"I want to talk about a story, a story of a girl who grew up in another age." "It's a story of love, hate, forgiveness, brutality and beauty of life." "It's a true story, it's my story." "I spent the early years of my childhood with my family in Nepal." "In 1979, after we had to leave for political reasons, my parents sought a new job in Indonesia." "I was eight years old when my father, in the huge forest of West Papua, discovered a previously unknown tribe." "It was during one of his expeditions, some three days journey from Irian Jaya." "It was a people, which was known only by legends and rumours, and they led their life as in the stone age." "The Fayu." "Sabine, come on." "The class is about to start." "My father wanted to learn the language of this people." "He received permission by the Fayu chief, to live among them." "The real jungle, Bo." "Imagine that." "Really?" "What were you thinking?" "That this is the discovery of my life." "And what a home is that supposed to be?" "A unique one?" "An alternative one?" "An experimental one?" "If we live among them, it's like a trip to the stone age." "How safe is your stone age?" "Chief Boko assured me that we are under his protection." "In a language and culture you do not quite understand." "Doris, I'm a linguist." " I have the possibility to learn about a language..." " What happened to you?" " What else will go out of your mouth?" " Doris..." "Doris!" "Doris, it's not about closing cartographic gaps." "This is about the elucidation of the secret of human prehistory." "Psst!" "Let me get there first, please." "I'll build a house." "And when you come, I'll understand the Fayu language better." "We will be fine there, believe me." "Believe me." "After five months, the day has finally arrived, when we went to our father, to the 100 km distant village of the Fayu." "Into the middle of the deepest jungle, into a world, where my life would change forever." "JUNGLE CHILD" " Dad!" " My dear." "Hello, Princess." " Oh, daddy, you stink!" " What?" "The First Meeting" "Are they here?" "Yeah, they don't trust this modern device." "Look there." "Look over there." "Sabi, Judithu e Babu..." "Dorisu." "Judithu?" "Yes, Fayus use names with a vowel at the end." "Christian, you are now Babu again, like when you were little." "This is the chief Boko." "Don't be afraid, they have never seen children with blond hair." "Rubbing the forehead is a greeting." "It means peaceful intentions." " Daddy." " Don't be afraid." "It's alright." "Okay?" "Shall we go together?" "Quiet, Timmy." "It won't be long." "Why can't they help us to carry the bags?" "They are hunters, not carriers." " What stinks so much here?" " Hold your breath, go on." "Come on, it's almost over." "This is Klaus' family." "Don't be afraid." "Bine!" "Are you ready?" "There it is!" "We are in the jungle, jungle, jungle, jungle, jungle..." "Put it down." "Look at the stove!" "Calm, Timmy." "This is your new home." "I sleep here." "And Bo, where do you stand?" "Just look at me, I'm Tarzan." " What is this?" " It's a scratch." "I know these scratches from emergency rooms." " It was a knife and it wasn't meant that way." " Even worse." "Doris, we are safe here." "This is a neutral place." "Neutral?" "Yeah, as long as we don't interfere, we're left out." "This is the deal." "Where shouldn't we interfere?" "I always interfere, Klaus." "You know that." " We didn't get into a tribal war, did we?" " Not directly." "The Fayus were a large tribe... and are now divided into two hostile groups, who fight one another." " But as I said, here we are safe." "Here..." " Here is Switzerland, I know." " Listen here." "What is this?" " Oh, sandpaper." "Exact." "The outhouse isn't ready yet." "We are guests at the Fayus." "What makes a good guest?" "We bury it." " So, if you go to the bathroom, grab a shovel." " And where's the bathroom?" "And now some rules of the jungle." "First:" "Never go alone to the jungle." "Everything you eat, you show me first." "Drink only boiled water." "Never leave home without shoes." "Don't swim in the river too far away." "From