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Gods and men, we are all deluded thus!
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Farah!

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Farah!

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Where were you?

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I was calling you.
Didn't you hear me?

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Praying, Msabu.

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You're always praying.

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What were you praying for this time?

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You weren't praying for me, were you?

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For my family, Msabu.

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Pray for me sometime.

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Will you ask your God to help me?

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I ask nothing of Allah, Msabu.

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I give thanks.

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I also give thanks for having you with me.

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I wish we had raised cows.

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We used to have cows in Denmark.

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When I was a girl,
I used to love milking them...

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Do you like cows?

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I prefer camels, Msabu.

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We should've raised cows.

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That would've been better than coffee.

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We can buy cows, Msabu.

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Once we turn a profit, we'll buy cows.

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We can't have all this land
and not raise cows.

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I'm tired, Farah.

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Why are we going back this way?

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One can already see
the cypresses outside the house.

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Kitau, 20 shillings.

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Juma Bemu, 15 shillings.

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Ndwetti Goi Goi, 20.

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Titi, 15 shillings.

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Wamai, 15 shillings.

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Kamante Gatura, 15 shillings.

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Sirunga, 20.

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How many for Sirunga?

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Sirunga, 20 shillings.

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That is a lot, Msabu.

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We pay for Sirunga to attend school.

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If we pay him less,
he'll stop going to school.

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It is too much, Msabu.

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I'll think about it
and we'll revise the next payment.

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Wambui, 20 shillings.

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Kiguru, 15.

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Wachura, 15 shillings.

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Kimani, 20.

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Njoki, 20 shillings.

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Wawerru, 15 shillings.

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Mburu, 15 shillings.

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Watiri, 15 shillings.

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Murugi, 20 shillings.

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Ali bin Hassan, 10 shillings.

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How many for Ali Hassan?

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10.

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Why so little, Msabu?

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Ali was away for a long time
due to his daughter's wedding, remember?

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It was just a few days.

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Why are you doing this, Farah?

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Why are you always contradicting me?

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Do you think I'm unfair?

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Why do you work for me?

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Nothing happens by chance, Farah.

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I'm surprised a Mohammedan like you
doesn't have more foresight.

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You've asked me about
my faith in God many times, Farah.

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Well, let me tell you one thing.

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To me, God and destiny
are one and the same.

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A universal force that decides your life
from the very moment you're born.

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My task, just like yours, Farah,
is to carry out God's will.

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To follow what my destiny commands,

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using all my strength
and talents to this end.

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I believe life is a revelation, Farah.

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Don't be angry.

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Are you angry?

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The devil comes for all of us.

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He tempts us.

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We have to be strong.
We need to stand as one.

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Together, he can't do anything to us.

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Don't you think?

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Do you think he can get to us
if we all stand together?

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He cannot, Msabu.

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Then let's finish up.

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Kanuthia, 20.

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Njuguna, 20 shillings.

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Muthamba, 20 shillings.

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Kaninu, 20...

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Farah?

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Farah!

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Yes, Msabu.

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When I speak with Chief Kikuyu,

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do you translate everything he says?

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Yes.

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This is what I do, Msabu.

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The thing is, he says many words...

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...but when you translate,
you say very few.

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How's that possible?

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I do not know, Msabu.

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Only Allah knows these things.

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Kinanjui is a chieftain.

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He is not like other men.

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He talks and talks and talks...

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And you reduce what he says to
"That will cost 200 shillings".

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Or "That is not enough, Msabu.
You need to pay more".

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You made a good deal, Msabu.

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You should be happy.

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We shall have a good harvest this year.

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If Allah wills it.

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Farah, have you seen these roses?

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They're starting to whither.

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Who waters them?

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Juma waters them.

00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:04.360
You can't just pour water
directly onto the petals.

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You have to water the soil,
where the roots are.

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I know this, Msabu.

00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:11.920
Then tell him again.

