"Want some coffee, Commissioner?" "Yes, thank you." "One moment, I'll get it" "Here, I just made it." "Thanks." "Enough!" "Can't you see that everything's stopped?" "The way is already clear." "CHILDREN IN THE SHADOWS Child abduction:" "The truth about the trafficking of organs." "Where's he going?" "Watch out!" "Come on!" "Just a minute!" "I'm Massimo Fedeli, a police commissioner." "Naples is my city and has become my lair, my jungle." "I feel like a hunter who lost his most important prey..." "Baratti... and Karsan... two international criminals... that I almost captured, but then cheated my efforts." "Now I'm in my hometown, confused, disappointed, defeated." "But Naples continues to exite me... to challenge me with it's children, it's women and its mysteries." "Have we met?" "Of course, we met the other day." "You're right." "You were having coffee." "Good day, Commissioner." "Here's your tea madame." "It's not possible!" "So you live here?" "You're the lady that sings?" "Do you hear me?" "Yes" "What a shame." "No, you sing well." "I like to sing when I'm alone." "Well, what we are going to do?" "Are you coming in, or can I go out?" "Sorry." "So finished for today?" "Yes" "And when will you return?" "Why do you ask?" "I'd like to invite you for a drink." "I'll let you know." "Anyway, we'll see each other again, no?" "Won't we roll anything today?" "Gennarino, come here!" "I'll give you a discount!" "I'm all yours!" "Let's have some fun today?" "It is not possible!" "It's me, Carla!" "Don't you remember me?" "I'm Carla!" "We spent so many days together!" "Yes I remember." "How are you?" "That's better." "I'm fine, enjoying life." "I've tried so much!" "Also, I heard what happened... and I wanted to say that you have all my affection." "I called several times but nobody answered!" "Where've you been?" "I'm living with a friend." "I changed my address." "You know I'm not lying." "I've tried it too... because of a problem." "It's about my nephew, my sister's son." "Let me go!" "I won't go with him, he's too old!" "You're the one that asked for this work!" "Go!" "Don't make up excuses!" "Just get in the car!" "Carla, customer for you!" "This is important." "One moment, I'm talking!" "That bag!" "I need to explain the whole story." "It's an important matter." "Why don't you listen to me?" "Where do they go?" "Beats me!" "Going to have fun." "Let's have fun too." "Okay." "This is crazy." "See?" "You were right, it's their car." "Come on." "commissioner, leave it!" "They don't mess about here!" "You think I'm kidding?" "Then I'm waiting here." "I'm not moving!" "Come on!" "Don't you want to talk to me?" "Keep talking!" "Yes, let's talk and walk, but don't let them kill me!" "Hello, Carla." "You look well!" "I like to keep Healthyl!" "Come here!" "Who's looking for me?" "The so-and-so, the..." "Yeah, We're looking for some friends that..." "Sleepy time!" "What were you saying?" "I..." "Let's run for it, getting messy!" "Stay close to me and run!" "Hurry, disappear!" "Commissioner, now that we've had our fun, I'm off!" "Ok, thanks!" "I'll hire you, You always bring me stranded minors!" "He was drugged." "Where did you find him?" "In a night club." "You've returned to active duty?" "Have they located his parents?" "They cannot know!" "Come on, calm down." "Don't be afraid." "Nobody will hurt you here." "One boy was in command." "Blond, blue eyes, about 14 or 15 years." "We need to find him." "I Brought pastries for breakfast." "Well, shall I enter or will you leave?" "Please." "Why did you come here?" "What is it?" "What do you want from me?" "I like you." "Girl, I'm not going there anymore." "That's not a hairdresser." "More like a bricklayer, madonna!" "The dye seems like cement!" "He has two fearsome gauntlets" "...my neck until it cracks." "He even sits on the hand!" "Go up there now, that's enough for today!" "Go fuck yourself!" "Stop there, snitch!" "Help!" "So you like to gossip?" "Help!" "When I'm with you, I forget everything." "It seems that all the disappointments and defeats... are those of someone else." "I also forget everything when I'm with you." "Why?" "Is there something that you don't want to remember?" "And who doesn't?" "Don't you?" "With you I'm fine." "Stay." "Stay, just this once." "You always go away!" "But I always come back." "Let me go with you." "I want to make love in your home." "No." "Never ask me that." "I appreciate you coming." "Who left you in that state?" "Some people didn't like seeing me with you." "Only I need your help now." "It's about my sister's son." "She grew up in Naples." "His name is