evening, everyone remains at home." "We are friendly towards everyone." "We do not interfere." "and now, again, the most important:" "Never go alone into the jungle!" " Did you understand?" " And how long do we stay here?" " until I know the language well." " Two, three years?" " It may take 20 years." " What?" "20 years?" "Never." "The Tribe of the Fayu" "Owaka Fu." "Fu." " Fu?" " Fu." " Fu." " Fu." "Fu." "Fu." "Fu." " Fu." " Fu." " Fu." " Fu." "Everything is 'Fu'?" "The meaning of a word varies according to the manner of speaking." "The canoe: 'Fu'." "The tree trunk: 'Fu'." " And what is the word for water?" " Water is 'Di'." "Di, di, di, di, di..." "Di?" "Di?" "Di?" "Children here don't need to go to the school." "It's different with larger tribes." "Why do we have to learn English anyway?" "No one here speaks English." "So that you can communicate around the world." "I want to stay here." "And I would like to learn Fayu!" "Oh, Bine, you'll learn by yourself, playing with the children." " But they don't know any games." " And they have no toys." "And they won't get mine." " Goal!" " Yeah!" " Bine, where are your flip-flops?" " Ask them." " Should we go swimming?" " Okay." "Di?" "Di?" "Di?" "The Curse" " What's wrong with her?" " She is in labor." "But something seems to be wrong." " And why do the women sing?" " I don't know!" "Call your Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Di!" "Di!" "Help!" "Di!" "Di!" "Help me." "Di." "Di." "Di." "Di." "Help me." "Di." "Di." "Di." "Di." "Di." "Dad!" "Help!" "Di." "Di." "Mom!" "No one helped." "She died before their eyes, they all just stood there and watched." "She was sick." "Fayus don't believe that a person could die naturally." "It's either an arrow or a curse." "If someone dies from a disease, then it's a curse and that's why they don't try to help, because you can't heal a curse." " This is complete nonsense." " You know we could have helped her." "With medicine and whatnot." "Does the woman go to the same heaven like us?" "Yeah, sure, Bine." " And... was she cursed?" " No." " She passed out due to pain." " For Fayus she was cursed." "And not even Mom could stop it." "Start without us, ok?" "Ok." "I'm sorry." "What does he sing?" ""My wife, you're gone and I'm alone. "" ""I'm alone and it's night and I don't have a wife anymore. "" "I understand that." "Let's put the kids to bed." "Daddy?" "Can we also be cursed?" "No, Bine." "We are not among them." "We have no blood feud." "We don't break any rules." "We are safe." "Chief Boko promised us his protection and a promise here is taken very seriously." "And what if we will also become like the Fayus?" "And we do everything as them?" "We'll never be completely like the Fayus." "We'll always be in our own world, with our own rules." "And here curses have no place, do you understand?" "My Friend Faisa" "Spiral of Killing" "Mom!" "Mom!" "A Fayu is hurt." "You have to help." " You can't do anything here." " I can examine it at least." "Doris." "The Fayus don't know any natural cause of death." "Therefore, they need to kill someone else in the event of death." "If he dies, another one must pay for it?" " Then I'll make sure he survives." " Doris!" "We are guests here!" "You can't just change all the Fayu laws." "We can't teach them to forgive overnight." "You sent us into a civil war!" " Maybe you should teach me to forgive first." " Don't argue." "They watch you." "Are you out of your mind?" "Another World" " Did I miss something?" " No." " Something smells strange." " I feel sick." "Dad." "What do they do with her?" "He says goodbye to her." "He gets a few days with her in the hut and then he takes her to the forest." "And when she decomposes and only the bones remain then he brings the skull back to the hut and lives with her." "He does that so he'll never forget her, you know, so that she stays with him forever." " Are you ok?" " Yes." "For us, the dead sleep under the ground." "In a box with flowers on top of it, at least they smell good." "But eventually they wither, then they don't smell so good, either." "And