Clouds of May

A small boy is given an egg. If he manages not to break it during forty days, he´ll get the watch with music he so much desires. He keeps it in his pocket. Going to and coming from school every day, with a heavy racksack on his back, he always has his hand in the pocket, protecting the egg. He really wants the watch.

One day, on his way back home, an old lady calls him and asks him to take a basket with tomatoes to another person´s house. It´s a long way. He walks and walks, from time to time he has to stop to rub his hands, aching from the weight. He´s sweating, he´s tired. He´s going up a hill. He stops to take a breath, leaves the basket down, looks back to the long way he came from.

As he picks up the basket again, a tomato falls. He bends to pick it up and... the egg breaks in his pocket (and it seemed that my heart broke with it). He realises what´s happened. His pocket is wet. He doesn´t cry. He turns to the basket and kicks it hard. The tomatoes roll down the hill. Be damned, stupid tomatoes!

Clouds of May, a film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan