You're looking good. Germany suits you.
I should have come back to visit sooner.
How much is gas over there?
I don't know, I ride the Metro.
Can you help with my nephew's visa?
He wants to study, he's a little Einstein, like you.
Of course! Bring him tomorrow.
Thank you, praise be.
Mama, go inside.
Is this about the new satellite dish you put up?
No. It's nothing.
How many times can I say the same thing?
I have no idea where my cousin Mahfouz is.
I doubt Bin Laden even knows.
Listen.
After these New York attacks...
the Americans are going crazy.
They want to talk to you.
You understand?
Allow me to change.
They'll confuse me for a Gulf prince.
Hurry up, follow him!
You'll ride with me.
I'd rather go in my own car.
Then give me your phone.
Ok.
What do I tell everyone?
Tell them...
...it's work.
Mamma?
They wouldn't let me drive if I wasn't coming back.
Don't worry, Mother!
Save me some tajine.
May God accept your prayers.
Aren't you going to perform your afternoon prayer?
What good were your prayers if they led you here?
Believe me, it's useless.
That's where you're wrong. I always prayed to see the world.
In this world you need to be careful who you talk to.
Why? Are you a guard?
You'll never know.
What's your name?
I don't have a name here.
The guards listen to everything.
Call me by my number 241.
I'm not calling you by a number.
Where are you from?
- France, Marseille. - Marseille!
Nice to meet you Marseille.
And you my brother.
How is Marseille?
I hear it's beautiful.
Then you've never been.
Marseille is a real shit hole.
Or so I thought, until I came here.
What do I call you?
I'm from Mauritania.
OK.
The Mauritanian.
What does it mean "shit hole"?
If you don't know English, how will you understand the guards?
By the time I learn, I'll be home already.
Maybe. Or maybe you'll need to pray a lot harder.
Look brother, I've been in a lot of American interrogations.
The only way to help yourself is to talk.
If they want to know about a guy, tell them about a guy.
Don't tell me what to do.
I'm older than you.
I'm not a liar!
And you're not my brother.
You OK, Marseille?
Yeah.
I heard your number called last night. How was it?
Good. They decided I'm innocent. I'm going home tomorrow.
Oh yeah?
Look up.
How did you get this?
My interrogator.
I gave her a name.
You shouldn't do that.
Yeah, I know.
Now they'll make someone else suffer like us.
Yes. I told them...
Omar Sharif.
- Not? - Yes, yes it's true.
The American don't know shit that isn't American.
Kick the ball over here?
- Did you hear me? - Yes, fine.
Mohamedou! Mum says come home now.
A letter came from your school.
You won the scholarship to Germany.
What's wrong?
Praise be to God.
They say you are an exceptional student.
But we will lose you.
I won't go if you don't want me to.
What? Are you crazy?
Will you waste this opportunity?
You must go.
You are our hope.
Marseille? Is that you?
Yeah.
You should learn English from your books, not the guards.
OK.
Is something wrong?
I received a letter from my wife.
That's good.
No?
It's a letter. It's not my wife.
You have a family, children?
Voller!
Always there when you need him.
The doctor told me this would help.
Do you want a boy or a girl?
You know the Soviets kidnap women in helicopters now?
They take them to their bases to rape them.
We should be doing something.
The mosque is collecting donations.
Money!
Volunteers are giving their lives!
So we should just give up our life here?
What life?
A new car, a big house, kids?
Shouldn't life be about more than that?
Hey Marseille, you've lost your ball again.
It's yours, keep it. I don't need it.
They're letting you go?
None of us are ever getting out.
They can't keep us here forever.
Don't let them take your faith. One day you will be home, brother.
Marseille is on the ocean?
Yes.
Nouakchott also.
When I am home, I will lie in bed,
listening to the waves.
Can you hear them?
The sea always sounds the same.
Close your eyes.
Listen.
Dream of home.
Don't give up.
It's over.
Don't give up!
O God, forgive our living,
and our dead,
those who are present among us,
and those who are absent,
our young,
and our old,
our male,
and our females.
O God, whoever You keep alive,
keep them alive in Islam,
and whoever You cause to die,
cause them to die with faith.
God is greater.
Peace be with you.
Time to wake up.
Are you Ramzi?
The kitchen is here, the bathroom on the left.
Forgive me,
I have to work early in the morning.
Make yourself at home.
Who are they?
Actually we talked until very late.
All night.
Mohamedou was very passionate.
He recruited me to Al Qaeda.
Without him...
no way 9/11 would have ever happened.
Mamma?
Are you real?
I'm so happy to see you.
In the name of God, the merciful. Help me, have mercy on me.
Save me from the wolves that surround me, O Most Gracious!