with a skull, you can at least talk with it." "I want to go back!" "Shame on you!" "Who is the woman?" "She is from the Irigre tribe." "Shut up!" "You are now my wife!" "Do you understand me?" "Otherwise I'll kill you!" "What happened?" "Gohu took a new wife." "What do you mean 'took'?" "What did you do?" " What did I do?" "What should I do?" "Coward!" "Mom, green hair creep on Sabine's blouse." "Oh!" "Yuck!" "Christian, on your shirt too." " Oh, dear." " Here too." "You don't have to rip it up." "It's just a little mold." " It's disgusting!" " That's the moisture, dear." "Daddy, what happens to her?" " She becomes the wife of Gohu." " Because the poor guy doesn't have one anymore." "Very caring from his friends." "When his wife dies, no one cares about her, but at least they help him to steal another one." " Where does she come from?" " She is Irigre." " From the tribe, which bewitched the wife of Gohu." " Witchcraft does not exist!" "Not for us." "But for the Fayus the curse is as real as the pots for you." "What a stupid comparison!" "Say, do we have to discuss that in front of the children?" "Why not?" "Here we talk about everything in front of children." "The whole life here." " Why should we oppose that, if it's not us?" " With arguments?" " So what?" "We argue, yes." "But we reconcile again and no one curses us." " Let the kids see that." " Now, kids, pay attention." "The First War" " Go into the house!" " Go." "Christian, go in!" "Down!" "Down!" "No, no, I want to see!" " Bine!" " Bine, go down." "Stay down!" "You stay here, ok?" "You can move." "No dead, no revenge." "Gohu, Women and Love" "Thank you." "Klaus, take the black bag." "Hey, calm down." "Go away!" "Go away!" " She is mine." "Yeah, she is yours." "But she has an ugly wound." " Scissors." " Hm?" "Give me the scissors." "A gift." "To cut." "Come." "She must go alone." "Otherwise, he thinks we want to steal her from him." "Come." "Did Gohu shot because she didn't listen to him?" "Yes, you can say that." "So are the laws of the Fayus." "I'll do it too." "Then Sabine and Judith will obey me forever." " Agh!" " Mom!" "You've never done that before." "That's enough." "Now I need you to leave and don't show up for a while." "What is your name?" "Why didn't you listen to Gohu?" "Gohu shot my son Auri with his arrow." "He fled into the jungle." "But here he was already cursed." "How is it?" "Mom didn't mean that." "Her son Auri was hit by Gohu... and then he fled into the jungle." " But he is not dead." " No." "But even if he lives, without a tribe he has no chance." "That's why she is mourning." "Fayus give up their wounded ones." "The curse is stronger." "Mom?" "Mom, Dad!" "Mom!" "Mom!" "Open the door, Mom!" "Dad?" "Mom?" "Mom, open it!" "The Fayus are coming!" "All of them!" "Go back." "As expected." "They don't understand what you've done with her." "Come!" " She cannot go back to him!" " She must!" "There's no love between them!" "It's about survival!" " Nala, Nala, take that." " Forget it, she won't take that." "Tell her to take the antibiotic." " She doesn't eat anything she doesn't know." " Then find another way." "Tell her I'm an evil witch... and that my curse will turn you into a pig." " Stop this nonsense, Doris." "Tell her it's an anti-curse." "My wife is a witch." "Her medicine is so strong, it can defeat the curse." "What are you doing?" "It helps against the curse." "A Thousand fall at my left and ten thousand at my right." "But it will not hit me." "Nothing evil shall happen to me and no plague will come near my home." "He sent all his angels to protect me in all my ways." "Amen." "Good night, dear." "Good night." " Auri wasn't protected by anyone." " Who is Auri?" "The son of Nala." " Maybe there's indeed a curse." " Are you crazy?" " Who knows?" " Mom's medicine always helps!" "Maybe it only extends the curse." " And we only die later." " Eh, Sabine, you're crazy for real!" "My Brother Auri" "One, two, three..." "Crocodile hunt!" "Progress!" " I am Tarzan!" " But Tarzan is a boy." " So what?" "You can be Jane." " Are you mad?" "I'm bigger than you