Kaboul Kitchen

"Here, take."

"I can't stand your shitty rice anymore!"

I'll kill you dirty stranger!

Leave it, that's enough! Leave it, that's enough!

Frankly Narmane, with all the money that you stole from me

you could at least feed me properly!

We told you before, Jacky we don't have your money.

What is expected of you is to bring us a little bit of it.

A little, not much.

Damn it!

- How much? - $500,000

- 200,000 - Okay.

Okay fine.

But beware, we do agree that we have never seen each other.

France does not negotiate with terrorists.

The stranger has fled!

Shut up and watch the movie!

Damn, damn!

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Damn yes!

Well, we'll leave you, Mr. Robert. I'll come back to see you

to give you your ticket to Paris.

- To Paris? To do what? - To stay there.

Hostages are automatically repatriated to France

this is the procedure.

But I don't care about your procedure!

What do you want me to do in France?

All my life is here.

My restaurant, my friends my daughter...

Ah well, you should have thought about that

before getting yourself kidnapped.

I'm sorry Mr. Robert.

But once you are there, there will be a whole reintegration program

waiting for you to help you recover

Look, I didn't need you to get away from it all

So I honestly, will reintegrate on my own.

Well...

Listen to me asshole.

Your escape cost us $200,000, okay?

So you will give me immense pleasure

you will take your flight and get away from here.

- Didn't I escape? - Yes, of course.

And your kidnappers pushed you car.

Excuse me, but his family and friends are here.

- Dad! - Sophie! Sophie!

Let me kiss you.

Okay, look, we're going to be able to allow you

to stay in Afghanistan exceptionally.

But I'm going to need the permission of the base psychiatrist.

I'll ask him to set an appointment for you. He will call you.

- Thank you. - We'll leave you two alone.

- Is there any problem? - Sit here next to me

I have to talk to you about something important.

I'm listening to you.

You know when I was there I had time to think a lot.

And I understood something.

It wasn't Taliban who stole my money.

It was someone else.

What? What is it?

Nothing, it's just that...

we were afraid you would come back traumatized but...

I can see you're okay I'll got get the others.

But I am traumatized! I lost $800,000

Do you know many people who would accept that easily?

Do you know how to drive?

- What are you doing? - Facebook.

Do you have Facebook?

And you? How have you been since the last time?

Impeccable. I'm feeling terrific.

Oh, you spoiled it, see?

- Twilight, what is this? - Twilight.

It's number 1 in the United States.

These are vampires who go to school.

And who like to have sex.

- Ah yes? - Yes.

He'll like that. Here. Wait for me here! Wait for me here!

Look who I bring you!

Habib!

Sir

Habib.

Habib...

Thank you. Thank you all.

It was not easy there, eh?

I appreciated life a little.

Besides, you all know that all my money was stolen.

The fruit of three years of work...

But I'll tell you something it's okay.

Because they left me with what's important the most.

You!

And I promise you that as soon as I get out of here

I'll reopen the Kabul Kitchen and hire everyone back!

I am sorry.

But that was barely four months ago...

Well, we're in Afghanistan. Everything ages faster here.

Damn...

It's at least for $300,000.

How much can you put in?

Zero. I am completely broke.

I'm going out of business at the end of the month.

I got Amanullah elected, eh?

There is no longer an NGO in Kabul that wants to work with me.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to go back to France, Jacky.

I thought about opening a sandwich shop.

- A sand... a what? - A sandwich shop.

You see, in business district, a bit...

It seems that it works well, eh?

I think that if you put on the right product

you do something very, very good, you see

I think it can...

Mr. Jacky!

- Elias! - Mr. Jacky!

Elias!

It's good to see you again!

You've been gone for 3 months and 13 days!

Thank you Elias. Nice of you to have thought of me.

It's only normal, you left without paying me my rent.

You owe me 4 months. The 4th month started 13 days ago.

Elias, I wasn't gone I was kidnapped!

Ah yes, that I knew. This is a big misfortune.

But now that you're back you're going to be able to pay.

- Elias, dearest Elias. - Yes...

I was kidnapped, I was stolen

my restaurant was destroyed.

So your rent...

I'm telling you nicely without getting upset.

You know where you can put it!

Ah, Axel, your parents skyped you earlier. You have to call them back.

Damn it. Oh yeah! I didn't tell you.

You're sharing the couch. Welcome to the shared living.

Hi Jacky!

Victor, what are you doing here?

I squat, I lost my job and my apartment.

- And Combat? - I got fired by your daughter

and her new boss.

Victor, we haven't fired you.

The reality is, when Paul arrived most donors decided to trust him.

And that big motherfucker siphoned off all of my grants.

- He offered you a job. - Stop it, it was rotten.

Hello...

So since then, your daughter has agreed to take me here...

It's the guilt I guess.

Okay, I'm coming.

Dad, you know when you were in the Taliban

Paul really helped me a lot with the journalists at the embassy

so that you wouldn't be forgotten.

Did he say he owed you this from Sarajevo?

Oh yeah, did he say that?

Yeah. Why? What happened in Sarajevo?

- Well ask him. - Yeah, and them you'll ask him

why he's such a big motherfucker too.

Ask him that too.

You piss me off!

Sophie! Sophie!

Hi Jacky.

Hi Paul.

"I passed you resume on to some business people I know."

No, but I told mom no, you don't have to.

"Well I did it anyway. Do you want to know the answer?"

Well, yeah, yeah.

"Your profile does not interest them."

"Do you know what you're going to do when you get home?"

I was thinking about opening a business.

"What kind of business?"

A sandwich shop

"A sandwich shop?"

"I warn you Axel, if you open a sandwich shop"

"you will reimburse me for five years of higher education"

"in business school!"

"Ah that's it, I see you there!"

"Ah well, you're good, you are better that the last time I think."

"Axou, darling, don't listen to him it's very good a sandwich shop."

"Come in, that's the main thing. You will be much better here."

"I have prepared your room for you."

Thank you, that's nice mom thank you.

"When are you coming home exactly?"

I don't know. I pack my boxes and take my ticket tomorrow.

"You call me. And you don't get kidnapped just before you leave."

"No, no. Yes, yes. Thank you."

"Kisses my darling. Take care, eh?"

Me too.

- Are you not picking up? - No, it's the embassy.

They want me to see a shrink.

- To do what? - To allow me to stay here.

No one should be allowed to stay here.

Where are you going with my costume?

See the banks, I need the dough.

Ah! Damn you!

Damn. Can't believe this! Can't you kidnap someone else?

Djamal, Narmane? Is that you?

"Because is this is you I'm gonna fuck you all!"

I've already been kidnapped I'm worth nothing.

Ask your coworkers sons of bitches!

Damn it!

Surprise!

Look at his head!

Enough! Jacky, three months 13 days

that my heart is bleeding tears of blood...

Come here! Ah my Jacky, Jacky...

You should see your face in the mirror!

- I got you, right? - Yes.