"Who is it?" "Azem?" "There's a hat on A?" "What hat?" "I see Azem. ls it a good hat?" "A friend of yours with a hat wants to talk to you." "There is a hot on A." "Azem." "Thank you, Remzi, thank you." "Everything lost its taste, Azem. Istanbul isn't the old Istanbul now." "Kokorec, beer, prawns, every thing is spoiled." "You know these things, Azem." "Tell me, why is everything spoiled?" "Why spoiled?" "You tell me, you know it." "Once you used to come here." "You had a friend; he started to fight when he was drunk." "You used to come together." "He used to call you 'Inspector'." "You inspected everything." "You often came to Lefter's place." "We were talking about you." "Remzi was telling me about you." "Take a seat." "Hello, Sir.-Hello." "How are you, Cemil?" "Believe me, I haven't been here since 7 years." "What will you have Cemil?" "Beer." "Two beers." "How are you, Remzi?" "Me and the passage are getting old together." "We can't hold on." "We're spoiled like everything." "Look around, can you see the old-time beauty?" "No I'll tell Cakir Baba to play you the old melodies." "You've put on a lot of kilos, Cemil." "Remzi was telling me you were a thin young man." "Not that bad, just a little fat." "I'll tell you something, Azem. I'm happy that you came" ". ...but still I'm worried and feel uneasiness." "Why?" "I don't know." "Wasn't it always the same?" "I had a feeling of guiltiness about you. lt's still the same." "To our old days." "No, to tomorrow, to the beautiful days of tomorrow." "Tomorrow.-Yes, tomorrow." "What a nice thing to have tomorrow." "For me, tomorrow is always dark, Azem." "But for you tomorrow is better than today." "Yes, to your tomorrow." "I have a great weakness for men. lf l like one, I want to sleep with him." "I don't like young boys. I always prefer mature men." "I like dark men with a mustache." "I'm sorry for not having a mustache." "Children, brought by sleepless nights." "The sea and sky aren't always blue." "Your mothers are preparing a bitter world for you on crushed sheets." "You're scattered in the wind of the desperate life," ". ..returned back from the closed doors." "Please don't be born in this period of time where the humanity is sold for a penny" "Did you like it?" "It's my poem." "It's called 'A ballad To The Unborn Children'." "I love children but we don't have the right..." ". ..to bring them to this world and let them suffer." "We humans are worst than animals." "We don't have the right to make them suffer for our pleasure." "I love my poem. I wrote it 3 - 4 years ago." "It was published in a paper and got first prize." "I got 50 lira. I still keep that money." "Aren't you going to sleep with me?" "No.-But you paid." "It's not important." "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "What happened to your face?" "Suddenly she decided to be decent and scratched me, maniac woman." "If anybody asks, tell them we fought with the drivers, I'll make up the rest." "I'm dizzy, I think I drank too much." "What did we do the whole night?" "We had fun." "I didn't have fun, I was sad." "You're always unhappy." "You used to be unhappy." "Every inspection of yours ended with sadness, it's still the same." "And you?" "Me?" "You always think I'm wrong, always." "You interfered my drink, my sleep, everything." "You never liked me." "But I proved myself though I was wrong." "I got everything whatever I aimed at." "Look, I'm not the same Cemil who was in Kadirga, in Student Home." "Now I have wealth, reputation and everything." "And you, what have you done Azem with a hat?" "What have you done, tell me?" "Except waiting to get a promotion?" "If I had listened to you,I would be wasting my life.." ". ..at a road construction of the Road Construction Company." "Are you happy?" "You like your life?" "Sure I am. I have a good job, a wife I love." "I have no worries." "Remember, you used to lie a lot?" "And you were good at deceiving yourself." "You're still lying, Cemil." "Why should I lie?" "You're not happy, you're drunk." "We'll talk when you get sober." "You keep playing happiness but don't try to make believe." "Leave me alone. I'll sleep." "Necibe. -l told you I'm tired." "Darling." "Don't you understand, I said, I'm tired." "Okay,okay, darling." "Sleep." "Have a nice sleep." "I love you, I love you very much." "You, with a hat.." "The friend." "Yes, you're the