i'm in here! he is crazy!
tarek. what is happening?
i'm fine.
i have no idea! i was in the bath and he was just standing there.
he didn't touch me! but how did he get in? he said he has keys.
what does he mean it's his apartment?
i knew this would happen! he probably called the police.
i told you not to trust anyone. you never saw a contract.
where are we going to go?
i know we have to go. i am not stupid!
i think so. do you want to check!?
tarek?
tarek?
stop it, tarek. he'll hear us.
you don't know that.
i think he's probably had enough for one night.
tarek. no!
what are we going to do, tarek?
i don't want to be his roommate!
no.
no. i don't love you.
no.
it's your punishment.
shhh.
morning.
thank you.
goodbye.
i don't drink.
are you finished?
it's the least i can do.
you're welcome.
tarek. it's eight-thirty.
why did you invite him?
well i would have been the one stuck sitting with him while you played your drum.
yes.
yes.
hello. where is tarek?
are you ok?
what?
yes. i made it.
thirty-five dollars.
no. thiry-five.
senegal.
thank you very much.
far.
hello. hi, walter.
tarek, i told you we have to pick up my new table today. he said he would only hold it for today.
tarek. you always say "no problem" and then you are late or you forget.
yes. it's always "habibti" when you want your way. it closes at five p.m. not arab time, tarek.
don't "habibti" me.
where is tarek?
what?!
arrested?!
how could this happen? he knows better! he would not do anything wrong.
no. it won't be ok.
that doesn't matter! he is illegal! as am i! we are not citizens. do you know what that means? do you?! of course you don't. how could you?
well?
to where?
i can't visit him or i will end up in that place too.
yes. we are going tomorrow. the appointment is at eleven. i don't know, he found him. what? no. i don't want to. i just don't, tarek. yes. i've already called him. i know. i know. i just want you to be here with me, tarek.
yes.
yes. i know.
almost a year.
his mother lives in michigan.
yes, she is.
no. tarek told me not to tell her. he doesn't want to worry her.
no. he has had no trouble. he is a good person.
yes. when he first arrived from syria. but he didn't get it.
seven years ago.
i don't know.
they had to leave syria! they had no choice!
did you ask him if he went to his hearing?
walter, i'm going to leave now. i have a cousin in the bronx. i will stay with him for now.
i think it's best if i leave. when tarek calls me then i will tell him. you know how to reach me if you need to. is it ok if i leave tarek's things here for now? my cousin's place is not very big.
walter?
oh.
it is a pleasure to meet you, mrs. khalil.
ok. i'm sorry. i did not know you were coming.
thank you.
yes. i would like that. but i have to watch my table.
i'm living with my cousin. he has two kids. and his mother. i mean his wife. i'm sorry, i am very nervous.
i don't know. have you spoken with tarek?
i wish that i could see him. just for a minute.
two years. i was in detention when i first arrived. three months. it was horrible. i would probably still be there but they closed the facility for poor conditions. they released some of the women on parole because we were. low risk. i met tarek one year later. i am sorry for what happened with tarek. i hope you do not blame me.
tarek was doing nothing wrong. i miss him so much. i don't know what i am going to do without him.
he did?
what?
like what?
ok. but maybe we should get walter first.
i don't know. we never got off. we just would go to the other side and then come back.
it's free. and it felt like we were going somewhere.
that is where the towers were. i never saw them but tarek did.
and over there is the statue. and behind that is ellis island.
sometimes tarek would point at the statue and jump up and down like we were arriving to new york for the first time. it was very funny.
what facility? where?
louisiana? where they had the floods?