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[***]

[GULLS CALLING]

[MACHINERY CLATTERING]

[WHEEL SQUEAKING]

[HORN BLOWS]

Morning, Isaac. Nice morning.
Who's that then?

Old Jewboy from across
the mountain. Up with the lark.

Morning, Dad.

Dad, wait.

Bastard.

[IN WELSH]
Come on, you women.

[IN WELSH]
Take the big one.
My back is playing up today.

[IN WELSH]
It's my turn to use the tub
first, Dad. Be fair.

People who drink forfeit
their rights in this house.

GWEN [IN WELSH]:
Let him be.

[SIGHS]

[CHILDREN CHATTERING, LAUGHING]

Would you like to see
some cottons we have?

I can send my son.

Do you want me
to start again fresh?

[SIGHS]

[WIND WHISTLING]

[GULLS CALLING]

[DOOR BELL DINGS]
Ta, I'll put it in the safe.

WINNIE:
Thank you, missus.
Ma'am says Saturday for sure.

Don't lose it though,
or she said to Dad

she'd put the dogs on you.

We'll take
great care of it, darling.

You tell your mother
not to worry.

Nah.

[IN YIDDISH]
Did you have a good day?

ISAAC [IN YIDDISH]:
Didn't we have
cotton gabardine?

We have customers
over the mountain.

I didn't sell it.

Wait here, I'll warm the soup.

They lost their packman.
Solomon can go.

[MAN PRAYING IN YIDDISH]

[IN YIDDISH]
Tell this old fool to shut up.

How can I concentrate
with him braying like an ass?

You've got a tongue, Solomon.
Sort it out yourself.

[CONTINUES PRAYING IN YIDDISH]

[GROANS]

[IN YIDDISH]
You stinking little fish.

May God forgive you.

Finish up those sums.

Tomorrow your father needs you
to go out and sell some cotton.

Oh, thank God.

[IN WELSH]
No, thank you very much.

[KNOCKS]

What you got there, then?

[IN ENGLISH]
Cottons. Samples.
You want to see?

We used to have a packman.
Cohen, he was called. A Jew.

Lived poor,
died a rich man, they say.

Is that right?
Mm.

You aren't one, are ya?
No.

Didn't think so.
Don't look Jewish.

Well, go on then.
Show us what you got.

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

[***]

Good morning.

Good morning.
Can I interest you

in any cottons, cloths, linens?

[IN WELSH]
I'm sorry. My mother isn't here.

[IN ENGLISH]
I'm sorry. My mother isn't here.

I can give you a sample
to show your mother.

I'm sewing this afternoon
for Mrs. Evans.

I know she wants dresses
for the girls.

Sunday wear.

They've got to be strong though.
They hand them on.

Well, this one's strong.
And pretty for girls.

The other one's more for you.

Oh, keep it.
Show it to your mother.

I'll come back next week.

She doesn't have to buy it.

No, really...

No, keep it. I mean it.

It'll look lovely on you.

All right.

I'll take this to Mrs. Evans.

I'll see you next week then.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

[IN WELSH]
What's this?

[IN WELSH]
It's for Mrs. Evans.
For the girls.

I'm going
to make up dresses for her.

And this?

It's nothing.

Something the new packman left,
that's all.

It might suit Bronwen,
don't you think?

Yes, Mom.

It's no use for chapel though.

You wouldn't have
use of it, would you?

Be careful, girl.
Some of those packmen

will take the hind leg off
a donkey.

Yes, Dad.

Send him packing next time.

Yes, Dad.

[WOMEN LAUGHING, CHATTERING]

SOLOMON:
This is the sort
of same material

you've got there, except
I've taken samples from that.

[***]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION
IN WELSH]

[IN YIDDISH]
Solomon, come home.
We've finished. Come home.

[IN YIDDISH]
In a minute.

PHILIP:
Let's get away
from this goyische place.

It's late.
It's a long way back yet.

Wait here.
Interfering little sod.

[ORGAN PLAYING HYMNAL MUSIC]

[CHOIR SINGING IN WELSH]

[IN ENGLISH]
Morning.

[IN ENGLISH]
Good morning.

How are you today?

I'm very well, thank you.

I'm very well also.

Come in.

Mrs. Evans would like to take
the cotton for the girls.

[IN WELSH]
Here's the pattern.

[IN ENGLISH]
One is 11, the other's eight.

Allow plenty for growing like.

Now, let's see.
She'll, uh, need three...

and two, that's five yards.

At seven pence half penny
a yard.

That's three and a penny
half penny.

We'll, uh, call it
three shillings.

Tri swllt.

You speak Welsh?

Not really.

Are you from round here then?

