"My father once said:" "A man without a country" "Will have no Grave in the earth." "and he forbade me to Leave." "That's the beating of your heart." "No, it isn't." "What are you talking about old chap?" "I swear it's the beating of your heart." "You hear it when you put your chest on the ground." "What about the smell?" "What smell?" "Everytime I smell the earth while lying on the ground" "I seem to smell the scent of my wife's hair after a cold bath." "the same smell, the same freshness." "the same moisture." "The moisture comes from yesterday's rain." "But it did not rain yesterday." "It couldn't have rained." "Have you forgotten where you are?" "and when the two big rivers" "The Tigris and the Euphrates meet they form one river called Shatt-el-Arab" "It flows north of Bassorah." "and when the two big rivers," "The Tigris and the Euphrates, they form one river called Shat-el-Arab." "Repeat." "Repeat and when the two big rivers meet" "The Tigris and the Euphrates" "¡Stop!" "What is the matter?" "What is Shatt-el-Arab?" "A big river on which big boats sail carrying dates and straw and if it were a big road with cars running along it" "I saw you looking into the classroom through the window" "But..." "I knew that already" "No, you didn't know it." "No you only learned it today when you were peering through window" "So what?" "Is it so important if I know nothing about Shat-el-Arab." "You only learned it today." "Go play in the other room, Kaiss." "You must not talk that way to the boy." "Don't you see that he is happy to have learned something new from his teacher?" "That's what we get when we engage with a teacher for our children from outside the village." "Let's see what he will teach them." "That master they brought from Jaffa." "You will lead the prayer as Imam on Fridays, Mr. Selim. right?" "No, I'm a teacher, not a Imam." "What difference?" "The previous teacher lead prayer as Imam too." "He taught religion but I'm school master." "Well, what is the difference?" "I don't know how to pray." "I don't know." "Alright, what do you know?" "Many things." "Among other things.." "I can shoot" "When they attack, wake me up." "I'm the one able to shoot." "can be of some use to you then." "Dad!" "God rest your soul Mr. Salim." "And may he bestow upon you his mercy" "Undoubtedly you must have been in God's favours" "When he made you die before the zionists occupy the land." "God must have loved you-may his mercy be upon you" "You stayed over there Mr. Selim" "Is there any Divine bounty more glorious" "God rest your soul Mr. Selim" "You stayed over there." "And thereby have saved yourself from all that misery." "and have spared your white hair that shame" "If you had lived Mr. Selim and if you were drowned in poverty, as I am" "Would you have done what I did?" "Did you say uncertain consequences" "What,Do you think of living as an easy matter" "Look at me here, I am back to build myself a house." "Do you know what I was doing there?" "I was a car driver." "Kuwait is quite a different country." "How can I describe it to you?" "Everything you can think of, you will find there." "And salaries are very generous" "Anyone of you can make a little fortune in no time" "Why don't you go there, Abou Kaiss?" "Do you like it bettere here?" "Why don't you go there?" "What are you waiting here for?" "Are you still unaware that your house and trees are lost?" "That you've lost your youth and your country" "What did you expect..." "What did you expect?" "Talks, talks..arguing nonsense" "They've sold you and bought you again" "You have been waiting 10 years over their words." "For nothing." "You've the Zionists before you and the traitors behind." "You are between the devil and the blue sea" "Haven't you got it yet that all this is useless?" "They want you to remain a beggar with a drooping head" "They want to make sure that you will never raise your voice" "That you quarrel instead of striving together and claim your rights, it's a fact." "Whoever has survived the Zionist bullets" "And whoever survives both" "Is victim of traitors and plotters" "Wouldn't it have been better if you died like Mr. Selim?" "What do you expect after having endured all that? that a prophet would come?" "Whoever sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind" "Why don't you move on?" "Take your things in your hand" "What are you waiting for?" "That fortune should fall from the roof?" "But have you a roof yet?" "No roof, no house" "They brought you and told you to live here." "and you stayed." "A year later, they said that toom is too big for you" "Leave us half of it." "And you made a partition with blankets and jute" "What are you waiting for?" "Your baby, who is going to raise him?" "Who will feed him?" "Why don't you go and