Salvatore, Like me." "Sugar?" "A spoonful." "He's attended high school in Vomero, this past year." "Only..." "That is a school of good people, rich..." "But it also has bad guys." "My sister can't keep track of him, and how will I raise a kid?" "But he has a father, doesn't he?" "No." "He died." "Salvatore changed, was outraged!" "He has suffered." "You must do something." "Me?" "You chose the ideal father figure." "It's serious, commissioner." "The other day at his school a boy died." "An overdose." "He was 12." "I went with you to the night club." "What do you want from me?" "Now you must leave..." "I've invited him to dinner." "I was looking at you  and I think I sang better." "Want to come back home?" "I wanted to ask..." "I can't, I'm busy." "Sorry." "What a shame." "Imagine, I almost asked if you wanted to come live with me." "If asked, I would have to say that I don't want any more commitments." "With anyone, ever." "Well now you know who I am, and I know who you are." "And so, we can no longer meet." "Can we?" "Useless to lie, don't you think?" "What will you do, tell me goodbye?" "And you?" "Will you leave, or shall I enter?" "Now you know everything." "Also." "I may have family problems." "But I want you anyway." "Me too." "How could I fall in love and end up in hell?" "I shouldn't even have looked at you." "Having trusted others." ""I liked him, I bought him." As if I were in a shop." "But no one should come between us." "What are you afraid of?" "Nothing." "I'm not afraid of anything." "Nor do I know what the remedy is." "But love, damn it, is one thing, and life is another." "And children are one thing, and love is another." "Got it now?" "Salvatore should not come between us." "Ever." "Over there." "Beaten to death." "He didn't say who was exploiting him." "He promised that he would never come here, he swore!" "And you still complain!" "It seems like nothing happened!" "Did you know that I saw Salvatore put that unfortunate in a car?" "He must have decided to run away, after the police talked to his parents." "Two security guards heard the disturbance, the cries and the bike!" "Everyone in Naples has a bike!" "Everyone including Salvatore." "He's in college, you know!" "But the bike is out front with the wheels covered in mud!" "On sunday we went to the country." "And he takes the bike after school." "I see nothing strange." "Then I'll go to the school." "No, stay here." "These stories of death frighten me." "What do you have?" "Massimo, leave Salvatore alone." "You gotta believe!" "Always believed in me!" "Salvato'!" "Escape!" "Escape!" "Run, go away!" "Let him go, I beg you!" "He's only a kid!" "Please, stay here with me!" "What am I doing?" "It's not like it used to be!" "Until tomorrow, Georgia." "Bye, Carla, until tomorrow!" "Carla, you forgot your purse!" "I'm always forgetting it." "Be quiet, bag!" "Salvatore!" "Quiet, aunt." "You make me sick." "What are you saying?" "I don't deserve this!" "No, Salvatore..." "I did everything for you!" "They do everything for me, but I don't need anyone!" "Angela!" "What's the matter?" "Luciano, Salvatore's father..." "Easy." "Isn't he dead?" "Talk." "It's not true." "He's serving 3 years in Poggioreale." "Salvatore is like this because of him." "It was he who ruined him." "And I..." "I was never able to say anything." "When I tried to inervene..." "He took a beating." "And why tell me this now?" "Because he'll be released in a week." "I didn't think you'd come." "Salvatore is in trouble." "Thank your dear sister, who's already with another." "We need to think of Salvatore!" "Before, I thought of him." "Who knows what might happen with him?" "What will happen was already written when he was born." "Get that lipstick off!" "I'm not your commissioner." "Make me a coffee." "Like some coffee?" "Your house is so beautiful." "It's rented." "I'm a lodger." "How much sugar?" "Speak!" "Have you nothing to say?" "Say something." "Okay, I'll speak." "You're only half a man!" "There's more danger out here than in jail!" "Do you think Poggioreale made you a real man?" "Why don't you leave?" "Go away!" "Let go!" "Let me go!" "Quiet!" "Go away!" "What you want from me?" "You disgust me!" "I hate you!" "We'll see about only half a man!" "I won't!" "I won't!" "Stop!" "Let me go!" "Salvatore!" "Help!" "You should see when they were married." "What happened?" "They killed him!" "Luciano!" "They killed Luciano!" "Angela!" "It's not possible!" "Officer, now I want to talk, tell you everything." "Relax, we'll take you to the hospital." "The snitch Luciano can't keep his mouth shut." "He told