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The fight goes on!

Stop playing.

Hurry up eating.

And eat everything,

nothing on the plate, for once.

You're a big girl. You can eat by yourself.

Hurry.

Help me a bit.

Hurry up!

I'm off to work.

I'll come back soon.

Mrs. Vanda!

Will you come back?

I always come back.

See you later.

That dress is indecent.

If your father were alive, you wouldn't go out like that.

How do you want me to dress?

As if all I do is draw water from the well,

and mend my husband's clothes?

1st class service, 3rd class price. You buy?

Faggot!

Mozambique, 1975.

Inspired by real persons and events.

Move!

Wait your turn, bastard!

You come with me! Move!

I tell you to move!

I won't go out naked!

Come with me, comrade!

Are you deaf?

Bastard!

Come with us! - Wait!

Stop!

Where are you going, comrade?

Answer, comrade!

I'm going home.

You coming from?

I dance in a show.

Show me your work permit.

Why? - Get in!

I'm a star.

Get in!

All of you, in the truck!

Get up!

In line!

Get up!

What are we doing here, comrade soldier?

Damn! It's been hours, and we know nothing!

My paralyzed mother is alone at home!

Calm down, comrade.

We'll explain in due time.

'Calm down, comrade...'

Sir!

What do you want?

I left my two children with my neighbor.

I have to get them. - Calm down.

Send me with someone if you want.

A bit of patience.

They only have me!

I'm their mother! - Patience, madam.

Yes, madam?

Olivia Fabi�o.

Your address, please.

Mafalala.

We're sent into the army?

I don't fuck with soldiers for free. I have a house to pay.

My boyfriend will leave without seeing me.

Those guys will have to deal with me!

Shit, where are we going?

We're moved around like animals!

I'm hungry, I want to eat.

Get back to your seat.

Give me back my seat. - You don't have a ticket!

Leave or I'll beat you up.

I have a right to sit! No need to attack me!

You know where we're going, 'Aunt'?

No, but I'm prepared.

I have my lipstick, eyeliner, nail file.

We don't know where we're going.

I'd say we're going to the North.

North? Is it still far, the North?

What's in your basket?

Nothing. My things.

Will they keep us long? - I don't know.

What about my children?

Don't bother me. Don't have kids and don't want any.

You don't know me. I know you.

When we meet, you never say hello.

You think you're an artist.

No, I'm not like that.

I'm a simple girl, you don't know me.

Stop pretending. Simple, my ass.

We're the same,

but you're a 1st class whore and I'm 3rd class.

Can you write the town's name here?

On your handkerchief? Why?

I don't know how to write.

What will you do with it?

My fiance will see where I was taken. If not, he won't believe me.

You have a fianc�?

Yes, aunt. His name is Maquissane. He paid my dowry.

I was in town with my aunt to buy my trousseau.

Stop lying kid, I don't believe you.

A fianc�...

Get off.

Hello.

My boat's heel is broken.

Can you glue it back?

Yes, no problem.

Will it take long? - No, I'll do it right away.

Don't go far!

Stay here!

Thanks, aunt.

'Aunt'? Me?

How old are you?

Sixteen, aunt.

Don't call me 'Aunt'.

I'm barely 21 years old.

What's your name?

Margarida.

It's pretty. The name of a flower.

I have the name of a flower too.

Rosa.

But I'm a rose with plenty of thorns.

Comrade, wait for me here.

Yes, comrade.

Get off. We wait the commanding comrade.

Commander Maria Jo�o.

At ease.

'Unity, work, vigilance.'

Sit down.

How are you, Commander Mafia new?

Very well, comrade.

Comrade Maria Jo�o,

I have an important mission for you.

But, comrade...

Sit down.

My comrade fianc� and I want to get married,

build a family once the war is over.

We fought for our independence, we want to take advantage of it.

My priority, comrade, is to get married and have children.

Our fight goes beyond independence.

You didn't learn that?

Independence

is but a step in the fight for the liberation of our people,

do you understand?

So, comrade?

He's our former Commander, Felisberto.

Comrade Felisberto is here?

It's a punishment!

He says the city is corrupt.

And us?

A short mission: create a reeducation Center.

