tonight.
Can you see it?

No.

May I?

Of course.

May I turn
off the light?

Have they found the driver?

The police

have given up.

Can you see it now?

Not quite.

There.

It's beautiful.

KUKI:
It's 4:00
in the morning.

I can
hear the traffic
in the street below.

The doctors say that
next week I'll be leaving,

but for now
I do nothing but
lie here and think.

I'm divorced,
raising a child on my own.

I feel a terrible sense
of failure.

Everyone tells me
I'm lucky to be alive.

I know this is a chance to
find meaning in my life,
to give it value.

(DOGS BARKING)

But I'm afraid that
I'm only a dreamer who
hasn't the courage to change.

Hey!
(LAUGHS) Hey.

(CHILDREN CHATTERING)

KUKI: But there's always Ema.

At least I got that right.

Hey. Ciao.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

(KNOCKING CONTINUES)

KUKI: Hello.
Hi.

I was nearby.
A bridge repair in Treviso.

Come in.

If it's no trouble.

KUKI: No, no,
of course not.

PAOLO:
It must be great
to be home at last.

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

KUKI: He remarried.
I think they're in
the States.

And he keeps
in touch with Emanuele?

Not even when
we were married.

(SIGHING)

So you
came back
to live here?

It seemed easiest.

I run
things here
for my mother.

She's too busy
between the museum
and the university,

and I like to
be home for Ema.

You know, when
he gets out of school.
Mmm-hmm.

(STAMMERS) That's
Lake Rudolph. And
is that you?

(CHUCKLES) That's me.

My father spent a lot of time
in Africa when he was younger.

He wanted me to see
all the places he loved.

I was
managing a ranch
there with my brother.

Really?
Yeah.

Near Kilimanjaro.

He had an accident
out there.

What happened?

I'll tell you one day.

Anyway, the idea was
to learn the ropes,
buy a place.

I felt I belonged there.

I was at peace.

(SIGHS)

After the accident,

I told myself
all the usual things.

How lucky I was to be alive.

EMANUELE: Pep!
Pep, come quickly!

Excuse me.

Bad dream.

You know
how to get rid
of bad dreams?

You draw it.

Now tear it up.

And again. Yes.

Now give it to me.

Wow. Don't set
fire to the bed.

(KUKI CHUCKLES)

PAOLO: Bye.

That's
how you get
rid of bad dreams.

Says who?
Says me.

You think
you're the only
one who has them?

(CHUCKLES)

(LAUGHS SOFTLY)

Night.
Night.

(DOOR OPENS)

(DOG BARKING)

If you're out this way...
Thank you.

Thank your mother for me.
Of course.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

PAOLO:
No more cast.

No more cast.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

(CHILDREN CLAMORING)

KUKI: This man has
come into our lives,

and for the first
time in many years

I feel
a sense of hope,
of life returning.

Now can I have a kiss?
He loves Emanuele

and my son adores him.

(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING)

But there's
a restlessness in him.

He's afraid
I won't understand.

But I do.
I understand
that most of all.

These last few months, you,
me and Paolo, we've been
happy, right?

Mmm-hmm.

Paolo's
selling his house.
He's giving up his job.

He wants you and I to go
to Africa and live with him.

He wants to
take care of us.

You mean leave here?
Leave Nona and Grandpapa?

Wouldn't it be fun to make
a new start in a new place?

Yeah.

You see...
Ema, look at me.

I've stopped growing.

Out you go.

(PLAYS PIANO)

Well?

EMANUELE: Will there be
elephants where we live?

There might be.
Go to bed.

And giraffes?
KUKI: Bed! Now!

I'll never go
to bed in Africa.

(BOTH CHUCKLING)

It's Paolo.

I'm not surprised.

We're talking about
going to Kenya to live,

after we're married.

Kuki!

I know it seems sudden
to you.

Oh, Kuki,
it's not Venice.

I mean,
have you given
any thought at all

to how it would be for
you and Ema actually
living in Africa?

I mean, it's
so unpredictable.

You were always the one
that said I was afraid
of a challenge.

Well, not
all challenges
are worth accepting.

I'm not afraid.
Well, then you should be.

You're not thinking
about the hardship
and the risks.

You are
responsible
for a child now.

It's the experience
of a lifetime for Ema.

He'll find happiness
and freedom.

Oh, freedom. You say
freedom to make it
sound noble.

It's just your willfulness.
And you never think things
through.

Listen to me, Kuki,
because I love you.

Because
you're afraid
of being lonely

and you don't want
me to take Ema away.

I am afraid.
And who isn't?

And I
don't want
you to take...

Madam.
Not now, Gregorio.

(SOFTLY) I don't
want you to take
Ema away.

But just listen to me.

I adore Paolo.

