Absences (Απουσίες)

A splendid performance. Thank you for the excitement offered.

The pleasure is mine.

I would like to introduce you to Belgian Consul Desileuce.

An adorable man and music lover.

If you'll excuse me...

The Bank is 100.000.

Solo Banco!

Solo Banco for the gentleman.

Your cards, please.

Here...

- "Le Petite". - Eight for a notch.

Moving up to 200.000 for the Bank.

- Solo Primo. - Solo Primo for the gentleman.

Here.

Baccarat.

Your uncle is losing again.

Much?

150.

Bank is 150.

Solo Primo for the gent.

Cards, please.

One for you...

Notch is nine.

Baccarat for Bank.

There.

Thanks.

50.

Banco is fifty.

Solo Banco.

Cards please.

There.

He is in his worst condition ever.

Will he endure?

I'll come in the morning.

I was scared of father.

He never laughed.

He always seemed to be elsewhere.

He scarcely spoke to us.

I only remember once

when I was a child,

he was sitting on his own and very sad...

I approached him

and as he became aware of me he invited me closer

I recall his touch on my forehead

while a tear rolled down his cheek.

I didn't realize much then.

Our nanny later said that mother had left.

I thought she had died.

She was very beautiful, they said.

You know how hard I have tried.

Then it's the land reparcelling issue.

The Oil Mill?

It's going to be difficult. It is indebted to Freskatis.

And the grain?

Some of our lands are at a loose end.

Your wife...

I mean, after abandoning conjugal domicile,

had claimed ownership thereof.

There is nothing left...

A very little...

And we shouldn't forget the child.

It is legally unprotected.

It won't be entitled to a share if you don't provide for it.

Our cross of martyrdom.

Mummy, mummy!

I saw Eleni with Marios.

Please, Maria. I'm fed up with your foolishness.

I'm really fed up!

Apart from your military virtues,

I shouldn't omit in my final farewell speech

to emphasize your virtues as a fellow citizen.

You expressed an interest for social causes

and supported the work of local authorities

as well as the Charity Foundation, in any possible way.

You've been a man, for whom Fatherland

your family and your friends

will be proud.

May the earth covering you be light.

Eternal be your memory.

May God forgive him.

I'll pay you a visit shortly. We have things to discuss.

You may go, Thanassis. We'll walk home.

And now what?

We should bring Marios here some time.

It's so beautiful!

The child must not be moved.

I have to speak to Thanassis.

Thanassis...

See about selling the carriage.

We won't need it anymore.

The horses, too.

They're too old.

Yes, madam.

Maria!

Thank God it's been rented.

I told Thanassis to sell the carriage.

No need for it anymore.

If you think so.

He didn't eat again.

No lunch again?

Brought me any books?

You finished them already?

Look what I did.

You must not be sad.

Besides, Grandpa was too old.

Now, have some rest.

What happened to your hair?

Let me straighten it out.

Why don't you draw something more joyful?

A seascape...

A sun...

I like you combing my hair.

"An asphyxiating torture.

I woke up nights suffocating.

I couldn't find peace even in dreams.

I doubt it that you can ever understand the deepest causes of my deed.

Your egotism is so big as to make you blind.

May God forgive me.

Me for abandoning the children

and you for making their lives a martyrdom in the days to come.

All is as I thought it would be.

The city house is under mortgage.

The bank shares must have been liquidated.

All we are left with is this house and the property rent.

30?

So things are back to usual.

Nothing changes.

If we sold something?

He was a stranger.

Although his face seemed to belong in the family.

He was offering me a silver coin

and I refused to lake it.

He insisted.

He put it in my palm and suddenly it was gone...

He laughed.

He took it back and it became visible again.

He laughed every time he kept doing this.

Finally, I started laughing too and woke up.

Have they brought the flour?

I put it in the cellar.

They said the deceased still owed them for last year's flour.

Still owed them...

Anyone can say what they like now.

Don'! say that.

You can't tell if it's a lie. So, you had better pay them.

We could have the house painted!

After the mourning period ends, of course.

Or perhaps move permanently to the city later on.

Anna is finishing school this year.

Marios will have some company, too. Children of his own age.

I doubt that he likes company.

What did Thanassis do about the carriage?

They say there's going to be a war.

Then people won't need any coaches.

Our neighbour is a cavalry officer!

Nonsense! He is with the Health Committee.

Eleni, please.

Let's talk calmly for once.

There's no reason why we should live in here forever.

Nothing is keeping us in this house anymore.

And let this absurd ritual come to an end, after all...

It's been months since father died.

Utter desolation!

I don't think you've been working in the garden much.

Utter desolation indeed!

This is about a delicate matter which I would rather we discussed in private.

Thank you, Anna.

I mean to go straight to the point.

I'm worried.

Apostolos and I are worried about the child's future.

I fear that your late father didn't take Mario's interest into consideration.

With the financial mess he left behind I'd be surprised to know otherwise.

Perhaps he didn't want to.

For the well-known reasons.

I'm following.

In short...

I'm here to claim the child's rights.

I'm well aware of his rights, more than anyone else is.

Anyone?

Hear that, Apostolos?

I'm "anyone else"!

He's my brother's son.

Whatever he's entitled to, I'm ready to claim by all means possible.

No reason for you to worry.

Eleni, there have been many occasions in the past

which I would not go into right now.

But there's one thing I will not allow.

And that's you destroying the child, the same way you destroyed my brother.

That's enough!

- I forbid you to talk this way in my house. - Your house?

Apostolos!... Give me that document. Give it at once!

Your father took a loan from Apostolos too, when mortgaging this house.

I can demand this note's payment at any time.

No need for extremeties, Evgenia...

No need, yes...

lam magnanimous, you know that.

I demand that you should transfer the house ownership under Mario's name.

The soonest possible, I'd say... before the lot crumbles in here.

I believe I was explicit enough.

I'll be waiting.