everything to your dear commissioner, the worm." "Addresses, contraband, deposits from Pallonetto up to Trajan." "A year ago I told you to put an end to him in Poggioreale!" "And my son ended up having to take care of it." "And Salvatore?" "Already left." "Now he's acted as a man, we see him as our son." "And you?" "I what?" "We think it's better you stay with your son in Barcelona." "Until things calm down, say." "My friends are convinced that with you and your son..." "The trade will improve there and give good profits." "We need our people there." "There is only one other person in charge at Barcelona." "You could be that person, with Salvatore at your side." "Like this you will be able to forget certain fantasies." "Always with her hand in her panties." "What do you want?" "Made coffee?" "Good idea, I was kinda depressed." "You can take it, I'll make another for me." "I'll get the cups... and sugar." "It's so easy to make another." "Don't worry." "The coffee will get cold." "It's no bother." "One moment!" "What the hell!" "What is it?" "Help me, commissioner!" "Who did this to you?" "Two friends of Salvatore." "It was he who sent them, it was him!" "He is bad blood, bad blood!" "Let's find him." "Relax, we'll find him." "Too late, commissioner." "They're no longer in Italy." "Gone!" "Where are they?" "In Spain." "There's Fedeli." "I was waiting for him." "Excuse me." "I'm glad your back in business." "Thanks." "Congratulations on that confession." "Now, in order to continue..." "I need authorization to investigate overseas." "Do you think there's nothing else to do in Naples?" "I'm not saying that." "But research on the stories of drugs and children... has shifted to Spain, and I want to reach the top of the chain... where people are hanged." "Ready, I brought another ointment." "Thanks." "Let's see if it's better." "It's no longer burning." "This will do you good." "I'm going to get through this." "Stay with me." "I could almost laugh!" "It's just a tape, commissioner!" "With all due respect, you fell for that too!" "What happened?" "Stop, stay there!" "Wow!" "Things like that only happen here!" "In Barcelona, I contacted my Spanish colleagues." "With the clues that Carla gave me before he died..." "I discovered a monastery that received pilgrims from Naples." "Strange." "The bus is empty." "Come with us." "You're under arrest." "Who are you?" "We're the police." "Get on the bus." "We took the driver and the bus." "Pigs!" "Commissioner Rodriguez and the damned Gonzales!" "Someone's snitching." "This is the women." "What do you want with me?" "Let me go or you'll just see!" "I'll complain to the consulate!" "We came to vote!" "Then put your hands like this." "Who are you?" "I Don't know, is it?" "What are you doing?" "Let me go!" "Hands off!" "Here you are." "All for the bus!" "This ends the pilgrimage." "But there are many other sanctuaries." "The others are your problem." "This is all that interests me." "It was a promise I made to a friend who died in Naples." "Look out!" "Rodriguez!" "Where are you hit?" "In the leg." "You must not do that anymore, understand?" "We don't need any more deaths." "Salvato' for your sake..." "And you mother." "When I stabbed Dad, you didn't tell me that." "Forget that cop!" "He screwed with us!" "He won't be satisfied until we're arrested!" "I say this because I love you." "The guy took you for a ride." "But I'm not staying here, I have lots of friends." "Look in the mirror and see what he did to you." "They say she is beautiful." "They are only rumors spread by the newspapers." "What rumors?" "Those on the drug boss." "Journalists know how to create myths, legends and maybe even love stories." "She must know someone here." "How do you know?" "I was told that she organized the shipments." "So, someone here must be turning a blind eye to this." "Are you saying that there is corruption in Spain?" "Even among us, cops?" "Yes there is." "But also in Italy." "But rest assured... we will seek out and find this woman who deals in Barcelona." "Dead or alive." "You've arrived." "I've been here for over an hour." "I prayed that you had returned to Naples... and also that you would come." "I don't understand my need to see you, it's an obsession." "So, what do you want to do?" "Now I no longer know anymore." "You know?" "I am your bad luck." "I cannot stay near you." "Because Salvatore wants to kill me?" "Remember what you said?" "Salvatore should not come between us." "Let us love as before." "Go away!" "You have returned, now that's enough!" "Protecting Salvatore has a very high price." "It's