"The future sometimes casts a shadow on the past." "Apicture lost through time sometimes looks forthe meaning of its existence in the head of an anonymous person." "The anonymous person wakes up one morning with the impression that he is in a silent film wandering looking forthe picture that now haunts him." "Are our movements conditioned by free will or by a law of change that is beyond us?" "Is the architecture surrounding us not a mere confining geometric line?" "Bees do not know they produce honey for humans." "Because they cannot distinguish man-made hives from their own." "Is it the same for us?" "I think I know her..." "She liked Paris." "She thought that the Senna, goddess of water and baptism was the soul of Paris." "One morning, a few hours before dying she told me that she was destined to become Senna and that I will see her in all of the stones in the capital where I wanted to see her." "I was alive but lost in the world of the dead." "Senna has baptized me and now I am coming back to life in her conscience..." "Forever." "Let us in!" " What's up?" "We have no time to lose." " What is it?" "Ahidden camera?" "We are Elves, human!" "Our king is dying." "He has been shot with a poisoned arrow by those ugly Trolls." "Hold, that's my parking lot." "The King is dead..." "What's the matterwith you?" "It's half past twelve." "The king has spoken, he uttered the name of his successor." "Is your name Joseph?" " How do you know?" "Joseph!" "That's the name of our new king." "Only he can lead us towards victory." "Human!" "We beg you, become our king!" "Good morning, darling." "Hi, sweety." "Hard boiled!" " I like them that way." "What are you gonna do today?" "Are you going out, or stay home?" "I have to tear everything from you." " I'm going job hunting." "Couldn't you stay home?" "But we're broke." "The baby is due any time and then we're done for." "Ok, but come back soon." "Sure, I'lljust take care of some things." "Give me a kiss." "Dad!" "Was that you fooling around last night?" " What?" "Was it your idea?" " I spent the whole night with Zosia." "So it wasn't you." "Son, tonight I became King of Elves." "You said you'd quit drinking." "One moment." "Look, I got the ring." "50 cents worth!" "Fools' gold." "What will happen if you get fired, you'll come to live with me and Zosia in our small flat?" "Why are you screaming?" " Why do you drink so much?" "Do I look like a drunk?" " Yes." "Jakline?" "Hi, it's Zosia speaking." "What are you doing?" "I'm alone." "Tomek's looking for a job." "Drop by, I'm making something to eat." "Zurawski, Zu" " Raw" " Ski." "Yes, today I made a..." " Reservation." "Reservation for a flight to Kuala-Lumpur in Malaysia." "Payable 3 hours before take-off. 3.000 dollars." "Can you give me the booking number?" "U got writing?" " Fuck no!" "We will memorise it..." "Have you got passports?" " Yes." "U have it?" "Fuck." "You will run forthis fucking passport!" "Tomek is really great." "He's looking for a job." "But he isn't too bright, you know." "Why doesn't he ask Masterfor a job?" "Master, could you find me a job in the saloon?" "Do you want to clean the floor?" "Or do I have to send you back to school?" "Guys!" "Stop worrying, the sun is shinning." "Girls are finally looking like girls again!" "Beauty" " Sweety..." "Wonderful!" "Look at hertits!" "Short, but with tits." "It is a perfect moment for a blow job." "Chicks have left motherthen." " Rather her belly." "When I look at people, I can't help imagining them popping out from their mothers' bellies and their mothers pooping out from their mothers bellies." "You're pregnancy-parano, but you'll get over it." "Do you think am fuckin joking?" "What's wrong with you?" "Go get the fucking passport!" "Now!" "Guys, I've never been to a whore house." "Have you?" "Do you trust Tomek?" "I do." "Do you trust your man?" "Are we pals?" " Yes." "As you know, I'm making loads of money from the saloon." "I can afford certain fantasies." "I realized one of those." "I'll show you the latest." "What is it?" "I own three wild animals." "You've got a fucking zoo?" "My master, You really are a Master!" "Let's go!" "Let's not talk about them, all men think with their pricks anyway." "It's not true, Tomek loves me." "Zuraw, we don't stand a chance!" "What kind of life can you have in this fucking country?" "And Pruszkow?" "Post rubbery?" "50.000!" "No-one has got it!" "Have they?" " No!" "So shut a fuck up!" "It's chicks!" "I cannot do it." "I live in a relation ship!" "I have a good tape." "What about some music?" "Let's go, asshole!" "I can't wait any longer." "You can do anything with me." "Touch me, kiss me..." "What are you doing here, dad?" "Which wife?" " Mine, at home." "Get the fuck out of here!" "Yes, miracles do really happen." "You're wonderful dancers." "I came to share with you a news but without a champagne it's no matter." "Should I go get something?" "Nothing to get!" "Cops!" "OK, let's