other diagnosis, otherwise you will die.
Excuse me, doctor, here is your fee.
Tomorrow a representative of the Swiss
funeral parlor will arrive here.
He will take care of everything.
My father's will must be strictly executed.
Today you are going to Switzerland.
You have a new assignment
of a special importance.
In Geneva you will join the airplane passengers,
flight 17-03 for Teheran.
Pay attention to people accompanying the
rich Iranian's coffin.
Possibly there is an agent among them who
is especially dangerous.
Here are the tickets and money. You will
get further instructions in Teheran.
- Madam Marie Lunie? - Yes.
- Nice to meet you. Lawyer Simon.
Are these your things?
- Yes. - That's it?
Wonderful.
You were recommended to me
as a good Farsi translator.
Yes, I have spent 7 years in Iran.
As far as I know, you
are Russian by origin?
Yes, my father left Russia in 1916.
And I was born in Paris.
Do you have an idea
of the range of your duties?
- Roughly. Mainly translations, I presume.
- Yes, and some small services.
A secretary-translator, in brief.
- I see.
-  Do you speak Russian?
- Yes, Russian and English. - Wonderful.
Mr. Gerard Simon?
How do you do, sir. Ma'am.
I am an agent of Geneva funeral parlor.
My name is Max Richard.
You may call me Max.
Nice to meet you. Let me introduce
our translator.
She came from Paris
and will accompany us
during the trip at your request.
Wonderful. I guess you haven't taken
your breakfast yet, madam.
It will be my pleasure.
No, thank you, I am not hungry.
Mr. Richard, I need to clarify with you
some details of the coming trip,
that are related to risks and danger.
Garcon, accompany the lady.
Oh, Mr. Gerard…
May I call you that?
Don't think of the trip.
Everything will be all right.
Let's think of something essential.
For example, how we
will spend the night.
This is a serious problem for me.
Since I deal with the dead,
I became a bon vivant.
- Madam, may I offer you a coffee?
- What?
Excuse me, I wanted to offer
you a coffee.
- What coffee?
- A real coffee, prewar, not a surrogate.
- Who are you? - It doesn't matter.
I just wanted to offer you a coffee.
Why did such a strange
idea come to your mind?
I don't know... Just did…
I have great coffee, and I
decided to offer it to somebody.
And I have chosen you.
Here you are.
Why are you smiling?
- It's nothing. I am just lucky.
Is it for you?
Yes, I have to go.
Thank you very much.
Goodbye.
- Here you are.
- Oh my God, it's you.
It's mystic. We are flying
by the same plane.
- Are you going to Teheran?
- Yes, to Teheran.
It's amazing. I have never thought
that I would see you again.
- A chance.
- Yes, a chance.
You know, chance is the greatest
and the most sophisticated
Nature phenomenon.
It's impossible to predict,
but if you think well,
it lies in the base
of everything.
People somehow underestimate
the chance
though it is the main factor
that sets the human
history in general
and everyone's life in particular
in motion.
After all, everything happens
by chance, birth and love.
Look, I bought a pack
of coffee by chance.
By the way, it is real Brazilian,
so go on drinking it.
I bought it only because a grocery
store around the corner had burnt.
Here is the first chance.
The fire in the grocery
store.
Then I let out many accidental
and unpredictable events
that have led you
and me to that airport.
Then. It was raining in
Geneva today in the morning.
- It was.
- It was. Also an accident.
Because if the wind had
been blowing in another direction,
the rain would have passed by
and we would have never
been sitting in the airport.
Also an accident.
And the last one:
out of the hundreds of people,
it was you I approached,
and so the chain of accidents
made our ways to cross.
Are you trying to say,
that we met because
a grocery store had burnt
in Paris 6 months ago?
That's exactly what I am trying to say.
But we