We Were the Lucky Ones (2024) s01e05 Episode Script
Ilha Das Flores
1
[BELLA TATAR] Previously,
on We Were the Lucky Ones
You have been deemed
an enemy of the state.
Wait! He's an enemy,
then I'm a fucking enemy.
[ROMANOV] You will work in the fields,
and we'll provide you
three rations a day.
You presented no evidence
of your wife's pregnancy.
- Evidence?
- [JULIA] Herta!
[GENEK KURC] You play at war.
How does any of this
make any fucking sense?!
[SOLDIER YELLS IN RUSSIAN]
[WOLF] Adam, you're
the best forger we have.
Warsaw has been begging
to get their hands on you.
They need you, Adam. I don't.
We have to get out of
Casablanca immediately.
I told her I'm coming with you.
I'm sorry, I don't have a
ring, but I love you, Eliska.
♪
[DANIEL] They just started
grabbing Jews and beating them.
- [BELLA] I'll be back.
- Please stay. I'm begging you.
Anna, I can't.
- [WOLF] Death squads.
- [GUNSHOT]
- [BELLA GASPS]
- Taking them to the forests
where no one can hear.
But I was hoping to find Adam here.
The last I saw him, he
was heading here to you.
[COUNCIL MEMBER] May you
be blessed in Eretz Yisrael.
[MILA KURC] That woman is your mother.
Then run, Felicia, now! Run!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[GUNSHOT]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[STRIKES MATCH]
[SOL KURC] Rosh Hashanah
is a time for reflection.
♪
A time when we ask for forgiveness
and seek to forgive others.
Though, frankly, I'm unsure
of how we do that right now.
♪
I pray that in this darkness
we let our family be our light.
- [GUNFIRE]
- [SCREAMING]
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING IN GERMAN]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[GUNFIRE, SCREAMING CONTINUE]
May it be Your will to renew for us
a good and a sweet new year.
- [GUNFIRE]
- [MILA PANTING]
Take it. Very expensive.
Shanah Tovah.
♪
[FELICIA KAJLER] Mama! Mama!
[MILA BREATHING HEAVILY]
Thank you.
- [SCREAMING CONTINUES]
- [GUNFIRE]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Think of the geese in
Kosciuszko Park, my love.
- Can you do that for me?
- [FELICIA] Yes.
Good.
[SOFTLY] Yeah, stay like this. [PANTS]
[LIGHT THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[SONG ENDS]
Passengers paid for tickets.
They sold us hope.
Hey, come, Fefe. Aye.
Oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy. Oof.
[NECHUMA WINCES]
I'll speak to the Judenrat.
They need to be informed.
When they are asked to make lists,
- we must be certain what they're for.
- They knew what the lists are for.
- I cannot believe that to be true.
- Then you are lying to yourself.
The Judenrat are our
last line of defense.
Wake up, boy! They are complicit,
and you are their henchman.
We are intermediaries.
We're attempting to create
some order in this chaos.
What order? You police us,
patrol the streets with
your uniform and baton,
- and make your lists.
- I I didn't, I didn't know
- this would happen.
- Who are the lists for, Isaac?!
I have, I have only
ever tried to help you.
And it is my shame for accepting it.
It is my shame
for not stopping her
getting on those tracks.
It's my shame I did not see.
Mila, please, you must know how
much I care for you and Felicia.
I would never put you in
All I ask is that you
remain quiet for now.
Let us not draw any
further German aggression.
- For your own safety.
- Who's safe anymore?
Leave my home, please.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
He's afraid.
We are all afraid.
Where do we stand when
the bottom keeps dropping?
♪
[SOL SIGHS]
I want to give you something.
♪
Hm.
I know that this is not the same.
Thank you, but I don't need it.
Let it help you remember
him, keep him with you.
Today I watched a husband and wife
and their two children be
shot, one after the other.
How am I supposed to believe
that Selim is still
alive after seeing that?
♪
Did you hear about Amelia?
[SIGHS] Yes. Rafa told me.
Her milk stopped coming in.
Her little one is only two weeks.
I know.
Dangerously underweight.
[SIGHS]
What?
You're already feeding
another baby, plus Józef.
Please just remember to
take care of yourself too.
I'm fine I feel good.
[JULIA CHUCKLES]
[EXHALES] I found some mushrooms.
Lots of nutrients. Hm?
Good for you, good for your little man.
[SOLDIER SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
I think something is happening.
Hitler has turned on Stalin.
Keep working!
- Who did you hear this from?
- Vanya and the others.
They are bickering
over what to do with us.
Otto if this is true
- They should liberate us.
- They should replace us with Germans!
I can still think of many ways
they could still make use of us.
Hey, hey, hey. This is good news, Genek.
Be happy.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[BROOM RUSTLING]
I'll go to Adam's.
Once you've checked on Anna, we meet
right back at the apartment, okay?
Go, go.
♪
Slow down, Bella, slow down.
[SNIFFS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
What's that smell?
[BELLA YELPS]
[WHIMPERS]
♪
♪
A-Anna?
[JAKOB KURC] Monsters.
♪
Anna?
Anna?
Anna?
Anna?
Bella, there's hardly
anyone left in the building.
No, you don't know that.
They could be hiding in
an attic or a crawlspace.
What is that? What does it say?
Jakob, tell me.
♪
"Th-They are taking us away.
I think they're going to kill us."
[BELLA SOBBING]
- [JAKOB SHUSHING]
- Oh, God!
[SHUSHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[HERTA SEIFERT] Do you wanna
wear your new sweater, Ze?
Hm? Yeah. Time for us to leave
this godforsaken place. Yes.
Don't you see the paradox?
- [PRISONER] Herta, can you please?
- [HERTA] Of course.
[BABY CRYING]
Thank you.
[HERTA] We're getting out of here.
Can't that be something good? Hm?
They call it "amnesty,"
but we've been mandated to
conscript in Stalin's Red Army.
It's hard to imagine
you in a Soviet uniform.
You'll need tighter pants.
I don't trust these people for a second.
Hmm. We've been instructed
to pack for a train ride.
A train ride to where?
[SIGHS]
I have déjà vu.
Perhaps you traveled by cattle car
with a different wife and child.
- The child part is new.
- [HERTA SIGHS]
[SIGHS] I just wish we
knew where we were headed.
I wish I had some Rilke.
- [HERTA CHUCKLES]
- [BABY CRYING]
Ah, it's okay.
- Oh, it's okay.
- [CRYING CONTINUES]
[SHUSHES] Quiet.
- [DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
- [BABY CRYING]
- [CRYING CONTINUES]
- [HERTA SHUSHES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
At least it stopped raining.
They can't take that from us.
How is Felicia?
She makes do.
Mostly stays quiet at home
while I work at the factory.
- She's so quiet now.
- Good.
Quiet is good.
Isaac, you look terrible.
[SLIGHT CHUCKLE]
I appreciate your honesty.
Have you been sleeping?
Uh, Shimon snores like an ox.
Are you no longer
living with your family?
Isaac I didn't realize
Please, Mila, I'm on duty.
Then, don't act so distant with me.
We've known each other
since we're Felicia's age.
My father didn't mean what he said.
If you would consider
leaving the police
I can't just leave.
There would be a place
for you in our home.
