The Midwife Page #2

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and the other looks at an onion.

"It's better this way.'

And then the duck, honestly -

begins to eat the onion.

Evening.

We've been waiting for you.

There'll be reindeer soup

and klinge for supper.

There's the telephone,

power plant and the showers.

The armoury and the food store.

In this building, the sickbay

and some other operations.

As you can see, every corner-

has a tower and a searchlight.

So we can see if

the little Miss tries to escape.

But that's not for you Finns.

Aleksey is an interpreter.

Knows German, Finnish, Russian.

And some strange Finno-Ugric

languages.

L hardly learned a word for a year,

myself.

Took me two years.

Play the violin for us, boy.

Please.

A Finnish nurse.

The Third Reich

values you especially.

There are -

not many soldiers here.

Trustee prisoners,

volunteers, SS men.

How did you run the camps in Karelia?

How does this compare?

It's difficult to...

-That's where you were.

At the Isthmus.

-This is finer.

Leave us, please.

I should go to the sickbay.

-It's taken care of.

Haataja, the other nurse,

runs it at the moment.

Operation Kuhstall is her area.

You handle the rest of the camp,

and the animals.

Operation Kuhstall?

That's Cowshed, right?

That's not your area, Miss.

Johann. You must take a photo of us.

I don't know how to be in a picture.

Finns and Germans -

we are one.

I can give you a cure for the shakes.

I've got it!

Russian boy.

We need soft soap, lye, cleanser.

Make a list.

What're you doing with the drugs'!

You hear?

The name's Aleksey Ignatenko.

I can't remember

every Russkie's name.

Can I trust you'!

I don't know.

I'm getting out of here. Tonight.

You can't tell me that.

I know what happens in the Cowshed.

The Germans will kill me soon.

I know too much.

Well, I don't.

Haven't seen the last ward.

What goes on there?

Promise to leave

the door open for me tonight?

I'll make it look like

it's been broken down.

I beg you.

From my heart,

I wish you hadn't told me.

The foot must come right off.

Hold him still!

Hold him still!

And you keep your mouth shut.

There will

be load of bodies from the Cowshed.

Bag them, report to me.

What do you do there?

Sin.

Masha Petrov.

You said you know

how to bathe a man.

That I do.

Shall I lie on this?

You have such wild eyes -

and you know your herbs.

I need to ask something.

I have nightmares.

What do you mean?

Don't remember properly.

Flashes. Of piles of corpses.

Of death.

I wake up at night and hear it.

Women's laughter, every night.

It's the Russkies.

They play women's laughter

through enormous loudspeakers -

to drive the enemy mad.

Don't go anywhere.

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