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00:00:00all I'm loading is being
00:00:03we need to be
00:00:04we need to be
00:00:05we need to be
00:00:07we need to be
00:00:07we need to be
00:00:11all I need to be
00:00:12all I need to be
00:00:13all I need to be
00:00:13all I need to be
00:00:14bastards
00:00:16good day Mina
00:00:18sergeant
00:00:24good day Jacob
00:00:25sergeant Stewart
00:00:26so she finally got the place open
00:00:30Nice business to have.
00:00:32I imagine it is.
00:00:42These new laws are making life bloody hard for the police.
00:00:45They're not making it a picnic for the rest of us either.
00:00:48My colleague's waiting in the car.
00:00:51He has a problem with this sort of thing.
00:00:54We all know it's an offence for blacks to eat in the same place as whites.
00:00:58There are no whites here.
00:00:59Present company excluded.
00:01:02There's non-blacks, then.
00:01:05This is an Indian area.
00:01:07Maybe coloreds, but no blacks.
00:01:12Boss cooks.
00:01:13You know they have bosses.
00:01:15I want to see them. Now!
00:01:22This is only a travel permit.
00:01:25Yes, sir.
00:01:26Where's your boss?
00:01:27But I don't have a pass, sir.
00:01:29I'm colored, not black.
00:01:30You look like a cafe to me.
00:01:32Her father was Dutch.
00:01:35Like mine.
00:01:36You understand, Jacob?
00:01:37It's trying to be difficult.
00:01:40Stuart, what are you talking to these people for?
00:01:44Calm down.
00:01:45You keep serving blacks, and we'll kill the lot of them.
00:01:49You're bad.
00:01:49You're bad.
00:01:56You're bad.
00:01:58Ma'am, it would be safer for you to leave now.
00:02:01You don't have to pay for the...
00:02:03I haven't finished my coffee, Mr. Williams.
00:02:07Jacob Williams.
00:02:08I'm Madeleine Smith.
00:02:09You run the post office.
00:02:11Well, you come in at 10 a.m. every Tuesday and Friday.
00:02:15You're Amina's business partner, aren't you?
00:02:18Uh, well, no, ma'am, I, uh, I just work for Amina.
00:02:22Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot.
00:02:25Partnership would be illegal, wouldn't it?
00:02:33For shielding me from the police.
00:02:42Would you excuse me?
00:02:51What is it?
00:02:53My grandmother.
00:02:57We'll get a new glass, new frame.
00:02:59Are you okay?
00:03:02And you?
00:03:03I'm not so old that I can't die for cover.
00:03:06Don't imagine flirt with the customers.
00:03:08I'm not so old.
00:03:38Sammy and Ayaan, get ready for school, both of you.
00:03:40Thank God, we're moving on in a couple of months.
00:03:44Before the next one comes.
00:03:46It's all right, Mama.
00:03:52Okay, Sammy, Yasmin, upstairs, hmm?
00:03:55Go, brush your teeth, get your books.
00:03:57Good guy.
00:04:00Off.
00:04:19He said yes, we can go.
00:04:22Where?
00:04:23Out for lunch, to the location cafƩ.
00:04:26I can't believe our husbands are letting us out of here.
00:04:29Come on, Miriam, get dressed.
00:04:47Good morning.
00:04:52I'm so sorry.
00:04:54I'm so sorry about that.
00:04:56I'm sorry, thank you, Douglas.
00:04:58Please eat.
00:05:03They have staff to do that.
00:05:12Good morning, ladies.
00:05:14Good morning.
00:05:15Our special today is lamb reedy, and have some nice, fresh cook sisters.
00:05:19What are cook sisters?
00:05:21It's a South African delicacy.
00:05:24A fried doughnut with syrup and coconut.
00:05:27Here, try one.
00:05:29See if you like it.
00:05:39It's delicious.
00:05:40Good.
00:05:42I'll send some over, and I promise I try not to drop them this time.
00:05:49She thinks a lot of herself.
00:05:51Maybe she should.
00:05:53She owns a business, and she's one of us.
00:05:55No, she's not.
00:05:57Why do you see any of our girls looking like that?
00:06:00Like what?
00:06:01Are you blind?
00:06:03Like a man.
00:06:07Maybe it's easier to work in trousers.
00:06:23Daddy, is it far?
00:06:25I told you Deluxe in the country.
00:06:26You'll like it there.
00:06:29Do we have a house there like our old one?
00:06:31It'll be much bigger and better than the old one.
00:06:33The big shop underneath.
00:06:35We'll work in it.
