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Allaho akbar!

All: Allaho akbar!

Sepehr: Shiraz tar.

Sweet. Strong. Burns easy just the way you like it.

Grand for an ounce.

If Safinia find out you're dealing here...

Who's gonna tell? You?

Safinia owns the property. Not me.

Who I do business with is no concern to him.

Just like...

Who you fuck is no concern to me.

What's going on here?

Are you alright?

Sasha's just a kid. Why don't you give him a break?

Is he your kid?

No. He's not my kid.

But is this your beard?

Oh...

An addict

and a whore.

Here's to your holy union.

What are you doing?

You know if you take a few thousand more of these

you can cover all the walls.

What are you saying? You don't like the wall paper?

It's a nice touch.

You said I could do anything to the apartment.

Yeah. But...

Welcome to anything.

I saw Sepehr today.

Why would you bring that up right now?

Because.

I'm worried for Sasha.

Oksana: Your nails are filthy.

I saw...

I saw Sasha today.

Your son Oksana...

Sepehr...

Sepehr is lost.

He's no father.

I have the money.

I'll get more if we need.

Let's just get the fuck out of here.

You me and Sasha.

You, me and Sasha.

Oksana: Who are you talking to?

Why are you dressed?

I have work.

Work? Your boss is away. It's Friday.

It's the Persian Princess, isn't it?

Safinia doesn't take you seriously.

It's a favour.

A favour?

Driving his daughter and her friends around

so they can party?

You are like his peasant.

And what was I before?

Behrouz: When I sell my first property...

Let's take a trip.

Oksana: Why?

Because that's what people do.

They take trips.

So... take a trip with your Princess.

Woman: Beh-roooouz...

Didn't daddy tell you to pick me up or was I just dreaming?

We're at the key club.

Come soon or you'll miss out on all the fun.

Did she give you ecstasy?

No one gave me anything. I bought it.

Your father would kill me.

Me first.

Sara?

Don't be a hypocrite.

You think I don't know all your dirty little secrets...

Beh-rooouz?

You're late.

Where were you?

Business.

I thought I was your business.

La-la needs her... la-la.

La-la likes you. She wants to play with your gun?

I don't have a gun.

Bit young for you, no?

Jesus, Behrouz. Smile, Baba.

Reza Raed's cousin, Danush.

Just come from Tehran. No English.

He did.

I think he come back to play with old friends.

Where's your... Jew?

Honeymoon.

Well why don't we take a little trip, Baba?

Lola: How are you, Behrouz-Jan?

I'm late, Lola. What do you want?

To family.

Tell me Behrouz-Jan, fighting for a place in the sun?

Or do you still prefer the shadows?

I'm no longer in that line of work.

Babysitting Babak Safinia's daughter?

A favour for him.

You used to do favours for Cirrus.

And some for me.

I'm in real estate now.

With Safinia, that Jew?

Persian Jews are like Russian whores.

The longer they know you, the more they charge.

Are you done?

Cirrus truly adores you.

He said when you first came to this country

you were lost, confused.

You were like a boat with no anchor.

And look at you now. A real estate man.

Behrouz! Sara's looking for you.

We'll be at valet.

Goodbye, Lola.

Do you still play cards?

A ten thousand dollar buy-in.

But then you've got favours to attend.

Lola: Don't...

forget what he did for you.

Sara/friends: Ramen! Ramen! Ramen!

Sara?

Sara, can you take a cab?

What happened?

Nothing.

I need you to take a cab. I have something to do.

What the fuck, Behrouz? Cab?

So Uber. I have things to do.

Like that gaudy chick in VIP?

What gaudy chick?

Sara...

Please...

Don't tell your father.

Don't worry. I'll make sure she gets home Ok.

Come on.

Oh-oh-oh...

Calm down, pussy cat. You know the drill, Baba.

Ooohhh...

Big spender, huh?

I like your face.

Good face.

Ugh...

Child's face.

I like your face too.

Behrouz-Jan...

I'm delighted you could make it.