But
now you're
planning to...

(BOTH CHATTERING IN ITALIAN)

You are planning
to go off to Africa
with a man you hardly know.

I love him, Mother.

I really do.
Do you?

We're not easy people,
you and I.

I haven't gone out of
my way to make it easy.

EMANUELE: Bye, Nona.
I love you. Bye!

Bye!
Bye. Come and see us!

Bye!

(ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING)

EMANUELE:
Zebras! Down there!

KUKI: Africa!

(VULTURES SQUAWKING)

Look! Vultures!

(PAOLO SPEAKING
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Vultures.

What kind of
people do this?

(SIGHS)
Poachers,
for the ivory.

They probably did this
while it was still alive.

Butchers.

Paolo.

They'll destroy everything.

Let's get Ema
away from here.

(ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING)

(DOGS BARKING)
GIRL: Come into my tent.

WOMAN:
Your son
seems so happy.

Why the tents?

Oh, everyone lives so far
away, when we have a party,
they seem to stay for days.

You'll get used to it. Life
has a different rhythm here
in Kenya.

(AIRPLANE APPROACHING)

Whoa, look at that plane!

I tell them
not to do that!

Duncan! Duncan!

...held back.

This is
a precision instrument.

(WOMEN CHATTERING)
Here.

You might
want to try looking at
the Cameron place, eh?

Old
Harry's getting tired of
fighting with the poachers.

Come on, Mike, give it a go.
All right.

Well, there's another
place at Kipini, near
Ras en Nogomeni.

It's...
On the coast.

Yes.
I'd rather be
above 4,000 feet.

(GUN COCKING)

Ready, Duncan?
Yeah. Let's give it a go.

Yeah.
Right.

(GUN FIRES)

Damn.
(CHUCKLES) There's
another at Laikipia.

Good cattle country.
Yes.

Ol Ari Nyiro.
That's right.

It's owned by
a consortium of bankers.
It's in terrible condition.

It's been on the
market a month or so.
Ready?

Yep. Go!

(GUN FIRES)

Oh, good shot!

(LAUGHING)

God,
it's good
to be back.

PAOLO: Ol Ari Nyiro.

KUKI: Ol Ari Nyiro.

(HORN HONKING)

(CHILDREN CLAMORING)

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(CHILDREN SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

PAOLO: Look,
Ema, over there,
behind those hills.

That's the Great Rift Valley.

It's almost derelict.
KUKI: I'll say.

That's why it's
such a good price.

(PAOLO SIGHS)

The work it needs!

(EXHALES)

(GASPS)
Oh, what a view!

Hey, look.
Wildebeest.
Wildebeest.

(GASPS)

Look.

EMANUELE: Impalas.
PAOLO: Yeah.

(ALL LAUGHING)
Very good.

I'm going to explore.

What a view.

Wow!

(HENS CLUCKING)

Paolo says
there's a waterhole.
Mmm.

Mimi Kuki Gallmann.

(SPEAKING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Emanuele.

Mimi Simon.

Simon. Asante.

(SPEAKING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(SPEAKING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

I am Mrs. Gallmann.

Mimi Wanjiku.

(STAMMERS) Wanjiku?

(DOOR OPENING)

Second ball.
All right? I'll come in.

It's there.
And she's good!

(CAR APPROACHING)

That
must be Declan,
the ranch manager.

Morning.
DECLAN: Morning.

Paolo Gallmann.
How are you doing?

Fine.

Are you Declan?
Yeah. This is Mirimuk.

Hi.

(BOTH SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

My wife and son.

Can you help me with that?
DECLAN: Sure. Come in.

Can you put the map here?

It's an old map.

Cattle stations are
marked here and here.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

I think
he wants us
to come with him.

Let's go see.

DECLAN: No one's put any
cattle in the place for
years.

(BIRDS SQUAWKING)

(SPEAKING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(EMANUELE SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(ELEPHANT TRUMPETING)

PAOLO: Kuki?

KUKI: Hurry.

We've arrived.

DECLAN: So how many
other places have
you seen?

PAOLO: We looked at
the place at Kipini.

DECLAN: Oh, yes,
the Stroud place.

I think so.

(SIGHS)
Well, it's, uh...
It's quite a sad story.

Why?

They
were a young
English couple.

They got
into a lot of debt.
Things got very bad.

They shot their two children
and then they shot themselves.

Look, you're...
You're lucky to have
Simon. He's a Turkana.

He turned up four years ago
out of the blue.

Something makes him stay.

This just isn't
a place for amateurs.

(ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING)

KUKI: Looking
into the night,

I can see eyes
staring back at me.

In the dark,
something is moving.

I am afraid,
but I am also happy.

I've never been here before
and yet I feel like I've
returned.

I am at peace.