and Tarzan can't be smaller than Jane." "And I am once again Tarzan!" " Where is Faisa?" " I don't know." "Which way?" "The so-called Tarzan doesn't know the way." "This way!" " Now we could use a bow and arrows." " Yeah." "It's like as if..." "Christian." "Look there!" " I seek help." "You stay here." " No." "You have to take care of him, otherwise we don't find him again, Christian." "What if you won't find me again?" "Sing as loud as you can and don't stop anymore." "Even if you have to sing for three days and three nights." "I don't remember any song." "'A dwarf is in the forest'." " 'A dwarf is in the forest...'" " Mom!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" " Dad." "Auri, we need to save him." " What is happening?" "'... in the forest, very quiet and silently.'" "'He had a purple blanket on...'" "Do you offer everything to the Fayus, so they're helping us?" "I offer nothing, we'll do an exchange." "Life is give and take." "I help them, they help us." "'A dwarf alone in the forest,' 'in a purple blanket...'" "'A dwarf is in the forest quiet and silent.'" "'He had a purple blanket on...'" " Christian, everything alright?" " Yes." "Yuck, that stinks!" "Will he recover?" "I don't know, Bine." " I'll call Nala." "She is his mother." " I've talked to her." "She says he can't be saved anymore, because he is cursed." "If he dies, Gohu and all other Irigre will be my enemies." "Klaus!" "Klaus!" "My name is Sabine." "You are with my family." "What are you doing?" "For Fayus, this means eternal friendship." "And?" "How is it?" "Your new life?" "New family?" "Your new home?" "What is he doing here?" "He doesn't belong to us!" "My Father and Peace" "Come." "Please leave." "Thank you." "I thank you, chief Boko, that we are still allowed to be your guests." "We would like to invite you to eat with us." "I also wish, that we can help you." "Your wife beat the curse." "Yes, she is a very strong woman." "No one can defeat the curse!" "The boy will die!" "No!" "The boy will stay with us!" "He's lying!" "No one is stronger than the curse!" "That is impossible!" "Time will tell, who is right." "Chief Boko, you told me once that you long for peace, that you don't want to kill anymore, but that you don't know how to stop this war." "I cannot give you peace, because that can only be done by you alone." "An Irigre called 'Auri' will grow up with you." "As a friend of yours." "If the boy really survives, then I believe in you." "And now let's eat together." "Let's eat." "Come on!" "Come." "Auri!" "They are my friends." "Faisa, Kamba, Dila and Tabua." "The chief's son." "This is Auri, my new brother." "Brother?" "Yes." "Brother." "Brother." "... then I considered to send you some." "This is the best I could do without a freezer." "Love, Grandma." "Hand it to me." "Bine!" " Is that ice cream?" " Yes." " The white scoop has to be sago." " And the yellow one is sweet potato." " What is the brown one?" " Chocolate, vanilla, lemon." " And how does it taste?" " Cold and sweet and very delicious." " I want to try them for sure." " Me too." "Christian!" "Does it grow on trees in Gemany?" " No." "You can buy it in stores." " It must be paradise." "You will soon know." " How?" "In Germany?" " Mmm." " When?" "Should I pack by bags?" "Not now, maybe next year, I'm not sure yet." "We can hang it up!" "Perhaps here!" "Now it's all crinkled." "Heavy Rain" "Auri!" " Aurupedoga." " Aurupedoga." "Is it true that it rains ice cream in Germany?" "Christian, you shouldn't believe everything that people tell you." "But it's true that you can get chocolate everywhere." "And toys." "A lot of toys." "Sabi, wake up!" "You must look at this, you won't believe it." "What?" "Oh, wow!" "You feel like walking on a boat." "Let's look at the front!" "Quiet..." "I know someone who will love it." " Come on, Judith, wake up!" " What?" " Come on, we have visitors." " Visitors?" "Yes." " Who?" " Look for yourself." "Come on." "Mom!" "Mom!" "Aih, aih, aih." "Ah." " What are you doing?" "It's murder." "Stop it, Mom!" " Murder?" "Now it's enough for me." "Out, I've had