beat it!" "Champagne please." " Which champagne?" "The most expensive one." "Shit!" "What a pain!" "Oh fuck!" "Call an ambulance!" "The ring symbolizes power overthe Elves." "If you turn it on yourfinger, a miracle will provide but the Elves will disappear." " What is it?" "Hello, darling." "Hi, babe." "Hard boiled." " I like them that way." "What are your plans fortoday?" "I'll stay at home with you." "We came and went, didn't know" "Anybody around" "We took everything at face value" "And God knows why" "We think, we should get some gas..." "I'VE GOT MUSIC" "Shit." "God knows, where I come from..." "Hello." "'Scuse me, young lady." "Any chance you could take me along for a bit?" "Where to?" "Wherever." "Anyplace in the city." "Maybe Zoo?" "I've got music." "Yeah, it was actually a buddy of mine." "We were on the way to a party I wanted to stop for gas and he didn't..." "Things blew up." "And he just threw you out?" "He likes throwing people out." "One time we were going to Hamburg." "And he kicked out a friend of ours on the exit ramp." "Pretty stupid, because this guy is a kind of living road map and the other guy had no clue." "You've got some funny friends." "Aroad map and a psychopath." "Yeah." "You could say so." "What about the music?" " Yeah, I made a big offer." "But you gotta promise me something." "You are the first person to ever hear it." "Think it over and take it seriously." "You wrote it?" "What's wrong?" "You don't believe me?" "I nevertell lies." "I would say everybody lies." "Whetherthey want to or not and whetherthey know it or not." "No, no." "I never lie." "And there's no such thing as lying without knowing it." "Then it's stupidity or ignorance or both." "Pop in the tape and let's see." "You don't believe me, do you?" "You don't think I look like a musician?" "You think I look like somebody who says he's a musician when he's not?" "Come on." "Put in the tape and everything's cool." "Cool." "Shit." "I forgot my smokes." "Are you working in a kindergarten?" "Orfrom the Red Cross or something?" "No." "I took some pictures." "With the little animals?" " Yeah, with them too." "But most of all with a "Viech" called "best friend."" "At the Baltic Sea." "Strange beach photos." "Beach photos." "For a portfolio of photos." "I'm making a portfolio right now." "For an application?" " Yeah." "And?" " What?" "Did they turn out?" "Dunno." "I'll find out next week." "But your gut feeling?" "Not so good." " Why not?" "Maybe I shouldn't have used her." "I find everything that she does so great, somehow." "And then you don't have the right distance." "But maybe it's the otherway around." "Maybe you have a bad feeling and really everything is okay." "We'll see." "So what did you two do?" "So?" "We actually made those just forfun." "Hopefully the negatives are better." "I think it's really good." " Really?" "Good idea." "You've always wanted to do that, right?" "No, absolutely not." "I decided to do it one day." "Of course it's a great job." "And making a living from it is a challenge." "But at fifteen I didn't say, "I'm doing that or nothing."" "I didn't feel myself called or anything." "The decision was very rational." "Rational, huh?" "No love at all?" "I'm probably too old to fall in love with something like that." "No, I mean it." "Love is just the same." "One day you just decide and that's it." "One day you've seen enough of the world and you know that no one's going to completely bowl you over and in that moment you snap up the one that seems like the best fit." "Wow." "That makes everything easier." "Just between us I still believe in true love." "Hopelessly kitschy and forever unhappy." "Just wait 'til you're my age." "It's funny, isn't it?" "You meet somebody at the gas station, take him along and five minutes later you're talking to him about stuf f you never share with anybody." "So how is Caro?" "What?" "How's she doing?" "Did you just ask how Caro is doing?" "Yeah." "How do you know her?" "I don't know her at all." "But you know her name." "I never said her name." "I met her once." "At a party." "You were there, too." "But I don't know you." "I've never seen you before." "Wouldn't bet on it if I were you." "I even said "hello"." "Seems to have left a big impression." "Yeah, when?" "Ten years ago or something?" "No, fourweeks ago." "In Mitte." "No way." "Caro hasn't been anywhere near Berlin for months." "She's studying for herfinal exams." "I know." "Until this night." "She was there." "I talked to her." "About you." " What?" "I talked to her." "We were on the balcony at this party and you came by and I said "hello"." "That was it." "At first." "You talked about me?" "We didn't talk about you." "You came by and I said "hello" and then I ran into you again later." "I think by then you were so drunk that you probably can't remember it." "It was Saturday, you had talked on the phone that morning." "Caro had a crying fit and told you that