I grew up mostly here.

Across the mountain
my parents are...English.

Oh, my parents are
from Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn.

It's a farm place.

"The wicked
are like the tossing sea

when it cannot rest

and its waters toss up
mire and mud."

"'There is no peace,' says
my God, 'For the wicked.'"

Isaiah Chapter 57, verse 21.

I liked your singing.

Get away.

It's the others, not me.

It was you up there then,
was it?

[INHALES DEEPLY]

What about the other cotton?
The one for you?

Aren't you going to take it?

No, I can't.

Thank you. It's very nice.

Oh, go on. Why not?

I can't. Really.

Let me show you
how it looks at least.

No! Thank you.

[IN WELSH]
I'm sorry.

That's all right.

There's no obligation.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Sleep well.

[IN YIDDISH]
Good night, Ma.

[***]

You needn't come in.

Mrs. Evans says to call
at her place for the money.

[IN ENGLISH]
Would you come out
for a minute?

I've got something to show you.

GAENOR:
I-- I can't.
I've got work to do.

Another time? Sunday?

Well, Sunday it's chapel
in the morning.

I help at Sunday school
in the afternoon.

What's your name?

Gaenor.

Nice name.
Oh, don't be silly.

That's it then.

What's yours?
Sam.

Sam Livingstone.

GAENOR:
After Sunday school. 4:00.

I won't have long.

[IN WELSH]
Wine and spirits...

ALL [IN WELSH]:
...are the poison of the weak.

Who is the famous explorer
who was a total abstainer?

Dr. Livingstone.

[IN WELSH]
Come on, John, bach.

Don't miss your instruction.

Now then, all together.

Long may temperance
be our guide.

ALL:
And long may Wales
be pure Wales.

If drunkenness is our guide...

ALL:
Pure Wales will be
a darkened Wales.

[GAENOR BREATHING HEAVILY]

[IN ENGLISH] I'm sorry.
It's all right.

I wasn't sure you'd come.

GAENOR:
There was an explorer
called Livingstone,

a missionary. Teetotal.

Are you related?

Not that I know of.

[***]

Open it.

[PAPER CRINKLING]

Sam.

It's beautiful.

I think it will fit.
We can adjust it.

It's very well made.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

But I can't take it.
Yes, you can.

It will look good on you.
My sister's in grammar school.

We have to pay
for books, uniform.

It's a gift.

It's too nice.

Don't be daft.

I'd better go home.

Look at me.

What will people think?

How can we, as Jews,

begin to understand
this British nation

which we have made our home--
[DOORS CLATTER OPEN]

Where have you been?
Uncle's long started.

--if we do not
understand the works

of its greatest author,
Charles Dickens?

[IN ENGLISH]
Shloyme, you remember
your Auntie Sadie? Cousin Naomi.

From Cardiff they've come.

[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]

[KNOCKS SOFTLY]

Oh, no.

There's a welcome.

Aren't you going
to offer me a cup of tea?

IDRIS:
Gaenor. Who is it?

[IN WELSH]
No one, Dad. The butcher.

He's gone.

Go back to sleep.

[DOOR CREAKING]

[WHISPERING IN ENGLISH]
They can't hear us here.

[WHISPERING]
How are you?

How's the dress?

Fine. Fine.

Both of us.

Can I...?

Could I see it?

On you?

Check the fitting.

Don't be mad, Sam.
You'll get me lynched.

It fits perfect.

Another time.

Yes. Another time.

Oh, wait there a minute.

Don't peep.

[DOOR OPENS]

[***]

GAENOR [IN WELSH]:
Here I am.

[SOFTLY IN YIDDISH]
Beautiful.

[IN ENGLISH]
What?

[IN ENGLISH]
You look lovely.

[DOOR CLOSES]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

[WHISPERS]
For God's sake, quickly.

[IN YIDDISH]
Where were you?

[IN YIDDISH]
I went for a walk.

REZL [IN YIDDISH]:
They had stones this time.

SOLOMON:
It isn't Russia here.

Just a few stupid children.
Not everyone is bad.

Children they may be,

but who puts these thoughts
in their minds?

All right,
I'll find out who it is.

I'll talk to their parents.

Don't go stirring up
more trouble.

A goy is a goy. Not all
are bad. Of course not.

We have many
respectable people here.

They are not our people,
that's all.

They are different.

Different ways.

When you have your own shop,
you'll see more.

To him who wishes
to defile himself,

the doors are open.

To him who wishes to purify
himself, to him aid is given.

I said I'd talk to them.
Now leave me alone.

Simeon ben Lakish.
You should learn it.

[DOOR CLATTERS OPEN]

Where did you get it?

