Little Bird (2023) s01e01 Episode Script
Love Is All Around
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[BIRDS SINGING] [INSECTS CHIRPING]
[BIRDS SINGING] [INSECTS CHIRPING]
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[MAN SNORING SOFTLY]
[A GIRL COUGHS]
[A GIRL COUGHING]
[WIND BLOWING]
[URINATING]
[WIND BLOWING]
[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]
Because I cared ♪
- [GIRL COUGHING]
- I gave my love to you ♪
Now, he's really gonna hurt.
Mosquito bite right up here.
[MAN]: Yeah. And then he
scared the little bird.
- Because I cared ♪
- And then, he said, "AAAH"!
[BOTH LAUGHING]
You broke my heart in two ♪
Because I cared ♪
You left me ♪
Feeling blue ♪
Just for you ♪
[MAN AND WOMAN CHUCKLING]
Because I cared ♪
You're only gonna be gone for the day.
Maybe I'll just stay here
instead, just like this.
You're gonna make me a coffee or what?
I can't do it while you're kissing me.
I'm going to the tents.
- [WOMAN]: Oh, get ready.
- [MAN]: I'm coming.
- [WOMAN LAUGHING]
- Mama? Mama?
May I have some milk?
Yes. Can you go get
your brother some milk?
[KIDS LAUGHING]
I got this.
- [INDISTINCT COUNTRY SONG]
- [INDISTINCT SPEAKING]
- [GIRL]: I wanna make a castle.
- [GIRL COUGHS]
I can't, it'll just fall.
Here, you love red team. I love red too.
- Yeah, I'll be red team.
- Just make everything
[MAN]: He's nervous. He's
not even talking to me.
[WOMAN]: He'll come around.
He's been waiting for this a long time.
[KIDS LAUGHING]
- Ah.
- Mm-hmm.
I love you, you know?
You do?
- Yeah.
- I still can't believe it.
We have four kids.
- It's not enough.
- [WOMAN CHUCKLING]
Need more.
Do you think he's
gonna kill a deer today?
- No. Hahaha!
- Haha!
Well, one of you better
come back with something.
Now get, your dad's gonna be mad.
Well, maybe later,
you can boss me around.
- Jeez, get.
- All right, then.
Leo, let's get a move on, my boy.
- Kill your first deer, Leo!
- Kill it! I'll eat it all up.
- [MAN CHUCKLES]
- We'll be home after dark.
[GIRL]: Ah
[BIRDS SINGING] [INSECTS CHIRPING]
Oh, they're so pretty!
Come look at them,
Dora.
- Come see. This is so pretty.
- I like it.
Niizh, we were looking at those!
Hey, can you two get me some water?
[DISTANT ENGINE HUMMING]
[CLANKING]
Go inside now! Go!
Go, go, go! Go!
[EXHALES]
[MAN SPEAKING INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE]
["HEY, LITTLE BIRD" SONG
BY BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE]
Hey, little bird, I remember you ♪
You with your dreams up
higher than you could fly ♪
Hey, I remember you ♪
Hey, hey, little bird ♪
Lost in the summer sun ♪
Those were the days when
your feathers were new ♪
And I remember you ♪
Little bird ♪
Now, it's all coming back ♪
The whole world is your habitat ♪
But more than that ♪
If we meet again, will you know me? ♪
So little bird ♪
Flash your colours and I will sing ♪
Glide into time with
the moon on your wing ♪
Little bird ♪
Little bird ♪
Little bird ♪
Like a gull of the sea ♪
Your resting place ♪
Could be heaven or countless oceans ♪
Far from me ♪
I mean, really, I'm just very busy.
Okay, David, can I take a moment to talk
- to you as my future son-in-law?
- Uh-oh, here we go.
- Dad, come on.
- All I want to say is
I wish on you even half of the joy
I've had being Esther's father.
It's all I want to say. But I will add
that she just aced all
of her end-term exams.
- Dad, stop.
- What? First-year law school,
I didn't ace all my
exams. She aced torts.
She aced contracts.
She aced property law.
Yeah, that's what it means when you say
I aced all of them.
Means I aced all of them.
She's gonna win every fight,
you know that, don't you?
- Oh, I know, I know.
- Oof!
Okay, that's good, that's enough.
I'm gonna go check on Mom.
Don't say anything else.
[LAUGHING]: Okay.
- She already wins every fight.
- Yeah. What do you expect?
She's a daughter of two lawyers.
Mazel tov, Esther. Beautiful simfa.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[WOMAN]: You look beautiful, Esther!
[PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMAN]: Oh, hey. Hi there.
How are you doing?
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
- Are you doing okay over here?
- Well, I'm good, I'm good.
I don't like any of these people.
Mom, a lot of them are from shul.
They don't know anything
about art, politic,
- culture.
- So, small talk with them.
- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
- I don't know why you try
so hard to fit in with
these boring people.
Who else am I supposed
to try to fit in with?
[YOUNG GIRL LAUGHING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
What. Do. You. Want. To. Make?
I got you.
[WOMAN HUMMING]
That's fine.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- Good morning.
- Auntie Brigit!
- Auntie
- I brought a little something.
- Oh, thank you.
Oh, hello, doll.
- She's a little bit hot, huh?
- Yeah,
she's got a little bit of a fever.
Oh, my.
I was on my way to
town to run an errand,
and I thought I'd bring you some fish.
- Ooh bannocks.
- [DORA COUGHING]
Huh
You're not feeling good, huh?
And your shirt's all dirty.
How come her shirt is all dirty?
- Oh, I know, I gotta wash it.
- Oh, look.
- It's okay. Come here.
- [DORA MOANING]
Oh yeah, she's got a bad fever.
Uh, do you want me to
stick around and help?
No, no, it's okay. You go.
- Take some bannock with you.
- Okay.
- See you.
- Bye, Aunt Brigit.
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[DORA COUGHING]
[HUMMING]
[VEHICLE ENGINE STARTING]
- [MUSIC PLAYING FROM THE RADIO]
- Don't turn it up
- so loud, Niizh!
- You two, outside,
both of you. Go pick some
cedar for your sister.
- Big shoe, go first.
- Nooo!
All the time ♪
- Shine like the sun ♪
- [KIDS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
- You'll be the one ♪
- be the rabbit like I said!
- Love came to see ♪
- Just wait, Niizh!
