"ISLAS MARÍAS" "I'd better not see because I'd like to take the whole flower shop." "Send me the carnations, solar goose and tulips." " And the roses and orchids?" " Those too." "5 dozens of white roses and 5 of pink roses." "And also the orchids." "They'll look beautiful in my son's party." "Nothing is as beautiful as flowers." " And more if it's my son's." " And what a son is Ricardo!" "He's been in the Military Academy for 5 years and he has got many awards." "He will be given his lieutenant sword today." "I'm leaving because it's late and I still have stuff to do." "Of course you are invited for tonight." "The flowers will be ready in your house in half an hour." " Thanks." "And you and your family are invited too, to meet my son Ricardo." "Thank you." "Good morning." "Is everything ready?" "All ready." "I suppose the sword you received will be kept in a reliquary." "Imagine, your sword as an officer." "I couldn't keep my son's sword." "The day after he graduated in Toledo the war in Spain started and well... you know the story." "That your son lives long and and that he wears his medal." "Thank you." "You will meet him tonight and see how honorable he is." "He deserves not the poor party his mom prepared but the most beautiful reception." " I see you at nine." " It'll be a pleasure." "Well, I'm leaving, it's late." "May God go with you." " Good morning." " How are you, Doña Rosa?" "Come in." "They are gorgeous!" "You'll see when they are all ready." "Cakes like this are not longer baked." " Neither are son's as Ricardo." " You are right." "There's one in a hundred sisters." "I'll see you at nine to introduce my son Ricardo." "And take the guys with you." "I'll do everything I can to visit your cadet." "He's not a cadet!" "An Officer!" "Goodbye, Doña Rosa." "Excuse me, ma'am." " Is she awake?" " Yes, ma'am." "Alejandra, daughter." "It's already 10:30." "Yes, mom." "We must be at the Military Academy before 12 and you have to get ready." " I'll be ready in 30 minutes." "You arrived very late last night." "I had a date, mom." "I asked you not to see that guy again." "You must change your way of living." "Ricardo will be back today and Felipe hasn't come for the last three nights." "He might be back later." "It's impossible he had forgotten this important day to the family." "I'll get ready, mom." " Did my son arrive?" " No, ma'am." "When you finish here, clean the living room." "Yes, ma'am." "This was sent from the store." "And so was this." " Good." " And these flowers." "Take all the flowers to the kitchen." " Good." " Girls." "Receive them." "Take the china out and clean every single piece." "Be careful since it's not ours." "Yes, ma'am." "I think the carpet is too old to be vacuumed." "I just cleaned it superficially." "Look how it's lost parts of it!" "Leave it like that." "The party will be in the hall." "I know, ma'am." "This carpet is very old after a thousand feet dancing on it, we'll have to throw it away." "Here where I held a wake over the day you died we dreamed of having a big party in our fifty anniversary." "God didn't want us to have it." "But today we'll have the party you always wanted." "The first and the last party in our house since you left." "I want to celebrate Ricardo's party here." "We both offer it to him." "If you could only see him." "So pure." "So handsome." "So full of light." "I'm not worried about him." "He..." "He is the way you used to be." "Honorable." "And convinced of his ideals." "The others." "Our other children I'm afraid of them." "How am I going to face you?" "I think the time is eating them up this time when nobody believes in anything and nobody cares but only about pleasures and money." "Ma'am." "Mr. Gonzalez wants to see you." "Let him in." "Come in." " How are you?" " Doña Rosa, how are you?" " Come in." " Thanks." "Sorry about the mess, but today is Ricardo's party..." " Congratulate him on my behalf." " You have to do it personally." "An old friend like you cannot be absent." "I'll see you at nine." "My son and I will appreciate it." "I am sorry, Doña Rosa." "The gentleman is the clerk of the court of Justice." "That is me." "I have bad news, Doña Rosa." "The trial will be today at 12." "Trial?" "It's impossible!" "Due time was last week, ma'am." "Not today!" "Today is my son's party." "Go to court and ask them to wait until tomorrow." "It's going to be hard." "Everything is ready." "Everything is ready, Doña Rosa." "But the Judge can delay the trial a few more days." " We'll see what can be done." " Tell the