00:06:36I will.
00:06:37And your mother, and we'll have a boy to help us.
00:06:40And we'll have a night watchman to guard the place at night.
00:06:59Shall we leave?
00:07:01Go on.
00:07:04Go on.
00:07:07Go.
00:07:15Go on.
00:07:17Go on.
00:07:23Go on.
00:07:25Go now.
00:07:28Go on.
00:07:31Oh, my God.
00:08:10We need to work hard.
00:08:12That's all.
00:08:42We need to work hard.
00:09:27She would have been proud of you.
00:09:47Hello, bye.
00:09:49Mrs Benjamin is making some tea.
00:09:52She says you should go and help her.
00:09:57How hard is it to make tea?
00:10:04Yes, it will give you some energy.
00:10:08Are you okay?
00:10:10Shall I call her?
00:10:16No.
00:10:17Okay.
00:10:19Going already?
00:10:20Yes, I need to go to the shop.
00:10:22Don't worry about it.
00:10:23Your sister-in-law is there.
00:10:26Yeah, love.
00:10:28Have a nice cup of tea.
00:10:29Thank you, Mrs Benjamin.
00:10:31He's not one for a jet, is he?
00:10:35No.
00:10:37He's not.
00:10:44There's nobody here.
00:10:48I don't know who you think is going to come flooding in to buy groceries at this time of the
00:10:52day.
00:10:52Or any time.
00:10:57Where's the boy?
00:10:58Robert.
00:11:00He's making deliveries.
00:11:02He'll be back.
00:11:03Later.
00:11:05What are you doing?
00:11:07Has it been so long that you don't even remember?
00:11:11I suppose she doesn't like you to touch her when she's pregnant.
00:11:33You come to Cape Town once a week.
00:11:36Come and see me.
00:11:50Sit down.
00:12:02So what do you do after school?
00:12:04Homework.
00:12:05Good.
00:12:06Good.
00:12:11Do it then.
00:12:13I don't have any homework.
00:12:14Why not?
00:12:15She's only five.
00:12:17She doesn't get homework until big school.
00:12:20Oh.
00:12:23Hello, Mr. Husband.
00:12:24Or should I say Mr. Father.
00:12:27Is it a boy?
00:12:28What a question.
00:12:29You have a beautiful baby girl.
00:12:40I have a beautiful baby.
00:12:46She doesn't get ķ¬ź².
00:12:46I have a beautiful baby girl.
00:12:49What a question.
00:12:51She doesn't get escrowed.
00:12:52I have a beautiful baby girl.
00:12:57She does.
00:13:00I have to say she doesn't get home.
00:13:02She doesn't get away at her.
00:13:02Well, she doesn't get back.
00:13:04all these Africans that's a problem with this country too many black people you
00:13:11should come home my son it is a better life how will Amina find a good husband
00:13:18here there are plenty of families when she's ready of course she's ready where
00:13:22is she anyway she couldn't come working did you say she's working where is she
00:13:30working Cape Town the girl needs to be brought back to a decent way of living
00:13:38why is she working what is she doing she must mix more I know a family the
00:13:47Ali's do you know them yes we'll have them for dinner on Sunday your son never
00:13:54lets us invite anyone Amina will never come it is Amina's duty to be where we
00:14:04tell her she will come
00:14:13Amina you're late they're here already hurry up inside who's here where are you
00:14:19going inside like this like this mom this is who I am does you want me to wear
00:14:46I'll help you serve the food I don't see why people say that our girls are too modern they
00:14:53may want to go out for a while and find out things for themselves but I think our girls always
00:14:59find it
00:15:00best to stay at home in the end doesn't Amina work any more than only now and then but what
00:15:06about the cat why isn't anybody eating way things have been so busy at the
00:15:11garage lately I I don't have time to stop for one minute sometimes I wish Amina
00:15:17was helping me again and how many children would you like Amina oh um I don't know I
00:15:24suppose two or three would be nice do you want only boys what would make you
00:15:30think I'd want boys tall what rubbish everybody wants a boy everybody well I'm
00:15:35not everybody and I wouldn't care if I had a boy or a girl as long as the child
00:15:39was healthy and happy nothing else really matters does it I think she's right I
00:15:45think it's time for dessert we're going to Cape Town on the weekend all of us do you remember when
00:16:04this
00:16:04came two weeks ago it's from my sister Ramath the one in Paris who told you
00:16:14that farah she's coming with her husband I'm going to go to sleep you watch the
00:16:25shop
00:16:41you
00:16:41you
00:16:41you
00:16:41you
00:16:44you
00:16:44you
00:16:44you
00:16:44you
00:16:57ORGAN PLAYS
00:17:15Ah, come and help me here.
