" I'm glad to see you." "Please." "THE TWINS" "Testament of Nawal Marwan." "Opening of the will for her two children," "Simon Marwan and Jeanne Marwan." "In accordance with the will, regulations and rights of Nawal Marwan, the notary, Jean Lebel, is named executor." "I must tell you that this was your mother's decision." "I was personally against it, but she insisted." "You know   your mother was more than an employee to me." "My late wife and I... you felt like our family, so ..." "I could not refuse." ""All my assets will be shared between the twins," "Jeanne and Simon Marwan." ""The money will be divided equally." "My furniture and belongings distributed according to their desire and agreement."" ""Burial."" ""For notary Jean Lebel" "Bury me without a coffin, naked and without prayers," ""Face turned towards the ground, face first against the world."" ""Gravestone and epitaph." ""No stone will be placed on my grave" ""And my name engraved nowhere." ""No epitaph for those who do not keep their promises." ""For Jeanne and Simon," "One's childhood is like a knife in the throat." "We can't easily remove it."" ""Jeanne, notary Lebel will hand you an envelope." ""This envelope is for your father." "Find him and hand him the envelope."" ""Simon, the notary will hand you an envelope."" " I've heard enough." " Oh ..." "It's not finished." " Continue." ""Simon, the notary will hand you an envelope." "This envelope is for your brother." "Find him and hand him the envelope."" ""When these envelopes have been handed to their addressees, a letter will be given to you both." "When the silence is broken, and a promise is kept, then a stone may be placed on my grave and my name engraved on the stone in the sun."" "I admit it's a bit unusual." " Is there stuff to sign?" " No, not today." " OK." "Thank you, John." "Shall we?" " Wait." "You know the history of our father." "You know we have no brother." "Why did you write this?" " I understand your surprise." "It's ... it a shock." " Stop playing the innocent." "We know who we are talking about." "There is nothing astonishing about this." " People don't invent things like this, Simon." "Not in their will." "There's this too." "Well, this morning your mother has given us something rather ..." "We'll sleep on it, then ..." "We'll meet again, huh?" " I'll wait outside." "Thank you, John." " Sit down, Simon." " Look, John ..." "Your secretary...she really loved working for you." "She did that part of her life well." "Bravo." "But your secretary, was also my mother." "And her job as a mother..." "that's another story." " Simon ..." " Your secretary, you can bury how you want." "But, my mother, I want to bury in a normal way." "For once in her fucked up life, there will be something normal." "This is not negotiable." " Take your time." "And come see me when Simon has calmed down." "I know it's very unusual, but   Your mother was not crazy, Jeanne." " We have a large family now." "Did she mention a dog?" "In big families there's always a dog." "Will we also have to find the dog?" "Madness." "I'll sort it out with John." " Sort what?" " We'll give her a normal funeral." "We'll take care of her, then I'll take care of you." "Where are you going?" " You can bury her how you like!" " Oh, stop!" "You feel guilty because you were not there when she died." "You feel guilty because you were there when she had her accident." "I need to help you stop feeling guilty for everything!" "I don't feel guilty of anything." " Do you realize what he just read?" " So." "She's gone!" "It's over!" "For christsake have some peace!" "I have goddamn peace!" "I'm at peace now." " Yes, I see that." " Mathematics as you have learned so far has aimed to achieve a stringent response and solution." "starting with strict and definitive problems." "Now, you enter an entirely different adventure." "The subject will be intractable problems that will always lead to other problems just as intractable." "People around you will repeatedly tell you that your struggles are in vain." "You'll have no argument to defend yourself, for the work will be exhausting and complex." "Welcome to pure mathematics, the land of loneliness." "This is my assistant," "Miss Jeanne Marwan." " Hello!" "We will start with the conjecture of Syracuse." " What is your intuition telling you?" "Your intuition is always right." "That's why you have potential becoming a real mathematician." "But here, you'll need help." "Have you any family there?" "Contacts?" " It's ridiculous, Niv." " You come to learn that A, your father is alive;" "and B, you have another brother." "What's ridiculous is that you are questioning what is inevitable." "You need to know." "Otherwise, you will never have peace of mind." "And no peace of mind, means no pure mathematics." "It