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Hello?
Hello -Oh, I've been expecting someone else.
Karla.... Yes I'm calling from her account.
And you are... Renate.. Feld? Aren't you?
Yes, that's correct. And you are...? -My name is David Weise.
How do you know Karla? -We work together, but...
At the moment...?! -No, Karla's not at the office today.
Is she alright? -Who are you again? Can you introduce yours....
Are you guys related? -Married.
Married?! With the same Karla... from Heidelberg? We're really talking about the same person?
Yes... I'm calling from her account.
Listen. Karla disappeared almost four weeks ago. No one here knows anything... and I believe
that you can help me.
How should I do that? The Karla I know is definitely not married. I would know about that...
I've been sitting here for almost four weeks and I don't have a clue where my wife is...
I'm here with our 4-year-old son and I don't know what to do!
Sorry, wait a moment please....
You said... you said you have a child? -Yes.
She never told you?
No.............. No.
Oh my god. What's the name of the organisation you work for??
G.I.D.A.S.A. German International Development Aid South Africa.
South Africa?! You are sitting in South Africa?
She contacted us months ago. She was very interested in our projects. I've said that.
Usually we only take younger people because they are more idealistic. But Karla fought herself through.
Do you guys even live together?
Are you really sure that this is not just a big misunderstanding?
How is she?
Good.
Are you still on? -Yes, yes... I'm still here.
If you see her... Can you tell her that Max is alright and that we miss her...
...and that she will contact us.
Hi Simon. -Hi...damn. I really thought it was her. What a ***.
...it was clear that it couldn't been her. -Yeah.
I did some research about G.I.D.A.S.A., that's their name, isn't it?
Their main office is in... Po - la - kwa - ne... or something similar... also known as Pietersburg
Nevermind.... they have a pretty funny homepage - the city... The city is sending out greetings:
'Polokwane is truly alive'
Brilliant....
You know what? It's one of the cities that host the next football worldcup..... We should go there
looking for Karla in the football stadium... -Yeah, and then we'll watch a match altogether.
Karla would be thrilled... She would probably run away.
Could you reach that woman again? -That Renate? No I tried to reach her, but she probably
has blocked me.
I tried to reach her on the phone... but there was only a little boy on the other side... I don't know...
I've been talking to my Mom on the phone. -Good.
She's really worried about you and Max.
Simon, Max is really okay.
And what about you?
The most important thing is that Max is alright. He still believes that Karla is on holidays...
He painted a postcard, because.. because he didn't know that you only write postcards when
you're on holiday yourself.
It's always the same when you have an older sister. Mom, she once told me this story about Karla...
...when she was 7.
She had watched that film... Sword in the Stone.. and she suddenly wanted to be a rabbit. Because the
boy in the movie, he's always turned into another animal. And then she sat down in her room...
Closed the door, she didn't move a bit... somewhere in the corner on her small bed. And then she made...
...she stressed all of her muscles...
...and all she wanted was to be a rabbit...
There you are again... -Was I offline?
No, just the transmission... Heh, you looked good.
I mean, she went to Heidelberg, which is not that far... together with a friend. And they had big plans for the...
future. And she'd alwas come home and tell everyone about it and after the 10th time no one would believe
that that was the real deal. And she borrowed money everywhere and had plenty of jobs and my parents, they
were really worried. And then, all of a sudden, she went to India.
Sometimes she would say hello on Skype... She cut her hair off... suddenly she was wearing glasses for
a few weeks... I don't know what that was all about.. -Yeah, the glasses were pretty ugly...
Steve Erkel!
Suddenly all of her plans became true. like in a fairy tale.... And what what what is she doing right now?
I'm trying to guess in what kind of film she is right now...
Now that you are... I mean... and Max... I don't know... -It's...
I mean, you brought her back once. you need to do it again!
Do you know Karla? -Obviously.
And who are you? -I'm David. The husband... of Karla.
I'm Lisa... -Hi Lisa.
I know Karla, yeah, yeah... We were both at the drawing class. That must have been quite a while ago.
Must have been... almost 2 years.
Well, Karla was there, too. And Karla... Karla really had talent. You could see that.
She used to say that if I were a guy I would have been her muse.
Why the hell are you in her Skype account? -Because she's in South Africa. Karla... she ran away..
Our son is sleeping in his bed. And somehow it feels... kinda... I don't know... Why don't you ask anything?
I mean... isn't it... well, isnt't it... It's...
That's sick.... that's so sick... I don't really understand, I can't comprehend it.
Do you know Max... Do you know our son?
No... but to be honest, I never could imagine Karla with a family.
I mean, there was never the time to really talk about these things. She was always busy and she went to work
and did her projects. It was really extreme, she also travelled through the world. I was so impressed.. that she
could stay at one place.
Maybe there's another guy.
I don't believe that.
There was a moment where I thought...but I don't believe it. I can't imagine that.
It's strange. Everywhere people are disappearing.
It's not like we were living in an atomic war and there was no power supply.