enough." "Get out, you too." "Quick!" "Get out." "Out, out, out." "Doris." "We must save the pets." " Christian, are you crazy?" " They're just animals." " You mustn't kill them!" " And what are Dad and Mom doing in there?" "Come on!" "Come, come." "Dad!" " Dad!" " What happened?" " I hit Sabine." " Where is she?" "Under the house." "Dad!" "There will be nothing crawling anymore." "Now they're all dead." "The Decisive War" "Danau Bira to Foida." "Danau Bira to Foida." "Come in please." "This is Foida." "This is Foida." "I hear you." "Come in." "Our helicopter has to be repaired." "No mail today." "Okay." "Anything else?" "Yes, from NGO." "Your vacation has been approved." "You can go to Germany next month." "Oh great, that's good news." "Thank you." "Over and out." "Our vacation was approved." "We fly to Germany." " Are you happy?" " Oh, yes." " But?" "Sabine?" "Sabine!" "But I need to tell all my friends." " Auri has to see Germany as well." " Sabine, that's not possible!" "What is going on with Judith?" "Mom says she's becoming a woman." "Then she'll be stolen soon." "They are here!" "The Irigre are coming, come on!" "Go away!" " Sit back!" " Get me off!" "I want to fight!" "You'll never take part!" "I can't stand it." "I can't stand it." "I want them to stop screaming." "I can't stand it." "I want to leave." "I can't stand it." "I want to leave this place." "Dad!" "No." "No." "Hear that?" "Do you hear how my daughter is crying?" "I can't stand it, Dad!" "I won't take this any longer!" "Thank you." "Klausu." "Klausu!" "Please!" "Do not leave us!" "We let our weapons rest." "We do not fight anymore." "I'm going to my tribe." "But I promise we will return." "Vacation in "Homeland"" "What if they want to keep you there in your tribe?" "Dad promised to come back." "To curse someone, you need his hair." "You put your life in his hands." "Thank you!" "If you die one day," "I don't want to live anymore." "Oh, it's about time!" " Welcome home!" " Hello Grandma!" " Do you recognize my dress?" "Yes, sure." "And that is?" " Christian." " Christian." "And that?" "That is the jungle girl?" "So let's go!" "What is this?" "Kids, come." "Come on!" "Usually, the dog always sits here, but today it's your place." "Careful!" "Feet away." "But next time I sit there, okay?" "Stop!" "Now they're rushing." "Yeah, great!" "Drive over, let the others drive!" "Recently in Würzburg, it was the same thing." "The streets are horrible in Germany!" "I enjoyed driving car, I loved to drive." "But today it's no more fun." "You call that affluent society now, yeah." "Because anyone can drive a car now." "Back then I just needed four hours from Frankfurt to München." "Today you drive and drive...." "I'm curious when we get home." "Look up there, I prepared something for you." " Oh." " I want that one." " No, I take it." " No, I said it first." " No, please." " Okay, then I take the bedroom." " What do you do with all those things?" " Cooking." "We could do a six-course feast." " Can we have ice cream?" " Yes, please!" " Oh, yeah." " Ice cream?" "In the middle of winter?" "Since you sent us the poster, they can hardly wait." " Ok, tomorrow we get ice cream then." " Yes!" "Hey, Sabi." "You must look at that!" " What is it?" "Wow, it looks great." "Judith, look at that." " Grandma, Grandma." " Good morning!" "It looks beautiful." "Germany has to be grateful for that." " What?" "Oh, the snow?" "If you like that so much, you may start clearing the snow." " Can we go out?" " Yes, but put something on your feet." "Be careful!" "Maybe it is poisonous!" " No, it's just frozen water." " Oh, beautiful." "Yuhuh, yuhuh!" "Ouch!" "It hurts." "Well, you cannot go outside without shoes." "Jacket, Bine." "Nah, nah, nah, nah!" "She still has a lot to learn." " We all do." " Yes, but she in particular." "One, two, three..." "So, now we're getting ice cream..." "in february." "I've never done that before." "I hope they're open." "They're open." "It's incredible for this small village." " Kids, ice creams here!" " Ice cream!" "Ice cream!" "Ice cream!" "Ice cream!" "Sabine!" "Bine!" "How