"There's also a seahorse" "It's so small - with a head like a horse, but a body like a camel" "It swims like a twig - very slowly" "It swims like a twig and eats only teeny tiny things" "These things are just like flies are to us when a tiny being appears it eats it right away" "Ever seen a shark?" "Never." "But I've seen worse – an octopus" "It's a big hunk of meat and slimy like a brain" "Not one bone – Long tentacles like hoses" "Like human arms, but longer" "And on each one there's a suction cup" "It grabs a person and draws him in" "Then you've got to bite it between the eyes" "If you're off by just a hair - it's over." "You're dinner." "If you bite that spot, the tentacles go limp." "But if you miss the right spot, it squeezes you and sucks blood from your mouth" "It gobbles you right up" "It gets you for good" "Happened once when – Enough" "He's a sailor in the Pacific Fleet" "Top marks in basic training" "Two long-distance voyages." "Deep sea dives." "Doesn't drink" "He's my wife's brother" "Came from Russia, from Sakhalin." "Does he have any decorations?" "Two." "Your daughter has a beautiful name – Tulpan." "A rare name" "so" "You have a girl, and we have a guy" "Two halves It wouldn't be bad to unite them" "From us, as a start, 10 sheep and this small token" "How about that?" "I'll bring more music for the wedding!" "Look around, Boni, what beauty!" "Spur on your horses, Kazakhs!" "Long live Kazakhstan!" "Turn down the music!" "I said turn down the music!" "Attention all sailors!" "Here I'll put my yurt!" "My flock here!" "Camels!" "She didn't like you!" "Who?" "You didn't impress her!" "How's that?" "She just didn't like you" "She told her mother: "Big ears"" "That's it There're no more girls here" "Asa, I'm riding on my horse!" "You have nice ears!" "Maybe you said something wrong?" "Sit and drink!" "What could I've said wrong?" "I described the octopus' weak point and the sawfish" "Are we going to Almaty?" "Everything as usual" "Are we off to Almaty then?" "Maybe you should have left out the octopus?" "Why?" "And what were they doing?" " Listening" "We'll go soon" "Want some bread?" "And Tulpan?" "How many times do I have to tell you?" "I didn't see her" "I was sitting here she was behind the curtains" "They didn't even show her" "What could I've said wrong?" "Ride to Almaty!" "Off you go!" "Quick!" "I don't get it then" "You have to go back!" "Right, Ondas?" "I'm not going to that little fool!" "I said:" "I'm not going!" "Quit it!" "Quit singing, I said!" "Let her sing" "This isn't the big city to be singing at the table" "Drink your tea and stop playing!" "Put your spoon this way!" "Not like that, like this!" "Nuka, run over here!" "Your horse wants a drink" "Run to me!" "Let's give it a drink!" "Get that one!" "Damn it!" "Don't run!" "The black one!" "Don't run, I said!" "Calm down!" "Why so wild?" "Are you deaf?" "One sheep's already gotten away!" "Round 'em up!" "I know!" "This is Kazakh Radio" "Get out!" "Maha, don't tease the puppy!" "Beke, give the cows water ." "The tractor's here" "One second" "Hold your head high, independent country!" "Good morning Domestic news!" "The Kazakh parliament has discussed the realization of our president's programme "Kazakhstan 2030"" "Do you hear me?" "Get moving!" "When?" "Tonight" "The fifth already" "Let's move out, Boni!" "When are we moving?" "No time." "Later" "Pour some more!" "It's full!" "Get away, Nuka!" "Let's go!" "Get out of there!" "Did you bring what I asked?" "Yes" "Where is it?" "Here" "They didn't have caramel?" " Nope" "How much?" "700 tenge" "That's expensive" "I'll have ten" "Just take these, alright?" "Are we going or what?" "Right away" "You're a fool!" "Need any cucumbers?" "I've told you a hundred times:" "Turn off your stupid music!" "And get this pornography out of the tractor!" "Okay!" "But it's really art!" "Where have you driven them to now?" "Don't you understand Kazakh?" "Greetings!" "Another lamb died?" "still got 50 pregnant ones" "But why has another one died?" "No grass or they're just weak First-time mothers I don't know" "You're moving soon But you need lambs being