Woman in the Woods

What's wrong?

Where's Jason, have you seen him?

Your mom tells me

you keep bugging her about stories.

I can tell you stories.

Oh, I can tell you plenty of stories, Anok.

Jason, Jason, are you home?

I know right now, you would not believe

First of all, those cigarettes

Our home we called back

in the Philippines, it was a beautiful place.

Every sunset was the most beautiful sunset you've ever seen.

It was...

I'll take you back there if you want.

I have to save enough money first,

but I'll take you camping back home.

Well, Anok, what do you say?

Wake up!

The first thing you notice when you're there

are the mornings.

They feel so quiet, even if it's not.

You enjoy that little bit of peace, that quiet,

because I promise you it never lasts.

The Philippines is a small country, but it's a big place.

I lived there 33 years.

And you know what?

I still got lost.

Just always remember, when you're lost

just turn around and go back.

Another thing I can tell you, Anok, is to be careful.

You can take a lot of things from the forest,

wood, food, but you have to always ask permission

from whatever is living there.

And you have to watch your step because you never know

if you're stepping on someone's home.

Ah!

Small, invisible dwarves that likes to steal

small little things around the house.

Naughty little monsters.

They are mostly harmless.

Mostly.

But the most dangerous things in the forest

are not the monsters.

No, they're the ones who look exactly like us.

Men and women, so beautiful people are

lost forever chasing after them.

If we ever see one, Anok, remember one thing.

Do not follow them.

Oh, oh god.

Please, please I wasn't trying anything, I swear.

[woman speaking in foreign language]

Huh?

[woman speaking in foreign language]

I'm sorry, I can't understand what you're.

No, no, don't!

That's where I'm from, Canada.

Canada.

Canada.

Canada.

Canada.

Close enough.

No, no!

[woman speaking in foreign language]

I'm sorry, I don't under...

[woman speaking in foreign language]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[woman speaking in foreign language]

No, I don't, I swear.

Please don't hurt me, please.

Please, please, please, please, please, please.

Please!

[woman speaking in foreign language]

Wait, wait, you're hurt.

You can't be walking around with that

sticking out of your leg.

What are you doing?

Oh god, oh god.

Hey, hey, hey!

Over here, over here!

Look, we need to get her to a hospital.

I think she's hurt.

Come on, help me.

Hey, where you going?

Hey, at least tell me where the nearest town is.

Where did I work?

Well, there was plenty of work.

I once managed this coconut oil mill,

but it didn't matter what you made.

People wanted to buy it.

Business was good.

[woman speaking in foreign language]

Private property [woman speaking in foreign language]

Please tell me you can see her.

[woman speaking in foreign language]

I need brown bottle, now.

Brown bottle, brown bottle, brown bottle.

Okay.

Wrong brown bottle.

Brown bottle!

Here, here.

That's wrong brown bottle!

They're all brown.

Wrong brown bottle!

They're all brown!

Brown bottle!

Ah, yeah, thank you very much.

Hold, hold.

[woman speaking in foreign language]

Oh.

[woman speaking in foreign language]

[woman speaking in foreign language]

Yeah, yeah.

What your name?

Jason.

Mm-hmm.

Me, you call me Batibat.

Letter B as in victory.

B

Americano ah?

Canadian.

Oh!

Common mistake, that's all right.

Oh, Canada.

I don't want to go there, very cold.

Why can't people see her?

Third eye.

Huh?

Third eye.

You see things other people don't.

You see her.

Where did you find her?

Just here and there.

You know, when I was little girl,

I used to live near volcano.

And then I realized I see things other people don't.

I'd have to stay awake in the night

because I hear

smoking in the tree.

Then they're standing around the tall,

running around the house.

And then when there's a great boom.

But me?

I would like to wait for that special someone.

When everything is quiet.

Even the insects, even the birds, gone.

I know she's here.

Magayon is here.

You mean her?

Her.

Well what is she?

Ha, look at you now!

She used to be a princess.

People come here to meet her,

asking to marry her, but that is one.

And this, there is one, one, one thing.

You know.

Pagtuga, name Pagtuga.

Is very jealous, see?

Very angry.

And then one day there is one foreigner come here.

His name is Ulap.

He and Magayon meet in the lake.

They fall in love.

And then Pagtuga heard about it.

Pagtuga fight Ulap, Ulap fight Pagtuga!

Fight, fight, fight, fight!

Magayon said, "Stop!"

Nobody sees me because of that, men die.

And then one day, fight, fight, fight.

Fight, fight, fight.

Fight, fight, fight.

Magayon got hit.

She died?

Of course!

Why, you foreigner get stuck by a knife,

you will not die?

Anyway.

You know that the daga, the lupa.

They buried Magayon.

They buried her, everybody sad, everybody's lonely.

Everybody's crying.

But the place, it got bigger, bigger.