"A VESTIGE OF HOPE" "It can't be right." "Straussenberg!" "He's a village policeman and he sails his private boat during working hours." "Six, seven." "That's all of them." "Seven pieces!" "A twenty?" "All right!" "Ok!" "So!" "Bye then!" "I'm doing roast ribs today." "Come on!" "Jana would be glad to see you." "No!" "Is something wrong?" "Did you know that Straussenberg is on the island?" "His wife has inherited the Guesthouse." "They needed one as policemen." "There'll be an investigation" "It's ancient history." "He'll leave on his own." "What's the point in opening up old wounds?" "It gets us nowhere." "He's come to the island, Thiel." "Forget about it!" "Thanks for your help!" "You're welcome!" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Is anyone there?" "Hello!" "Come on!" "Hey!" "Hello!" "Hello!" "Wake up!" "Come on!" "Wake up!" "No police!" "Please!" "No police!" "No, no police!" "No police!" "I'm Ben." "No police." "Come on!" "Come here!" "Come with me!" "It's okay, it's okay." "Don't worry!" "Don't be afraid!" "Come on!" "It's okay!" "What are we doing here?" "Sea patrol." ""Sea patrol"?" "It's a long time since I've been here." "Pull right up to it!" "Hey!" "This is sea buckthorn juice." "It's slightly acidic." "But it's good for you." "Ben?" "Ben!" "I'm coming!" "Ben!" "The herring is here." "Very early!" "And very good!" "Come with me again!" "I don't eat fish anymore." "I'll take it back then." "Yes!" "Or I'll put him back in the sea." "Well then!" "I still have other things to do." "Okay, then." "See you soon!" "Satya!" ""Satya"?" "Satya!" "Satya!" "Ben!" "Satya is hungry?" "Ben is very hungry." "How about, I pick up something for us to eat." "Hi, Ben!" "Hi!" "Sorry!" "Don't worry about it!" "Do you have another pack of this?" "It's on order." "Jana?" "What is it?" "Where are the marshmallows?" "Up front!" "That'll be 4.80 euros." "Don't you have anything smaller?" "Where exactly is your home?" "home?" "Mom, Dad?" "Where?" ""Kappel"?" "Wait a minute!" "You can continue eating in a moment." "Draw it here, the "Kappel"!" "Draw it! "Kappel"!" "It no longer exists." "The ship is gone." "They've picked it up." "It no longer exists." "It was empty." "Empty... but rigged." "It's also in the report." "Yes!" "What was that about?" "There was a refugee child in it." "A child...?" "What kind of child?" "How do I know?" "Someone from social sevices is coming to investigate the matter." ""Fact Finding Mission"!" "Official international assistance!" "What a nonsense!" "The third year of the program." "I can look into it myself." "Let's go!" "That's it!" "Hold on!" "That's it!" "Yes, good!" "That's it!" "Sure!" "Yes!" "Satya!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Quickly now!" "Get off it!" "Come on!" "Hurry!" "You stay on the radio!" "Me..." "You stay on the radio!" "Hi, Ben!" "I am leading an investigation, regarding a small sailboat that came ashore." "It landed close to here." "Near Thiel and you." "What do you want?" "Did you notice anything?" "I mean, you're..." "You always sit down around there." "Did you see anything last night?" "On the water?" "It's not like it used to be." "You've no business on the water any more." "And I've seen nothing." "Give us a call if you think of anything!" "I don't report to anyone anymore." "If it was up to me, you'd be still in custody" "Well?" "Did he say anything?" "Hello?" "Ben?" "Jana?" "Here!" "It arrived this afternoon." "Nice of you!" "Want some?" "No!" "I found him." "Tell Straussenberg!" "No!" "Why not?" "The boy is scared." "Of the police." "Who knows what has happened to him?" "Straussenberg can not find him." "Ben!" "It's just a matter of time before he finds him." "What is it with you and Straussenberg?" "Ben?" "I