"Our belief in reality is so strong that our greatest fear is death." "Precisely that fear makes us vulnerable." "What's going on here?" "I came into the ward to wake him up." "Prepare two grams of chloral hydrate." "After the medicine works, lock up the patient and don't let anybody in." "Tomorrow he will be taken in for leucotomy..." "Where is the patient?" "How could he disappear?" "Only I had the key!" "Then somebody has a duplicate!" "Come to my office tomorrow morning." "Forgive me!" "Please!" "This has to stay a secret." "Where am I?" "Do you think I'll know it?" "Yes, it used to be yours." "All this time I wasted trying to catch up with you?" "You'll thank me afterwards..." "Close your eyes." "I feel uncomfortable not seeing anything..." "That's why I'm going to open my eyes in 5 seconds!" "Now in four... three, two, one." "I hope the forest will give my sister back to me!" "It's not speaking to me..." "That's it, I'm leaving..." "Do you remember Fairy?" "Of course I do." "She has grown a lot!" "You loved her too much, that's why she run away." "Maybe it's true..." "She is living here now..." "But we can always visit her." "It's nice that we were allowed to leave earlier, but why actually?" "I can only guess:" "Several guys were absent today then the teacher told us not to drink the water." "But we never did it anyway." "Yeah, the water has a weird smell." "Have you heard that Demian and his family are leaving the town?" "No." "He invites everyone to his place today and asked me to tell you." "I have to stay at home." "It's the second time you're not joining us." "Mother isn't feeling well." "See you tomorrow." "Bye." "For several days mother hasn't gone out, and she refusing to eat." "Mirra has stopped talking to me and I don't know how to explain to her why this is happening to mother." "The worst part of it is that I have accepted we will be left alone." "But she is still alive and we need to pray for her recovery..."" "Please promise to take care of my girls." "As long as they stay here" "I will take care of them, but please turn to God, Anna, and I will pray for you." "You need to sleep, take a rest." "How is mother?" "Sorry your mother isn't getting better, but I'll keep praying for her." "Thanks for coming." "Nobody wants to help her!" "Even the doctor can't do anything!" "Maybe God wants to take her, be prepared for that." "God doesn't care!" "My home is always open to you." "Thank you." "His belief won't save mother." "Stop it, he believes it" "and we should believe, too." "Mother!" "Now we're left completely alone..." "It scares me." "After we've said goodbye to mother, we should leave our home." "So soon?" "There's no reason to stay." "You always dreamed of traveling." "How can you bring this up now?" "Mirra, we can't stay here." "You see it yourself, everybody is getting sick." ""I'll do my best to leave this dark place tomorrow." "I never thought I would think this way about my home, but it has become so deserted without mother." "Mirra doesn't want to leave, she believes we have to stay in the town and help the sick people." "Mother would have done everything to protect us." "I'll say that to Mirra tomorrow," "I hope she'll understand."" "Today's service will start with the message to the Galatians about the freedom of the spirit." "It says that we shall not become hostages of the recent events but quite the opposite:" "With freedom and love, we shall overcome all our losses..." "Mirra, listen to the Father." "Thus, we will start... with the fifth chapter:" ""You are summoned to freedom Brethren, use it not for satisfying the meat, but serve each other with love." "God didn't create death and he isn't joyful about the demise of the living." "Every being He created is subject to salvation." "So, our soul never dies..." "Father, they need you at the hospital!" "I'll explain it to you later." "Let's go." "Are you ok?" "I need to sleep." ""Why is this happening to us?" "Mirra is getting worse and again, nobody can tell me how to save her." "Dear God, I know you can hear me now." "Please, protect my sister." "The last days she slept a lot and refused to eat." "She must be hospitalised." "No way." "She stays in bed and you take care of her." "The hospital is overcrowded anyway." "You want to take the risk..." "What if it's not an infection?" "She needs help." "Please stay here with me." "I'll show you to the door." "Ayia!" "Ayia!" "I'm here." "Bring Father Herman, I want to ask him something." "Ok, don't get up." "Did she say why she wanted to see me?" "No, but she's getting worse." "What did the doctor say?" "Nothing new..." ""Finally Mirra started listening to Father Herman." "For the first time she wanted to speak to him." "But I feel she's growing apart from me, she seems to do it on purpose." "That hurts me even more..."" "How is she?" "She's very scared." "You'd better go in to her." "What happened?" "I