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
Even if I did stay with you,
what circumstances would it be under?
As your friend?
Felicia's uncle?
♪
We care about you a great deal.
We?
Isaac.
♪
It's okay.
Forget it.
♪
[GERMANS CHATTERING]
How do women and children dance
around at the gates of hell?
[ISAAC] We don't exist to them.
I must be on my way.
I have to deliver some
bad news to a family
whose son did not
have his papers on him.
These killings are out of control.
It's only a matter of time for us all.
♪
[GERMAN CHILDREN CHATTERING]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SPEAKER] What are you looking for?
My sister's missing.
You don't want to go in there. The
gunshots didn't stop for a week.
♪
- [DISTANT SHOUTING IN GERMAN]
- [BELLA WHIMPERS]
[SIGHS] We need to go
back to those woods.
- No, we can't.
- No, Anna and Daniel, they might have run.
They might have found somewhere to hide.
Bella, you know how unlikely that is.
No, we've only been searching
for a week, I don't know.
- I don't know anything.
- Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes, you do. You do.
And we've already
stayed here for too long.
It's time to go back to Radom.
No I'm not ready to go back
Wolf has arranged us a transport.
A delivery truck will be
leaving for Radom at dawn
and we have to be on it.
Dawn?
But y-you waited, you
waited to tell me until now?
It was just confirmed.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
And, and you're ready?
Just ready to give up on Adam?
I'm not giving up.
He came back here for you.
I know that.
But, Bella, Adam would
want us to be smart.
This city is unstable.
Violence will erupt again.
- We know this. Another pogrom
- And you want to get back to your family
to deliver their false papers.
But, Bella, your parents are there too,
so if you won't think of
yourself, think of them.
I am thinking of them!
What am I supposed to tell
them if I come back without her,
without being completely sure?
- I can't do that to them!
- She's dead. She's dead.
- Okay?
- Huh?
Anna is dead.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Every Jew in her building
was taken to the stadium,
and then those woods,
and no one has come back.
Okay?
- Kuba.
- [CRYING] No.
Don't [SIGHS]
♪
- [BELLA] No, no, no, no, no, no!
- [HALINA KURC] Bella.
[BELLA SOBBING]
[BELLA] Please get
off. Please get off me!
♪
The payment for the transport.
Sorry.
You're making the
right decision, leaving.
[HALINA] [SIGHS] I know.
So, why does it feel like I'm giving up?
Adam would want you to be safe.
Adam would have faith.
He always believed in me, in every way.
Who is that man?
Uh, he showed up earlier today. I
believe he escaped from a labor camp.
Which camp?
The one on Janowska Street.
You mean the one where the Germans
took all the able-bodied men?
That was just a rumor.
- You know we
- He looks able-bodied.
Excuse me. Hi.
I'm Halina. What's your name?
Eryk.
Eryk it's nice to meet you.
If you don't mind me
asking how did you escape?
The sewer.
Eryk did you happen to
come across a man by
the name Adam Eichenwald
while you were in there?
No? What about "Brzoza"?
Uh, he's tall, uh, has round spectacles.
This man, he's the best
forger in the Underground.
- If you saw him
- I heard rumors of a forger, but
No, no. I-I can't say for
sure. W-We didn't eat for days.
I understand.
Thank you.
[QUIETLY] Get in.
[JAKOB] What is this?
The false papers.
Please give them to
Father. I'm not coming.
Adam might be in one
of those camps alive.
There's a rumor of a forger.
You're staying for a rumor?
[SOFTLY] I know.
- I'm a hypocrite.
- No, you can't stay.
- I have to.
- But
if you don't come back with us now,
how will you ever get back to Radom?
[SIGHS]
You said Adam would
want us to be smart.
Is this smart?
[CHUCKLES] It could be, if I rescue him.
And if you don't?
At least I will be able
to live with myself.
If you live.
The city reeks of death.
I love him.
[QUIETLY] The sun is about
to rise. We have to go.
Okay, just give me one more second.
Halina, just please
Jakob she needs to stay.
Fine if that is your choice.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[HALINA SIGHS]
No. [GRUNTS]
[SNIFFLING]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[SEAGULLS CAWING]
[ADDY KURC] One more step.
- Thank you.
- There ya go.
[ADDY SIGHS]
- Ah.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Dare I say "welcome"?
What makes you so sure
we're being welcomed?
We aren't being thrown around
by the sea anymore, Eliska.
- Be grateful for small miracles.
- [OFFICER 1] Hey, you two!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I mean it. Why did
we dock on some island
when the port of Rio is over there?
[OFFICER 1] Hey!
This side, your right side.
Come on. Hurry up. Here.
Go. Hurry up.
[OFFICER 2] Please, come on. Hurry up.
This side. This side.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
Is this a prison?
[PASSENGER] Will they accept our visas?
How long do you intend to hold us?
Please, allow me to explain.
I am Giorgio.
I'm a representative
of the Jewish Benevolent
Association of Rio.
I regret to inform you that the
renewal of your visas has been denied
- and that you have been detained.
- [CROWD SHOUTING]
I have a brother in
Rio. He has sponsored us.
Yes, I-I will gather names.
You will be assigned to
barracks, divided by gender.
Our visas were issued by
Ambassador Souza Dantas himself.
There must be something
that can be done.
Souza Dantas was forced into
early retirement by Vargas.
[PANICKED CHATTER]
I knew. I knew. I knew. I
knew he couldn't help us.
- He's not our only resource.
- What other resource?
- Your uncle, dear.
- We can contact HIAS.
Do you think a Jewish organization
has any power in a
country that hates Jews?
My God, you're naive.
I'm not naive, but we have
come too far to give up hope.
Hope? You want me to pin my
entry into Brazil on your hope?
I'm going to throw your fucking
- hope in the ocean.
- Eliska.
[CROWD CHATTERING]
They're serving lunch.
There's Yerba Maté tea.
Your mother thinks it tastes
like dirt. I rather liked it.
I'm not hungry, Addy.
Here I thought almost
drowning on that skiff
crossing the Strait of
Gibraltar would be our low point.
We didn't almost drown.
The old fisherman started praying.
Maybe he always does that.
You're right.
We can wave to them across the way,
they can know we're sitting here,
and still, they don't want us.
My best friend, Teresa,
she was so jealous
I was coming to Rio.
The beaches, the music, Copacabana.
She'd find it hilarious
they put me in prison.
As far as prisons go,
this one could be worse.
- My last one had a lot more scorpions.
- Oh, right, I can never forget,
you've suffered more than me.
That's not what I meant.
It's fine. I'm sorry.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
- Nothing's wrong with you.
- [CHUCKLES]
Talk to my mother, and
she'll give you a long list.
Well, my mother will
think you're wonderful.
[ELISKA LOWBEER] Yeah?
- I wouldn't be so sure.
- Nechuma? Are you kidding?
She loves a smart, worldly
woman. She's one herself.
Halina, you two will get on so
well you'll end up leaving me out.
- [SLIGHT CHUCKLE]
- Genek will think you're beautiful
because you are.
And Mila. Mila will just want
me to be happy and settled.
Jakob will love you because
Jakob loves everybody.
Oh, Jakob can take
pictures of our wedding.
Did I tell you? He's the
most brilliant photographer.
