"In the Name of God" "Hello?" "Yes, it's me." "What?" "Where the hell I am?" "!" "Watch your language, son!" "How dare you!" "?" "Why should you hire a lawyer!" "?" "Don't shout at me." "Listen!" "You let me lose my face, I'll do the same to you." "I have collected all the evidence against you." "You'd be eating some dirt!" "Don't have your heart set on it!" "I'm on the way." "Sir, the court is two crossroads down the street." "I'm not talking to you." "Sorry, I don't go further." "I will put you in your place." "Me?" "!" "I hired you!" "I don't want your money." "I want to have launch." "Take off, please." "You're sick!" "Excuse me." "Will you take me to the hospital?" "It's at the end ofthe street." "Will you please not lock the door?" " Do you go straight ahead?" " No!" "Take passengers if you want." "Straight ahead is not on yourway." "How nice!" "You put flower in your car." "It smells good!" "Your taxi meter works?" "Good!" "Don't think I'm saying that because of money." "It is better this way." "He hit the mirror." "No problem." "Easy!" "Sorry!" "Please, forgive me." "I'm not well." "There are bumps." "Not your fault!" "They appear out of nowhere." "I hopped in your car suddenly." "You were having lunch." "Where did I put the address?" "You'd probably think what a woman in my condition is doing alone in the street." "When the relatives find out, they'll all come to the hospital." "It is here." "No, it isn't." "Its yard had a lot of trees." "There was a half-built building across the street." "Go straight ahead and I'll tell you." "It is very famous." "You don't know it?" "A half-built building like a big fish!" "I don't know where you mean." "Do you have a mobile?" "I'm sorry." "I left hurriedly and forgot everything." "They don't admit you easily." "Must know someone." "You can't go to any hospital." "I'll call Mr Ya'qoobi." "I know him." "He'll take care of everything." "I'll get the address from him." "He doesn't answer." "He is a good man." "He told me to go there and he'd take care of everything." "I don't know why he doesn't answer." "Don't worry." "I'll take care of everything." "Interesting!" "What I told you, I'd seen it in my dream." "You were sitting in your taxi and looked at me." "It happens often for me." "I dream of something and it happens." "Pull over here." "Let me ask someone." "It's fine here." "Careful." "We've come the right way." "We should turn left at the end of the street." "Sir!" "Your mobile." "You surely know it." "Maybe you've forgotten." "It's a big hospital." "Many go there." "A hospital is a hospital." "Some go there." "I was right!" "The trees in the yard." "I'm sorry." "Will you tell Mr Ya'qoobi to take me to Reception?" "It's not proper I go in like this." "He's taken care of everything." "Sorry!" "I made so much trouble for you." "They say Mr Ya'qoobi doesn't work here any more." "How's that possible?" "Where has he gone?" "I'll find him now." "He'll pay you." "Don't you want to call anybody else?" "Will you come to the Reception with me?" "I don't want them to think I'm alone." "What should we do?" "We've been here for two hours." " Can I go in?" " No, only her husband." " Can she go in my place?" " No." "Both ids." "Fill in the form." "They want the id here." "My documents are gone." "They were in my bag." "You had them in the car." "I'll see." "Hello." "Fine?" "What?" "Yes, I ate it." "Thank you." "No, I'm not very far." "OK, I'll get it." "What happened?" "Nurse!" "She isn't well." "She is pregnant." "Are you with her?" " No." "Nobody's with you?" "You're alone?" " No." "Drink it." "You came alone?" " l'm not alone." "I'm married." "Who's this woman's husband?" "Bring a wheelchair." "What's the matter?" "Pregnancy." "Let me see your documents." " Nobody's with her?" " He is." "Give me her papers." "Where isthe wheelchair?" "Don't bend her." "Who's her doctor?" "They are old tests." "Where are the new ones?" "Go to the Reception and make her file." "Take her to ER and page Dr Kheirnezhad." "Watch her." "Goodbye." "See you tomorrow." "Goodbye." "See you tomorrow." "Write the patient's name and address here." "Hereditary diseases here." "Have you talked to your doctor?" "I told you." "Come here tomorrow before breakfast." "Yes?" "Hello, Ms Ehsani." "How was the wedding?" "Which one you'll wear?" "I told you what to do, didn't I?" "Give me a pen." "Hold on." "Hello, doctor." "How are you?" "You didn't come." "You know how Majd is!" "Go, sir." "Don't stand here." "What's your name?" "Seddiqeh." "Have you had anything?" "How many children before this?" "How