"Love has no price" "Life has no price either" "Who's selling it who's buying?" "Who can put it on the bid?" "Who's selling it, who's buying?" "Who can put it on the bid?" "Love has no price" "Life has no price either" "Whoever has love gives it away" "With one look, with one kiss" "Whoever has love gives it away" "With one look, with one kiss" "If you have some love, give me a bit" "To sweeten my life" "Love has no price" "Honour has no price either" "Love has no price" "Honour has no price either" "At the beginning of the century" "Greece has just come out of a cruel and humiliating war." "Out of the two million people of her population, 200,000, the 10%, are either convicts or wanted by the police." "Mass migration to America begins." "Governments alternate within a few months, or even a few days' time.." "During those times... in Corfu..." "Save us, Mrs Episteme." "They're after us." "I can't hold it anymore." "Please, hide it away." "I can't, Andreas." "The authorities are suspecting us." "I can't carry it anymore." "Do whatever you feel right." "What are you doing there, crazy women?" "You'll put us in prison, Episteme!" "Don't you think of our children?" "Where've you been all these days and where will you go tonight?" "To the tavern, eh?" "And you got the nerve to talk!" "Now you sympathize with our children, you drunkard!" "How are we going to earn our bloody bread?" "Drunkard!" " We don't lack bread, wife." " Not thanks to you, anyway..." " Didn't they come this way?" " I thought so as well." "How can we find them in these alleyways?" "A labyrinth." "The neighbours give them shelter." "Are we supposed to search all the houses in Mantouki now?" "Some other time." "We better get going." "Let's go." "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6." "Please, have a seat." " What news from our Mantouki?" " Mrs Thaleia... things are not going well at all in Mantouki." "We've been harassed by the police sergeant." "Mrs Thaleia, you know very well that we, party cadres, are the soul of the party." "If we were ruined, the party would be lost." "We're the ones making the tide rise in the elections." "The government must help their own people when in power so they may, in turn, give their own help, when the time comes." "Thank heavens, our minister has that power now." "This police sergeant is against the interest of the party." "I understood what you mean, Andreas." "I shall write to the minister to transfer him, right?" "Replying to a letter will take too many days." "and, one of these days, let's say, we may find ourselves locked up." "Send a telegram." "'Transfer urgently police sergeant of Mantouki.'" "'On grounds of utmost party interest.' All right?" "That's how the days went by." "Mrs Episteme went to the factory every morning and went back home every evening carrying some rushes for her daughter to weave who already had to do the household chores and send her younger siblings to school." "When I say 'orange,' go hide and when I say 'mandarin,' then come out." "Orange!" "Orange!" "Orange!" "Mandarin!" "Mandarin!" "Mandarin!" "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10..." "Why don't you light a lamp, girl?" " It got dark." " I lost myself in the work, Mother." "How much did you pay for the aubergines?" "Two dimes." "Where are the kids?" "They must be playing somewhere in the neighbourhood." "How many rounds did you weave this week?" "Three bottoms, Mother." "I have them ready here." "I'm going to give them to Giannis who's coming next Saturday." "3 bottoms..." "4 drachmas a bottom... and another 4 makes 8, and another 4 makes 12..." "Till Saturday, in two days from now... she will have made another one, the total sum will be 16 drachmas." "Not bad." "The seven heavens opened up" "And the creation was made" "But a brunette turned up" "The world to unmake" "But a brunette turned up" "The world to unmake" " Good evening to you, men of Maouki!" " Welcome, you Xis people." "that always go all together like in a parade!" "Now that the elections are coming again, you'll vote for the minister, won't you?" "What's the matter with the minister again?" "Doesn't he ever let you sleep?" "He's just a local party boss doing his job." "None of that." "But there, as I was walking down the street, I was telling myself 'imagine that the people of Maouki have done the stupidity of not voting for the minister and we've been ruined." "Because he's the man of the have-nots." "Is there anything you wished for Corfu he hasn't done?" "Whether it was theatres or roads or factories." "And for the peasants!" "Who has done more for them, eh?" "He speaks rightly." "I've seen a whole lot of governments come and go." "No one was like him." "And I've seen the days of England too." "Better say nothing about those times." "The peasant was a slave to the master." "He would do with him whatever he wanted..." "like an animal." "Where're you heading for, Trinkoulos?" "It's still too early." "I must get going." "If I stay any longer" "I'll get a ticking off from Episteme." "Hold on a moment." "I'll tell you a song you'll tell your wife who has such a beautiful daughter." "Go tell your mother that my heart aches" "Put her to bed and come into my arms" "Put her to bed and come into my arms" "Go tell your mother to bear another