takes away your starting point." " My father died during the war, in Daresh." " That's the unknown variable in the equation." "Never start with the unknown variable." " My mother comes from a village called Der Om in Fouad." "She studied French at the University of Daresh." " If she has studied, there is hope." "Said Haidar." "You'll go knock on the door of Said Haidar an old friend of mine who teaches at Daresh." "You can trust him." " What are you doing?" "Mom!" "Okay?" " Excuse me, Madam, this is my towel, please." " Mom?" "Mom!" " Mom?" "What happened?" "Where's Jeanne?" "Mom?" " Does she suffer from migraines?" " No." " Memory loss?" " No." " Loss of balance?" " No." " Any absences?" " She's absent in general." " No, absences." "Wahab, come." "Oh no." " Get away from my sister." "Son of refugee scum, where the fuck do you think you're going?" " Nicolas, stop!" " Go back to your country." " Wahab!" " We will return your body to the camps, believe me." " Give it." " I want to kill her." " It's mine to do." "You have sullied the family honor." " Enough!" "Go home!" "Go home!" "Outside." "What have you done!" "Thou hast afflicted us!" "You have sullied the name of our family!" "Oh God!" "Why have you plunged us into darkness?" "My God, what have you done?" "Why did you do that?" "What will I do with you!" "You want me to kill you?" " I'm pregnant, grandmother." " My God, everything is black." "Why?" "Why have you done this?" "Do I have to kill you?" "What will I do with you?" "You need to eat." "You want your child to be healthy, yes?" "Listen to me." "There's nothing here for you." "I'll help with the birth." "I want you to go from here." "You'll go to your uncle in the city." "There, you'll go to school." "To learn to read, to think." "Get out of this misery." "Promise me you'll go." "Promise me you'll go to school." " I promise you, grandmother." "I promise." "This is so you'll recognize him." " I'll find you one day." "I promise you with all my heart." " Be careful." " Do not worry." " Come on, it is time for you to go." "I feel that something terrible is coming ..." "One day I'll find you, my son." " I received the message from my friend Niv Cohen but I can not help you because at the time," "I was teaching history of mathematics in Paris XI." "Specifically, the period where Euler had succeeded, blind, to give the first formal mathematical resolution to the seven bridges of Konigsberg problem." "Yes." "You know he defied Diderot at court with reasoning like this:" "Gentlemen ..."" ""I to the P, plus N equals zero."" ""Therefore, God exists!"" " Niv, Niv, Niv ..." "Hello!" "Do you speak French?" " Yes, of course!" "Can I help you?" " Uh, yes, I am looking for someone who would have known this woman." "She studied here 35 years ago." " Are you kidding me?" "I was not even born." "Well, you're in the wrong place, you'll ..." " Please." "I'm sure you know someone who can help me." "I've come a long way." "Please." "Her name is Nawal Marwan." "That's kind of you." " I'm not being kind." "I just want to get rid of you." "(Arabic):" "Najat it's me." "You have time to waste?" " That tells me something." "She may have worked in the student newspaper." "It's been a long time." "People who left changed their identities." "It is striking nonetheless." "Your mother was photographed in Kfar Ryat." "Look here." "This is a sign of Kfar Ryat." "It is a prison in the south." "You do not know Kfar Ryat?" " No." " You're definitely not from here." "You don't know the South." "(Arabic):" "If the international community does not know that refugees" "are in overcrowded camps on the border ..." " She has arrived." " OK." "We, the students, oppose the Nationalist Party trying to evict refugees outside the borders." " The National Party supports militias of the Christian right, who make open threats to refugees." " In the South, refugees are now armed." ".. and they have the support of much of the Muslim population of the country." " But you ..." "but you're Christian." " We are for peace." "Religion has nothing to do with it." " Nawal!" "Put on the radio!" "They've come to close the University!" "The Nationalists have closed the campus!" " Nawal." "Get back." "Stay here." " Uncle Charbel, the Nationalists are closing the campus!" " There will be clashes." "Stay with me." " There is shooting outside ..." " Set the table, girls!" " Mom, they're attacking the university!" " That's no reason not to eat!" "Christian villages were attacked in the South this morning." " May God protect us!" " That's why they closed the university." "Pretty soon, it will explode here as well." "We'll go to the mountains until it calms down." " For how long?" " We'll set out tomorrow." "The rest of the family is already there." " And the school?" " The