Land Underwater (Urpean lurra)

Boys, girls, come!

Hey, they're coming!

I can hear them.

Look! They are all there.

I think you should all clap when they get here.

Come!

All the children are here.

The children...

Ok, Pied Piper,

many thanks and don't come back.

Goodbye.

Well, I'm not going to just leave like that.

No?

Not before I hear all of you promise

to look after Itoiz and the whole valley of Longida

and that you're going to look after all of its rivers and hills

and keep it just as clean and beautiful as it is now.

Alright, wait a minute and you will hear that promise.

Dear subjects, I ask you to lift one finger

to show that you promise.

Lift your fingers up.

The children are the first ones to lift them up!

Repeat after me.

We promise

to look after

the whole of this valley

and try

to keep

to keep it

just the way it is.

LAND UNDERWATER

Do you want to be the first to share...

what you dreamt of, Ille?

I imagine you must have thought about it.

Or would you like to hear some of our thoughts?

In fact, I haven't thought much about it,

I prefer to listen first.

Shhhhh, keep quiet!

What a piece of junk!

Look.

This...

I'm in the lower area of Usoz

where we used to get into our car,

well, get the bus to go to school,

my mum and I have come

because we want to see the reservoir

and we've come down to the water's edge,

we've come by car,

we've come down,

and the water's there, everything's flooded

and the light's very pretty

I don't know if it's dawn or...

or dusk...

or I don't know,

but all of a sudden I start looking

and the water...

isn't...

I mean, you see what there is beneath it

and then

all the valley's under the water,

so I see the water sheet

but the valley keeps on going down under the water,

it's very, very, very deep

and the river Irati's down there,

it's going along in curves,

and then we say "Damn! The valley's down there"

and we want to know how far down the river is,

so we pick up a stone

and I throw the stone

and the stone enters the water

and begins to roll down the valley

up to the river

and when it reaches the water,

we try to see how far it goes

and I realise that the water it's full of really big fish,

they're enormous,

almost like fish in cartoons,

with really big teeth,

and in my dream I think that they must be piranhas,

but the water's still flowing,

so the river Irati still flows under the reservoir water

and there the fish are above and below the river.

The security guards are coming down now, look!

Where?

There, to the left.

No, no, no! No reservoir!

Here are the brave ones…

Carlos, get that missile ready in case the police charge!

No, no, not now.

They'll be looking through their binoculars.

They're going to do something with the lorry.

The people move.

No, no, no! No reservoir!

Well those people are running down here fast.

Bastard!

That's it, that's it.

Bastards!

He's going to hit him.

They've got somebody, damn it, they're horrible.

Where are the rest of them, for God's sake?

Hell, they're really going for it.

Damn it, who's that? I think it's Juan Cruz.

And those are bloody security guards.

Go for it, for God's sake!

They're really going for it, man!

Bastards!

Go for it, damn it!

And they're running, look out.

Look at them throwing stones.

Someone knows where the missiles are?

Come on, let's get down there.

Bastards!

Which is the way down, Carlos?

That way, down there, cross the road down there.

Carlos, guide us, come!

Carlos! Are you coming?

I'm going along the road

in the Artozki area and...

I go round the corner

from where you almost see Usoz reservoir

I go a bit further and...

I notice that up at the hill,

what I see surprises me,

they're building something

and there's a giant machine there,

it's huge,

and I park my car

where there used to be a waterfall