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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Hanna, Josef, Northern entitled The Secret Life of Words.
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conversations.value: The Secret Life of Words: Taciturn, partially deaf Hanna (Polley) is a Yugoslavian native working in a factory in Northern Ireland.\nShe is forced to take a vacation by her boss, who tells her that her co-workers have been offended by her lack of socializing.\nAfter overhearing a conversation about a need for a nurse, she takes on a job as private nurse for burn victim Josef (Robbins).\nHe is bedridden on an offshore oil rig after a fire on the rig, and has severe burns and is temporarily blinded.\nThe rig is not operational awaiting an investigation, and few people remain on board.\nHanna talks very little, and especially does not want to talk about herself.\nDespite his pain, Josef is constantly making jokes, some of them humorous sexual advances.\nHanna\'s care for him includes holding the urinal and washing his entire body.\nAs they get closer, they start sharing their experiences.\nUnbeknownst to him, she listens over and over again to a message on his cell phone from a mysterious woman who was in love with him.\nHanna learns from a colleague that Josef was injured while trying to save a man who committed suicide by intentionally throwing himself into the oil-rig fire.\nSome other tragic connection between the two men is implied.\nHe tells about a near-drowning experience because he cannot swim.\nEventually Josef confides to Hanna his greatest secret guilt, and she tells him about her previous life in the former Yugoslavia.\nShe describes in detail the horrors she endured during the Balkan Wars (Yugoslav Wars), including being kidnapped and repeatedly raped.\nShe shares experiences of the other women, including one that was forced to shoot her own daughter, and the slow and agonizing death of her best friend.\nShe tells of her own repeated torture and lets him feel the scars on her body from the wounds inflicted on her.\nJosef is not getting better, and at Hanna\'s initiative he is air-lifted off the oil rig to be taken to a hospital.\nWhen the helicopter lands, Josef wants Hanna to accompany him, but she walks away without a word.\nHowever, she leaves behind a backpack (apparently intentionally), and it contains enough information to give Josef a chance to find her.\nAfter he recovers, Josef travels to Denmark to visit a counselor that Hanna had seen after fleeing the war, seeking to learn more about her.\nHe then tracks her down at the factory in Northern Ireland where she works.\nThey talk, and at first she keeps her distance, saying she couldn\'t be with him because she thinks one day she could drown them both in her sorrow.\nWhen he tells her that he will "learn to swim," she reciprocates the love.\nLater, Hanna is shown in a home with the voice of a young girl explaining that Hanna now has two sons, whom the narrator refers to as her brothers, indicating that the woman Hanna described as having been forced to kill her own child was, in fact, herself.\nThe voice of her daughter ends the film with the hope that Hanna will one day be able to live completely in the "now" and no longer be haunted by the past.