born!" "It's in God's hands" "Listen, may God grant you no less than last year!" "You're responsible for every lamb Understand?" "I'll send a vet to examine the sheep" "Bravo!" "You've gotten the hang of things!" "Comrade Boss, give me a flock!" "You promised!" "Don't start again!" "I've told you many times:" "Get married, get a flock" "No wife: no flock!" "who can I marry?" "The sheep?" "They're the only thing around!" "search!" "Everybody gets married" "I've looked everywhere!" "This is the Betpak!" "An unmarried herdsman can't survive!" "Somebody's got to cook and wash You won't last a week!" "No wife, no flock!" "End of discussion!" "Are ducklings in fashion in the city?" "Asa!" "There aren't any more girls here!" "Got it?" "There are only 3 yurts on the steppe!" "What can I do?" "That's it then!" "He'll not give me the flock without a wife!" "Come with me, will you?" "Screw it all!" "How can I convince you?" "Quit it, Boni!" "But seriously!" "We'll rent an apartment for both of us." "It'll be cheaper" "At worst, we'll get a room In a dorm" "There are tons of babes there!" "We'll meet them" "It's in the city after all, man!" "And don't worry about finding work!" "Take the weak sheep to the pen!" "And you, get to work!" " This is an industry vehicle, not a cattle wagon!" "All they know is sheep!" "Let's go." "It'll be easier to find work there together!" "I don't need your city!" "Got it?" "Comrade Boss!" "Papa!" "Domestic news!" "The programme of our president Nazarbaev to make" "Kazakhstan a developed country with clean air and water is being fulfilled successfully, lawmakers noted" "Look what a big blackhead!" "We have to buy the children new shoes for school" "International" "The fate of Kazakhstan's Kashagan oil field" "Was discussed at the economic forum in Switzerland" "Several countries are to participate in its development" "Which will make Kazakhstan 1 of the 5 largest oil-producers" "What a memory!" "Maybe he'll be a senior accountant!" "Stop it, I'm reciting the news!" "Shut up!" "Cultural news" "Russian Radio:" "In the Petropavlovsk Theatre" "Shut up, I said!" "I want to, too!" "In the Petropavlovsk Theatre the premier of the play" ""A Ray of Light at Night"l was held" "Look!" "well done!" "Ondas, look at his leg" "Ondas, look here!" "what's wrong?" "He runs around wild, that's all!" "The dumber they are, the harder they fall" "I don't see his guts hanging out!" "Are you starting again?" "I asked you not to!" "Don't you see he's trying?" "I see he's trying all wrong!" "Only his mouth works" "You're pampering him!" "It's ridiculous!" "Don't forget he's my brother!" " So what?" "He has nobody except us!" " Should we cradle him?" "we started scraping and bowing!" "He's gone through a lot!" "As if we have nothing to do!" "I promise he'll stop!" "Why does he hate me?" "For what, Samal?" "It's not so" "What did I do?" "He doesn't hate you" "Maybe I'm to blame for coming?" "Tell me?" "Am I in the way?" "No" "Well, am I?" "Not at all" "If I'm in the way, I'll sleep on the steppe!" "I'll ask him to go with you to see that girl again" "I don't need anything!" "Do you want me to?" "I wouldn't go with him for anything!" "What's a sailor to do?" "I see him on the bottom, not breathing" "I swim down and pull him to the surface something grabs my legs and starts to squeeze" "I feel something pulling me under, tentacles squeezing me" "My bones are cracking I'm losing consciousness" "I look up, and in the darkness two red eyes appear" "There's nothing I can do" "I try to escape But those eyes are moving in" "I jerk backwards, but this mouth keeps coming closer!" "Enough!" "We don't get it We've come here, travelled all day" "A sailor Top marks in basic training" "Two arms and two legs" "What do ears have to do with it?" "Or is it you who are against him?" "Be honest!" "Tell us now, Grandpa!" "Right, here's to peace on earth!" "Why are you silent?" "Are you against him?" "We are not against him" "Tulpan doesn't like him" "We can't force her" "We are cultured people" "My father was a bookkeeper well then" "Look, he's a prince!" "Like our president!" "Take your