Judge I am begging him." "Believe me, I'll do everything I can." "Thank you very much." "Don't worry." "Excuse me." "I walk you." "And you, young cadets who receive today your officers sword remember that the tradition of the Military Academy is based in honor and loyalty." "And that you are called to continue this glorious tradition left by "the heroic children" and reaffirm it in all the Mexican army for the good and exaltation of our dear country." "Military Academy..." "Here!" "Lieutenant Juan de la Barrera." "Died for our motherland!" "Students Vicente Suarez." "Died for our motherland!" "Juan Escutia." "Died for our motherland!" "Fernando Montes de Oca." "Died for our motherland!" "Agustin Melgar." "Died for our motherland!" "Francisco Marquez." "Died for our motherland!" "Sergeant Jesus Moreno Gonzalez." "With your permission, General." "Sergeant Antonio Aviles Dominguez." "With our permission, General." "Cadet Ricardo Ortiz Suarez." "First award!" "With your permission, General." "Sight to the right!" "Now!" "Sight to the right!" "Now!" "Sight to the right!" "Now!" "Sight to the right!" "Now!" "Sight to the right!" "Now!" "To the right!" "Now!" "Sight to the right!" "Felipe is the only one missing from all your children, right, ma'am?" "He might be arriving late." "Excuse me." "Is it you, Carlos?" "I was waiting for your call all the afternoon I can't wait anymore." "Tomorrow this time, you will be in Mexico." "Don't make excuses." "What?" "I don't care!" "I need to see you right away!" "Tell me where I can meet you, or I'll go to your house." "Please, mother." "I insist, tell me if Felipe doesn't live here anymore." "He does." "But it's like he didn't." "He hasn't come in three nights." "My poor son is not as he used to be." "He dropped out school." "I don't know where he is going to end with the bad friends he has." " Tell me where I can find him." " Yes, Ricardo." "Now that I have you here bring him back please." "... I know that not having her  is killing my heart." "I need to find consolation  by drinking as a coward  who can't stand the pain." "Her absence is killing me  I can't continue dreaming  that she will come back one day." "I want her  to forgive me." "To forget her rancors  I don't want her to remember that I offended her." "I don't care what people say  that my soul is worth nothing." "If they saw me brave in fights  see me as a coward  crying for love." "Time flies  and it says that  I shall not see her again." "I love her so much  I want to stop crying  but I can't help it  It can't be." "Pain like mine, it's so sad  hasn't existed and won't exist  and I love her devotedly." "That's why  I'm begging her  that's why I'm singing  what sings  my heart." "I don't care what people say  that my soul is worth nothing." "If you see me brave in fights  see me now as a coward  crying  for love." "I have to win the lottery to move somewhere else you and I, Felipe and have you all." "After you win the lottery, buy a medicine for your head." "Felipe will be mine first." "Right, Felipito?" "My treat, doctor." "He is not a doctor." "Don't bother him!" "He is still a medicine student but he is already a doctor to me." " Even he aban..." " You heard, didn't you?" " Go away." " Okay, doctor." "Okay." "I'm going." "But before, I want to tell you you have miraculous hands." "While performing a surgery or playing the guitar." "You shouldn't feel bad because as a poet said:" ""Where force reigns, reason has no place I am like that."" "Stop it." " Go away or you'll see." " No, no, no, no." "I'm going." "I got to go, doctor." "Goodbye." "Have a seat." "Good evening, lieutenant." "I'm looking for a guy who sings and plays the guitar." "Since I am in uniform I can't come in." "Don Felipe?" "He's been with a couple of chicks." " Do you want me to bring him?" " Yes." "The sooner, the better." "We'll bring him now." "Excuse me, a lieutenant is asking for you." "Who?" "A lieutenant from the Military Academy." "From the Military Academy?" "I'm sorry, brother." "I slipped." "You graduated today, right?" "Would you let me congratulate you?" "Okay, brother." "Let's go home, we have to see our mom." "I'm not going home." "I'm too drunk." "Sure." "Let's go." "Let me roll." "Don't exaggerate your military roll or I'll be disrespectful." "Remember I am your older brother." "I know I'm worth nothing..." "as the head of the family." "You can kill me if you want." " Take out your gun and kill me." " You have to be better soon." "Be better?" "It's easy trying to play the