friend with a hat." "But where is your hat?" "You looked very serious when you got out of the car." "You scared me." "As a friend, I had to look like that." "I'm serious when I do my job." "You know me?" "Right, who are you?" "As I said, a friend." "Whose friend?" "Some people's." "And mine?" "Yours too." "Then..." "Then,letyourname be'Friend'." "Now you're the friend with a hat for me." "Hello." "First there were houses along this road." "Then I went to Switzerland." "Cemil sent me to have good manners." "It's called Finishing School, you know it?" "No, I don't know." "When you came back, did you use what you learned?" "I don't know:" "I became so quiet when I came back here." "For instance, I used to play tennis everyday.Now I don't feel like it." "That white house, isn't it beautiful?" "It look like a Spanish house." "I don't know, I suppose it does." "There was a show the other day." "They put tents, and made a dressing room." "Were you a model on the show?" "Yes, but I decided at the last moment." "This is our disco. I come here because I like music." "Why do the others come?" "Mostly to have a love for the season." "Adults don't come here." "Don't the adults interfere these seasonal loves?" "No." "They only interfere when the love gets serious." "How?" "Gulin's and Dogan's parents objected to their marriage." "Now they can't see each other." "This is the casino." "You eat and gamble here." "Balls are arranged here, and, etc." "Do you come here?" "I'm bored in the building." "Men over there and women over there always gamble." "And what else do they do?" "They gossip." "They gossip all summer." "What are you doing among them?" "Sunbathe, swimming, I read books." "What do you read?" "Which books do you read?" "I love mostly horror books." "Of course I love horror movies too." "Aren't you scared when you watch these movies?" "No. I'm never scared." "Hello, Ahu." "How are you?" "l'm fine, thanks." "She's beautiful" "My father's tire was torn too, the day before brother Turgut." "Ms was got upset." "He talkes to the administrators." "What's up, Sirin?" "They've got a flat tire again." "They've got a flat tire again." "Azem." "Cemil's friend." "Hi, sweetie.-Hi." "How is Cemil?" "He was drunk again." "He's in bed, sleeping." "Good-morning I've slept long, right?" "Where's your sister?" "She's playing cards with Hulya and others." "Sirin, a bier." "Did Azem leave?" "He left." "He left a note for you." "Will you take me too?" "Hello, friend." "Cemil, my bad boy." "You'd never forget your Mother Tabiat." "is she Semra?" "She's a big girl now." "How are you, girl?" " Welcome Cemil." "And is he Gunay?" "We've grown up a lot since you saw us last." " Let me introduce you to Semra.-Hello." "This is Mother Tabiat." "Welcome." "Cemil, let's make cigkofte, you eat?" "Do you even ask?" "You too?" " Ok, I do." "Where's Miss Mualla?" "When will she be back?" "She's resting in Kumburgaz." "She felt tired lately." "When will my night dress be ready?" " l think we can deliver it on next Thursday.-l hope you do." "Yusuf, is it you?" "Hi, what are you doing?" "Your adress. ." "We shared this room with Cemil during school years." "This corner." "Cemil used to imagine to be rich in front of this window." "Where did you sleep?" "At this corner." "Whose are these books?" "Mine." "Aren't these too dangerous?" "Yes, they could be dangerous for you." "Why for us?" "Because you are no more Brother Cemil of 10 years ago." "Now you're Mr. Cemil." "At the end we found water 32 meters below." "As water came up, Muhittin's behaviour is changed." "So he's very fond of his cucumbers, ha?" "Muhittin is my brother." "He's 2 years younger than me." "Why do they find water 32 meters below?" "Aren't there fountains, rivers or lakes there?" "No." "This my fabulous wife, Azem." "Look at her, how magnificent she is." "This is my Friend Azem.