glasses!" "Sit down!" "What is there to look at?" "Everything's clear" "Asa, it's okay" "Asa has even smaller ears!" "From this side" "Even the prince has big ears!" "Sit down" "What?" "Let Tulpan speak for herself" "Have her come out!" "Tulpan!" "Go tell her, her father is calling!" "Stubborn woman!" "The daughter is just like you!" ""To the city, to the city!"" ""To college!"" "who needs her there?" "Be realistic Foolish old woman!" "Is he an African Prince?" "American!" "Alright one second" "Where are you going?" "He is jobless!" "How many times do I have to tell you:" "Our daughter with an unemployed man?" "You're the fool!" "Let's go!" "We're going?" " Sit!" "on your feet!" "what?" "Let's move!" "Asa, let's go" "We've travelled all day" "We're not leaving so easily" "Asa wants to ask Tulpan himself" "Go!" "You won't marry her off easily!" "I know He's a good boy" "The city is all drunks and druggies!" "Tulpan" "It's me, Asa" "I wanted to ask you:" "Are you enrolling in college?" "Which one?" "Is that your dream?" "Cool!" "Do you want to see my dream?" "Look!" "There's a tradition:" "Each sailor draws his dream on his collar" "This is my dream" "My chance, Tulpan, to change my life" "Can you see it?" "It's my dream to build a little corner of paradise like this" "Under the starry skies of the Kazakh steppe" "I'll have everything there" "A white yurt with patterns on it like this a TV, my own farm" "It will be mine, Tulpan, do you understand?" "Why are you silent?" "Hey, what do you want?" "Tulpan, talk to me!" "Don't turn away!" "Look at me just once!" "Do you like me even a little bit?" "Do you hear me?" "Marry me, Tulpan!" "You have nothing right now Neither do I" "But together, we'll get a flock, we'll make it big" "And build a fairy tale life here" "What do you need the city for?" "It's hard there, too we'll live differently, rich and happy Not like others here" "Then I'll buy the flock and start our own farm" "Like in the west It's called a ranch" "You can do a correspondence course" "Do you agree?" "Take your gift and your friend and leave!" "Let's go" "Yes" "What did she say?" "Nothing" "God, is she beautiful!" "Don't call her back!" "Don't spoil her!" "Maha, darling, come in!" "Sweetie Don't be angry at papa" "You can sing in the yurt" "Come in" "Oh, God!" "We have to do something, Ondas" "Can't Asa graze the pregnant sheep by the pen?" "Ondas?" "Huh?" "Ondas?" "Beke!" "Breaking news:" "Yesterday, a strong earthquake occurred in Japan: 7.0 on the Richter scale!" "Today you're going to help Asa!" "Nuka is stealing my radio!" "stop it!" "Help him!" "Uncle Asa!" "Come here!" "I'll graze them myself You help your mama!" "Uncle Asa!" "Uncle Asa!" "Are we going to Almaty?" "I have a big car!" "What a cool bike!" "I'll drive around my ranch on one like it" "Check it out!" "Good stuff, eh?" "Easy there, don't tear it!" "You ripped out such a nice girl, man!" "What a super house!" "Look!" "I saw one like that in Sakhalin" "That thing there is a solar panel Japanese!" "Nirvana!" "When I make it big, I'll buy one of those solar panels so I'll have electricity" "Imagine Boni, my own yurt and electricity all the time!" "It's 500 km to the city You'll bust it on the way" "I'll get it here" "And when I've got my own farm, I'll put in water as well" "And a satellite dish" "There'll be 900 channels" "Picture it!" "The steppe and 900 channels!" "I'll do everything different here" "Inhale deeper" "It's great, yeah?" "Great" "Don't get upset" "Ondas!" "Is she here?" "I'm looking for her!" "Ondas?" "Is she sick?" "Don't move!" "Understand?" "You'll be okay!" "well done!" "It's alive!" "Alive, alive, alive!" "Breathe!" "Quicker, there's no heartbeat" "It stinks!" "Go away!" "Look!" "saliva!" "Maybe blow some more?" "It's useless" "Put out the lamp" "Ondas" "Please speak to the boss once more about our moving" "Well, what?" "Is she there?" "Yeah" "Bitch!" "She runs after us for a 100 km, never lets up" "Hold still!" "Let's drive her away?" "Drive her away?" "Think about what you're saying" "She'll get pissed off and bite everybody!" "Have a look at what camels can do