find work to recover what you have lost?" "No, no." "There are no trees over there." "No trees?" "No, but there is something better than trees." "Better than trees?" "Well.." "What kind of work shall I do over there?" "I am a peasent..born and lived a peasent" "My father, my grand-father, my great grand-father..." "Myself and that old woman we are all peasents." "what kind of work shall I do over there?" "The only thing I know is ploughing" "Who said so?" "Sa'ad" "Who?" "The guy I told you about.Sa'ad." "Who came back with bags of dough" "You must believe him" "He knows a lot more than you although he is younger" "No doubt he knows more than I do" "They all know more than I do." "You have no passport, they won't give you a visa" "You are a prisoner in a castle." "They don't give you work or find you any" "Nor would they allow you to look for some" "The only way out is smuggling" "Pero..." "But smuggling..is dangerous" "You cannot foresee it's consequences" "You are the one to say it's consequences are unforseeable." "Do you think life is that easy?" "Have you heard what your husband said?" "How do you like that?" "Will life be easy for us too?" "I don't mean to make you sad" "Have a cigarette" "And try to shove away the blues" "Tommorow in Kuwait, you will enjoy all that you have missed" "You'll wipe off your tears with money" "First of all, you must go to Shat-al-Arab" "Kuwait is nearby" "Bassorah is crowded with guides" "Anyone of them will show you how to reach Kuwait by the desert" "It's a long way and I am old" "I cannot walk in the desert like others did" "Maybe I'll die" "what do you think?" "Whatever you say" "We could bring up Kaiss properly." "Yes." "And send the little one to school" "Yes." "And buy us some olive-trees" "Yes." "and perhaps we can build a room somewhere..." "If I get there" "In fact, my friend, the journey is not easy" "Listen to me, the journey is not easy." "it will cost you 15 Dinars" "You gurantee I will get there sound and safe?" "Ofcourse." "But it is very arduous." "And don't forget, it's August." "the heat is scorching but you'll get there alright." "I travelled thousands of Kilometers to come to you" "Saad, you know him?" "Look, here." "I have only 15 Dinars." "Would you agree to take 10 and leave me the rest?" "Listen, are we here to play or joke?" "!" "Didn't your friend tell you that these are fixed prices?" "It's a long way and guides risk their lives" "We risk ours too.." "We don't force you to do it." "10 Dinars will that do?" "15 dinars!" "Agreed but I pay you when we get there." "How is that?" "Because the guide you are sending with us will beat it halfway." "15 Dinars?" "agreed." "But only when we get there not before" "All right, all right" "My friends, did I make you go?" "If you don't like our conditions you can withdraw" "Which means?" "That if you don't like it beat it and leave us alone" "Don't stop before you are on the main road!" "The main road..?" ""Don't stop before you are on the main road"" "Anyhow I'm going to do you a great favor." "Ask me why?" "I knew your late father;" "Peace to his soul." "But I don't know the area." "I don't know the region.." "All you have to do is pass round the H4." "Sorry If I'm too confusing." "You are young, you can stand the heat." "When you go back to the road I'll be there." "This was not in our conditions." "You never told me I had to turn around the H4." "You told me that you would take me straight to Bagdad" "What do you mean?" "You're asking for a very difficult thing" "That I cannot do, Asaad" "If they see me with you they put me in jail" "Anyhow, I'll help you this time." "Ask me why?" "Because I knew your late father." "Bless his soul, I not only knew him but we have fought together at Ramala" "I will charge you 20 Dinars 20 Dinars!" "That's too much" "You will find yourself in Bagdad." "Do you think you can stay hiding all your life?" "Here, look." "Plot against the holy throne." "Pretty soon they will catch you" "But where will I get 20 Dinars?" "Where ?" "Anyone will lend you 20 Dinars." "Ask me why?" "Because anyone who knows you're leaving for Kuwait will lend you" "20 dinars." "I can refund the money to my uncle within a month" "In Kuwait one can make money in no time." "Don't build castles in the air" "Lots of people have gone there and returned empty-handed" "In spite of that I shall give you 271 00:29:12,754 -- 00:29:14,854 the 50 Dinars you asked for but remember these are my last" "Why give it to me since you're sure" "I'll never be able to refund it?" "Do you know why?" "Why?" "You don't know, do you?" "Because I want you to start even in hell" "So that you can marry my daughter" "Who told her that I want to marry her?" "First of all who said I wanted to marry at all?" "Should I marry