redeemer when one's away." "Cloistered like a monk." "What is hard is to live in the real word." "Seeing how what one must love sinks." "It hurts you watching me drunk and unsuccessful, right?" "What do you know about my failures and drinking moments?" "After all, when all that surrounds you is lost one doesn't feel like being rescued." "I don't understand you." "What do you mean?" "You better don't get it." "You are a man of honor and you fly too high to understand our misery." "Can I take a shower, doctor?" "Of course." "Here is the shower." " Wasn't she Alejandra?" " No, she isn't!" "Let's go!" "Wait." "Alejandra left at the moment you left." "She didn't tell me." "I learned after that she had gone." "I said I'd kill you if I saw you in these places." "Bad woman!" "I warned you, poor devil!" "You won't get out alive!" "What are you doing?" "I will kill her!" "You'll see why I am the way I am." " She is our sister!" "We should take her with us." "This way!" "Go out." "Wait at home with our mother." "The coat!" "What we're going to do is take that man out." "Let's go!" "Ladies Miss gentlemen." "Nowadays, the eager for pleasures of a frivolous and selfish society makes up any pretext to make parties for every single event." "It forgets that the communion of a family can be the real meaning of a party like the one that will be celebrated today by a model family to honor one of the sons for the most difficult and beautiful of the duties:" "The fulfilling of his obligations." "The sacrifices of this mother haven't been in vain." "She learned how to transform the memory of her dead husband into a cult to make him grow in her children." "And because her loving heart as a constant light continue with the foundations of this house." "Doña Rosa enjoy the happy coming years." " Cheers!" " Thank you, colonel." " Very nice party." "I mean it." " Ma'am, thank you very much." " Good night." " Good night." " Ma'am, see you later." " See you later." " Good night, Doña Rosa." " Good night." "May this blessing reign forever in your house." " Thank you, Margarita." " Good night." "This is the happiest night of my life." "I have no words to thank you." "That we could all get together." "However I have something important to tell you." "I feel embarrassed having to talk about this with you." "Our house is in troubles." "My God, it's God's will I have all my children with me." "And we will never be apart again." "Right?" "Go with mom and Alejandra, I'll come back right away." "This is my business." "You stay with me." "Come on." "You go with my mom and Alejandra." "What happens?" " Are they the ones?" " Yes." "Yes, what?" "What is this all about?" "Go away, mother." "I'm telling you to go." "Take her, Felipe." "I'm sorry, this is a very important issue..." "Don't say it here." "Say it outside." "Felipe." "You do the talking." "What is it about?" "I have nothing to say." "I come to arrest these men." "Arrest them?" " My children?" " Yes, ma'am." "They are both guilty of murdering a man." "The man is a taxi driver he drove the dead body to a ditch." "...Not to the ditch." "They took him to the highway." "He really seemed to be drunk." "I knew something was wrong." "I saw the blood in the seat." " They didn't even tip me." " This is the weapon." "Caliber 45, it is from the army." "It's mine, I am responsible." "I killed him for honor." "Here I am." "I am an officer." "I know my duty." "Let me bring my belongings." "All right, lieutenant." "Take care of my mom, Felipe." "My goodness!" "No!" "Yes, sir." "I killed this man." "I did it myself." "I took the gun from Ricardo's bedroom." "He helped me carry the body to the ditch." "He wanted to blame himself for what he did." "That is the truth." "The only truth." "I confess before God and before men so it remains in the immaculate memory of the one who died for honor." "I am very sorry, Doña Rosa." "I will appeal before the court and see what we can get." "It is an ignominy that a mortgage of 35,000 pesos, and 19,000 due interests they are going to keep the house." " Let's go, daughter." " Yes, mom." "I'll talk to you later, Alejandra." "Leave me alone with my mother." "I can't let them condemn you." "Shut up and go." "I said I'll talk to you later." "I asked you to go." "We have to be strong, mother." "I will get out of here." "And we will fight together." "Our house will be what it used to be." "Forgive me the pain I caused you." "Have faith in God." "Ricardo can't talk anymore." "Tell me the truth, my son." "I told the truth." "Are you