Love and Darkness - Act 2

Namano and table read present Love and Darkness based on
the incredible and brave stories of the true Vesicuca, Joseph
Braun and his family.
At our first episode, we dulved into the intricate live
the Cats family. We met Dove CAATs, a young man
entangled in a forbidden love with inga, a non Jewish
girl from their town. There, illicit romance deeply troubles Doe's father,
Rabbi Avromcatz, and must now decide whether to disown his
son forever or not. At the same time, Volfe, Doe's
older brother, a courageous Jewish resistance fighter, returns home from
Poland with alarming news about the escalating war that engulfs Europe. Meanwhile,
Avram receives a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Mosha
desiving in Budapest, which holds potential clues to their unsettling future,
as hinted in the opening flash forward, being imprisoned in
a Hungarian Jewish labor unit and forced a clear mind
field head of Germany's invasion of Russia. Episode two, Exterior
Christian High School morning children rush to enter before the
morning Bell's peel find Eden among them. A massive shallowcase
trapped to her back. Fall into stride with Eden's parank
twenty four teacher's aid and Kat's family friend.
Good morning, farrink, ready your chevo Eden.
Today in class, Air Schooner will make the most amazing announcement.
Not even a hint. Perhaps I'll find another stomach for
this hollow my mother sent you.
I shall I tell you my whips are sealed.
Then handing you aloaf bread would truly.
Be a waste.
Ah.
Eden smiles, then hands over a bag containing the Kawa
Interior Orchestra classroom. Heis school morning. The instructor is Hair
Schulner seventies, a relic from the old Austro Hungarian Empire.
Find Parank sitting at the piano. Students file in carrying
their instruments strings, brass, woodwind and percussion.
Take your seats quickly.
Hair Shchuler taps his desk with a conductor's baton.
Attenchin class, the representative from Franz School of Music is
choosing students for a special program to study music in
Budapest for their summer session.
Eat in Farank, exchange a look while the student's gush
with excitement.
Reserve your enthusiasm.
Only thirty four children from across the country will be chosen. Most,
if not all, of you will be rejected. This is
where you learn the difference between having talent and having
a gift. Tonight's homework is to select a two minute solo,
which you will submit to hair Farenk for approval. No Beethoven,
He will be overplayed by your contemporaries. Now ready your instruments.
As Lacey fourteen readies her flute, she turns to Eden.
I hear your brother's wife berth de Son and your
father chopped off his thing.
A few students with an earshot snicker.
It's called a briss lacy. Nothing's taken off but the foreskin.
It sounds barbaric.
Miklos fourteen class bully chimes in.
Like mosted customs.
Hair Schulner watches the exchange has seen enough quiet.
You chatterboxes Chopin's revolutionary tude here for rink for.
Rank plays the intro. Then her Schulner uses students to
harmonize in dissatisfy with the intonation, Hair Schuler slams this
ruler on the desk horns.
Did you leave your ears at home today? Play the
high Sea shot again.
The students roll their eyes. Her shoulder is a taskmaster.
Exterior Cats Brothers Butcher Shop, Mourning, located on the corner
of a busy shopping street in the middle of town.
Outdoor cow pens feed into a small slaughterhouse in the
back of the butcher shop. Interior Cats Brothers Butcher Shop
morning bare light bulls hang from the ceiling, skin chickens
dangle from meathooks, and a window already filled with signs
in both German and Hungarian offering kosher specials. Isaac stacks
can Goods wipes down the meat scale. Uncle you Judah
wheels in a barrel of garlic, dill pickles. Doe steps
out from the back room, putting on his apron Vulf
relaxes with his feet up on a chair at a
little corner table, reading the newspaper. A number of customers
gather at the door, waiting eagerly for the shop to open.
The line's already forming. Don't help, can a pike?
Mm hmm. Uncle your Houda nods?
How was it meant for the apron brisket?
Ah?
Yeh, neither was I, but I have a son now
and hopefully more on the way.
As Uncle you Whoda nods than heads into the storeroom.
Did you see him this morning?
He was gone by the time I woke up. Uncle
Uhuda enters from the storeroom with a can of pike.
He went to pray. Do takes this in with a sigh.
This is ridiculous. It's nineteen forty one. I shouldn't need
my father's permission to court a woman.
Just courting.
Huh.
Doe shoots him a look. Wulf shrugs. Isaac stays on point.
Don't look at the world as it should be, brother,
But as it is to make her bride and the
mother is a sin against God. Papa must turn his
back on you as if you were dead to him.
You know this, Yes, I remember the speech he gave
all of us the first day of school.
Remember Yitzak Cohen from football club.