his daughter just because her father read" "Al-Fatiha when we were born the same day?" "No doubt he believes it's destiny.He wants to buy me for his daughter." "Just as one buys a bag of manure for one's field." "Why would you sell yourself?" "Why do you grab these 50 Dinars in such a way?" "Stay here Asaad, it's your place don't run away." "Don't run away, brother!" "Let's follow the road that we have walked together." "That takes too much." "Do you think of running away at every difficult step?" "Have you forgotten the way we started?" "Stay with us" "Why should you sell yourself?" "No problem can be solved unless you face it." "But not if you run away from it." "One, two, three..." "You must walk around the H4 to avoid getting caught by the police but I don't know the area!" "You don't have to." "All you should do is walk around that damned place." "I'll join you later on the road." "Do you realise what it means to walk that distance with such a heat?" "Here put it on your head." "Stop that nonsense." "All you have to do is turn round this cursed area." "And then you will find me waiting for you on the road." "your name has been checked at every frontier post." "If they find you with me without any kind of paper." "And furthermore, you plot against the state." "What do you think will happen?" "And do you realize what it means to walk that distance in this heat?" "You are as strong as a bull." "Use your legs and wait for me behind the H4." "I'll be on the road waiting for you." "You give me your word?" "word of honour, I'll join you behind the H4." "But ve sure to turn round that ground" "And you shall find me on the road." "Cursed be your father, Abu abed." "Cursed be the time when I met you." "Cursed be your honour by which you swore" "What are you talking about?" "Nothing." "15 Dinars and you reach Kuwait." "I have a lot to do so leave me alone." "I told you I would pay you in Kuwait." "I told you you'll be there." "Word of honor, you'll be there." "But you will have to walk far." "You are strong, you can stand it." "May I sit down?" "Of course." "Are we going to walk a long time?" "6 hours, perhaps more." "The guide left you in the desert, didn't he?" "They always do." "When are we going to start?" "When there are 10 of you." "We cannot provide a guide for each one" "Are you sure that this guide won't run away?" "My good man,you are ten how could he?" "The travel to Kuwait is easier now." "2 days and you'll be on your way." "My friend returned to M4 and left me here." "Don't lie, you are a wangler." "Climb up." "Are you going to pay me now?" "No, only when we are about to start." "Anyhow, I'll be in a nearby hotel." "I'll pass by and see you every day." "What is the name of your hotel?" "The Shatt Hotel." "The rat's hotel, that's what you call it." "Look, another fox." "It's a rat,my dear,a rat." "It's not a fox." "The desert is full of rats what do they eat?" "They eat smaller rats." "Just the way they do in politics." "Rats are really disgusting animals." "The rat's a sickening animal." "How can you sleep over there?" "It's cheap..." "Well, so long." "God be with you." "Keep the money until we can settle things." "I advise you not to waste time running around." "We have agreed about the price." "They told me you charged 5 Dinars per head." "5 Dinars?" "Impossible!" "The price has always been 15 Dinars." "I'll give you 5 Dinars." "Go away, go away!" "You'll charge me 5 Dinars, otherwise..." "Otherwise..." "What?" "I'll inform the police!" "You'll inform the police?" "Go away, go tell them I slapped you!" "Why do you stay here?" "take to your heels!" "Where are you going now?" "Was it a big smuggler who sent you to him?" "All come to him." "You want to go to Kuwait?" "How did you find out?" "I was by the shop." "I saw everything." "What is your name?" "Marwan." "What is yours?" "They call me Abou Kheizaran." "Why do you want to go to Kuwait?" "I want to work there." "I shall take you there." "and I am going to take you there." "What else do you want?" "How much do you charge?" "Listen, I have got to go to Kuwait." "I said to myself,why not make a little more money?" "I won't charge much." "How much can you pay?" "5 Dinars." "Is that all?" "I have only less than 7 Dinars left." "to find work in Kuwait." "going for 5 Dinars under these conditions.." "First, if you hear me charge 10 Dinars from somebody else keep your mouth shut." "And the second condition?" "Second, we need some more people." "and you have to help me." "How can I trust you?" "Do not pay me before we get to Kuwait, satisfied?" "I know somebody at the hotel." "He wants to go to Kuwait." "Wonderful, and I know another one." "I met him by chance yesterday." "He is also a Palestenian." "So that's Shatt-el-Arab?" "It's what the Zionists call from Nile to Euphrates?" "God bless your soul." "Mr. Selim... 