00:17:17They'll be here any minute now.
00:17:19And you're not particular old Maris.
00:17:22Not as much as he likes to think.
00:17:30They're here.
00:17:31I'm cooking!
00:17:33Bye.
00:17:35Bye.
00:17:39Bobby.
00:17:40Well, where is she?
00:17:41She's gone to the hotel to meet James.
00:17:44That's a stupid thing to do.
00:17:46Are they trying to get caught?
00:17:48They shouldn't even be here.
00:17:49His father's dying.
00:17:50So what?
00:17:52He'll be dead in a week and they'll be in jail.
00:17:54Do they think the police care?
00:17:55Which hotel is he staying at?
00:17:57At the Royal, if you can believe it.
00:18:03I don't know who they think they are.
00:18:15This is my other sister-in-law.
00:18:17This is Miriam.
00:18:19Hello.
00:18:22It took me a while to get used to it.
00:18:24Iris must be such a nightmare to get used to.
00:18:27I meant that it wasn't home at first.
00:18:30For either of us.
00:18:31But then I realized that there were no gossiping neighbors.
00:18:34No list of rules.
00:18:36No need to stay home if I wanted to work.
00:18:39We were very sorry to hear about your father's illness.
00:18:42He gave us his blessing.
00:18:44Finally.
00:18:46I suppose death can give you a different perspective on what's important.
00:18:49And now we're eating here with all of you and there's a time where that seemed impossible.
00:18:54Aren't you afraid of what could happen if you get caught?
00:18:58My husband is an idealist.
00:19:00We have no time for ideals these days.
00:19:02We have to be practical.
00:19:03Get what we can whenever we can.
00:19:05You know, you're my husband and you could be twins.
00:19:11We are twins.
00:19:17Why couldn't you tell me?
00:19:19Men never tell you anything.
00:19:29Miriam, why don't we get my brother to take us to the location cafe?
00:19:33I used to sneak out and go over there all the time, on my school breaks.
00:19:39I should stay and help.
00:19:41Baby, you go.
00:19:42I'll take care of the children.
00:19:44Para can make us tea.
00:20:05Joy?
00:20:06Woohoo!
00:20:07Ya.
00:20:08Sure.
00:20:09Huh?
00:20:11Huh?
00:20:11Huh?
00:20:11Joe?
00:20:12Go, go, go!
00:20:13Ah!
00:20:16Is that the Harjan girl?
00:20:18She's young, and she owns this place, huh?
00:20:21But a partner.
00:20:22Imagine, at her age.
00:20:24To be the partner for business, and a good business too.
00:20:27Sunday is always her busiest day.
00:20:29I think she's done well for one of our girls.
00:20:31So do I.
00:20:32She's not totally one of our girls.
00:20:35Have you ever seen one of our girls with such...
00:20:38with such curly hair?
00:20:40Are you saying that she's part black?
00:20:43That's her grandmother, Begum.
00:20:46The child is Amina's mother.
00:20:47There was a big scandal.
00:20:49She messed around with the Africans.
00:20:53Should I pretend to be horrified?
00:20:55You know, plenty of white people, including some of his family,
00:20:58will sit there one day, just like you, all self-righteous,
00:21:00and accuse my children of being half-Indian.
00:21:02That's not the same thing.
00:21:04It's exactly the same thing.
00:21:06How can you live here, Omar?
00:21:08How can you bear to be in this place?
00:21:09South Africa is my home.
00:21:11North Africa is my home.
00:21:13I'm not a good one.
00:21:16I'm not a good one.
00:21:17I'm not a good one.
00:21:21I'm not a good one.
00:21:22You want it ten pence worth, thingy, huh?
00:21:25Thanks.
00:21:42Uh, I'd like to serve someone over here, please.
00:22:05I love South Africa.
00:22:07What do you love about it?
00:22:08The freedom, the space. It's not like India.
00:22:11No, it's not. It's much worse.
00:22:14And God help anyone who tries to fight it.
00:22:16I fight it.
00:22:17And I think you probably did too.
00:22:20I fought so hard.
00:22:22I had to leave with bruises on my face.
00:22:31Do you still like cook sisters?
00:22:34Yes, I do.
00:22:35And have you had any sins that were better?
00:22:40Never.
00:22:40Good. I'll send some over. They're frying now.
00:22:43Amina?
00:22:44This gentleman here is looking for someone to help build him a garden.
00:22:48You want it or you know someone who would?