00:21:12.040 --> 00:21:14.960
If he doesn't understand,
you'll have to water them yourself.

00:21:23.320 --> 00:21:24.760
What's the matter, Farah?

00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:28.640
Why are you so quiet?

00:21:35.080 --> 00:21:36.280
Come on, tell me.

00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:39.400
It concerns my son.

00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:41.400
Who, Abdullahi?

00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:47.520
I have received news that he threw a rock
at a boy from another tribe in Somalia.

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He broke two of his teeth.

00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:53.240
Oh dear, Abdullahi...

00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:57.600
Why not bring him to the farm?
How old is he now?

00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:00.320
He is around 10 years old.

00:22:00.520 --> 00:22:04.080
Then he can come to the farm.
I'm sure Fathima wouldn't object.

00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:06.280
This is not the problem, Msabu.

00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:10.160
What's the problem then?
It was only a scuffle.

00:22:10.760 --> 00:22:12.480
This is very serious, Msabu.

00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:16.200
This boy's handsome face is now gone.

00:22:16.360 --> 00:22:19.640
It will be much more difficult
when the time comes for him to marry.

00:22:19.800 --> 00:22:22.160
You people are always
thinking about marriage...

00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:25.160
He will also need
to lower his expectations

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in finding a good, beautiful wife.

00:22:27.600 --> 00:22:30.360
This will cost the family a few camels.

00:22:30.560 --> 00:22:31.600
How so?

00:22:31.760 --> 00:22:35.080
It will cost the family
at least 50 camels.

00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:36.880
Well, well...

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That's what it costs for a Somali woman
to marry you if you have no teeth?

00:22:42.360 --> 00:22:43.960
50 camels isn't half bad...

00:22:50.080 --> 00:22:52.920
We have enough problems as it is, Farah.

00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:57.800
It is Allah's will.

00:23:54.600 --> 00:23:56.920
What do you think of the dress, Farah?

00:23:59.560 --> 00:24:01.200
It is very nice, Msabu.

00:24:01.360 --> 00:24:04.360
You should let the Kikuyu
see how you are dressed tonight.

00:24:05.120 --> 00:24:08.560
They are always gossiping
and saying that you look like a vagrant.

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Do you think so as well?

00:24:11.280 --> 00:24:12.680
Of course not.

00:24:13.080 --> 00:24:17.040
Tonight, you are like a great lady
wearing your dress from Paris.

00:24:23.800 --> 00:24:25.720
Would you like to go to Paris?

00:24:26.840 --> 00:24:28.200
I do not know, Msabu.

00:24:29.040 --> 00:24:31.880
I think I would prefer to go elsewhere.

00:24:36.560 --> 00:24:38.560
Where would you like to go then?

00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:43.920
One time, I shall travel to Mecca.

00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:47.560
I'll take you to Mecca.

00:24:51.040 --> 00:24:52.480
We'll go together.

00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:17.960
Farah.

00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:20.920
Yes, Msabu.

00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:28.040
Promise you'll never leave me?

00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:33.240
I promise I will never leave you.

00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:35.480
If Allah wills it.

00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.960
When I found out,
I didn't want to tell anyone.

00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:26.280
I wanted to keep it a secret.

00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:35.160
I told my husband Lars, of course.

00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:39.120
He had never been so happy.

00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:42.560
Everything was going well.

00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:44.920
And I started putting on weight.

00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.960
I was radiant. Pregnancy suited me well.

00:30:50.320 --> 00:30:53.200
I could feel the baby moving inside me,

00:30:53.360 --> 00:30:56.360
like it wasn't able to get comfortable.

00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:03.400
Lars had to leave for a few weeks,
travelling for work.

00:31:04.360 --> 00:31:07.760
He insisted that I stay with his parents.

00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:10.720
But I wanted to stay in our home.

00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:15.320
We still hadn't told anybody,
and I wanted to wait a bit longer.

00:31:18.320 --> 00:31:21.560
One evening,
I felt a strong pain in my belly.