10 years ago he used to say these words." "Don't you remember Mr.Selim the teacher?" "Yes, yes, I remember him." "Hello, Good day." "Is it your guy?" "Yes, that is him." "What's your name?" "Abou Kheizaran." "Aren't you a Palestenian like the rest of us?" "Are you the one to take us over?" "How are we going to manage?" "That's my business." "No, my friend, it's our business." "We must know all about it." "Let't make it clear from the start." "You'll know everything but after we come to an agreement." "How can we agree before knowing everything?" "What do you think guys?" "What does Abou Kaiss say?" "I agree with you." "What about you, Marwan?" "I'm with you too." "Suppose he arrange things with you?" "As you like." "Listen Abou Khaizaran." "We are fellow citizens." "We want to make money, and you too in a fair way." "And for that, you'll tell us all the details." "Where, how and how much?" "And you'll have all your money when we get there." "He's right, everything must be crystal clear." "As they say, a good understanding." "leads to a sound agreement." "First, each one of you will give me 10 Dinars." "Agreed?" "Yes, agreed." "No, please, you trusted me with the bargain." "Let me finish it up." "10 Dinars is too much." "Smugglers ask for 10 Dinars." "That's what I was afraid of, we discussed it from the start." "10 Dinars, not a fils less!" "Abou Kheizaran!" "Why are you mad?" "The agreement is made of questions and answers." "Good understanding breads agreement." "Okay, we shall give you 10 Dinars." "But we want to know how you are going to manage" "I have a car..." "Sensational" "There is a license tagged to it, you're coming along." "Of course it's not mine." "I'm only the driver." "Listen,friends, I guarantee his skill" "I have known him for a long time." "He served in the English army in Palestine before 1948." "more than 5 years, then he became a resistant" "Everybody will tell you he was a good driver especially for lorries." "and now,I work for a Kuwaiti." "He is very rich, thank God." "Last week, we went hunting in the desert." "I was with him." "I came to Bassorah to have the lorry repaired." "And you'll take us to Kuwait on your way back." "Especially because the truck doesen't delay at the frontier." "and it's not searched." "Because it's owner is rich and well-known." "We won't have to walk or to hide?" "You'll have to hide for a few minutes at the frontiers.." "Where is the lorry now?" "It's there." "Show us." "When we agre..." "Haven't we agreed already?" "Okay, come on." "Is that the lorry?" "Yes." "You told us that you were hunting." "What kind of hunt was in such a lorry?" "It's the water wagon." "I drive the supply of water for the caravan." "It seems that Aboul Keizaran wants to put us next to the oil tank." "With such a heat,who can stay in that tank?" "You'll get in at 50m." "From the frontiers" "Don't fuss, it's not the first nor the last time." "It'll take me 5 minutes to fix my papers." "50m after the border you can get out" "At the Kuwait border you will do the same thing." "5 minutes and there you are in Kuwait." "Is there any water in the tank?" "No." "Who do you think I am?" "a swimming instructor or a smuggler?" "That tank has not had any water for 6 monthes." "You said that you carried water last week." "You know..." "No, I don't...." "I meant... 6 days.." "Sometimes one exaggerates." "Don't be too particular." "The main thing is, do we agree?" "I would rather pay the 15 Dinars and join the others to go across the desert." "Al right, try!" "Do you think" "I don't know these smugglers?" "They will leave you half way and melt like salt." "and you'll melt under the sun of August without anybody knowing." "Go and try, many people have done it." "Would you like to know?" "Why do they take money in advance?" "Many have been to Kuwait with these smugglers." "Hardly 10%" "Why don't you inquire?" "Ask those who have done it." "They will tell you that they were abandoned on the second half." "of the way." "Without a guide, all by themselves." "It's a chance they got there at all." "Look, smuggling is a hell of a dirty job." "I see that your fellow citizen and his boss work in smuggling." "One smuggles goods when going" "The other smuggles people on the way back." "And the story of the safari?" "Don't believe all they say!" "It is a lie set up for the frontier police." "What have you decided?" "I don't have much time." "All I want is to get there." "Nothing else matters." "For that reason I will go with Abou Keizaran." "I go also." "Me too." "We started together, we will finish together." "Whether we live or die." "We'll stay together." "I'm the driver, and you talk of dying?" "You must trust me." "I