- I'm going faster than you.
- It ain't easy ♪
- Hey, Niizh, you wanna play
- On a rainy day ♪
dig the dog?
- Esther? Esther?
- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
I just thought of a story about
David that I had to tell you.
Oh, come on, Dad, she doesn't
want to hear your story.
Ha! So,
a couple of years ago, we're trying
to get David to go to the
youth group dance at the shul.
You know, so he could meet a nice girl.
- Yeah.
- And he says, "No way."
But then all of a sudden,
he is very excited to go,
and we can't figure out why.
Until we found out
that Esther Rosenblum is going.
- [LAUGHING]
- Oh, my God!
I love that story every time.
Ah, Esther, what a dress!
- It really suits your colouring.
- Mom!
Oh, God. You you know
why I think you and David
are such a good match? It's
'cause you're both so sensitive.
Tammy? Tammy,
hasn't your brother
always been so sensitive?
No.
Oh, no. Davis is the sensitive one
but Tammy here Tammy's moody.
- Right, Tam-tam?
- Hmm I'm not moody,
I'm just annoyed by you.
- See?
- Well, Abby. Abby, come here.
Have I introduced you?
This is my future
daughter-in-law, Esther.
Isn't she so gorgeous? She's so exotic.
- Mom, Jesus Christ.
- What?
She's got a shin to put
'em right here. Right here.
Aww.
[BIRDS SINGING]
- Pa?
- Hmm?
What if I don't get anything?
Well then, everyone's
gonna laugh at you.
[MAN LAUGHING]
Not a competition, my boy.
We hunt for food,
to take care of our family.
If I do get one, Mom's
gonna be real proud.
Haha! She sure will.
[MUSIC PLAYING FROM A RADIO]
Husham!
- Hey, Pops!
- Oy.
Leo,
today you become a hunter, huh?
You guys heard Thomas here got a payout?
The hell for?
- Off the reserve.
- How much did they give you?
Come on, tell him.
Hahaha!
- [MAN LAUGHING]
- 2000
to get rid of you? Not bad.
You know, if they pay us
to move off the reserve,
there'll be nothing left.
We ain't got nothing left anyway, Uncle.
- This is true.
- Stop kidding yourself.
Let's go in.
All right, boys, let's get a deer.
- Yeah, let's do that.
- [MEN CHUCKLING]
- Sellout.
- Hahaha!
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[DORA COUGHING]
[DORA MOANING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[DORA COUGHS]
[DORA COUGHS]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[BIRDS AND INSECTS CHIRPING]
[INSECT BUZZING BRIEFLY]
[TWIG SNAPPING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[KIDS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[GIRL LAUGHS]
- [WOMAN HUMMING]
- [WIND BLOWING]
[LAUGHING]
Okay, you lovebirds,
- speeches in 20 minutes.
- I have convinced
your father to say nothing,
you'll be happy to hear.
- Why? What was he gonna say?
- Uh, well,
he's your father, so he
was gonna embarrass you.
Haha! Yeah, a lot of single entendres.
- You know your dad.
- Please excuse me for a moment.
I'll be right back.
Goodbye, darling. Bye, sweetheart.
[PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
Mom, why are you standing
over here all alone?
Where should I be standing?
Go socialize.
And why is this party so many people?
With so much display?
They have to let us know how
much money they're spending?
Mom, please lower your voice
and please don't say that
- to anybody else.
- Who am I talking to?
Look, there is Dad and Cheryl.
I can't talk to him.
You don't have to see
him; I'll talk to him.
- [SPEAKING HEBREW]
- He should live and be well.
Hahaha! You go, you go.
- [WOMAN LAUGHING]
- [ESTHER SIGHS]
Dad, you didn't tell
me Cheryl was coming.
- Are you having a great time?
- Mm-hmm.
Thank you so much for coming.
You know, why don't you
go get a plate and I'll
be back in a minute.
Wait a sec. Not done bragging
about you. Where are you going?
- Hildie!
- Esther!
Hey, how is everyone behaving on
scale from terrible to terrible?
- Neh.
- Yeah.
Well, you look like a rock
star and fuck 'em, right?
- [WOMEN CHUCKLING]
- I gotta show her something.
Aw, is it your dick?
- [SCOFFS]: No.
- [HILDIE CHUCKLES]
- David, where are we going?
- Shh, shh, shh.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
Hey.
How you doing?
I'm good. I'm fine.
I am.
You, uh
You only have in one earring.
- Oh my!
- [DAVID CHUCKLES]
How are you doing?
- David
- Okay, okay, okay,
I'll drop it, but you're lying
and it's not even good lying.
- What did you want to show me?
- Wanted to show you the stairs.
This is the stairwell. Welcome.
And, uh I wanted to give you
a little break from the party.
I like this dress.
I can reach right up it.
[PANTING]
[MOANING]
Yeah, we probably should
get back to the party.
- [ESTHER LAUGHING]
- It's right through there.
[CLINKING] Or we could stay.
- [UNZIPPING NOISE]
- Oh yeah.
We could stay, huh?
No, you're right, you're
right, you're right.
You're right.
[ESTHER EXHALES]
[ESTHER LAUGHING]
[ZIPPING NOISE]
I'm sorry.
I fucking love you.
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
- [DOUBLE KNOCK]
- Hi, everybody.
- Hi.
- Hi. I'm Hildie.
Um, I'm gonna make a bitchin'
speech at the wedding.
[LAUGHING] But for now,
a quick introduction.
Esther is consistently
the most beautiful person I know.
- And, uh, David's all right.
- [LAUGHING]
And now the happy couple!
- Lehayim.
- [CROWD]: Lehayim.
- [CHUCKLING]
- [APPLAUSE]
[ESTHER]: That was great.
[INSECTS STRIDULATING] [BIRDS TWEETING]
- You all right, Antsy Pants?
- Mm-hmm.
[CAR ENGINE SOUND APPROACHING]
Niizh, no!
[GLASS CLINKS]
Jesus Christ!
[CAR DOOR OPENS]
So, for all of Esther's
friends from law school,
I'm a resident at Beth Israel General
- in emergency medicine.
- My son the doctor!
- [PEOPLE LAUGHING]
- Thanks, Dad. Yeah.
There have been some interesting shifts.
Uh, like the guy who took
an axe to his own forehead
and was bleeding all over the ground.