When his father learned he kissed the Shiksa, he smacked
him so hard at the dinner table he fell out
of a chair and broke his arm.
He was our goalie.
I don't care about Yi's a Cohen. I'm leaving for
medical school in a month.
I'm an adult.
No, yes, And as an adult, you're still a Jew
and she's still one of them. Your children will never
know their grandfather. Is that a life you wish for
your sons? For yourself? A life bereft of family?
Sounds like it's not only Papa will turn his back
on me.
It's a sin against God. Nothing good will come from this.
I won't abandon you, brother, said the brother who can't
wait to leave home.
The moment he arrives, Wolf nods this away.
Isaac.
I'm sorry your marriage was arranged and you've never loved
by choice.
If you did, you might understand how I feel.
It also might help to remove that large stick from
up your ass.
Both exchanges a glance with Isaac. He's right. Dove takes
a beat that approaches Uncle.
Yehuda, Uncle m h you ordered to claim.
Silence is wisdom?
Open up, Isaac unlocks the front door. Customers rush the counter,
yelling their order. Two drops dover trees that hands over
the order. The customer presents money, no pay. At the register,
Isaac sees the midwife nurse Rosa enter Rosa.
Did Yannas sleep through the night?
Has did his mother? You ordered a leg of lamb.
For rosen nods. Uncle Uhuda carries over a large leg
of lamb wrapped in brown butcher's paper and hands it
to Isaac.
This is a beautiful cut, great for stewart.
Is Georgie outside with the car.
Rosen nods hands Isaac money.
No, no, no, Rosa, you never pick. I'll carry it up
for you.
Rosa exits with Isaac behind her exterior Cat's Brothers butcher shop. Morning.
Rosa steps up onto the horse drawn cart island by
her husband, Georgie forties, a simple farm hand who married
way up. Isaac places a leg of lamb in the
cart's and bids them farewell when they're a good distance away.
Why must we always buy from them?
Don't be a fool?
They have the best meet in three counties.
Interior, Inga's bedroom, afternoon, the heavy chuck a chuck a
chuck of a sewing machine. Inga's having a dress. Her father, forties,
last night's booze, still on his breath, enters. She stops
sewing mid stitch. There's a man here to see you
off Inga's nervous look. Could it be dove? Interior kitchen.
A few minutes later, Inga enters the kitchen behind her
father to discover it's not dove, But Captain T Boar, I.
Wanted to confirm with my own eyes that you arrived
home safe last night.
Captain says you refused to ride from him after the
boozy end the.
Night was still young. Father, May I speak to the
Captain outside.
Inga's father nods Captain T Boar and inga walk outside
exterior Inga's house continuous as they edited the cottage Ingle
whips around furious.
Last night was a shameful display.
What lies you told lies, which would have been the
truth had your father known the truth.
What my father knows is my business state the purpose
of your visit Tibor. I'm sick of your games.
As I said, I wanted to make sure you arrived
home safe.
Your concern is touching, but I am not your concern.
You know my feelings go beyond concern.
And you know I'm in love with someone else, which.
Strikes Captain t Wore like a dagger in the heart.
You talk of this love as if it has any
hope of a future.
They're Jews.
They'll never accept you, and I can offer you a
better life.
Please stop.
In two years, I'll make lieutenant on a lieutenant's wage.
I'll purchase a cottage twice the size of your father's.
In two years, I'll be working in a hospital with
no desire for farm life, Tivor. I'm only a shadow
of what you'd wish for in a wife.
So Dove Cats wins your heart.
My heart is not a prize to be won.
Captain T Boar aggressively steps towards her, invading her personal space,
making her nervous.
Of course it is.
Captain T. Boar heads for his car. Ingle walks over
to the mailbox, withdrawing a stack of letters as she
thumbs through her hands. Tremble exterior Hungarian countryside evening. Rays
of golden sunlight accent an isolated meadow of lush green
somewhere in the Hungarian countryside. Over this, in the tall grass,
we hear the moans of passionate sex. The camera finds
Dove in inga, their bodies intertwined and writhing under a blanket.
After climax, they settle into a post sex calm INGA
lays her head on his chest, and they're two stared
into each other's eyes. After a long silence, you sin.
Reconsidering T.
Boar's offer.
Only the tone in which it was presented.
He frightens me.
Dove sighs, puffs out his chest.
Not enough for you to confront him. He knows I'm yours.
The matter settled, and your father how long before that
matters settled?
My father is an old magyarra's deep opinions of Jews.
I'll tell him when you tell me that this is forever.