[IN WELSH]
From the packman, Dad.

I'll pay for it.

I'll do extra for Mrs. Evans.
There won't be any extra.

Not in this house.
Not with the strike coming.

You want to earn some money
whoring now?

No, Dad. No.

Take it back.
Get your money back.

I can't.

Not now.

I want it.

Let her keep it, Idris.

The money is spent.

Let her keep something for once.

[PRAYING IN WELSH]

ROBERTS: Amen.
ALL: Amen.

I'll slip off then, Ma.
Crad.

Only half an hour.
Just to see the boys.

Here comes your beau.

Sorry I can't stop, Noah.

Will you be coming
to the meeting?

I just sing, Noah.
I'm not good at organization.

You must come. We could use
your help. And your support.

I'll see what I can do.
I usually clean up on Thursday.

I'm sure
we can arrange something, Noah.

God bless you, Mrs. Rees.

You know how much
Gaenor means to us here.

Is there something
I should know about?

No, Ma.

You were cool with Noah.

Is something going on
between you and that packman?

[SIGHS]
He'd better
come to tea Sunday.

Dad will want to meet him.

[IN ENGLISH]
There you are.
Find your own way to shul.

But what about those boys?
You'll manage.

Solomon.

[WHISPERS IN ENGLISH]
You had me worried to death.

This is Sam.

This is my father, Idris.

[IN WELSH]
How do you do, Mr. Rees?

How do you do?

[IN ENGLISH]
Uh, this is my wife, Gwen.

My son, Caradoc.

[SIGHS]

My daughter Bronwen.

She's at the grammar school.

And my younger son, Thomas.

[IN ENGLISH]
Pleased to meet you.

[IN ENGLISH]
How many sugars is it?

Two, please. Thank you.

Your father's an engineer then?
Yes.

IDRIS:
Gaenor told us.

In the mines?
The railway. He travels a lot.

Didn't he want you
in the grammar school?

Dad.

What? A man can ask
honest questions.

Mm. Well, he did. Very much.

But sitting behind a desk
didn't suit me.

I-- I like to be doing things.

My daughter tells me

it's a shop you're after.

Give the boy a break, man.

He isn't proposing to her yet.

IDRIS:
No, but he gave her a dress.

I did, sir.

You don't
buy nothing with it, mind.

I'm sorry about Dad.
That's the way he is.

He can't but speak his mind.

Hello, Gaenor.
Hello, Ceridwen.

This is hopeless. Come on.

[GAENOR GIGGLES]

Careful, it's muddy.
Where are we going?

[WHISPERS]
What about--?
Can't people see us?

[SIGHS]

All right. I'm all right now.

[BOTH LAUGH]

Goodness, I couldn't bear it.

We can go back now.
Oh.

I had to know you were there.

I'm here.

[IN YIDDISH]
I'm hungry.

[IN YIDDISH]
You'll have to wait.
It's not far now.

You should have asked somebody.
They won't eat you.

Ask these two.

[IN YIDDISH]
Excuse me. Do you know
where this is please?

It's my uncle, Lansky. Lansky.

Oh, he's right out of his way.

He needs to go
back down the hill

and turn right at the bottom.

It's a walk over the mountain.

You tell him.

Back down the hill.

Turn right at the bottom.

Across the mountain.
Far. It's far.

Are you a Yid?

What does he want?

GAENOR:
Where do you think
they come from?

Italy, perhaps.

[IN ENGLISH]
Jewboys.

Probably got a pile of money
stashed away on that cart.

Too far to get there
tonight though, eh?

[IN WELSH]
Time to get back,
isn't it, Gaenor?

They'll be wondering
where you are.

[PRAYING IN YIDDISH]

[ALL PRAYING IN YIDDISH]

[COW MOOS]

[ANIMALS BRAYING IN DISTANCE]

[***]

See how warm it is?

It's cozy up here.
Mm.

Look at you. You're cold.

I used to come up here
when I was little. With Bronwen.

We used to play house.

And a game we made up
called "pit pony."

I was the sick pony. Bronwen
used to bring me medicine

to make me well again
so I could carry around, see?

I've brought you something...
to make you well.

[WRAPPER CRINKLES]

[***]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[WHISPERS]
Don't look.

[SOLOMON EXHALES SHARPLY]

[SOLOMON MOANING SOFTLY]

[GAENOR BREATHING HEAVILY]

[SOLOMON PANTING]

Sam?

Sam?

I suppose you get
a lot of packmen here.

[***]

I did have a boy before.

We were engaged to be married.

He had an accident,
down the mines.

An explosion.

Oh, he wasn't
killed or anything.

Just...