want everything to be as it used to be!" "Mirra, you have high fever!" "Hello, Ayia." "You should have got a message in the morning." "Yeah, the letter..." "Then you know you should have left the house?" "Ayia, you must go to the hospital." "But Mirra needs my help." "This is an order, infected and the healthy people need to be separated." "The sick have to stay at home." "I want to stay, I'm not afraid!" "Listen to me." "You can't help her anymore!" "I'll take you to the hospital now." "Ayia!" "Of course it's wrong to separate you." "You promised mother to take care of us." "Yes, but now I don't know how to help." "The rules say you must avoid infection." "Father, please don't lock the door." "I'll be back soon." "Where have you been?" "I'll take you to Father Herman's." "It's safer there..." "Nobody will find us!" "I'll help you." "We need to cross the abandoned part of the town, you'll feel better soon..." ""We'll leave as soon as Mirra is better." "Tomorrow I'll write to our Aunt Anna, she has always had a room for us."" "I need to get some medicine." "If necessary, I'll go to the next village," "I have money." "Money will not help us." "How long has she been like that?" "Five days." "Stay here with her." "God will soon tell us what to do..." "Please read a book to me." "But there are only religious books here." "Latin Grammar, Ecclesiastica Historia, Old Testament..." "What's this?" "This book looks really strange." "What did you find?" ""From the shamans point of view, in a body full of vitality is no place for that destructive energy that we tend to call illness."" ""Dear God, you see what state I'm in now." "I'm full of doubt." "I have to keep my secret so that the uninformed don't hurt themselves and the others." "But at the same time I want to help Ayia..." "Maria has always been a mother to me and the girls have been like my own sisters." "I can't make the right decision and I am asking for your help my God!"" "You're not Mirra!" "Don't save me..." "Save the others!" ""I know I shouldn't have taken the book without permission but it is like a sign of fate." "It says that any disease can be cured which means Mirra can be helped too!"" "...but she has already become worse." "Please come and visit me." "Yes, I can..." "Can I read this book, Father Herman?" "Yes you can, but not here." "I'll come to you later." "Let's go..." "I found this book accidentally." "This can help my sister, right?" "I understand what it's about." "We'll talk at my home." "Please, I'm begging you!" "I'll tell you everything, just not here." "I guess you realized that the book differs from the Church moral..." "But you should also know it is about God, too." "Nobody will find out, I promise." "There is a ritual that opens a door to the subconscious in each of us." "Behind that door is an other world that is linked with our world." "A person's birth is the essential point of the world creation." "By overcoming the fear and recovering the faith inside the person," "it's possible to help even the terminally ill..." "Do you mean you can enter her mind to find the reason for her illness?" "It's not that easy." "Please help us, Father Herman!" "What you want to do is very dangerous." "More dangerous than death?" "Which you will be responsible for if you don't help us." "Please, for Mirra." "You must know that only a close person or a relative can enter her in the other world." "Your sister has her own secrets deep inside and she will not allow me to see inside her." "But I know how to help you to connect with her." ""To establish the connection you need to remember every detail, moments of her happiness, troubles and fears." "You need to understand her world... and believe in it."" "Tell me, what is it like?" "Like sleeping, but to discover the reason why she's so sick you'll need a lot of energy." "Do you feel strong enough?" "I do, trust me." "She's been sick for a long time." "Her world is full of pain, similar to a nightmare." "The deeper to the bottom of the ocean, the darker it gets." ""The Kamlanie is a magic ritual that involves both patient and shaman." "In an altered state of conciousness the shaman travels to the other world and changes his patient's ideas of reality, including the one of being ill."" "You need to start with this." "Don't worry, I'll my the best to help you." "It will hurt a lot, Ayia." "Remember, no matter what you see you cannot go away." "Ok." "But you will always be near me, right?" "I can only observe." "Close your eyes!" "Mirra..." "Who has tied you up?" "Go away!" "She'll come soon!" "Who is she?" "Look under my blanket..." "Mother is eating me from the inside." "Why is mother doing this to you?" "Because I'm guilty of her death!" "I should have helped her!" "No!" "You didn't kill her!" "It was her fate." "We couldn't do anything!" "I'm ready to share this pain with you!" "You have to open the door." "It worked." "I