was a child then." "My father told me nothing." "Don't worry!" "I won't say anything." "Ms. Hansen?" "Yes!" "Hello!" "Chief Commissioner Heiner Straussenberg." "I'm Mette." "I'll take you to the hotel." "I want to see the place." "Which place?" "Where the dinghy was found." "Why?" "The boy may have gone ashore." "He made it this far." "Who says that he did?" "He's probably gone overboard." "Your Danish colleagues think that too." "I didn't think you were allowed to drive cars here." "Exceptions prove the rule." "Believe me!" "The boy drowned." "It's far from Denmark here." "What makes you so sure?" "Where's the body?" "You find them late." "Sometimes never." "Hiddensee is an island." "Nothing goes unnoticed." "He's not here." "Cast off!" "Are you deaf?" "Are we going by boat?" "Yes!" "If you don't want to swim." "The dinghy was up ahead." "I'd like to go ashore." "What for?" "I want to look around." "Is that forbidden?" "I'll make the dinghy ready." "Well?" "Does it taste good, Jana?" "I'm telling you." "The onions!" "The onion is what matters." "Why didn't you get out of here?" "What?" "I mean, earlier." "Why did you never leave here?" "Dad!" "Tell me, will you?" "Your mother was gone." "You were just a baby." "I had other worries." "Yes." "I know that too." "I ask myself which ones." "What is this?" "What happened then with Ben?" "Tell me!" "It's sometimes better not to know." "Believe me!" "I don't know what to believe." "You don't know how scared we were." "Who wants to remember that?" "Want to join me?" "Yes, if you have room." "You haven't come along for a long time." "I need a toilet." ""A toilet"?" "Yes." "You need one too?" "No, I have one." "Ask Jürgen!" "Hey there!" "Excuse me?" "Yes." "Can I ask you something?" "Yes, but don't expect an answer!" "I'm looking for the boy from the boat." "What boy is this?" "He's from Sri Lanka." ""From Sri Lanka"!" "Yes." "What's he doing here?" "He lived the last few months in a refugee hostel." "In Moen." "That's a Danish island." "I know." "Good!" "Where are his parents?" "His father is dead" "His mother put him on a plane." "She was scared." "The rebels take away children for war." "Aha..." "But the boy didn't want to remain in Denmark." "He wanted to return to his mother." "I think, I can feel that he's alive." "You think you feel that he's alive." "Well, well!" "He's hiding perhaps." "No, no." "I would have noticed that." "Who lives there?" "He won't tell you anything." "Come, Udo!" "We're going to the blacksmith." "Goodbye!" "Thanks for your time!" "Okay." "Isn't he there?" "No idea!" "Do you know?" "Ben?" "Ben!" "He's not there." "Is that so...?" "Yes." "When he comes, tell him," "I want to talk to him." "Okay?" "Yes." "Little freak!" "You idiot!" "Run away, then!" "Go on then!" "Chicken!" "Chicken!" "Run away!" "You saved my life." "Thank you!" "My name's Fritz." "Satya?" "Satya?" "Satya!" "Come on!" "I'll show you something." "You're the boy, that women's looking for." "My dad thinks you're dead." "Drowned in the Baltic Sea." "Hiddensee!" "This is Hiddensee." ""Hiddensee"?" "Here's Rügen, we're over here." "But we aren't shown." "We're too small." "Do you understand?" "This is my island." "Hiddensee." "And this is your island." "Eelam Ilangai." "Eelam Ilangai." "Eelam Ilangai." ""Eelam Ilangai"." "Cool name for an island." "I gotta go." "But I'll come back tomorrow morning." "I promise!" "No police!" ""No police!"" "Very good!" "He really wanted to..." "He really wanted to come to us?" "Nobody knows." "The Danes either." "He fled from the refugee hostel and sailed away." "This is an incredible story." "In the past he would've been caught earlier." "But remember the windsurfer!" "He got to Denmark in a force 8 