daughter" "To break the heart of another man as much as she broke mine" "To break the heart of another man as much as she broke mine" "Good night now." "I enjoyed your company." "Have a last drink with us, old-Thanassis." "All right, I'll have this one too, so you won't be offended." "Though you do know Episteme, don't you?" "Cheers!" "She's capable of staying up all night and telling me off for being night and day at the tavern... for our daughter, ripe for marriage and in need of a dowry..." "I myself bring no money home." "She's always grumbling, boys, about being poor and not having money..." "Whereas..." "I know the truth!" "Episteme's loaded with thalers and she has Irene's dowry ready down to the last cloth and has the thalers of her dowry ready too!" " How much roughly?" " None of your business, Andreas!" "I don't mind him asking." "When the girls are ripe for marriage it's not a bad thing to hear that one of them has a bit of something." "Yet, Episteme doesn't tell me how much she'll give her." "'Whoever marries our daughter,' she says, 'has to choose a human being, not money.'" "I reckon... she grants her three hundred." "Good night now." " Good night to you all!" " Good night, Trinkoulos!" "Some man that was meant to be Mrs Episteme's husband!" "It beats me what she liked about him!" "Do you know anything about Trinkoulos' past?" "You didn't meet him in his youth." "He was a respected and feared man!" "Three hundred..." "Too little..." "Why count them, Giannis?" "They're 4 bottoms, 16 drachmas in total." "I don't have the money on me." "Shall I bring it over when I'm back on Thursday?" "On Thursday, for sure, right?" "For some time since then, things were absolutely quiet." "One evening, shortly after Mrs Episteme had returned home from the factory, someone knocked at her door." " Good evening, Mrs Episteme." " Good evening, Andreas." "Come in." " What happened to that sugar?" " It's been kept in safety." "The things have grown calmer." "We'll come and get it tonight." "Unless you want to keep it for yourself..." "Nay, lad." "The authorities are suspecting us." "Come inside and have a seat." "Nay..." "Give me only two litres for saving you." " How much do you sell it?" " Half a drachma..." "What are you saying, Andreas?" "All shops in the countryside sell it for that much." "I'll sell it little by little." "I'll sweat." "Don't I deserve making 5 thalers?" "For you, dear, only, I'll settle for 4 dimes..." "Just enough for paying the expenses." "55 okas." "That means 155 litres." "62 drachmas in total." "Mrs Episteme, there's something else I want to say to you." "As you already know, my father left me with unpaid debts." "We have a mortgage on our house and my siblings in America never write a word." "I have to find ways to cope by myself." "I want to go across to the mainland to smuggle in some oxen." "I just lack the ready money." "Of course I'll pay you interest." "Can you lend me 100 thalers for a few days?" "I don't have the money, Andreas." "Where shall I find it?" "Mrs Episteme... you do business with a whole lot of other people and you're afraid of me?" "The police sergeant is after you." "If he catches you, then the thalers will be lost." "And you know it well, this one does not accept bribes." "I don't have the money, no..." "Listen here, Mrs Episteme." "I want my business always secured." "After what happened to us the other day, I went to Mrs Thaleia's." "I told her that this police sergeant doesn't help the party." "Take him away!" "She sent her minister husband a telegram and had him transferred immediately." "Now for many days, there won't be a soul in Maouki." "The job is safe." "I can give you any guarantee." "You managed well but..." "Well then..." "12 for 10." "That means I'll give you 80 and you'll bring me 100." "We've already said that." "I'll come by tomorrow to go to Nodaros together." "Good-night." "Are all women the same?" "What are these things you say?" "Do you know mine?" "Imagine Trinkoulos as your father-in-law." "What a disgrace to society!" "I must be losing my mind..." "Father!" "Father!" "They arrested Telemachos Roussis!" "Mother sent me to tell you that the bailiff and the Gendarmes came to collect the debts to the Master." "Same old story once again." "Stop the work, lads!" "They caught Roussis for money owed to the Master." "Hey you, stop them!" "We'll be a dishonoured village if we let them take Roussis before our very eyes." "Dishonoured!" "Get at them!" "Tell Master to come alone and get the money owed." "Today it's Roussis, tomorrow it'll be me and next time it'll be Nikolas." "And so we turn back to the old habits when the peasant was a slave to the master." "Why vote for all those MPs if they want us slaves again!" "You must go into hiding, Giannis." "They will fall on you now, accuse you of everything." "I'm not going anywhere." "Let them come and get me and have another 'talk' with us." "I'm not the type going into hiding." "You must." "The war took place so that the foreigners come here and impose the [financial] control, impose taxes, usurp the sweat of our brow to fill the pockets of Europe's big shots," "France's, England's, Italy's..." "Germany's..." "The war took place for Crete." "That's why it happened." "Today it's Crete..." "Tomorrow, Thessaly..." "the