Let me see if it's an emergency,
or if my grandmother forgot the time difference again.
-Hello. -Hey, it's me.
You won't believe it, but they came through.
Finally. My papers!
Wait, what, really?
Holy shit, we did it.
I'm buying a ticket to New York Tuesday.
Maksim?
You're joking. Tuesday is the day after tomorrow!
Hey, is everything okay?
Wait a second,
I'll call you back and tell me everything.
Two minutes. I promise.
You've gotta go.
Shit.
JFK International Airport is…
Yana!
Oi!
It would be easier if you put me down, Maksim.
I haven't seen you in two years,
I'm not letting you go.
So here is where you live.
They don't pick up dog poop here?
The neighborhood's industrial, lots of artists.
-Artists? -Yes.
Why can't artists pick up dog poop?
Okay, strong man.
-We're home. -Finally.
Mr. Yana, hi!
I can't believe you're actually here.
All those years waiting for your visa
and just, like, watching her go through it,
I feel like I'm watching the real-life Notebook or something.
All right. Well, I'll be home late so, have fun!
Bye.
What's with the hug?
An American.
Is this an original pressing?
Yes.
I found it buried at a flea market.
Remember?
You sampled it the first time I saw you play.
In '99? Seriously?
-You did. -I would never sample a hit from 1993
that samples a bigger hit from 1978.
"Actually, Yana,
sampling anything after 1901
is so derivative."
Yeah, smart ass?
You're a DJ now?
-I just do it for myself. -For yourself.
Then why the record bag?
Are you gonna wear a bikini and a belly chain?
Show me what you got.
I'm not in the mood, okay?
Okay.
Okay. DJ Not-In-The-Mood.
I like it.
I'm married, you know.
Will you tell me something?
You want me to pause?
What?
Falling into San Francisco Bay.
Do you want me to pause?
I've fallen into lakes out of rowboats when I was a little girl.
I even fell into the river once trying to leap from one stone to another.
But I've never fallen into San Francisco Bay.
Hello?
DJ Spaceside.
Amazing, right?
I can't believe he's playing this live!
I know. He's the only one making his own music in Minsk.
He's like our own Frankie Knuckles.
Hey, crazy dancer.
You remember me.
I couldn't find you after my set.
Tell me everything about you.
-Right now? -Yes.
Watch where you're going!
I've spent the past three years at school in America.
I forgot how rude people are here.
New York? Chicago?
I wish.
I'm going to Boston in the fall.
So far, I've lived in Missouri.
We called it Misery, if you understand English.
Yeah, I know. I study English and my vocabulary is excellent, actually.
-Listen. -Uh-huh?
Beautiful. Effervescent. Luminous.
Bravo!
You know,
I don't know how long I can keep this up.
-Maybe you could give me your number? -Of course.
No, I don't have a pen.
I'll memorize it. Go ahead.
Okay.
-22, -22,
-37, -37,
-44. -44.
22, 37, 44.
44 or 45?
Okay.
We are here.
On the L train.
You need "Manhattan Bound."
Here's A-1 Records
and you should check out Generation, too.
The Tech-House selection is top-notch.
Where do you work?
Midtown.
There's just…
nothing to do there.
It's all office buildings.
I can meet you for lunch.
No need.
It's so soulless there.
I almost forgot to give you keys.
Do you need anything?
If you need to change money,
-go to the bank-- -Yana!
You know I have been outside alone before.
I'll be fine.
These investment opportunities
are gonna make your portfolio beg you for more.
I don't know. That's what I tell everybody, I know.
What do we do?
We are dressing B-minus hookers like triple-A escorts
and these pension funds are like, "Ride me, bitch!"
I know you know what I mean.
Hey, where are you coming from, Saturday Night Fever?
Hey, Gaswami wants to see you.
Right now?
Well, he wanted you at 7:30, but I guess 8:30 will have to do.
Yeah, you still there?
I had some train issues so--
You're not pulling adequate weight on your team, Yana.