not just about drugs!" "There is too much money, too much intrigue... too many people, more powerful than God!" "There is no place for us to be together!" "No, don't meddle." "Don't leave then." "You can't be part of this story." "If you really want to kill somebody, kill me!" "You agree with Rodriguez?" "Should I go back to Italy?" "If you like bullfights, stay." "Otherwise, why stay?" "I learned that the woman's son calls the shots." "It's him that interests me." "It seems that you know them well." "To begin with, we must find out who helps them." "I need to talk to you." "I'm on a boat, on the quay." "Come alone, it's important." "I thought I'd never see you again." "Impossible." "Even at the hour of death I'd ask for you." "Salvatore hates me." "Salvatore hates everyone." "Let's go, you and me!" "Let's give up everything and make a new start." "Salvatore already has his own life." "I see?" "You are right." "Me and you." "Just the two of us." "Just the two of us." "Where does this train go?" "I don't know, it's the first to leave." "This departure is a liberation." "It's the only way to start afresh." "You're right." "But we're only thinking of ourselves." "This isn't good." "Now we must think of the two of us." "Then we can try to save your son." "If you stay with me, we will succeed." "Our love can not be wrong." "Never thought that one day that all this love for me could turn into hatred?" "No" "Even if I ruin you?" "Even so." "You know everyone in the police." "Call the commander in chief." "I will confess everything, and he will save us." "This means you must tell the whole truth." "Then you'd have to change your name and face and disappear from the world!" "I know." "But at least I'll have you." "Call Commissioner Rodriguez!" "I've found evidence on Angela's son." "She said she will tell everything!" "I hope so to save your face." "Rodriguez!" "I fell into a trap" "My friend!" "Rodriguez!" "Angela, look!" "We need to go!" "We can't leave him here!" "Soon the police will arrive!" "We can't stay here!" "Where are you going?" "Wait!" "Wait until the boss arrives." "He's on his way." "Somebody laid him here." "The shot was from behind." "There are blood stains on the tree." "Yes and they go in this direction." "My clasp!" "It must have fallen in the square." "If they find it, they can place you there!" "Calm down, nobody will find my clasp." "And nobody wants to find me." "How so?" "What do you mean?" "That now we no longer have to stay in hiding." "My confession... would not have been enough to save us." "You said it yourself." "And so?" "I told them the location of our meeting with Rodriguez... in exchange for our lives." "Rodriguez was about to discover everything." "Now it's just the two of us, and we're alone." "Without Salvatore  without the law." "But not like this!" "Not like this." "So, I was the one who killed him, don't you understand?" "It's as if I had pulled the trigger!" "And why?" "why?" "!" "Because otherwise they would kill us." "It would've been better." "Not for me, it isn't." "I want to live with you..." "I want to make love to you... and between you and Salvatore, I chose you!" "And destroyed everything." "I know." "I realize that now." "I always understand things too late." "But I love you, that's true... and you're still a cop." "This is also true!" "What's in this envelope Rodriguez had?" "A video tape." "I want to see it." "What else are you looking for?" "What do you want?" "I just want to see it." "Whatever happens in it." "Afterwards, you can go away forever!" "I need to find Salvatore." "No you don't." "It is I that need to find him." "Where can I find young boy porn movies." "Are you alone?" "Don't say who told you though." "You're new around here." "It is not easy to get here without knowing the right people." "I know the right people." "No one in the world of prostitution want us." "They call us perverted." "Basically, we do nothing so bad." "We do little more than watch." "The children are fine with us." "We only treat them with love." "Hey!" "Excuse me!" "I need some information." "Stop, I just want to ask a question!" "Who are you?" "What are you afraid of?" "Know him?" "Why should I know him?" "He is young and beautiful like you." "My looks are expensive." "This also." "And it may cost you more." "Know him or not?" "Yes." "He lives in an abandoned boat on the yacht quay... near his mother's boat." "Salvatore!" "Salvatore!" "Are you there?" "I know you're there." "I came alone." "You don't need to be afraid." "I already know everything..." "But It doesn't matter." "You're still my son!" "Go