school will be closed, anyway." "God only knows for how long." " And the newspaper?" " Don't worry." "It can survive without us for a while." " But ideas only survive if someone is there to defend them!" " Exactly, Rafqa." "Exactly." " There are only two orphanages in the region." "I will join you soon." " You can't go there now!" "You promised Grandma you would finish your studies." " You heard your father." "It's going to explode across the country if they attack the camps." "My studies are finished." "I think of him every day." "He's my child." "I will find him." "I'm going to fetch water from Shadia." " Hurry, Nawal." " Your name?" " Nawal." " Nawal what?" " Nawal Marwan." " Where are you going?" " South." " Why?" " To meet my husband." "Wahab." "You only have girls?" " The boys have been in Kfar Kout for the past three years." "You should come with us." "Kfar Kout was attacked yesterday." " I'm looking for the orphanage." "Do you know where it is?" " There." " The children." "Where are the children?" " You should speak to those who were there." "The Muslim villagers fled to the camp at Deressa." "They fear reprisals will come." "The children might be with them." "Chamseddine and his men killed all of the Christians to avenge the refugees." "The children could be in Deressa." " Are you going to Deressa?" "I am a Christian." "My daughter!" "My daughter!" " Mama!" "THE SOUTH" " Hi, Simon, it's me!" "I am in Mama's village." "I wish you were here." "Listen." " I told you to never come here again!" " Hello!" "Suha?" " Ahmed loves you!" "Ahmed loves you!" " I told you not to say that!" " Hello." "Can I help you?" " Hello." "Does anyone speak French or English?" " Where's Samia?" " Hello." "Uh, Jeanne." "Jeanne." "Jeanne." "Uh ..." "Thank you." " You speak French?" " Yes, hello!" " Hello." "My name is Samia." " My name is Jeanne Marwan." "Thank you for helping me." " Marwan?" "There are many Marwan here." " Really?" "I've come from Canada." "I'm looking for Suha." " Suha, that's her." "She is my great-grandmother." " Oh!" "Hello." " Hello." " The man at the corner shop told me to come see you." "I am looking for my father." "His name is Wahab." "Uh ..." "My mother's name is Nawal Marwan." "She was born here." " We don't know her." " Her mother is a disgrace!" " The Marwan family was struck with shame." "Then the war came." " Uh, I'm looking for Wahab." " She does not know a Wahab." " I can't help you." "Sorry." "I'm tired." " If you're the daughter of Nawal Marwan, you're not welcome here." "Go home." " You're looking for your father, but you don't even know who your mother is." " I arrived at the end of the massacre in the refugee camp of Deressa." "Everything was burning." "I looked for my son amid waves of blood." "I want justice for what I have seen and heard." " You say you are against our enemy, but that does not make you our friend." "Why should Chamseddine trust you?" " The father of my son was a refugee from Deressa." "My son has been swallowed by the war." "I have nothing left to lose." "My hatred toward the Nationalists is strong." " This is not what you wrote in Charbel's newspaper." " My uncle thought we should encourage peace with words and books." "I used to believe." "But, life has taught me something different." " What do you want to do now?" " Teach the enemy what life has taught me." " Very good." "Well done." "You've just forgotten that." "There." " How's the French?" " I ..." "I am much better, Papa." " They say "much" or "better"" "but never both at the same time, my darling." " I want my son to speak several languages." "I want him to understand others without an intermediary." " How are you, Nawal?" "This is Nouchine." " Good evening, Nouchine." "How's your mother?" " My mother is well." "10 o'clock tomorrow." " Tomorrow." " Hello." " Hello, beautiful." " Good morning." " So, we're going out on Thursday?" " No." " Friday?" " No." " Saturday?" " No." " I'm patient!" " So am I." "Never forget:" ""Always" always has an "S"." " Bitch." " The prison of Kfar Ryat was condemned in several reports by Amnesty International." "Here is the women's section." "The cells are larger." "Some prisoners stayed here for 15 years." " How long has it been here?" " Since the time of the massacres." "Just after the war began." "They locked up 600 political prisoners." "You can go in, eh?" "I'll take a picture." " Do you know this woman?" " No." " It was taken here." " I don't know her." "It's been a really long time, you know?" " Maybe you know someone who worked here?" " Hello?" " Hello." " Can I help you?" " I'm looking for Harrsa Fahim." " I'm Harrsa Fahim." " I am the school caretaker." " Yes, but before?" " Before?" "That was before I was a school caretaker." "I've been caretaker at this school for