Boreal

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Benjamín, his uncle César, and Genaro are driven by their Mennonite Boss to a desolate spot in the Paraguayan Chaco, where they will stay for days building a fence for him. The days are long, the progress slow. Benjamín is antsy; he can’t get used to the hard, dull work and to the oppressive silence of this arid region. He wants to leave.

The Boss finally returns 30 days later; unsatisfied with the quality of the work, he tells the trio they need to stay three more days to complete the work. César and Genaro stay behind… but like Vladimir and Estragon in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, for them, this time around the wait will be eternal. For César, the oldest of the three and perhaps the most experienced, the magnitude of the physical effort is supported by the pay for the job. Meanwhile, Genaro drowns his sorrows with liters of cheap alcohol. For Benjamin, the youngest, boredom exhausts him as much as carrying logs on his back from one place to another.

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Main credits

Adorno, Federico (film director)
Adorno, Federico (screenwriter)
Costa Perdomo, Renate (film producer)
Guinea, Pamela (film producer)
Cardozo, Amado (actor)
Chamorro, Fabio (actor)
Giménez, Mateo (actor)

Other credits

Cinematography, Fernando Lockett; editing, Delfina Castagnino, Lenz Claure; music, Carlos Zárate.

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Give me a glass of ice.

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Here you have it, sir.

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Thank you.

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I'll go to the otherside!

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Take it over there.

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Leave it there.

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I'll be back in 15 days.

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Bye.

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If you want something, tell me now.

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Alcohol

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Aren't you asleep yet?

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Not yet.

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Come here.

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You should be sleeping...

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tomorrow will be a long day.

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I'm sleepy but I can't sleep...

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it's too hot in there.

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Drink!

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Drink more!

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I'm telling you to drink more!

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You're doing it wrong.

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Give me, I'll show you.

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Put your foot in here.

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Try again.

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Do it hard. You weak!

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You're talking nonsense

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I will cook

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Go bring more poles.

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It's so early yet.

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I'm so tired.
I won't work today anymore.

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Poor you, this is nothing...

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Don't be a sissy.

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Fuck!

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Hurry up Benjamín.

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You're so slow...

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What's happenig to you?

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Are you ok?

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Nothing... It just fell from me, uncle.

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Don't. Let's bathe more.

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Maybe my debtors are waiting
for me at home...

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I will hide from them.

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I will buy for my motorbike.

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If you say so...

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Do you think you can live for free
at my house?

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He will run empty in a week

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Girls are very smart now

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They are the ones who support me...

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He hasn't even kiss a dog.

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I'll show you how...

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Give me your hand...

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Take your hand...

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and in your fingers...

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you should spit...

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then it will go easy.

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Them, it will crack

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You'll hear it

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Two or three days will hurt you...

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You're talking shit.
I'm all grown now...

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I will marry after all this.

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I want to see that.

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You have to start practice.

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That's why he only wants to
go to the pigsty.

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He killed to death a pig?

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You are so annoying

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It wasn't just one...

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The other day he made two of them
to cry heavily.

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I've never saw her like that

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So beautiful

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You're mine, I told her.

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The room was freezing.

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Are you cold?

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I asked her.

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She couldn't speak anymore.

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Why did you kill her?

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I just touch her.

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She was so cold.

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I was crying by her side.

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You will never leave me.

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You are mine.

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This happended because of you.

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I told her.

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Are you being funny?

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What's coming up with you?

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I didn't want to do it.

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It just happened.

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Forgive me.

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I believe you...

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Where are you going, again?

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I have to take my medicine.

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Enough...

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Don't drink anymore...

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What's happening?

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Benjamín!

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Come here!

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Right now! You mother fucker!

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I didn't do anything!

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Don't be a thief...

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One is missing.

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Enough I told you.

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You won't wake up tomorrow, again.

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Where's my alcohol?

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You shitty boy!

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Tell me!

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I don't know where it is!

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It has to be you...

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or did it fly?

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I didn't touch anything.

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Don't be like that...

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Don't drink any more!

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The Mennonite is coming tomorow!

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I don't care about anything.

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It has to appear here!

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Benjamín!

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Come here to work.

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There!

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Come, cover this.

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Bye! I'm leaving.

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It pass his hour to come.

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He's about to arrive.

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You will see.

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It's unusual that he's not coming.

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We just are hurrying up.

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Come...

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That bastard mennonite...

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He will know who I am when he comes.

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Don't talk like that.

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Look...

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We have nothing...

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We will become dust.

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My son.

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Wake up!

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Wake up my son!

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Let's go...

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Did he arrive?

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Let's go to cook.

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Come...

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Uncle! Uncle!

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He arrived.

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We're leaving...
The sir...

