Drops of God (Les Gouttes de Dieu)

Lately, I've developed a fear of the dark.

Ten seconds.

Issei, this time, you go to 50 meters.

You've got this.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Breathe. Breathe!

Issei.

Are you okay?

Just like a child.

I don't recognize it at all.

Me neither. It's so different. I don't know if it's better or not.

I'm glad it's not the same.

Less memories of your mother.

I don't remember chickens.

No, there weren't.

Camille must be excited to show it to you.

Yeah, but where is she?

Oh, my God!

Ah, Issei!

- You're choking me. - Oh, sorry.

- Sorry. - It's great to be here.

Yes.

Hirokazu-san, welcome.

Thank you very much, Camille.

So nice to see you.

Ah, uh… Excuse me a moment.

Anita from the contest

asked us to take part in a public table discussion.

That's good for us!

Yes. Sorry, I was on another call. I'm listening.

Yes. Tomorrow is fine.

Tell her I'm very pleased to meet her.

Thank you. Thanks again.

Okay. So, let's get your stuff upstairs.

Got so much to show you.

Yeah, it all looks so different.

Yeah. Cool, right?

- Did you see the chickens? - Yeah.

You know, they lay eggs.

- Good. - Organic eggs.

Oh, wonderful.

Wonderful, you're here!

This runs in the family?

Welcome, Hirokazu-san.

I was desperate to see you again one day.

- I'll show you your room. - Mom, he doesn't speak French.

Camille is the type to lock me in a closet.

- She claims that I'm not fit to be seen. - You are not fit to be seen.

Ignore her.

Marianne, he doesn't speak French.

Oui, oui.

Hirokazu, we haven't seen each other for, what, 35 years?

We were kids.

Honestly, I wouldn't have recognized you.

Here's your room.

So, this free diving sounds crazy.

How deep did you go?

Not that deep.

I tried a 50 last week but I couldn't do it.

Fifty? Meters?

Underwater?

You could die doing this.

You know that?

You can die crossing the street.

No one stands in traffic for sport.

I'm not judging.

It's just a long way from wine, that's all.

Wine's boring.

How could you be bored of wine?

It's your life.

They say when they go very deep,

where it's very dark,

they find peace.

They can see things.

Fish?

Visions.

Like you have visions when you taste the wine.

They're not visions.

It's just stuff stored in my head.

Nothing mystical about it.

How did this happen?

I don't know.

Well, dinner's almost ready.

Tomorrow I'll give you the grand tour, okay?

- Blow out the candles. - Okay. One, two, three.

Bravo!

- Happy birthday, sweetheart. - Thanks, Mom.

Bravo.

- Oh, the gifts. - Oh! Gifts.

W-Wait!

Uh, our presents first.

Okay, okay, okay.

You don't want ours. Give me more wine, please.

- For you. - Oh, thank you. And for you.

What is this?

- Oh, no. - What is it?

Oh, my…

No!

- Look at it! - I can't believe it!

Oh, wow!

We spotted them at the…

- London wine fair in May. - Yes. Yes.

And we said they were so ugly.

So ug… So ugly we'd never wear them.

- And, uh, voilà . - So beautiful.

You have to wear them tonight, okay?

- If you wear them too. - Yes.

No, over my dead body.

- Now, our gifts. - Yes, ours.

- Thank you! - What's in it?

We are so spoiled! Is it for me?

- Thanks, Philippe. - They're batteries.

- This one, you know what it is. - Yes, I do.

- And this one… - What is it?

This one is a little something extra.

Thank you. It's really sweet of you.

I think Talion wants to keep the present for himself.

He doesn't want to give his present.

What's the matter?

Don't be shy!

- Make room for it. - Wait.

I have something for you but I don't know if I can call it a present.

- It's very mysterious. - Okay, thanks.

You didn't have to.

Yes, he did.

Ooh!

- Oh, no, he didn't have to… - A bottle of wine. Very original.

Thank you.

I had instructions to give this

to whoever won the competition.

Instructions, I mean, from your father, of course.

- What's going on? - Wait a minute.

I considered ignoring his instructions.

I'm retiring. My work is over.

Maybe I should have forgotten all about this.

Nobody would have ever known.

And I suppose until tonight, I had ignored them.

But when you see what it is, I'm sure you'll agree I could not do that.

It wouldn't be fair to you.

It's yours.

It's your choice what to do with it.

Of course.

I'm going to read it.

"According to Pliny the Elder,

' In vino veritas .' In wine, there is truth.

And in no wine on earth more than in this one.

It's perfection itself.

The ambrosia of the gods.

The light in the dark.

My greatest failure, in all my life,

was that I failed to find where this wine was from.

So…

I'm passing that quest onto you.

- Whichever one of you it is. - Whichever one of you it is.

- My heir. - My heir.

- The chosen one. - The chosen one.

You have a duty to succeed where I did not.

If you find this wine, it will mean that you are better than me.

- That you have out-shined me. - That you have out-shined me.

- And I can finally rest in peace. - I can finally rest in peace.

- I'm counting on you. - I'm counting on you.

- Alexandre Léger. - Alexandre Léger."

Well, he can go fuck himself.

Cake?

So, you were going to do it without me?

I knew you'd be here.

Suddenly, wine is not so boring, huh?

The color is very light.

Yeah.

Looks like an evolved wine.

You first.

It's your present.

Happy birthday.

Whoa.

The fucker was right.

It doesn't remind me of anything.

Anything at all.

It's…

It's a single grape variety, that's for sure, but…

Mmm.

Mmm.

Anyway, I can't tell where it's from.

Issei?

You okay?

Hey.

I saw something.

I had a vision.

Did you have one too?

I don't have visions. I told you.

And neither do you.

Look, we are planting trees to give the vines shade.

And we'll have sheep to do the weeding and shit between the rows.

It's like we're building a fortress against climate change.

What's this?

Wind catchers.

They catch the Mistral which blows from the northeast.