wind." "They didn't catch him either" "He recently had a holiday here staying with Conny." "Hello!" "Birgit!" "Get me another beer, please!" "Excuse me!" "Can I speak to your husband?" "Yes..." "Do you have a moment, Thiel?" "Yes." "Heiner?" "I need your help." "You need my help." "Why you don't you call me "Mette", Heiner?" "It's not customary with us." "Especially not on official business." "Really?" "With us, Mr. and Mrs. isn't customary." "Have you found the boy already?" "Not yet." "But at least I'm looking." "Here! "Mette Hansen"." "Do you know Mette Hansen?" "I don't know who you are." "And why you were sailing at night over the Baltic Sea." "But Mette Hansen is looking for you." "Got it?" "Satya!" "We can't go on this way." "I'll bring Mette Hansen here tomorrow." "Yes, yes." "It's okay." "It's okay." "It's nothing." "I..." "I think we should just forget Straussenberg and..." "Mette Hansen." "I brought you something." "See, here!" "A cap, a pair of pants." "A jacket." "A sweater." "It will keep you nice and warm." ""German bay:"" ""Scattered squalls, mist two meters."" ""Western North Sea Islands,"" ""NW 5 and later 6, Squalls."" "Increasingly "seaborne landing, 2.5 meters. "" ""Northwest 5, some West rotation."" ""Rain squalls, increasing."" "Missing something?" "They taste very good." "I baked it myself." "Oh..." "You want to go back, eh?" "Eelam Ilangai." "Eelam Ilangai." "Sri Lanka?" ""Eelam Ilangai"." "Do you want to..." "go by sailing boat, to Sri Lanka?" "You're crazier than me." "Listen..." "We're up here, Hiddensee." "From Hiddensee, you have to go..." "Through the Baltic Sea to the North Sea." "Then comes the English Channel." "Then go past Spain and France." "Through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean." "It's getting warmer." "Then Egypt, to the Suez Canal." "Then from the Suez Canal, across the Gulf of Aden into the Arabian Sea." "In the Indian Ocean, and then..." "You're at "Eelam Ilangai"." "Sri Lanka." "We could do it together." "For 12.OOO nautical miles we'd need..." "Well!" "Three years." "If we aren't shipwrecked." "Don't rummage through my things!" "Why are you looking at me like that?" "This?" "This is my son, Jonas." "This is Mira, my wife." "Yes, it's the bike that you found." "He got it for his birthday." "He was much too small for it." "I had to push him." "Go on!" "Go!" "Go!" "Hello, Ben!" "Yes?" "I'm Mette." "I was here yesterday." "Didn't you get my card?" "What card?" "Can we talk?" "What about?" "I'm looking for the boy, who was in the boat." "Straussenberg was already here." "Ask someone else!" "Your house is close to where the boat was found." "That's why we're asking you." "I haven't seen anything or know anything." "Oh, I found this in the ditch." "Bye!" "Hello!" "Are you still here?" "Have you finished?" "Yes." "Mama?" "Yes." "Why did the boy run away?" "I don't know." "Why do you ask?" "No reason." "Everything is correct." "Put your things away!" "I'll come up a little later." "Good night, Dad!" "Night, my boy!" ""Ilangai."" "Who told you that word?" "What?" "Tell me!" "Was it a little boy?" "Was it Satya?" "Dad!" "No!" "Tell me!" "Dad!" "Fritz knows something about the boy." "Is that true?" "No!" "And the chocolate that you took?" "What do you really want?" "Would you tell me, if you know something?" "I know that you don't have any friends." "We must have a little patience." "We haven't been here long yet." "Us two'll stick together, okay?" "Good night!" "Good night!" "My boy doesn't know anything." "He often makes up stuff like that." ""Stuff like that"?" "Who gave you permission to to search for the boy here?" "I haven't yet received any request for official assistance." "Is this right?" "I'll have to ask again