I don't even know why he
bothered with law school.
If your brother has to take
pictures of our wedding,
I think I might be waiting a long time.
Oh. Well, uhh, oh, of course, eh
It was just a thought, a stupid one.
I'm sorry. I don't, I don't
know. Addy, I-I'm sorry.
- I
- You don't need to be.
Top of my mother's
list, I can be a brat.
You're not a brat. You're just honest.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Hallo You.
♪
[EXHALES]
My name is Halina Brzoza,
and I'm afraid you have
mistaken my husband for a Jew.
Have we?
[SIGHS] He's inside.
I have come to collect him.
I will need to take these.
[GUARD KNOCKS ON DOOR]
[SOLDIERS SPEAKING IN GERMAN]
None here named Brzoza.
♪
Perhaps you should recheck your lists.
You think so little of us?
It sickens me that you
have mixed up my husband
with these filthy Jews.
Forcing me to debase myself like this?
It's humiliating.
So, please, restore
his dignity and mine
and let us be.
♪
Show us your silver.
Not until you bring me my husband.
[SLIGHT CHUCKLE]
Frau Brzoza return after dark.
♪
[WOLF] You still need to be
prepared for an unhappy outcome.
If that officer wanted to arrest
me, he would have done so already.
These sadists play mind games. You
don't know what they're planning.
I'm joining some friends
from the Underground.
We're retreating to the
woods where it's safer.
[QUIETLY] Safer?
Safer in the woods? But you'll starve.
No, we'll get by.
Should your plan come up
short, consider joining us.
[HALINA SIGHS]
I-I, I cannot think that far ahead.
These belonged to our
great-great-grandmother
- "Berghorst."
- Like Brzoza. That's lucky.
It's so hard to believe
that three years ago
we were celebrating
Passover using this silver,
worried about such little things.
Always teasing our brother, Addy,
for living the good life in Paris
when really we all just wish we had
half of his spirit for adventure.
Who knows? Maybe it saved him.
[SNIFFLES]
Nobody thought much of
this silver back then.
And now it is the most
important thing in my life.
You say I'm lucky
but maybe luck is relative.
I think Ze's readying his legs to crawl.
[GENEK CHUCKLES]
You want to go to Papa?
[JÓZEF BABBLES]
[GENEK GROANS]
[HERTA SIGHS]
How do these Russians
expect us to fight
when I'm too weak to hold my own baby?
Holy shit.
Where are we?
- I don't know.
- [GENEK] Huh?
[TRAIN BRAKING]
[DISTANT CHATTER]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[DOOR RATTLING]
Greetings, towarzysze.
Who's hungry?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SOLDIERS SPEAKING POLISH]
Soldiers. They're Polish.
Go, before it's all gone. Quick.
Restore your strength, my friend.
[EXHALES]
What is this? What is happening?
General Anders is assembling
a Polish infantry in
Wrewskoje, Uzbekistan.
You have been summoned
to fight by his side.
We fight for, for Poland?
- Where are we?
- Kazakhstan. Just a pit stop.
You have a long way to
go until you conscript.
The bread is still warm.
[CHUCKLES]
Feed me. Feed me.
Mm!
Mm. [CHUCKLES]
- Mm.
- Coffee.
Mm, coffee.
Mm.
- [GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [TRUCK RUMBLING]
Hey, we're approaching.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
[TRUCK RUMBLING]
[LIGHT, TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLANKING METAL]
♪
[WHISPERS] Quick, quick. Come.
♪
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[HENRY TATAR] W-Where's Anna?
[SOBBING] I'm-I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
♪
- [SIGHS OF RELIEF]
- [QUIET CHUCKLING]
[SOL] Jakob. Oh.
[SOBBING] No, she's not
She's not here. [SOBBING]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[JAKOB] This is yours.
And this is yours. This is yours.
My God, it's incredible.
Where is Halina?
♪
[GATE OPENING, CREAKS]
[GASPS]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[SEAGULLS CAWING]
♪
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[CAMERA CLICKS]
This is delicious.
Are the leeks from your
garden at the orphanage?
Yes, the, the children harvested them.
Getting their hands dirty,
watching something grow
I believe it helps them
to forget where they are.
Well, that is very nice to hear.
Any word from Halina?
Not yet, but, um, but
Halina, she's tough as nails,
she'll, she'll make her way.
Your poor parents, they
must be beside themselves.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Um, by the way, uh, my family's planning
to celebrate Rosh
Hashanah tomorrow night,
and they, they'd love
for you all to attend.
- Is that safe?
- Uh, others are doing it.
I overheard a group of men say they're
planning to build a shofar,
and my father feels it is
important to acknowledge the day,
but we will do it discretely.
Thank you, but
we cannot accept.
But you should go, my love.
No, Mom. I think I'll stay with you.
Sol is right.
These traditions matter, especially now.
[QUIETLY] Your mother seems better.
- [QUIETLY] Does she?
- Mm-hmm.
I had a moment with her earlier.
I heard a rumor today that
the AVL factory needs workers.
The AVL factory?
- You mean
- The one outside of town.
- The one with the barracks?
- [BELLA BREATHES DEEPLY]
Wh Y-You already have a job.
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- How is she today?
- Still in bed. [SIGHS]
It's not a good morning.
[SIGHS]
- Bom dia, Addy.
- Bom dia, Felipé.
[INHALES] How can we get juice?
Any word on my telegram to HIAS?
The news from Vargas it is not good.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[OFFICER] You do not
meet the requirements.
You are dismissed.
- [RECRUIT] There must be a mistake.
- [OFFICER] No, you are not eligible.
The Polish Army is not accepting Jews.
[RECRUIT] But I heard there was a quota.
Please, sir, I just want to fight.
Who's next?
Step up. Next in line.
Have your papers ready.
Next in line.
[QUIET CHATTER]
They told you this?
No, it was some other poor soul. I left.
Okay, good, so no one
has said no to you yet.
- It's an inevitability.
- Well, it can't be.
- We need the army.
- It's not an option, Herta!
- Don't yell at me.
- Why, because of the baby?
- Because of the sleeping baby?
- Fuck the baby.
Don't yell at me because
it's awful and rude.
Oh, I'm willing to
put my life on the line
- and they, they still don't want me.
- Genek, I'm here. Can you talk to me?
- Screw them!
- Screw who? Screw the army?
No, we don't have that luxury.
Without it, we are stranded
in the desert with nothing.
- [GENEK SNIFFLES]
- We go back to Poland, we die.
They send us back to Siberia, Ze
may not survive another winter.
We can't spit on the army,
Genek. We can't make that choice.
The choice has already been made!
- Are you not listening to me?
- No! I'm tired of listening to you!
[QUIET CHATTER]
[SIGHS] Tired of listening to you
and your rants, and your decisions,
and your fucking pride. I'm sick of it.
[SIGHS] Just as you refused
to say we're Soviet on a form,
- and we're off to the gulag.
- You didn't have to come.
Of course, I did.
Then, you insist on negotiating
with the guards for more rations.
I say no, you do it anyway,
and you miss Ze's birth.
- I was minutes late.
- Beaten and near death!
You could've been fully dead,
and therefore, very, very late.
- [JÓZEF CRYING]
- [HERTA SIGHS]
Oh.
I lost you after Ze was born.