EMANUELE: I heard noises.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

Come in.

Come on.

(EXHALING)

Listen.

(BIRD COOING)

We call that
the go-away bird.

(BIRD CRYING)

(WHISTLING) And that...

Nightjars.

(ELEPHANT TRUMPETING)

Elephant.
Elephant.

(ANIMAL NOISES CONTINUE)

(SAWING)

(HAMMERING)

Hey, Pep! Snake!

Ema, no!

PAOLO: What? What is it?
Get away from it!

Oh,
it's only a python.
It's not poisonous.

EMANUELE: Can I
keep it? Please, Pep.

I'll call him Kaa,
like in the Kipling story.

PAOLO: Yeah.
EMANUELE: Remember, Pep?

(CHUCKLES)

Touch it.
He'll like it.

(GROANING)

(PAOLO CHUCKLES)

(METALLIC CLANGING)

KUKI: Paolo,
you be careful.

I'm fine.
We'll have
fresh water soon.

KUKI: Oh, boy.

Good.
You got up.

Finally.

You're looking very
godlike this morning.

EMANUELE: Gordon.
Me?

(EXCLAIMS)
Come on, now.

(GIGGLING)

...by my beautiful wife.
Kiss me!

(SHOUTS)

(DOGS BARKING)

(ALL CHATTERING)

(BARKING CONTINUES)

PAOLO:
Yeah. Yeah, Simon.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's Duncan.
I'll go and meet him.

(DOGS BARKING)

DUNCAN:
I packed a couple
of crates of Scotch.

Should be enough for a week.

PAOLO: Hey, Duncan,
don't forget my .375.

(MEN CHATTERING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

We won't keep him long.
Anyway, it's not him we want.

It's Luka.
He's the best
tracker in the country.

(MEN SPEAKING
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(LAUGHING)

(EXCLAIMING)

(GRUNTS)

You'll be okay,
won't you, Kuki?

KUKI:
Of course.
We'll be fine.

Thanks for all the
supplies you brought us.

It's the way
life's lived here.

It's a different rhythm.

Take care of
your mom, okay?

(SIGHS)

Takes some getting used to.

Simon and Wanjiku
will take good
care of us.

Mmm.

DUNCAN: Well,
let's get going.

(CAR DOOR CLOSING)
Come on, Romeo.

Easy, boy.

We'll be back
in a few days.

I'm going to catch
some frogs for Kaa.

Luka, come on!

(FROGS CROAKING)

This is Kaa, my python.

(EMANUELE SPEAKING
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(LAUGHING)

(LION ROARING)

(DOGS BARKING)

(SHOUTING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(BARKING CONTINUES)

Simba.
Simba where?
Simba where?

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Ema, stay there.

(WANJIKU CONTINUES SHOUTING)

(DOGS BARKING)

(SNARLS)

(WHIMPERS)

Tickler!

(ROARING)
Tickler!

(METALLIC CLATTERING)

Tickler, come back!
Tickler!

(GUN FIRING)

(ROARING)

(SHOUTING)
No, Ema!

(WHIMPERING)

EMANUELE:
He was just
trying to protect us.

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(WHISPERING)
Ema, go to bed.
I'll be there soon.

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(GUN FIRES)

KUKI: Paolo's been
gone five days now

and
there is still
no word from him.

Ema keeps
asking where he is
and I keep making excuses.

What have I gotten
myself into?

What have I gotten
my son into?

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

What happened?

(SCREAMING)

(SIMON LAUGHS)

(LAUGHING)

(KUKI SCREAMING)

Ema. Ema, don't.

No. No.

(LAUGHING)

(SCREAMS)

(ROOSTER CROWING)

(FLIES BUZZING)

(MEN SNORING)

DECLAN: And then
you shot the warthog.

Mmm. Two shots to the
back of the head.
Bam, bam.

Coffee.

KUKI: And
where did you
go after that?

Up north to Lake Turkana.
We hired a boat and did
some fishing.

(MEN LAUGHING)
Paolo caught
some Nile perch.

Huge great things.
Hundred pounds,
maybe more.

Don't start, please.

The meat,
do we hang
it like venison?

Not in this climate.
Vincenzo?

Oh,
yes, thank you.
Wonderful coffee.

Great food, Kuki.
Just the job.

Hear, hear.
Magnificent.

DUNCAN: You're
a lucky man, Paolo.

MIKE: Next time,
you and Emanuele
must come with us. Hmm?

Mmm.
Yeah, please?

Bye. Bye-bye.

(DOG BARKING)

You were gone
10 days, Paolo.

I'm sorry.

What happened to
checking out the ranch,
like you talked about?

Oh, come on. Look.

What?
No watch.

Took it off when
the plane landed in Nairobi
and I haven't put it on since.

