{948}{1039}Where are you?|Can you come and get me? {1210}{1247}Zahra dear... {1341}{1444}Salt! Bread! {1656}{1736}Zahra dear! Massoumeh dear!|We have to go. {1756}{1795}Where's my husband? {1803}{1886}Salt! {1892}{1996}Bread! Salt! {2306}{2415}To the director|of the Welfare Department. {2421}{2531}We hereby inform you|that in Valiasr, Tehran, {2537}{2645}on the road to Saveh,|at No. 10 Sajadi Avenue, {2651}{2759}lives - or rather survives -|a family made up of a man, {2765}{2875}a blind woman|and two 12-year-old girls. {2881}{2991}The two girls|have never been out of the house. {2997}{3108}Even their door is locked. {3114}{3227}They cannot speak. {3233}{3347}They haven't had a bath for years. {3353}{3467}All the neighbors|are complaining about the situation, {3473}{3583}but no one dares intervene. {3589}{3668}So, we, the undersigned, {3674}{3811}request you to take urgent action. {4985}{5087}A film by Samira Makhmalbaf {5121}{5219}Screenplay and editing:|Mohsen Makhmalbaf {5237}{5333}THE APPLE {5352}{5408}You've enough to live on. {5414}{5480}But you lock up your children and leave! {5486}{5528}lsn't that right? {5537}{5638}if you want to see your children,|I'll take you. {5698}{5774}Your poor girls are innocent! {5798}{5832}Madam, {5849}{5967}do what you can|to let their mother see them. {5973}{6055}All right.|First, let me see their mother. {6086}{6186}- She says they'll hurt her children.|- I'll do what l can. {6192}{6272}We don't hurt children.|Open the door. {6278}{6377}The neighbors filed a complaint|with the Welfare Department, {6384}{6475}so we took action. {6542}{6646}You wouldn't let the neighbors|take the girls to the public baths. {6658}{6743}They haven't been washed in ages. {6905}{7000}Zahra, Massoumeh, come here. {7010}{7076}Can we go in? You go first. {7110}{7218}These children have no contact|with the outside world. {7757}{7775}What? {7843}{7911}- What's that?|- A glass. {7917}{7964}What's in it? {8105}{8147}What's your name? {8156}{8193}What? {8250}{8330}Massoumeh? How old are you? {8467}{8517}Massoumeh, how old are you? {8584}{8631}Mom... mo... {8704}{8758}You want to see your mom? {8764}{8851}What about you, Massoumeh?|Do you want to see mom? {8993}{9050}- For God's sake...|- That's why we did it! {9056}{9118}They must have a future,|a role in society. {9124}{9176}They should get married. {9182}{9238}I'll look after them at home. {9381}{9441}The fact is, they're prisoners. {9452}{9555}For years now,|they've been living like prisoners. {9561}{9657}Even prisoners are allowed fresh air.|But they're not! {9663}{9750}Their father locks them up all day. {9758}{9805}Do you want to go to school? {9846}{10010}A lot of children|with blind parents go to school. {10019}{10137}Even orphans go to school.|How do they manage? {10143}{10203}It's Fate, it's destiny. {10209}{10325}You're tired.|I'll bring you some water. {10331}{10420}They say:|''if the morning sun doesn't warm you, {10426}{10488}the evening sun won't.'' {10499}{10568}Well done. Do the same shape. {10776}{10846}Look how l do it. {10862}{10905}Of course, {10912}{10975}if they'd studied like other children, {10981}{11083}both l and society would benefit.|But that's the way it is. {11089}{11172}You didn't let them study. {11189}{11299}It's my fault,|l'm not saying it isn't. {11343}{11402}Shall we go home? {11413}{11502}Let's go see the children first. {11591}{11629}Do you want to? {11643}{11731}Do you want to see them?|Do you? {11795}{11851}These girls are twins. {11857}{11917}Should they be apart from their family? {11923}{12037}We visited them on two occasions|and concluded {12043}{12134}that in this case,|we had to remove them. {12141}{12257}Do you want to take the children home|or stay with them? {12269}{12306}Don't worry. {12328}{12410}We'll take good care of the children. {12417}{12466}Zahra, who's this? {12538}{12601}Massoumeh, come here. {12608}{12666}Go kiss her. {12672}{12751}It's Zahra. Are you Zahra? {12770}{12824}Good girl, Zahra. {12904}{12957}Why don't you come home? {13069}{13109}Where's your headscarf? {13115}{13185}We took it off to wash her hair {13191}{13233}and clean her up. {13239}{13301}We changed their clothes. {13424}{13458}Zahra, come over here too. {13464}{13507}Bring a scarf to cover her head. {13544}{13584}Little bitches. {13699}{13777}l'm not insulting anybody. {13843}{13882}Bring a scarf, {13905}{13974}so we can go home. {14050}{14107}Give me my children! {14150}{14206}l promise I'll wash them. {14251}{14285}Do you promise? {14291}{14325}Then I'll let you take them. {14331}{14372}Why did you take off their scarves? {14378}{14484}To wash and cut their hair. {14495}{14539}Come on. Let's go. {14628}{14703}Don't cry. {14729}{14825}Come on, husband, let's go. {14941}{14983}We clothed them. {15012}{15048}Let's go home! {15056}{15111}They're her children... {15315}{15365}Zahra