shoes,
it's disgusting!
I hate men who wear dirty shoes.
It's crude.
You ought to be prosecuted for
exploiting a skilled worker.
It was your idea to put some away
for the winter, so don't complain.
Do you know that Ghena brought
a girl friend along?
I'd better go before his father
says something stupid.
- Gourin came over.
- He's been drinking again?
No, he's fine. He's like that every
time he comes out of the hospital.
That explains why he hasn't come
around begging for a while.
He was such a nice guy!
It's because he was so nice
that he became like that.
Everybody wanted to drink with him,
and he couldn't refuse
because he was too nice.
Now all his friends have disappeared
and left him all alone.
I'm sure he'll get better.
I thought so too at first,
I even took him to see doctors.
How I begged!
I've done my best.
Marina, why don't you have
some more?
Do you know how workers were hired
in the old days?
Shut up, I wasn't talking to you.
You're always interrupting me.
Marina has never heard this story.
They gave a worker all the food
he wanted.
If the man ate poorly,
he wasn't allowed to work there.
What have I done wrong?
I want some bread.
I met a client whose husband
hunts whales for a living.
They make a beauty cream on the side.
You use a little at bedtime, and in
the morning your wrinkles disappear.
What do they put in the cream?
I swear, your skin'll look like
marble.
All our players have gotten jobs.
I've been asked to coach
several times.
For years I didn't realize
how I was living.
I haven't been to a game
in over a year.
No, I've got to call it quits.
Right. You're still a young man.
A man can start over again
if he really wants to.
This is the pippin.
Over here we have strawberries.
And here... Have an apple.
I did this years ago.
You know, I've always envied you.
The love you share.
I was told how to meet a single man.
You go to a cemetery.
You're bound to meet an intellectual
who's a recent widower.
You let him look at you,
and the next thing you know...
A friend of mine actually
married an architect that way.
Liuda, you're unbelievable!
It takes a lot of work
to make a marriage.
I'm sure that someday I'm gonna
be lucky.
Mother, why didn't you ask me
to do that?
I get tired just sitting around.
She's getting old, isn't she?
Her husband's death was pretty
hard on her.
She was only five years older
than we today
when we first met.
As if it happened yesterday.
Hot tea here!
Get your hot tea here.
That's it. I can't carry it
forever.
Over here. Thank you, my son.
I know, I'm not proud of my shoes
either.
Well, I don't care about your shoes.
But they upset you, don't they?
I can tell it from your face.
- Is face reading your hobby?
- Sure.
I can tell that you're not married.
Because you don't see a wedding ring
on my finger?
Even if you were wearing three
wedding rings on each hand,
you still have that unmarried look
about you.
You mean single women have
a special look about them?
Their look is kind of searching.
The same look police usually have,
an executive has it,
and a single woman has it too.
- I'm in the police then.
- No.
- An executive?
- No...
You work in a factory, but as what?
Specialist, right?
Though I see you also in a position
of leadership.
Maybe the factory union leader.
Is that what you do?
Yeah, you're almost right.
I'm a specialist myself.
A tool and die maker.
I'm single in case you're interested.
- Then you're not so perfect.
- I've just had bad luck in marriage.
I see, you had a bitchy wife.
No, she was sweet. She even found
herself a second husband.
So that was your fault?
Actually I'm a very nice guy.
And how about...?
What? Oh, I love to have a drink!
But never on the job
and never on an empty stomach.
Not far from where I live there's
a pond and birch trees.
- You sit in the shade...
- With boisterous children around.
No, we go where no one bothers us.