many?" "Two." "Who's your doctor?" "Mr Ya'qoobi hasn't come?" "Who's he?" "Open your mouth." "Raise your leg a little." "It's over." "What's happened to your side?" "Who did this to you?" "You were beaten?" "No, I fell down the stairs." "Excuse me." "The light hurts my eyes." "We'll take you somewhere else." "My baby?" "Are you up?" "My baby's hungry." "Let go of my hand!" "Nobody's going to hurt you." "Take her BP." "Did you page doctor?" "Take the blood sample to the lab and bring the result." "Check all markers, hepatitis, hiv." "Here you are." " No insurance booklet in her stuff?" " No." "Shall I take them from her father?" " He's her father or husband?" " l don't know." "Don't let anybody in." "Don't worry." "Nobody comes in." "He's outside." "And your baby's fine." "Talk to her." "Take the camera with you." "I won't!" "My hand shakes." "I can't!" "Husband going to delivery room!" "When we gave birth in the past our husband wasn't with us!" "It is good." "Every woman wants her husband to be with her in such times." "Couldn't she have a caesarean?" "Careful you don't push the wrong button!" " You are with Ms Atefeh Razavi?" "Yes." "She is having the last labour pain." "Come with me." " Her husband too?" "Yes." "Come on!" "Sir!" "My!" "Your wife's lD." "Why didn't you fill it in?" "You must answer the questions." " l want your id and national card too." " l don't have them now." "The head nurse won't accept." "Will you find its record?" "I'll take care ofhim." "Don't worry." "I'll do it." "They're new here." "They don't know much about such cases." " Must I pay anything?" " Not now." "First we must know if she needs a surgery or not." "A counsellor comes in the afternoon from a charity." "I'll tell the guys to connect her to you." "Wait and I'll call you." "Sir!" "Come here, please." "This way, please." "Your wife is going into the ward." "I'll give you her personal things." "You haven't brought anything?" "No problem." "There is everything here." "The baby usually comes unexpectedly." "This way, please." "And you match each other so much!" "What's her shoe number?" "36 or 38?" "You brought them here again?" "I told you I'd put them on the shelves!" "We have only blue gowns." "Here you are." "I've kept a pink one for you." "Wait a second." "Here you are." "Young women like pink very much." "Where've you been, sir?" "Take your car away." "An ambulance might come and I'll be responsible." "All right." "And pay this at the cashier." "This is for the cashier." "And you give these to her." "It is too much." "Thank you." "Can I go this way?" "Yes." "Yes?" "Hello." "Hold on." "Yes?" "You called our number a few times." " Me?" " Yes, in the afternoon." "Yes." "We wanted Mr Ya'qoobi." "Hold on." "Call your dad." "He'll come now." " Hello?" " Hello." " l'm calling for MsAzizi." "Who?" " Seddiqeh Azizi." " Oh, yes." "The girl with so many problems." "Could she keep her baby?" "She's in the hospital now." "She was looking for you." "How time flies!" "Did she give birth?" "Not yet." "She had some problems in the hospital." "She said you'd promised her something." "My!" "She is right." "But I retired a few months ago." "Say hello to her and call me tomorrow." "I'll see what I can do." "I'll tell the old guys to do something for you." "She is fine?" "Hello?" "She's admitted." "Hello?" " Will you go to Eshrat Abad?" " No." "The mobile fell under the seat in a bump." "I took her to the hospital." "So you returned at last." "Seddiqeh said you were on a trip." "When did you return?" "Today." " l doubted her." "Whenever I asked about you, she'd say something." "There are many such cases." "Those under Social Welfare care each have a story." "You can't guess." "You get what I mean?" "I do." "When everybody istrying to do abortion, she was worried about her baby." "You weren't there and it was very hard for her." "What's your name?" "Yoones." "Remind me tomorrow." " God willing." " Good luck." "Goodbye." "Today" "Seddiqeh Azizi's relative!" "Pay this at the cashier as advance." "Aren't you with Seddiqeh Azizi?" "Why don't you answer when I page you?" "Go to the nurses' office." "Sir!" "End of the corridor, upstairs, first door on the right." "Our supervisor Ms Majd wants to see you." "My mum's not in!" "Please!" "They took her for a few tests." "You didn't see her?" "It's not a pip!" "It's a wimple!" "Why did you leave the door open?" "I don't think she wants to see you." " Why don't you eat it?" " l don't like it!" "The boy fainted in the delivery room!" "The kid?" "They say husband must go to her wife to calm her