But comrade, we'll be stuck in the bush.

I haven't seen my mother in 10 years.

Revolutionary patience.

It will surely be our last mission.

Eat on the ground! - I am not a dog!

I am not a dog!

Beat it!

Next.

Come in! Hurry up!

I ate really well.

Codfish and white wine.

Move!

Over there!

You! Come down!

In the middle of the bush? Where are you taking us?

Come down.

You have something to eat?

Why do you hold it tight?

Let me see.

Leave the little one alone.

The little whore is your friend?

She has a flower's name, Margarida, but no petals.

Don't bother me, you two.

Drop it, Rosa. Don't be a pain.

We have enough with this endless trip.

A town!

A town?

That?

All this is for you!

Rosa... they're women!

Why are you staring at me?

Who do you think I am, to say I'm staring at you?

You've never seen women in town?

Girl,

where we are, there are also towns,

and we live very well, you see?

So why didn't you stay in your town?

Why I am not in my town?

I don't know. We were forced to come here.

You are also whores!

Chalk on the face, what does it hide?

Hit her!

You'd better eat and rest.

The trip to the reeducation center will be long.

Shit.

Silence, comrades!

Move.

Water!

Water!

A snake!

It's here, Commander.

What is here?

Comrades,

pick wood and make a fire.

No one will dare to flee in the bush.

You're right, comrade.

Get up! Come on!

Get up! Come on!

Come on, get UP!

Who? Me?

Move!

We wake up for what?

Get up!

We're tired!

Get up, always get UP!

We're hungry, we want to eat!

We want to eat, we're hungry!

We'll get them, those girls!

Let's get them!

The first to move, I shoot!

Make a formation.

You, you stay here!

What kind of formation? We want to go home.

For those who didn't understand,

I head the reeducation center, I'm in command!

And she,

she is my assistant, Sadimba.

My name is Maria Jo�o.

Commander Maria Jo�o.

I am a woman,

but I'm tough as a man for those who disobey.

I didn't choose this mission, I follow orders.

I have a program to apply,

and I'll apply it!

To start, discipline.

Those who don't obey will be punished.

How so, 'punished'?

Beaten.

Women of ill repute.

You're not guilty for being so.

It's the colonialists' fault, sending husbands to forced labor.

Our husbands...

What did you say, comrade?

Nothing, I didn't say anything.

'Didn't say anything, comrade Commander'.

Repeat!

I didn't say anything, comrade Commander.

You don't know how to sweep,

to cook,

or anything a woman

and a mother should know.

You will learn

and leave transformed, with a clean head!

When you're transformed, you will be free

to serve our country, your husbands and your families.

I don't expect thanks.

I carry out a mission of the people.

Together,

we will show those who say

a woman is incapable to change the bush into a town.

You will build houses

to sleep in.

You will dig latrines to avoid disease.

There's a river close bye,

you will clear a path.

Respect this spot.

It was one of our bases during the war of independence.

Comrades, drop!

Get back to work, on the double!

This will be a latrine?

Dig and shut up.

Don't dirty my hair.

I never went to town, Luisa, I swear.

How did you find men?

On the road? Truck drivers?

Men? I never had a man.

Don't take me for a fool, I'm your friend.

It's a snake.

A big snake.

He doesn't like to be invaded.

We have to flee. Those girls are crazy.

Flee to go where? And how?

I don't know yet.

If we only knew the bush... but we're lost.

If we go to the village, they'll catch us right away.

We need someone who knows the bush

to guide us.

Palmira Alberto. - Present.

Veronica Jo�o. - Present.

Rosa. - Speak.

It's me, so what?

Guida Fernando.

Present.

Gra�a Ernesto. - Present.

Luisa.

Laurinda. - Present.

Ancha. - In person.

Margarida. - It's me.

Angelica Manuel. - Here.

Odete. - Present.

Mariamu. - At your orders.

Suzana. - Yes.

Aida Micas. - I'm here.

Flora. - I'm here.

Esperan�a.

Present.

I will break you.

Elina. - Present.

Paciencia. - Present.

Comrade Rosa, step forward.

I keep an eye on you.

Comrades, we get to military instruction.

One whistle:

at attention, like this.