(LAUGHS)

Things have a different
rhythm here. You'll get
used to it.

So I keep hearing.
There are things
to do here!

This isn't Italy.

It takes time.

You can't just pick up
a phone and make it happen.

I didn't know
where you were.

Fine. I'm sorry.

Next time,
I'll get word to you.

I'm sorry.

You have
two minutes
to get dressed.

We're going fishing.
Yeah.

We'll go down to the coast.
Fishing?

(SQUEALING)

(ALL LAUGHING)

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

(COWS MOOING)

All right.
KUKI: How many did we lose?

About four this week.

PAOLO: And six last week.

They're picking
up infections somewhere.
I'll check the waterholes.

I'll tell you what.
We'll dip them tonight.

PAOLO: Okay,
that's a good idea.

Wow! Look at the
size of those horns.

PAOLO:
Hey, let's go!

EMANUELE: You must be
especially careful of
Kaa.

KUKI: Okay.

Mapengo will help you.
You mustn't overfeed them.

I wish I could
take them with me.

Ema,
are you going
to be all right?

Sure! And you
know what else?

Charlie says
there's a lake for rowing.

You'll be great at that.

I'm gonna miss you, too.

KUKI:
I hate it.
I hate it.

(BELL TOLLING)
I know Ema has to
go off to school.

I understand we can't
give him the education
he needs on the ranch.

I've known it from
the time we decided
to come to Africa.

But that doesn't
make it any easier.

Ema, come here.

He is my son.
He is my friend.

Just be
the person you are.

Choose your friends.
Don't let them
choose you.

CHARLIE: Emanuele,
come on!

Hey, Charlie.

KUKI: He has been
the one constant
in my life.

Bye. I love you.
What makes it worse is...

PAOLO: Bye, big boy.
...he wants to go.

Bye, Paolo.
CHARLIE: Let's go!

(KUKI SIGHS)

Why does love
cost us so much?
Charlie, wait for me.

Why won't they let us
visit on the weekends?
It's inhuman.

Hmm. It's the British way.
Makes a better man,
apparently.

It's ridiculous.

BOY: Got to go.
I'll see you later, boys.

(DOG WHIMPERING)

DECLAN: Delta 2-8.
Same problem as
last year.

(RADIO BUZZING)
Yeah, only worse.

I'll speak to you on
the sked again tonight.

Delta 2-8 out.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING
ON RADIO)

I was
gonna bring those
over for you later.

Thanks.

Um, look, Paolo sent word.
He's gonna be another
couple of days.

I saw some Pokots today
with their cattle, near
the waterhole.

Yeah, well, they're
welcome to the water.

Or they were.

It's just that their water
supply dries up sooner
than our lake.

Your lake.

So, it's not a problem?

Well, it is.
Their cattle are
carrying diseases.

They're
infecting ours.

We're
losing about
10 head a week.

(CHILDREN SHOUTING)

(CHILDREN CHANTING)

(ROOSTER CROWING)

(GOATS BLEATING)

(BOTH SPEAKING
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Mimi ni
Kuki Gallmann.

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

European?

Yes. From Italy.

When I was
a boy, the missionaries
taught me your language

and
told me many stories
about European people.

Now at night, I tell my
children the same stories.

My father
did the same
with me as a child,

except
his stories
were of Africa.

My people know Ol Ari
Nyiro for a long time.

Without its water,

our cattle will
sicken and die.

Ol Ari Nyiro cattle pick
up disease from your cattle.

Without water,
the diseases will
become much worse.

We have to solve this problem.

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(CROWD MURMURING)

(KUKI SPEAKING
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(ENGINE STALLING)

(ENGINE STARTING)

(GEARS GRINDING)

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(LAUGHING)
What is she doing?

Hey, Kuki! Kuki!

What are you doing?

DUNCAN: Hey, it's
a deep hole, huh?

(LAUGHING)

MIKE:
Building a dam. That's
quite an undertaking, Kuki.

In a
couple of days,
you should be done.

You don't want us
to stay over and help
finish the job, do you?

We're fine.

It's quite something
you did for them, Kuki.

It was for us all.

PAOLO: You don't have
to do everything yourself.

KUKI: Apparently I do.
I never know if you'll
be here.

So I better know how
to light lamps, drive
tractors, speak Swahili,

fix everything in the house,
fight off lions, shoot our
dog!

It's not what you expected.

KUKI: What?
Africa.

You regret it, don't you?

Coming here.

Is that what you think?

It was just a fantasy.
My fantasy.

I love it here.
I've never seen
Ema so happy.

I've never been
more alive in
my life.

I just want a piece of you,
away from the hunting and
your friends.

We have a child

who needs a father.

(DOG BARKING)

(CLATTERING)

What was that?