The asshole I fell in love
with just slipped away,
and I can't handle that again.
I can't carry us by myself anymore.
I need you, so swallow your
shit and figure something out.
I don't care the if Poles
are not accepting people
with two testicles and a kutas,
we are getting into that army.
- Yes.
- [CRYING CONTINUES]
Yes, yes. I know.
I know, I know, I know.
- [CRYING CONTINUES]
- [HERTA SHUSHING]
[WAVES CRASHING]
[ELISKA] Addy! Addy!
We're in! Addy, we're in!
We have been granted amnesty.
They're letting us into Rio! Mm!
Aye! A boat is coming for us in an hour.
- What? That's impossible.
- It's not. It's a miracle.
Uh, but-but-but-but Vargas just
declared Jews, uh, "undesirable"
- and "non-assimilable."
- That's exactly it.
We are the last ones to be let through.
After us, Brazil's doors are closed.
- The last ones?
- Part of a deal brokered.
Isn't that wonderful, my love?!
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
We fought for this for seven months.
- What no?
- And m-many are still fighting.
I know that, but we're not responsible
for all the world's problems.
Yes, but I am responsible for my family.
What does your family
have to do with this?
Granted amnesty in a country
that will refuse them entry!
You don't even know
where your family is.
Addy, Addy listen to me.
You must look at the problem
that is being solved today.
You must celebrate it.
- Your mother would want that for you.
- You know nothing of my mother.
[SLIGHT CHUCKLE]
You're right, but you
clearly prefer her company,
so why don't you elect
to go back to Europe?
- Ohh, I obviously don't mean that.
- What do you mean, Addy?
Or do you just aim to punish
me for your lack of control?
- Punish you?
- Yeah!
You have been punishing
me for being stuck here.
Oh, my God! Forgive me
for not enjoying prison!
This is not even a real prison.
You wouldn't last a
minute in real suffering!
- Because my mother has money?
- Because you are spoiled.
Mm. Well, you don't
seem to mind my money
when it gets you free
passage out of Spain.
You think I enjoyed accepting help?
No, I think it hurts
your giant-sized ego.
That's what I think.
And what do you know what I've
suffered? You know nothing about me.
- What are you talking about?
- Suffering!
No one suffers more than
sad, sad Addy, right?!
I know sadness too, Addy.
I just don't make it
your problem all the time.
Am I supposed to be endlessly upbeat?!
No. You're supposed to move forward.
That's what this is supposed to
be, the next part of your life.
I'm supposed to be the
next part of your life.
Eliska, you are.
Then stop dwelling in the past!
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[SOL] Rosh Hashanah
is a time for reflection.
A time when we ask for forgiveness
and seek to forgive others.
Though, frankly, I'm unsure
of how we do that right now.
I pray that in this darkness,
we let our family be our light.
♪
[ALL] Amen.
♪
Many of our loved ones
are not with us tonight.
We've experienced so much loss.
It's more than one heart can bear alone,
which is why we gather
at this table together.
But there is one of us
who, while not physically here,
has found a way to
make her presence known.
Just before we gathered, I
received this letter from Halina.
- [NECHUMA/MILA GASP]
- [BELLA] What?
- [SOL] She and Adam are okay.
- [SIGHS OF RELIEF]
- How could you keep this from me?
- I told you, I just got it!
- What?
- What?
- [NECHUMA KURC] Let's see.
- [SOL] Okay.
- [NECHUMA] You are a beast.
- [SOL] Oh
- Your Auntie Halina, she's okay.
- You are a beast.
[MILA] We are happy because she's okay.
- [SOL] Okay, huh?
- [MILA] Can we see it?
- [JAKOB] Where is she?
- [EXCITED CROSSTALK]
[SOL] Okay, okay. "Dear Mama and Papa."
[CHATTER FADES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
- [KNOCKS GLASS OVER]
- Oh!
- [JAKOB] Oh. It's okay. It's okay.
- Sorry.
- I'm so sorry.
- [JAKOB] Bella.
'scuse me.
[JAKOB SIGHS]
Bella. Wait, wait, wait.
Please, stop. Stop. It's okay.
It's okay, my love. It's okay.
My family, they understand.
It's okay. Hey.
[SIGHS] They care for you so much.
Okay?
Let's come back inside, okay?
I'm pursuing that job.
- What?
- The AVL factory.
I want to go work there.
I want to live there.
I'm providing no comfort
to my family here.
- I'm a weight on my parents, on you.
- You're not. You're not a weight.
You're not. Your parents, they need you.
[BOTH SIGH]
I need you.
Anna [CRYING] she's just everywhere.
- I'll pursue the job tomorrow.
- No, Bella, please.
- Please
- Stop. You make it worse.
Go be with your family.
Please enjoy your evening with them.
I'm so glad about Halina and Adam.
You want me to teach
you how to be Catholic?
Show me a few prayers.
Make it seem believable.
It's the only way for me
to join the Polish Army.
[SIGHS] I-I could teach you, but
won't that be difficult for you?
Believe it or not, I used
to be valued for my brain.
- I think I can memorize enough to get by.
- No, no, no, no. That's not what I mean.
If if I was asked to
pray to a different God
- N-No, it-it would cost too much.
- Look, I went to Hebrew school.
I did my bar mitzvah.
I learned the prayers.
You know, it mattered to my father.
I liked making him
proud, but it never
I'm not sure it ever ran deep.
- That's too bad.
- Why?
Perhaps it would bring you comfort.
I don't need comfort.
I need a paycheck.
- [AMBIENT STREET NOISE]
- [SHIP HORN BLOWS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
George?! [GASPS] Oh, George!
[LAUGHS] Oh, George!
- Oh, my God!
- [BOTH LAUGHING, REJOICING]
You've waited a long
time for this reunion. Go.
Be with your uncle.
It's a wonderful day.
Would you like to come? I'm
sure my uncle can make room.
No, no. I
I'm gonna get myself a real
coconut water, find a hotel.
Do you have the money?
Yes.
Yes, of course.
I saved my Francs.
I'll be okay. Go.
Go.
Call me when you're settled.
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Do you have somewhere to go?
Come.
You will celebrate Rosh
Hashanah with my family.
♪
[CAR HORN HONKS]
[AMBIENT STREET NOISE]
[LIGHT MUSIC PLAYING]
[HALINA] "To my dearest family.
[GATE OPENING, CREAKS]
"By some miracle, I was
able to locate our dear Adam
and secure his release."
[SOBS]
"The horrors he endured at
the hands of the Wehrmacht,
it is unthinkable.
[CRIES]
"Lvov no longer safe, we made
our way to the countryside
and found respite with
some true friends.
♪
"It took time for him to recuperate,
but Adam's gentle, determined
spirit never dimmed.
I am in awe of him.
I will never leave his side.
He will never leave mine.
We have much respect for our
courageous friends in the woods,
but we have a different path.
You will find us in Warsaw
starting something new.
♪
[SIGHS]
"Please, if you can,
find a way to join us.
We are ready, waiting for you
whenever you can make the trip.
♪
And to answer the question
on everyone's mind,
we have made it official in our way.
Adam and Halina Brzoza.
Love always, Halina."
♪
I need you to help me sew a coat.
What for?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm getting out.