down." "Who are these kids!" "Doctor threw him out!" "How was the delivery?" "Poor Atefeh was calming down her husband, while she was giving birth!" "What is she doing here?" "You're walking about in the ward again!" "Call her doctor." "We can't rest when they're moving stuff upstairs." "Call Kazemi." "Tell him to move the debris from the back door." "I told them." "They say it is very hard." "I didn't get it." "Why were you hospitalised 10 days earlier?" "My doctor said so." "I had stress." "OK, go." "Sit on your bed." " See if they've washed the curtains." " Sure." "Tell them I'll inspect." " Sure." "How long have you been with her?" "I didn't see any name in her id, so I thought it was temporary." "And you didn't think you'd end up here." "Will she get well?" "You're worried about her!" "If my guess is right, she'll have an operation tonight." "It might be early for the baby, but we have no choice if mother is in danger." "Here." "This form is for agreement to surgery." "Read it well and then sign it." "Then give it to Reception." "You live in a good place!" "Here's a paradise for men like you!" "I hope she will deliver her baby in health!" "She is not insured." "Tea for you." "Thank you." "And you need some papers." "I want to do something, but my hands are tied." "You can't get any of our loans." "Luckily, her operation doesn't cost much." " Hello." " Hello." " Something wrong?" " No." "Tell them I was driving." " Go to the car." "Go!" "Don't worry." "I can do something." "If you have a document about your leg" "What else?" "I have a form from a charity." "It's written, "Patient's condition:" "Needy. "" "Shall I write needy?" "No!" "I'm sorry." "Good luck." "You could say I was driving." "Why?" "I got worried when you said hospital." "And I saw the mirror broken." "I could bring only this." "I'm sorry." "That's all right." "is he hurt?" "I thought he'd had the accident on purpose to get money." "You are fine?" " Nobody's hurt." " Thank God." "Go home." "You've been driving since early morning." "Your eyes are bloodshot." "Tell everybody your help driver had the accident." "Nobody had an accident." "No need to work on the taxi tonight." " l'll pay forit." "Thank you." "What about the factory workers' service?" "I'll do that." "OK." "Let me take my books." "I have an exam tomorrow." "Your return fare." " No, thanks." "We shouldn't tell yourwife?" "Think of your studies!" "I'll call her." "Certainly." "Goodbye." " Hello, doctor." " Hello." "Seems you take better care of your car!" "Hello." "You haven't left?" "Where should I go?" "Nothing!" "The taxi's yours?" "So Ms Majd couldn't tell you everything." "It is decollement." "That is, placenta is separating from the uterus." "It's dangerous." "We've stopped bleeding now." "It might be because of unhygienic abortions she has had or the beatings she has taken." "That must be verified by forensics." "Not my speciality." "Do you smoke?" "No." "Most probably you know she's had a broken rib for two months, but didn't go to a doctor." "Ever had a broken rib?" "When you breathe, you feel like a razor blade is scratching you from inside." "Her figure doesn't show she can bear such a pain." "She will be lucky if it is not pulmonary embolism." "You look as if you didn't know!" "Can she be treated?" "Excuse me, doctor." "She's a human, not a car." " Ms Majd needs you in the ER." " What'sthe matter?" "The patient is bleeding again!" " Which one?" "Her patient in maternity ward." "Give him a hydrocortisone." "I'll come right away." "Sure." "She's quite afraid of you." "She said all the time, "l fell down the stairs. "" "She asked about you." "She calmed down when we told her you were outside." "+++++" "++++" "is it for a stranger?" "Two branches are not enough." "Can't be a bouquet." "Add a few." "I don't have tube rose." "What another flower?" "Yes." "And a few of those pink ones." " Sure." "You don't get heavy hearted in the dark?" " Our neighbor is allergic to light." "He took a great deal of trouble over the kid and his mother." " Clear your desk." "You must have some soup lt's for dinner?" "I can't take it anymore." " lt's for me?" "Sent by whom?" "The old man." " He's still there?" "Yeah." "He must be there." "Where can he go?" "I wish your child doesn't take after his dad." "Don't say that." "He's too kind." "Hello?" "Fine?" "I'll be home late." "I'm stuck with a fare." "I know." "I'll tell you later." "Apologise to them." "I'll talk to them later." "No, come on!" "A passenger, you know." "Don't worry." "OK." "Goodbye." "Hello." "Works fine?" "I mean the taxi." "Makes