Well, my parents wouldn't
let me marry him after that.

Said he couldn't keep me.

What's gonna happen?

I don't know.

We'll get married.

Heavens above.

That dress has turned your head.

Has he asked you, then?

He needs me.

I know he does.
What about the chapel?

What about Noah?

Mother won't manage without you.

IDRIS [IN WELSH]:
You coming to the meeting?

Let me know what happens, Dad.

We're being
squeezed like lemons, Crad.

We stand together
on this argument

or we go down together.

You do the meetings, Dad.

Call me when the action starts.

What's your favorite passage
in the Bible, Sam, bach?

We're not really a Bible family.

Oh, but you must have
a favorite.

I used to like Jacob's dream
when I was a little boy.

Genesis. Chapter 28, verse 12.

He had a dream--
BRONWEN: A stairway.

GWEN:
Stairway was set on the ground--

BRONWEN:
And its top reached the sky,

and Angels of God
were going up and down on it.

And the Lord
was standing beside him

and He said, "I am the Lord.

The God of your father Abraham
and the God of Isaac."

"The ground
on which you are lying

I shall give to you
and your offspring."

[SNIFFS LOUDLY, THEN SPITS]

[***]

[BOTH MOANING SOFTLY]

[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]

You aren't like other boys.

Boys around here.

[SIGHS]

You listen to me, for a start.

You're even different down here.
[GASPS]

From Crad anyway.

[BOTH CHUCKLING]

[WINGS FLAPPING]

[SIGHS]

Birds can keep a secret, eh?

When do I get
to meet your parents, Sam?

My father's away.
It's not a good time.

Well, couldn't I meet
your mother?

She isn't--

She isn't well.

I'm used to visiting the sick.
I visit the sick all the time.

We're poor.
Maybe he's ashamed of you.

He's not like that.

His people might be.

But if he loved you enough,
so what?

[GASPS]
Mind now!

I nearly had your hand then.

[***]

You wouldn't make a fool of me,
would you, Sam?

No. No, of course not.

Put your arms around me then.

[IN WELSH]
The love
that will faithfully last.

[SIGHS]

[IN ENGLISH]
I want to meet your family, Sam.

I want to make it right.

Crad.
[IN ENGLISH] No point

in going anywhere in this.

Come with me.

It's not strictly legal,
but good friends are allowed

a quiet drink on rainy day,
isn't that right, Alun?

I'm not a big drinker.

You'll have a pint or two on me
though, won't you, lad?

Seeing as how
you're courting my sister.

Let me.
You'll have your chance.

This is Sam, boys.

He's friendly with our Gaenor.

We're usually under the ground
when Sam comes round,

so we don't get much of a chance
to look him over.

Pleased to meet you. Ahem.

[MUMBLED GREETINGS IN WELSH]

This is my butty, Wyn.

One over there who needs
a wash is William.

This is Bleddyn, Rhys,
and last but not least, Huw.

Drink up, lads.
Go on.

Good man. Put that away.

There's plenty more
where that came from, eh, Alun?

[ALL LAUGHING]

Finally the king
found a solution.

"Let us also eat the wheat
and become mad like the others.

But before we can eat it,

we will each make a knot
in our belt.

Then whenever we gaze upon
that knot in the future,

at least that we will know
that we are mad."

Aye, good one, Sam.
Bit beyond me, like.

Rhys, tell us that story about
the girls in the tin factory.

I like that one.
[MEN CHUCKLING]

I've gotta go.
It's getting dark.

Hold on.
We're just getting to know you.

Walking around mountains
in the dark

is what we miners find ourselves
doing all the time.

It's not so bad, is it?

Let the lad go, Crad,
if he wants to.

Look at his hand now.

This is the hand of a man
who sells women's things.

See those two now?

They tell a story.

David and Goliath.

Got your sling ready, boy?

She's not your type, is she?
Really?

Let's be honest.

Enough's enough now, eh?
Crad.

Bye, Sam. Mustn't keep ya.

Say goodbye, boys.
ALL: See you, Sam.

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

[***]

[COUGHS, RETCHING]

[SPITTING]

[GROANS]

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

[DOOR OPENS]

I went to see Mannie.

You know Mannie, he used
to work in the iron foundry.

He's in the pits now.

[LATHE SCRAPING]
[SIGHS]

I stayed late to try
and avoid the rain, but, uh...

[WIND WHISTLING]

[EPHRAIM SNORING]

[EPHRAIM GASPS,
GROANING SOFTLY]

[GROANS SOFTLY]

[VOMITS]

[GASPS]
[DOOR OPENS]

[PANTING]

Gaenor.

[IN WELSH]
Yes, Ma.

