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The past can't be forgotten.
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The past is the story
of how we move forward.
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Without looking back
on the story of my past,
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I wouldn't have come this far.
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I met Franz Baar in 2003,
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when he had just escaped
Colonia Dignidad.
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I was investigating
the whereabouts of Paul Schaefer,
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leader of that German cult
that arrived in Chile in the '60s
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looking for a promised land.
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Established in the south of my country,
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the place became
a center for torture, slavery,
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and child sexual abuse.
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An accomplice of dictator Augusto Pinochet,
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Paul Schaefer enjoyed his protection
for four decades,
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until his impunity was threatened.
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In 1996 he escaped justice,
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and vanished.
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Nine years later
I led a journalistic investigation
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and found his hideout in Argentina.
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Schaefer was arrested by Interpol.
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Franz Baar had been one of his victims
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and was one of my main sources.
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Many of us thought that Schaefer’s capture
would be the end of a painful story.
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We didn't realize the depth
of the damage he had caused.
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This soil,
when it gets a little drier than now,
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then I’m going to put some powder
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to get fertile soil.
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I'm going to take this soil
somewhere else
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where I’m going to be…
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on my own...
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Ok?
With the other stars.
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That's the issue.
Nothing else.
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I'm waiting until
the truck I need arrives.
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And I'll be gone.
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I’ll leave right away.
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Full of sacks and soil,
ducks, geese, hens, chickens,
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everything… bunnies.
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See?
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I’ll take them all.
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Living on their own has been
a dream of Franz and his wife Ingrid,
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since they met
inside Colonia Dignidad,
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where they lived imprisoned
for more than 30 years.
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Franz arrived at this cult when
he was only nine years old
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and was irregularly adopted
by a German couple.
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Ingrid had traveled from Germany
at the age of four,
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when her parents decided
to follow Paul Schaefer,
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who had promised them
a paradise on earth.
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But before long he revealed himself
to be a sadistic and heartless leader.
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When they arrived in Chile
the children were separated from their parents,
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and Schaefer sexually abused them.
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The adults were drugged
and forced to work as slaves.
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They could not escape.
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Despite suspicions,
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neither the Chilean nor the German authorities
did anything to stop him.
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Safe in his impunity,
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Schaefer began
to abuse Chilean children as well.
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Until the lawyer Hernan Fernandez,
defending the victims,
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stood in his way,
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and together,
we succeeded in his capture.
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But there is still no justice.
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For ten years Franz and Ingrid searched
for a place to live outside of the Colony,
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but were unable to adapt to social norms
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and were expelled
from one place after another
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where they tried to work or settle down.
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Frustrated and destitute,
their last alternative
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was to return to one of the old houses
belonging to “the colonos”,
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as the former cult members
are known.
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If somebody doesn't want onions
they can set it aside.
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Yes, my hand is already raised.
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You get some food in your stomach…
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Franz and Ingrid came out...
with illusions.
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Thinking that a State was waiting for them
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to thank them
for not giving up.
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And yet, they were met
with indifference, indolence, negligence.
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And they had to return
to that same Colony,
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15 years after getting out,
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where the oppressors are,
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who oppressed them again.
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I have to use this cane...
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- …to support my body.
- Huh?
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To support my body.
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Up there, they disconnected
the electricity to my house.
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You asked him: “Who cut the power?”
“I did.” He said.
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"Why?"
"So you would leave."
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Franz was once again faced
with the evil of the Colony.
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They cut his electricity,
they clogged his drainpipes.
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They surrounded him
with dozens of bee boxes,
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to harass him, and…
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to destroy what he had built there.
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- Land for sale,
- Land...
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Municipality of Lago Verde,
XI Region.
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That's how I always search.
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It was something real...
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...that I went through…
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when I was still at the Colony.
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And when we got out…
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we knew where we had to go:
to the 11th Region.
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Yeah, even when
Franz and I weren't married yet,
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I had the dream
of going somewhere to start over,
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and not to continue there,
where there was no way out.
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For the defense,
lawyer Hernan Fernandez Rojas appears
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with identification information
incorporated in the case.
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Thank you very much.
And also appears the defendant.
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Your full name?
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Franz Baar Kohler.
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Alright, your address?
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I don't have one.
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He went inside the house,
and splashed fuel...
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from a tank he had there,
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he took a paper towel, blotting paper,
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he wiped his hands, lit it on fire,
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and threw it toward
the tank with the fuel.
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The photos.
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How amazing that these survived.
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It's when they had just
gotten out of the Colony.
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There I am with them,
crossing for the first time to Chiloe.
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Mr. Franz Baar Kohler,
waiving his right to remain silent,
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testifies that some representatives
of Colonia Dignidad offered for
him to live,
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in one of the five houses
they own in the area of Libuy.
