Jožo: Dan, come here, I need backup.

Dan: Hi, how’s it going? What’s up?

Jožo: The girls want to invite Vacín to the school. Isn’t that nuts?

Dan: Woah, are you out of your minds? Do you know who he is?

Silence

Dan: Wow, to have to listen to that nonsense at school, too, as if it’s not enough to keep hearing it on the street.

Magda: What do you hear on the street?

Dan: “Hold on to your wallet”, ‘Gypsy waster” ….is that good enough?

Magda: You’re being melodramatic. He’ll just come and give a lecture. That’s it.

Dan: Yeah, and what will the lecture be about? About how as a Roma I can’t live normally like other people? And you’re going to listen to it, and how am I supposed to feel then, huh? And two months from now, someone will punch me in the mouth and no one will see any racist motive in it, right? I guess I better start working out.

Magda: Hey, I think you’re getting a bit paranoid.

Dan: I’m paranoid? Let me tell you something. The last time the Nazis had a demonstration, and Vacín played there too, it was on the same day as my sister’s birthday. We had to put off celebrating, because if we’d gone out we’d have gotten punched in the face. One of my friends went out to buy cigarettes and he ended up in the hospital. You want to talk to people like that? And you want to invite them into our school?

Magda: Wait a minute - when Nazis have a demonstration you don’t go outside?

Dan: What would I do, throw myself at their fists? And it’s not just whenever they have a demonstration. There are places that I never go. Just to be safe. When there’s more than one of them you can never be sure. You know why I started boxing.