away, Mom, please!" "We need to go away, Salvatore." "I'm finished with Massimo." "He will save you, and afterwards I'll never see him again." "Stop!" "If you come any closer, I'll kill you!" "What are you saying?" "He told you where I was, didn't he?" "No!" "I know you." "To survive, you'll deliver up anyone you need to!" "With me, it's over!" "Go away!" "You don't like anyone!" "It's not true, Salvato'!" "I swear that isn't true, I swear!" "You don't like anyone." "Stop!" "It's you who killed her." "Stop!" "My god!" "Salvatore!" "My son!" "Why did you have to die like this?" "If I didn't shoot, you'd be dead." "You killed him." "You killed my son!" "You killed my son!" "You killed him!" "Now we are equal, you and me." "Yes" "Alone, without children." "Me and you." "Now we can only avenge them." "Must it continue?" "It's not enough?" "I'll begin now." "What do you want to do?" "This accursed love killed him... but I know who is to blame." "I want to kill them one by one!" "I'll see you on the boat." "I know who killed Rodriguez, and more." "Hey!" "A bit jumpy, aren't we?" "He wants me to arrest you." "He said he can no longer protect you." "He called you a monster." "And he's right." "As you can see, all the newspapers speak well of me..." "Now that I've taken the place of Rodriguez." "In his post, I'll be able to help the organization better." "Where are we going?" "Here." "Get out." "Now you will have to tell me everything." "Everthing about what?" "I want names and positions." "Who orders the exploitation of minors?" "Come on!" "You're signing you own death sentence." "That's my problem." "I betrayed you." "Soon they'll come looking for you." "Try to escape." "Nobody will come." "You need to act." "Gonzales talked, He was our spy." "There will be a meeting." "There, you'll find an old acquaintance." "Baratti!" "You again!" "Aren't you coming?" "No." "I'll stay here." "I saw someone who must not escape." "I've been after him for a long time." "It's the police!" "Take the children to the social workers!" "Gather everyone out there!" "This is private property!" "Move it!" "Comes here!" "You?" "Commissioner Fedeli, come in." "I'm Franz Muller, the agent for DCI." "I'm in the Barcelona Interpol." "We've met, haven't we?" "Why were you helping him escape?" "I know you've been trying to arrest him for a long time... but I didn't want him arrested now." "I've followed him for over two years." "He's a pedophile that seduces minors in many countries and could lead us to the ringleaders." "What ringleaders?" "We believe that it's not only child prostitution and pornography." "Rodriguez said that you have a good nose... one who sees deeper into this hell of drugs, weapons... and children being sold." "Baratti is involved up to his neck in this hell." "So, with heavy charges, we might force him to talk..." "Perhaps we can get to the last in the ring, to Satan." "Karsan." "Karsan?" "Who's he?" "He's the puppeteer pulling all the strings." "Satan, like you said." "I need to talk with Baratti." "Now." "You wanted to arrest me, and succeeded." "Sometimes, when you have faith, miracles happen without saints." "Maybe it's true." "What do you want anyway?" "Something almost impossible." "I want knowledge." "Knowledge of Barcelona and Hamburg." "Of their meetings!" "The story of all these children." "I don't believe I'll tell you." "Some mysteries are worth more than a few months in jail." "Well, I had to try..." "Otherwise my conscience wouldn't give me any peace." "Ultimately, what do you expect me to do?" "What you want me to say?" "Names?" "No, no names." "That comes later." "It is easy to discover them." "What I don't understand is what's behind all this." "It's just an addiction?" "No, I don't believe that." "I think that it's a business of your friend Karsan." "But what business?" "You're very dangerous." "Dangerous stubborn and headstrong." "In any case... you must have realised that your visit was futile." "Thanks for the coffee." "Don't drink it!" "I didn't ask for this coffee!" "Guard!" "Guard!" "Help!" "Karsan... he's done for me... this time." "Yes, and you can only get even by talking to me!" "Now!" "The business... exists." "As you said..." "It's Karsan's concern..." "I..." "I just have an addiction, a disease..." "But all the rest... is too... too..." "Too what?" "What?" "Search... search..." "Keep looking..." "What should I look for?" "Beirut... children... from all over the world." "Where?" "In Beirut!" "Search!" "Talk!" "Search... search..." "Where!" "You can't die now!" "Tomorrow I'm going to Beirut." "I must go." "It