am the boss and I drive." "Count on me and don't talk of dying." "You go before we set a date?" "This man will sleep with me in the car." "Early tommorow, I pass by the hotel and blow the horns." "Shall we get there on the same day?" "Of course, Marwan." "I forgot to ask you.." "Do you know anyone in Kuwait?" "My brother works there." "All that time I thought you were like us." "You're like him, he goes there to work." "Exactly like you." "Since your brother works there,why do you go?" "At your age, boys are still at schools." "Two monthes ago I was at school." "But now I must work to support my family." "Your brother stopped sending money, didn't he?" "Why, he got married?" "How did you know?" "They all do that whether they marry or fall in love." "That's why I don't want you to talk about my marriage." "Let that letter be a secret between us." "thought I was the only one to know a secret that no one knew." "Now it's a rule that all know." "Why do they act like that?" "Why do they forget?" "I'm glad that you are going to Kuwait." "You will learn many things there." "The first thing you will learn is that money is the most important thing." "Then comes the values and the moral principles." "I don't understand why I should spend on my family" "While you are going to school like a kid." "What do you want, Marwan?" "Leave it to me." "I'll talk to your brother and he'll pay for your school." "I would like to live up to see you a doctor." "Mother, Zakaria will never pay for my studies." "What are you talking about?" "Your brother loves you and must support you." "What are you saying?" "Zakaria does not see the point of learning." "Why do you talk like that?" "You took him out of school when we left Palestine." "since then, he is "in the pan" as he says.." "Oh God, when are you going to have mercy upon us?" "When are we going to be able to leave that hen-house.." "and live in a house with a real roof?" "Soon, Zakaria will send some money which will enable us to live under a real roof." "How am I going to feed half a doezen mouths open night and day,at my age?" "Old people like me don't have to struggle to feed others." "I must rest." "People of my age rest." "Your son Zakaria has not written for 2 monthes and does not send money any more." "I have not written to mother nor father" "So,please don't talk to them about my marriage" "That letter must remain a secret between us" "That's why I couldn't send any money to my family." "and I don't see why I should while you are going to that school... which teaches you nothing." "It's your turn,Marwan,to "dive in the pan"" "with those who have done it before." "Marwan,the mayor brought the divorce act to your mother" "You are a man now,one can rely on you your mother and your four brothers are your responsibility." "Do you like what your father has done..?" "What he has done is a dirty thing." "that tears will never wipe out." "nor repair what has been destroyed." "Save your tears, Mother." "It's cruel of him to have divorced you without any reason leaving 4 children." "So that he can marry that invalid." "But we have learned how to overlook filth to give an honorable life to those we love" "We must bear the suffering,Mother." "As well as misery and frustration." "My brother Zakaria used to send 200 Rupies monthly" "That sum helped my father to manage for living." "But when Zakaria stopped sending money... my father started wondering" "Whos is going to feed these open mouths." "Who is going to buy them clothes and bread?" "Perhaps he also thought about that house with a concrete roof" "The house he was dreaming to have one day" "At my age,people rest." "And don't run to feed half a dozen open mouths." "Are they my children only?" "God knows I don't care a damn about that" "The only thing I ask of life is to ensure the future of my daughter." "Since Zionists' bullets got her in Jaffa" "I carry her cross." "Abou Chafica, Trust in God." "It's all up to him." "Men don't want her because of her leg" "Come in, daughter, come in." "May God give you health." "Men don't want her" "Although she owns a 3 room house" "A house?" "since when?" "A week or so." "We gathered the money of the alms and bought a 3 room house." "An ordinary house?" "Yes, of stone and concrete." "My father thought of letting 2 rooms and live in the third one with his invalid wife." "He would live without worries the rest of his life." "And what is important for him is to have a concrete roof" "My brother Zakaria and my father left me no choice" "The only thing for me to do was to quit school find some work and live for ever "in the pan"." "Today, I arrived to Kuwait" "If Zakaria helps me,I'll be grateful and if he ignores don't worry..." "I will find the end of the thread like the others." "I'll