♪
[MUSIC FADES OUT]
[FANFARE PLAYING]
[BELLA TATAR] Previously,
on We Were the Lucky Ones
You have been deemed
an enemy of the state.
Wait! He's an enemy,
then I'm a fucking enemy.
[ROMANOV] You will work in the fields,
and we'll provide you
three rations a day.
You presented no evidence
of your wife's pregnancy.
- Evidence?
- [JULIA] Herta!
[GENEK KURC] You play at war.
How does any of this
make any fucking sense?!
[SOLDIER YELLS IN RUSSIAN]
[WOLF] Adam, you're
the best forger we have.
Warsaw has been begging
to get their hands on you.
They need you, Adam. I don't.
We have to get out of
Casablanca immediately.
I told her I'm coming with you.
I'm sorry, I don't have a
ring, but I love you, Eliska.
♪
[DANIEL] They just started
grabbing Jews and beating them.
- [BELLA] I'll be back.
- Please stay. I'm begging you.
Anna, I can't.
- [WOLF] Death squads.
- [GUNSHOT]
- [BELLA GASPS]
- Taking them to the forests
where no one can hear.
But I was hoping to find Adam here.
The last I saw him, he
was heading here to you.
[COUNCIL MEMBER] May you
be blessed in Eretz Yisrael.
[MILA KURC] That woman is your mother.
Then run, Felicia, now! Run!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[GUNSHOT]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[STRIKES MATCH]
[SOL KURC] Rosh Hashanah
is a time for reflection.
♪
A time when we ask for forgiveness
and seek to forgive others.
Though, frankly, I'm unsure
of how we do that right now.
♪
I pray that in this darkness
we let our family be our light.
- [GUNFIRE]
- [SCREAMING]
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING IN GERMAN]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[GUNFIRE, SCREAMING CONTINUE]
May it be Your will to renew for us
a good and a sweet new year.
- [GUNFIRE]
- [MILA PANTING]
Take it. Very expensive.
Shanah Tovah.
♪
[FELICIA KAJLER] Mama! Mama!
[MILA BREATHING HEAVILY]
Thank you.
- [SCREAMING CONTINUES]
- [GUNFIRE]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Think of the geese in
Kosciuszko Park, my love.
- Can you do that for me?
- [FELICIA] Yes.
Good.
[SOFTLY] Yeah, stay like this. [PANTS]
[LIGHT THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[SONG ENDS]
Passengers paid for tickets.
They sold us hope.
Hey, come, Fefe. Aye.
Oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy. Oof.
[NECHUMA WINCES]
I'll speak to the Judenrat.
They need to be informed.
When they are asked to make lists,
- we must be certain what they're for.
- They knew what the lists are for.
- I cannot believe that to be true.
- Then you are lying to yourself.
The Judenrat are our
last line of defense.
Wake up, boy! They are complicit,
and you are their henchman.
We are intermediaries.
We're attempting to create
some order in this chaos.
What order? You police us,
patrol the streets with
your uniform and baton,
- and make your lists.
- I I didn't, I didn't know
- this would happen.
- Who are the lists for, Isaac?!
I have, I have only
ever tried to help you.
And it is my shame for accepting it.
It is my shame
for not stopping her
getting on those tracks.
It's my shame I did not see.
Mila, please, you must know how
much I care for you and Felicia.
I would never put you in
All I ask is that you
remain quiet for now.
Let us not draw any
further German aggression.
- For your own safety.
- Who's safe anymore?
Leave my home, please.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
He's afraid.
We are all afraid.
Where do we stand when
the bottom keeps dropping?
♪
[SOL SIGHS]
I want to give you something.
♪
Hm.
I know that this is not the same.
Thank you, but I don't need it.
Let it help you remember
him, keep him with you.
Today I watched a husband and wife
and their two children be
shot, one after the other.
How am I supposed to believe
that Selim is still
alive after seeing that?
♪
Did you hear about Amelia?
[SIGHS] Yes. Rafa told me.
Her milk stopped coming in.
Her little one is only two weeks.
I know.
Dangerously underweight.
[SIGHS]
What?
You're already feeding
another baby, plus Józef.
Please just remember to
take care of yourself too.
I'm fine I feel good.
[JULIA CHUCKLES]
[EXHALES] I found some mushrooms.
Lots of nutrients. Hm?
Good for you, good for your little man.
[SOLDIER SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
I think something is happening.
Hitler has turned on Stalin.
Keep working!
- Who did you hear this from?
- Vanya and the others.
They are bickering
over what to do with us.
Otto if this is true
- They should liberate us.
- They should replace us with Germans!
I can still think of many ways
they could still make use of us.
Hey, hey, hey. This is good news, Genek.
Be happy.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[BROOM RUSTLING]
I'll go to Adam's.
Once you've checked on Anna, we meet
right back at the apartment, okay?
Go, go.
♪
Slow down, Bella, slow down.
[SNIFFS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
What's that smell?
[BELLA YELPS]
[WHIMPERS]
♪
♪
A-Anna?
[JAKOB KURC] Monsters.
♪
Anna?
Anna?
Anna?
Anna?
Bella, there's hardly
anyone left in the building.
No, you don't know that.
They could be hiding in
an attic or a crawlspace.
What is that? What does it say?
Jakob, tell me.
♪
"Th-They are taking us away.
I think they're going to kill us."
[BELLA SOBBING]
- [JAKOB SHUSHING]
- Oh, God!
[SHUSHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[HERTA SEIFERT] Do you wanna
wear your new sweater, Ze?
Hm? Yeah. Time for us to leave
this godforsaken place. Yes.
Don't you see the paradox?
- [PRISONER] Herta, can you please?
- [HERTA] Of course.
[BABY CRYING]
Thank you.
[HERTA] We're getting out of here.
Can't that be something good? Hm?
They call it "amnesty,"
but we've been mandated to
conscript in Stalin's Red Army.
It's hard to imagine
you in a Soviet uniform.
You'll need tighter pants.
I don't trust these people for a second.
Hmm. We've been instructed
to pack for a train ride.
A train ride to where?
[SIGHS]
I have déjà vu.
Perhaps you traveled by cattle car
with a different wife and child.
- The child part is new.
- [HERTA SIGHS]
[SIGHS] I just wish we
knew where we were headed.
I wish I had some Rilke.
- [HERTA CHUCKLES]
- [BABY CRYING]
Ah, it's okay.
- Oh, it's okay.
- [CRYING CONTINUES]
[SHUSHES] Quiet.
- [DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
- [BABY CRYING]
- [CRYING CONTINUES]
- [HERTA SHUSHES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
At least it stopped raining.
They can't take that from us.
How is Felicia?
She makes do.
Mostly stays quiet at home
while I work at the factory.
- She's so quiet now.
- Good.
Quiet is good.
Isaac, you look terrible.
[SLIGHT CHUCKLE]
I appreciate your honesty.
Have you been sleeping?
Uh, Shimon snores like an ox.
Are you no longer
living with your family?
Isaac I didn't realize
Please, Mila, I'm on duty.
Then, don't act so distant with me.
We've known each other
since we're Felicia's age.
My father didn't mean what he said.
If you would consider
leaving the police
I can't just leave.
There would be a place
for you in our home.
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
Even if I did stay with you,
what circumstances would it be under?