And then when I come home and
I tell Esther all about this
- [SOME PEOPLE CHUCKLE]
- how I slipped in the blood,
how I started vomiting outside,
how the axe guy saw me vomiting,
and I had to sort of pretend
like I wasn't vomiting
- because of him.
- [CHUCKLING]
Esther puts up with a lot.
She puts up with all that and more.
[CAMERA CLICKS]
When I'm with Esther, I feel happy.
Without her, I don't know
what happiness even is.
[CAMERA CLICKS]
Uh, that's what I mean
when I say that I love you.
To Esther.
- [CROWD]: To Esther!
- [MAN]: Mazel tov!
- [WOMAN]: Mazel tov!
- [APPLAUSE]
[MAN]: Did you think this is
funny? Hey, this is cracked!
- Go! Run home!
- [MAN]: Stop!
- Come on! Go get 'em!
- Hey, come back here!
Hey, stop running!
I'm not kidding, you
need to stop right now!
- No, Niizh, don't stop!
- [GIRL SCREAMS]
[INSECT BUZZING]
[ESTHER]: To, uh
Sorry. Nervous.
[PEOPLE CHUCKLING]
To Marvin and Lea
Oh.
Thank you for this beautiful party.
It's huge. I don't know
how the wedding can top it.
[LAUGHING]
David is my bashert.
For all the non-Jews,
all one of you
- [LAUGHING]
- Where are you going?
He is my destiny
the other half of my soul.
[CAMERA CLICKS]
I could talk about him for hours,
but at this engagement party
among friends, I want to say
My mother, Golda
she had a sister,
and her name was Esther.
She died in Poland.
My mother was 12
when her whole family was
So, I guess
I do feel there is
meaning in all of this
in a future with David
and in a new Jewish generation
and in bright shining lives
stretching out ahead of us.
A prayer and then I'm done.
[IN HEBREW]
[APPLAUSE]
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- [ESTHER LAUGHING]
- [FESTIVE PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
- [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
I'm gonna dance.
Mazel tov, mazel tov, mazel tov ♪
- [INDISTINCT SPEAKING]
- Mazel tov, mazel tov ♪
- [SINGING IN HEBREW]
- [RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
AAAH! Let me go!
- Don't touch me!
- Hmm! You're hurting me!
Let me go! Don't touch me!
AAAH!
Oh, let me go!
[MELANCHOLY PIANO MUSIC]
- [KIDS SCREAMING]
- Let me go!
- Let's go.
- Let me go!
[KID SCREAMING] Let me go!
Let me go.
- [MELANCHOLY PIANO MUSIC]
- [INAUDIBLE SPEAKING]
[RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
- [RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
- [SOUND OF WIND BLOWING]
[GUNSHOT]
- [JAZZ PIANO TUNE PLAYING]
- [DISTANT WOMAN LAUGHING]
[LEA]: Did you hear her out there?
She and David are the
answer to the Holocaust?
So she's just like a regular Jew?
- [TAMMY]: Mom!
- [LEA]: I know, okay? I know.
David is very happy with her.
She makes him very happy, I know that.
[TAMMY]: So?
So it's not about that.
It's about all the other things.
We don't know anything about her family.
Why was she given up for adoption?
What was the problem there?
I think we know what the problem was.
Well, exactly, exactly.
Now what? What? Now she's
gonna be a mother of her own,
and that's that's just gonna go fine?
Look, I think you got
one of the good ones.
She's a lawyer. I have a cousin
who adopted one of them,
and he's into the drugs
- and all that stuff.
- Mom, it's too late for this.
No, it's too late, okay?
That's the whole point.
I didn't realize it
was gonna go this far.
I thought she was like a little number.
That's disgusting.
Esther Esther
don't take it the wrong way.
- [GLASS SHATTERS]
- Okay.
Okay. No, that's fine.
I'll get someone to
clean it up. It's fine.
[DAVID]: What's going on?
Nothing. I just dropped a glass.
- It's okay, okay.
- Oh, God!
Someone's gonna clean it up. It's fine.
- I got it.
- We're fine!
- Thank you, Mildred.
- Esther?
[DAVID SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Mom, can we go home?
- Why?
- It's fine, I just had enough.
Esther.
Esther.
[CAR ENGINE HUMMING]
[CAR ENGINE STOPS]
[CAR DOORS OPENING AND CLOSING]
[WOMAN]: Nice to see you,
Reggie. This is Miss Halpern.
[MAN]: You were
delighted to get our call?
[WOMAN]: Hmm. These
are the two children?
[MAN] Yeah.
[WOMAN]: Were you the one that
threw the rock at their car?
Where was your mother while
all of this was happening, dear?
Hmm? You don't know where she was?
Home.
And where is she now?
Home.
They cracked our windshield, Jeannie.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Well, let's get these two into the car.
- I want to go home!
- Let me go.
Yes, that's exactly where
we're going right now.
Get in the car.
- Ow! It hurts!
- Get in the goddamn car!
Okay, okay, he's in.
- You okay?
- Adele?
[WIND BLOWING]
[CAR APPROACHING]
[CAR ENGINE HUMMING]
[POLICEMAN]: You want us
to go in with you, Jeannie?
[JEANNIE]: Generally, yes.
We like to have you in these situations.
We don't know what kind
of [INDISTINCT SPEAKING]
- [POLICEMAN]: Or worse.
- [JEANNIE]: Yes, exactly.
And we don't know the mother.
Better safe than sorry.
- Hmm
- Hey, it's okay.
It's okay, it's okay.
- [GIRL]: I wanna go inside.
- [POLICE]: Come on, let's go!
Just like we practised, okay?
You don't come out until I get back.
Don't talk, don't move, okay?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I love you.
[JEANNIE]: Unbelievable!
[GIRL]: No!
Ugh, I wanna go in my house!
[POLICEMAN]: Hey, hey,
hey! Go in in our car!
- [GIRL]: No, I'm not!
- Are these your children?
- We're from child protective services.
- Ma'am, no!
[OVERLAPPING SHOUTING]
- Let go of my hand!
- You cannot do that!
Follow me! Come on! Come on, baby!
- [COP 1]: The hell she doing?
- [COP 2]: Where are you going?!
- We just want to talk!
- [WOMAN HYPERVENTILATING]
Aaah.
My baby. It's okay. It's okay.
- Hey, come back here!
- [GIRL]: Niizh!