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The same Germans
who are defendants in other cases,
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and are members of
the abusive elite of Colonia Dignidad,
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they took him there,
to offer him a job.
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But they gave him heavy work
he couldn't withstand.
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And also, this job was subject to
the conditions of Colonia Dignidad:
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no payment.
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They said to Ingrid,
who's sitting here,
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"You're going to make cheese for us."
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Your honor, Ingrid made cheeses
for 17 years of her life.
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From 4 in the morning
until 11 at night,
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without proper rest.
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Therefore, your honor,
this is the situation.
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If you ask whether he’ll avoid justice,
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no, he won’t…
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- Yes.
- I'm a neighbor of this property.
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And the landowner called me,
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and told me to immediately leave this land,
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because it's private,
and no one can enter.
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These things, sir, are private
and owned by Ingrid and Franz.
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The few things that are left,
belong to...
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Mr. Hernan,
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the landowner says:
”Please, leave the property,
immediately…”
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You’ll take photos of me,
like in the old days, go ahead.
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No, I'm not taking pictures.
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There are private belongings…
of Ingrid and Franz
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[Speaking German]
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I ask you to obey, please,
what the landowner says.
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- And who are you, a police officer?
- No.
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How will you make me obey?
Will you tie me up?
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How will you kick me out?
Are you going to get a gun?
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I told you
what the owner asked me to.
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In the Colony you had loads of guns.
Do you have any here?
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- Are you going to kick me out with one?
- I never had a gun.
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You’re involving me
in things that don’t concern me.
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- You lived in Colonia Dignidad.
- I’m saying goodbye.
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How are you going to kick me out?
I’m telling you…
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There are animals here
that belong to Franz and Ingrid.
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I’m not kicking you out,
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I just told you what the landowner
asked me to. Goodbye.
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No, you are yelling at me,
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and I hope that you won’t do
anything unreasonable and illegal.
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For me it was an act of desperation,
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but also an act of defiance
toward the State of Chile,
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of defiance toward the
power of the Colony,
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and an act of dignity.
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- Goodbye. Farewell, see you later.
- Thank you.
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Where are we going?
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That way.
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I'm completely lost.
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I think there… isn’t enough space.
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That's why I am saying
we should leave them here.
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- No, let’s save the bunnies.
- I’ll take the four of them.
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I’ll carry the four little ones
in my arms, in a box.
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to calm them, talk to them…
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And what will their mom do then?
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If the little ones take on your scent?
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Do you think she’ll want them?
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So here we have to be wise
on behalf of nature.
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But we can't be favoring humans
against matters that concern animals.
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That's not right.
Is it?
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Before marrying him,
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I was in love,
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without knowing
what being in love was.
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But I was in love. I know now.
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I fell in love during a long walk,
in April 2001,
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by the shore of the Nuble River.
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He went looking for water
to wash up.
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He was wearing shorts,
and I looked at his legs.
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Look…
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Wow! Such beautiful legs.
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I knew I could trust in him 100%.
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I knew it.
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It's raining!
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- Counselor!
- Yes?
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Franz and Ingrid.
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We’ll have to enter along the side, because...
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the rainy weather made the truck slip.
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Typical.
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This way?
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Here it is, Franz...
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...and Ingrid.
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For you.
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Yeah, just... like in the photo.
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Let’s keep going to find out
if it’s like the photo.
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- Do you like it?
- Yes, good soil.
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Do you like it?
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Here you can do
anything you want, Franz.
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Let’s keep going.
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We have to look for springs.
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Happy?
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Yes, I'm happy.
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Here's everything…
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…everything I need.
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Here.
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The low-lying areas
and the heights.
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That’s it.
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I want it to remain wild,
and do things later.
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I was worried...
not about what they could do,
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but what new threats would come
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that would prevent them from
living their dream of happiness and freedom.
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And the question is:
what kind of neighbors could they
have?
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And at some point we started hoping
no neighbor would arrive, it was
like a paradox.
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The danger wasn't the animals,
the danger was the humans.
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How are you doing Franz?
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Counselor!
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Hello!
It's been such a long time.
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More than two years.
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Café, come here.
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Leave her alone.
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Come here, Café.
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You can heal from everything here.
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There's freedom and clean air.
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This is basil.
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Ah, it smells delicious.
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It's an effort.
A huge effort.
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But nothing is impossible.
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How does one heal past wounds?
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I work here to leave behind a gift
for those to come.
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So these plants have already
yielded?
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Yes, yes!
Absolutely, Counselor.
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There is no healing in the Colony.
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Here you can heal.
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Here you can mend your life.
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I want to live.
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Because I love my life,
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it's so beautiful, so nice, so lovely!
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And I want to show the world
that everything is possible.