-Hello." "We've met yesterday morning." "Azem will stay with us." "He is on vacation for a month." "Be careful, the A has a hat." "You know how thoughtless you are?" "Why?" "What is the man doing in our house?" "is it an hotel here?" "Or is it a boarding house?" "He's my friend, my best friend." "There's a young girl here." "You don't know Azem." "Isn't he a man?" "He is but not like the men we know." "Really?" "So he's not like the men we know." "How are you Halil?" "Fine, Uncle Ibrahim." "How is your mother?" "Mother is fine." "Why don't you come to the village?" "x-No time, I've got work to do." "Look, Azem." "You are used to guns." "How is it?" "You like it?" "Fine gun, but you've to know when and for what to use it." "Why do you carry a gun?" "I don't carry it. I just keep it." "I may need it one day." "Against whom?" "You never know, maybe against myself." "Hello, Friend.How are you?" "Why don't you swim?" "l never swim, I just look at it." "At what?" "At sea." "How?" "Like that." "I didn't understand." "Like that." "Like that." "Why don't you swim?" "I feel ashamed because of the girls." "And I can't swim." "It's not very deep, look." "Right but I get drown in a glass of water, even in a spoonful of water." "lsn't there sea where you live?" "No." "A lake?" "No." "I can't live without the sea." "But how can you stand it?" "Like that." "Well, what do you do there?" "We construct roads. I work for Highway Construction Co." "Hello guys.Could I have a cold drink, Apo?" "Okey." "Ahu likes you a lot, she asks, who's this man with moustache?" "Azem, Azem with mustache." "I didn't mean offensive." "She is just loking." "Why don't you swim?" "He is ashamed of girls." "I am as hungry as an elephant." "Which fish do you like the most, Azem?" "Seabream, growler, red mulet, sole, swordfish, and of course lobster." "I have forgotten about fish. lt doesn't matter." "Let them cook a seabrean for you." "And you kids?" "l want grill.-And I want meat." "Do you have shish kebap?" "Yes we do." "l want steamed sole." "Sole does not come steamed." "It is grilled or fried." "Have a meager fish." "Meager then." "One grilled sole, one steamed meager, one grilled seabream, one sis kebap.." "and fried red mullet for me." "Ok?" "Who is this man?" "What is he like?" "He is Cemil's friend." "An interesting man." "An engineer." "He works for road company." "He is interesting." "How long will he stay with you?" "I don't know." "Why are you so interested?" "I don't know." " Are you comsng with me?" "l will meet with Semra." "What have you got to do with her?" "Be careful." "They may harm you." "What harm?" "Youngsters in these days become dangerous." "See Tabiat Ana's daughter?" "Yesterday she was a kid, what she reads today." "I don't agree with you about Cemil." "He lives a rotten life." "I think he can't saved." "You're trying in vain." "This man is my friend, I don't feel like leaving him in that swamp." "Does he think he's in a swamp?" "He's happy with his life." "Why should Cemil change?" "Why would he?" "I think your behaviour is wrong." "You better leave the man alone" "Because you can't deprieve a manof his conditions" "Those conditions created today's Cemil," "With the change of his conditions, Cemil's change is possible." "But it's wrong to expect this change from Cemil." "Cemil can't be saved." "And it's none of our business to try it.Who is Cemil today?" "A man changed his stature and got rotten." "Get real, get rid of your old habits." "See the things from a perspective of classifivation." "Isn't he a farmer, after all?" "Not anymore. lf we don't determine right with whom we deal..." ". ..failure and defeat are inevitable for us." "We can't show everyone the right way, it's beyond us." "What do you think about Melike?" "A beautiful girl, that's all." "A nightingale unaware of the world." "It couldn't be otherwise." "Could it?" "What are you waiting for, Melike?" "For nothing, I'm just sitting." "I think you're doing wrong." "What is wrong?" "Azem." "Don't hide it. lf l were you." "You can't be me, sister. I'm 18 years old." "But the man is 40." "How is my splendid wife?" "How is it going, friend?" "Fine." "Look what I have for you." "How is my friend?" "Aren't you asleep?" "I read the poems." "They are very nice." "Your love didn't leave me." "I was hungry, I was thirsty." "The night was dark The soul was alone, the soul was quiet ." "The soul is shattered" "And my hands were cuffed I was without tobacco, without sleep" "Your love didn't leave me." "You know, stone wall iron door, blind window My pillow, my bed my chain" "I died and died for the sad picture I kept" "You know, my visitor has sent me green onions." "My cigarette smells." "Carnation snow has fallen on the mountain of my hometown." "Good night." "I have serious worries about Melike." "How?" "As a young girl." "Halil." "Bring me some salt." "Halil, what's