Dodecanese..." "Cyprus..." "How long must we give birth to children only to 'feed' the war?" "Until we're all liberated, that means for ever." "That's how God made his world." "From the very beginning until this day, men give birth to children to 'feed' the war." "That's what we also will do." "That's what life is about." "My heart show courage" "Be as the soil stout" "That says nothing when they tread on it" "Because it has no mouth" "That says nothing when they tread on it" "Because it has no mouth" " Your father-in-law..." " Antonis, cut the jokes please." " Good evening to you all!" " Good evening!" "Come over here, Old-Thanassis, let us treat you to a drink." "How are you, Andreas?" "Are you all right?" "Come and have a seat." "I heard you gave the thalers back to my wife." "Did the job go well?" "No need to ask when our people are in government." "It went like a breeze and we earned a decent profit." " Let us buy you a drink." " Don't get me wrong, dear Andreas but I'd rather sit with my mate." "Thank you all the same..." " Good evening, Trinkoulos." " Good evening." "I keep hearing you have many dealings with Trinkoulos' daughter and she's not appropriate for us." "Her descent isn't on par with ours." "If you get married, you must lift our family higher in every respect, money-wise and all the rest." "I gave you once a piece of advice, nephew." "If you listen to me, you'll be grateful for a lifetime." "About Savvena's daughter?" "Don't ever think about it!" "What if people speak evil of her?" "They're just jealous." "If you marry her, you'll close all mouths." "But the other one has got such eyes..." "Have you ever seen them?" "Trinkoulos' daughter?" "Have you gone mad?" "So rare to find" "It's a great surprise" "A girl with blond hair" "Having black eyes" "A girl with blond hair" "Having black eyes" "If my home weren't in this miserable condition, boy, I'd take her even with nothing!" "I wouldn't care about her descent." "Even the masters are wed to their maidservants." "Didn't one of them marry a girl off the street?" "and now goes out with her?" "You see, it's not a question of money." "Damn the moment I ever brought this matter up." "Otherwise, uncle, I wouldn't be ashamed of Irene." "What if they give me a thousand golden coins" "Along with an ugly woman" "The coins will fly away" "But the ugliness will remain" "The coins will fly away" "But the ugliness will remain" "I know well what I must do." "I must work hard now that things are on my side." "Another couple of years with that minister in power," "I'll have paid my debts off!" "I've nothing to expect out of marriages!" "Hey, lads!" "You will vote for the minister in the elections, won't you?" "Don't do anything stupid by not voting for him!" "Again about the minister?" "What's come over you suddenly?" "I say the same myself but what does it matter?" "What matters is what the other provinces will say." "By God!" "I don't see him doing well over there." "The government will fall." "You didn't exact much out of the theatre's contract that's why you talk like that." "If what this jinx says comes true, then there's no other solution than the 'Tie that Binds'" "No debts can be paid within two months!" "Go tell your mother that my heart aches" "Put her to bed and come into my arms" "Put her to bed and come into my arms" "A lucky girl, the priest's daughter." "She had a good marriage." "A fine young lad, yet a sailor." "The bread of sea is bitter." "She's poverty-stricken, the hapless girl." " It's good thing that she made it." " Good and more than good!" "May our daughters have the same luck!" "There's nothing better to wish." "How come Mrs Episteme hasn't come yet?" "She's coming any time soon." "She was smartening herself up when I left." "Savvena takes her daughter for a ride to the Old City so that she may find a groom for her." "Nobody here would ever marry her with all things said about her." " Ugly as the poor girl is..." " Why 'poor girl,' Episteme?" "She's given a thousand thalers as a dowry." "She will surely find someone to fool." "Ugly or not, lots of bad things were heard about her." "There's a devil in it!" "These machines came out now to scare the poor people." "He wants to do whatever the Kaiser does!" "He bought himself a motor car to pass as the Kaiser!" "With all these napoleons the government fill his dirty mouth, it's easy to understand how he got rich." "Ten years ago he was still a 'little man' too." "End that talk." "This is not Christian talk." "He may be a rich man, yet he gives bread to the poor people." "A hundred women and girls and a hundred men make a living thanks to him." "You mean that they're making him richer." "The rich man gets rich out of the poor man's sweat." "What can we do about it?" "That's the way God made his world." "We, poor people, and the rich men will keep living together." "Love has no price" "Life has no price either" "Who's selling it, who's buying?" "Who can put it on the bid?" "Who's selling it, who's buying?" "Who can put it on the bid?" "Love has no price" "Life has no price either" "Whoever has love gives it away" "With one look, with one kiss" "Whoever has love gives it away" "With one look, with one kiss" "You got a pretty daughter, Mrs Marika." "May she fill your life with joy." "She's poverty-stricken, the