[IN WELSH]
I'm going out now,
to Mrs. Williams.

Don't forget to get those
potatoes ready for tonight

and the bread ready for baking.

No, Ma.
Those pigs could do

with a clean up and all.
Yes, Ma.

If they vote for a strike today,
you can say goodbye to him.

[WHISTLE BLOWS IN DISTANCE]

[IN WELSH]
Are you feeling all right,
Gaenor?

I'm fine. Really.

You can talk to me.

As a friend, I want to help.

I'm past helping, Noah.

Don't involve yourself.

I'm all right.

Tired is all it is, I expect.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

Hello. How are you today?
How are you?

...there's this one
right here...

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

[HORN BLOWS IN DISTANCE]

What's the matter?

[MAN YELLS INDISTINCTLY
IN DISTANCE]

We can be more careful.
Find another place.

[IN ENGLISH]
Is that all you think about?

Is that all you want,
what you think I want?

I want...

this.

I want what we have.

And that's all?

There isn't any more?

Is this what you want?
Just this?

Because you can have it anytime!
No problem!

Anytime you want!

Gaenor--
No!

[CRYING QUIETLY]

[SIGHS]

I know what you want me
to say, but...

[SNIFFLING]

I thought you were different,
Sam Livingstone.

[SIGHS]
Maybe I am different.

With your soft words
and gentle manners.

Too good for me, is it?

Or just having a bit of sport?
[SIGHS]

There's nothing to you.

Nothing to you at all.

ALL:
* Amen

[IN WELSH]
Stand up, Gaenor Rees.

Gaenor Rees.

A member of this congregation
has a charge against you.

Gaenor Rees is with child.

She has been fornicating
with a stranger.

Is this true, Gaenor Rees?

Remember, if you bear
false witness in God's home,

His punishment will be greater.

[IN WELSH]
It's true.

I am with child.

Shame on you, Gaenor Rees.

You were an example
to the young...

and now, about you is
the stench of deceit and evil.

The trust
those children placed in you...

our trust has been polluted.

May God punish you accordingly.
You will leave the chapel now.

You will not sully it
with your presence

for a period of six weeks.

From the fellowship
you are banned forever.

You are in the hands
of your family,

whom you have betrayed.

May God lead you
to true repentance.

[ROBERTS SIGHS]

[CHOIR SINGING IN WELSH]

He's got to marry her.

You won't keep
that baby otherwise.

You know that, don't you?
Don't you!

I'll make him marry her!

She doesn't want him, Idris.
She has her pride.

Leave her alone.

Pride?

Pride be damned.

You fool.

Who will have you now?

[BREATHING DEEPLY]

[DOOR OPENS SLIGHTLY]

Gaenor?

Go away.
She doesn't want to see you.

Can't I talk to her a minute?

She doesn't wanna see you.

She doesn't wanna talk to you,
she doesn't wanna know you.

If Crad sees you,
he'll kill you.

Go and don't ever come back.

And don't try to write.

She'll not get the letter.
Never.

Give her these
at least, please.

[***]

[PIG SQUEALING]

[MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY
IN WELSH]

[FOOTSTEPS]

[KNOCKS]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

[IN ENGLISH]
A pane of glass to keep
the warmth in. Save on coal.

[DOOR CLOSES]

[SIGHS]

[IN YIDDISH]
It's the strike.
No one has money.

No one wants glass.

If it breaks,
they stuff it up with paper.

Don't be disheartened.

Keep going around.

Be a familiar face.
Take cheap stuff.

Darning material. Threads.

Be generous.

Let people know
that they can trust you.

In a strike,
there is frustration.

Hardship brings out
the devil in people.

Don't let them say
the Jews kept away.

It will be over soon,
please God.

Then you will have
a shop and customers.

Yes, Dad.

[IN ENGLISH]
We have no choice.

[INSECTS BUZZING]

[GROANS]
WYN [IN ENGLISH]: Get him, boys!

[GROANS]

Maybe this will teach you to
mind your own business, bastard!

If we catch you around here
again, it's the end for you!

Do you hear?

[***]

You're lucky
Crad didn't come out.

You'd be a dead man for sure!

Sod off!
Bugger off!

Don't come back here again,
do you hear?

Don't ever come back here again!

GWEN [IN WELSH]:
You can start
going to chapel again now.

It's not the fellowship,
but it's something.

Well, there's more darning
than wool in these heels.

You can't hide your disgrace
from God.

I need to go.

I can't hold it in
like I used to.

[***]

[IN ENGLISH]
You.

[IN ENGLISH]
I have to talk to you.

We can't.

Go away. It's hard enough
already. Go away.