wrong with you?" "Nothing." "You look uneasy." "I'm not." "Give a chicken." "One?" "No, two." "Let's talk, shall we?" "About what?" "We'll find something." "Let's talk." "Why do you break windows, cut the tires?" "Do others know too?" "No." "I finished the secondary school." "I've been working 4 years." "Last year my lungs went ill." "I can't work hard any more." "Mother works over there, look." "That's my mother, that old woman." "That boy is the young son of the house." "He studies in France." "We live in Selimpasa, it's near." "We have a house there." "Look, friend." "Friend?" "Yes, friend." "Well, but Sir." "Not Sir, but friend." "Sure there are generous people here." "The old women living in that house." "She had her cat circumsized." "She has a bird, it died, she was very unhappy." "She arranged a religious ceremony for the bird." "Last year they gathered 7,500 lira and bought clothes for the children in Selimpasa." "They will do it this year too." "Why do you break the windows, Halil?" "I don't know, I've rage in me." "is it over when you break the windows?" "A week or so I feel better." "Then it starts again, I can't help it." "Breaking windows and cutting tires won't change anything, Halil." "Look, you're a young man, you've a long live." "If you wish, you can change the course of your life." "How?" "Why do you let your hair grow long?" "I'll give you a book, Halil." "At first it may be difficult for you, you may not understand." "But you will." "You must read a lot, Halil, a lot." "Who is his man?" "Cemil's friend." "Friend!" "Welcome." "Hello." "Welcome." "Thank you." "Hello." "Hello." "Here you are." "How are you?" "Thank, Mehmet, fine." "How are you?" "Thank you." "ls this yours?" "My friend's." "Let's see." "What does class, saving labour mean?" "What does it mean?" "How did you hear it?" "You were talking to those men." "People here don't like much." "They say, what does this man talk about with servants and workers." "What do you say?" "Me?" "I'm just curious." " About what?" " About what you talk." "You've already heard." "l just heard a few words, that's all." "How old are you, Melike?" "18." "Did you ever earn some money?" "I mean, did you work and got money for it?" "No." "Ones who've never worked won't understand the worker's situation." "When I see you, my heart beats like a bird caught by a cruel hunter, Ahu." "See, if you don't believe me." "What's wrong with her?" "Why is she so sour?" "Could I have a Cola?" "I suppose Ahu is in a dangerous region." "In fact Melike is in the dangerous region." "Why?" "I think it won't be good for Melike. I'm scared of this man." " Why?" " They say this man is..." "What do they say?" " He is..." "Don't start again" "His relationship with Melike, I don't like it at all.They don't say good about this man." "You know it too." "Even his living with us could have bring trouble to us." "What trouble?" "Why would we get in trouble?" "He should go." "You proved your friendship long enough, isn't it enough?" " l lost a lot tonight .-So you don't play any more?" "Right. I have never touched the cards since then." " How many cards?" "2." "2 for me." "3 cards." "Who is this friend of yours, Cemil?" "My friend is none of your business I'm curious." "What does this man talk about with workers and servants?" "Why, won't you talk to the workers?" "You do." "But the way I see it, your friend is uncanny." "Maybe." "Because he's got a hat." "That time, we were working for Road Constructing Company." "We were constructing a road between Bitlis and Siirt." "No woman. I needed a woman. I couldn't sleep." "I couldn't stand it anymore. I told the workers.. ." "...to block the road with the rocks when the first bus came." "They would block the road so the bus would stop." "A bus appeared, they knocked down the rocks. lt's hot, unbearable." "The bus stopped, I was looking for a woman and kind, just woman." "Just a heel, a heel." "No heel, no legs." "Poor Cemil has really suffered." "The faces are veiled, dresses are long." "Believe me, I've lost my imagination." "I've forgotten how a woman looks like." "You, Mr. Azem, how do you solve your sex problems?" "My wife is a little open-minded, I'm sorry." "My wife is a little open-minded, I'm sorry." "Thank God, everything has changed in our country today." "Today, Turkey is one of the richest countries in the