hapless girl, ill-fated." "If you have some love, give me a bit" "To sweeten my life" "Love has no price" "Honour has no price either" "Love has no price" "Honour has no price either" "Please, Mrs Episteme, tell us if the good news we heard is true." "About Andreas ..." "Nay..." "We can't set our aim too high, dear." "We're poor people and he's from a good family." "Yet, if it's written in the stars..." "The Xis people have declined now." "They're not like before." "They're not like before, but they're not 'little men' either." "They can go the Minister's any time and they haven't yet worked for others." "I let them speak to each other in the street." "I don't want to get in the way of her luck." "Words can't hurt anyone, as they say." "But be careful not to let them fool you, Mrs Episteme." "They're used to such things in Xis family." "His late father did the same and ruined two or three women here in Corfu." "They let him do such things." "But do you know what kind of girl my Irene is?" "Irene would never do such a thing for all the riches of Corfu!" "Are you talking about Irene?" "So Episteme knows all about it." "Let's say it's a finished job, that's why she couldn't care less." "Finished or not, it's still a bit inappropriate..." "She's just let him inside the house." "And I told the drunkard not to leave home!" "But how could he stay in on a Sunday?" "Oh, God!" "What excuses shall I find now to save the reputation of our family?" "Damned female, to let him inside the house!" "How long have they been in together?" "What have they been doing all this time?" "Andreas, have you set out to bring shame upon my family?" "Why did you let him in, stupid?" "Oh, Mother!" "What have I done!" "Why did you get inside, Andreas?" "The neighbour's already gone telling the whole world about it!" "Who's going to marry her after what you did to her?" "Didn't you think of us, poor people, having nothing else apart from our honour?" "When the only one protecting this family is me?" "A woman alone." "Because with the husband I have it's like having no husband at all." "What wrong have I ever done to you and you harm my family?" "What am I to do now?" "What am I to do now?" "Mrs Episteme..." "All Corfu knows me as an honest man." "You do, too." "Don't cry, Mrs Episteme." "Listen to me..." "I love your Irene and I can marry her even today if you want." "Though you know the dire condition of my family." "Our father left me with debts." "We have a mortgage on our house." "I struggle with all my strength to save my family's honour too!" "How much do you give, Mrs Episteme?" "My kin and my blessing!" "You knew that we were poor." "If you're honest and love her, marry her." "You've wronged her." "With nothing?" "You knew that we were poor." "300 thalers is her share." "That's all." "If you love her, marry her." "For everything else, the Lord will provide." "You can work hard, you need no one's help." "300 is like nothing, Mrs Episteme." "Give me 600 at least to rid my house from the debts." "Andreas..." "We can work hard, we need no one's help." "No woman has ever worked in our family." "My wife is not going to work." "I won't let my family fall even lower." "I want you to be a lady when you're mine." "Please, Mother, give the 600." "I beg you!" "You have them!" "What's all this, foolish girl?" "Want me to treat your siblings unfairly for your own mistake?" "The mistake is all yours so you'll pay the price!" "Go cut your hair and become a nun in a convent, now that you dishonoured yourself and ruined your youth!" "As for you, Andreas, you won't save your family as you say because your family has always been that shameful." "Your father did the same, that's why you ruined yourselves!" "May the curse of God fall upon you, for harming the best girl in Corfu who has never done anything to you!" "I hope the gold you touch turns into soil!" "What's going on, Andreas?" "What do you think is going on, Trinkoulos?" "You are my doom, Mother, and not Andreas!" "For a few thalers!" "Telling me to shut myself up in a convent!" "Me that I sweated for you, that I paid my dowry with my own sweat!" "so your other children may have more and you may save more money for yourself!" "Come and take pride in your girl that took after you and became the disgrace of Corfu." "Andreas Xis is asking for my hand." "He's asking for 600 thalers and she won't give'em to him." "She'd rather see me shut in a convent." "Calm down, Irene and let's go through the facts." "Rumours were heard for you and that's a bad thing." "But it's not the end of the world." "You could have married a well-to-do man." "Now you'll get someone standing low." "You have your 300 thalers... so a man in want will think it twice." "That will do if you control yourself from now on." "Give the 600, woman." "You have them." "It seems that you've gone completely senile, old-Trinkoulos." "What become of the others?" "Two female beasts are left behind and one penniless male!" "Who cen we expect to get help from?" "You?" "Who spend nights and days at the tavern and have the nerve to talk?" "Her share is 300." "Whoever wants her will take her with those." "Not one more!" "I'll take Andreas as a husband." "No one else." "The summer had passed." "Andreas seemed as if he had forgotten his love and he was