475 - At the crossroad of the blue
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Evi Charitidou
The road of Tourlida divides the blue of the Lagoon. Full shot.
In the background we see two persons walking. They cross silence. Medium long shot.
Athanasia*
Everything ends here.
Fotis
And everything starts from here… Silence
Athanasia
I come here every night…
Fotis
At the crossroad of the blue… Time. Do you want to see the death of the blue in the black?
Athanasia
I had never thought of this in this way…Time. I come, because it relieves me…
Fotis
The pleasure of the Lagoon. Medium shot.
Athanasia
Frankly, I don’t know… Something drives me here…
Fotis
The beginning or the end?
Athanasia
The borders…
Fotis
The borders of the black horizon? Silence. Sometimes when you distance yourself you feel closer…
Athanasia
Do you believe it? Or you say this for me?
Fotis
I do not believe it; I experience it…
Athanasia
But how?
Fotis
Even before my birth, I mourned already… Silence
Athanasia
I’m sorry, I didn’t understand you…
Fotis
Holy Virgin Finikiotissa can it be seen from here?
Athanasia
Yes, of course… Look there…
Insert: Holy Virgin Finikiotissa. Full shot. Now they reached the edge of the sea and sky… Medium long shot.
Fotis
Is it here?
Athanasia
Almost mute. Yes…
Fotis
This place looks like… Time
Athanasia
Curious. Like what?
Fotis
It looks like a cross…
Athanasia
A cross?
Fotis
Tourlida’s road and Lagoon’s horizon shape a cross…
Athanasia
It’s the first time I hear this… Medium shot.
Fotis
After silence there’s always the first word…
Athanasia
But, you see the world in such a different way…
Fotis
But, it is different! It’s only society that sees it always the same.
Athanasia
I wonder how ugly the world of society seems to you…
Fotis
I don’t live in this world!
Athanasia
But, we all live in this world!
Fotis
We exist in it; we do not live in it. Time. When you come here, you come to live…
Athanasia
Yes, you are right… Each time I come here I live again…
Fotis
But, to live again, you have to die… Silence
Athanasia
You, when did you die for the first time?
Fotis
Before I was born…
Athanasia
When you mourned?
Fotis
When my mother was pregnant, my sister died…
Athanasia
I didn’t know…
Fotis
She was waiting for me and I didn’t catch up with her…
Athanasia
You wanted to help her. But, you were a child!
Fotis
Innocence makes the children. I was convicted… Time. I had to be beside her… She was so little and innocent…
Athansia
It is not your fault… The time…
Fotis
No, time is was with us! Time. I was a captive of life…
Athanasia
But, there was no other way.
Fotis
I had to die to save her.
He is walking towards the sea alone. Silence. Medium shot.
Athanasia
Don’t go that far away…
Fotis
Do you hear this?
Athanasia
What? I hear nothing… Close up.
Fotis
Every night that you come…
Athanasia
Yes…
Fotis
They crucify solitude… Silence. Full shot.
*Athanasia = Immortality