As your friend?
Felicia's uncle?
♪
We care about you a great deal.
We?
Isaac.
♪
It's okay.
Forget it.
♪
[GERMANS CHATTERING]
How do women and children dance
around at the gates of hell?
[ISAAC] We don't exist to them.
I must be on my way.
I have to deliver some
bad news to a family
whose son did not
have his papers on him.
These killings are out of control.
It's only a matter of time for us all.
♪
[GERMAN CHILDREN CHATTERING]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SPEAKER] What are you looking for?
My sister's missing.
You don't want to go in there. The
gunshots didn't stop for a week.
♪
- [DISTANT SHOUTING IN GERMAN]
- [BELLA WHIMPERS]
[SIGHS] We need to go
back to those woods.
- No, we can't.
- No, Anna and Daniel, they might have run.
They might have found somewhere to hide.
Bella, you know how unlikely that is.
No, we've only been searching
for a week, I don't know.
- I don't know anything.
- Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes, you do. You do.
And we've already
stayed here for too long.
It's time to go back to Radom.
No I'm not ready to go back
Wolf has arranged us a transport.
A delivery truck will be
leaving for Radom at dawn
and we have to be on it.
Dawn?
But y-you waited, you
waited to tell me until now?
It was just confirmed.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
And, and you're ready?
Just ready to give up on Adam?
I'm not giving up.
He came back here for you.
I know that.
But, Bella, Adam would
want us to be smart.
This city is unstable.
Violence will erupt again.
- We know this. Another pogrom
- And you want to get back to your family
to deliver their false papers.
But, Bella, your parents are there too,
so if you won't think of
yourself, think of them.
I am thinking of them!
What am I supposed to tell
them if I come back without her,
without being completely sure?
- I can't do that to them!
- She's dead. She's dead.
- Okay?
- Huh?
Anna is dead.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Every Jew in her building
was taken to the stadium,
and then those woods,
and no one has come back.
Okay?
- Kuba.
- [CRYING] No.
Don't [SIGHS]
♪
- [BELLA] No, no, no, no, no, no!
- [HALINA KURC] Bella.
[BELLA SOBBING]
[BELLA] Please get
off. Please get off me!
♪
The payment for the transport.
Sorry.
You're making the
right decision, leaving.
[HALINA] [SIGHS] I know.
So, why does it feel like I'm giving up?
Adam would want you to be safe.
Adam would have faith.
He always believed in me, in every way.
Who is that man?
Uh, he showed up earlier today. I
believe he escaped from a labor camp.
Which camp?
The one on Janowska Street.
You mean the one where the Germans
took all the able-bodied men?
That was just a rumor.
- You know we
- He looks able-bodied.
Excuse me. Hi.
I'm Halina. What's your name?
Eryk.
Eryk it's nice to meet you.
If you don't mind me
asking how did you escape?
The sewer.
Eryk did you happen to
come across a man by
the name Adam Eichenwald
while you were in there?
No? What about "Brzoza"?
Uh, he's tall, uh, has round spectacles.
This man, he's the best
forger in the Underground.
- If you saw him
- I heard rumors of a forger, but
No, no. I-I can't say for
sure. W-We didn't eat for days.
I understand.
Thank you.
[QUIETLY] Get in.
[JAKOB] What is this?
The false papers.
Please give them to
Father. I'm not coming.
Adam might be in one
of those camps alive.
There's a rumor of a forger.
You're staying for a rumor?
[SOFTLY] I know.
- I'm a hypocrite.
- No, you can't stay.
- I have to.
- But
if you don't come back with us now,
how will you ever get back to Radom?
[SIGHS]
You said Adam would
want us to be smart.
Is this smart?
[CHUCKLES] It could be, if I rescue him.
And if you don't?
At least I will be able
to live with myself.
If you live.
The city reeks of death.
I love him.
[QUIETLY] The sun is about
to rise. We have to go.
Okay, just give me one more second.
Halina, just please
Jakob she needs to stay.
Fine if that is your choice.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[HALINA SIGHS]
No. [GRUNTS]
[SNIFFLING]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[SEAGULLS CAWING]
[ADDY KURC] One more step.
- Thank you.
- There ya go.
[ADDY SIGHS]
- Ah.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Dare I say "welcome"?
What makes you so sure
we're being welcomed?
We aren't being thrown around
by the sea anymore, Eliska.
- Be grateful for small miracles.
- [OFFICER 1] Hey, you two!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I mean it. Why did
we dock on some island
when the port of Rio is over there?
[OFFICER 1] Hey!
This side, your right side.
Come on. Hurry up. Here.
Go. Hurry up.
[OFFICER 2] Please, come on. Hurry up.
This side. This side.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
Is this a prison?
[PASSENGER] Will they accept our visas?
How long do you intend to hold us?
Please, allow me to explain.
I am Giorgio.
I'm a representative
of the Jewish Benevolent
Association of Rio.
I regret to inform you that the
renewal of your visas has been denied
- and that you have been detained.
- [CROWD SHOUTING]
I have a brother in
Rio. He has sponsored us.
Yes, I-I will gather names.
You will be assigned to
barracks, divided by gender.
Our visas were issued by
Ambassador Souza Dantas himself.
There must be something
that can be done.
Souza Dantas was forced into
early retirement by Vargas.
[PANICKED CHATTER]
I knew. I knew. I knew. I
knew he couldn't help us.
- He's not our only resource.
- What other resource?
- Your uncle, dear.
- We can contact HIAS.
Do you think a Jewish organization
has any power in a
country that hates Jews?
My God, you're naive.
I'm not naive, but we have
come too far to give up hope.
Hope? You want me to pin my
entry into Brazil on your hope?
I'm going to throw your fucking
- hope in the ocean.
- Eliska.
[CROWD CHATTERING]
They're serving lunch.
There's Yerba Maté tea.
Your mother thinks it tastes
like dirt. I rather liked it.
I'm not hungry, Addy.
Here I thought almost
drowning on that skiff
crossing the Strait of
Gibraltar would be our low point.
We didn't almost drown.
The old fisherman started praying.
Maybe he always does that.
You're right.
We can wave to them across the way,
they can know we're sitting here,
and still, they don't want us.
My best friend, Teresa,
she was so jealous
I was coming to Rio.
The beaches, the music, Copacabana.
She'd find it hilarious
they put me in prison.
As far as prisons go,
this one could be worse.
- My last one had a lot more scorpions.
- Oh, right, I can never forget,
you've suffered more than me.
That's not what I meant.
It's fine. I'm sorry.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
- Nothing's wrong with you.
- [CHUCKLES]
Talk to my mother, and
she'll give you a long list.
Well, my mother will
think you're wonderful.
[ELISKA LOWBEER] Yeah?
- I wouldn't be so sure.
- Nechuma? Are you kidding?
She loves a smart, worldly
woman. She's one herself.
Halina, you two will get on so
well you'll end up leaving me out.
- [SLIGHT CHUCKLE]
- Genek will think you're beautiful
because you are.
And Mila. Mila will just want
me to be happy and settled.
Jakob will love you because
Jakob loves everybody.
Oh, Jakob can take
pictures of our wedding.
Did I tell you? He's the
most brilliant photographer.
I don't even know why he
bothered with law school.