travelling with his boat without cease travelling and loading smuggled goods at the mainland while the party was still in power though it wouldn't still be for long as everyone predicted." "My bird in love" "I'm always thinking of you" "I'm waiting for you" "And I'm not getting married" "A short while after the wedding all men are the same, my mother says." "Other women told me that too." "I don't love him but I'll marry him." "What can I do?" "Shut myself up in a convent?" "This one didn't even ask about dowry." "That's real love." "Andreas wanted thalers, and since I didn't have them he dumped me," "No sign of him all this time." "Of course, mother will give me my share even though the other man didn't ask for that." "Poor mother, she doesn't want to treat anyone unfairly." "You're getting married, eh?" "Yes, Andreas." "What am I to do?" "They have seen us." "Mother is coming." "I'm lost for you." "What have they seen?" "Your mother's coming anytime now." "Let's go." "Go where?" "To my house." "I'll make you my wife." "Don't you want me?" "They're watching us." "What have you done to me?" "Pack up your clothes and let's go." "You'll ask for more." "That's why you're doing it." "I ask for nothing as I say myself." "I'm off." "No, wait." "Well done, Irene!" "Well done!" "Poor woman, Episteme..." "Are you not ashamed of yourself, Irene?" " Good evening." " Good evening." " He just took her away from you." " Whom?" "Your Irene, poor Episteme." "It was Andreas Xis!" "It was just a few minutes ago." "You can catch them if you run." "Andreas... my Irene?" "Uh-oh!" "He will rip us off!" "All her being was telling her to run, to take her back before he makes her his woman so as to save her family, that pitiable amount of money she had been saving drachma by drachma, dime by dime," "working honestly for a whole life by the labour of her hands." "But time was being wasted and the girl was in danger," "Perhaps now he was leading her to bed..." "Let me through!" "Let me through!" "Where's your nephew?" "Tell me quickly where your nephew is!" "It's a matter of life and death!" "It's better for you to go back home, Mrs Episteme." "You filthy lot!" "Open the door, rotten hounds!" "You filthy lot!" "Open the door!" "I know you are inside!" "Andreas Xis, you're a treacherous man!" "Treacherous!" "Get that bitch out!" "You filthy lot!" "Andreas Xis, treacherous man!" "I know why you're doing it!" "Open the door!" "Speak now, Mrs Episteme." "What do you want?" "Tell that bitch to come home." "I won't do her any harm." "She's my wife now." "I won't give her back." "I will lead her to the altar." "Do whatever you like, Andreas." "Only know that her share is 300 thalers." "Not one more!" "I want nothing, you hear me?" "Nothing!" "Not a dime!" "Did you hear that?" "All I said was true." "I want nothing." "Nothing!" "Andreas, we can work hard." "We need no one's help." " Good evening." " Good evening." "Once upon a time, when God was feeling bored, he said 'why not create the world?" "'" "First, he made the sky, the moon and the fish." "Then he prepared some clay and made Adam" " You're talking nonsense!" "No I'm not." "This is what the teacher told us." "So then... he took one Adam's rib and made a woman out of it." "So woman is the other half of man." "Since Irene is gone, father doesn't get drunk at the tavern anymore, and mother doesn't swear at him." "And so... they don't talk at all." " Go to bed, I say." "Go!" " I'm not sleepy." "I have the most beautiful woman in Corfu." "A feather hat" "And a colourful maypole" "Long live the Carnival King" "Tonight he's going to die" "Long live the Carnival King" "Tonight he's going to die" "The face behind the mask" "But the tongue talks nineteen to the dozen" "Long live the Carnival King" "Tonight he's going to die" "Long live the Carnival King" "Tonight he's going to die" "Tell the truth, masquerader," "And souls will be relieved" "Long live the Carnival King" "Tonight he's going to die" "Long live the Carnival King" "Tonight he's going to die" "The maypole around everyone" "Everyone around the maypole" "Long live the Carnival King" "Tonight he's going die" "Long live the Carnival King" "Tonight he's going to die" "Silence!" "Silence!" "Hey neighbours!" "Whom will we pay a visit to for a little treat?" "Eh?" "Who wants us and is not afraid of our gossip?" "Shall we come to you, Mrs Pagona dear, that God gave you a long nose so you can nose around?" "Welcome!" "You'll be gladly received." "I have nothing to hide to be afraid of you." "I may nose around but I haven't fouled my own nest like certain other women around here." "If you had been a bit prettier, Mrs Pagona dear, you might have fouled your own nest too." "We want you as well." "Come to us, masqueraders!" "We're afraid, Mrs Evgenia!" "They say you're stingier than Episteme, Trinkoulos' wife." "If you were to treat us to a sweet, that would be two years old!" "I have from this year too!" "And it turned out well, I say." "This year's sweet from Mrs Evgenia?" "Let's go, friends!" "People from Mantouki, have you ever eaten a sweet without sugar?" "If not, then go to Mrs Evgenia to offer you some." " What a great hostess!" " Come to us too, dear Masqueraders!" "Why come to you, Mrs Chrishoula, when you're as virtuous as Lent?" "We'll go to Xis