What do you think happens if you dump thousands of kilos of cocaine
in one of Europe's poorest villages?
JULY 2001
Eduardo!
We're distracted buying stuff, and those in charge do what they want.
You think too much, Eduardo. It's just a movie.
The Matrix isn't just a movie.
Eduardo!
The priest had a nosebleed and keeled over during mass.
Fuck.
I could say this story began right here,
with the boy shitting himself.
Or go back a bit and talk about a weird place
where weird things tend to happen.
TURN OF THE TIDE
TEN DAYS EARLIER
Nine islands in the middle of nowhere.
Centuries of poverty, isolation,
storms,
volcanoes.
But we don't give in to fear.
Run, you fucking dumbass!
I'm here, limp dicks!
No limp dicks here.
Good morning.
Come on. Let's get going.
Ready?
Without Poborsky, Gomes and Maniche, Benfica isn't much of a team.
Not if you keep getting rid of players.
I'd like to see them here.
Maniche casting bait,
Nuno Gomes sewing nets.
I played against Nuno Gomes in the juniors.
- I didn't let him get a shot in. - Didn't you play forward?
And I thought our little minx only followed figure skating.
- I'll throw you in! - What the fuck?
- Stop harassing Carlinhos. - Why do you always stick up for him?
I don't. But watch the weather.
He's my guardian angel. You know what he's like.
- Are you jealous? - I'm not.
You are!
Stop it!
- We have to go. There's a storm coming. - We'll go when my knee warns me.
- When what? - When my knee warns me.
If I have to wait for your meniscus, I'll get soaked. Let's go.
Come on!
Fuck's sake! Mind my knee.
- His knee. - Now it's warning me.
Fuck.
- How did the fishing go? - We barely caught a thing.
But at least we have dinner, right?
- What's that on your face? - I can't go out without a shave.
Hang on.
Come here.
Wait.
Stop it. It's nothing.
Okay.
Stop.
- Look at me. - It's fine.
MISS PONTA DELGADA APPLICATIONS
Fill in this form and hand it in with your photos at the front.
For you.
"Who makes the first move, the man or the woman?"
What is this shit?
Fuck me.
Hey.
Hello.
Hi. You look so cute.
Notice anything?
You look super cute.
Love the bangs.
Hey.
You cut in front of me.
I was here first, saving their spots.
That's not how it works. It's a line.
I think you mean "queue."
Right.
- Look at this one. - That's so cute.
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Dr. Menezes, please go to the Emergency Room.
Dad, I'm going to the bathroom. I'll be right back. Stay here.
There are so many Azoreans in the US
that the East Coast is known as their tenth island.
Next.
They say Azoreans have a burning desire to travel the world.
We just want to escape poverty.
Hi. Jeremias Melo. He's my father.
For eye surgery.
- You're a bit late. - Just a couple of numbers. I was 53.
Not just a couple of numbers.
Surgery was scheduled for yesterday.
But the letter says June 5th, 2001. That's today.
- The computer says it was yesterday. - But the letter says today.
I don't know. Someone made a mistake.
But it wasn't my mistake, was it?
Fifty-six?
- Thanks for your help. - Fifty-six.
Fifty-six.
Going to smoke that on your own?
We don't want to set off the alarm.
I'm Bruna.
- Sílvia. - Hey.
What happened out there?
My photos.
They're shit.
Let me see.
Fuck.
Yeah.
They really are shit.
They don't do you justice.
You're way cooler than all those preppies.
Got a pen?
I have a friend. A boyfriend.
He's a fashion photographer.
How am I supposed to pay a professional photographer?
Call him and tell him I sent you.
- I can't cut my hair. - No.
- It won't come off. - Calm down.
Okay, but gently.
How do I get it off? I can't cut it!
You don't have to. Hold on.
- Wait. - Go on.
Sorry about the mix-up at the hospital, Dad.
God will have a reason for me not having surgery.
Yes. Things will get better. You'll see.
HOPE
For fuck's sake, what's going on?
What is this sea? Where did we end up?
Gianluca!
Damn!
Shit!
Gianluca, move your ass!
What happened?
The rudder broke!