Cirrus will be so pleased.

Come. Sit.

Cirrus: Apologies for my tardiness.

I'm not a Persian prince.

Ahh...

But this man...

This man...

Is a knight in shining Armour.

At thirteen this man joined the Basiji

to be a solider of god.

Yet he survived Khomeini's culture of death.

He came to America

with anguish in his eyes

and blood on his shirt

I took him in

and turned that forsaken child into a man.

I turned him into a man.

Yet six months ago he left me.

How I suffered his loss

how I suffered his absence.

And now look at him...

A real estate man.

Men:

Bravo!

Bravo, Behrouz-Jan!

Bravo.

Now tell us, Behrouz.

What was it like?

What was it like

to fight for god's own will?

Cirrus: I re-raise.

Card player: I fucking quit.

I wanna go get some kebab.

Excuse me.

Cirrus: Tell me again, Behrouz.

Where did you learn to play?

The war.

You picked up a few nasty habits there,

didn't you?

Take his money and fuck me.

Make me a wound, pour yourself onto me.

No. Oh my god...

Wow.

I like the smell of your brand.

Farid: Old habits die hard, huh?

Three grams a day. Sometimes four, Bezy.

She has to smoke more opium than you just to fall asleep.

How do you sleep, Bezy?

On a California king.

You think you're better than me, Mr. real estate man?

No matter how hard you pray there's a whole forest of bodies

you can't wash away.

"Infidel with faithful."

"And faithful with infidel."

Cirrus: For years I suffered guilt for not dying with my brothers.

Guilt is a terrible thing.

It lingers...

It festers.

They say Jesus died of it.

Oh, Behrouz-Jan...

Your call, Basiji.

Agh!

Do you know how they cure drug addicts in Iran?

They torture the darkness out.

But your darkness, Behrouz, runs bone deep.

During the revolution, Khomeini's dogs

would round up the shah's council.

Place a gun with three bullets to their head,

pull the trigger

and leave the rest to god.

Argh...!

God favours you, Basiji.

Don't let him down.

Fuck.

Sepehr...

Cirrus: What did he do?

What did he do?

His life

or yours.

Cirrus-Jan, please. For the love of god...

Why does cirrus Golshiri want me to kill you?

I'll make tea.

You know what they said to me earlier?

Why do you still let that man come here?

He's not one of us.

He's a loner. Gangster.

Killer.

My fucking god...

America's a country full of loners and thieves

who kill for money and ego.

In Iran...

the value of a man is worth what he gives, not takes.

My father gave his life on the road to Karbala...

Fuck your father!

Why are you here?

Why does Cirrus want you dead?

Agh!

Ah...!

Oh!

Agh!

Agh!

What are you doing? Stop it!

What are you doing!?

Help! Help!

You thought I was going to kill you?

You thought I was going to kill you?!

I wouldn't tell you!

I would fucking kill you, you fucking idiot!

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Sepehr:

Behrouz...

Pray with me.

You need a hospital.

No!

No, no, no...

Sepehr?

Man: Bezy, Bezy, Bezy...

Behrouz, you are a sick man.

Fuck you.

Papa?

Your papa is over here.

Run!

Run!

- Run, Sasha! - Behrouz!

Sasha: Bez?

What the fuck's going on?

Behrouz: Shh!

Farid: Bezy? I know you're in here somewhere...

Behrouz: Sasha! Wait.

Behrouz: Get in!

Behrouz?

Oksana, we...

We have to leave now.

What is he doing here?

What happened to your face?

I'm fine.

Get your stuff.

Are you going to say anything?

Behrouz! Say something!

Sepehr is dead. They're after Sasha. They're after me.

If we don't leave now, they will put us in an unmarked grave.

Sasha: Bez!

They're coming. Bez, they're coming.

Stay quiet.

Sasha...

Agh!

Come on!

Oksana: Behrouz!

Behrouz: Oksana, this way!

Oksana: Are you alright?

What's going on?

Say something!

Behrouz!