then." "Yes." "That's a good idea." "Otherwise you must leave the island." "Why?" "Is this your island?" "You have no official mandate." "Heiner!" "You're a very stupid man" "Satya!" "Quick!" "Come on!" "Get over there!" "Hide!" "Good evening!" "Good evening!" "I'm leaving tomorrow." "Why?" "Nobody is interested in the boy." "Whether he's dead or alive." "But people fled in the past from here too." "Very few have escaped." "Most have adapted." "And you?" "What did you do?" "Me?" "I'm still here." "I've collected amber." "You're a strange man, Ben." "A man who carries a broken child's bicycle at night." "Have you repaired it?" "It can't be repaired." "It's so broken?" "Yes." "Goodbye!" "Goodbye." "Satya!" "Satya!" "Papa!" "What is it?" "I'm scared, Dad." "For the boy." "Which boy?" "The boy, you're all looking for." "I lied, Dad." "He's here." "Where?" "Where is he?" "I don't know." "We hid ourselves." "They destroyed his bicycle." "A bicycle?" "A child's bike?" "Now I have you, Ben!" "Ben!" "Ben!" "Hey!" "Come back!" "Come up!" "Let go of the mast!" "Let go!" "Give me your hand!" "Look out for the mast!" "Are you okay?" "You put out to sea with your wife and child." "And during a storm." "I just did my duty." "I would do the same today." "Ah!" "Stop!" "Let go of him!" "Do you want to end up back to prison?" "Did you know about the boy." "I've learnt from you, not to reveal some things." "Everything will be fine, Satya." "I promise you." "Why do you still live here?" "It was always said, that they were never found." "For me they're still out there." "Their death was so senseless." "If we'd waited another two years..." "Everything would have been over." "And after the fall of the wall?" "Did you investigate?" "The truth!" "It's located in one of 6O,OOO sacks in the federal authority." "And must be assembled." "The Stasi shredded thousands of files until the very end." "And my file was there." "Ben!" "Have you checked with the police in Copenhagen?" "What for?" "Danish fishermen used to find refugees in their nets." "They were examined and later buried." "Anonymous." "The GDR didn't file missing person reports." "For them, these people didn't exist." "Take care of yourself, Satya!" "What did he say?" "I don't know." "A moon stone is a lucky charm, it brings luck." "I'll be lucky." "Fiete!" "Yes." "There you go." "Come here, young man!" "What'll happen to the boy?" "We're trying to get his mother to Denmark." "Here are... some papers and birth certificates." "Perhaps you will find something out." "I'm going to ask Ben." "Thank you!" "Let's go!" "He's gone." "Yes, he's gone now." "He was the only one who liked me." "You'll find others who like you." "But not one like him." "Hi, Ben!" "Hi, Thiel!" "Ben!" "I've wanted to give to you something for a long time." "Here!" "It's yours." "I found it at the time." "And the boat tracks in the sand." "I was head of the Fisheries Combine." "But I had to make a report." "Were you a border informant?" "Did you inform on us, Thiel?" "Ben!" "Was it in my file?" "I should never learn about this?" "Why did you do it?" "Why?" "We were on the same boat for years." "For years!" "Papa." "Get up!" "Let's go, come along!" "(For sale)" "Hello, Ben!" "Hello, Mette!" "Good to see you!" "Are you ready?" "It's the numbers 74 and 75" "When were they found?" "On 20th November 1987." "They lay together in a fishing net." ""The 20th"" ""On 20 November"." "Shall I come with you?" "No." "How's Satya?" "Very good!" "His mother is with him now." "Do you think it's worthwhile to rent beach chairs here?" "You really are a strange man." "Why?" "Beach chairs?" "In winter?" "We could also sell licorice." "Danish licorice to German tourists." "Yeah!" "Subtitles by Oliver Sanderson"