Two whistles:

at ease, like this.

Hands in the back, see?

Let's go.

Halt, comrade!

Dirty,

badly combed, stinking!

I don't want any of it.

No low life habits.

Our peasant women bathe in the river,

they also wash their clothes and draw water.

Understood? Move.

Yes?

I have a problem, Commander.

I forgot my soap.

Shut up!

Go wash, the hair too, on the double!

A crocodile!

I'd never been to town, I swear.

My aunt took me to buy a wedding dress.

What are you doing here then?

I had no papers, the soldiers took me.

This kid is lying.

You think we're idiots?

I've never been with a man.

'I've never been with a man'...

My fianc� works in Johannesburg.

We were to marry when he got back.

I only saw him twice, in the presence of my parents.

Margarida,

plenty of whores get married, that's not the problem.

Let's say I believe you.

Your family will have to reimburse the dowry. Can they?

Part of it, not all.

You see the problem?

Suzana's children are all alone.

The mother of your friend Luisa...

The only one without problems, it's me, Rosa.

Teach you for being stingy.

Silence, low life comrades!

Shut up!

Lourdes.

Lourdes.

Present.

Benigna - Present.

Odilia. - Present.

Anita. - Present.

We're hungry...

Comrades!

To improve our food,

we count on our own forces,

as we did during the war.

You will learn to farm the land.

I see that some of you have dispositions for it.

Others will see how nice it is to see it grow,

crop, crush, to feed, you and your children.

We're whores, not peasants.

Comrade Rosa, what?

I didn't say anything.

Yes, speak.

She says she's not a peasant.

I know you.

You're an agitator,

a reactionary,

punishment will straighten you out!

Calm down.

Do you have problems or suggestions?

Comrade Commander,

can my children come after the crop?

I have not received orders on that subject.

I need orders from our superiors.

Let me show you how to handle an ax.

I can't do it,

I'm too hungry.

You see? Downwards.

See?

Leave that!

It's poison.

It kills.

It stops you breathing... - And bye bye.

I know this plant.

Where I live, some trees are so poisonous

that birds flying above drop dead.

Margarida is a liar.

You've seen a tree that kills a bird in flight?

Rosa, taste these berries and you'll see if she lies.

Go ahead, I'll wait and see.

If she were innocent, she wouldn't be here.

Am I not innocent? And you?

I'm innocent, I am madam.

Dancing was never a crime.

Look well how the little one behaves.

She knows how to handle the machete and the ax...

she knows the bush.

I know whores who are seamstress and healers,

and even dancing whores.

Why wouldn't there be peasant whores?

It hurts... my stomach is swelling...

What's that noise?

It's my stomach.

It does 'tiou-tiou'.

It really does 'tiou-tiou'!

Did you eat something in the bush?

I walked a bit, wandered around...

With a man?

Pregnant in a day, a huge belly, and a talking baby?

There were people pounding...

And there was a chicken...

And where is the chicken?

I ate it.

Was there something tied to her leg?

A string or ribbon?

A red ribbon, on a leg.

You ate a chicken 'protected' by her master.

What?

A bewitched chicken!

You're damned.

The chicken was very pretty, I couldn't resist.

It's bad. Only the chicken's master can cancel the spell.

Let's ask the Commander to go and talk to him.

Commander, go and talk to the owner of the chicken.

You have to ask to deflate Laurinda.

Maybe the pretty chicken was sorcery.

No obscurantism here. The new man believes in science.

Listen...

Watch your language, Rosa!

Pardon me, Commander,

but it's an emergency.

That's not science, it's an evil spell.

Take her to the latrines

and see if her stomach deflates.

Go away.

Don't cry!

A chicken thief will not be missed.

Give it!

Dig.

We should dig other graves. We'll all die here.

Shut up, Rosa, or you'll try the grave instead.

Dig!

Left, right! Left, right!

About face!

One, two, face!

Heads straight!

Left!

Comrades, take care of the loincloths.

Your comrades lent them to you

to be presentable in the village.

To hide your naked bodies through your torn dresses.

No bad behavior, no lack of discipline.

Please allow me, comrade Commander.

From Commander Maria Jo�o.

I have dirty hands. Put it there.