Dove leans in and kisses her passionately, desperately as they
roll over into each other's arms. Interior kitchen Cat's family home,
late night. Sorry, he's cleaning the dinner plates. Have him enters,
tosses down his father's letter on the kitchen table.
Mosha invited me to Budapest.
Will you go?
No?
What needed to be said was said years ago.
Boy Am, your mother was sick, you yourself said. At
many times she'd have conversations with the walls or sleep
in the basement for days. It was the sickness that
put the gun in her hand, not your father.
But it was his infidelity that pulled the trigger.
And now he seeks your forgiveness, as you might one
day seek from Dove if you turn your back on him.
Perhaps, but Mosha doesn't only seek forgiveness in his letter,
he seeks advice.
The clop and winnie of a horse approaching. Avram's face
turns pale as he sees through the window. It's Dove, sorry,
reads him. Avram steals himself for what must be done.
Am no, I'm a rabbi. Sorry, I can't have him
in my house.
Interior Cat's Family Barn. A few moments later, Dove ties
down the horse's reins and tends to it. After a beat,
he realizes there's someone else in the barn with him.
Dove slowly turns around to find Avram standing there, his
face inscrutable. Dove knows what's coming next, but Avram struggles
to find the right words. A long beat of silence
broken by.
I intend to marry her.
Papa. I'm sorry.
I made beef for supper. The plate's still warm.
If you hurry, Avrom quickly retreats out of the barn.
Dove opens his mouth to speak, but then closes it wordlessly.
Exterior Cat's Family Barn. Continuously, Avrim exits, looks up to heaven,
eyes tearing forgive me.
He's my son.
Interior Hallway Christian High School, afternoon. In between classes, students
hurry to class pick up. Eden shallows strap to her back,
briskly walking past Lacey and her friends, who commiserate in
front of the orchestra room. Lacey scrutinizes Eden from head
to toe and notices something that disturbs her. She and
Eden are wearing the same red socks with yellow flowers
as part of their skirt outfits. Eden enters the orchestra class.
Interior orchestra room, Christian High School continues. The students slowly
trickle in and take their seats.
Such lesarg from aspiring musicians, take your seats.
The students uncase their instruments.
A debate rages in the high holds about Bach's sweets.
Is it the substance of his heart's passion or the
pure calculations from the rhythms of a didactic mathematician?
No dead hands today box garrant in C major.
Frank needs a complicated piece in with the piano. Then
the students follow, sounding marvelous angle on Lacy blowing into
her flute. Distracted, she repeatedly peers over to Ed, examining
her socks to confirm they are indeed the same exact there,
How could she have the same pair of socks as
a jew. Her shoulder takes note of Lacey's deficiency in
concentration and rumbles.
Over pay attention flutes enough.
The music ties out.
Lacy, you're overhanging the keys.
I wasn't, hair teacher.
So my ears deceive me. Perhaps I am mistaken.
Perhaps you are a prodigy equal to Lily Bollinger, or
believe me or franz List himself.
Lacey shakes her head.
No stead.
Lacey nervously rises out of her chair.
If the emissary from frange List were here in this
very room, would he select.
You for a scholarship? No, hair teacher, no.
Eden cats. Based on your performance, would you be chosen?
I can only hope, hair teacher minor shuckles from the
other side. Uts be close, blurts like they pick a jew.
More inward timbre of the D string and almost avoiding
the open a. Today your play was precise and unerring.
Then hair Shulder maneuvers her face to face with Lacey.
Extend your palms face down.
Lacey slowly does this. Frank realizes hair Shoulder's intentions, stands defiantly.
Hair teacher, sit down, hair Farink, You're only here at
my whimen.
Farank deflats into his chair. Hair Shulner turns to Eden,
hands her the conductor's were.
Tom ten wraps on the knuckles, a lesson she'll not
soon forget coming from you.
Eden's frozen strike Now.
Look they're wearing the same socks.
The students check the confirm.
Enough chatterboxing, Eden commence.
Eden tears up, looks to Farank, who nads his approval.
Eden strikes Lacey's knuckles once, twice a third time, as
Lacey's eyes register the pain harder. Eden raises the baton
above her head, ready to pounce, but then freezes.
I cannot do it, hair teacher, complete the punishment or
be expelled.
Eden considers this, but then lowers the baton and tosses
it on the desk in front of her.
Miscats, you are dismissed for the remainder of the semester.
Please, hair teacher, what about my audition?
Auditions are held for students enrolled an orchestra. Miklos seventeen
lashes an additional ten for the jois's disobedience.
Count aloud, dude.
He glos, rises, wipes the baton, and strikes Lacey mercilessly.
