How can we explain it to Roman?
- Too late, guys, he's incurable.
Too bad for our comrade,
to be gone in the prime of his life.
- Good morning, Aunt Vera.
- Good morning.
Thanks for coming.
Katya, come on, stop it.
What's the matter with you?
lt's only a month.
One, two, three... and thirty.
A man needs
someone to wave to him.
You want Roman? He ran to the school,
to have a drink of water or something.
Roman, your mother's here to see you!
Brought you some milk to drink.
She brought you some milk to drink!
Artistes!
Roman!
Roma, they're calling you.
l'll be back soon, in a month.
And in the evening, as usual,
before the closing.
Roma, they're calling.
Never mind.
Roma, l just can't. l never
thought l won't be able to bear it.
All right, go. Go.
Why don't you send them off?
l'm dragging out because of them.
All those mamas and girls.
Please.
Boys!
Get in the bus!
All the rest, please,
leave the area.
- See you soon, Tatyana Nikolayevna!
- Take care.
- Mom, why did you come?
- l feel nervous.
Nothing's going to happen to me.
Roman!
Come here!
Good morning.
Have you seen it?
l've seen everything.
20 years ago there would've been an
uproar, now l just look & say nothing.
- Would you like some tea?
- Why do you say nothing?
The time is different. We've become
more humane and understanding.
- l'll pour you some tea anyway.
- l have not become.
And will not.
Because it's not your son.
- lt's easy for you to be humane.
- Easy?
l personally am for stifling the flesh
before the soul has matured.
And at school the souls
are still green.
But we have to accept time
as it is.
l don't want to accept anything.
l'll transfer Roman to another school.
lf you do, then to a school with good
training in physics and mathematics.
lt's important to him.
There's a special school.
lt's only 3 tram stops away,
a ten-minute walk.
You think it might help?
Vera Vasilyevna, dear,
this transfer
has nothing to do
with what we have seen.
We're speaking only about your son,
his training, his future.
Do you understand me?
Good morning.
All right, you can come with us,
at least for a month.
You'll help me with Pavlik.
You may even like it.
The sea, fruits, a motorboat.
l won't like it.
Why not?
ls it better to hang about here alone?
- Why alone?
- Everybody went away.
They'll be back.
- l can't leave you alone here.
- l'm not a little girl.
You've become too
grownup lately.
You must go and have a rest.
- What about my internship?
- l'll arrange it with the school.
All right, but only for three weeks.
One week has already passed.
So if l came tomorrow...
We've lost each other
in this big city.
l was always here.
l got to go,
or l'll be late for my train.
Perhaps this way will be right.
Look, can you...
chuck it all and wait for me?
l can get you a sick leave,
a disability leave, whatever.
Just a week,
and then we'll go together.
Well?
Only on one condition,
that you don't try to mold
something beautiful out of me.
You'll be submissive and stupid.
Just an ordinary woman.
Too many conditions.
So you're turning me down?
No. l just said:
too many conditions.
Then l'm getting married.
God help you.
Father, l've just met Alyona.
She told me
some terrific news.
You got me transferred to another
school. Why this nonsense?
- First say hello.
- Hello.
Get your knapsack out of the way.
- Don't you want to wash up?
- No.
Let's talk then.
Roma, we were thinking of your future.
You need a sound schooling if you
want to enroll at the Physics College.
- Who wants to?
- You. Have you changed your mind?
So it's me.
Weren't you supposed to ask me then
what l'm thinking of it?
But you decided everything
yourselves, without me.
What difference does it make,
with or without you? For you.
ln secret, without saying a word.
We've never had it like this.
ltjust happened.
Forgive your mother for that.
- Your future...
- My future.
Do you