send you mother, every penny I earn." "I'll drown you and my siblings in abundance" "I'll change that mud-walled house into paradise and my father will bite his fingers in regret." "Perhaps some day you will forgive him but if he realises how guilty he was" "He might not be able to forgive himself" "Get ready, they are coming" "I'm ready." "came to say good-bye father,without telling mother." "No one should tell her that I came" "You know,Marwan,that I didn't do it delibaretely." "Man is not free." "Our fate is written since the beginning" "We told your mother to come and stay with us." "She refused..." "What else do you want us to do?" "Excuse me, father." "May God be with you." "Good-bye" "Here, Marwan" "10 dinares." "You might need it." "Write to us." "Go,and may God bless you and give you luck." "Do you know?" "I am afraid the goods are spoiled here." "The sun is still bearable." "At noon, bring the old man here and I'll stay outside." "I always think that these 150 km." "are like those God promised to his faithful ones to cross over to a future life." "before going to paradise or to hell" "The one who falls will go to hell and the one who holds fast will go to paradise." "Angels here are the frontier policemen" "Anyhow, you hold our destiny in your hands" "You'll take us either to paradise or hell." "In your opinion,am I an angel?" "Is it possible that I could be an angel?" "I didn't say you were an angel but you're our leader." "I mean..." "that we trust you as we ..." "I don't know how to say that..." "Are you married?" "Why do you ask me?" "In any case, it's better than death" "Death is better!" "It's better to die... better to die.." "How is death better?" "To lose one's manliness is better than dying." "How do you know?" "You know nothing!" "In spite of that,you want to teach us" "To fly away would solve the problem, Aboul Khaizaran?" "Flying away has never solved any problem" "It will take time for you to get used to your new life." "There are other things than women in life." "You need a little patience." "He says my new life..." "What life do you mean?" "Come, come." "A life in which you have given up everything for for your fatherland." "In the end what did we get out of it?" "What did we gain?" "We lost everything." "Manliness and fatherland." "Better." "You know that Abou Kaiss is lucky?" "Why?" "If he had gone with the smugglers he would be no more." "How do you know what happened to them?" "Who knows..?" "The smugglers looked nice to me." "That one won't follow you in the desert." "He's like you, he does not know what's going to happen." "What's going to happen?" "Why do you do smuggling?" "Me?" "I don't work in that line." "How do you call the kind of work you are doing?" "In fact, the only thing I want is money." "Whenever I get some, I want more." "I learned that the honest men never have a penny." "Now I have a little money." "After a year or so, I retire and rest." "lie down..." "sleep in the shade." "dream... think..." "without moving at all." "I am tired..very tired." "More than I can tell in words." "Now it is serious time." "Come on!" "I'm going to open the tank." "Be careful." "Be careful..it's hell inside." "Take off your shirts." "The heat is killer inside." "Get that, you are going to sweat as if you were in a saucepan." "You must stand it 6 or 7 minutes." "Look there are iron handles in the corners." "Grab them tight otherwise you will roll like balls." "If it were bearable, we could sleep" "Here.Take that water bottle you might need it." "When the lorry stops don't open it, it makes noise." "Hurry up!" "The morning is tolerable." "Later on it'll be unbearable in the tank" "It's hell down here." "For an hour I have been telling you" "Do you know what to do if you feel like you are going to sneeze?" "You put your finger under your nose, so" "No one is going to sneeze in that oven." "Don't worry about that." "What do you see?" "Whose turn is it now?" "Everything is alright?" "I don't see anything." "Everything is okay,let's finish with that." "Please, we are choking." "Please, hurry up." "What is wrong with you today?" "The boss is waiting for me If I am latr he fires me." "The boss..fires you?" "Arms tanks 2 planes and 2 cannons, any objections?" "I told you 7 minutes at the worse." "I finished in 6 minutes." "I swear it's only 6 minutes." "Look at your watch,6 minutes exactly." "Why don't you want to look at it?" "I told you from the start." "Perhaps you think I lied to you." "Here is my watch,Look." "6 minutes." "It took you more than 6 minutes." "Why don't you want to look at your watch?" "Look at it instead of looking at me like an idiot." "That took only 6 minutes my child." "I was counting all along from one to sixty." "I counted six times." "The last time I