If your brother has to take
pictures of our wedding,
I think I might be waiting a long time.
Oh. Well, uhh, oh, of course, eh
It was just a thought, a stupid one.
I'm sorry. I don't, I don't
know. Addy, I-I'm sorry.
- I
- You don't need to be.
Top of my mother's
list, I can be a brat.
You're not a brat. You're just honest.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Hallo You.
♪
[EXHALES]
My name is Halina Brzoza,
and I'm afraid you have
mistaken my husband for a Jew.
Have we?
[SIGHS] He's inside.
I have come to collect him.
I will need to take these.
[GUARD KNOCKS ON DOOR]
[SOLDIERS SPEAKING IN GERMAN]
None here named Brzoza.
♪
Perhaps you should recheck your lists.
You think so little of us?
It sickens me that you
have mixed up my husband
with these filthy Jews.
Forcing me to debase myself like this?
It's humiliating.
So, please, restore
his dignity and mine
and let us be.
♪
Show us your silver.
Not until you bring me my husband.
[SLIGHT CHUCKLE]
Frau Brzoza return after dark.
♪
[WOLF] You still need to be
prepared for an unhappy outcome.
If that officer wanted to arrest
me, he would have done so already.
These sadists play mind games. You
don't know what they're planning.
I'm joining some friends
from the Underground.
We're retreating to the
woods where it's safer.
[QUIETLY] Safer?
Safer in the woods? But you'll starve.
No, we'll get by.
Should your plan come up
short, consider joining us.
[HALINA SIGHS]
I-I, I cannot think that far ahead.
These belonged to our
great-great-grandmother
- "Berghorst."
- Like Brzoza. That's lucky.
It's so hard to believe
that three years ago
we were celebrating
Passover using this silver,
worried about such little things.
Always teasing our brother, Addy,
for living the good life in Paris
when really we all just wish we had
half of his spirit for adventure.
Who knows? Maybe it saved him.
[SNIFFLES]
Nobody thought much of
this silver back then.
And now it is the most
important thing in my life.
You say I'm lucky
but maybe luck is relative.
I think Ze's readying his legs to crawl.
[GENEK CHUCKLES]
You want to go to Papa?
[JÓZEF BABBLES]
[GENEK GROANS]
[HERTA SIGHS]
How do these Russians
expect us to fight
when I'm too weak to hold my own baby?
Holy shit.
Where are we?
- I don't know.
- [GENEK] Huh?
[TRAIN BRAKING]
[DISTANT CHATTER]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[DOOR RATTLING]
Greetings, towarzysze.
Who's hungry?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SOLDIERS SPEAKING POLISH]
Soldiers. They're Polish.
Go, before it's all gone. Quick.
Restore your strength, my friend.
[EXHALES]
What is this? What is happening?
General Anders is assembling
a Polish infantry in
Wrewskoje, Uzbekistan.
You have been summoned
to fight by his side.
We fight for, for Poland?
- Where are we?
- Kazakhstan. Just a pit stop.
You have a long way to
go until you conscript.
The bread is still warm.
[CHUCKLES]
Feed me. Feed me.
Mm!
Mm. [CHUCKLES]
- Mm.
- Coffee.
Mm, coffee.
Mm.
- [GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [TRUCK RUMBLING]
Hey, we're approaching.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
[TRUCK RUMBLING]
[LIGHT, TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLANKING METAL]
♪
[WHISPERS] Quick, quick. Come.
♪
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[HENRY TATAR] W-Where's Anna?
[SOBBING] I'm-I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
♪
- [SIGHS OF RELIEF]
- [QUIET CHUCKLING]
[SOL] Jakob. Oh.
[SOBBING] No, she's not
She's not here. [SOBBING]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[JAKOB] This is yours.
And this is yours. This is yours.
My God, it's incredible.
Where is Halina?
♪
[GATE OPENING, CREAKS]
[GASPS]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[SEAGULLS CAWING]
♪
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[CAMERA CLICKS]
This is delicious.
Are the leeks from your
garden at the orphanage?
Yes, the, the children harvested them.
Getting their hands dirty,
watching something grow
I believe it helps them
to forget where they are.
Well, that is very nice to hear.
Any word from Halina?
Not yet, but, um, but
Halina, she's tough as nails,
she'll, she'll make her way.
Your poor parents, they
must be beside themselves.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Um, by the way, uh, my family's planning
to celebrate Rosh
Hashanah tomorrow night,
and they, they'd love
for you all to attend.
- Is that safe?
- Uh, others are doing it.
I overheard a group of men say they're
planning to build a shofar,
and my father feels it is
important to acknowledge the day,
but we will do it discretely.
Thank you, but
we cannot accept.
But you should go, my love.
No, Mom. I think I'll stay with you.
Sol is right.
These traditions matter, especially now.
[QUIETLY] Your mother seems better.
- [QUIETLY] Does she?
- Mm-hmm.
I had a moment with her earlier.
I heard a rumor today that
the AVL factory needs workers.
The AVL factory?
- You mean
- The one outside of town.
- The one with the barracks?
- [BELLA BREATHES DEEPLY]
Wh Y-You already have a job.
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- How is she today?
- Still in bed. [SIGHS]
It's not a good morning.
[SIGHS]
- Bom dia, Addy.
- Bom dia, Felipé.
[INHALES] How can we get juice?
Any word on my telegram to HIAS?
The news from Vargas it is not good.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[OFFICER] You do not
meet the requirements.
You are dismissed.
- [RECRUIT] There must be a mistake.
- [OFFICER] No, you are not eligible.
The Polish Army is not accepting Jews.
[RECRUIT] But I heard there was a quota.
Please, sir, I just want to fight.
Who's next?
Step up. Next in line.
Have your papers ready.
Next in line.
[QUIET CHATTER]
They told you this?
No, it was some other poor soul. I left.
Okay, good, so no one
has said no to you yet.
- It's an inevitability.
- Well, it can't be.
- We need the army.
- It's not an option, Herta!
- Don't yell at me.
- Why, because of the baby?
- Because of the sleeping baby?
- Fuck the baby.
Don't yell at me because
it's awful and rude.
Oh, I'm willing to
put my life on the line
- and they, they still don't want me.
- Genek, I'm here. Can you talk to me?
- Screw them!
- Screw who? Screw the army?
No, we don't have that luxury.
Without it, we are stranded
in the desert with nothing.
- [GENEK SNIFFLES]
- We go back to Poland, we die.
They send us back to Siberia, Ze
may not survive another winter.
We can't spit on the army,
Genek. We can't make that choice.
The choice has already been made!
- Are you not listening to me?
- No! I'm tired of listening to you!
[QUIET CHATTER]
[SIGHS] Tired of listening to you
and your rants, and your decisions,
and your fucking pride. I'm sick of it.
[SIGHS] Just as you refused
to say we're Soviet on a form,
- and we're off to the gulag.
- You didn't have to come.
Of course, I did.
Then, you insist on negotiating
with the guards for more rations.
I say no, you do it anyway,
and you miss Ze's birth.
- I was minutes late.
- Beaten and near death!
You could've been fully dead,
and therefore, very, very late.
- [JÓZEF CRYING]
- [HERTA SIGHS]
Oh.
I lost you after Ze was born.
The asshole I fell in love
with just slipped away,
and I can't handle that again.