who's a party boss, to tell him off about his minister!" "Xis, are you in?" "Are you hiding?" "Masqueraders, play the music!" "I scared you, eh?" "I scared you." "What a thrill, outside." "Corfu's carnival has never been better!" "Masqueraders, floats, rumpus!" "In the evening all Maouki will go to the Old Town where they'll burn the Carnival King and listen to his testament." "They say it'll give the Minister a good ticking off." "Students have beaten him to pieces about the Gospel." "Why that blessed man wanted to have the Gospel translated in yokels' language?" "What's wrong?" "When will we get hitched, Andreas?" "I can't take it any longer being shut in here." "Being afraid of meeting another human." "Now that you're a 'woman,' I think you should change your hairstyle." "You know that I love you, don't you?" "You think I want to see you unhappy?" "You think that I like,... when I have the most beautiful woman in Corfu, not being able to go out for a stroll together?" "To be proud of you as a man can be." "But if you love me, you must have patience just for a little." "Just for a little more." "People of Maouki!" "Don't listen to what the enemies of our minister say." "It's all calumnies!" "Calumnies coming from all those benefited by Deligiannis and the other rascals." "Who ever did the things our Minister has done?" "Who built the theatre?" "Who made sure that peasants won't go to prison for their debts to the masters?" "And now the schoolboys are coming to slander him that he wanted to translate the Gospel to bumpkins' language?" "All lies!" "But even if he wanted that, people of Maouki, would it be a bad thing?" "Would it be a bad thing, I say, to have and understand the Gospel in the language we speak?" "to hear the word of the Lord and feel it deeply into our hearts?" "Now the lettered people say 'no' to you because those who go to the universities understand the Gospel as it is." "What about us?" "Do they give a damn about us?" "Only the Minister and the King, may they be blessed, care about us, about the people." "What?" "Have we anything to expect from the lettered people?" "Those little scoundrels who shut themselves in the university and started throwing stones to the soldiers?" "Citizens!" "Brothers!" "No one cares about you!" "Expect nothing from anyone unless you take your own fate in your hands." "It's good to have the Gospel in any language." "And it's even better if we understand its meaning." "But that's not the matter." "They're fooling you!" "Everyone!" "The King, the Minister, Deligiannis." "Everyone supports their own followers and they all together support the Masters!" "The landowners, the industrialists, the rich!" "Those who get rich thanks to your own sweat and join their interests with those of the foreigners!" "No matter who you vote for, those same ones always profit." "If Theotokis doesn't win, then Deligiannis will." "But not matter who's in power the industrialists win!" "No matter who wins, the King will be behind him, watchdog of the foreigners." "What's all this about our King and you let him speak!" "He was the one who sent troops to bombard our brothers in Crete!" "Who the hell are you that dare offend the King?" "Don't cast your ballot, brothers." "Take the arms!" "Don't cast your ballot, brothers." "Take the arms!" "So, the time was passing." "However, the government of Corfiot's minister, as everyone predicted, had fallen." "Now in Mantouki, smuggling was under persecution." "Light the lamp, uncle!" "Halt!" "We're going to shoot!" "This cargo is worth a fortune!" "Better wait for the dawn." "They can't go far." "Who can hear Andreas now that they caught his ketch!" "What do you mean by that?" "We risk our lives and he plays newlywed!" "Who is it?" "Open the door, Irene." "It's Spyros." "Is Andreas sleeping?" "Go wake him up." "It's urgent." "They will grow old till they get married." "Business is going from bad to worse." "Didn't he promise?" "Or even say he doesn't want a dowry?" "He said, my dear in-law, but joyful events mean expenses." "Get married penniless one night?" "No one's ever done that in our family." "And are we to be the first?" "We didn't have more money." "You know that well yourself." "We were trading on borrowed money." "Pay interests, pay wages, damages there, damages here... while my foolish nephew made declarations about not wanting any dowry." "And now he does?" "For Christ's sake, let me finish." "You don't know all our sufferings yet." "I won't give anything." "Then don't." "Do as you please." "Don't think that anyone grabs by the your throat." "My nephew, dear in-law, despite being a grown man, acts like a kid." "I keep telling him." "Don't touch the daughter of Trinkoulos' wife." "She hasn't got the money you need." "Wed another having it." "I got her in hand for you." "But he would not listen to reason." "Now everything went wrong with him." "The ketch was caught loaded with stuff by that devil the police sergeant." "Since that day, Andreas hasn't had a happy moment no matter if he eats, drinks or sleeps." "Where could he find the money to buy another sailboat?" "The debts increased and remain unpaid." "Andreas has changed beyond recognition." "Now he talks only of Savvena's thalers." "A bitterness, you know, can drive a man to dishonesty." "Poor