did it slowly." "What is the matter with you, Abou Kaiss?" "You aren't ill, I hope?" "No, I'm not ill." "I'm trying to breathe my share of air." "Your share,you left it down there." "It is all over for you.." "you don't have it anymore" "We all lost it." "What did you say, Marwan?" "I didn't say anything." "I'm talking to myself" "I think we shouldn't have come." "I feel as if we were going backwards" "Come on.We won't lose anymore time." "You will have another "sauna" before we get there." "Come on, don't you want to get up?" "Won't we have a little rest?" "You will have plenty of time to rest when we get there." "That is, if we ever get there." "And if we don't ,we shall rest forever." "What are you talking about?" "Come,sit here beside the old man." "Both of you are thin and won't be a hindrance." "Put on your shirt, Assad!" "or you'll get scorched by the sun." "Tell him to leave the opening ajar." "Don't close, Assad!" "It would have been better for you to eat the flour of the UNRWA." "and to be humiliated by the officials for a crust of bread, don't you think?" "Maybe we could buy a few olive-trees." "Who knows..?" "And maybe we could build a room to sleep in." "I am an old man,maybe I can do it,maybe not.." "And what did you get out of your patrioitism?" "You spent your life carrying a gun going from place to place to be,in the end.." "862 01:29:41,283 -- 01:29:44,883 impotent like a bag of straw." "Unable to sleep with a woman." "What did you get out of that?" "Let them kill one another." "The only thing I want is money." "and If I earn some, I want more." "You consider yourself a hero, don't you?" "A hero to be carried on their shoulders." "You bellow like a bull, marching in demonstrations." "Take him away" "for shame with that damned costume." "Beat it before they see you." "And run quick." "The one who called that a sun-stroke was a smart guy." "Hw was working in his orchard." "He was ploughing then he fell down." "What did they say?" "It was a sun stroke.." "He didn't come back from Kuwait why?" "Because he was killed by a sun stroke." "It's hell as you have heard of God's hell" "Let's rest a little before resuming the show." "Why didn't you buzz off by night" "Instead of striving in the midday heat?" "At night the road is crowded with patrols." "In daytime you don't see a single one." "If your lorry is known why don't we stay outside" "Can't you stay another 5 minutes ?" "!" "We are half the way, the rest is easier" "By God I shall offer you a meal when we get there." "I'm going to slay a couple of chickens for you." "Good, you have learnt your jon." "What time is it?" "Set your watch, Marwan." "It's exactly 11:30" "Count 7 minutes and I open the tank." "Don't forget and don't cheat." "7 minutes and I left up the lid." "Now it's exactly 11:30" "Come on!" "Right away." "Only 7 minutes?" "Yes, only that much." "Bienvenido, Abou Khaizaran." "Hola a todos." "Welcome, Abou Khaizaran." "Where were you all that time?" "Al Bassorah." "The boss inquired more than six times about you." "The car broke down." "Why is everybody laughing this morning?" "I hardly have time for laughing." "The Boss inquired more than six times about you..." "The car broke down!" "When I see the boss we shall settle the matter" "Sign the papers, I am in a hurry." "Be Good, Abou Khaizaran." "Why are you in such a hurry?" "The room is air conditioned and I'll order tea." "No, thank you, when I come back" "Now sign,I beseech you,by the name of Baker." "Some guy you are,eh?" "How come you forget you were in a hurry when you were in Bassorah?" "I told you the car was at the garage, didn't I?" "Don't lie!" "The Boss told us the whole story." "What is going on?" "The story of that dancer." "What was her name, Ali?" "Kawkab." "That's it, Kawkab." "Why not tell us about your ventures in Bassorah?" "You come here and play an act." "Then you go and join Kawkab in Bassorah." "How splendid.." "Come on,let me go Abou-Baker!" "I won't.Tell us about the dancer girl." "The Boss knows the story." "He told us all of it." "If he did,why should I tell it again?" "!" "Then it's true!" "Some guy you are." "you go to Bassorah and you tell us the car broke down... to have nice meetings with Kawkab." "What a smart guy you are.." "Tell us how much she loves you?" "The Boss says it is to such an extent that she supports you." "what is the reason?" "are you such a bull in the sack?" "or maybe they are short of men over there?" "Next time you take me along with you." "Will you do it?" "Of course!" "You will introduce me to Kawkab?" "Boss says she is very beautiful." "Okay?" "Okay." "Your word for it?" "My word!" "Asaad, Asaad!" "My father once said" "A man without a country will have no grave on earth." "and he forbade me to leave." "The End."