a living?" "It makes, I make, they make!" "How can it be?" "You sit behind the steering wheel 10 or 12 hours a day in the heat." "You go home and see the wife with the remote control in her hand." "And she doesn't listen." "I'd be offended too." "And no food or stuff for 7 or 8 months!" "Here had another door before, right?" "The old building?" "The hospital was there." "It was so crowded during war." "Helicopters flew in and out all the time, bringing in the wounded, martyred, mutilated." "The door was there." "How old are you?" "34." "What do you mean?" "I answered your question." "The old colleagues told me." "I think you were since then." "You from Tehran?" " Downtown." "Couldn't you find a better hospital to take your wife to?" "I speak honestly." "There are good doctors here." "They're my friends." "But there isn't enough equipment." "It is because of that new building." "They've been building it for 7 or 8 years." "I don't know why it doesn't end!" "MsAzizi's relative!" "You're needed inside." "She's talking to you." "He'll come now." "Ms Qodoosi is my colleague." "A very fine lady." "Go ahead." "With your permission!" "So, you change the channel every day!" "I adjust it every night, but it changes!" "May I?" "You never talk?" "Why did you change your shift from day to night?" "It happens." "Now we're talking!" "Days are still crowded in Tehran?" "With traffic?" "Instead, the nights are beautiful." "And you cabbies want days to be like nights." "But you can't have them both." "If it's not crowded, there aren't passengers." "If there are passengers, it is crowded!" "Here's Tehran, full of traffic and darkness." "Here's Tehran, full of traffic and traffic!" "Go in!" "Seddiqeh." "Nurse." "Ms Tavakoli." "She's bleeding fast." "I fear she'll have a heart problem." "I'll get her 4 packed cells." "Should she be transferred to another hospital?" "No, we can't risk it." "She won't make it." "She must be operated on here." "Page the anaesthesiologist too." "Her husband's weird." "You can't even talk to him." "I'll take her to another hospital if it's necessary." "Come in." "I need to talk to you." "Inform me when test results are out." "Sure." "Sit down." "What doctor told you to make you return?" "Don't take him seriously." "You know better." "It is the law." "Taxi drivers can leave even if they bring in dying casualties, and nobody can stop them." "Don't pity anybody." "We have plenty of such cases here." "These files are full of orphanage children." "Don't tell me she is your wife." "I'm not a new nurse." "I started my career when I was 16, during the war." "Here was a big hospital at that time." "You must remember it." "That is, if you live around here." "The address you wrote in the file can't be taken seriously." "You don't even know how many deliveries she has had, who's beaten her, if she's been beaten or fallen down." "This way you suspect everything." "That's not my business, though." "It is the law." "The law says we shouldn't be meticulous before delivery." "I'll write my report and add it to the file." "Would you like tea?" "No." "I won't sentimental." "Not any more!" "It's useless." "It's the story of the sparrow that took water in its bill to put out the fire in the forest." "I can't say it is my duty and such beautiful sentences we've heard so much." "But" "I very much like to know what you are after." "What you are after?" "Me?" "Nothing!" "I just want to know, have you thought where you want this mother and baby to get out of your taxi tomorrow." "Mum!" "Can I go to Dr Moosavi's house to play with their tools?" " She'll take me to school tomorrow." " No." "Why not?" " We've already talked about it." "And I don't want any more argument now." "Why did you wash my brushes?" "We weren't to touch each other's stuff." "You were to collect your stuff from my desk when you finished your drawing." "We need Betadine 50." "The patient is not well." " Doctor prescribed pain killer." " l'll come now." " Ms Zakeri!" "Yes?" " Weren't you on duty last night?" " l was." " Who are you filling in tonight?" " Qodoosi." "She went to her niece's wedding." "Shouldn't you have informed nurses' office?" "She insisted and I pitied her." "I'd told you nobody should fill in someone else in the central ward." " Hadn't I?" " l pitied her." "People like you let others not answer for their irresponsibility." "Don't cry again!" "I'll fire you if you do!" "That's not called pity." "Here." "Do your drawing." "I don't like drawing!" "What do you like?" "Nothing!" "Don't you want to go home?" "My grandparents are on