You would think that it's not that difficult to find them.
Like that little girl that disappeared. You heard about her?
What was her name?.... Maria, that's her name.
The poor parents. I mean.. who does a thing like that? It's only one decision.
It's one tiny moment that decides whether one human being disappears or not.
I can't get that image out of my head. I've seen her picture and it is stuck in my head.
I started drawing her but I can't get it out of my head.
And those people, they don't come back...
I don't know that girl personally, but ... I know Karla,... yes, but....
Karla, on the other hand... chose to leave.
How are you?
Hello David.
Hello David?
Is that all?
'Hello David... How are you?... Long time no see...'
Okay, listen. I'm not in the mood to worm everything out of you.
(with foreign accent) -Mr. David told me that Mrs. Karlaaa walk away... run away...
Mmmhh, he's asking 'what happened to Mrs. Karlaaa'
She maybe upset?
Yes. Yes. Mrs. Karlaaa is upset.
But,... but why Mrs. Karlaaa upset?
Mrs. Karlaaa is upset, because... because...
Usually she would wake up in the night and think
hm, there is so much more to achieve.
Got ya.
But she had a problem. She had a very.. a very nice family that she loved... but a husband that
wouldn't understand her. -And is Mrs. Karlaaa still upset?
Must know that Mr. David and Mr. Max are very very very upset, too, because they were afraid
when Mrs. Karlaaa disappear. Found nothing. They look everywhere. In the garden they look. In the cellar they
look. Even in the freezer they look. In the cellar, maybe she was deep frozen there. But nothing. Disappear.
Everything gone. Disappeared. Mrs. Karlaaa.
Mrs. Karlaaa has left a note.
A note?
But but... Mrs. Karlaaa must know, like every child,
Mr. David does not know how to read.
Nothing. Njet!
You always have to tell Mr. David... with words.
Schnack, Schnack, Schnack. Always talk to him him alot.
So he will understand... Otherwise he won't understand.
Mrs. Karlaaa made a lot of Schnack Schnack Schnack with with Mr. David. But he did not get it.
Karla.
I thought I told you enough... You had to realize it.
Did you not feel it?
That I could not go on like that?
Did you not feel it?
The last four months. Nothing?
No, no, no.
I didn't realize it.
The evening at Michelle's? Even not then?
The atmosphere. One single mood on one single evening.
Why didn't you say anything? -Why did YOU not say anything?
Why do I NEED to say it?
There are so many things I can do here. You know, we're prepping a new project. The winter course for the
children. The children, they need me. Really. This is a task... I haven't felt that good for such a long time.
That I have something to do. That someone needs me.
It's not like blah blah blah here. Here the people have ***, they have tuberculosis. The children are sent to
school by their grandparents. Because a whole generation is miss... Just imagine that...
Okay, okay, okay, okay.... There are so many children on earth. But what... what about your family? We are here.
What about us? What about your parents, what about Simon?
C'mon, stop this. You never cared about my family. Now take that stupid hat off.
Damn!
Before this my family did not exist to you. -You don't care about anything, do you?
*** you.
No, this is the Karla that is happy with her life.
I'm needed here. Here here here is my task.
Karla is needed here too! She is needed here, too!!
You can talk! You just run away and you're sitting there in the sunlight and you're helping little children with
with balloon bellies.
Yeah, sure. I'm sitting here in my bikini... -It's almost like holidays, huh?
Of course, I'm sitting here in my bikini under a palm tree and I'm holding a giant cocktail in my hand.
***, David! I just had three days of diarrhea... and the sun is definitely not shining.
They need people like you. Here.
People who work on the school building project. You could work here.
It's possible.
You didn't ask me about Max a single time.
What do you mean? I know that Max is okay when he's with you.
Did you really not see it?
Is that all enough to you?
No, it doesn't really matter anymore! -Don't you want more than this life?
You're taking the easy way out!
You ran away! Nobody knew anything here. You just quit your job!
Yeah.
'Don't look for me now', what kind of *** is that?
Even the police... it was so obvious to everyone that you didn't want to deal with us anymore.
And then you don't own the integrity to.. and I'm talking about intergrity, not love nor responsability,
...to give me a single call.
Instead you contact me through this *** webcam.
I wanted to see you.
It's all wrong-headed. You act as if... Basically, you're trying to issue me an ultimatum.
As if there was no alternative.
What's the alternative, then, David?
The alternative would be that you came home and you would realize what you had done wrong in the last
four weeks. And that you would regret that.
What have I done David? What am I supposed to regret?
We could drink a coffee and go for a walk and talk about everything.
And then?
You could visit Nandini in India. And you...
We could spend so much time together. And we could just go to the south and sooth our souls.
And then?
And when we're back, we'd be clear about the fact that you only... only can help other people all over the
world when... only when you're at peace with yourself.
***, we could just work our *** off until we're stinking with money so we can help plenty
of organisations with all the money. And still have a wonderful life. And then we just spend it all!
That could be an alternative ending, couldn't it?