(ELEPHANT SNORTING)

No! Get out now!

Kuki, wait! Wait!

Paolo, he's out there again!
Get out of my garden! Get out!

PAOLO: Be careful!
Get the hell
out of my garden.

(SNORTING)
Move!

Move! Clear off!

Clear off right now!

Go!

Go! Move! Move!

Get the hell away!

You maniac.
You're insane.

Ruined! No!

We'll put it
right tomorrow.
Months of work!

(ELEPHANT TRUMPETS)

(CHUCKLES)
A different rhythm.

No!
Say it! A different rhythm!

(SHOUTING) No!

(LAUGHING)

KUKI:
Paolo, I chased
away an elephant.

Yes, you did.
A big elephant.
Did you see him?

Yep. Big one, isn't it?

(MOTOR CHUGGING)

(MOTOR SPUTTERS)

(MOTOR STOPS)

(CLATTERING)

The generator is
off for the night.

(MOANING)

(CAR HORN HONKING)

Hello, Kuki, Simon.

(HORSE NEIGHING)

I picked this up
at a farm auction.

Paolo asked me to keep
an eye out for one for you.

Being
on your own so much,
I think he thought, uh...

I'll pop it inside, eh?

Sure.

(DOG WHIMPERS)

We need a
Christmas
tree, Pep.

It won't
be Christmas
without a tree.

KUKI: We'll get one.
There's plenty of time.

EMANUELE: Pep,
Nona's here! Pep!

Nona!

Nona!

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

I'll get the bag.

Oh, it's so good
to see you.

Quick, to the house!
It's so good to see you.

It's been a long time.
Watch your step.

Come see my room.
Come on.

So, this is Africa.

Oh, we haven't had
rain in six months.
Let's go to my room.

Thank you.
Come on.

FRANCA:
Happy Christmas.

KUKI: Mother, how
can you part with it?

And you've loved
it all this time.

(SIGHS)
It's beautiful.
It's beautiful.

It'll look wonderful
here in Africa.

(GRUNTING)

(TRUCK APPROACHING)

FRANCA: Shouldn't we go
back? We might get stuck.

KUKI: Don't
worry so much.

(HORN HONKING)
The heavy rains
don't come until April.

(WARTHOG GRUNTING)
FRANCA: Careful,
there's a hole.

(LOUD BANGING)

Kuki, what is that?
What is that? Is it
a dog?

That is not a dog.

EMANUELE: No,
it's a warthog.

FRANCA: Are you sure
this is the right road?

KUKI: I've lived
here a year, Mother.

I should know
the roads by now.

Are we stuck?

(ENGINE REVVING)

Well, we're stuck.

All right. I'll walk back
and get Paolo to help
pull us out.

You two can
stay in the jeep.

Alone?

It's easier, Mother,
if I go alone...

We are staying together
and we'll walk back
together.

But
it's easier
if I go alone.

I am not...
It's only a few kilometers.

I don't care.
I don't care.

We are not
staying here alone.

It's going to get dark.
They'll be back
soon to tow us out.

Well, I'm not
staying here alone.
All right, okay.

Okay, Mother,
but be quiet.

What do you mean,
"Be quiet"?

(SHUSHING)
The animals.

Oh, Kuki!
My new Guccis!

EMANUELE: (GROANING)
I'm stuck, I'm stuck.

I can't get out!

I told you
we'd get stuck.

KUKI: I stop, you stop.

FRANCA:
What's that?
What's that noise?

KUKI: (SHUSHING)
Don't talk.

FRANCA: Gordon,
come back, boy.

KUKI: Come on, let's sing.

* Good King Wenceslas
looked out

* On the
feast of Stephen

ALL:
* When the snow
lay round about

* Deep and crisp and even

* Brightly shone the moon
that night

* On the sixth
day of Christmas

* My true love sent to me

* Six
geese a-laying
Five golden rings *

FRANCA: Thank God!
There's the house!

Mother, don't run.

(HORN HONKING)

PAOLO: Thanks for
pulling us out, Declan.

Hey, Franca.
Hello.

Kuki, may I have
a word with you?

Look.

You, Ema, your mother,

Gordon
and one, two
lions, very big.

From the tracks, they
were stalking you the
whole way.

You're lucky to be alive.

Hey,
thank you, darling.
Just what I wanted.

Did you see
the frangipani?

Look,
just about
to blossom.

Oh, what is it called?

Frangipani.
Beautiful tree, isn't it?

FRANCA:
These three weeks
have gone so fast.

You will make
the cricket team
this year, right?

Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah?

(LAUGHING)
That's wonderful.

I'm gonna miss you.

(BOTH CHATTERING)

PAOLO: Next time we'll take
you to Kilifi on the coast.
We'll go fishing.

Ah, if the sun comes out!