suspicious about Ricardo?" "You could've said nothing you thought the death of your brother will make us forget and you didn't." "To leave with remorse and eating my soul up." "No, mother." "I sinned and I'm worth nothing." "But I know what obligations are." "To Ricardo honor was the most valuable thing in the world." "And I am happy to give his immaculate name back." "I have caused you so much pain." "I offended you by throwing away all the dreams you had for me." "I have nothing to pay the blessing of writing down the name of the honored and blessed one." "You will be in jail for so long that when you go out I'll be dead." "Don't say that, mother." "You will be waiting with Alejandra." "I have to pay what I did to be worthy of your love." "I don't want you to suffer." "There, inside the jail days must be long." "Take this for anything you need." "We don't need it, but you do." "Keep it, mother." "I don't need anything." "I just want you to come." "Give me your blessing and call Alejandra." "I want to talk to her." "My son." "Stop!" "Now!" "Within a few minutes you will leave this prison and the city." "The place where you  will be rehabilitated as men and as citizens offers you a possibility to work." "So you can return to society with some savings to live." "I give you the listed prisoners, sergeant major." "There outside are the relatives of the prisoners." "I don't know how they've got the information." "You know it, major." "As always." "Attention!" "Escort and prisoners!" "Quick march!" "Now!" "Get up!" "Let's go!" "Felipe!" "Don't leave me alone!" " Meneses Robles, Antonio." " Here." " Leon Rojas, Marcelino." " Here." " Suarez Ortiz, Felipe." " Here." "It's prohibited to smoke in front of the authorities." " Fernandez Gonzalez, Rodolfo." " Here." " Solis Cossio, Fabian." " Here." "Here begins a new life which will depend on you to be your redemption throw your work." "For those willing to follow the discipline of the prison and rehabilitate it won't be difficult to get used to the island." "But for those who live  with rebelliousness and rancor and try to start a fight in our community life in prison will be hard." "You'd better learn the rules." "Only repentance will save you from this grave." "Major!" "Take them to the barricades and make all the arrangements." " Okay, General." "Right flank  now!" "Quick march  now!" "Keep silence!" "Now you know this is your new home." "Learn that... even the bravest will become humble at the end." "How many years, "Garambullo"?" " Seven." " It'll be hard to come back." "You can't smoke in front of the authorities!" "Don't hit him, please." "What are you doing here?" "Go away." "In the line." "Choose your barracks." "The one you like the most." "Break the line!" "Run, hurry, man." "That is the first thing you will be told." "That there will be a runaway and that if you are a man you should follow them." "Nobody tells me that." "They know they cannot count on me." "But imagine that everything goes well and that they arrive to San Blas, then what?" "Where would we escape from not from the Islas Marias but from ourselves." "And that that is very difficult." "Look seven years ago I had a sentence of three years." "Then  I was as desperate as you are." "As desperate as everybody else." "After, life calmed me down." "Tell me why should we get desperate?" "For freedom?" "And where is the freedom?" "Freedom is like the plants of a hill those which cure many but at the end any." "It's better not wanting to..." "to leave this place." "It's better not wanting anything." "Do you understand?" "It's better not wanting anything so you can live in peace." "Turn the light off." "Yes, turn it off." "Stop!" "Left flank now!" "Break lines!" "Go!" "Left!" "Stop!" "Left flank  now!" "To your barricades!" "Break lines!" " Good afternoon, general." " Good afternoon." "These are the prisoners who behaved well." "They behaved well everywhere in the woods, in the routes in agriculture and everything they were asked to do." "Well, well." "I am satisfied with the behavior I've seen." "And the dedication you have shown despite it has been hard." "And I ask you to show your mates that only well behavior and hard work will give them good points." "As a prize, you will be in charge of some positions here." "Keep quiet!" "No!" " A heart attack!" " No!" " Take him to the hospital!" " No!" "We all have a last name or two or three." "You should have one too." " What was your father's name?" " I don't know." " And your mother's?" " Maria, like me." "But I