Навіщо. What For - Марія Старожицька

... But do I have the right to influence the natural selection? War — it is a cataclysm, it will still take its harvest ... What am I doing?.. I am ready to try. Is there any connection with someone who goes out? Give me his cell-phone number and tell to accurately follow the instructions ... No connection? .. Disappears? .. Hasn’t called for 5 hours? .. Where was he the last time? Well, a field of sunflowers is not a landmark, there are fields everywhere. After the pumpkins field? .. Already looking ... we will try together.

Scene 11

Strilka, Laurel and Slon are near a stream in the forest plantation. They are drinking for a long time, they cannot drink enough.

Laurel

— I would drink, drink and drink. And then sleep. And then drink and drink and drink.

Strilka

— I would live here in the woods. On a tree. I’d gather nuts Poet called me a little squirrel, he would ask whether tassels grew in my ears ... (eyes filled with tears, gulps down sobs).

Laurel

— You shouldn’t cry, Poet is already there and met all, with Samol’ot, Schultz, Vosmy, Bani, Red… We are just here ... It is not known where.

Strilka (to Slon)

— Hug me. I am very scared.

Elephant (ignores the request)

— Communication appeared at night, I called the commanders. No effect. They don’t answer. The commander of battalion was unwilling to talk. Who knows what is going on. Only Actor answered. He said that they were thirty with “300th”, asked me to send aid quickly. So I should go faster.

Strilka

— We’ll all go together

Slon

— By myself I'll go out faster, find the car, and our pick ours and you up. If communication appears, I’ll call you immediately.

Laurel

— You lie.

Slon

— In your dream you cried so loud it could be heard beyond the forest. I wanted to strangle you. I’d rather go away. Well, I came here to fight, not to nurse. It is war, you are two, there are thirty, the soldier chooses where he is more necessary.

Slon rises, takes his weapon, Strilka bewildered looks at him.

Strilka

— Well, and I? You wanted to marry me ...

Slon

— What a husband of me? I’m married to war, I’m seeking it all over the world ..

Silently walks quickly.

Strilka

— Why is he?

Laurel

— Wants to live .

Strilka

— I want too .

Laurel (clicks on the phone the call, listens a definitely disappointing answer, hides the apparatus)

— That’s it

Scene 12

Tetyana and Veles in the basement, on a bed of a mattress and a blanket.

Tetyana

— I want a beautiful white dress with a train on our wedding. When we married with Ponchyk, I had to wear the school-leaving party dress — He became Chervonets in militia to please everyone ... except me ...

Veles

— What a husband of me? Where will I take you away? I would better leave myself now...

Tetyana

— Stay here. I’ll feed you somehow.

Veles

— No, it's not life to hide in the basement. The leg will heal and I’ll go.

Hatch of the cellar opens, machine-gun shooting.

Chervonets

— Go out one by one .

Tetyana

— Found, bitch ?!

Chervonets

— You are the bitch, got a boy-friend when the son is around. Go away, I will kill you.

Veles takes his dress on, Tetyana too. They leave the basement without watching each other.

Chervonets

— Dimka?!

Veles

— Kill me, Ponchyk (Donuts), don’t be shy

Chervonets

— Take your hands behind head

Veles

— And why not to talk?

Chervonets

— I have nothing to tell you. I know everything. They are no formers cops. You went to fight for America, to extract shale gas here, to poison ground here. And at school graduating party you had a speech how much you loved your native city, and you told you could give your life for it. What the hell did you leave here, fascist?! Now you are to remember that it is not your city and Tetyana is not your wife, and then I will cut your balls out and live