(PAOLO LAUGHING)

PAOLO: Don't forget
your Guccis next time.

Oh, what a tease. Guccis!

Yeah. Could
you bring me like
20 packs of Brewsters?

Great.
Have a good flight.

FRANCA: Bye, darling.
You be sure to write.

Careful
on the road.

KUKI: From the western
border of Ol Ari Nyiro,

the land falls away
into the rift valley.

I look out and back
across all of human
time on Earth.

I am alone.

Over the years,
I've become good
at being alone.

And yet
I am never alone.

I'm surrounded by Africa.

I'm surrounded by life.

It is a gift
I did not expect.

(HORN HONKING)

DUNCAN: Kuki,
buffalos gored Paolo!
We'll take him to the house.

(HORNS HONKING)

(ALL SPEAKING
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(SHOUTING)

Oh, son of a bitch.
Buffalo just came
out of nowhere.

(GROANING)
Come, quickly.
Pressure, here.

Hold him.

Water!

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

DUNCAN: A buffalo took
a shot in the shoulder,
then gored him.

(PAOLO GROANING)

DUNCAN: Kuki,
get back here.

Hold the two together.
That's it.

Another inch, would
have got his artery.

(OPERA MUSIC PLAYING)

KUKI: Fettuccine.
SIMON: Fettuccine.

Bravo.
Asante.

(PAOLO CHATTERING)

Right.

What's going on?

Luka tracked the
wounded bull to
the Mukutan.

We've got to get him
before he gets
someone else.

Declan can do it.

He's
in Mombasa.
Cattle auction.

Luka can't go alone?

That old bastard won't
get away from me again.

Let's go.
Nothing will stop you.

Go ahead, kill yourself!

Hey...

PAOLO: Let's go.

That's so
I don't hit
you with it.

Listen.

What if one day
you don't come back?

But I always do!

And you'll always
go, again and again.

I can't be in
one place every day,
not even this place.

Out there,
there's just the moment.

One error of judgment,
one lapse in concentration

and it's
your last!
I need that!

I can't explain it.

And
it's not fair to
you, but I need it.

We came here
to change things,
to change our lives.

I'm doing the best I can,
Kuki, but...

Go.

Go.

(CHOIR SINGING)

* ...through the years

* We do our best
to serve the rest

* And cast aside our fears

Choir practice on Saturday
will be postponed until
Monday at 4:00

to allow time
for exam revision.

And the
Atticus Thursday
Evening Meeting Club

will not
now take place
in the clubhouse

due to
an infestation
of cockroaches.

(STUDENTS LAUGHING)

You will convene
in the gymnasium
instead.

And finally, this
afternoon's cricket match
with the second eleven...

Hit 'em for six, Pembroke!

ALL: Hit 'em for six,
Pembroke!

(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)

(BELL RINGING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(WIND HOWLING)

Over here!

(SHOUTING)

(HORN HONKING)

(SHOUTING)

Declan, lift the...

Wanjiku! Wanjiku!

(HORSE WHINNYING)

(DOGS BARKING)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

Over here!

Be careful!

(MAN SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(HORSES SNORTING)

(SIGHING)

KUKI: When
did he grow up,
this son of ours?

When did he become
a young man?

He must've
grown three inches
since I saw him at Easter.

I hold him and try to
remember the little boy

who ran wild
when we first
came to Africa.

Bye, Charlie.

KUKI: Ema is more
like Paolo every day.

The same smile,
the same gestures.

The same need
for excitement.

And like his father,
he can talk me into
anything.

(LAUGHING)

* By the rivers of Babylon

* Where we sat down

* And there we wept

* When we remembered Zion

There's an auction
next week in Nairobi.

I really want that bull.

* Carried us away in captivity

* Required from us a song

Emanuele. For you.

(GASPS)

(CHUCKLES)

Thanks, Paolo. Pep, look!

Nice, huh?
We'll try it tomorrow.

All right.

Huh? Do you like it?

(PAOLO LAUGHING)

* How can we sing
King Alpha's song... *

(MOOING)

(MAN SHOUTING IN NATIVE
LANGUAGE ON RADIO)

Poachers!

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(CHATTERING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(YELLING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(POACHER SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

It's a snare.
It gets buried in their leg

and cuts
off the blood supply
till the animal can't walk.

And then the poachers,
they just come along
and pick it off.

KUKI: The last
one, he's Pokot.

Isn't he?
Yeah.

Bastards!
Bastards!

It's over.

It's not.
It's getting worse.

Butchers.

(FLIES BUZZING)

(CLASSICAL MUSIC
PLAYING ON CAR RADIO)

(HUMMING)

(WHISTLING)

(SPEAKING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

I am looking
for the Gilgil road.

Well,
on the left,
back at the last...