a long time." " You know this woman?" "She was in Kfar Ryat." " I am a school caretaker." "God's sake!" "That's all." " I am looking for someone who knew her." "Someone who could tell me about her." "She is my mother." " She's the woman who sings." "Number 72." "It was she who assassinated the militia leader of the Christian Right." "They made her pay dearly." "Very, very dearly." "Fifteen years." "She was called the Woman who sings because she sang all the time." " You're sure this is her?" " I spent 13 years watching over her." "Have you ever spent 13 years watching someone?" "They did everything to make her bend." "In the end, she was still standing." "The way she looked at them ..." "Ah!" "Never seen the like." "She never bent." "It infuriated them." "Then they sent Abu Tarek." " Who's that?" " Abu Tarek..." "You know, sometimes it is better, perhaps, to not know everything." " Sir, I live with it anyway." "Continue." " Abu Tarek..." "Abu Tarek was a specialist in torture." "He raped her repeatedly to break her before her release, and to make her stop singing." "Inevitably, she became pregnant." "That's how it was." "I never forgot." "Number 72, pregnant by Abu Tarek." "They waited ... she gave birth in prison and then they let her go." " The child?" "Did you see the child?" " There was a doctor who sometimes came." "He went crazy." "People say he has a restaurant in Tel Aviv ..." "Such bullshit." "He went mad and then he died." "The nurse, her I know." "She lives in Daresh." " In Daresh...?" "Listen, Simon, holy fuck!" "Fucking shut up, OK?" "Shut up!" "Mom, she was in prison." "Simon, mom ..." "Mom was raped." "She had our brother in prison." "I need you right away." "THE WOMAN WHO SINGS" " Here, Simon, are contracts by the notary Amyotte from 1868 to 1892." "His son, Edward, took over until 1925." "All the contracts were written by hand." "My grandfather, Charles, my father, Henry." "And me." "Yeah, well, it stops there because as you know," "I am the last of the Lebels." "I'll show you the will of a man   who had several lives." "His heirs discovered he had three wives at the same time." "One here, one in Miami, and another in Honduras, where he did business." "There, there ..." "you've got three children in the file." "There are eight." "This is sport, my man." "Look." "Death is never the end of a story." "There are always tracks to follow." "If you want to find your brother, you will have to go back into your mother's past." " John, I just want to find my sister." "That's it." " I understand that." "I have two or three small pieces of business to take care of, but they will take no time at all." "Well, go ahead and get your things in order." "We should be get ready to leave..." "My passport..." ""We"?" "Don't you worry that you've already done enough?" " Exactly, this is not the time to let you down." "Man up, Simon." "I know that you'll need me." " We'll find her, then come back." " I promise." "A promise, Mr. Marwan, by a notary is a sacred thing." "Sing now." " Gently, gently." "It's coming." "I can see the head." "Push." "Push, dear." "Push." "The first one is out." "Rest now ..." "I'm proud of you." "Get ready for the second." "Stop." "Give it to me." " What are you doing?" " You don't have to throw them in the river as usual." " It's dangerous." " I know." "You've done your duty." "Don't throw them in the river." "I want to take care of them." "These are the children of the woman who sings." " Oh, this country is one war zone to another, eh!" "It's not complicated." "If the notary had existed at the time of Noah, we would not be in this mess." "We would only need to find the original contracts." "That's your part, that's your part.." "and a right of passage there... and we talk bit more...." "Everyone would be happy." " The notary has only existed for 1000 years, Simon." " That's the problem." "They should have been there right from the start." " Thank you again for your help, Maddad." " The pleasure is all mine, my dear fellow." "I have the results of the search that you requested via email." "Simon is my notepad on the seat beside you." "Could you give it to me Lebel, please?" " You are very kind but the jetlag and everything ..." "I think I'll wait until later." " But I'll summarize." "For the father, it is rather difficult because I can not find the death certificate." "For the brother ..." " Excuse me, but what are we talking about here?" " I asked for help, Simon." "Maddad has kindly given us a hand to speed things up." " I told you, John, we came for Jeanne." " Your sister is the easiest person in your family to find." " I'm so glad you're here." " Me too." " OK, that's the name of the nurse who helped mother give birth in prison." "We can go today." " Jeanne, that's enough." " You shut