She is his mother" "Look here!" "Look at that!" "Get the sheep!" "I'll do it!" "What's the point of this work?" "You treat them, and they bite you!" "Let's go, move it!" "Well, what?" "Is she there?" "Yeah" "They're just hungry." "They're not sick" "She's gone" "You sure?" "They need some grass, that's all!" "Have some tea!" "Alright, prepare to move out!" "To the old place I'll send a tractor!" "Bitch!" "Let's go, move it!" "You're not going!" "Now what?" "Let's have the lambs!" "Push!" "You're not getting a bonus anyway!" "I'm a monster!" "Are we moving?" "Yeah when will we go?" "He said, pack up" "This is Kazakh radio, international news wait, Beke!" "Maha, sing!" "Today it's allowed!" "Right, Ondas?" "Alright, sing" "Don't play at the table!" "How many times do I have to tell you?" "Ondas, let's sing!" "Come on, Ondas!" "Let's go, Beke." "Beke, you're coming with me today" "You graze the pregnant sheep" "And you stay home and help Samal Got it?" "Why don't I get to go?" "Why can't I go?" "I said no That means no!" "why are you always giving me orders?" "who are you to give orders?" "I'm a sailor and a herdsman just like you!" "Got it?" "You a herdsman?" "Yes!" "I worked five years to get a flock!" "where is the lost sheep?" "You a herdsman?" "You're a kid!" "Who's a kid?" "Who's a kid?" "You tell me?" "You!" "I'm sick of your orders!" "Who are you to give me orders?" "Am I your slave?" "I'm sick of you and your steppe!" "I'm leaving!" "Go where you want!" "I'm sick of your dust and your shit!" "I'm sick of your poor life!" "City boy!" "old man!" "I'm not going to live like you!" "You're a herdsman!" "I'm not staying here!" "Amoeba!" "Get it?" "I'm gone!" "Stand up" "Ondas!" "Don't die" "Silly thing" "Attention all sailors!" "Boni has found a girl!" "Let's move!" "Where were you?" "I've been looking for you all day!" "Get your uniform!" "Look, a live one was born!" "on the double" "I keep saying, this is not a cattle wagon!" "Help me!" "Why do you dump everything into the salon!" "I haul food here!" "Stop, cucumbers!" "Hold it!" "Careful, the lamb!" "The geologist's cousin is visiting" "Hold it!" "Double D!" "Imagine!" "Careful!" "The photos!" "She's already cooked beshbarmak!" "It's done!" "The flock is yours!" "Boni, let's go to Tulpan!" "Where?" "To Tulpan" "You got knocked on the head?" "Again to that little fool?" "She's not a fool Let's go?" "I like you!" "I really like you" "Your hair" "Your hands" "I like how shy you are" "I'll never forget" "How you looked at me from behind the curtains" "Hey!" "You again?" "Have some cucumbers!" "I'm doing my special exercises" "My ears look better now" "But ears aren't the most important thing" "What counts is being smart, right?" "What do you need!" "You got any brains?" "Get out!" "Do you like me even a little bit?" "I have to see you!" "Please, open the door or I'm coming in!" "Come here!" "Get back!" "Demon!" "Why did you break the door?" "She's gone!" "You'll never see her!" "She doesn't like you!" "You bum!" "You won't see her while I'm alive!" "Pull, Beke!" "Put down the radio!" "Samal," "Pull from your side!" "Is it starting?" "Boni?" "and she screams at me:" ""Lie on your belly!" I lie down" "All together: one, two, three" "Maha!" "Take this pin to remember me by" "Did you pack the meat?" "Yes" "Pack more" "Don't forget me" "We will go to Almaty together later" "Let's go, Boni!" "Where are you going?" "Answer!" "Anywhere else." "Don't start again" "What does that mean?" "Nobody is waiting for you anywhere else!" "Nobody else needs you!" "I'll be fine" "Everything will be okay, understand!" "You'll find a girl!" "Understand?" "I said I'm leaving" "Beke!" "Take this" "Let's move, Asa!" "Maybe screw the city, huh?" "Let's head to Sakhalin!" "Get work on a boat, sail abroad!" "We'll sail to America!" "Picture it, Asa" "That'll be the life!" "Stop, Boni!" "Stop!" "I said stop!" "Forgot something?" "I said stop." "That means stop" "You're a fool!" "Speed it up!" "A storm is coming!" "Wait!" "Put this on!" "Speed it up!" "Ready!" "we're ready!" "Go!" "Let's go!" "Are you crazy?" "step away from the wheels!"