00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:23.840
A horrible shooting pain.

00:31:24.760 --> 00:31:27.200
I could barely move,
but I made it to the bathroom.

00:31:27.360 --> 00:31:28.920
Then I saw the blood.

00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:31.960
I knew what that meant.

00:31:32.120 --> 00:31:34.120
I called for a doctor, but...

00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:37.680
By the time we reached the hospital,
I had already lost it.

00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:42.800
I had to stay there for several days.

00:31:43.560 --> 00:31:46.960
And of course,
Lars' family came to see me.

00:31:49.280 --> 00:31:54.080
They had known for a few months
that they were going to be grandparents.

00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:57.920
They both seemed to hate me.

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:04.840
We told Lars
when he came back from his trip.

00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:10.160
It felt like in some way, he blamed me.

00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:16.720
He didn't understand
why I wanted to keep it a secret.

00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:24.000
He just kept on asking me
if I ever imagined this would happen.

00:32:30.280 --> 00:32:33.280
It never crossed my mind. Not once.

00:32:35.560 --> 00:32:38.320
I only ever wanted to keep things calm,

00:32:38.520 --> 00:32:42.720
experience this alongside him,
and just wait a little while

00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:46.160
before the family started
getting involved with everything...

00:33:03.360 --> 00:33:05.360
I think I've said a lot.

00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:08.480
Perhaps too much.

00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:17.600
- I'm sorry.
- No...

00:33:18.800 --> 00:33:20.160
I understand.

00:33:21.600 --> 00:33:24.960
In a way, I came to Kenya
to escape my family too.

00:33:27.760 --> 00:33:30.560
You may well love them
more than anything in the world,

00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:35.320
but even then, they end up
making you feel like a bird in a cage.

00:34:20.600 --> 00:34:22.600
Don't you get lonely here?

00:34:26.200 --> 00:34:27.640
I'm not lonely.

00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:32.120
I've got my Kikuyu and I've got Farah.

00:34:33.720 --> 00:34:35.720
But Farah is your servant.

00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:41.960
Destiny brought Farah and I together.

00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:46.560
I'm nothing without him.

00:34:47.160 --> 00:34:48.960
And he's nothing without me.

00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:56.600
He's my angel, my solace, my rock.

00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:01.400
Farah is one of the people
I love most in this world.

00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:27.800
I'm so hot...

00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:29.800
Do you want me to wash you?

00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:30.960
Yes...

00:38:23.080 --> 00:38:24.520
I'm thirsty...

00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:48.760
I had a very strange dream.

00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:54.320
I was walking through the garden,
very early in the morning.

00:38:54.520 --> 00:38:57.520
The chickens were out,
so I stopped to watch them.

00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:01.760
Where was I?

00:39:02.720 --> 00:39:05.080
I don't know. Praying, probably.

00:39:06.720 --> 00:39:11.920
Then Fathima's white rooster appeared
and it started strutting up to me.

00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:18.960
On the other side of the path,
there was a tiny grey chameleon.

00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:25.920
When the rooster saw the chameleon,
it headed straight towards it.

00:39:27.240 --> 00:39:30.480
The chameleon was petrified,
scared to death.

00:39:32.240 --> 00:39:34.480
It needed to defend itself, so...

00:39:35.640 --> 00:39:39.640
...it planted its feet in the ground,
opened its mouth nice and wide...

00:39:40.240 --> 00:39:42.240
...and stuck out its huge tongue.

00:39:43.160 --> 00:39:44.800
And what did the rooster do?

00:39:47.160 --> 00:39:50.800
The rooster looked worried.
Surprised, even.

00:39:52.720 --> 00:39:58.280
But then it swiftly pecked out
the chameleon's tongue.

00:39:59.560 --> 00:40:01.560
It all happened so quickly.

00:40:03.200 --> 00:40:05.400
I chased the rooster away.