What!? I'm driving!

After they leave, I went to my dad's room...

And I find this old sweet tin from Iran filled with...

I kid you not,

opium.

My dad and Behrouz are fucking o-p buddies.

Holy shit!

I wanna smoke opium!

Go to the room up at the end of the hall.

Sara: Behrouz?

Oh my god.

What happened to your face?

I'm fine. There was an accident.

We're gonna spend the night.

I should call papa.

Thank you, Sara.

Fuck you, Behrouz!

Fuck you!

You think my dad is gonna make you a real estate agent?

He keeps you around because you remind him of Iran.

I don't know what to say.

Behrouz: I know how you feel.

I lost many friends in the war.

Are you scared of death?

No.

Bullshit.

They gave this to me

in the war.

It's a key

to paradise.

You believe this crap?

Shit looks like it's made in China.

What do you believe in?

Nothing.

Nothing?

Nothing.

Man comes from apes.

Apes come from fish.

Fish comes from earth.

Earth comes from nothing. We all go to nothing.

Nothing. Nothing! Nothing! - Ok. I get it. Nothing!

You know what?

This... is a key...

To nothing.

Hello.

Cirrus: I was told you had quite the nightmare

in Sepehr's cafe.

That was our deal.

Our deal?

Already you sound like a "real estate man".

Bravo, Behrouz-Jan. Bravo.

Behrouz? I raised you better than this.

Are you a child?

What was he holding?

Good boy.

Now you see the value plus my interest.

Cirrus-Jan?

You know what to do, Basiji.

Fuck!

Who were you talking to?

Cirrus?

Why were you at Sepehr's?

I was collecting a bet.

How did they do it?

You don't want to know.

I was sixteen when I met him.

He never gave me a choice.

Do you know what he said

before he threw me out?

That I wasn't fit to be a mother...

That I wasn't even fit to be a woman.

They burnt his eyes

and they slit his throat.

Oksana...

Where would Sepehr hide his opium?

What?

He stole Cirrus Golshiri's opium

and now they want it back in exchange for our lives.

You made this deal?

There's no deal to make, Oksana. Where is it?

How would I know?

You lived with him. You stole from him.

Is that what he told you?

Sasha: Hey!

I know where.

Danush: I like to fuck pig.

Farid: Say it again.

I like to fuck pigs.

There you go.

What is it mean?

What is it mean?

I just told you.

I like to fuck pigs.

- Your father and I... - Get away from me.

Oksana:

Behrouz: Oksana?

Oksana!

What does this say?

Call him.

No. Why?

To see if he has the opium.

So what? Give the money to Cirrus.

There should be 250,000. There's 100,000.

Sepehr undersold. Cirrus isn't going to accept.

- We'll go to Evgeny... - No, no, no.

Not with him.

He's not some child playing with guns.

We take the money. We run.

You, me, Sasha. Let's go.

Evgeny is your people. Do something!

My people?

Cirrus is your people.

Your people. My people. There's no such thing!

Tell me where he is. I'll take it to him.

You don't get it.

Evgeny is worse than Cirrus.

He will kill you for the pleasure of seeing the light

in your eyes go out.

We take Sasha and we run.

And go where?

You want him to run his whole life?

Argh!

Are you Ok?

Don't stop!

Are you ready?

Oxy-foxy?

Listen to her Oksana.

Remember what I told you the last time?

Evgeny made a bad deal with Sepehr.

A very bad deal, trust me.

Ok Oxy-foxy. Chill. Ok?

Woman:

Svitlana?

Don't look at Evgeny. He hates being looked at.

Woman:

Man:

Man/woman:

Man:

Ygor. No more cocaine for her.

She does what she likes.

I like what she does.

Woman: I'm just getting started.

You are one big fucking cock tease.

One naughty little bitch, yeah.

Too hot to Trotsky, ah?

Ciao, Bella.

Ciao, Oksana.

You lived here?

Evgeny: Life is like a box of chocolates.

I only like to fuck the dark ones.