One two, three haunting shack of the baton connected over
Lacey's knuckles as all we years. Eden packs up her
chillo Before Eaton exits, Lacey glaars daggers at her an
exterior alley next to the school. Afternoon, Eden fits on
the ground, back against the wall. She's watching a female
bigger hassle pedestrians for a handout. F Rank enters the
alley sits down next to her.
Seven more taps is all it took yesterday. She made
a comment, as she always does in that moment, when
I stopped hitting her, it wasn't because I was afraid
of hurting her. It was because I was afraid of
how much I wanted to, which.
Makes what you've done all the more brave.
No, I'm a weak, sentimental girl, and the world tramples us.
He held my future in his hands.
As he considers, he has a Eureka moment.
There still may be a way for you to audition.
Eden turns to him in disbelief.
As her schounder's assistant, I'll have contact with the emissary
once he's in town. I could tell him your story
and if he agrees, arrange a private concert to hear
you play, but only you, me and your family are
all that can ever know.
I won't tell a soul good.
You'll need to practice every day my house after school.
Branco would love to hear you play.
Why risk your position with her Schuner just to help me?
All people have dreams, but few possess the gifts to
achieve them. You do, and I don't wish to see
you waste it becoming the most celebrated teacher's assistant in town.
And we realize for Rank doesn't want Eden and Up
like him. Interior Cat's brothers butcher shop. Late afternoon. Business
is winding down. Uncle Juhudah, Isaac and Dove begin cleaning up.
Here we go again, Gondo Marie, Gondo Marie, is that right?
Thank you? Ah? Business is winding down, Uncle ju Hudah,
Isaac and Doe begin cleaning up, is Gondo Marie? Officer
Alaric twenty six entries.
Alaric apologies for missing the brisk Katarina came.
Down with the flute.
Many of his friends wives were struck with an illness.
Since he was released from Gondo Marie.
Uncle ju Hudah's from them Ah.
Many of his friends wives were struck with an illness
since he was released from the on to Marie.
Mm hmm. Uncle Yehudah smirks. Isaac covers.
They ask how she's feeling still with a fever and
sore throat. My mother's matzabel soup is the perfect cule.
Then I'll take a leader.
Isaac fills a container of soup from a heated chafing
dish and hands it to Alaric. Alaric pulls out money
for recompense pay at the register. Alaric turns, but then stops,
his face filling with dread, something terrible weighing on his mind.
Isaac, I'm sorry.
At that moment, a caravan of police cars lumber to
a halt in front of the shop. Stepping from the
lead vehicle, Captain t Boar, Isaac Dove, and Uncle Yehudax
change oneasy looks Tea Boar. Isaac whips a furious glance
to Alaric as Captain Teboar enters air thickening. Captain Teboar turns.
To Isaac step out from behind the counter old front.
Isaac wrily does this. Captain Tebore presents him with an
official looking document displaying state seals.
This shop's being closed until further notice.
The Office of the Health Inspector needs proof we're conforming
with the new animal's safety regulations.
There have been rumors of code violations. Cost Root law
is not Hungarian law.
Uncle Yehuda comes from around the counter. Dove remains silent,
simply staring down Captain Tebore.
If you're found serving any beef for poultry on the
premises until the Health Department inspects you, you're subject to
arrest and.
Forfeiture of property. Captain fourteen years. We've been in operation,
no violations. Then you should have nothing to fear.
An inspector will contact you within the week.
Captain t Boar shoots Dove a glance. The glance is
just smug enough to allow Dove insight into the true
purpose of the shop closing payback for Doe's relationship with Inga.
Captain t Bour and Officer Alaric exit. Alaric still holding
the soup, leaving Uncle Yehudah, Dove and Isaac to confer.
So the shop's closed for a few weeks until inspector
certifies our compliance.
Don't be a fool.
No inspector will ever come. As Isaac considers this. Dove's
blood boils until he can no longer ignore his rage
and charges out of the shop in pursuit of Captain
t Boar. Exterior Cat's brothers butcher shop continuous As Captain
Tewock opens his car door. Captain he slams the door shut,
turns to see Dove approaching the veins and his head bulging.
His Uncle Yehudah and Isaac hurriedly egsit.
The shop, come back inside.
Brother Dove ignores him, steps closer to the captain.
Feel free to protest through official channel's young cats.
This isn't about Hungarian law or how we slaughter our
fucking cows.
This is about her.
Rapt Captain t Bog explodes the sucker punch to Dove's chin,
spiraling into the ground. Uncle Yuhudah and Isaac jump too,
but t Boar's officers, including Alaric, draw their revolves, keeping
him at day.
He speaks to man's words. Isaac let him accept a
man's beating.