Niizh!
[BIRD CAWING]
- Want one?
- No thank you.
[JEANNIE SIGHS]
Can get lively.
But don't you worry,
he's gonna catch her.
- [BIRD CAWING]
- [GIRL]: No!
- [WOMAN]: No!
- [JEANNIE]: Ah, there you go.
[WOMAN]: No!
Get down!
Let me go!
Okay, okay.
- It's over, it's over.
- No, no, no, no, no!
- Give me my daughter!
- Mom!
- It's okay.
- Let me go now!
- I'm right here, baby.
- Let me go!
- [CRYING]
- My baby. My baby.
[GIRL]: NO!
Where did you say you were from again?
Hmm
Um, originally from Saskatoon.
Mm-hmm.
Although I did my B.A. in Toronto.
In social work?
- I just graduated.
- Oh, you don't say.
[WOMAN]: It's okay, I'm
right here, right here.
- [POLICEMAN]: Let's go!
- [GIRL CRYING]
[WOMAN]: Leave her alone!
My baby! Give me my kid!
[JEANNIE]: Ma'am?
Ma'am, your son damaged
federal property.
[JEANNIE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Why did you just run
from the police like that?
- [WOMAN HYPERVENTILATING]
- [JEANNIE]: All right then.
[ADELE]: I think she might
be too upset to speak.
Are you taking my children?!
Ma'am, what is your full name?
Patri Patricia.
Patricia Little Bird.
"Little Bird."
Hey, Mrs. Little Bird,
we're child case workers with
the child protective services
in Saskatchewan. Do you understand?
We're here to determine
if you're a fit mother.
All right, shall we go inside?
- No, I want my kids.
- Let's go.
- I won't let you.
- Adele.
- Please!
- Let us out!
- Leave her alone!
- I'm sorry!
Adele, this is your chance to learn.
Mrs. Little Bird,
how often do you leave
your children unsupervised?
I'm sorry.
What's your answer?
There's always someone around.
Aunties, cousins.
Leo, my eldest.
He's 10.
He looks after them.
And where is he now?
Hunting with my husband.
Oh, man.
No fridge?
No electricity.
No one has that here.
There's no phone.
My auntie has a phone.
- We go there to make calls.
- [GIRL]: Let me go!
[GIRL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] I'm sorry!
They're fed. They don't go hungry.
[GIRL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
There's no plumbing.
No one has that on the reserve.
But how do you provide your
children with clean water?
Rain barrels,
haul it from the river.
[ADELE]: Should we look
at the rain barrels?
If there's water in them,
then they have water.
[JEANNIE SCOFFS]
[JEANNIE SIGHS]
[JEANNIE]: One bedroom?
Three children?
Yes, one bedroom.
[WHISPERING]: The main things are
lack of fruit, lack of clean water,
general poor conditions.
It's what these three ticks
are here. And then the client.
[ADELE]: Mm-hmm.
[JEANNIE EXHALES]
We're going to have to
apprehend your children today,
Mrs. Little Bird.
Are you listening?
Mrs. Little Bird?
- Please
- [COP]: Ma'am, stay seated!
[ADELE, WHISPERING]: I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
[DORA COUGHS]
Is there someone else in this house?
No. No.
- We should take a tour?
- Mm-hmm.
[TAPPING WOOD]
Please. Like I said,
my husband has gone hunting.
[CLANKING]
Jeannie? Get over here.
[DORA COUGHS]
- [DORA CRYING]
- Okay, come on.
Hey.
Come on, kid.
[DORA COUGHING]
[DOOR OPENS]
Hey! Hey! Stay back, Ma'am!
- Grab Niizh.
- No, no, no!
Nooo! No!
- Give me my children!
- If you don't calm down,
we're going back inside.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
- That's it!
- Let me go!
- [GIRL SCREAMING]
- Get away from my son!
- Come on, I'll quiet you down.
- Calm down.
- Oh! Nooo!
- [ENGINE REVVING UP]
NOOO!
- MOM!
- NOOO!
- NOOO! Let me go!
- Hey, hey, hey!
- Mom!
- Nooo!
- Mom!
- No!
Help!
[SCREAMING AND SOBBING]
They're idiots.
They've always been idiots.
Twenty years I've known them,
they've been idiots the whole time.
Lea, she likes the attention.
She likes everybody listening to her.
Oh, poor Lea, it's so hard
to have this trouble
with your daughter-in-law.
It's not a good quality.
But you're not marrying Lea;
you're marrying her son,
and David is not like his mother.
So she said a few words.
So she said a lot of
words, that's Lea for you.
[KEYS CLINKING] [DOOR OPENS]
This is not your problem.
This is their problem.
You are a beautiful person.
Lea is an old lady
who likes to complain.
- Esther
- [PHONE RINGING]
And that's David calling, I'm sure.
[PHONE RINGING]
Come on, you're not gonna answer?
Esther, you're not gonna answer?
David?
[JEANNIE]: We're almost there.
This is where you'll be staying.
You'll meet a lot of other
children who are just like you.
- Adele, help them out of the car.
- [WHISPERING]: Right.
Come here. Okay.
- Can we go?
- Who do you have for us today?
- Three new wards.
- Here we go.
All right.
- Let's go.
- Yeah, you go with her. Go.
[JEANNIE SIGHS]
Excellent. Come on.
[VIOLIN AND PIANO MUSIC
PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND]
[GOLDA, DISTANT]: Yes. Yes.
[GOLDA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
No, no, don't worry.
I know, I know. It's not your fault.
[GOLDA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
♪
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
[WOMAN]: It's bedtime.
[DORA COUGHING]
[DORA CRYING]
It's okay, Dora.
- It's okay.
- [WOMAN]: Back in bed!
It's okay.
She has a fever.
You see all the other
children lying down?
Yeah, but she's still crying.
She'll stop. It's bedtime.
- Lie down.
- [DORA COUGHING]
[DORA CRYING AND COUGHING]
She's still crying.
Like I said, she'll stop.
[DORA COUGHING AND CRYING]
[DRAMATIC CELLO MUSIC]
[SNIFFLING]
[DORA COUGHING AND CRYING]
♪
[DORA CRYING]
[DORA]: Bezhig, please.
[DORA COUGHING AND CRYING]
Bezhig, help me.
[BEZHIG SOBBING]
Bezhig!