Don't go in, please.
[CRYING]

Get off me.

Oh, my God!
Don't be a fool.

But, Gaenor--
Let go of me!

You're having a baby.
Oh, forget it.

It's no business of yours.

You shouldn't have come.

IDRIS [IN WELSH]:
Gaenor, are you all right?

[IN WELSH]
Coming, Dad.

Come and share
a prayer of thanksgiving.

We're going back to work.

Did we win?

[IDRIS SIGHS]

We didn't lose,
put it like that.

[WINCES]

SOLOMON:
Don't look at me.

Go to sleep.

[WATER SPLASHING]

Go to sleep, I said.

Why did you leave your tzitzit
in the wall?

Isn't it a commandment?

[IN YIDDISH]
Each generation
shall put a tassel

on the corner of their clothes.

[IN ENGLISH]
Don't you want
to be a Jew anymore?

So it was you.

It isn't so simple.

Your prayers make it all
so simple. It isn't like that.

[***]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Rabbi said the miners
were forced to go out on strike

because they got nothing for it.

[IN ENGLISH]
The Rabbi is a fool.

If not for the strike, they
would have less than nothing.

Let them talk to our Jewish
miners. Here, Benjamin.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

[IN YIDDISH]
Why is it always a Friday night?

Please God, there will be
peace now for a while.

There are too many children
going hungry.

They come in there with junk

and it's hard
not to give them something.

[IN YIDDISH]
It's for you.

[IN ENGLISH]
You weren't easy to find.

[IN YIDDISH]
I'll be back soon.

Aren't you going
to invite me in?

Sam? Is it...Solomon?

How's your mother now?
Still sick, is she?

Where are we going?

Are you still ashamed of me?

[SHOUTS IN ENGLISH]
Why didn't you tell me?

Because--

Why didn't you tell me?

Why didn't you tell me?

This?

Your life.

Your real life.

[***]

[TAKING SHUDDERING BREATHS]

[SIGHS]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]
You don't understand.

You were keeping yourself
from me. I could feel it!

Was it a game?

I... I just couldn't see

how to put the pieces together.

They won't accept you.

It's a rule with them.

It's like iron.

They'd cast me out.

And you?

Do you accept me?

[SIGHS]

I think so.

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

I'm to go to the country,

to my father's people,
to have the baby.

Then it will be taken away.

[SIGHS DEEPLY]

Why did you come?

When I saw you,
I stopped hating you so much.

I had to find out.

Talk to me in your language.

The language you used
to your family.

Do you really want me to?

[WHISPERS IN YIDDISH]
Come and sit down.

SOLOMON [IN YIDDISH]:
* Sleep, my child
Sleep soundly *

* I will sing you a song

* When you, my child
[GAENOR LAUGHS]

* Are older

* You will know
All about the world *

SOLOMON [IN ENGLISH]:
We'll go away somewhere.

GAENOR:
Not yet.

Not sure of you yet.

Solomon.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Solomon.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Solomon.

CRAD [IN ENGLISH]:
Bring a towel, girl.

Give a good rub.

[SIGHS]

It will all be over soon, eh?

[***]

Good girl.

Fetch my shirt, will you?

Just a bad dream, that's all.

[DOOR SLAMS OPEN]

GWEN:
Take it easy, man.

You'll scare that baby out
before its time.

IDRIS:
Let it come. That'd save
a great deal of trouble.

What are you talking about?

We're just now
getting on our feet,

the docks are out
and the railway boys.

There'll be no coal moving.
We're like puppets on a string.

We'll be back where we started.

Why are you killing yourself?
Out all hours.

If no one is buying,
stay at home a bit.

[IN ENGLISH]
Stay home a bit.

We know how to be poor.

We will survive.

Gaenor?

No...

[IN YIDDISH]
No, no, no, no!

No!

MINER:
I seen you, dirty bugger!

[GRUNTS]

[SOBBING]

[SOLOMON SNIFFLES]

[MUFFLED CRYING]

I can't stop.

Things are getting
very difficult.

Dad and Crad are around
all the time.

Everybody's very edgy.

Nobody knows
how long it will last.

[IN ENGLISH]
I understand.

I'll go away with you.

[IN YIDDISH]
Oh, thank God.

As I am now, I can still walk
a good distance.

I can still work.

The longer we leave it,
the harder it will be.

[IN ENGLISH]
I can be ready in a day.

Saturday night,
everyone will be out.

I can meet you
at the back of the house.

I'll be there.

I have to go.

Your favorite customers will
have a round on credit, Alun.

The day this layoff's over,
you'll be rolling in clover.

Sorry, Crad. Boys.

Bloody hell.