Captain t Boar gut kicks door, popping the very air
out of his lungs. Dove struggles to draw breath. Dove
stay down, but Dove's tough defially spans up, singing tea
Boar for round two, Isaac Uncle Uhudah, and a growing
crod of townsfolk gasp knowing Doves over man at a
shot to the abduct. Isaac winces as Doves back on
the ground. Face swelling, Dove desperately crawls for the safety
of the butcher's shop.
The fight's over. Captain the boys learned his lesson.
Captain t Boar yanks Dove up by the hair, whispers
in his ear. She knows how to end this. The
subtexts give up seeing inger, you never love you. Captain
T Boar flattens his node with another hammering right back
on the ground, Dove continues crawling toward the butcher shop,
determined to reach the porch.
His scurries away like a rat.
I thought you Cat's boys were made of sterner stock.
But Dove wasn't crawling to escape. He was crawling to
find a weapon. Dove slowly rises to his feet, Touching
a piece of firewood, he swings for dear life, slamming
Captain Tbore across his face, dropping him to the ground.
Dove tosses the firewood, jumps on top of tea board
pummeling him with rights and lefts. The fight devolves from
punches to each man attempting to choke out the other.
The police officers run over to cry Dove off of
their captain. Isaac can Uncle, you who the help? Grabbing
hold of Dove, hitting his arms back and dragging him away.
Oh Sir Alaric helps Captain t Boar to his feet.
Arrest him for striking an officer.
No, t Boar, you'll look weak.
Captain t Bore knows he's right, which infuriates him even more.
The camera pulls back as the two men are restrained
by their respective supporters. Ye's still desperately clawing and reaching
for one last punch. Stay to black interior living room,
Cat's family home night. The whole family is present except
for Eden, Avram, Sorry, Uncle Jehudah, Isaac, Wolfe, Devora, and Bella.
Dove is on the couch, eyes closed, popping in and
out of sleep. Avrom sits at his side watching him.
Devora turns to.
Wolf why do men think with their fists.
Fists settle matters words camp?
Avram stands, turns to the family.
T Boar's rage is clear. Then let him suffer and
Remember how by unsheathing your knife.
He lost the fight. Papa, this is far from over.
If a mind of violence is what you've learned from
those Zionist friends of yours.
Unlike you, those friends, and I have walked the streets
of Krakau, Warsaw and Luds, Jews forced into ghettos like animals,
thousands living on top of one another, slummed within a
few square blocks.
That's Poland.
It's not here, not yet.
This is how it starts.
First, it's shot, closings and beatings, and then it's ghettos
and yellow stars.
Allow me to end this before it begins.
By killing him, you will ensure that it does begin.
Both rolls his eyes, dismissing his father's warning. Frustrated, Avrom
steps into his face. It's intimidating.
I may not have walked down the streets of Krackou
and Luds, but I've stood face to face with my enemy,
close enough to feel his warm blood run down my arm,
close enough to see the look in his eyes as
he wondered how much deeper. I drive my bayonet into
his stomach.
Which frightens Wolf and freezes the rest of the room.
You know nothing about killing man Hushka and I pray
you never do.
A knock at the front door tenses everyone further. Isaac
opens the door, revealing inga her face fraught with worry.
Can I see him? Please?
Avram Nod's approval INGA rushes to Dove's side, grabbing his hand.
Avram and Sory are touched from envy grows hate. Interior
bathroom police precinks simultaneously close in a pair of hands,
washing off blood and dirt, pull out to find Captain
t Boar's shirtless, hovering over a first aid kit balanced
on the sink, now dabbing iodine on his contou's cheek.
A gold cross dangles from his neck. He takes a
long pointed look at himself in the mirror, eyes moving
from his bruise to the cross and back again. He
raises his left arm, revealing two inch long scars appearing
like horizontal Roman numerals under his armpit. He unclasps his
cross's chain from around his neck and using the crosses
sharp edge, digs into his skin, cutting a third mark
underneath the two previous ones. His hand shakes, his blood
oozes from the self made wound. This action taken by
t Boar seems to be some measure of self inflicted penance.
When he's finished, te Boar goes back to staring at
himself in the mirror, then flares up, knocking the first
aid kit on the floor, scattering its contents. Interior squad room,
Police precinct, continuous main room, where uniformed officers mingle. Captain
t Boar exits the bathroom to find his officers laughing
amongst themselves. The last die out when Captain Teboar's presence
is realized. Whether he's the butt of their joke or not,
it's his perception he is fueling a growing rage within him.
Interior living room, Cat's family home. Simultaneously, only a few
moments had passed since we last saw our family. Sorry,
turns to Devora bring.