Where are we?
I don't know. The middle of nowhere.
But this was where it all began.
Two Italian mafiosi crossing the Atlantic
in a sailboat full of drugs.
It's the ignition coil. I warned you.
- We should have taken the bus. - Fuck me! Why?
Watch your mouth.
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COMEDY
Excuse me.
What?
Any new movies in? The new releases haven't changed in weeks.
When does anything new arrive in this godforsaken place?
CRIME
How did it go in the city?
I have to be completely stoned to put up with those people.
Who do you mean?
Those other girls.
My rivals.
You have rivals?
Have you ever seen a Miss Rabo de Peixe?
I just wanted the prize.
A trip for two to Boston, hotel included.
Nothing good ever happens here.
Who would you take to America with you?
Nobody.
I'd go on my own.
I'll take this one.
I'm going to close up.
Did you hear back about your American visa?
No, not yet.
It's better this way.
At least until my dad has surgery.
Since when do Azoreans need American visas, dumbass?
You just go.
Like I said.
- In this godforsaken place-- - Nothing good ever happens.
I know.
Can anyone hear me?
- What are you fucking doing? - What the fuck?
Don't you realize we can't ask for help?
Asshole!
Let's go this way.
Go fuck yourself!
We have to dock!
You're out of your mind.
You want to dock with a boat full of drugs?
We have to throw it overboard!
I don't want to sink!
Try it and you'll be the one who ends up in the sea.
I don't want to drown!
The fucking cocaine!
If the drugs end up in the sea, we'll die on land!
Do you fucking understand?
Gianluca!
Land!
Land ahoy!
Yes, brother.
If I had moola, I'd lend you some.
- You know that. - But I need a car, Rafael.
- Do you want to go out to sea today? - I don't go out on Fridays.
I have to deliver this shit. Come with me, and we'll split the moola.
"This shit"?
- What shit? - Some car radios from America.
- Rafael. - Eduardo, come or don't come.
It's up to you.
You. Out.
Go. Don't even think about it.
Move! Let's go.
- Rafael, come on. - Babe, seriously.
- Come on. - Fuck you.
Good girl!
Hey, guys!
It's our fucking hotshot soccer star!
Here. I need an autograph for one of my clients.
Take this.
Let's have a look at this.
Look at this beauty.
Rusty, here.
Smell, don't touch. This shit's too good for you.
That's great. Wonderful. Here!
How about a shot?
We haven't had breakfast yet.
- You haven't had breakfast? - Not yet.
Bring a kilo next time. We should take advantage of the new law.
What law?
Fuck! Don't you listen to the fucking news?
They're going to legalize drugs.
We're going to grow our business.
Right. This is for the hash.
And give this to my little girl.
Tell her it's from me so she can buy a gift.
I will, boss.
Look at this lovely thing.
It's a cattle dog.
Come here, you lovely thing. What a lovely dog.
Such a pretty thing! Whose dog is it?
She's mine.
I love these dogs. Man, they're so pretty.
No one's legalizing drugs.
You can smoke a joint in the street,
but get caught with a brick like that, you'll go inside.
Whoa!
We got ourselves a lawyer.
The bitch isn't leaving here, lawyer man.
She can only leave after she's been bred with a cattle dog.
Boss, give him the dog.
I don't think so.
Hey! Calm the fuck down!
Boss.
If it weren't
for your fucking friend,
I'd knock your teeth in, motherfucker.
Get out of here before I bust your mouth!
What's your problem? Get the hell out!
Well?
We're cool, champ, but not that motherfucker. Beat it.
Boss.
Didn't you need the money? You got it. You'd rather spend ten hours at sea?
Rafael, I lost my fucking dog.
That motherfucker.
That motherfucker gave me this to buy you a present.
Show your dad some gratitude.
Why do you insist on calling Arruda my father?
Fuck, Rafael.
He's your father.
Shut up. Eduardo.
We'll find a way to get Sky back, okay?
We will, bro.
- Fuck you. - Fucking hell, brother.
How's this my fault?
Pretty little peach!
Keep your hands on the wheel, dumbass.
