Abandoned, The - English Transcript

My mother never told me about her parents. She regretted having to hide such a pretty Russian name like Milla between the ones her foster family gave her. But she told me the past was another country now, best forgotten. It was in her nature to grow away from the motherland, just as it was in my nature to grow away from her. Sometimes I wish I could go back myself, to warn her that it wouldn't be so easy, so simple... that just because you're through with your past doesn't always mean your past is ever really through with you. Yeah, what time is it over there? No. That's fine. No. No, not yet. Yeah, is Emily there? Put her on, please. Hey, sweetheart. Yeah, Russia's... Russia's beautiful... kind of. I'm... Well, I don't now just yet. A couple of days. What do you mean? What, with Alex? I thought... No, I thought you weren't seeing him anymore. No, I don't have an... I don't have an issue with him. It's just... Can you let me finish? Okay? I don't have an issue with him. It's just that I don't want him staying over. No, I don't care what you guys do in your own time, just not in my house. Hey, mind your language! Yeah, because he's five *** years older than you! Well, of course it's my business. I'm your mother. Yeah, l... Can you just let me finish? Emily? ***. Mr. Misharin? - I'm, uh, Marie... - Marie Jones from America. It's nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, finally. Make yourself at home. Tea? No, thanks. - You produce movies, don't you? - Yeah. Big movies? Well, probably big here. You should see my daughter. She's very pretty, you know? Good for the movies. I'm sure she's great. You don't sound very American. I was born in Russia, raised in England, and divorced in the States. But your roots are here, aren't they? At least what's left of them. Your mother's death certificate. Can you read Russian? No. Her name was Olga. Olga Kaidanovsky. Apparently, she was murdered just after you were born. I tried to dig up everything I could, as you requested. You never knew about her? No. And my father? Any brothers or sisters? Sorry, no. No records of anyone else. Just the property you mentioned on the phone, right? Yeah, the Kaidanovsky place. Now it belongs to you. Look, I appreciate your efforts on my behalf, but it's been 40 years. Forty-two. Forty-one, if you insist on accuracy. It's still another two days till my birthday. Yeah, so... this is a present for you now. Well... Sign here, please. Look, I didn't come all the way out here for the real estate, Mr. Misharin. I've spent half my life knee-deep in bureaucracy trying to find my parents. I've looked around, trust me, but no one ever told me a damn thing. It was like they never existed. Our country has been through a lot, Ms. Jones. Governments change. Things gets lost. Sometimes people get lost. So how did you find me? I got your phone from the Moscow office. Took me six months. You know, adoption was a tricky business in the '60s. Please. I'm sorry. I just... I don't... I don't understand you. You'll find this town is not much good for postcards. I didn't hear you pull up. You must be Anatoliy. You said 8:00 on the phone. Right. I can pay you now if you want. It's impossible to go at night. They think we'll die out there. But I'd rather be dead than live like them. Is everyone is this country so friendly? What? Do you know anything about my mother's place? Kaidanovsky Farm. They call it "The Island". The only way to get there is by a bridge. A river surrounds it... in a circle. Great. I can't even swim. Hello? Anybody here? We're almost there. We already crossed the bridge. I was dreaming. No one has been here for more than 40 years. What do you expect to find in those ruins? I don't know. Some clue perhaps, something to make sense of my life. You really think so? What are you doing? You asked me to take you to the Kaidanovsky Farm. Well, here we are. The house is just behind those trees. I'll go ahead to make sure it's safe. Hey, wait a minute. The river is in flood. You don't want to be wandering around out there, not if you can't swim. Anatoliy? Anatoliy? Oh, no. ***. Oh, no. Jesus, not now. Come on. ***! Come on. ***! No... Anatoliy? Oh, for God's sake. Anatoliy? Hey, where the hell are you? Kaidanovsky. Anyone here? Hello? Who's there? Hey. I'm not going to hurt you. Oh, ***! Oh, ***. Anatoliy. Wait! Come back! ***. Hey. Please, calm down. Just stay the *** away. Who the hell are you? My name is Nicolai. What are you doing? I got you out of there. You almost drowned. Listen. Who are you? I think we are