Out cookies for everyone in case they went to Nash.
Devora has the kitchen, as Bella chimes in.
Without the shop, how can we afford to live?
Now?
Is not the time to discuss money.
Don't yell at me.
Oo, worst comes to worse, we could sell the cows.
Devara carrying a tray of schnecken. Devara carrying a tray
of Schnecken offerers of cookies to everyone present, except Inga.
Bypassing her completely.
Father, I can pick up an extra day at the salon.
Avam nods.
Inga stands, Rabbi, I love your son so much that
I would end our affair if it means peace for
your family.
Sweet girl, the captain's a bully. Bend once, and you'll
bend forever.
If we don't fight back and we don't give in
what options left?
Bezras Hashem.
Inga doesn't understand. Hebrew God will provide a long moment
of silence he already has.
Go to Budapest, Avram, go see your father.
Sorry, indicates Mosha's letter still in the kitchen table.
Bail is right.
Without the store, our family has nothing but a dozen
mouse to feed and a shortage of food in the pantry.
Avrom looks to uncle Yahooda to weigh in. Osha has
the connections to get the band lifted. There's no shame
in asking for his help. Rosa enters with her husband Georgi.
Rosa, thank you for coming.
She rushes over to the couch where Doe is napping,
nudges him awake. As Doe slowly awakens, on Dove as
he wipes asleep from his eyes.
Ah, Rosa, they shouldn't have called you. Sleep is the
best doctor.
Captain Tebow did this.
Georgie, there's some nice neckin on the kitchen table. Help yourself.
Georgy seats himself, takes a bite of a schneck and
and notices Mosh's letter sitting on the table. Rosa listens
to her stethoscope. The drum over doves chest.
Bruised but not broken. I'll need to clean those cuts
before infection sets.
Bruise but not broken.
Make that more calm, brule.
To hescope.
Yeah, because Rosa listens with her Oh my god, Rosa
listens to step. Rosa listens to stethoscope the English word.
Rosa listens to her stethoscope. The drum over Doz chest.
But not broken. I'll need to clean those cuts before
infection sets.
Rosa grabs a bottle of iodine from her bag. Isaac
and Avrom approach. Watch as Rosa cleans Dove's cuts with
a swab of iodine. Dove looks up to Avrom.
Why didn't you send me away?
Because I'm weak?
So, Papa, what's your decision?
As Avrom considers his options. He looks to Sari, who nods.
Interior Rozi's hair salon morning, the chaos of a woman's
hair salon, bustling with activity as six or seven workstations.
Hair is either being washed, cut, colored, stied, or dried.
Find Devora at her station, sitting in the barber's chair,
swiveling it back and forth while the crabby salono in
her rosy forties sweeps the floor in front of her.
We join their conversation midstream.
One extra day week is.
All I ask why I'm extra half your earnings must
come back to my pocket.
Half, Roxie, Please, my family needs the money.
You only cut Jewish hair.
Jews pay less fine.
I'll take my Jewish hair to cross the street. Then
you get buck kiss Yiddish for shit.
Cross the street will be worse.
That redheaded hag will take half from all your days.
Bam, I'm sorry, de Flora.
I can't afford taking someone else off the station and
giving it to you for less than half.
My family has to eat too.
Frustrated, Duvora leans back in the chair, staring ominously at
Rosie as the woman continues sweeping. Interior study Parank's house
day Eatan's rehearsing with Pharank playing her solo his wife
Bronco twenty five entries carrying a tray of tea more
Adagio box Show of Sweets.
Number four is a wheeler Cole melody not swing time
in the Country.
I'm sorry, my rest is tender.
Farank is unmoved. Eden takes the hint and continues playing Faranks,
still displeased.
A rushing stay on tempo.
As Eden continues, Bronca looks to Farank, who shakes his
head no, as if to say she's not playing well.
Interior Car Day, Isaac's behind the wheel Avrom in the past.
Your see the road they're driving on the East seventy
one snakes through the rolling hills of the Hungarian countryside.
The car speeds past a sign that reads one hundred
and forty six kilometers to Budapest. The hum of a
fighter plane engine can be heard overhead. It's a Hungarian
avague hawk in an east Ham notices this. It's a
somber note of things to come. Exterior Motion's House Day,
known among wheelchairs as a luxury on Andrasee Street, a
huge three floor Okay, I think thank you hah, a
huge three flora villa in the heart of Budapest. Avram
and Isaac pull up to the front gate park. As
they stepped out, Isaac's impressed by the sheer size of
the residents. He's a country boy at heart.
It's bigger than I ever imagined, and I imagine big.
