Anne-Marie, can you hear me? Yes, how are you Papa? I'm fine. And Mama...? She's fine....
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Augustin: [Over the telephone] Anne-Marie, can you hear me?
Anne-Marie: Yes, how are you Papa?
Augustin: [Hesitant] I'm fine.
Anne-Marie: And Mama...?
Augustin: She's fine. She's next door with your brothers. fine.
Anne-Marie: I'm scared...!
[the sounds of gunfire and mayhem increase]
Anne-Marie: We can hear the guns.
Augustin: [Trying to reassure himself as well as Anne-Marie] It's all right. You're in a Catholic school; nobody can go in there.
Anne-Marie: Papa, I have to go
[the alarm bell begins ringing offscreen]
Anne-Marie: . The other girls are waiting for the phone.
Augustin: [Distressed] All right... you, you know I love you...!
Anne-Marie: [Tearfully] I love you too, Papa...! Bye...!
Augustin: Bye-bye...!
[Hangs up. Anne Marie and a friend hug in fright, a scream from outside calls the girls' attention to the pandemonium in the courtyard]
Augustin: .
Martine: [Enters the office in a hurry] Girls... calm down! I want you to go to your dormitories, quickly-! Quickly-!
Priest: [Entering the office as Martine shepherds the girls out] Martine, a word.
Martine: [Focused on her frightened students] I'm sorry Father, we have a school full of terrified girls.
Priest: Martine, we are in a very difficult position, but we must do our duty. We cannot harbor rebels. We must hand them over.
Martine: [Shocked at this proposal] Father, these are not rebels! These are girls, girls that you've promised to raise as your own daughters! And now you would turn them out?
Priest: What can I do, my child? We cannot protect all of them! I do not have the power to change the situation!
[Martine begins to leave, then turns to him again]
Priest: We must pray
Anne-Marie: Yes, how are you Papa?
Augustin: [Hesitant] I'm fine.
Anne-Marie: And Mama...?
Augustin: She's fine. She's next door with your brothers. fine.
Anne-Marie: I'm scared...!
[the sounds of gunfire and mayhem increase]
Anne-Marie: We can hear the guns.
Augustin: [Trying to reassure himself as well as Anne-Marie] It's all right. You're in a Catholic school; nobody can go in there.
Anne-Marie: Papa, I have to go
[the alarm bell begins ringing offscreen]
Anne-Marie: . The other girls are waiting for the phone.
Augustin: [Distressed] All right... you, you know I love you...!
Anne-Marie: [Tearfully] I love you too, Papa...! Bye...!
Augustin: Bye-bye...!
[Hangs up. Anne Marie and a friend hug in fright, a scream from outside calls the girls' attention to the pandemonium in the courtyard]
Augustin: .
Martine: [Enters the office in a hurry] Girls... calm down! I want you to go to your dormitories, quickly-! Quickly-!
Priest: [Entering the office as Martine shepherds the girls out] Martine, a word.
Martine: [Focused on her frightened students] I'm sorry Father, we have a school full of terrified girls.
Priest: Martine, we are in a very difficult position, but we must do our duty. We cannot harbor rebels. We must hand them over.
Martine: [Shocked at this proposal] Father, these are not rebels! These are girls, girls that you've promised to raise as your own daughters! And now you would turn them out?
Priest: What can I do, my child? We cannot protect all of them! I do not have the power to change the situation!
[Martine begins to leave, then turns to him again]
Priest: We must pray
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Father these are not rebels
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These are girls you have brought up as your own daughters
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Now you would put them out What can I do my child
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We cannot protect all of them
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I do not have the power to change this situation
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We must pray
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Movie Summary
When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.