many times do you have to tell her to stay and wait when it's red?" " Sabi doesn't like rules." " I noticed that." " But the rules are for our own safety." " Sorry, Grandma." "'If we don't get anything, we eat flies, flies, flies...' '...we eat flies, flies, flies on the wall.'" "Here you are, one strawberry ice cream." "Well, you started it." "You'll never finish that!" "Vanilla and chocolate certainly taste better than sago and crocodile." " Than what?" " Sago and crocodile." " Here you are." " Thank you." "Hello." "Two scoops in a cup, please." "Vanilla and nut." " Two times." " Sure." "No wonder, after all these years of jungle food." "Homesick" "Sabine, what's wrong?" "Don't you like Germany?" "I could stay here forever." "We need to go sledding." "We still have an old sled from your Dad in the basement." "Hey, Sabi!" "Look at this!" "Oh." "Oh come, let's go in." " I want to go home." " But I thought you love animals." "What's wrong?" "You promised, that we go back home." "We will soon." "Oh, Bine." "It's only eight weeks." "Try it." "I wait here." " Where is everybody?" " They probably moved." "Strange." "Mom!" "Great." "Auri." "Where is all our stuff?" "I knew you would come back!" "But Gohu said you would die!" " Food reserves are gone, too." " Klausu, Klausu!" "Klausu!" "Sorry, that I believed Gohu." "Now I know you can defeat every curse!" "A gift for you!" "Ah, Dorisu." "Oh!" "Learning to Forgive" "I don't believe this." "Hey, hey, you!" "Come here!" "Hey!" "It doesn't look good." "Boko is not happy with his son." "Theft is punished by death." " But father wouldn't do that." " Oh, you're so silly, Judith." " Of course not!" " They stole our things." "No, they did not." "We left the things and they thought we were dead." " The longer we stay here, the crazier it gets." " Now calm down, ok?" "Tabua is hidden in the jungle." "He is afraid of how Klausu reacts." "Dad, then we should give him the meat." "Isn't it our right too?" "Chief Boko," "I want to talk with your son." "Tabua!" "Tabua!" "Tabua!" "Tabua." "What did you do?" "That is your fault!" "We know that you stole from us." "But to show you, that we are not angry, we want to give you this piece of crocodile meat." "Not only medicine helps against the curse." "There are many possibilities." "Time Passes" "One, two, three..." "Crocodile hunt!" "You always hold your breath the longest!" " No one is as good as me!" " Liar!" "I can defeat you." "Judith loves art school and a boy called Nicolas." "Didn't we want to open the mail together?" "Yes, but Babu hangs out with the locals all the time." " I heard he isn't the only one." " Dorisu." "The baby comes!" "Sabine, do you have my mail?" "Sabine." "Mom would say now, that we will lose our teeth because of the sugar canes." "Don't waste anything." " What are you thinking about?" " Nothing." "I don't think Auri would like to be called nothing." "The sun is high at noon." "I swim, until the shadow of a crocodile" "darkens the bottom of the river." "Down at the bottom I sleep and dream of fish." "Suddenly, a rope entangles my mouth." "We hold his front legs and bring the beast to shore." "I fight for my life, but his stone axe is stronger." "My body falls asleep forever." " Who is that?" " That is our Wallaby." "Oh!" "Thanks, Auri." "Should we call him Wabu?" "Sabine, now I know:" "The good spirit sent your father to us." "Yes, the good spirit." "It really looks like a rat." " You'll never be a real Fayu." " I don't want to be a Fayu." "I just live as I like." "Then take back the gift to Auri and live a little." "If it is okay now, then it will be also later." "If it's okay later, why not now?" "Because Mom and I are not as confident as you." "In three days we go to Jayapura." "You'll have plenty of time to think about it." "Why can't they build a school nearby?" "It takes a whole day to get there." " And it should be built in honor of you?" " Good idea." "Auri!" "Slow down!" "What is that?" "That's our home." "Did you build it yourself?" "When?" "We were always together." "Come, let's go in." "Auri?" "That's