The Commander likes to write reports, it's good.

Here's the comrade mayor of the village.

Comrade, over there!

Bring me water and soap to wash my hands.

Take the tub.

You're expected at the barracks.

At ease.

But comrade... - Rest assured.

The comrade will join you later.

Go ahead, I'm telling you. She'll come later.

Don't worry.

Here, we control the situation.

Mister Commander,

in our Center,

we don't have soap.

We can fix that.

Isn't that so, comrade mayor?

Yes. We have scented soap bars.

Comrades!

Did you forget it's Sunday?

Daughter of a whore...

how can we tell it's Sunday?

On Saturdays, I danced at the Luso. On Sundays at the Casablanca.

I miss it.

From today on,

you will have cultural activities.

Understood?

And political education.

To learn the history of your country.

Then, you may stroll in the Center.

Who wants to sing?

Sing the one of the little Brazilian. - What is it?

Comrade Rosa,

what did you say?

You want to sing?

No, Suzana is the singer.

She even has a poster with her photo.

I don't know how to sing!

She knows very well.

Perfect.

We'll form a choir

headed by comrade Suzana.

What do you sing?

Excuse me, I can dance, but not sing.

I'm not a singer.

Sing.

Sing what?

The one that starts like this...

'What will you do

Sunday night?

I'd like to invite you

To go out with me

for us to walk

on one of the streets of this big city'

Halt, comrade!

She touched the 'scratching bush'.

Thieves!

I want my grub! Who stole my grub?

Daughters of whores! You steal my ration!

I want my ration! Who stole my ration?

Luisa! - Let me go!

Damn whores!

Order! Order! Shut up!

Go to hell!

I want my grub!

Why me, my God? What am I doing here?

Stop whining, little one.

I cry deep inside because I'm here,

alone among you, and I didn't do anything.

You admit to your 'low life'.

I was never bad.

Listen.

Your friend Luisa

is punished because her ration was stolen.

Is that normal?

What can we do?

Flee. Just that.

The bush is dangerous.

There are beasts, elephants,

lions and snakes.

I have the shivers just hearing you.

I've already seen big snakes, black ones with red eyes.

They rise as high as us.

More.

That's it.

I'm hungry, I want more.

That's all there is.

Come over here!

I'll put you to boil!

We're going to eat meat, real!

That's enough!

Attention!

It's a crime.

A serious crime. Take her 'make a plane'!

Comrade, this Rosa is a tough one.

Punishing her is not enough to reeducate.

Comrades!

You, you go in the other barrack.

We don't accept regionalism

or tribalism.

Do you hear?

You're all from the South.

Next door, the girls are from the North.

Mentality of colonized.

Learn to live together!

Get it in your heads that you are all

women of the same fatherland, you hear?

There is no South, no North and no Center.

Learn to behave like a new woman.

You'll leave with a clean head or my name is not Maria Jo�o.

Now, I'm taking a plane

to go home and get food for all of us!

She is capable of flying, with her witch's air.

Comrades!

I learned that some women

fly at night to other places.

If it goes on, they will be punished! That's sorcery!

Down with obscurantism!

Long live the new woman!

Louder! Long live the new woman!

Starting today,

Rosa is in charge of the kitchen.

I want to see

how she will react when they demand food.

Aunt,

the field is ready.

Now, we must wait for rain to plant the corn.

While waiting, we have less work.

It won't be as hard.

Come on. I'm hungry.

Shit!

No!

Don't put that flour.

First we put this one,

or else you make lumps.

Shut up. I'm the boss and I know how to cook, see?

Pour the flour.

You see?

In a low life, you don't learn to cook.

You see why you're here?

No need to go that far to learn to cook.

She doesn't know how to cook and has a good life!

It's not fair!

We're starving!

Silence, low life comrades, it's coming!

Those who bitch won't get anything.

Take the soap. Don't let the others see.

Wash quickly and hide the soap.

Pass it.

Put some yellow too.

The yellow will make the horrible Grey pass.

It's still ugly.

I'd like to wear colorful dresses to dance.

You must have been very pretty.

The walls at home are light blue.

And at your place?

A hut has no color.

Now that the fields are ready,

we have another mission:

to carve a road

leading to the Center.