world." "You can't find one poor peasant." "No more baggy trousers and sandals, they are now history." "He's right." "Today, in every house of every village, you'll see radio, TV, refrigerator." "But some intellectuels keep telling that villagers are in misery." "They do it on purpose." "All they do is mess around." "There isn't a village without roads, without a school and dispensary." "The workers are the same." "They are on our throats asking for a raise every day." "I don't understand what they're doing that much money." "They're never satisfied, believe me." "What is your idea about this, Sir?" " Not Sir but Azem." "What?" "Azem." "There's a hat on A." "There a hat, on what?" "There's a hat on A." "Mr. Azem, what do you talk to our workers about?" "Guys, if I were you, I wouldn't discuss with him." "Why?" "Why?" "A has a hat on it." "Do you have a hat?" "Your husband kisses everyone's wife. I'll kiss you too." "Hello." "Cemil, the great." "How are you, baby, Ahu?" "Your wonderful wife kisses real nice, Cemil." "Believe me, wonderful." "Look at the propaganda." "Who has a beautiful wife, can kiss my wife... . ..because it'll be easy to get even." "Who has a beautiful sister-in-law, can kiss my sister-in-law." "I let the men with beautiful wives kiss my wife so I kiss their wives. ls it alright?" "Look, friend, your behaviour and your family relations are no good." "If we're friends, we have to be straight." "Yes." "Your situation isn't good at all." "Your friends calls it "to be civilized"." "You call it open-minded. I think it's not being civilized." "It's called being degenerated." "To be rotten." "What does it mean that men with beautiful wives can kiss my wife and men with beautiful sisters-in-law can kiss my sister-in-law?" "Does it suit you?" "A man comes and kisses your wife, and you laugh." "What is this, I can't understand." "Where did you come from, Cemil?" "You used to get angry when someone looked . ." ". ..at the women with you, from 500 meters distance." "Remember?" "Erdogan is my friend, he likes to joke." "He doesn't mean anything bad." "Every joke is a little serious, isn't it?" "Are you sure?" "l saw it with my oven eyes." "Cemil, come with me." "What's up?" " Come with me." "What is it?" " What's going on?" "l'm not lying." "You're lying." " You're lying, you're lying." " l'm not lying." "You're lying, lying." "Yes, you're a pimp." "You're lying, you're lying." "Muhittin Agha, Muhittin Agha, the car is coming." "Welcome, brother Cemil" "ls this my uncle?" "Yes he is, son." "Don't cry, Muhittin, we are here." "Welcome." "I had promised, if my brother comes to the village. ." ". .." "I'll sacrifice a sheep, I said." "It has been more than 5 years since you forgot us." "I mean, you started being rich and forgot us." "You wouldn't remember us, if it wasn't for Azem." "You'd get us out of your mind for good." "Don't talk like that." "You don't know Istanbul and its business." "We have a lot of work to do but we haven't forgotten you." "This man, your only brother and friend." "You appreciate his worth." "What kind of good deeds..." "... he did for us only God knows and we do." "Why mention it now, Muhittin?" "My heart is broken." "Father died." "Two months later mother died." "We sent you a telegram." "I was busy. lt was very important." "I couldn't leave." "Mother kept asking for you, she insisted we send a telegram to you." "She wanted to see you." "She died missing you." "Look, look here and here." "Which is beautiful?" "At the beginning they laughed at me." "They told me to plant resin. I resisted without giving up." "I dug, planted and watered this place all by myself." "Azem helped me mostly." "Look, look, we have everything now." "Tomatoes, paprika, melon, water-melon." "I planted trees." "The villagers cut the trees." "The old people of the village tried to stop me, they mocked me." "You can't find water here, they said.They said, you are crazy." "Then I was angry, I shaved my beard and moustache." "Manhood is not about beard, it is about working." "Look, We have everthing now." "Melons, cucumbers." "Don't touch them." "Don't touch them. I took pains to plant them." "Grasshopper, enemy of green." "They are traitors." "They are grasshoppers." "They don't know how I worked and sweated." "They don't give me a break." "The kids steal them all the time." "Let the kids alone, men steal