I can't carry us by myself anymore.
I need you, so swallow your
shit and figure something out.
I don't care the if Poles
are not accepting people
with two testicles and a kutas,
we are getting into that army.
- Yes.
- [CRYING CONTINUES]
Yes, yes. I know.
I know, I know, I know.
- [CRYING CONTINUES]
- [HERTA SHUSHING]
[WAVES CRASHING]
[ELISKA] Addy! Addy!
We're in! Addy, we're in!
We have been granted amnesty.
They're letting us into Rio! Mm!
Aye! A boat is coming for us in an hour.
- What? That's impossible.
- It's not. It's a miracle.
Uh, but-but-but-but Vargas just
declared Jews, uh, "undesirable"
- and "non-assimilable."
- That's exactly it.
We are the last ones to be let through.
After us, Brazil's doors are closed.
- The last ones?
- Part of a deal brokered.
Isn't that wonderful, my love?!
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
We fought for this for seven months.
- What no?
- And m-many are still fighting.
I know that, but we're not responsible
for all the world's problems.
Yes, but I am responsible for my family.
What does your family
have to do with this?
Granted amnesty in a country
that will refuse them entry!
You don't even know
where your family is.
Addy, Addy listen to me.
You must look at the problem
that is being solved today.
You must celebrate it.
- Your mother would want that for you.
- You know nothing of my mother.
[SLIGHT CHUCKLE]
You're right, but you
clearly prefer her company,
so why don't you elect
to go back to Europe?
- Ohh, I obviously don't mean that.
- What do you mean, Addy?
Or do you just aim to punish
me for your lack of control?
- Punish you?
- Yeah!
You have been punishing
me for being stuck here.
Oh, my God! Forgive me
for not enjoying prison!
This is not even a real prison.
You wouldn't last a
minute in real suffering!
- Because my mother has money?
- Because you are spoiled.
Mm. Well, you don't
seem to mind my money
when it gets you free
passage out of Spain.
You think I enjoyed accepting help?
No, I think it hurts
your giant-sized ego.
That's what I think.
And what do you know what I've
suffered? You know nothing about me.
- What are you talking about?
- Suffering!
No one suffers more than
sad, sad Addy, right?!
I know sadness too, Addy.
I just don't make it
your problem all the time.
Am I supposed to be endlessly upbeat?!
No. You're supposed to move forward.
That's what this is supposed to
be, the next part of your life.
I'm supposed to be the
next part of your life.
Eliska, you are.
Then stop dwelling in the past!
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
[SOL] Rosh Hashanah
is a time for reflection.
A time when we ask for forgiveness
and seek to forgive others.
Though, frankly, I'm unsure
of how we do that right now.
I pray that in this darkness,
we let our family be our light.
♪
[ALL] Amen.
♪
Many of our loved ones
are not with us tonight.
We've experienced so much loss.
It's more than one heart can bear alone,
which is why we gather
at this table together.
But there is one of us
who, while not physically here,
has found a way to
make her presence known.
Just before we gathered, I
received this letter from Halina.
- [NECHUMA/MILA GASP]
- [BELLA] What?
- [SOL] She and Adam are okay.
- [SIGHS OF RELIEF]
- How could you keep this from me?
- I told you, I just got it!
- What?
- What?
- [NECHUMA KURC] Let's see.
- [SOL] Okay.
- [NECHUMA] You are a beast.
- [SOL] Oh
- Your Auntie Halina, she's okay.
- You are a beast.
[MILA] We are happy because she's okay.
- [SOL] Okay, huh?
- [MILA] Can we see it?
- [JAKOB] Where is she?
- [EXCITED CROSSTALK]
[SOL] Okay, okay. "Dear Mama and Papa."
[CHATTER FADES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
- [KNOCKS GLASS OVER]
- Oh!
- [JAKOB] Oh. It's okay. It's okay.
- Sorry.
- I'm so sorry.
- [JAKOB] Bella.
'scuse me.
[JAKOB SIGHS]
Bella. Wait, wait, wait.
Please, stop. Stop. It's okay.
It's okay, my love. It's okay.
My family, they understand.
It's okay. Hey.
[SIGHS] They care for you so much.
Okay?
Let's come back inside, okay?
I'm pursuing that job.
- What?
- The AVL factory.
I want to go work there.
I want to live there.
I'm providing no comfort
to my family here.
- I'm a weight on my parents, on you.
- You're not. You're not a weight.
You're not. Your parents, they need you.
[BOTH SIGH]
I need you.
Anna [CRYING] she's just everywhere.
- I'll pursue the job tomorrow.
- No, Bella, please.
- Please
- Stop. You make it worse.
Go be with your family.
Please enjoy your evening with them.
I'm so glad about Halina and Adam.
You want me to teach
you how to be Catholic?
Show me a few prayers.
Make it seem believable.
It's the only way for me
to join the Polish Army.
[SIGHS] I-I could teach you, but
won't that be difficult for you?
Believe it or not, I used
to be valued for my brain.
- I think I can memorize enough to get by.
- No, no, no, no. That's not what I mean.
If if I was asked to
pray to a different God
- N-No, it-it would cost too much.
- Look, I went to Hebrew school.
I did my bar mitzvah.
I learned the prayers.
You know, it mattered to my father.
I liked making him
proud, but it never
I'm not sure it ever ran deep.
- That's too bad.
- Why?
Perhaps it would bring you comfort.
I don't need comfort.
I need a paycheck.
- [AMBIENT STREET NOISE]
- [SHIP HORN BLOWS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
George?! [GASPS] Oh, George!
[LAUGHS] Oh, George!
- Oh, my God!
- [BOTH LAUGHING, REJOICING]
You've waited a long
time for this reunion. Go.
Be with your uncle.
It's a wonderful day.
Would you like to come? I'm
sure my uncle can make room.
No, no. I
I'm gonna get myself a real
coconut water, find a hotel.
Do you have the money?
Yes.
Yes, of course.
I saved my Francs.
I'll be okay. Go.
Go.
Call me when you're settled.
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Do you have somewhere to go?
Come.
You will celebrate Rosh
Hashanah with my family.
♪
[CAR HORN HONKS]
[AMBIENT STREET NOISE]
[LIGHT MUSIC PLAYING]
[HALINA] "To my dearest family.
[GATE OPENING, CREAKS]
"By some miracle, I was
able to locate our dear Adam
and secure his release."
[SOBS]
"The horrors he endured at
the hands of the Wehrmacht,
it is unthinkable.
[CRIES]
"Lvov no longer safe, we made
our way to the countryside
and found respite with
some true friends.
♪
"It took time for him to recuperate,
but Adam's gentle, determined
spirit never dimmed.
I am in awe of him.
I will never leave his side.
He will never leave mine.
We have much respect for our
courageous friends in the woods,
but we have a different path.
You will find us in Warsaw
starting something new.
♪
[SIGHS]
"Please, if you can,
find a way to join us.
We are ready, waiting for you
whenever you can make the trip.
♪
And to answer the question
on everyone's mind,
we have made it official in our way.
Adam and Halina Brzoza.
Love always, Halina."
♪
I need you to help me sew a coat.
What for?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm getting out.
♪
[MUSIC FADES OUT]
[FANFARE PLAYING]