Okay.
I understand what it's like to be on your own in a new country,
but you can't get away with doing just enough.
Competent is a dirty word. It simply means you're not exceptional.
So why did you come here in the first place?
I guess I wanted the opportunity to make something that's never existed.
Something that's raw and alive.
Does that make sense?
No. Be exceptional, or find another line of work.
Understood.
I will work on that.
I promise nothing is going on.
I've just been busy.
-Why are you up so early? -I was worried about you.
Mom--
-Mom! I have to go. -Hi, Irina!
-Who was that? -That's no one.
Juliana's friend.
-I'll call you later. -Love you.
I haven't told her you're here.
She'll have opinions.
-Uh-huh. -I've spent enough time working today.
You were at work this whole time?
This is how late people work on Wall Street.
You should quit.
Uh-huh. I'll quit,
I'll have to leave the country,
you'll have to leave the country.
Have you been outside today?
I couldn't understand your map,
then I got sidetracked.
This is crazy.
It's your first day in America, and you haven't left the house!
Let's go out now.
There's a party.
You can meet my friends.
Great.
I can't wait for your friends to judge me.
I hear the situation in Chechnya is horrifying.
Well, that's Russia. I'm from Belarus. That's a different country.
Hey, Yana.
Martin! Hey, how are you?
-Exhausted. Flew in from LA this morning. -Poor baby.
This is Maksim.
I've heard so much about you. Welcome!
Yana tells me you're a musician as well?
He is an incredible DJ. And he does computer animation.
She's exaggerating.
The stuff he was doing back in Minsk.
You have to hear his first album, it's based solely on samples.
What? Like DJ Shadow?
-Yes, exactly. -Not like DJ Shadow.
It was before DJ Shadow.
I'm going to the bathroom.
Oh, my God. Black Devil Disco Club?
I got this bootleg in London.
Thank God for P.P. Roy.
Someone knows her shit. Where you spin at, record nerd?
Oh, no. I'm just a bedroom DJ. Total hobby.
-That's a waste of a good ear. -What about you?
I spin at APT. Meatpacking District.
Yeah, I've heard of it.
You should come by. I'm there every Friday.
Yeah. I'd love to.
Yana?
Is everything okay with your friend?
Why? Did he say something?
No, he's just been sitting in the stairwell for, like, an hour.
Martin played Coachella last year.
He's a good person to know.
Yana,
I don't like being paraded around for your friends.
Those people are so fake.
I was networking for you.
I didn't ask you to!
C'mon, let's go out just the two of us, like we used to.
Okay, I'll go by myself.
I thought you were going.
I changed my mind.
Listen,
I'm sorry. I'm just feeling really weird. I'm gonna go to bed.
I've missed you so much.
Get in.
Everything is so different here from how I imagined it.
The noise. The smells.
Even you.
Your body. It's softer.
-Is that a problem? -No.
-I could get out if-- -No, Yana.
You stay. I'll go.
Don't worry, your mom didn't see me.
Get in.
Come on!
You didn't say please.
Get in, please?
Pretty please?
Your hands are ridiculously soft.
Excuse me?
My hands are strong and manly.
Did you get a manicure?
Manicure?
Yana!
It's almost midnight.
-I'm trying to sleep! -Sorry, mom!
Yana, tomorrow--
Okay, kids,
the party is over.
Okay?
Maksim?
Time to go home.
I'll talk to her.
Don't you dare!
Everything will be fine.
She loves me.
He has nowhere else to go.
-I'm the only person he knows here. -Slow down.
We are talking about Maksim?
Yes, he came to stay with me.
Wait, how did he get a visa?
I married him.
What?
When?
Two years ago.
Yana.
Mom, please! Don't get mad.
I was afraid to tell you.
I can't go on like this.
I can't take care of him.
I know you always liked him.
My sweet girl.
Maksim is a wonderful first love.
But you know what I always thought about you two?
You're the kind of person who goes places.
He's the kind that sits still.