[WOMAN VOCALIZING]
♪
♪
[BIRDS SINGING] [INSECTS CHIRPING]
[BIRDS SINGING] [INSECTS CHIRPING]
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[MAN SNORING SOFTLY]
[A GIRL COUGHS]
[A GIRL COUGHING]
[WIND BLOWING]
[URINATING]
[WIND BLOWING]
[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]
Because I cared ♪
- [GIRL COUGHING]
- I gave my love to you ♪
Now, he's really gonna hurt.
Mosquito bite right up here.
[MAN]: Yeah. And then he
scared the little bird.
- Because I cared ♪
- And then, he said, "AAAH"!
[BOTH LAUGHING]
You broke my heart in two ♪
Because I cared ♪
You left me ♪
Feeling blue ♪
Just for you ♪
[MAN AND WOMAN CHUCKLING]
Because I cared ♪
You're only gonna be gone for the day.
Maybe I'll just stay here
instead, just like this.
You're gonna make me a coffee or what?
I can't do it while you're kissing me.
I'm going to the tents.
- [WOMAN]: Oh, get ready.
- [MAN]: I'm coming.
- [WOMAN LAUGHING]
- Mama? Mama?
May I have some milk?
Yes. Can you go get
your brother some milk?
[KIDS LAUGHING]
I got this.
- [INDISTINCT COUNTRY SONG]
- [INDISTINCT SPEAKING]
- [GIRL]: I wanna make a castle.
- [GIRL COUGHS]
I can't, it'll just fall.
Here, you love red team. I love red too.
- Yeah, I'll be red team.
- Just make everything
[MAN]: He's nervous. He's
not even talking to me.
[WOMAN]: He'll come around.
He's been waiting for this a long time.
[KIDS LAUGHING]
- Ah.
- Mm-hmm.
I love you, you know?
You do?
- Yeah.
- I still can't believe it.
We have four kids.
- It's not enough.
- [WOMAN CHUCKLING]
Need more.
Do you think he's
gonna kill a deer today?
- No. Hahaha!
- Haha!
Well, one of you better
come back with something.
Now get, your dad's gonna be mad.
Well, maybe later,
you can boss me around.
- Jeez, get.
- All right, then.
Leo, let's get a move on, my boy.
- Kill your first deer, Leo!
- Kill it! I'll eat it all up.
- [MAN CHUCKLES]
- We'll be home after dark.
[GIRL]: Ah
[BIRDS SINGING] [INSECTS CHIRPING]
Oh, they're so pretty!
Come look at them,
Dora.
- Come see. This is so pretty.
- I like it.
Niizh, we were looking at those!
Hey, can you two get me some water?
[DISTANT ENGINE HUMMING]
[CLANKING]
Go inside now! Go!
Go, go, go! Go!
[EXHALES]
[MAN SPEAKING INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE]
["HEY, LITTLE BIRD" SONG
BY BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE]
Hey, little bird, I remember you ♪
You with your dreams up
higher than you could fly ♪
Hey, I remember you ♪
Hey, hey, little bird ♪
Lost in the summer sun ♪
Those were the days when
your feathers were new ♪
And I remember you ♪
Little bird ♪
Now, it's all coming back ♪
The whole world is your habitat ♪
But more than that ♪
If we meet again, will you know me? ♪
So little bird ♪
Flash your colours and I will sing ♪
Glide into time with
the moon on your wing ♪
Little bird ♪
Little bird ♪
Little bird ♪
Like a gull of the sea ♪
Your resting place ♪
Could be heaven or countless oceans ♪
Far from me ♪
I mean, really, I'm just very busy.
Okay, David, can I take a moment to talk
- to you as my future son-in-law?
- Uh-oh, here we go.
- Dad, come on.
- All I want to say is
I wish on you even half of the joy
I've had being Esther's father.
It's all I want to say. But I will add
that she just aced all
of her end-term exams.
- Dad, stop.
- What? First-year law school,
I didn't ace all my
exams. She aced torts.
She aced contracts.
She aced property law.
Yeah, that's what it means when you say
I aced all of them.
Means I aced all of them.
She's gonna win every fight,
you know that, don't you?
- Oh, I know, I know.
- Oof!
Okay, that's good, that's enough.
I'm gonna go check on Mom.
Don't say anything else.
[LAUGHING]: Okay.
- She already wins every fight.
- Yeah. What do you expect?
She's a daughter of two lawyers.
Mazel tov, Esther. Beautiful simfa.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[WOMAN]: You look beautiful, Esther!
[PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMAN]: Oh, hey. Hi there.
How are you doing?
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
- Are you doing okay over here?
- Well, I'm good, I'm good.
I don't like any of these people.
Mom, a lot of them are from shul.
They don't know anything
about art, politic,
- culture.
- So, small talk with them.
- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
- I don't know why you try
so hard to fit in with
these boring people.
Who else am I supposed
to try to fit in with?
[YOUNG GIRL LAUGHING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
What. Do. You. Want. To. Make?
I got you.
[WOMAN HUMMING]
That's fine.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- Good morning.
- Auntie Brigit!
- Auntie
- I brought a little something.
- Oh, thank you.
Oh, hello, doll.
- She's a little bit hot, huh?
- Yeah,
she's got a little bit of a fever.
Oh, my.
I was on my way to
town to run an errand,
and I thought I'd bring you some fish.
- Ooh bannocks.
- [DORA COUGHING]
Huh
You're not feeling good, huh?
And your shirt's all dirty.
How come her shirt is all dirty?
- Oh, I know, I gotta wash it.
- Oh, look.
- It's okay. Come here.
- [DORA MOANING]
Oh yeah, she's got a bad fever.
Uh, do you want me to
stick around and help?
No, no, it's okay. You go.
- Take some bannock with you.
- Okay.
- See you.
- Bye, Aunt Brigit.
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[DORA COUGHING]
[HUMMING]
[VEHICLE ENGINE STARTING]
- [MUSIC PLAYING FROM THE RADIO]
- Don't turn it up
- so loud, Niizh!
- You two, outside,
both of you. Go pick some
cedar for your sister.
- Big shoe, go first.
- Nooo!
All the time ♪
- Shine like the sun ♪
- [KIDS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
- You'll be the one ♪
- be the rabbit like I said!
- Love came to see ♪
- Just wait, Niizh!
- I'm going faster than you.