saw what was inside her..." "Your amulet..." "It was there." "It was guiding me to come back." "Then, she helped you in the same way." "She still has no power." "She is just sleeping now, she needs it." ""These symbols are 1000 years old," "Father Herman explained it to me." "Long ago, when he started to serve God," "Father used to devote himself wholly to the faith and people." "He helped every citizen, but the closest person to him was a little boy." "The little boy was an orphan and Herman tried to act like a good father." "At a very young age the boy developed interest in spiritual ideas and Father Herman was sure that he had found somebody to follow his path." "But after some time Father Herman had to face the hard fate the six-year-old boy had to endure." "He became seriously ill." "For several weeks, the Father didn't leave the boy and put all of his energy into praying..." "But the boy died." "For the first time he doubted his faith..." "He asked himself:" "Does God listen to me?" "Why?" "That night, when Father Herman got home, an old man appeared." "He had recently visited him, just before his death." "The Father had heard his confession, and given him the Holy Communion." "How is it possible that he was still alive?" "And so the old man explained it to Father Herman." "Some weeks later the Father set out to the mountains in search of the healing power." "The local shaman told him not to lose faith and introduced to him the secrets of an ancient magic practise." "Kamlanie."" "Father Herman, it's the doctor who tried to separate!" "Please don't open the door!" "I cannot lie, Ayia." "Then don't open the door." "Please!" "Don't run away from things that scare you." "You need to face them." "Do you remember our mill?" "He used to bring me here in order to please him." "Mother didn't know that he was doing it to me..." "The different blood I have inside me caused his desire." "I couldn't even imagine..." "We loved him like our own dad." "He threatened me that if anybody found out he would hang me on this hook..." "Mirra..." "He had power over me!" "I'll show you..." "They used to live in our village." "They do still but can't forgive themselves because of him..." "I wanted it myself!" "I wanted it myself..." "I wanted it myself..." "I wanted it myself..." "I wanted it myself..." "I wanted it myself..." "No, I didn't want it!" "I was teasing him..." "I was teasing him..." "I was teasing him." "Don't blame yourself, he is no longer with us!" "He was punished by God!" "Don't hurry, Ayia." "Where is she?" "I put her on the floor." "She gets weaker and weaker." "It gets harder for you to come back too." "Yes, but I still have energy." "She doesn't wake up." "You haven't found the main reason." "She experienced everything you saw." "Therefore it's harder for her." "Let me try again." "Don't you need time to recover?" "No, I want to help her now!" "You have to find her deepest fear." "The book says only killing the heart of her fear will stop the disease." "If you don't find it, she will die." "I understand." "I miss you so much." "Nobody is here, it's only you and me..." "I feel so well and calm inside," "Ayia." "Nothing can happen to you here." "To me?" "Yes." "What are you most afraid of right now?" "Of losing my dear sister..." ""But the book says, only killing the heart of the fear will stop the disease." "I have to do it."" "Then you're afraid that I might die?" "Ayia, stay here!" "My knife!" "It's not there..." "How could she know in her mind that I was hiding it here?" "Mirra..." "Soon everything will be as it used to be..." "I will save you now..." "I will kill your fear..." "Mother..." "Mirra!" "Ayia..." "You are wondering whether I'm real or just part of your imagination?" "If I'm in your imagination, what is my mission here?" "And, if I'm real, how do I happen to be here...?" "Well?" "Ayia, either you answer me or not," "I know what's on your mind." "Where's my sister?" "Where we left her..." "In my house." "Don't you want to know where we are now?" "Self-sacrifice..." "Honestly, I was surprised." "It is a very pure act, Ayia!" "And I was thinking, why can't you be part of "my world" with God's will?" "Stop being scared or you will see what you fear most now!" "Once I heard a voice..." "It was the voice of God himself." "Everything that happened to me and you..." "Please Father Herman..." "Listen to me!" "My gift is God's will." "The truth is that he created our world in his subconscious and allowed the chosen ones to create their own world as well." "I am afraid I cannot let you go..." "Please welcome..." "Ayia!" "My children, you will be Adam and Eve, the first ones in my new world..." "Ayia!" "Ayia!" "I saw them, they were laying in the basement, unconscious." "ONE YEAR LATER" ""I'll always be with you." "And I'll be waiting until you come back." "Every day I keep asking God for it..." "Ayia, please come back...""