all begins there." "And you're going to leave me alone, after what happened?" "I have to go, my love." "How beautiful you are!" "I'll get ugly in this chess game." "I do this for me and for you." "You understand?" "Otherwise, we'll never forget all this and we'll never move on." "This is what will save us." "If we lose the other one now, we won't find him again." "And then all those deaths will have been futile." "Angela!" "What are you doing?" "You know that I love you, but first I must avenge my son." "You killed Salvatore, and he needs to rest in peace." "So I'm going to kill you, my love." "You're the only man I ever loved in my whole life... and I need to kill you with my own hands." "Angela!" "Stop!" "Who sent you?" "They say that there's no hope." "I'm Sorry." "Be strong." "He came to settle accounts." "These people do not leave loose ends." "They're monsters." "No, they're not monsters." "Us, we who are doing this with them, we are the monsters." "We need to destroy Karsan's foul trafficking organisation." "Now he owes me more for this." "When will we arrive?" "Just listen to the bombs!" "We shouldn't have traveled." "Excuse me." "They're still bombing." "What time is it please?" "4 o'clock." "Thanks." "If we don't arrive before dawn, they'll send us back." "They've suspended the shelling, but the ship cannot dock." "We'll disembark by small boat." "I'm scared." "Hurry, to the checkpoint!" "Run!" "Slowly, one at a time!" "Line up!" "What a race!" "All these people go back and forth without even knowing to where." "Excuse me, your passport." "One minute" "It's who you've been expecting." "Mr." "Fedeli?" "Yes, that's me." "We received your telegram." "This way." "Right." "Please, put your bags in here." "This port scares me!" "What do they want?" "Don't you see?" "They steal the bags." "Come, Mr. Fedeli!" "Let's go!" "Who were those men?" "Stray dogs." "Jackals, I would say." "They're lawless." "They make surprise attacks and loot everything." "They take advantage of the disorder to rob and kill." "And the woman that shot?" "Everyone shoots in Beirut." "Women, children..." "Soon, even the dogs that are not eaten will know how to shoot." "There are snipers everywhere." "The reception is over here." "It's the best hotel in town." "It was difficult to reserve a room." "There's nobody here." "They're in the bomb shelter." "Now I must go." "I've already helped you as much as I'm able to." "Just a moment, where can I find you?" "We will contact you." "Interpol doesn't have much power in a situation like this, you know?" "The Italian embassy will be more useful to you." "Follow me sir." "It's this way." "This way." "Thanks" "Good night, Mr Fedeli." "Watch your step." "It's the curfew." "We live in the twilight." "We were expecting you for dinner." "After you." "We know that the ships now arrive when and if they can." "I'm Jean Lemarque." "I manage what was once the best hotel in Beirut." "Now it's the best underground." "Your room is 112, overlooking the sea." "You can use it by day, but from 18:00 until sunrise, you must stay here." "Thank you." "Your welcome." "Let me go!" "You did well in finding the Italian embassy, commissioner." "We are isolated from the population." "I know you understand our situation." "The only person who still keeps in touch is a priest..." "Dom Pietro Serenesi." "Although I don't know if he is still alive." "This priest's church lies beyond the Green Line." "Don't even think about crossing that line Commissioner Fedeli." "You wouldn't come back in one piece." "Why?" "What's beyond it?" "Everything and nothing." "Believe me, that's no man's land." "Many have tried, but now neither the police nor the military nor do they know any order there." "But here everything is well marked." "Yes, on paper." "There, there are only terrorists, guerrilla fighters and fanatics... who die and kill and don't even remember what for anymore..." "Without any leadership, god, or hope." "Can I give you some advice?" "Go back to your beautiful Naples." "If you prefer otherwise, I'll give you a recommendation: stay aware... very aware." "See you tomorrow!" "Just look." "Bunch of little shits!" "They've already holed them three times in two days!" "If you think you'll repair it, you're mistaken!" "I have a repair kit." "Are you also Neapolitan?" "Can't you see?" "What are you doing in Beirut?" "As the saying goes: "Whoever has a mouth leaves Naples."" "I guess like this it'll bear up until I get home." "My name is Pasquale Cotunno." "A pleasure." "I'm cultural attache at the embassy here... graduated in History and Philosophy, at