them at night." "But I wait. I take a stick, sit in the corner and wait." "Here, eat, it's good." "Thanks, I won't eat." "You won't eat?" "My God, you don't eat cucumber, everyone loves it." "One day I saw water running in front of the mill." "One day I saw grass in front of the house." "I thought , if we had water, we could have green." "We could have everything." "And Azem came at that time." "He has seen you in Istanbul." "You've given him 7000 lira I told him about it." "He thought about it." "He said, 'Don't worry, we'll find water'." "We worked together." "We found the artesian workers." "We worked for days." "People gathered around us, they thought we were crazy." "We found the water 10 days later." "We needed a machine but we didn't have money." "Azem borrowed money and we bought the machine." "And this is my machine. I found the water 32 meters below the earth." "When I wish, I make a paradise here, water runs like a stream, look." "You see the water?" "Look here, this water makes this place a paradise." "I get power from the motor. I turn the lights on whenever I wish." "You see this wire?" "It carries power to the house." "Nobody has electricity in this village but I have." "When I have a guest or some important people, I turn the lights on." "It gets as bright as the day all over." "I saw this lamp in a store in Aksaray. I liked it very much." "They said, it couldn't be used in the house." "I said, why not?" "I do as I like." "Was I right?" "Yes, you were." "Could the children eat with us?" "They'll eat later, you feel at home." "Azem, tell me about Istanbul?" "What shall I tell about it?" "How is your wife?" "I hope she's fine." "She's fine." "If God gave you a child, how nice it'd be." "Look at mine." "Five of them died. lf you're healthy, you can get many children." "You know what I thought when you were on vacation, Azem?" "What did you think?" "I thought, this time Azem finds a good girl for himself, but you came empty handed." "I wish I were Muhittin." "How happy he is, he clings to life so tight." "A handful of green,a handful of water and a small field make him very happy." "But for me, life has no taste." "You too." "You have an idea, a point that you believe in." "I've got nothing to believe in. I'm finished." "A person is never finished, Cemil." "People who think they've got enough, they're finished." "You did that, you were satisfied with what you earned." "I wasn't satisfied, I was tired." "Your point was to get rich, you became rich, and it was over." "From that point on, you started to get rotten." "Rotten, yes, rotten." "I'm rotten but I'll be saved." "How are you, Cemil?" "I feel as if things are falling apart in me, Azem, as if the earth is shaking." "It's not the earth that shakes, it's you." "Me?" "What are they doing?" "They're taking pictures of our misery." "We have many beautiful, historical places, why are they taking pictures here?" "Let's stop them." "We'll stop our misery." "There'll be a day that they won't take pictures of our misery." "Cemil." "Cemil." "Cemil" "What are you looking for?" "Who are you seeking?" "Myself, I'm looking for Cemil." "Did you lose yourself here, that you're looking for it here?" "I will leave my wife." "I will cut off the gangrene arm." "I don't believe you." "I'll leave everything. I'll make a new start." "We can go back to the village." "Stop this urban romanticism." "What will you do in village when everybody wants to go to the city?" "There is no way back." "Always forward." "Yes Forward." "We will succeed Azem, we'll succeed." "Sould I believe it?" "Believe." "I'll shake your hand after I believe you." "Are you leaving?" "I'm leaving." "Maybe we will never see each other again, right?" "Maybe." "I guessed so." "Goodbye, Melike." "Friend?" "Haven't you forgotten something, don't you miss anything?" "Just to moment." "Now you can go." "One day, we'll get even, for that slap. for sure." "Definitely, one day." "Look, Azem." "You're used to guns." "How is it?" "You like it?" "Fine gun, but you've to know when and for what to use it." "Why do you carry a gun?" "I don't carry it, I just keep it. I may need it one day." "Against whom?" "You never know." "Maybe against myself." "Cemil." "Cemil, Cemil." "Welcome, friend." "Look, I had my hair cut." "You were right about it." "I'm very glad, it's good." "Are you leaving?" "I'm leaving."