- It ain't easy ♪
- Hey, Niizh, you wanna play
- On a rainy day ♪
dig the dog?
- Esther? Esther?
- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
I just thought of a story about
David that I had to tell you.
Oh, come on, Dad, she doesn't
want to hear your story.
Ha! So,
a couple of years ago, we're trying
to get David to go to the
youth group dance at the shul.
You know, so he could meet a nice girl.
- Yeah.
- And he says, "No way."
But then all of a sudden,
he is very excited to go,
and we can't figure out why.
Until we found out
that Esther Rosenblum is going.
- [LAUGHING]
- Oh, my God!
I love that story every time.
Ah, Esther, what a dress!
- It really suits your colouring.
- Mom!
Oh, God. You you know
why I think you and David
are such a good match? It's
'cause you're both so sensitive.
Tammy? Tammy,
hasn't your brother
always been so sensitive?
No.
Oh, no. Davis is the sensitive one
but Tammy here Tammy's moody.
- Right, Tam-tam?
- Hmm I'm not moody,
I'm just annoyed by you.
- See?
- Well, Abby. Abby, come here.
Have I introduced you?
This is my future
daughter-in-law, Esther.
Isn't she so gorgeous? She's so exotic.
- Mom, Jesus Christ.
- What?
She's got a shin to put
'em right here. Right here.
Aww.
[BIRDS SINGING]
- Pa?
- Hmm?
What if I don't get anything?
Well then, everyone's
gonna laugh at you.
[MAN LAUGHING]
Not a competition, my boy.
We hunt for food,
to take care of our family.
If I do get one, Mom's
gonna be real proud.
Haha! She sure will.
[MUSIC PLAYING FROM A RADIO]
Husham!
- Hey, Pops!
- Oy.
Leo,
today you become a hunter, huh?
You guys heard Thomas here got a payout?
The hell for?
- Off the reserve.
- How much did they give you?
Come on, tell him.
Hahaha!
- [MAN LAUGHING]
- 2000
to get rid of you? Not bad.
You know, if they pay us
to move off the reserve,
there'll be nothing left.
We ain't got nothing left anyway, Uncle.
- This is true.
- Stop kidding yourself.
Let's go in.
All right, boys, let's get a deer.
- Yeah, let's do that.
- [MEN CHUCKLING]
- Sellout.
- Hahaha!
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[DORA COUGHING]
[DORA MOANING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[DORA COUGHS]
[DORA COUGHS]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[BIRDS AND INSECTS CHIRPING]
[INSECT BUZZING BRIEFLY]
[TWIG SNAPPING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[KIDS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[GIRL LAUGHS]
- [WOMAN HUMMING]
- [WIND BLOWING]
[LAUGHING]
Okay, you lovebirds,
- speeches in 20 minutes.
- I have convinced
your father to say nothing,
you'll be happy to hear.
- Why? What was he gonna say?
- Uh, well,
he's your father, so he
was gonna embarrass you.
Haha! Yeah, a lot of single entendres.
- You know your dad.
- Please excuse me for a moment.
I'll be right back.
Goodbye, darling. Bye, sweetheart.
[PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
Mom, why are you standing
over here all alone?
Where should I be standing?
Go socialize.
And why is this party so many people?
With so much display?
They have to let us know how
much money they're spending?
Mom, please lower your voice
and please don't say that
- to anybody else.
- Who am I talking to?
Look, there is Dad and Cheryl.
I can't talk to him.
You don't have to see
him; I'll talk to him.
- [SPEAKING HEBREW]
- He should live and be well.
Hahaha! You go, you go.
- [WOMAN LAUGHING]
- [ESTHER SIGHS]
Dad, you didn't tell
me Cheryl was coming.
- Are you having a great time?
- Mm-hmm.
Thank you so much for coming.
You know, why don't you
go get a plate and I'll
be back in a minute.
Wait a sec. Not done bragging
about you. Where are you going?
- Hildie!
- Esther!
Hey, how is everyone behaving on
scale from terrible to terrible?
- Neh.
- Yeah.
Well, you look like a rock
star and fuck 'em, right?
- [WOMEN CHUCKLING]
- I gotta show her something.
Aw, is it your dick?
- [SCOFFS]: No.
- [HILDIE CHUCKLES]
- David, where are we going?
- Shh, shh, shh.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
Hey.
How you doing?
I'm good. I'm fine.
I am.
You, uh
You only have in one earring.
- Oh my!
- [DAVID CHUCKLES]
How are you doing?
- David
- Okay, okay, okay,
I'll drop it, but you're lying
and it's not even good lying.
- What did you want to show me?
- Wanted to show you the stairs.
This is the stairwell. Welcome.
And, uh I wanted to give you
a little break from the party.
I like this dress.
I can reach right up it.
[PANTING]
[MOANING]
Yeah, we probably should
get back to the party.
- [ESTHER LAUGHING]
- It's right through there.
[CLINKING] Or we could stay.
- [UNZIPPING NOISE]
- Oh yeah.
We could stay, huh?
No, you're right, you're
right, you're right.
You're right.
[ESTHER EXHALES]
[ESTHER LAUGHING]
[ZIPPING NOISE]
I'm sorry.
I fucking love you.
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
- [DOUBLE KNOCK]
- Hi, everybody.
- Hi.
- Hi. I'm Hildie.
Um, I'm gonna make a bitchin'
speech at the wedding.
[LAUGHING] But for now,
a quick introduction.
Esther is consistently
the most beautiful person I know.
- And, uh, David's all right.
- [LAUGHING]
And now the happy couple!
- Lehayim.
- [CROWD]: Lehayim.
- [CHUCKLING]
- [APPLAUSE]
[ESTHER]: That was great.
[INSECTS STRIDULATING] [BIRDS TWEETING]
- You all right, Antsy Pants?
- Mm-hmm.
[CAR ENGINE SOUND APPROACHING]
Niizh, no!
[GLASS CLINKS]
Jesus Christ!
[CAR DOOR OPENS]
So, for all of Esther's
friends from law school,
I'm a resident at Beth Israel General
- in emergency medicine.
- My son the doctor!
- [PEOPLE LAUGHING]
- Thanks, Dad. Yeah.
There have been some interesting shifts.
Uh, like the guy who took
an axe to his own forehead
and was bleeding all over the ground.
