480 - The wooden house of the world
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Evi Charitidou
To Peter’s wooden house. Full shot.
Peter (N.o.T. Stone)
When did you come? Medium long shot.
Fotis
Yesterday.
Peter
You always come one day before…
Fotis
Whenever there’s a need… Time. So, it’s here where your liberty is?
Peter
Yes, on the Lagoon…
Fotis
Solitude as well with you…
Peter
Solitude is everywhere…Simply, it’s better seen here…
Fotis
Here, souls are open like wounds.
Peter
We are in the open sea. Time. You know, even people from Mesologgi who see our wooden houses every day, they cannot feel…
Fotis
The caress of the sea. Medium long shot.
Peter
Yes! Time. You, how do you know this?
Fotis
Once, I also was here …
Peter
John was right to say…Fotis is smiling without saying a word. If I didn’t live on the sea…
Fotis
The land would have hurt you…
Peter
The blood which has watered this land made it harder than death itself… Medium close shot.
Fotis
It is for this reason that the houses are so low.
Peter
They live with the blood of the land… Each house recalls what people forget.
Fotis
And how about you here?
Peter
I
I’m a stone floating on the sea… Close up.
Fotis
Your stone is sanctified… Medium shot.
Peter
Nop, don’t you think… Time. It’s here where life has thrown me and sea’s caress held me.
Fotis
The caresses of the link…
Peter
The bonds of peace…
Flash forward.
Fotis
When did you decide to stay in this place? Medium long shot.
Athanasia
I don’t remember any longer. Time. It’s like I was born with this decision…
Fotis
Here, the world dawns.
Athanasia
Why are you saying this?
Fotis
Because our ancestors did the due thing.
Athanasia
There has to be night first before dawn…
Fotis
This place has given so many souls…
Athanasia
For sure…
Fotis
Each visitor owes it a piece of one’s soul… Silence. This place was made in fire and struggle…
Athanasia
Yet, how many are those who see water and peace only?
Fotis
These are the gifts of their sacrifice: lava’s sea, battle’s death…
Athanasia
Have you ever lived here? Close up.
Fotis
I passed by once earlier…
Athanasia
But when?
Fotis
Over the last centuries…
Athanasia
You sound like John… Medium close shot.
Fotis
John has not yet grown old…
Athanasia
I never know when you are kitting…
Fotis
Everything is a lie… Close up.
Athanasia
But, they seem so real…
Fotis
Only thoughts are real and they do not belong to one century only… Medium shot.
Athanasia
A whole world lives inside you…
Fotis
There is no other…
Athanasia
Why am I feeling that you know us from the old times?
Fotis
Your youth is plunged in the Lagoon…. The small lake of the ocean…
Athanasia
Your world is a wound…
Fotis
Your wounds are my world…
Athanasia
How many tears for a caress? Close up.
Fotis
As many fires as a sea wants to be lit…
Athanasia
The world is a wooden house on your ocean… Flash forward. End.