the the University of Naples, of course." "Tell me something:" "How did you end up in these parts?" "Studying." "Mainly researching religions, customs, religious art, beliefs... ecclesiastical life, in short." "Dom Pietro Serenesi is dead." "How do you know that I'm looking for him?" "Blown up along with the church of our Lady of Deliverance." "Who did it?" "Nobody knows." "Maybe it was a shell or a bomb." "These are sons of a good mother!" "Damn it!" "Come on, come on then!" "You screwed me again!" "Come on, fix it!" "See?" "In the end they always win." "I will try to find out about that priest." "I think he took care of street children." "Now go back to your hotel." "I'll keep in touch." "Dom Pietro was from our neck of the woods." "From minori close to Positano." "Speak as little as possible." "They are wary of foreigners." "You're sure Don Pietro came here?" "Every week." "He taught catechism to the children." "Finally, the birds were able to... scare away the raven in the tree." "Now, you can go!" "So, did you like the teacher's story?" "Yes" "Do you think the birds, together, will mange to scare away the crow?" "Yes, they are smart." "And what about you?" "I get by." "What's your name?" "Abed." "And where are your family?" "Your question is not very intelligent." "We are in Beirut, you know?" "They must be around, coping." "Listen." "You've noticed that I'm from Naples." "It's good to know with whom we speak." "Take two." "I'll also take two." "Thanks." "Can you play?" "What?" "Anything." "Bowls, for instance?" "Sure." "So let's play." "Ok then." "Did you get to play at school?" "Sure." "I noticed that the children listen to you with full attention." "Is the fable you told, yours?" "Yes." "It's very beautiful." "Thank you." "I hope it will come true." "How may I help you?" "The case is... my friend is looking for boys for..." "I've heard talk of a center in Beirut..." "An organization that buys children and sends them overseas." "He's a friend of Dom Pietro." "Dom Pietro hasn't shown up for weeks, and never will again!" "And do all these children have parents?" "They were born in refugee camps." "Yes, they have parents." "Those whose parents are dead, Dom Pietro tried to adopt..." "These children are Arab, and will continue to be Arab!" "Do you want me to come tonight?" "Sorry to interrupt your game sir." "Me too." "What do you want?" "Telephone for you." "I can't hear anything!" "Wait a minute!" "Go ahead." "Who's speaking?" "Yes, that interests me." "We're here." "Make yourself at home." "go ahead." "Look, call these children..." "What do you take me for, you bastard?" "!" "Come here!" "You disgust me!" "Filth!" "Nothing special, my dear Fedeli." "A normal scene in this city." "It's hard to suppress it in this chaos." "Moreover, the world is full of such people." ""Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening."" "George Bernard Shaw." "Great man." "Let's sit down." "The soup's ready, kids!" "Soup again, Dad?" "Today it's special." "Besides tomatoes, it has..." "Potatoes!" "Potatoes, yes potatoes." "Come on take your places." "Massimo sit here..." "Thank you." "Can I take my jacket off?" "Sure." "That smells good!" "Today the soup has potatoes!" "I must confess to my envy... that unfortunately I never had a family like this." "Dad always cooks soup." "But we're lucky." "Many of my friends don't even have that." "I've been asking about the trafficking of children  but nobody knows anything." "My information is correct." "I know that everything begins here." "My informant is not wrong!" "Here in Beirut, no." "That's what they told me." "Perhaps far from the city, near the border." "I'll try, sir." "Is it useless to advise the opposite?" "I think so." "And if I forbid you?" "There would be a faulty line." "Either way, I'll send a report." "Now you're talking to an official of the embassy." "If Commissioner Fedeli doesn't return... this will only prove that he was right, don't you agree?" "Goodbye." "Okay, we're here." "The Green Line begins there." "The one you seek is there." "Look for a house in ruins with a black shawl in the window." "They are waiting for you." "May god protect you." "Thank you for everything." "See you soon." "The ambassador was right:" "beyond the Green Line, nothing was predictable.." "The first surprise was the contact with the unknown.." "There it was, the house with the black shawl." "My contact is a woman of the port, Leyla." "She will take me to the guerrilla's that operate along the border." "...to cross the Green Line." "You could be a problem." "It's too mysterious." "Are