A road?

I know you've never done it,

but it's not hard.

I haven't finished, lower the arm.

With planning

and willpower, it will be easy.

You want to talk?

I don't understand, Commander.

Does it mean we are staying here for ever?

Why a road in the bush?

You're far from being a new woman.

You don't think of the future.

This place

will become a beautiful city,

with a garden, a hospital...

Comrade Commander,

I need to go to the latrines, I have diarrhea.

Go ahead.

Comrade, you're not in line.

I found this in her bed.

Where did you find the soap?

I see we didn't succeed in cleaning some heads.

Those who went to the village, a step forward.

All!

Commander, she went too.

Margarida is innocent.

She did nothing wrong.

It's true, she's never had a man.

I said: 'All forward'. Move!

Down with low life!

Louder!

Eyes open, face the sun.

Open the eyes.

Water, have pity.

Drink your sweat.

Latrines... I need to...

Do it here,

and shut up.

Open your eyes.

You had Margarida punished. But she is innocent!

She got screwed, she's a whore.

You're the whore, not me!

Say, kid,

not that tone with me!

A whore, perfectly!

Shut up!

Dirty liar!

I can't take it, I want to leave.

How?

I'll flee.

That's talking.

She's with us. We flee.

Comrade Suzana, up.

Why, boss?

You know why. Come.

Boss, I was going to the latrines,

but an animal scared me and I came in.

I wasn't fleeing.

She's sick, she didn't do anything, leave her.

Shut up, Rosa.

You turned her in.

Tomorrow, we'll see her dirty stuff and we'll be punished.

What's dirty is squealing.

She is sick and she saw an animal.

You're too stupid.

If they wanted to flee...

they can't anymore.

You tell us what to do with this comrade.

Comrade Commander...

She has her issues,

It's good to punish her.

Punishment! Punishment!

You know embroidery?

Who embroidered this?

You know embroidery?

No, Commander.

Who embroidered this?

What's a uniform for?

To make you all the same!

Take that flower off.

I did caca in the hut...

Quick!

Up!

Down!

Stop!

Go!

Quick!

Suzana...

You're picking stones?

For my children.

A souvenir.

Don't be an idiot. Eat, or I finish all.

We move!

We have company.

We're on a mission. We go with you.

Is it food?

Peanuts!

You want to fuck my sister?

Stop, Rosa, I don't like it.

We eat your peanuts

and you eat my sister.

He doesn't understand. He speaks the tongue from here.

Here are your fugitives.

Shit!

This son of a bitch spoke Portuguese...

You're reactionary fugitives!

You refuse to become new women.

You are old, old women.

Your comrades, there, they will go home.

You are the hard headed, you stay here.

I told you: to leave, we need an order from superiors.

You and your colonized mentalities!

Fifty blows each.

I was never with a man!

Never!

What a liar, that Margarida.

It's true, you can tell by the way she speaks.

A hell of a liar.

I'm fed up with this story of virginity.

Let's do a test,

with the finger.

I don't want to!

I know an old one, in the next hut.

Bring the old one.

Let me go!

It will be quick.

Easy, Margarida, it won't take long.

She's a virgin, she didn't lie.

Virgin! Virgin!

Comrades,

I accept your proof.

We must have done a mistake.

You are so many...

So? She can go back and get married?

If I have orders. I'll make a report.

Orders, orders... always the same excuse.

We are worse than slaves. Slaves without masters.

We have nothing before us, no future.

Didn't know where we were going, don't know if we leave.

It's a pain, shit!

Comrade Rosa,

watch your language.

Watch it!

The worst thing,

the Commander is a slave like us, forced to stay.

I'm proud to be a military.

I obey orders from above. Leave.

You hear? Leave!

Good news.

I have letters for you.

Claudia Catarino.

Odete Miguel.

Mariamu.

Hortencia Jossas.

Suzana Cossa.

Joaquina Foguete.

Nelma Francisco.

Otavia Antonio.

Natalia Pedro.

Odilia.

The rest is for the other barrack.

One of her children is dead.

It's dated six months ago.

Eat, potatoes.

The 'executioner' gave them.

Eat, Suzana, the soup will do you good.