They say the name of this place means "fish tail"
because the locals were so poor
that they sold the best part of the catch and only ate fish tails and bones.
If Rabo de Peixe was on television,
they were always portrayed as third-class citizens.
But that was about to change.
Lord Holy Christ,
fuck me if you're not making fun of the poor.
Here's our coffee!
Thank you, ma'am.
What did the mechanic say?
He's waiting for a part for the rudder.
Tomorrow we recover the cargo, set sail and go home.
People like you who put that shit in their coffee
should be put in jail.
We crossed the Atlantic in a sailboat full of drugs,
and that's no problem.
But I put sweetener in my coffee, and you lose it.
Don't confuse illegal with immoral.
Some things are sacred.
Fresh water, good wine, a tight pussy.
And a hard dick.
And coffee without rat poison.
Francesco, we're fucked.
Fucking hell.
Got a knife?
Here.
This is cocaine.
It's lunchtime, son.
Judiciary Police. Good afternoon.
What?
Breaking news.
Dozens of kilos of cocaine have washed ashore this afternoon
at various points on the northern coast of São Miguel.
The ongoing police operation
could result in the biggest seizure ever in the archipelago.
It's a little bitter.
Some say the cocaine stories were exaggerated.
But true or false, I'm certain of one thing.
It was the first time it snowed in the Azores.
Police have so far seized 148 kilos
that washed up in Bretanha, Porto Formoso, but predominantly in Rabo de Peixe.
Dad, what are you doing?
I told you to ask for help, Dad. You're--
- Am I some kid who needs help pissing? - It's okay.
There.
You need a bath.
- Get out of here. - Have a bath.
I know.
What's the estimated value of this seizure?
It's a record seizure
worth nine million euros.
The street value is 60,000 euros a kilo.
It's an unprecedented seizure here in São Miguel.
Thank you, Detective.
We've just heard what Detective Banha had to say.
We'll continue reporting on this police operation,
a first for the archipelago.
CHIEF OF POLICE
- Hello? - Detective Paula?
- Yes, sir. - We have a situation in the Azores.
I saw the news.
Stop what you're working on. Take the first flight tomorrow.
Fuck.
Carlinhos, is Sílvia here?
In back.
But she's with Rafael.
You know that shit will shrink your dick?
Did you know that?
You've never seen Boogie Nights?
You know what "coke dick" is? You snort that shit, and you can't get it up.
- Is that for real? - Is it...
Do you know how much this shit costs?
Huh? 60,000 euros.
- Sixty thousand. - A kilo.
- How much in escudos? - 120 million.
One hundred and twenty million! I could buy my mother a house.
Instead of snorting that shit, we could change our lives.
If it isn't my brother!
Give me a fucking hug.
Join us. We'll do a little bit of this and that.
There's plenty more where that came from, Rafael.
It came with the tide.
Who cares where it came from?
It's fucking here now. With us!
Okay.
Where's he going?
Holy shit.
Eduardo!
What's up?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
I know all about unrequited love--
I don't want to talk about it. I don't give a fuck about them.
As long as they're happy, I don't want to talk about it.
- I have more important concerns. - You think you can fool me?
Thanks.
Okay.
I have to take care of some stuff, okay?
And watch out.
You'll get coke dick.
In the 15th century,
Spain and Portugal divided the planet in two.
But before he signed the treaty,
the know-it-all Portuguese king demanded that the dividing line
be moved a few hundred kilometers west.
Six years later,
those kilometers allowed the Portuguese to claim Brazil.
You don't always have to be strongest.
Sometimes you just need to know something before anybody else.
And Eduardo was a sea dog.
What had washed ashore had to come from somewhere.
You just had to follow the currents.
I'm here for my dog.
What?
You want a double hand job too?
This should be enough.
- Sky. - Is this the coke that washed up?
Come here.
IGNITION COIL
Fucking hell.
Lord Holy Christ of Miracles.
So we're even now?
We'll be even when I say so, boy.
Holy fuck.
Will you do the countdown?
Come on. Three,
two, one.
Let's go.
This is worse than that sweetener shit you put in your coffee, believe me.
No, Francesco. This is worse than cancer of the balls.
Holy fuck.