you a spy?" "No, but many mysteries have brought me as far as here." "Along with his stubbornness in wanting to solve them." "I'll tell you where you need to go." "See?" "You're beginning to trust me." "It's you that trusted in me." "So know how to use weapons." "Dealing with them is not easy." "They are suspicious, but brave." "What army do they belong to?" "Which group are you?" "What do they hope to achieve?" "Quiet, or you'll take a bullet!" "Try to get into the forest!" "Speed up, come on!" "They've hit the engine!" "We've had it!" "We were left without the truck, and after resting..." "Wake up, we need to go." "Where?" "To the other side of the forest." "Our people are there." "Here, you may need it." "Thanks." "Leyla guides me again, as if she knew my goal... better than I explained it." "Go there and look for the imam." "Good luck." "Thank you." "You!" "What are you doing here?" "None of your business." "Aren't you from the other side of Lebanon?" "You too, until a few days ago." "So what?" "Take me to the village." "Very good." "You carry it." "Some days when I'm in the village." "Everyone avoids me and runs from me." "Even the imam, with whom I must speak, is evasive and wary..." "Just like my little friend Abed." "I'm not going to get anything." "I was almost ready to give up when..." "Now the imam would have to talk." "That boy is not Lebanese!" "Why is he here?" "He looks Indian!" "And Abed is from Beirut, how did he get to this village?" "Who removed the eye of the other boy?" "You'll have to find out by yourself." "I can't help you." "They would kill me!" "Sometimes, I manage to save some." "I'm only the imam of these people." "They pay well for the children." "The people here are poor." "I can only pray for them." "Then pray, because I can not allow this to go unpunished!" "They come twice a month." "They refuel and leave the mutilated or rejected children here." "They pick up the latest arrivals here and take them to Europe." "How many, now?" "About 20, I think, coming from all over the world." "Two or three were born in Lebanon..." "Like your little friend Abed." "Everything fits." "It's all true." "This is the collection center." "Or one of the centers." "You!" "Quiet!" "Come on!" "One at a time!" "This is Massimo Fedeli." "I need your help." "Act immediately." "It's about the sale of children." "Where's Abed?" "They took him!" "Stay put." "Be quiet, I'll be right back." "Please!" "What are they going to do with me?" "Let me go, I promise I'll behave!" "Please, I want to go home!" "What are you doing with that syringe?" "Let me go!" "Stop!" "Back off!" "Don't touch the boy!" "Who let you in?" "Quiet!" "I should shoot, kill you, murderer!" "Massimo, they want to kill me!" "Come on, release him!" "You were willing to kill him!" "Now, I..." "Now be quiet." "Hand over the gun." "You again?" "Karsan!" "Well they told me to kill him, not the woman... but I wanted to see how far you would go." "Your obstinacy is remarkable." "It is a pity." "Such a brilliant brain like yours... such a tenacious intelligence... but you need to understand my dear Fedeli... that when you progress by one step, we take one and a half... and sometimes even two." "Be aware that our business involves weapons, drugs... oil, chemicals, banks, construction... computing and rocket science." "Yes, we're a superstate." "We are in the governments of the countries that combat us... and we guarantee the quality and regularity of deliveries." "10 years from now, you can bet, there'll be numerous clinics like this... and trafficking in organs will compete with drugs and weapons." "You walked halfway around the world to find me on this island... and I felt obliged to show the hand against which you played... before you died." "Your time will come, Karsan." "It's inevitable." "Your world will not forgive certain mistakes." "After me you'll be next." "You don't want to hear it or admit it." "I think you are rather stupid, Karsan." "You know I pity you?" "You pity me?" "You're a miserable wretch on the way to the slaughterhouse." "I can not give pityl!" "Never!" "Never!" "I don't give pity to anyone." "Never!" "Run, Abed!" "Freeze!" "Freeze or I'll kill you like dogs!" "Come on, it's this way!" "Wait here, I'll be back." "Karsan!" "Why?" "Why?" "Answer me, why?" "It's finished," "My hunt for Karsan is over." "It had a high price, terrible... and I'm back in Naples, alone... trying to rebuild my life, with the sad memory of Angela... my one great love." "I hope it serves to show the terrible danger that threatens us." " Special thanks to: "Oliverio" "