And then when I come home and
I tell Esther all about this
- [SOME PEOPLE CHUCKLE]
- how I slipped in the blood,
how I started vomiting outside,
how the axe guy saw me vomiting,
and I had to sort of pretend
like I wasn't vomiting
- because of him.
- [CHUCKLING]
Esther puts up with a lot.
She puts up with all that and more.
[CAMERA CLICKS]
When I'm with Esther, I feel happy.
Without her, I don't know
what happiness even is.
[CAMERA CLICKS]
Uh, that's what I mean
when I say that I love you.
To Esther.
- [CROWD]: To Esther!
- [MAN]: Mazel tov!
- [WOMAN]: Mazel tov!
- [APPLAUSE]
[MAN]: Did you think this is
funny? Hey, this is cracked!
- Go! Run home!
- [MAN]: Stop!
- Come on! Go get 'em!
- Hey, come back here!
Hey, stop running!
I'm not kidding, you
need to stop right now!
- No, Niizh, don't stop!
- [GIRL SCREAMS]
[INSECT BUZZING]
[ESTHER]: To, uh
Sorry. Nervous.
[PEOPLE CHUCKLING]
To Marvin and Lea
Oh.
Thank you for this beautiful party.
It's huge. I don't know
how the wedding can top it.
[LAUGHING]
David is my bashert.
For all the non-Jews,
all one of you
- [LAUGHING]
- Where are you going?
He is my destiny
the other half of my soul.
[CAMERA CLICKS]
I could talk about him for hours,
but at this engagement party
among friends, I want to say
My mother, Golda
she had a sister,
and her name was Esther.
She died in Poland.
My mother was 12
when her whole family was
So, I guess
I do feel there is
meaning in all of this
in a future with David
and in a new Jewish generation
and in bright shining lives
stretching out ahead of us.
A prayer and then I'm done.
[IN HEBREW]
[APPLAUSE]
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- [ESTHER LAUGHING]
- [FESTIVE PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
- [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
I'm gonna dance.
Mazel tov, mazel tov, mazel tov ♪
- [INDISTINCT SPEAKING]
- Mazel tov, mazel tov ♪
- [SINGING IN HEBREW]
- [RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
AAAH! Let me go!
- Don't touch me!
- Hmm! You're hurting me!
Let me go! Don't touch me!
AAAH!
Oh, let me go!
[MELANCHOLY PIANO MUSIC]
- [KIDS SCREAMING]
- Let me go!
- Let's go.
- Let me go!
[KID SCREAMING] Let me go!
Let me go.
- [MELANCHOLY PIANO MUSIC]
- [INAUDIBLE SPEAKING]
[RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
- [RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
- [SOUND OF WIND BLOWING]
[GUNSHOT]
- [JAZZ PIANO TUNE PLAYING]
- [DISTANT WOMAN LAUGHING]
[LEA]: Did you hear her out there?
She and David are the
answer to the Holocaust?
So she's just like a regular Jew?
- [TAMMY]: Mom!
- [LEA]: I know, okay? I know.
David is very happy with her.
She makes him very happy, I know that.
[TAMMY]: So?
So it's not about that.
It's about all the other things.
We don't know anything about her family.
Why was she given up for adoption?
What was the problem there?
I think we know what the problem was.
Well, exactly, exactly.
Now what? What? Now she's
gonna be a mother of her own,
and that's that's just gonna go fine?
Look, I think you got
one of the good ones.
She's a lawyer. I have a cousin
who adopted one of them,
and he's into the drugs
- and all that stuff.
- Mom, it's too late for this.
No, it's too late, okay?
That's the whole point.
I didn't realize it
was gonna go this far.
I thought she was like a little number.
That's disgusting.
Esther Esther
don't take it the wrong way.
- [GLASS SHATTERS]
- Okay.
Okay. No, that's fine.
I'll get someone to
clean it up. It's fine.
[DAVID]: What's going on?
Nothing. I just dropped a glass.
- It's okay, okay.
- Oh, God!
Someone's gonna clean it up. It's fine.
- I got it.
- We're fine!
- Thank you, Mildred.
- Esther?
[DAVID SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Mom, can we go home?
- Why?
- It's fine, I just had enough.
Esther.
Esther.
[CAR ENGINE HUMMING]
[CAR ENGINE STOPS]
[CAR DOORS OPENING AND CLOSING]
[WOMAN]: Nice to see you,
Reggie. This is Miss Halpern.
[MAN]: You were
delighted to get our call?
[WOMAN]: Hmm. These
are the two children?
[MAN] Yeah.
[WOMAN]: Were you the one that
threw the rock at their car?
Where was your mother while
all of this was happening, dear?
Hmm? You don't know where she was?
Home.
And where is she now?
Home.
They cracked our windshield, Jeannie.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Well, let's get these two into the car.
- I want to go home!
- Let me go.
Yes, that's exactly where
we're going right now.
Get in the car.
- Ow! It hurts!
- Get in the goddamn car!
Okay, okay, he's in.
- You okay?
- Adele?
[WIND BLOWING]
[CAR APPROACHING]
[CAR ENGINE HUMMING]
[POLICEMAN]: You want us
to go in with you, Jeannie?
[JEANNIE]: Generally, yes.
We like to have you in these situations.
We don't know what kind
of [INDISTINCT SPEAKING]
- [POLICEMAN]: Or worse.
- [JEANNIE]: Yes, exactly.
And we don't know the mother.
Better safe than sorry.
- Hmm
- Hey, it's okay.
It's okay, it's okay.
- [GIRL]: I wanna go inside.
- [POLICE]: Come on, let's go!
Just like we practised, okay?
You don't come out until I get back.
Don't talk, don't move, okay?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I love you.
[JEANNIE]: Unbelievable!
[GIRL]: No!
Ugh, I wanna go in my house!
[POLICEMAN]: Hey, hey,
hey! Go in in our car!
- [GIRL]: No, I'm not!
- Are these your children?
- We're from child protective services.
- Ma'am, no!
[OVERLAPPING SHOUTING]
- Let go of my hand!
- You cannot do that!
Follow me! Come on! Come on, baby!
- [COP 1]: The hell she doing?
- [COP 2]: Where are you going?!
- We just want to talk!
- [WOMAN HYPERVENTILATING]
Aaah.
My baby. It's okay. It's okay.
- Hey, come back here!
- [GIRL]: Niizh!
Niizh!