a trip." "I can't go alone to their house." "Don't you have a doll or something to play with?" "I don't feel like it!" "Your mobile has games?" "No." "Your leg hurts?" "Not any more." "It sometimes feels itchy." "It's nervous!" "Seddiqeh Azizi's relative!" "You're here?" "She doesn't let us take her to the operation theatre." "She is worried about her baby." "Do something." "Easy!" "Please!" "Tell them to return me home!" "It is the doctor's diagnosis." "She must have an operation fast." "Mother's health has priority." "Ms Majd!" "Can you tell her something to assure her?" "You mean I lie?" "Why don't you talk to her?" "She seems to need you more now." "MsAhmadi." "He can go and talk to his wife." "She has a fever." "And she doesn't let us turn on the lights." "She must be in the operation theatre in 10 minutes." "What time is it?" "Past midnight." "You'll be late." "No." "I'm thirsty." "I didn't think you'd stay." "You don't know me." "And you don't ask anything." "I was afraid you might ask something and I couldn't tell the truth." "Actually, I liked very much to wait behind that door one day." "I think here's the labour room." "They say they don't put clocks on the wall in the labour room." "Instead, they put babies' pictures on the wall." "You think my daughter will look like which of them?" "The second on the right." "No, she is very polite." "My baby is naughty!" "Look at the one next to her." "She's got such playful eyes!" "How come everybody wants silence?" "This is the delivery room." "Mothers wait for a lifetime to scream in here." "I was told you'd forget all your pains here." "They say mothers would laugh here even when screaming." "They laugh while they're in pain." "They pray for each other." "They say mothers are heard better here." "Why is here so quiet?" "Nobody is waiting for my baby." "As if she knows it." "She doesn't move any more." "Do men know how mothers' worry is?" "No." "Why?" "I don't know." "One day," "I left school with my friends without telling anybody, and went to the cinema." "It was the first time." "We clapped and shouted for the hero, we laughed, we cried." "When the film ended and we left the cinema, it was dark." "When I got home, I saw my mother sitting at the door praying." "When she opened her eyes, she saw me." "She couldn't help it." "She ran to me and hugged me." "She kept kissing my head and face and cried." "To tell the truth, I felt a little embarrassed in front of the neighbours and my friends." "I wanted to come out of her hug." "I didn't realise why she did such things." "It's got too small." "I always hid it under my sleeve." "I can't take it off." "No, don't!" "What if my daughter grows up motherless like me?" "She'll have nobody to worry about her." "Everything will be fine." "Everybody is worried about you here." "Someone has put a word for you." "Who?" "Operation theatre is ready." "We must go." "Please, go out." "Are you still in pain?" "Feeling better?" "Get up." "Easy!" "Give me your hand." "Don't take my hand." "It's nothing, dear." "It's only your name tag." "I don't want to do anything." "Give me your hand and don't wriggle." "It's not good for your baby." "I swear I won't run away." "It's only your name tag." "Look!" "It's over." "Sir?" "Sir!" "Doctorwantsto talk to you." "Please, come." "Thank God, your baby is healthy." "She is a little weak but her height and weight are normal." "We did our best." "She resisted hard too." "Hello?" "But the previous bleedings had made her very weak." "Captain Ghorbani?" "Yes, we called." " Yes, he is here." " Tell them to come fast." "We'll be waiting." "There won't be any problem if you sign this paper." "There'll be only a few questions by the police for identification and such things." "I wish you'd brought her in sooner." "Do you want to see her before we send herto the forensics?" " He can leave easily this way." " Doctor!" " But you don't know" "Allow me." "Isn't your shift over?" "Do you want to see her before we send herto the forensics?" "No." "Don't you have sugar?" "I must go." "Wait!" "Where are you going?" "Stop!" "You've got a guilty conscience?" "Killer!" "Murderer!" "Leave the old man alone." "You couldn't even look at her!" "Sir?" "Do you need help?" "No." "Were you hurt?" "No." " Can I see the baby?" "Yes." "May God bless her mother's soul!" "It shows you haven't hugged a baby for a long time." "Hold him." "That's it!" "It's okay child." "Hello!" "You awake?" "Why not sleep?" "Sorry I kept you waiting." "Yeah, I'm fine." "You haven't had breakfast." "I'm on my way home." "Bye." "Today"