I cannot believe you grew up in such a place.
Avram half nods, distracted, He's experiencing a rush of memories,
both good and bad. Interior foyer Mosh's house. A few
moments later, open on a huge oil paint of Mosh's family.
They're pose motion next to Abram's mother, both of them
standing behind Abram and his five siblings. The painting was
commissioned when the children were in their teens. Isaac indicates each.
You Uncle, Saul, Uncle Gil Yehuda, ont Miriam, and on Frieda.
I was thirteen.
The painter scolded him repeatedly for his constant fidgeting.
Isaac turns to see Mosha standing atop the balcony Grandfather.
While Mosha walks down the staircase, Aram and Isaac spot
a naked girl twenty three squirreling out of an upstairs
bedroom get into the bathroom. Avrams repulsed, if not surprised.
Mosha and Isaac greet each other, hug.
Thank you for such a crib.
It's hand carved from his dumbou.
Oh an unnecessary extravagance.
Nonsense, My first great grandchild receives.
The world on a platter. What's his name, your great grandson,
Mosha tries to recall.
I was told in pass e it's Janis Yannis.
Very hungarian, Isaac, Why don't you go upstairs and rest?
You look exhausted as a new father should.
Isaac looks to his father for approval. Avram nods as
Isaac heads upstairs.
How nice the devotion of a first born.
Off Avram's look. Interior Mosha's study. A few moments later,
Mosha sits behind his desk, Avram in a tall chair
crossed from him. The naked girl seen earlier is now
fully clothed wearing a maid uniform. She refills the ice
bucket at Motion's mini bar, then leaves as Mosha walks
to the mini bar and pours himself a drink.
Must be hard finding one who can actually do housework.
Mosha ignores this as he presents an empty glass to
Aram Aram nods, yes.
Ice, no fine, I'll call the Minister of Trade and
Commerce regarding your problem with the butcher's shop. He's sympathetic
to Jewish businesses in the villages.
Thank you, don't thank me yet?
The wind is changing into Budapest.
Or did you not read my letter?
Build conscience, wrong motion.
Delivers uh whatever, Look if he hans Avrom his drink.
Parliaments considered lengthening forced labor units terms of service from
three months to two years, banning marriage and fornication between
Jews and non.
Jews for one thousand years. This country has been tough
on Jews, from the twelve hundreds in Ladislaus the fourth
to the White Terrors twenty years ago. Of course, always
rights itself.
But never enough for them to consider us true Hungarians.
The council's drafting a list of grievances for President Horthy,
and I'd like you to be a part of it.
The neologue perspective.
The city is rooted in Neologian rabbis. Why me, you're
my son, Hushika.
There was a time when these hands fed you, clothed you,
and bathed you. I was God in your eyes.
I remember I was still a child. But children grow up,
and I realized you were not God. You were just
the son of a goat farmer who sees the people
of his life in terms of their value in getting
him what he wants. You don't care about Jewish rights.
Two years for labor units instead of three months means
less cheap labor for your factories. Interracial fornication forces you
to hire your whares instead of publicly fawning over them.
Doesn't it wear you out believing you're so much better
than everyone else? Was your life so damaged?
With me as a father? Avrom won't even touch this.
Don't turn to blind eye because you hate me.
The war on Jews is coming to Hungary and it
will be the end of us.
What would you have me do with three hot blooded sons,
one of whom already draws his knife at the slightest whim.
How would they survives to war?
When you were a child, you would always hide behind
your mother. As a young man, that was God and
the Yamaka. Now you hide behind your son's.
Coward exterior Crotia Street day Closeness sign Crosier Street pull
out to find a hub of activity as residents freak
with their favorite shops and cafes. We're looking through the
store window of the Croatia Street hair salon. Inside, we
see Devora speaking with the redheaded female salon own her fifties.
By their animated hand gestures, we gather at some type
of negotiation. The salon owner extends her hand for Devora
to accept terms, but Devora defiantly shakes her head no.
The female salon owner shrugs then turns away, while Devora
exits the salon frustrated. As Devora gathers herself, she notices
something in the storefront window of a travel agency next
door to the salon that catches her eye. Whatever it is,
it seems to hold her attention for a moment, until
on her peripheral she spots a woman, Clara thirty Aryan features,
exiting the market carrying a large bag of groceries while
trying to discipline her two unruly children, a boy, Hans
and girl Haika, eight and five, respectively. Hans is disabled,
wearing a lead brace on his right leg. Devora runs
over Hans.
No here, I can carry.
That back, Devor reaches out. Clara considers, then hands it over.
Oh here, darling, thank you.