Eat the soup.

What is it?

Suzana has gone crazy.

She escaped, weak as she is.

Go and find her. The bush will kill her.

You'll never change.

Lucky no one writes to me.

Why do you say that?

Letters bring woes.

I read the one the 'executioner' got.

Her fiance married another.

Good. She's punished.

Don't say that.

The lions.

We buried her remains on the spot.

If he makes a good report,

some will go home.

For that, you have to cooperate,

present yourselves well,

with good uniforms.

No one leaves here without an order from above.

Not you, not us.

I propose a deal, Commander.

I haven't talked with the others,

but they will agree.

During inspection, we will be disciplined,

combed, with clean uniforms,

to make a good impression.

In exchange, Commander Felisberto will take Margarida home.

We have proof she's never been with a man.

She knows not the low life.

If he accompanies her,

we will also know, that we can leave.

'Welcome, comrade! Welcome, how are you?

We are ready...'

Hello, comrades!

Hurray comrade Commander!

Hurray for our supreme leaders!

We wish to salute our Commander,

and through him, our supreme leaders,

who fought to liberate us from colonial domination.

We thank you

to have brought us here

to learn how our people live.

We were women incapable of keeping a home

and contribute in the fight against under-development.

Today, we can say we've changed.

We collectively

take an oath, before the comrade Commander,

to leave here as new women,

with clean heads.

Hand me the soap and towel in the bag.

I appreciate what I saw here.

You're pretty, you know?

Some of you are ready for the return.

Comrade leader, here we have a little Margarida...

Your Commander spoke of her case.

A misunderstanding.

Will she leave?

Thank you, comrade leader.

Come and get the bucket tonight, when it's dark.

I'll accompany Margarida,

and I can take you too.

If you need soap,

I'll give you some when you come back.

You're lying!

Commander Felisberto said that?

I know men's talk, Commander.

He wants a 'low life' service.

In exchange for soap.

Reactionary, son of a bitch!

Comrade, the problem is very complicated.

What do we do?

She,

she'll denounce him in public.

Him, we'll take him to town tied!

He's our Commander...

He's on the side of the enemy, we must fight him.

If I denounce him, Margarida won't leave.

And we, we'll never leave.

I don't trust him.

Trust him with Margarida...

I want to stay here.

You're mad. It's your only chance to leave.

I'm afraid.

Afraid of what? You're lucky.

Going home and getting married...

I won't leave here without you!

Leave, Margarida.

No.

I won't denounce him. Margarida leaves.

Leave me alone!

She was really a virgin.

Take advantage.

Go, it's an order.

She escaped! - Leave it.

Leave it, she won't go far.

The lions will take care of her.

Let's go.

What happened?

Margarida, speak!

Tell me!

Tell us!

It's our fault?

It's our own fault?

Yes, it's our fault,

you didn't learn anything!

We learned everything we were taught.

Walk in rank, build roads, cook.

Didn't I tell you to denounce Felisberto in public?

Didn't I tell you?

We're not here to learn to be cops.

When you didn't say anything, Rosa, I was ashamed.

What did you do, to free Margarida?

A report. - You can shove it up your ass!

Careful, comrade Rosa.

I'm still your Commander.

Put your gun where I think, I'm not afraid of you.

Now, prove that you're a woman who has balls,

as you said when we arrived.

�I am Maria Jo�o, Commander Maria Jo�o.

I am a woman, but I'm tough as a man for those who disobey,

understood?'

Get us out of here, to beat this son of a bitch!

He's worse than a colonizer!

Comrade Commander,

the consequences will be grave.

We'll be arrested,

we'll be hunted by the army, or even worse.

The army is our home.

The meeting is over, comrades.

My decision is made.

I'll assume the consequences. We won't wait for orders.

I've made my decision. We leave!

I don't want to.

You leave too.

The Commander has decided, we all leave.

What happened to you counts less than leaving here

and start living with pride.

I won't go back.

You give it to me?

If something happens to me, give it to my fianc�.

He'll know I did no wrong, that I was taken.

Keep it.

It's the same, we're together.

Take it, or I won't leave!

You'll have to carry me!

You're stubborn. I don't see why you do this.

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