here for the same reason. So what else did you find in my bag? She's my mother. You were adopted, weren't you? I've been trying to find my birth parents for years, but it was like my records were erased or something. Then a week ago, I get a call from the notary Misharin. He gave me that. At first I thought it was a joke. But it wasn't, was it? Look, if this is about the property, you can keep it; I don't want it. - I thought we've been through that. - Right. Do we look like brother and sister to you? Twins, actually. We were born the same day according to your driver's license. Don't you want to know what happened to her? I've been here for a couple of days now. You were lucky I found you. Another few minutes and that would have been a different story. I saw something here when I first arrived. What? Hey. Come on. Are you okay? Yeah. Our mother was stabbed here. Look. Old blood. Did Misharin tell you anything else? About what? Our father, maybe. Look, I know about as much as you do, okay? There's men's clothes in the other closet. See? Our father's clothes. - Let go. Jesus... - Sorry. He didn't say anything about any father, okay? In fact, he didn't mention anything about any brothers either, so why should I trust you? Have you seen the cribs? No. Look. See the name? It's the same as the one on your medallion. Mine is on the other one. Milla. What were you running from when you fell in the river? I saw my... I don't know. No. It's okay. I'm fine. Maybe I really am going crazy, you know? I'm finally crazy after all these years. And twin brothers? *** Russia. Who's Emily? You were calling her name in your sleep. What's it to you? Where are you going? There's a generator in the basement. We've still got a few hours before dark. I want to get it running. Hey... We've got to get out of here. We've got to find that truck I came in. There are no vehicles here. This is an island. So what about the bridge? The bridge is down. If I hadn't pulled you out of the river, we wouldn't be talking. How long was I out for? Long enough to change your clothes and dry your hair. Nice tattoo, by the way. Nothing creepy. I had to get you out of those wet things before... I mean, we are brother and sister, right? - Come on. - Hey. You never said how you got here. I walked. Took me a few days. My unit trained in this area. See that door? I heard something moving back there on the first night. Where does that lead to? I don't know. Come on, Nicolai. I don't like it down here. Give me a minute. What the hell is that? Sounds like a truck. - Jesus, it's him. - Who? Hey. Hey, wait! Wait! Marie! It's Anatoliy. Hey, I don't like this. Wait a second! Yeah, let my go, Nicolai. I've had it with this ***. The bridge is down, Marie. Whoever that guy is, he's part of it. What do you mean? You have a gun, don't you? Wait! Hey. Anatoliy! Damn. - Hey. - Hey. Are you crazy? Where the hell is it? You... You saw it too, right? Is this what you were looking for? This hasn't moved anywhere for years. This is the same truck I came here in. - It worked. - Don't be silly. It can't be the same one. What was that? Hey, these aren't animal bones. Looks like a bullet wound. A shotgun maybe. Kaidanovsky. I think we've just found another member of the family. What are you doing? Move away. Get behind me. What the *** are they? Just shoot them! Nicolai, shoot them! What are you doing? For God's sake, Nicolai, shoot them! Oh, God! - Come on, Nicolai! - The gun. - Get the gun! - Okay. Come on. Come on! ***. Here. - ***. - Where's our stuff? The barricades. Someone's been here. Someone must have been here. Look, you're bleeding real bad. - You're bleeding real bad. - I'm fine! Jesus. What were those things back there? Who? Our friends? I guess whatever... whatever happened to them happens to us. Oh, ***. It makes it hard to kill them, doesn't it? What are you talking about? I saw your double a couple of days ago. When I saw the real you, I didn't know what to believe. Oh, my God. Oh, ***. Mine was soaked, soaked through like I fell in the river. ***! So you will drown, then. They're our deaths, Marie, our futures. Oh, God. We are haunting ourselves. Hey, what are you doing? - If I die, I'm doing it my way. - Stop! Don't! - Don't leave me here! - Let me go! They caught you. ***! No. No *** way. Come on. Don't do this to me! God! Oh, ***. Okay. This is not happening to me, right? This is not happening to me. What are you looking at, you *** ***? Nicolai! Is that you? Are you there? Nicolai, come on! Are you there? Son of a ***. Okay. Come on. The bridge. Okay. Nicolai? Hey. Is that