Get out of the car!
Hey!

I said, get
out of the car!
Out of the car!

PAOLO: Okay, okay!

Out of the car!

Okay! Okay.

(BANDITS SHOUTING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(BANDITS SHOUTING)

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

(GIGGLING)

(CHATTERING)

Hello, you.

WANJIKU:
Mrs. Gallmann?

(CRYING)

(SPEAKING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Mr. Gallmann?

Some people don't like you and
your wife chasing poachers off
your land.

I've put a message
in it for you.

But to get the message,
you must first break
the egg.

Open it whenever you want.

The message will be there
waiting for you when the
time is right.

You'll know when that is.

I had a dream last night.

I dreamt we had
a baby daughter.

Everyone was here
to celebrate.

The baby was a dream
about life.

It's why we came here,
isn't it?

To make a new life.

(SHOUTING)

(WHISTLING)

PAOLO: Move them along!

Move them along!

When I'm
through in Mombasa,
I'll pick up her cradle.

It should be ready by now.

It will be beautiful.
I promise.

Like she will be.

You're so sure it's a girl.

You'll see.
You'll see.

(LAUGHING)

(TRUCK APPROACHING)

DUNCAN:
She'll be asleep.
We'll have to wake her.

Oh, no.

There
was an accident
on the Shimoni road.

A truck. They say
it was all over in...

(CRYING)

...go around again.

(ALL MURMURING)

KUKI: Paolo
always said...

Paolo always said,

"We cannot choose
where we are born,

"but we can choose
where we live and
where we die."

I wrote this for you,
Paolo.

"Your eyes were
the color of water.

"Yes, you are the water.

"They were transparent,
like the air.

"You are the air now.

"You are the sky.

"Your skin was
baked by the sun,

"like
the Kenyan earth
you loved so much.

"You
are this red,
dry dust now.

"Forever, Paolo.

"You have become everything."

(SINGING)

(WHISTLING)

(BOTH SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

She is very happy.

(EXCLAIMS)

He's lit a fire there
every night since
Paolo died.

Kuki, for once
in your life, just
hear us out, please.

When I go back to Italy,

I want you and the
children to come home.

You've the baby
to think of now,
Kuki.

As well as Emanuele.

Now, I know you think
that I didn't believe
in you

when
you and Paolo
came out here.

I was afraid for you.

And maybe
I didn't believe in
you, but I was wrong.

And coming here has
brought out the
best in you

and I love seeing it.

But how could you run
this place alone, now
with a new baby...

And Paolo gone.

Soon Ema will
go away to college.

You'll have no one.
Please.

Let me take
care of you.

(SIGHS)

* Carried us
away in captivity

* Required from us a song

EMANUELE: See the egg?
Paolo put a secret in
it, a message.

Sveva, look.

(ALL SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Poachers
are coming
into Ol Ari Nyiro.

They're killing the animals.

This is not my concern.

The animals
on my land are my concern.
They are my responsibility.

Children of my people
who go without food
are mine.

Of course your children
must be fed.

That's
the most important thing.
But this killing must stop.

Your people
are great warriors.

I need men like them to
help us keep guard at night.

DECLAN:
Okay, boys,
let's try again.

Load.

Aim!

Pick your target.

Fire!

(MEN SINGING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(HORN HONKING)

Don't
insult my intelligence
with excuses, Emanuele.

There is no excuse.

I said no poisonous snakes!
I've said it a dozen times!

They're only dangerous
if you don't know how
to handle them.

I don't care!

No more! Look at me!
Look at me when I'm
talking to you!

Do you hear me?
Do you hear me?

I know what I'm doing.

I'm
not afraid
like you are.

How can you say that to me?

There are risks and
then there's stupidity.

Dear God, you've got
a little sister here.

Nothing will
happen to Sveva.

Paolo would say what I'm
saying. You know he would.

Ema, please,
don't do this.

(DOG BARKING)

(WATER SPLASHING)

Stanford.

I'm in!

Oh, Paolo would
be so proud of you.

I'm not going.

I'm not leaving you.

When we first came here,
I put a plant in the soil.

I was lucky if it grew.

I didn't know how.
I didn't know anything.

We think we run
this place, but
we don't.

It runs us.

Any farm's like that,
I guess.

We solve each problem,
but we never get ahead.

Stanford's not gonna
teach me how to run
a ranch in Kenya.

You want to do more
than run this ranch,

a lot more
and you know it.

You have to go away
so you can come back,

or we'll have
no future here.

KUKI:
It's Karen's birthday.

In a few days, there will
be a going-away party for
Ema.

He leaves for Stanford
next week.

Since Paolo's death,
just having Ema here
has been a great comfort

and now he is going
halfway around the world.

EMANUELE: Hey, everyone,
it's a python. A big one.