Fuck me sideways.
Me too.
How many?
How many...
Three hundred and ninety-seven kilos.
Twenty-three million, eight hundred and twenty thousand euros.
Fuck.
How much is that in escudos?
Fuckloads!
The sauce is good, huh?
How the fuck are you hungry right now?
You feed the body to calm the spirit.
Hunger is a bad adviser. That's what I say.
Francesco, we're fucked. Fucked!
We have to call Don Massimo to explain.
Don Massimo can't help us.
The sooner we recover the cargo, the sooner we go home.
Did you see them? They looked like monkeys eating peanuts.
Gianluca.
I have a lot more to lose than you in this whole thing.
But losing your head now is fucking pointless.
Come on. Keep cool.
Have a glass of wine and relax. Everything will work out fine. Okay?
Go fuck yourself!
Gianluca!
No.
Aren't we biting off more than we can chew?
Well, the stuff showed up here.
We didn't do anything, did we? It drifted onto our beach.
- Man. - The police will be all over it.
Nobody's gonna throw my ass in jail.
These drugs belong to someone.
Sooner or later, they'll look for it.
Dangerous people.
Why are some people entitled to everything and others nothing?
Why?
I was at the top of my class.
But I had to quit school to go fishing every night.
Rafael.
You could be playing for Benfica.
But now you limp when it rains.
And you're lost between the guy you were
and the guy you never became.
And you, Carlinhos.
Men want to fuck you. It's true.
But has one of them taken you to dinner?
Or the movies?
In what imaginary world does your story end happily ever after?
It doesn't, does it?
No.
Do you want to be chained to a counter in Rabo de Peixe forever, Sílvia?
Sílvia, is that what you want?
Or live on welfare like your mother?
What the fuck have we done to deserve this fate?
What have we done to deserve this fucking fate?
Why does luck never smile on this land? Why?
It's God's will.
It's God's will, is it, Rafael?
Then this is also God's will.
This is also God's will, Rafael.
Does God only punish us?
Can't God help us once in a while?
Didn't you say nothing good ever happens here?
It's happening now.
Here and now. This is our chance.
This only happens once in a lifetime.
This is it. It won't happen again.
My mother's dead.
And my father...
He's blind as a bat.
Nobody ever fucking gave me anything.
Not a thing.
Zilch. Enough already!
Haven't you had enough? Aren't you fed up?
Aren't you sick of being small fry in a sea full of sharks?
Well?
Fucking hell!
Fuck.
We're gonna be rich.
- Don Massimo. - Who is this?
- Hi. It's Gianluca. -Is everything okay?
I have something important to tell you.
The second-best fucking ass in Rabo de Peixe.
What is it?
You want to drive?
- Come and celebrate with us. - No, I have to rest.
The procession's tomorrow, and I need my beauty sleep.
Pretty face!
And such a pretty ass, man!
- Is there a problem with the Colombian? - No.
- With the police? - No.
What happened, Gianluca?
We lost the cargo.
I fucking love this song.
Fucking hell!
Fuck!
Hey! Tell me how much that shit's worth.
Twenty-three million, eight hundred and twenty thousand euros.
Twenty-three million, eight hundred and thirty thousand euros!
Speak up, asshole!
Gianluca?
Gianluca? What happened?
- No! - Don't touch him!
Get out of the fucking car!
He's dead, isn't he?
- Let's go to the police. - We can't go the police!
- We'll say it was an accident. - We can't go to the police!
How much fucking coke did you do today?
What are you doing, Eduardo? Don't fucking touch the guy!
Drop that fucking thing!
- He's Italian. - We go to the police.
We killed an Italian tourist! You gonna tell them that?
We'll say it was a fucking accident!
What will they do when they find out we killed a tourist?
Push the guy, Rafael.
- No! - Push him.
We have to get him out!
- Fuck! - Push him out, Rafael.
Push him! Don't pull! Push, Rafael!
Fucking hell! Push the fucking guy!
Fucking hell!
- What are we gonna do? - We have to get him out of here.
And where do we fucking take him?
Take this shit.
Fuck.
Subtitle translation by: Rodrigo Vaz