it and follow through." "It's your job to find our brother, not mine!" "If you won't do it for her or yourself, bloody well do it for me!" "She is at the American hospital." "I'm glad you're here, John." " Me too, my dear, me too." " If she is asleep, you'll have to come back." "Ms. Maika?" " This is John Lebel, Jeanne Marwan, Simon Marwan." " Bonjour, Madame!" "Thank you for having us." "We seek someone you knew." "Did you know Nawal Marwan?" "You worked in the prison of Kfar Ryat as a nurse?" " She says she knows your mother." " You helped our mother give birth in prison?" " Yes." " Madame, we seek the child Nawal Marwan had in prison." "Can you help us?" " She worked in the prison of Kfar Ryat." "She attended her during childbirth." "She took the babies." "Then she gave them back to the woman who sings when she left prison." "Nawal Marwan gave birth to twins." "Hush, hush, hush." "Hush, hush, hush." " You really know the woman who sings?" "You do not know what that means to me." " Nawal Marwan worked for me for 18 years as a secretary." "My wife and I, we took a liking to her and her children." "But I must confess that, in the end," "I didn't know her." "Not really." "Ready?" " Ready." "Maddad conducted research at my request to find the trail of your brother and your father." " For the father, Abu Tarek," "I still have not found a death certificate." "The country has many missing." "He may have moved abroad." "That's what happened with these kind of characters." "They are dead or gone." "You have to see." " Maybe it's better that way." " For the brother ... your client, Ms. Nawal Marwan, comes from the village of Der Om." "She handed the child to a midwife who is named Elham who gave it to the orphanage in Kfar Kout in May 1970." "The main work was to trace the records." "Many documents have been lost in the war." "But I found the records which were recovered and given by the Sisters of Charity at the National Archives." "In May 1970, the midwife Elham of Der Om, gave up a male child for adoption." "This is the only boy given to the orphanage that month." "Look." "He was registered under the name Nihad." "The dates match." "It's him." " Ha!" "That's your brother!" "Nihad." " Orphanage Kfar Kout," "Nihad May." "It is his name for the records." "Nihad, month of May." "They gave a temporary name with the month of arrival." "There were no adoptions during this period." "It was the beginning of the war." "The orphanage was destroyed four years later." "We must ask who destroyed the orphanage in Kfar Kout to know what happened with the children." "Between you and me, with what happened in the region ... there is not much hope." " He's probably also dead." " I'm not saying he is dead." "I'm saying we've lost track of him." " They are both dead." "We open the envelopes then." "That's it." " That I will not allow, Simon." "This kind of thing is sacred." " It would be a terrible violation." " Turns out that's in my background." "Excuse me." " There's still one path worth exploring." "But it is a little radical." "The warlord who demolished the orphanage back then is still alive." "And he may know what happened to these children when they left." " It's been an eternity." " You must understand that this period was a series of reprisals which fit one another in an inexorable logic, like calculations." "A warlord is exactly the type of man who has a long memory." "And he remembers it, believe me." "Wallat Chamseddine, is his name." " Where do we find him?" " We don't find him." "He finds us." "But we can try something." "Do you like tea, Mr. Marwan?" " It's your turn." " You will go to the refugee camp in Deressa." "You will have tea anywhere in the camp with someone who invites you." "And you say you are the son of the woman who sings and are looking for Nihad May." "You can't go there alone." "I'll find someone to accompany you." " Welcome to Deressa." " You know where you are going, Simon?" " I know." " How are you?" " In the name of God, you've grown!" " I finished my engineering studies." "I have not found work, so I am a taxi driver." " What brings you here?" " I am with foreign visitors, who asked me to bring them here." " Welcome, come." " No, thank you, you're in a hurry." " Please, come." " He's invited us to tea." " Oh, good!" " Uh, I wonder why you come to Deressa." " I am looking for someone named Nihad May." " He does not know Nihad May." "He asks me what are your names." " My mother comes from the village of Der Om, in the South." "My mother is the woman who sings." "Yes, that's fine." "Done." "Wait for what?" " Sarwan Marwan?" " Yes." " We are here to offer help." "You will be back in an hour." " Can we wait for my sister?" " No, you'll be back in an hour, I promise." " I'll put on a shirt, just a