Irene, no marriage in sight!" "It's been a month now without a job." "We've run out of money." "Now they're sending summons at home and Andreas has lost his sleep." "They'll take the house from him." "You must see how upset he is." "He's ashamed of that." "And all the time he says he'll become a migrant." "A migrant?" "And what will become of my daughter?" "I've no idea." "That was the fate of the poor girl." "What can she do?" " She'll go back home." " Back home?" "'My nephew', I said to him..." "'Let me go to Trinkoulos' wife and tell her everything." "No use, uncle." "She thinks I'll become a slave to get her revenge on me." "You know what she'd deserve?" "That I send Irene back to her and marry Savvena's girl." "What do you think?" "Would she still give here to me?" "She may give her to you but you won't do such a dishonest thing." "Better become a migrant." "You think that I'd be scared of Trinkoulos?" "You take advantage of our weakness, rascals!" "Don't call us names, dear in-law, or I may get angry, too." "You're hurling insults whereas I came with good intentions." "I want you to prevent it and I'm saying all that without him knowing." "Without him knowing anything, you must believe me." "His house is mortgaged for a loan of 600 thalers." "He told you this." "If you had given them to him, now..." "Will he take her in marriage if I give him the 600?" "Don't haste, dear in-law..." "If he had the 600, he'd rid his house from the mortgage." "I don't know..." "I'll ask him about it." "I told you... he knows not of my visiting you." "It's good to have a roof over one's head." "But it's not enough." "He says he'll migrate." "He can't work for others here." "He'd be ashamed." "He has no ketch." "And a ketch like the one he lost costs 400 thalers." "So he wants a thousand!" "You better get out now and don't force me to tell you where to go..." "Her share is 300." "Let him take it or leave it." "Otherwise, even kill her if you want." "I couldn't care less." "Do as you please!" "300!" "Not a cent more." "Give these 600, poor Episteme." "I told you from the start." " You saw where they've come to." " They want 1000, drunkard!" "What shall I give them?" "My own eyes?" "Give them even 1000!" "You got them." "What did you say, drunkard?" "1000 is all we got!" "Want them to strip us bare, and turn us into beggars?" "God will provide for us." "Give them." " She won't give them, right?" " Right." "Not even the 300?" "What 300, stupid!" "What could I do with 300?" "She'd give even 600." "But first she wants to see wedding wreaths." "Keep waiting for them!" "I swear you'll never see them!" "I won't marry you unless she gives those 1000 I need!" "1000?" "Where to find them, poor her?" "600 for the house, 400 for the ketch..." "So that I'll become again what I'd been before you came in here." "You jinx!" "Are these good manners?" "Is that what decent people do?" "Do you know what my uncle says?" "Since it's you who brings bad luck, I should send you away." "Send me away?" "Coward!" "You can say these things because you found us vulnerable, because I got no brothers to kill you." "My father is a helpless old man." "because mother runs our house all by herself." "You have confined me in this state and no other man will ever look at me since I went through your hands." "I am to blame for taking you for an honest man." "What else can my poor mother do?" "She's giving you, I heard, the amount you owe." "You can get rid of the mortgage!" "Go get yourself a job!" "Why are you asking for more?" "He's telling me to send you away and take the other woman," "Savvena's daughter who's offering 1500." "Take whoever you want, Andreas, but you must only know this:" "I'm not moving from here." "I'll give birth to my child here, at his father's house." "Some honest counsel you're giving to your nephew, you an honourable man!" "Shame on you for wanting to drive me off!" "Me, young woman?" "Me, nephew?" "Have I ever spoken ill of her to you?" "Haven't I been telling you that you got debts?" "That you should leave that other peoples' girl alone and not take her from her mother's bosom when you cannot now buy her even a loaf of bread and you are forced to send her back home?" "That's how you put ideas into his head, you hypocrite!" "What's 'can' or 'cannot' got to do with it?" "He can, if he wants to." "And I can also make a living with my own hands!" "Let him get a job like all people do!" "What need have we of indebted palaces?" "Indebted palaces?" "What did you say, whore!" "What good is arguing, eh?" "Didn't I find you a job at the fish market?" "Why don't you tell her so she can quiet?" "You'll work for others, like it or not, since Trinkoulos' wife doesn't give you the money you need." "Mother and daughter want to turn me into a slave!" "Like themselves..." "Let it be from tonight then." "From tonight!" "Let's find the fishermen and do her the favour." "Leave her fuming all alone here." "It's you who's tearing us apart, old-hypocrite!" "'Cause you can't feed yourself off Andreas since you lost the ketch!" "Let him go to the boats, let him go everywhere he wishes to but I'm not moving out of here." "I'm not doing you this favour." "Me?" "You're out of your senses." "Keep you favours for your mother." "Thanks to your jinx, the house will be sold