00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:10.120
Then I picked up a heavy stone
and killed the chameleon.

00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:12.640
Why did you do that?

00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:16.360
A chameleon can't live
without its tongue.

00:40:16.560 --> 00:40:19.120
They need it to catch insects.

00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:21.120
You did the right thing, Msabu.

00:40:24.240 --> 00:40:27.480
Then I just sat there on the stone bench.

00:40:29.520 --> 00:40:34.000
It was such a microscopic drama,
but also gruesome and formidable.

00:40:36.080 --> 00:40:37.920
Perhaps it is a sign.

00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:40.280
What is?

00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:41.680
The dream.

00:40:42.160 --> 00:40:43.680
What is it trying to tell me?

00:40:44.200 --> 00:40:45.880
I do not know, Msabu.

00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:49.640
But once you feel better,
we are going to see the sheikh.

00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:52.120
He will know.

00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:56.000
I'm glad I killed the chameleon.

00:40:56.160 --> 00:40:58.960
I saved it from a slow, painful death.

00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:55.840
I'm not going to drink this.

00:41:56.600 --> 00:41:59.160
You must take the medicine, Msabu.

00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:01.880
Where did you get this?

00:42:02.720 --> 00:42:05.760
Juma Bemu, the witchdoctor,
prepared this for you.

00:42:07.080 --> 00:42:09.880
There was a large queue outside his hut,

00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:11.640
but he saw me
because he knew that

00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:14.360
I would not have come
if it was not important.

00:42:15.520 --> 00:42:17.760
He has cured other whites,

00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:20.800
but not all of them
who came looking for him.

00:42:21.640 --> 00:42:24.400
Some he left to die.

00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:29.880
In that case, I should feel honoured.

00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:34.000
Drink it all at once.

00:42:35.240 --> 00:42:37.360
What if you're trying to poison me?

00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:40.160
Give it here.

00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:42.640
I shall drink half first.

00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.360
If nothing happens, you take the rest.

00:42:47.080 --> 00:42:48.520
No need...

00:42:49.200 --> 00:42:52.200
If you wanted to poison me,
there's other ways you could do it.

00:43:08.640 --> 00:43:10.240
Oh my God!

00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:14.240
Allah is Great.

00:44:53.680 --> 00:44:56.480
Where were you, Msabu?
I was looking for you.

00:44:57.760 --> 00:44:59.120
Walking, Farah.

00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:02.720
I do not like your walks at night.
It is dangerous.

00:45:05.080 --> 00:45:07.920
Destiny will carry out
what it has in store for me.

00:45:59.160 --> 00:46:00.960
Hassan has come to see you.

00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.400
He has come to collect the debts we owe.

00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:09.840
Tell him I'm not here.

00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:11.600
This is not possible, Msabu.

00:46:12.200 --> 00:46:14.000
Tell him I can't see him now.

00:46:14.160 --> 00:46:16.200
I already told him you were here

00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:18.960
and that I would ask
if you could meet with him.

00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:23.880
I've told you several times
that you should let me know first.

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:31.400
Tell him I can't pay.

00:46:32.680 --> 00:46:35.240
This is what you told him last time.

00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:37.640
We must pay him now, Msabu.

00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:42.400
Farah, there's no money left.

00:46:45.120 --> 00:46:46.760
We'll have to disappoint him.

00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:50.600
Nothing will come from Denmark
for at least two weeks.

00:46:51.680 --> 00:46:53.040
Tell him to come back then.

00:47:29.720 --> 00:47:30.720
What?

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Hassan says he will return in two weeks.

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Thank you, Farah.

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He also told me that
he would like to have your music box.

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Then give it to him.

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Look...

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There's Sirius, the Dog Star.

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And there's Aldebaran.

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This is an Arabic word, Msabu.

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It means, "He who follows Another".

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Of course.

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Do you know who he follows?
The Pleiades, a little further up.

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But he'll never reach them,
not in a million years.

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Poor Aldebaran...

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