you? Oh, ***! ***. Please. ***! Oh, *** this. ***. Oh, ***! No. I knew you would turn up. Don't let the decorations bother you. I found it like this. You're dead, Nicolai. You fell into a black hole. I fell in the tunnel, in the basement. But it was black enough. You tried to cross the river, didn't you? Don't tell me. You didn't get far, right? Just who are you? You should be asking you the same thing. - I know who I am. - Oh, no. You have no idea who you really are. What happened to you? The house wants us back. What the hell happened here? What did they do in this place? You saw it, didn't you? I saw someone upstairs, a man, in our parents' room. I saw what he did to her, Nicolai. Like watching a *** home movie. We were never meant to leave this place. See the cake, the decorations? It's our homecoming. We don't belong here anymore. Jesus, that thing tried to kill me. I don't think they can. Not until midnight. Why midnight? What happens then? It's our birthday. They say when you see yourself, your doppelganger... that it's time to die. What happened to you down there? I saw the past. Mama. Marie? Marie. Don't go any farther. What is this place? - Do you really want to know? - Yes, I really want to know. We were supposed to die in this house in '66. Now our father is going to get his wish. Our father? Yeah, Kolya Kaidanovsky, the man you saw upstairs. At midnight everything will be recreated as it was on the night of the murders. Only this time, we'll die as we were always meant to. We'll become our destinies, our doppelgangers. We don't have much time. What is that? Let's get out of here. So, how do you want to spend your last few minutes? Ever been to Disneyland? You have a daughter, don't you? Yeah. Emily. I guess I'm here because of her. What do you mean? Well... I watch her grow up every day and... I know that eventually she'll walk away, live a life of her own. I'm frightened. Of what? Being alone. Dying. I thought it would make me feel better, but it doesn't. Having a child, I mean. How about you? There must be someone out there. Natalya. I did a matching design for her many years ago. And now, I'm afraid to touch another woman. She said that she... She said, "You have come back from hell." "I'll save you." But she couldn't. She left me. I guess this is it. It's not over. It stopped. What are you doing? Mother of God. It's her. It's our mother. It's all going to happen again. - Just like before. - Marie? - What? - You're back in '66. The truck. The truck in the pig sty. It might work. Hey. Come on! That's him. That's our father. Nicolai, we've got to do something. There's nothing we can do. What do you mean? We're just going to stand by... Nicolai, we can't stand by and let him go upstairs - and *** kill her. - It's too late. Hey, come on. We can get the truck now. - No! - Come on! Oh, ***. Leave us alone, you son of a ***! It's all been done. You can't stop it. Yeah, but maybe we can change it! It was all over - Stop hurting her! - It's not real! - Yeah, the *** that isn't real! - Stop. We've got to get the truck. We've got to get the truck. You must go if you want to live. Go! Go! Go! Run! Run! Natalya. ***! Papa. I'm so sorry this happened. I gave your mother everything I could... a life... a home. When she tried to take my children away from me, to take you away... to break the circle... It wasn't easy bringing us back together, but it was worth it, you know, just to see you again. You belong with me and the family... at home. No! Why, God? Mr. Misharin? Please. I thought your birthday would be a suitable time. You know... I was your age when she killed me. Come on! We're still missing one member of the family. Emily, your daughter. Nicolai. Don't be afraid. Your brother is with us now. I love all of you. I always will. Yes! Come on! Yes! Please let me go! Where are you going, Milla? I need you. I need all of you. Don't you think your mother tried to leave before? There's no way out of this. Come back. Shut up! Shut the *** up! No matter where you go... ...will be with me together forever... - Shut the *** up! - I've been waiting for you for so long. Shut up! Whatever happens to them happens to us. Welcome to the family. My mother never told me about her parents. When she left for Russia, I knew in my heart I would never see her again. It's been a long time since she left, but I will never go after her, never try to find out what became of her or her parents. It's better that way. Better not to know, better still to forget, best of all, to be abandoned. Subtitled By J.R. Media Services, Inc. Burbank, CA