[BIRD CAWING]
- Want one?
- No thank you.
[JEANNIE SIGHS]
Can get lively.
But don't you worry,
he's gonna catch her.
- [BIRD CAWING]
- [GIRL]: No!
- [WOMAN]: No!
- [JEANNIE]: Ah, there you go.
[WOMAN]: No!
Get down!
Let me go!
Okay, okay.
- It's over, it's over.
- No, no, no, no, no!
- Give me my daughter!
- Mom!
- It's okay.
- Let me go now!
- I'm right here, baby.
- Let me go!
- [CRYING]
- My baby. My baby.
[GIRL]: NO!
Where did you say you were from again?
Hmm
Um, originally from Saskatoon.
Mm-hmm.
Although I did my B.A. in Toronto.
In social work?
- I just graduated.
- Oh, you don't say.
[WOMAN]: It's okay, I'm
right here, right here.
- [POLICEMAN]: Let's go!
- [GIRL CRYING]
[WOMAN]: Leave her alone!
My baby! Give me my kid!
[JEANNIE]: Ma'am?
Ma'am, your son damaged
federal property.
[JEANNIE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Why did you just run
from the police like that?
- [WOMAN HYPERVENTILATING]
- [JEANNIE]: All right then.
[ADELE]: I think she might
be too upset to speak.
Are you taking my children?!
Ma'am, what is your full name?
Patri Patricia.
Patricia Little Bird.
"Little Bird."
Hey, Mrs. Little Bird,
we're child case workers with
the child protective services
in Saskatchewan. Do you understand?
We're here to determine
if you're a fit mother.
All right, shall we go inside?
- No, I want my kids.
- Let's go.
- I won't let you.
- Adele.
- Please!
- Let us out!
- Leave her alone!
- I'm sorry!
Adele, this is your chance to learn.
Mrs. Little Bird,
how often do you leave
your children unsupervised?
I'm sorry.
What's your answer?
There's always someone around.
Aunties, cousins.
Leo, my eldest.
He's 10.
He looks after them.
And where is he now?
Hunting with my husband.
Oh, man.
No fridge?
No electricity.
No one has that here.
There's no phone.
My auntie has a phone.
- We go there to make calls.
- [GIRL]: Let me go!
[GIRL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] I'm sorry!
They're fed. They don't go hungry.
[GIRL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
There's no plumbing.
No one has that on the reserve.
But how do you provide your
children with clean water?
Rain barrels,
haul it from the river.
[ADELE]: Should we look
at the rain barrels?
If there's water in them,
then they have water.
[JEANNIE SCOFFS]
[JEANNIE SIGHS]
[JEANNIE]: One bedroom?
Three children?
Yes, one bedroom.
[WHISPERING]: The main things are
lack of fruit, lack of clean water,
general poor conditions.
It's what these three ticks
are here. And then the client.
[ADELE]: Mm-hmm.
[JEANNIE EXHALES]
We're going to have to
apprehend your children today,
Mrs. Little Bird.
Are you listening?
Mrs. Little Bird?
- Please
- [COP]: Ma'am, stay seated!
[ADELE, WHISPERING]: I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
[DORA COUGHS]
Is there someone else in this house?
No. No.
- We should take a tour?
- Mm-hmm.
[TAPPING WOOD]
Please. Like I said,
my husband has gone hunting.
[CLANKING]
Jeannie? Get over here.
[DORA COUGHS]
- [DORA CRYING]
- Okay, come on.
Hey.
Come on, kid.
[DORA COUGHING]
[DOOR OPENS]
Hey! Hey! Stay back, Ma'am!
- Grab Niizh.
- No, no, no!
Nooo! No!
- Give me my children!
- If you don't calm down,
we're going back inside.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
- That's it!
- Let me go!
- [GIRL SCREAMING]
- Get away from my son!
- Come on, I'll quiet you down.
- Calm down.
- Oh! Nooo!
- [ENGINE REVVING UP]
NOOO!
- MOM!
- NOOO!
- NOOO! Let me go!
- Hey, hey, hey!
- Mom!
- Nooo!
- Mom!
- No!
Help!
[SCREAMING AND SOBBING]
They're idiots.
They've always been idiots.
Twenty years I've known them,
they've been idiots the whole time.
Lea, she likes the attention.
She likes everybody listening to her.
Oh, poor Lea, it's so hard
to have this trouble
with your daughter-in-law.
It's not a good quality.
But you're not marrying Lea;
you're marrying her son,
and David is not like his mother.
So she said a few words.
So she said a lot of
words, that's Lea for you.
[KEYS CLINKING] [DOOR OPENS]
This is not your problem.
This is their problem.
You are a beautiful person.
Lea is an old lady
who likes to complain.
- Esther
- [PHONE RINGING]
And that's David calling, I'm sure.
[PHONE RINGING]
Come on, you're not gonna answer?
Esther, you're not gonna answer?
David?
[JEANNIE]: We're almost there.
This is where you'll be staying.
You'll meet a lot of other
children who are just like you.
- Adele, help them out of the car.
- [WHISPERING]: Right.
Come here. Okay.
- Can we go?
- Who do you have for us today?
- Three new wards.
- Here we go.
All right.
- Let's go.
- Yeah, you go with her. Go.
[JEANNIE SIGHS]
Excellent. Come on.
[VIOLIN AND PIANO MUSIC
PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND]
[GOLDA, DISTANT]: Yes. Yes.
[GOLDA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
No, no, don't worry.
I know, I know. It's not your fault.
[GOLDA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
♪
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
[WOMAN]: It's bedtime.
[DORA COUGHING]
[DORA CRYING]
It's okay, Dora.
- It's okay.
- [WOMAN]: Back in bed!
It's okay.
She has a fever.
You see all the other
children lying down?
Yeah, but she's still crying.
She'll stop. It's bedtime.
- Lie down.
- [DORA COUGHING]
[DORA CRYING AND COUGHING]
She's still crying.
Like I said, she'll stop.
[DORA COUGHING AND CRYING]
[DRAMATIC CELLO MUSIC]
[SNIFFLING]
[DORA COUGHING AND CRYING]
♪
[DORA CRYING]
[DORA]: Bezhig, please.
[DORA COUGHING AND CRYING]
Bezhig, help me.
[BEZHIG SOBBING]
Bezhig!
[WOMAN VOCALIZING]
♪