she didn't think she could pull everything off." "You recommended herto come to Berlin, party all night, put everything aside." "And she came." "You guys went to eat, went to bar after bar and at the end you were at the party." "What kind of crap are you talking about?" "Caro told me." "She took it all much harderthan you did." "She showed up at the party completely hysterical." "She told everybody about herfit and laughed herself sick over it." "And said that because of it she'd probably get put away." "Then I sold hertwo E's and she got a little better." "Remember?" "Caro was in Berlin." "But we weren't at a party; we went to some clubs." "And that was a while ago." "And she uses everything, but no ecstasy." "And I've never seen you." "I told you." "I never lie." "Shit." "Hey, hey, you wanna leave me here just 'cause I sold yourfriend a couple of pills?" "It's the middle of fucking nowhere." "I'll never get out of here." "Please." "OK, I'll take you as far as to the Alexanderplatz." "But don't talk any more about my best friend." "Yeah, well, we talked just a little about you." "Everyday stuff." "Drop it." "Neverwoulda thought you wouldn't remember me." "I was really nice to you." "What kind of party was this supposed to be?" "I ended up there by chance." "Some marketing flunky, or architect?" "No idea." "Some marketing flunky, or architect?" "No idea." "The kind of guy who wipes of f the toilet seat before he takes a leak." "At this guy's house." "Yeah." "Like I said, in Mitte." "Walls all painted white, big roof terrace." "Only cocktails to drink." "Only idiots around." "And everywhere these dumb glass things." "Afoot high, blue and green." "W e kicked one off the terrace." "Somebody told him it was us." "He wanted to let me have it in the face." "I told him, he'd be the next one to go over if he fucked up his own party." "What's the problem?" "Caro laughed." "She wanted to throw the next one down." "Pretty hysterical, the girl." "And then she said:" "Let's get Maren." "She likes to break things, too." "And then let's smash her, too." "What did you just say?" " The girl was pretty hysterical." "Shut up." "We weren't at this party." "And Caro would never say that." "Yes, she would." "You were there." "And Caro hit everybody up for drugs." "And you guys were trashed out of your minds." "Caro ended up puking from the balcony and, like I said, I saw you again." "When you were fucking the marketing asshole." "When did you see me again?" "No idea." "In the bedroom." "The hardcore partiers were still there." "Lying on the bed fumbling around with each other." "You sick bastard." "What kind of shit is this?" "It's not true." " Yes, it is." "He fucked you in front of everybody." "Maybe nobody was particularly interested, but it happened." "It isn't true." "Shut up." "I neverfucked any stranger in front of any people at any party." "Okay, let's say he fucked you." "You looked everybody in the eye." "At least the ones who could still look back." "And you know what?" "You thought it was hot, really hot." "You thought:" "All the others want him and who does he fuck?" "Me." " Shut up!" "It's not true!" "I don't remember any of this." "So what?" "You obviously had a black-out." "Ablack-out isn't when you forget something." "It's when your drugged-up head has done something that your sober head doesn't want to know about." "Maybe you can't remember, but you haven't forgotten it." "That's the thanks I get for my honesty, huh?" "Should I tell you something else?" "You and yourfucking friend are both sick." "You're hysterical fucking sluts." "You're both going to get put away." "Caro?" "Did you call me?" "Caro, do you know a guy named Anno?" "The blonde guy from the architect's party?" "Did you talk about me again?" "WORN LAUNDRY" "Hi." "When's the next plane to Berlin?" " 8:15" "Nothing earlier?" " No." "Thank you." "It's me." "I missed my connecting flight and I'm stuck in Vienna." "The next plane is in six hours." "So if everything goes OK I'll be in Berlin at 10:40." "Give me a call." "Bye." "Shit." "You're stuck here." "Trapped." "You want to leave - and can't budge." "Back to a place you neverwanted to see again." "Where to?" "Just drive into the city." "You're from Germany?" "Yeah." " You see, I could tell right away." "Is this yourfirst time in Vienna?" " No." "We could still take a little tour, if you want." "That's nice of you." "Thanks." "You were here forfour years." "You know every street, every office, every trick." "And they treat you like a stranger anyway." "Every day something new." "You had the best time of your life here." "I'm pregnant." "You're what?" " Pregnant." "It was just a trick." "Hey." "Shit." "It can't be true." "Don't you have any eyes in that head?" "Excuse me." "I didn't mean you, I meant the old lady." "Right, the old lady." "What old lady?" "Don't grab me." " I'm not grabbing you." "My car looks worse than yours." "Fucking hell, I hope