I'm Clara.
This is Hans and Hika Devora.
How far are you going?
Two streets over the Hotel Lennox. If it's not an
imposition none whatsoever, it's on my.
Way and carry her Hotel Lennox Suite day Devora. Clara
and her children enter the hotel suite. Clara turns to Hans.
Read your sister, distrivil Peter.
Hans grabs a book from the coffee table and begins
reading in the bedroom. Hans ushers his sister into the bedroom.
Clara rules her eyes.
My youngest brother and sister or five year old twins.
It's like wrangling cats.
Mine are restless. We've been moving around quite a bit.
My husband's an engineer. He was hired by the Hungarian
telephone company. So we left Munich.
I love Munich, walking along the es at night. You
speak German.
Why were you in Munich?
My brothers and I spent two summers with our uncle
Saul and his family.
Are they still there, No, somewhere in Denmark. We left
just in time.
Are you Jewish?
We had many Jewish friends and our podiatrist was Jewish.
Do you work?
I cut hair at Rosie's salon.
Oh good, I was thinking about coming in and getting
a pompadour.
A pompadour wouldn't fit your face. It wouldn't fit mine either.
We're cursed with flat cheekbones. I'd make you look like
a star Valley Rods or Greta Garbo. You really enjoy
what you'd do, I'd enjoy it more. At the salon
owner gave me another day's work.
I used to be an accountant's assistant. Now I've mastered
the art of doing nothing. I miss being important.
I've always been pretty, never important. Why not go back
to work? A German woman with high credentials is like
Queen Sheba and Hungary.
What would I do with my children?
Pay a house made to watch them.
Perhaps one who speaks German?
Me you, Oh, you're perfect, and I'd pay you generously.
Do say yes to Bora. I like your nature. You
speak your mind with no restraint.
That's probably why I'm not married.
As the two have a good laugh. Interior Mosha's study night.
Avram glances out into the hallway watching Mosha on the
telephones long enough to see Mosha ping ponging between nodding,
listening repeatedly smelling his palms. Avram then turns his attention
back into the study. His eyes locate a stretch of
carpet underfoot in the room center. This parcel of rug
has some special significance on Mosha. He hangs up and
enters to find Avram's eyes and attention fixated on the carpet.
Mosha knows the what and why of Avram's fascination. He sighs,
partly to shake Aram out of his reverie, partly out
of utter disappointment that he's still touched by this memory.
Ah, it's done. The minister sounded optimistic, But from my
lips to God's ears, it helps that we switched your
business license to a Christian name a few years ago.
He'll contact you in a few days.
Thank you.
I know it must infuriate you to be in debt to.
A man like me as much as it pleases you
to know I am.
In your debt. An then turns his attention back to
the carpet interior upstairs hallway Mosh's house night close up
on the framed photograph of a woman standing under an
oak tree. It's the same woman from the family painting downstairs.
Avram's mother find Isaac fascinated by it, no doubt since
she is the source of the rift between father and grandfather.
Isaac walks down the hall, examining other family photographs hanging
on the wall, Avrom with his brothers in motion in
front of one of Mosa's first furniture stores, Avrom with
his mother eating ice cream on the beach. Isaac continues
down the hall and enters the master bedroom interior Mosh's
Master bedroom, Mosh's House continuous. Isaac enters eyes widen It's
grandiose Italian lambs, Baroque wardrobe, etc. The top Moses dresser
rests bottles of French cologne, an expensive Jaeger Colicultural called
a top Moses's dresser rests bottles of French cologne and
an expensive Jaeger La Culture gold watch. Isaac spritches his
wrist with cologne and sniffs fancy. On Mosha's nightstand rests
the room's only photograph Avrom and Mosha after Avrom returned
home from World War One. He's in uniform adorned with medals,
Mosha's arms proudly draped around him. Isaac realizes, despite their animosity,
Mosha still cares for Avrom. Deeply. All of a sudden,
screeching tires skids to a halt. Outside, Isaac moves to
the window sees police vehicles parking in front of the house,
an officer streaming through the gate.
No.
Isaac's face is full of fear, absolutely terrified as the
police are about to enter his grandfather's house. And we
end episode two.
Do you want to get the uh.
What Rob was talking about about? Like watching the flights?
Like?
Yeah, but everybody else week, okay.
Are you having what are you guys with the pronunciation
of that actresses name Bolli ros or whatever. I don't
I forget who had the department?
You're good, I went over a lot of.
Ship So just go out past the bath the back
and should be said about there and let's plan.
To take a half hour launch.
Please let's try to get.
Back in your twenty if that's okay, all right, Thank
you so much.
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