MAN: Python?

It's only a python.
It's harmless.

Oh, yes. Right. They
squeeze you to death.

EMANUELE: Quick!
We need to measure it.
We have to measure it.

You get the tape.

God, it's enormous.

Get a tape measure.

Dad, get a tape measure.

EMANUELE: Look at it.
Isn't it beautiful?

MIKE: Here's the tape
measure. You grab that end.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

Thirteen and a half feet.

BOTH: Thirteen
and a half feet!

(GIVING IT UP FOR YOUR LOVE
PLAYING)

(WHISTLING)

* I know you told me

* That you'd always love me

* And I believed it was true

(ALL CHEERING)

* So I saved the best

* And I'm ready

* My love only just for you

* Come back here

* Come back real quick

* My heart is aching

* And my body's feeling weak

* I'll be all right

* Yes, I'll be okay

* Come on now, baby

* Listen to what I say

* Don't want your money, baby

* Don't need your car

(ALL CHEERING)

(WHISTLING)

* I'm givin' it up for
your love, everything

* Givin' it up for
your love right now

* I'm givin' it up for
your love, everything *

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

Good boy.

Good boy.

What are you doing?

Just borrowing this book.

You going to
Charlie's today?

Yeah.
The party's
not until 6:00.

Bye, Sveva. Bye, Mom.

Bye.

(GROANS)

(SHOUTING)

Ma'am!

What?

Emanuele...
What?

He's bitten by a snake.
What kind?

A puff adder.

Declan, can you hear me?

Can you hear me, Declan?

Ema's
been bitten
by a puff adder!

I'll bring him
to the airstrip.

Declan, come in!

(WANJIKU SHOUTING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Emanuele. Emanuele.

Get the serum!

Serum! Serum!

(LOUD CLATTERING)

Emanuele? Emanuele,
what do I do?

Do I cut your hand?

Do I cut your arm?
Tell me what to do.

(CRYING)
Tell me what
to do. Tell me.

Mama.

Tell me!

Mama.
Tell me.

I'm dying.

No! No!

What do I do?

What do I do?
What do I do?

Tell me what to do!
Tell me what to do!

Do I cut your arm?
Do I cut your hand?
Tell me!

Oh, God!
Simon, what do I do?

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

God!

(SIMON CRYING)

(CRYING) Oh, God.

God, help us!

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(HORN HONKING)

God!

(MEN SPEAKING
NATIVE LANGUAGE)

God, oh, God. God, please!

Anything but this, please,
God!

(SIMON SHOUTING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

DECLAN: Check his mouth,
quickly, check his mouth.

Quickly,
breathe, breathe,
breathe, breathe.

Okay.

Go on.

Go, go, go!

(GRUNTS) Okay!

No! No!
Come on!

Come on, come on,
come on, come on.

(DECLAN GRUNTING)

(CRYING)

He's gone.

Kuki, he's gone.

(CRYING)

(GROANING)

(CRYING) Oh...

"Only yesterday morning,

"we were laughing together.

"Today I am here with
your friends to bury you.

"To bury a husband was hard.

"To bury my son
is against nature,

"and a pain which
words cannot tell.

"You died
knowing you were dying,
but you were not afraid.

"You were 17, but
wise beyond your age.

"And now you know
the answer to all
questions.

"I will look for you.

"I will look
for you always.

"I will...
I will see you
in every flower,

"in every bird,

"in every sunset,

"in every crawling snake.

"Everything of beauty
will forever be you,
Emanuele.

"Anything young and proud,

"anything good and strong.

"For us who are left

"remains to wonder at
the reason for such waste.

"Where has all
this love gone?

"I hope
your journey
has been good

"because you have already
arrived.

"Fly for me,
bird of the sun.

"Fly high.

"I love you so."

(RIVERS OF BABYLON PLAYING)

* By the rivers of Babylon

* Where we sat down

* And there we wept

* When we remembered Zion

* But the wicked
carried us away
in captivity

* Required from us a song

DUNCAN: Load.

(GUNS COCKING)

Aim. Fire.

(GUNS FIRING)

Load.

(GUNS COCKING)

Aim.

Fire.

(CHATTERING)

Okay.
Goodbye. I love you.

I love you.

May I come back soon?

I wish you would.

Bless you.

(ENGINE REVVING)

Bye!

KUKI: Finally,
all we can do is to
let the days instruct us,

and know that the only
gift worth having is
the grace to go on

with the
job to be done,
the people to love,

and knowing what we
love, we can never lose.

There is
no holding on
in this world.

We came to this
extraordinary place

and
Africa let us lead
extraordinary lives.

Then Africa claimed
an extraordinary price.

That was
Africa's privilege.

And now it is my privilege
to look after Africa herself.