you've got good insurance." "Vienna College, teacher." "How do you become a college teacher?" " You study." "What do you do?" "I studied too." " What?" "Architecture." "And now?" " Now I'm a messenger." "Not mine either." " I didn't have one with me." "It has to be yours." "If you don't leave now, it will hurt you again." "You can't come upstairs with me." " Why not?" "Because I don't want you to think that I..." "I don't even know you." "Are you sorry yet?" "Are you sorry yet?" "It's been three years now since you left." "Everything could have been so great." "You had the right woman." "Just in the wrong place." "You had no future here." "The right woman at the wrong time." "What am I supposed to do in Germany?" "I can just..." "Let me finish!" "I don't want to go to Germany, I can just throw my studies away." "Or do you imagine they'll wait for me?" "I don't have any future in this country." "I can't work in my profession here!" "I just want you to come with me, plain and simple." "You know what your problem is?" "Everything revolves around you." "Fucking Kraut." "Cheese Sausage with mustard and ketchup, please." "Here you go." "Something to drink?" "No thanks. - 3 Euro 10." "Four lousy years." "Everything follows its course." "It's as if you were never here." "Hello." " Hello." "Where do I know him from?" "I love you." "I love you." "I love you." "I love you too." "Then stay here." "I'm going to buy something forthe trip." "Will you bring me to the train?" "Hello." "Nice of you to call." "Are you picking me up?" "10:40 at Tegel." "I love you too." "See you soon." "And?" "Going back to Germany?" "ALONE" "For one person?" " Yes, I'm alone, yes." "For one person?" " Yes, I'm alone." "Alone?" " Yes, yes, yes." "One Person?" " No, it's fortwo." "THE WAVES" "Awhile ago someone asked me what I would want as a dowry if I had one." "To this day, I don't have an answer." "For a while I thought about taking love with me." "Not like the concept of love, but LOVE in capital letters." "I thought about taking love and guarding it, so I would never lose it." "But the problem with love is that someone has to be the object of it." "This is where it became complicated." "Shit!" "I should throw all this stuff away." "And so many little boxes... all they do is collect dust." "Well, almost all of them, except forthis one." "I think I keep them as a reminder of places people choose to lose themselves." "Yes, I know, they say:" ""In case I lose myself, look for me at..."" "If people deliberately lose themselves it's because they don't want to be found." "So why should they ask anyone to look forthem?" "But I am not sad." "Today, for example, is Saturday." "Saturday is my favourite day of the week." "Saturdays are forthe movies, hanging out with your friends, go dancing." "I like dancing." "I think I could have been a great dancer, a classical dancer of course." "In my family artistic activities were frowned on." "They weren't ideals of communism." "Music, books and dance all belonged to a rotten elite and petit bourgeois society." "Shyness of course was also a part of this petit bourgeoisie, so it was forbidden to feel any shame or hide from visitors so that you didn't have to greet them." "But the worst thing was that Communism did not recognise feelings." "So affection, jokes, kisses." "Even smiles were not encouraged." "They were seen as a waste of time." "And of course, only the rich could af ford that." "You had to be strong in orderto work, not be a softy." "Being strong meant not having feelings." "Eitherthat, or hiding them so well that nobody could see you had them." "Back then, I preferred to stare out the window, read a book or listen to music." "I always enjoyed living through other people because early on I realised it was betterwhen people told you stories and you could imagine them." "But those lonely days soon came to an end." "Two little girls arrived, hand in hand." "One brown haired and one red haired." "My cousins." "But, I never really liked the idea of cousins." "In a communist way it seemed bourgeois, so they were simply sisters to me." "That made us all the same." "In the house the strict regime remained in force." "But once in the back yard it was quickly forgotten." "There the three of us spent the best afternoons of our lives." "But of course they went as quickly as they had come." "And everything went back to normal, except worse." "We had to move and our new house had no back yard." "I am starting to realise that my dowry would be huge." "It has to have room forfriends." "Because you also have to take care of them." "Something I know I have greatly neglected to do." "It's a good thing not to owe any apologies." "Missing people is shit." "Besides love, I am taking with me the photo and Julius..." "You can do without almost anything, but there are limits." "Where am I taking them?" "To the sea." "Where else?" "The waves..." "I can almost hearthem."