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Good morning boss!
Good morning.

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Can we talk, César?

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Yes, boss!

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Everything ok here?

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I'm so tired.

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The journey was long.

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I will see the work tomorrow.

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Take the tent, César...

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...and build it right there.

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And you go lift the things
from the pick up.

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Your order!

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Thanks, Ramón.

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This will heal me.

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Likewise.

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No, thanks.

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How is the boy doing?

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I don't know...

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I told his uncle many times
not to bring him.

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But he came...

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He's young. Maybe he doesn't
like it here.

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He's old enough to work.

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That's why he came with his uncle.

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He just wants to play.

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Put some more flour...

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I want to hear.

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Take the pan out.

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Come.

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We will stay longer, he said.

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Stay where?

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Tell us right.

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He wants us to stay longer
to work.

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It's not much what is missing.

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He complained about our work.
Bad work he said.

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I won't stay anymore.

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How many more days?

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I think that in a week we will...

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finish.

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It's up to us to determine.

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If he's paying more...

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But...

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I'm kind of tired also.

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We didn't talk about that.
But I will tell him.

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Are we going to work for free?

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Don't hurry me up.
I will talk to him.

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Go find Benjamín before he does
something nasty.

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What are they saying?

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It's a news.

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It's 12 o'clock.

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5 minutes missing. Just in time.

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Take it.

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It didn't look fine what
you did to the boss.

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You shouldn't do that.

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Why did you come in the first place?

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Do you want me to tell the boss?

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My uncle should tell him.

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Why don't you go to tell him yourself?

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No, he will tell me.

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You can't know that.

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What's happening with you?

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You came in here.

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Tell him!

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He's leaving.

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He's fed up with everything.

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How are you going to leave?

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There's work to do yet!

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I don't want to stay anymore.
Don't you understand?

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He wants to leave from long ago.

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How can you leave?

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Go tell the boss to take me with him.

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He won't take you.

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Don't talk like that!

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Are we going to stay alone?

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Let's all go.

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Go tell the boss we are going
to leave!

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If I didn't need it!

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Do you think I want to be here?

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Go tell the sir!

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I will tell him tomorrow

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Take it.

00:54:45.916 --> 00:54:48.208
He's just taking breakfast calmly.

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He won't say to him anything.

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He won't dare to do it.

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You go tell him.

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I'm not the manager.

00:55:04.541 --> 00:55:06.291
It's César who should tell him.

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Go tell my uncle to talk to him.

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The sir is leaving.

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You go tell him, quickly.

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Go talk to the sir.

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Boss has an angry face.

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He won't like it.

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I don't want to stay anymore.

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The sir is leaving!

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Go talk to him!

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Uncle!

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Go tell him!

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You can't do anything without me!

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Have you load everything?
Yes.

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Boss...

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We want to say you something...

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Yes. Tell me.

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Talk.

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Many days now...

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This boy has to leave.

00:56:33.625 --> 00:56:35.583
But there's some much
work to do yet...

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César.

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It will delayed us.

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I'm sorry, boss...

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He got bad from me.

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I brought him.
It's my fault.

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We are in a season of a
lot of work...

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just to leave it like that.

00:56:50.708 --> 00:56:52.166
I'll be back in three days.

00:56:53.375 --> 00:56:55.166
This Mennonite is a liar.

00:56:55.500 --> 00:56:57.625
We can stay three days, boss.

00:56:57.916 --> 00:56:59.708
To take me with him, uncle.

00:57:00.666 --> 00:57:02.875
But take this boy with you.

00:57:06.416 --> 00:57:08.208
You shouldn't do this, César.

00:57:09.041 --> 00:57:11.041
The word must be fulfilled.

00:57:17.458 --> 00:57:19.416
I will bring replacements.

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Get in, boy.

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Pass me that.

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And the knife also.

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What's happening to you?

01:04:49.750 --> 01:04:50.500
Hey!

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You're working so hard!

01:04:56.791 --> 01:04:58.958
What for are you doing that?

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It's useless your work.

01:05:02.958 --> 01:05:04.375
We have to finish...

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Hey!

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Hey!

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We are so few.

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I'm losing my head!

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I dare you to do it.

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Do it!

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Stay still!

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Stay still...

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Or you will know.

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You will go to jail, again!

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I don't care about that.

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Tell me!

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Tell me...

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Tell me.

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Tell me.

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Let's go!

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It's not long...

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We are arriving.

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Get up and come.

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Hello. Did you arrive fine?

01:22:52.583 --> 01:22:53.375
Yes, sir!

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This is my son and Gaspar.

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I told well not to bring young ones.

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Only adults.

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Get in.

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Let's go.

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They never understand.

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