What are we breaking
our backs for

if we can't get
a sociable drink?

Something's not right.

I heard about some
Jew landlord in Tredegar

put the colliers' rents up
by a shilling

the minute the strike was over.

Doesn't he know the families
have debts to pay?

And I don't see it coming
down again now we're laid off.

Seems to me
some people only get richer.

[***]

[PRAYING IN YIDDISH]

SOLOMON [IN YIDDISH]:
Bless me too, Father.

What?
Please.

Include me in your blessing.

It's for children.
You aren't a child anymore.

I'm your son.
I'll always be your son.

It's for a child.

You're an adult.

Let that be an end of it.

Philip is past his bar mitzvah.

[PRAYING IN YIDDISH]

[WHISPERS]
Thank you, Mother.
Thank you, Father.

We have no milk
for the children.

We have no feed
for the animals.

We cannot nourish the sick,

we cannot even,
in this citadel of coal,

give warmth to our elders.

Our working people
create the wealth.

Our people are suffering...

while others grow fat
on the proceeds of our shame.

[IN YIDDISH]
Go home and board up your shop.

Last night there were riots
in Tredegar against the Jews.

They are afraid tonight
it will spread here.

[IN YIDDISH] That's right.
Shops were looted. Dozens.

And some houses too.

Isaac, you should find
somewhere else to stay.

SOLOMON [IN ENGLISH]:
Surely you aren't
taking it seriously?

You're well respected.
This isn't Russia.

[***]

[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE

[BOTH CHATTERING, LAUGHING]

For God's sake, be quiet.

They mustn't know we are here.

[IN ENGLISH]
Thank you.
It's very kind of you.

It's no trouble. I only hope
it all passes off quietly.

Oh, we pray for peace.

Solomon, how long do you think
we are staying?

My wife is praying too.

Try and get some sleep.

Thank you.
Thank you.

[REZL CRYING QUIETLY]

[MAN YELLS OUTSIDE]

[REZL SIGHS]

...everything, everything...

[BOTH WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

[MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY
IN DISTANCE]

[DOOR LATCH CLICKS]

Bye, girl, see you later.

[WHISTLES]

Crad.
[MEN YELLING, WHOOPING]

Come on.
Come on!

[YELLS]

[ALL YELLING, CLAMORING]

Come on!
Come on, lads! Come on!

[EPHRAIM SNORING]

[WHISPERING IN ENGLISH]
You don't know.

You don't know anything.

Don't set yourself up as God.

[***]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

[MEN CLAMORING]

Hold this.

[GRUNTS]

[ALL SHOUTING]

[***]

[INAUDIBLE]

[IN YIDDISH]
Don't be a fool.
Do you want to be killed?

[IN YIDDISH]
Let me go, for God's sake.

Can't you see
what they are doing?

We will lose everything.

You see what they are like.

No, you are wrong.
Don't say that.

You think I don't know
what's going on?

I know every house
in this valley,

and I know
what they are saying.

Tell me it isn't true.

Get off me!

It's my own life!
You can't control me!

[GRUNTS]

If you go with this girl,
you will be dead to us.

We will say Kaddish over you.

Police! Come on, boys!

Come on!

Come on!

[***]

Solomon?

[SIGHS]

Help me with this lot, will you?
Help me, woman, will you?

Gotta hide it.

[SOBBING]

[IN ENGLISH]
It was you.

You sinned against God.

[IN YIDDISH]
It was you.

EPHRAIM:
They didn't touch the books.

See, God is good.

They didn't harm the books.

BENJAMIN:
Look!

[ROOSTER CROWS IN DISTANCE]

[TRAIN RUMBLING OVERHEAD]

[HORN BLOWING]

[PLAYING CLASSICAL MUSIC]

SOLOMON:
My darling Gaenor,

they told me that the post is
running again to the valleys,

so I hope
this letter reaches you.

I expect you heard we lost
everything in the riots.

There is talk of compensation,

so perhaps
my parents will be all right.

Naomi.

I lost more than everything
that night.

And Rebecca.

I hope you weren't
too angry with me

after you read the newspapers
and realized what happened.

I am kept
virtually a prisoner here,

working morning till night,

Saturdays in synagogue
with Uncle Mennasseh,

then back at work again.

I have no money of my own.

There is a mistake.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

But somehow
I will come to you

before our child is born.

I hope you still want me.

Pray to your God.

Pray we can be together again.

And I will pray to mine.

This is for Gaenor.
What shall I do with it?

I'll make sure
it gets to the right place.

Try writing to me
at this address.

I miss you terribly...

Solomon.

[WIND WHISTLING]

I am sorry for your trouble.

I can't tell you where he is.
He won't be coming back here.