beautiful." "Sabine." "I'll use these for the roof." "Everything will be ready the next time you return from school." "I wish, I wouldn't have to go there." "Do you remember the test we did two weeks ago?" "It was so bad." "You did it bad." "You did it bad." "And no one of you have learned the simple past." "Today is our last chance to repeat all the important rules of simple past." "The simple past is one aspect of the past." "Actions took place and were completed in the past." "So the simple past has no influence of present day." "But this aspect is very important for the simple past." "Dad, can't you boat a little faster?" " The jungle won't escape from you." " But I wasn't here for four weeks!" "I counted the minutes in Jayapura!" "Please, Dad!" "Wabu." "Chief Boko" "Where is Auri?" "Is there something wrong?" "Gohu says the curse has struck after all." "Even though many years later." "Auri!" "Auri!" "Auri!" "What is wrong?" "Talk to me!" "Mom, Mom, do something!" "Auri?" "Auri!" "Oh!" "Auri!" "Oh!" "Mom, do something, you can help him!" "Do something!" "Auri!" " My God!" " Christian, get my medical bag." "Auri!" "Auri, Auri." "Auri." "I wanted to see you one more time." "We'll see us for many times." "Don't go." "Please, please... don't go." "Auri?" "Auri?" "No." "No!" "Auri!" "Auri!" "Auri!" "No!" "No!" "Oh, no!" "Auri!" "I can't stay here, Mom." "I know." "Grandma answered." "She offered to pay for the boarding school." "Do you want to go there?" "That's what you wanted." " You didn't want me to stay with him!" " That's nonsense, Sabine." " We want you to be happy!" " I hate you!" "I hate everything here." "I want to go to Germany." "I hate the jungle." "Alone" " We will write to you." " I just want to forget everything, Dad!" "Take care of yourself." "Motionless and under shock, I Ieft, at the end of 1989, the jungle of West Papua." "A part of my life was irreversibly over." "Auri, who survived for so long, who was so brave and strong, was so eager to live, but at the end he died of tuberculosis." "As much as I was afraid of the idea of a new life," "I've decided and I was ready to fly alone to Germany." "I did not talk about my childhood anymore and where my roots were." "How would you explain the functional relevance between f and f'?" "Outwardly I tried to find my way in this new world." "But inside of me, there was only despair and the feeling not to be understood, somehow." "How would you explain the functional relevance between f and f'," "Miss Krüger?" "Until today, it's a mystery to me, how I did my degree." "But eventually I mastered it and entered an even more unfamiliar world." "I started to work and acted like everyone around me." "But I gradually stopped to live, I just exist." "It seems as if the last spark of the jungle slowly disappears on me." "Dear Sabine, I wrote you this letter today with deep sadness." "Chief Boko died." "At that time I was in Danau Bira." "But Boko said to mother:" ""Why should I wait for Klausu, I already know him!"" "Your mother told me that shortly before his death, he finally found the peace he wanted all his life." "And, Bine, I pray that one day you also find the peace and joy you were always longing for." "I think of you, always and I hug you very, very tightly." "Your Dad." "'A dwarf is in the forest, very calm and quiet'" "'He has a purple blanket'" "'Say, who wants to be the dwarf which is in the forest alone'" "'With the purple blanket'" "'A dwarf is in the forest standing on one leg...'" "All my life I was looking for a perfect world." "But does it really exist?" "What does a perfect world consist of?" "Does it depend on the color of our skin?" "On our parents?" "Or what is in our passport?" "Yeah!" "There is no perfect world, neither in the jungle nor in Germany." "Because we don't find true happiness in perfection, but in those we love, in those who protect us and who are faithful to us." "This is where our heart is happy." "And, for me," "I realized that, always in my heart, I will continue being a jungle child." "Translated by Chief05 (Based on flinX translation)"