never met her." "She died when I was two." "I was born here and have never left the island." "I was brought up by a foreman's family who died when some prisoners tried to run away." "At school I was thought that I am a mexican and that beyond the sea it is Mexico." "You come from Mexico, don't you?" "I do, Maria." "From Mexico." "You killed a man." "The governor told me." "Nobody wants to be reminded why he is here." "But that man should have done something to you." "You are a good man." "Your eyes tell me so." "You are as innocent as a flower." "I am not naive..." "I know everything." "I know all the sounds of the night and I can walk through the island without a light." "And I can read the eyes of men." "I know what they think and what they want." "You are sad." "And suffering." "How do you know?" "I saw it in your eyes since you arrived." "You know?" "What?" "I am afraid for the first time." "Afraid of what?" "Of you." "Me?" "I like when you tell me so, Maria." "Don't pay attention to that." "Don't try to run away." " What do you know about it?" " I know everything." "I know why "The silence" suffered a heart attack so he would be taken to the hospital and steal a boat." "Don't pay attention." "Nobody has been able to run away from here." "Hide." "Don't let them get you involved." "Do you want me to call the governor?" "No." "Don't call him." "I love you and I am afraid, Felipe." "The curfew." "You have to go." "Promise you won't try to run away." "Good night, Maria." "Take care." "And lock your barricade." "The canoe is ready." "The others are waiting for us." "I told you I'm not going." "Go with me if you don't want me to kill you." "And kill the old man." "So, you are out?" "I am out." "Listen carefully, "Silence"." "I'm out because I want to be clean." "No!" "Felipe!" "Felipe!" "Take the ropes and head for San Juanico." "I know you were in." "Why are you repented?" "You were right about going out with her." "I know you are good friends." "She is outside, waiting for the doctor behind the window." "As a dog." "She has been two days without sleeping or eating." "I feel as if she were my daughter the girl you told me." "Maria." "I just live to wait for you and I know you'll come back  ennobled by your sacrifice." "And we will all be together soon  so I can be happy the last days of my life." "Your devoted mother:" "Rosa Suarez." "Poor mother of mine." "If you knew how good she is, Maria." " Poor lady!" " Poor thing!" " What happened to you?" " Poor thing!" "Don't take her." "Don't take her." "What happens?" "Go to work." "Come on, come on." "Go to work." "Go to work, can't you listen?" "Go to work." "I am blind!" "How is that?" "I am blind!" "It's not my fault!" "This is not my fault!" "Go away!" "Go!" "Get out of here!" "Here it is your freedom and your son's marriage and birth certificates." "This has just arrived, Maria." "The wedding ring." "Give it to her and good luck to you too." "Thank you, general." "It's beautiful." "Now I have bad news." "The post office brought back the letters to your mother." "We will look for her you'll see, we will find her." "What it's important is that you're free and you deserve it." "Don't forget that for every 50 men in the island only one goes out." "You have good company and will learn how to live." "Go and look for your mother." "It's hard to wait, Felipe you have to compensate her for all she's been waiting." "The new rope is in the dock." "Let's go." " Find her and make her happy." " Thank you, general." " Good bye, Maria." " Good bye." "Excuse me." "Let's go." "Bye, chief." "Good bye." "Here a new life starts." "She worked here three months ago but she got blind and was fired." "Hey!" "Hurry, we have to deliver 2,000 bricks!" "She got blind." "I am giving him information about his mother, sir." "He is Rosa's son, the blind woman." "Where is she?" "I wouldn't answer but It would be worst." "Imagine, she was begging for money in Peralvillo." "It wasn't an occupational accident, she was already blind." "Sir, tell me, where can I find my mother?" "I don't know." "She must be in the city." "It's not my fault." "Come on!" "Hurry!" "Let's go!" "A penny, for God's sake." "Excuse me could you tell me where is a woman called Rosa?" "She is blind and a beggar here in La Villa." "Rosa?" "She just came in to pray to the Virgin of Guadalupe for a son she loves and who is in Islas Marias." "Thank you so much." "Excuse me." "Mother." "Felipe." "My son." "My son." "Yes, mother." "It's me." "We will never be apart again." "Let's go."