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- No, please don't.

Please don't?

Are you joking, Miss Kazim?

- He won't do it again.

- Won't he? I don't give a damn.

He needs to know that

people don't fight in the street here.

If he does it again,

then call the police.

But just give him a chance.

- A chance?

- Yes, a chance.

You can't understand.

I know it seems incredible,

but you can't understand.

Please, don't.

You can go back to class.

Go back to class, Miss Kazim.

What are you going to do?

Go to class right now

and it'll be better for everyone.

What's wrong?

Remember when I went for the abortion?

I didn't go through with it.

What?

- What were you thinking?

- I don't know.

But it's my baby.

I don't have the right to...

I really don't know.

- Do you realise?

- Yes.

Of course I do.

- Can you still do it?

- Not here.

- But that's not the worst thing.

- What is?

Now it has a soul.

It has a soul.

What are you talking about?

Where?

Below to your right.

At the bottom of the drawer.

- What are you doing with that?

- It was in there.

It's loaded.

What are you planning to do with that?

- Nothing. It's the neighbourhood.

- What do you mean?

It's dangerous nowadays.

- Dangerous?

- Yes. Dangerous.

Get the price tags.

It's Andr.

Zahira asked me to come.

I figured as much.

- I'm listening.

- Zahira wants to work it out.

So do we.

The important thing is,

she doesn't want to lose you.

She loves her family,

her brother and sisters.

She holds nothing against you.

She also says that

when you get angry, you scare her.

She never dares talk to you.

She never has.

She just wants this to be over.

She knows what to do.

She doesn't want

to marry someone she hasn't chosen.

This discussion doesn't make any sense.

- This discussion is pointless, Andr.

- Why?

Why?

I have a message for her, too.

Tell her that if she doesn't marry,

she'll lose everything.

Everything.

Her father, her mother,

her big sister,

her brother, her little sister.

Everything.

A Pakistani must marry a Pakistani.

That's how it is.

It's what everyone does.

- There are exceptions.

- No.

- No exceptions?

- None that I know of.

Not even one in a thousand.

And it won't be my daughter.

But it's her life. Her life.

- Put yourself in her shoes.

- You do that?

You put yourself in her shoes?

Can you do that?

- That's impressive.

- I just want things to work out.

I've watched Zahira grow up.

I've always known her.

I've seen all of your children grow up.

Zahira can't stay with you.

I don't agree to it.

She's always done it.

You've always agreed to it.

Not anymore.

But she'll come back home.

Of course she will.

- She's over 18, she can do what she wants.

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