Ygor, we have guests.

Please, some hospitality.

Cocaine?

Oksana: He smokes opium.

Opium?

Not another fucking Iraaanian.

I tell you. No fatwa. No ayatollah.

No mother-tongue bullshit in here. Huh?

Here we're all Americans!

Yankee doodle dandee.

So you're the new chocolate?

Huh?

Well, you know how to look at a man.

Mm...

I suppose you think I'm some kind of faggot?

Maybe.

You know how that goes.

I like pussy.

I like hot cunt.

So Oksana, you've come back here to bite the hand that feeds you?

Sepehr Shahzad sold you opium

that he stole from Cirrus Golshiri.

You accusing me of stealing?

No. No. Sepehr stole.

Then I suggest Cirrus-go-suck-my-dick

takes it up with Sepehr Mujahadeen.

He did. Sepehr's dead.

My condolences.

But you seem to have landed on your back

with your legs in the air.

We return the money you gave Sepehr.

You give us the opium. We give it to Cirrus.

Fair.

Not fair.

I know you, sister.

I know your games, your tricks.

Oksana, she has talents and I put those talents to work.

Then Sepehr Shahzad comes along and buys her from me.

Triples my investment.

Crazy fucker is in love.

But he pays cash. Monthly. Regularly. Dependably.

But paradise doesn't last forever, eh, Oksana?

And now you come here with your new chocolate...

and my money

demanding my drugs.

You tell me Sepehr Shahzad is dead.

It's true! Sepehr is dead!

Ygor.

Call the Mujahadeen.

You Belarusian whore.

Ah!

Oksana: Get off him!

Get the fuck off him!

Behrouz:

Well for an Arab's whore you're not so docile.

Must be your Russian blood.

Agh!

Put the gun down!

You fucking bitch!

Oksana: In the bag.

Give her the fucking drugs!

And the money.

We don't need the money.

Give her the fucking money!

Hurry! Get the door!

This is gonna be a ride!

Sasha?

La-la? La-la!?

Sasha!

It's not funny!

Sasha...

Sasha!

Sasha!

Cirrus?

And words of wisdom?

I can't find him.

Cirrus... we have your opium... Where is Sasha?

Ah... look who's talking: Mary Magdalene.

Your son has a nice smile.

Cirrus, please. Sasha had nothing to do with this.

There's a place where the desert meets the forest.

Behrouz knows it well.

Sunset.

Cirrus? Cirrus?

Sara!? Sara!!

Come here. Sara?

Sasha:

Time to fuck Ali Baba.

Oksana: After Sasha was born I wanted to take him to Belarus.

Sepehr wouldn't let me.

He took me to a forest like this.

He beat me.

But then he felt guilty so he drugged me.

I hallucinated for hours.

I saw colours and patterns. The forest was never ending.

I thought god was punishing me.

When you're a child, it's always,

"do this. Don't do that."

You think when you grow older finally you'll have freedom.

But then you grow up and nothing changes.

In America we say we have freedom.

I don't know what that is.

In Iran we had

paradise to look forward to.

And now?

We're gonna take our trip.

We'll go somewhere green.

Somewhere where it rains.

Me, you and Sasha.

And we're gonna stay inside and we're gonna be free.

Uh uh uh.

Don't you fucking move.

Where's our Mary Magdalene?

Farid!

Farid:

Check it out.

What?

"Did you say your prayers today?"

Did you?

Stay down!

You're gonna run into the forest

and you're gonna hide.

Run! Now!

Ah!

Agh!

This one for breakfast! This one for dinner!

What the fuck, you gulag queen?

Go find your son.

But I'm the reason you came to America!

Evgeny!

Behrouz?

Can you see it?

Can you see your road to Karbala?

Did you pray today, Basiji?

Did you?

Mum?

Mum?

Oksana: Are you Ok? Are you Ok?

Sasha: Behrouz!?

Oksana: Sasha! Wait!

Sasha: Behrouz!

Behrouz... No...

Please...

Please...

It's Ok.