Mom,
I wish you were here right now.
So, why are you here?
Uh-huh.
It says here you got permission for an expedited wedding…
because you're pregnant?
That's right.
Eight months pregnant.
Yes.
Okay, what's the rush?
I'm pregnant.
She's pregnant obviously.
The paperwork says so.
Today,
on June 10th, 2001,
I'm registering the marriage of Maksim Olegovich Pomerantsev
and Yana Viktorovna Vinatovskaya.
Hello?
Mom, is something wrong?
No, I just wanted to hear your voice.
I'll call you back.
Okay.
What's going on?
I did your laundry.
You left the house?
Yes. And I didn't even use a map.
To do my laundry?
You do nice things for me all the time.
I wanted to do something nice for you.
No, don't get too excited.
There was an accident.
Looks like it would fit you now.
Yes.
Let's see.
It's nice.
You know,
it's kind of sexy.
That makes sense.
I am
sexy.
Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand And it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
Kicking in chairs And knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West End town
Call the police There's a mad man around
Running down underground to a dive bar
In a West End town
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
West End girls
Yana, you have a guest.
Are you ready?
What are you wearing?
You said you liked it.
You can't meet me at my work with your belly hanging out!
Really?
What an idiot. You're looking good, hon.
I don't get why you care what those corporate losers think of you.
Because these are my coworkers.
This is my actual job, it's not a joke.
Not all of us get to sit around in our underwear all day.
I don't have a work visa.
You don't need a visa to be making music.
I haven't been inspired in New York! What am I supposed to do?
You have all the time in the world.
And what are you doing? Nothing.
You're wasting your life.
Maybe you should stop putting all your problems on to me.
Admit it.
So cool.
What am I looking at?
-They're space doors. -What the hell's a space door?
It's a door
that takes you to another dimension.
Through space and time.
Of course.
A space door.
You should add doorknobs.
Even space doors need doorknobs.
Show me how you do that.
You want to learn how to spin?
How else can I keep up with your talents?
You're the one going to Harvard in the fall.
I'm serious.
Well, look here.
This is a mixer.
You can listen to one record,
while the other plays
by muting this channel.
You hear the strong beat?
One, two, three, four…
Good.
Now,
you look for…
a place to match it to the other record.
I'm tired.
You're tired because you went out drinking.
I was stressed.
We're always arguing. I work all the time and I hate my job.
And that's my fault?
-I don't wanna fight anymore. -Yeah,
you say that, but then you twist the knife.
"I do all the work.
All you do is sit on your ass."
It's true, isn't it?
See?
Everything's my fault.
You know,
I hadn't seen you in two years, but I took you in.
I supported us. I tried to make this work.
-You tried? -Yes.
You picked me up from the airport with a goddamn hickey!
I can't do this anymore!
Now you're going to lock yourself in the bathroom.
Yana!
Yana! This isn't fair! Don't accuse me and walk away! Yana!
What's going on?
Nothing. We're talking.
Yana?
Yana, do you need help?
Do you want me to come in?
-You two are always fighting. -Mind your own business, okay?
This is my business. I live here too.
You're making her miserable.
I'm okay. You can go back to bed.
Yana, let's talk, please.
You need to leave tomorrow.
Are you joking?
I'll help you find some place.
-I'll lend you money until you find a job. -I got frustrated.
-I'm sorry about that, okay? -We can't do this anymore.
And I'm not going to try. You need to leave, or I will.
Where are you going?
I need some air. I can't be with you right now.
Yana, please!
I love you.
I love you, too.
But it's not enough.
Soft hands my drug
You taste like home to me
Echoing, reverberating
I am now remembering Your kiss is a dream
Elations extreme
GOODBYE
SPACE DOORKNOB
And now I'm never the same
Never the same girl twice
Oh no, I'm never the same now
Never the same
Never the same, never the same
Don't be nervous.
You're gonna be great.
Thanks so much for this.
No worries. I wanted to dance to some good shit tonight.
Well, you got the right girl.