If you...

[SIGHS]

[IN YIDDISH]
Translate for me.

If you forgive me
for saying so...

[IN ENGLISH]
Excuse me for say--
Saying this...

You have yourself
made this situation.

You have yourself
made this situation.

Don't ask Solomon
to get you out.

Don't make Solomon
to rescue you.

[IN ENGLISH]
Don't ruin his life.

I love him.

He loves me...

I think.

[IN YIDDISH]
Maybe she wants money.

Nah, please!

[IN WELSH]
I don't want money.

[IN ENGLISH]
I don't want money.

[IN YIDDISH]
Sorry, my dear.

I can see
you are an honest girl.

I am glad Solomon found
an honest girl.

You'll get over it.

You will both get over it.

Love, when you are young,

love comes and goes.

You have a long life
to live yet.

It will heal.

[IN ENGLISH]
I wish you...

[SPEAKS IN YIDDISH]

[IN ENGLISH]
Happiness.

You and your child.

[IN YIDDISH]
Understand?

[IN ENGLISH]
Hmm? Understand?

He's your grandchild.

Don't you understand?

He's no grandchild of ours.

He's a mistake.

He's not our grandchild.

Will you give him a message
from me at least?

No.

[IN WELSH]
Be good. I know you will.

Go in, you two.
No need to make a fuss.

You'll catch a cold out here.

[SNIFFLING]

[IN WELSH]
I'll be all right.

REZL [IN ENGLISH]:
My dear Solomon,
your girl has gone away.

You will never see her again.

It is a good thing.

You would
never have been happy.

You will stay in Cardiff.

For a boy like you,

there are more opportunities
in the big city.

Uncle Mennasseh is happy
to keep you on.

I hope you express
your gratitude to him often.

Work hard.
I know you will succeed.

Your ever-loving Mama.

[GOAT BLEATS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[WIND WHISTLING]

[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]

[MEN LAUGHING
AND MUSIC PLAYING]

Where's Gaenor?

Nowhere you'll find her.

Where's Gaenor?

Where's Gaenor?

[GROANING]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[GROANING]

Where's Gaenor?

[GRUNTS]

[SIGHS]

[GRUNTS]

Come on! Where's Gaenor?
Where's Gaenor?

Where's Gaenor?!

[GROANING]

[CRAD PANTING]

[YELLS]

Where's Gaenor?
Oh!

Where's Gaenor?

I have a mind to kill you now,
you know that?

Where's Gaenor?
But I won't.

Where's Gaenor?
Because you'd come back

and haunt me with those words
for the rest of my life.

I'd never be rid of you.

She's at Llanfihangel.

Northwest. Our aunt's place.

Don't ask me to write it down
for you, because I can't.

Llanfihangel.

[***]

[SHIVERING]

[COUGHING]

[RETCHING, COUGHING]

[WIND HOWLING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[FIRE CRACKLING]

[IN WELSH]
Funny not to be knitting.

[DOG BARKING OUTSIDE]

I didn't hear anything. Did you?

[IN WELSH]
No.

[SCREAMS]

Solomon!
[WHEEZING]

[CRYING]

[WIND WHISTLING]

[MYFANWY SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY IN WELSH]

[CHICKENS CLUCKING]

[BUCKET CLATTERS]

[IN ENGLISH]
Oh, you're awake.

[WHEEZING]

Oh, thank God.

[GROANS SOFTLY]

Here, let me.

[GAGGING]

[GASPING]

[WHEEZES, COUGHS]

[GASPING]

[***]

Don't leave me now, my love.

SOLOMON [WHISPERING IN YIDDISH]:
By this ring...

you are married to me...

under the law
of Moses and Israel.

[WHEEZES]

[IN YIDDISH]
Hello...

Sam.

[RASPY, IN YIDDISH]
Hello, my princess.

[WHEEZING]

How are you?

[IN ENGLISH]
C-c-cold.

[SHIVERING]

Better?

No.

[CHICKENS CLUCKING]

[EXHALES RASPILY]

[SOBBING]

[IN WELSH]
No!

[TAKING SHALLOW BREATHS]

[GROANING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[CRIES OUT]

[GROANING AND WAILING]

[CRYING OUT]

[***]

[BABY SNUFFLING]

[BABY CRYING]

[GAENOR SNIFFLES]

Hyah! Hyah!

[ISAAC PRAYING IN YIDDISH]

[ISAAC STUMBLES IN PRAYER,
VOICE BREAKS]

[RESUMES PRAYING]

[ISAAC SNIFFLING]

[SHOVEL SCOOPING DIRT
AND DIRT HITTING CASKET]

[***]