one of these days." "Then, stay if you can." "That's what you are!" "You filthy lot!" "My mother was right." "You, ancestors, made him that way." "My Andreas is not bad, you made him." "You have lulled him with bourgeois ideas, made him not stand the loss of social status, not give in to want." "That's why the poverty wore him down, made him a dishonest, a dishonest man.." "Was it possible that he might never come back?" "Forget her body?" "That she might become a stranger to him?" "She didn't need him to support her." "She was capable of supporting herself." "His love, though, had become indispensable to her like her own blood." "His body was necessary to her." "She was feeling it as if it were one with hers." "Down with Theotokis!" "Down with Deligiannis!" "Down with Zaimis" "Time to wake up, people!" "Down with Theotokis and Deligiannis!" " People wake up!" " Down with the poverty!" "Down with the famine!" "[The Internationale in Greek]" "Hey you, wake up!" "Workers, seven colleagues were fired in Desylas factory because they demanded better wages." "Desylas' workers are preparing for a strike..." "AUCTION NOTICE" "Who's there?" "It's me, Irene." "Your mother." "My poor... wretched child..." "What shall I do, Mother?" "We'll see about that Irene." "That's why I came to talk about." "They're auctioning your house off on Sunday." "It's for the better, Mother." "Let the blasted house be lost." "This was their ruin." "What need have we of indebted palaces?" "You're not being fair." "It's his cherished family house." "He walked out on you, eh?" "So he won't be coming tonight." "Well then, tomorrow I'm going to the fish market to find him." "I'll speak to him..." "I don't want you to lose the house." "Let him take the 600 he asked for provided he marries you." "Thank you, Mother." "Don't lose hope." "He's not bad by nature." "Poverty wore him down." "You'll see he'll come back in your arms same as before." "It doesn't matter about the other children" "I'll leave them with less." "At least I'll have saved the honour of their family." "I'm pregnant too." "Oh, he's riding a horse when we're walking on foot." "This has been the rascal's plan right from the beginning!" "Filthy lot!" "I shouldn't be reproaching him." "He's your man, you'll live together." "Try always to be pleasant to him." "That's the way it should be." "Forgive me mother for making you and poor father bitter." "But what I've done was beyond my control..." "What you have done is done." "The poor drunkard... would even give you his soul." "What you have done is done." "You have my blessing now." " Good morning, Andreas." " Good morning, Mrs Episteme." " I want to talk to you." " I have no time, I have work to do." "This is where you brought me to." "He told you he's got no time to spare." "Some other time, this is not the place for such talk." "Tomorrow they're going to auction your house off." "Fine." "That way you'll get your daughter back and leave me alone." "I brought the 600 to buy it off." "I brought you what you asked." "He told you, madam, we don't want your money." "You should've given it before." "Now save it for your daughter." "We've found a better offer elsewhere." "Andreas, don't be dishonest!" " I brought you what you asked." " 600 can't do me any good." " You can see my comedown." " I've got not more!" "I won't take her as a wife." "I've found three times the amount elsewhere!" "Come to your senses, Andreas." "I've got not more!" "We told you, madam, we don't want your daughter!" "What a pain in the neck is this today?" "You're sending her to my house so she can give birth to your bastards, eh?" "I don't want her I said." "Go to bloody hell!" "I won't take her for all the riches of Corfu!" "Now the wretched head of the household was pondering on the consequences" "Her daughter abandoned..." "herself in prison..." "Her children like orphans, in the hands of her weak husband..." "Don't ruin my household, Andreas." "Here's the key to my chest and go take all of it from my husband." "All of it, you hear?" "We must only come to an arrangement at court." "Cursed thalers!" "What have I, bitch, come to?" "My best wishes, Andreas." "We heard that you were in danger." "Thank you, God bless you." "I'm getting married this Sunday." "All the best then..." "We're getting married this Sunday." "She's giving all she's got." "I won't take more that the 1000 needed." "Here's the chest key." "She said you must give me the 1000." "Why are you crying, Irene?" "Our sufferings are all over now." "Your mother hit me but never mind." "I'm marrying you next Sunday." "She's made you miserable..." "I've been wrong..." "But now I'll make amends." "Next Sunday I'm taking her as a wife." "Why are you crying?" "Because..." "I don't love you any more." "I don't want you for a husband." "What's the use of having such a husband?" "She made you miserable..." "Why not give the 600 from the very beginning?" "I told her." "I can work hard." "I need no one." "I don't want you, Andreas." "Why should I treat my siblings unfairly?" "Irene, are you out of mind?" "On Sunday..." "I can't have my baby here." "I'll go to Athens where people don't know me." "I'll get a job in a factory, for me and the child..." "I can work hard." "I need no one." "I don't want you, Andreas." "Cursed thalers!"