00:17I think you just saved that guy's life.
00:20We both did.
00:21Come on, I held the flashlight.
00:23You were amazing.
00:26Well, I just hope that he's okay.
00:30You know, I'll take you home.
00:34I think I'm going to stay.
00:36Really?
00:38Yeah, I don't know, at least until he gets out of the emergency room.
00:42Well, then I'll wait with you.
00:43No, it's fine.
00:45Really.
00:47And thank you for tonight.
00:51Yeah, it was a great night.
00:54Kind of.
00:58Good luck with everything.
01:00New York.
01:00New York.
01:03New York.
01:29Uh-huh.
02:29My dearest Ruth, today started out like any other day, but when you walked into my father's store, so beautiful,
02:39so vibrant, I knew my life would forever be changed.
02:48You are the new family the rabbi has told us about.
02:51From Vienna?
02:53Yes, I am Hannah, and this is my daughter, Ruth.
02:58Nice to meet you.
02:59I'm Sarah, and this is my son, Ira.
03:06Ira?
03:08Ira!
03:24Good Shabbos.
03:25Good Shabbos.
03:37The following days were consumed with plodding ways in which I could talk to you, now that you had found
03:44a home in my small community.
04:10But I wasn't the only one seeking your attention.
04:18This would take some more time.
04:33He's awake if you'd like to see him.
04:34You have to eat something, Mr. Levinson.
04:36It's the only way you're going to get better.
04:38I'm old, I've had a heart attack, a hip replacement, surgery in both knees.
04:45How much better am I going to get?
04:52Who are you?
04:54I came to drop this off.
04:57How'd you get that?
04:58From your car?
05:00You asked me to get it for you.
05:02Oh, you...
05:05You pulled me out?
05:07No, my friend Luke pulled you out, but you asked me to go back and get this box.
05:14You don't remember?
05:19Well, thank you very much.
05:24He seems to like you, which is a first for him.
05:28You can get him to eat something, would you?
05:32She has the coldest hands I've ever felt.
05:37I think she soaks them in ice water before she comes by.
05:50You really should eat something.
05:52I'm done.
06:05Is that what Ruth would want?
06:10What do you know about Ruth?
06:12Did you read my letters?
06:14What do you care?
06:16You're done.
06:23They're beautiful.
06:31She was a beautiful woman.
06:37In every way.
06:42Well, I can see why they were so precious to you.
07:03I haven't been able to read them for years.
07:07Even, like, glasses.
07:09Do you want me to read them to you?
07:23But you have to eat first.
07:42May 25th, 1940.
07:44May 25th, 1940.
07:45For the first time in my life, I was hoping the service at the synagogue would be longer.
08:02Excuse me.
08:07Excuse me.
08:14Excuse me.
08:14Are you ever going to talk to me?
08:19Excuse me?
08:20I always see you there, lurking around.
08:25I don't lurk.
08:26You do lurk.
08:28But then you never talk to me.
08:29Am I so frightening?
08:32No, I...
08:38What you did to that poor Rose was unforgivable.
08:44You saw that?
08:48Don't be embarrassed.
08:49It was a lovely gesture.
08:55Want to walk me home?
08:59What about David Stein?
09:00He can walk my mother home.
09:05Vienna is beautiful and so cultured.
09:08It has more artists than Paris.
09:11At least it did before the war.
09:14It must have been hard for you to leave.
09:16Yeah.
09:19Especially for my parents.
09:22Man, it would have been worse if we'd stayed.
09:27You know, everyone thought we were being foolish, that my father was overreacting.
09:33Now we can't even contact our relatives anymore.
09:36You know, sometimes I think,
09:38what right do I have to be happy when there's so much suffering in the world?
09:43I guess you could say, what right do you have to be unhappy?
09:50True.
09:51You know, for a country pumpkin, you're quite philosophical.
09:56What?
09:58Oh, it's a country pumpkin, not a country pumpkin.
10:01What?
10:03I think I prefer the way you said it.
10:13Well, thank you for walking me home.
10:16No, you're welcome.
10:18It was a pleasure.
10:33Ruth?
10:38You want to go out with me sometime?
10:43I'm free after Shabbat.
10:47Wait, you want to go out tonight?
10:48But we're not getting any young, Levinson.
10:52You can wait there if you want.
11:02Forever yours.
11:05I will.
11:12You want me to read you another one?
11:21But...
11:23Could you maybe...
11:26Could you maybe come back?
11:27Just go...
11:31Maybe.
11:32It's OK.
11:33Maybe.
11:33Maybe.
11:33You
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