dear... Let's go home. {15646}{15717}She's Massoumeh. That's Zahra. {15741}{15782}Let's go home. {15805}{15875}They said|not to lock the door anymore, {15881}{15953}that they must be allowed out. {15960}{16032}You can take the children home, {16038}{16108}but you mustn't lock the door anymore. {16114}{16225}We'll fix the refrigerator|so we can drink cold water. {16231}{16279}We'll be just fine. {16285}{16371}I'll take the children|to the public baths. {16377}{16440}I'll pay to have them washed. {16446}{16518}if we do all that,|we can keep them. {16524}{16634}We have to keep them clean,|or they'll be taken off us again. {22564}{22592}Flowers. {22722}{22754}Flowers! {25194}{25293}Help me, husband, l'm scared. {26431}{26495}You see, my girl, {26501}{26584}l put the saucepan on the stove. {26597}{26641}Forgive me... {26744}{26790}if l'm teaching you this... {26801}{26863}There are four of us. {26880}{26911}For me, {26932}{27053}you take a full glass of rice.|You pour it in. {27059}{27091}Do you understand? {27110}{27189}For your mother,|you don't quite fill it. {27207}{27293}For you, you half-fill it {27301}{27379}and for Massoumeh, the same. {27400}{27434}Look carefully! {27533}{27584}Here's a full glass. {27590}{27629}That's for me. {27642}{27677}You pour it in. {27724}{27753}That's for me. {27806}{27840}Watch now! {27851}{27901}When you get married, {27907}{27968}you'll have to know how to cook. {27974}{28040}Then, people won't say: {28046}{28135}''Because of her blind mother,|she never learnt anything.'' {28141}{28180}So, you watch me! {28271}{28377}God made woman|for her to marry. {28528}{28555}What's that? {28641}{28708}God made woman|for her to marry. {28756}{28794}She mustn't remain alone. {28993}{29065}l don't want people to say: {29072}{29159}''Her mother was blind,|so she never learnt anything.'' {29176}{29226}lsn't that right, Zahra? {30341}{30416}- l didn't want to come see you.|- Why? {30422}{30503}Because you slandered me. {30509}{30557}That's very serious. {30563}{30627}l won't forgive you.|And nor will God. {30633}{30709}What you said were lies... {30999}{31067}...that l didn't let my daughters out, {31073}{31117}that l chained them up! {31123}{31225}That is slander.|The person who said that was wrong. {31231}{31296}But everyone knows|that for eleven years, {31302}{31396}you imprisoned your children|and didn't feed them properly. {31402}{31503}Everyone says|you didn't look after your children. {31510}{31539}l've been slandered. {31545}{31653}ln the whole country, on TV,|in the press, it's all they talk about. {31660}{31779}lsn't it good that the Welfare|Department looks after your daughters? {31785}{31834}It's good for all of you. {31840}{31911}l wasn't the only one to take action. {31924}{31978}Everyone's pointing me out. {31984}{32086}But you did lock them up|for eleven years, didn't you? {32092}{32183}l kept them at home,|l'm not saying l didn't. {32189}{32301}l didn't send them to school.|But l didn't chain them up. {32307}{32344}It's slander. {32351}{32392}Why am l being dishonored? {32398}{32497}Being chained up|and being locked up at home {32503}{32547}is the same thing! {32585}{32672}People say: ''He was on TV|and in the papers. {32678}{32714}He chained his kids up!'' {32720}{32815}But they were locked up.|The rest is unimportant. {32823}{32890}No, it is important! {32896}{32934}You dishonored me. {32941}{33026}l didn't chain my kids up.|lt's all lies. {33032}{33156}There's no difference|between chained up {33162}{33266}and not seeing the sun for eleven years! {33285}{33347}I'll pay you|to pray for my children. {33353}{33447}No, even if you gave me a million,|l wouldn't take it. {33453}{33517}l don't want your money. {33523}{33633}l won't take it|because of all these lies. {33646}{33683}Pray for my children. {33690}{33747}l mean to say... {33811}{33897}the newspapers wrote|that l chained up my children... {33903}{33970}- Don't cry.|- Why would l have done that? {33976}{34103}Their mother's blind. She locked|the door, so they wouldn't get out. {34109}{34203}But why did you slander me? {34209}{34268}l won't forgive you, {34275}{34416}and nor will God.|l'm humiliated. l'm so angry. {34422}{34470}ln this heat,|everyone's drinking water, {34477}{34541}has a fan, or air conditioning. {34547}{34630}But l don't. l have|enough worries. Don't add to them. {34636}{34753}Neither God nor the Prophet|will forgive you. {34760}{34830}I'll leave you the money. Goodbye. {35107}{35177}Massoumeh, my dear,|Zahra, my dear... {35217}{35272}One of you can wash the clothes, {35278}{35330}the other can take the broom {35336}{35395}and sweep the yard. {35401}{35496}Otherwise the social worker|will say you haven't learnt anything, {35502}{35568}that you haven't washed,|that you're dirty. {35574}{3...
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