second." " He's making a phone call." " He'll come." " Already?" "!" "Don't worry, you can follow them." "Ah, just as I told you: in the South, one spark and it explodes." "Oh, okay." " You have greatly helped us." "It's our turn to help you." "You'll leave the country." "It'll be easier." "We will find you a house and a job." "I want your life to be better." "We have many contacts in America." "You must go with your children." "I know they are alive." "Take them with you." "Children will help you, you'll see." " You can not ask me." " Your children are our children, Nawal." "Your family is our family." "Trust me." "I'll help you." "I'm here for you and your children." "Hello, Sarwan." "Excuse my introduction, but it is for your protection." "They call me Wallat Chamseddine." "Tell me, what can I do to help, Sarwan Marwan?" " You knew my mother." " She worked for me." "What can I do to help?" " I am looking for a man named Nihad May." " Why you are looking for Nihad May?" " He's my brother." "My mother asked me to find him." " And how can you say" "Nihad May is the son of Nawal Marwan?" " My brother was placed for adoption at an orphanage in Kfar Kout." "We found the registry with the original link." "The dates ... everything fits." "Nihad May is my brother." " Me and my friends, we attacked the Christians of village Kfar Kout ... in response to attacks that our brothers, refugees were victims of." "There was an orphanage in Kfar Kout." "I saved the children." "I took them with us." "And Nihad was among them." "We trained and prepared them to fight alongside us." "Nihad, he had a gift." "He was a one-off." "And he quickly became a formidable marksman." "But he wanted to find his mother." "He searched for months." "Nihad..." "I don't know what he saw or heard..." "He became  war crazy." "He came to see me." "He wanted to be a martyr so his mother would see his portrait on every wall across the country." "I refused." "He left for Daresh." "He became a guerilla, in the most dangerous region." "A real machine." "He shot everyone." "And then there was the enemy invasion." "And one morning ... they captured Nihad." "He killed seven gunmen." "They didn't kill him." "They trained him and sent him to the prison of Kfar Ryat." " They had him at the prison?" " Yes." "As torturer." " He worked with my father?" " No." "He did not work with Abu Tarek, your father." " Are you okay?" " One plus one ... that makes two." " What?" " One plus one makes two." "It can not make one." " Hey, you have a fever." " Jeanne?" "One plus one, could it make one?" " There are empty seats there." " Oh, go ahead if you want." " Can we help you, ma'am?" " Excuse me." "When he became a torturer your brother changed his name." "He became Abu Tarek." "Nihad May is Abu Tarek." "We know that he now lives in Canada under a new identity." "Nihad Harmanni." " Mr. Harmanni?" " Yes?" " This is for you." "I am trembling as I write this." "I recognized you." "You did not recognize me." "It's a wonderful miracle." "I'm your number 72." "This letter will be delivered by our children." "You will not recognize them because they are beautiful, but they know who you are." "Through them, I want to tell you you're still alive." "But soon, you'll be quiet." "I know." "Because everyone is silent before the truth." "Signed:" "The whore 72." "I am speaking to the son, not to the torturer." "Whatever happens, I will always love you." "That's the promise I made to you at your birth, my son." "Whatever happens, I will always love you." "I've searched for you my whole life." "I found you." "You could not recognize me." "You have your tattoo on your right heel." "I saw it." "I recognized you." "and I found you beautiful." "I breathe to you all the sweetness of the world, my love." "Console yourself because nothing is more beautiful than being together." "You were born of love." "Your brother and your sister were also born of love." "Nothing is more beautiful than to be together." "Your mother, Nawal Marwan, prisoner number 72." ""When these envelopes have been handed to the addressees," "A letter will be given to you both."" ""When the silence is broken, and a promise is kept, a stone may be placed on my grave, and my name engraved on the stone in the sun."" "My loves ..." "Where does your story begin?" "At your birth?" "Then it starts in horror." "At the birth of your father?" "Then it begins in a great love story." "I say that your story begins with a promise that breaks the thread of anger." "Thanks to you, today I finally managed to keep it." "The thread is broken." "And I can finally take the time to rock you and softly sing a lullaby to comfort you." "Nothing is more beautiful than to be together." "I love you." "Your mother, Nawal." "Subtitle:" "Urban.Huntress, Vancouver"