00:22:49I want a vegetable garden behind my house, back of the shop.
00:22:53I can do it.
00:22:54I want a big space.
00:22:55I need enough to sell, not just to eat.
00:22:58If you want me to do it, I can.
00:23:00Can you come early?
00:23:01How about seven?
00:23:04When we're far apart, don't you know I'll close my eyes.
00:23:15And I'll see you with my heart.
00:23:31Why don't you ask me to do it?
00:23:31Well, that's the fact I'd like you to do.
00:23:34Mommy, why is she wearing trousers?
00:23:37Because she works outside.
00:23:41Don't forget their lunch.
00:23:43Thank You Robert.
00:23:44Robert, give the young lady some chapatis and some tea
00:23:47when she starts walking, and there's fig jam in the fridge.
00:23:49Yeah, come.
00:23:58Good morning.
00:23:59Hello.
00:24:01Say hello to the lady.
00:24:03Hello, ma'am.
00:24:06Come on.
00:24:11Bye.
00:24:17Bye.
00:24:43Bye.
00:24:50I brought you some food.
00:24:57It smells delicious.
00:24:59I wish I could cook so well.
00:25:02But you work in a cafe.
00:25:03All Jacob's recipes.
00:25:06Well, then you should learn.
00:25:08So my mother tells me.
00:25:09Your mother's right.
00:25:11What will you do when you get married?
00:25:13I don't know.
00:25:14I suppose I'll have to find someone who can cook.
00:25:21Have you eaten?
00:25:23Why don't you join me?
00:25:25I have to mind the shop.
00:25:36I just want to know you better.
00:25:39I'm, uh, I'm just a housewife and a mother.
00:25:42And doesn't a housewife have thoughts and feelings and wishes just like everyone else?
00:25:50You were the first person to smile at me at the cafe in eight days.
00:25:59I counted.
00:26:01I counted.
00:26:01Sit.
00:26:03Sit.
00:26:04Sit.
00:26:05Sit.
00:26:13Go.
00:26:25Sit.
00:26:28Sit.
00:26:42What's this?
00:26:45Bowdrine.
00:26:50I can't take it.
00:26:52Don't you like reading?
00:26:53I love reading.
00:26:55I mean, I used to.
00:26:58I used to read a lot.
00:27:01Please, keep it there.
00:27:06Stay for dinner?
00:27:08I should get going.
00:27:11No, you can't drive at night.
00:27:13I'll be fine.
00:27:13No, maybe in town, but here, the roads are just tracks.
00:27:19Stay.
00:27:41I'll be fine.
00:27:42I'll be fine.
00:27:56I'll be fine.
00:28:03if you're going to stay you should come inside
00:28:08your husband's not back yet he works late in cape town usually he stays at his sister
00:28:13in the brother's place
00:28:20the dal is delicious do you want some more no no i would like to clean up though
00:28:26it's hot water in the bathroom come
00:29:12what are you doing
00:29:19i couldn't sleep me neither
00:29:24let me get you some tea i'll make the tea medium
00:29:33medium who's always getting the tea for everyone
00:29:43tell me has anyone ever looked after you
00:29:55when did you come to south africa
00:29:59seven years ago after i got married me too
00:30:04our first evening off of the boat from india and we walked straight into the indian congress
00:30:08protests there were sticks and guns and policemen i was
00:30:14terrified
00:30:14i was there protesting the ghetto bill
00:30:19i thought we could overthrow the government in two weeks
00:30:25is there anything that you don't do
00:30:30i have to give people something to talk about
00:30:33do you ever think about getting married and having children instead
00:30:36yes that word instead i don't like
00:30:39why can't a woman do both if she wants to
00:30:41no it's not usual it's not usual no but neither am i and neither are you
00:30:50how did you learn to think like this
00:30:54my grandmother my mother's mother picture in the cafe
00:30:59she lived here once before she was sent back to india
00:31:03you must have heard someone's version of the story
00:31:06there's always gossip
00:31:09tell me the story
00:31:10the real story if you don't mind
00:31:14i'd like to tell you
00:31:17i think you'd understand why my grandmother was so important to me
00:31:21what happened to her
00:31:33she was 19
00:31:36with one child already
00:31:39and the shame and dishonor of being raped
00:31:43she tried to hide it
00:31:47but she became pregnant
00:31:51as soon as the baby was born
00:31:54my mother
00:31:55they realized it wasn't her husband's
00:31:59what did they do to her
00:32:21they put you on a train to durbin to get the boat to bombay
00:32:44hold him out
00:32:46hold him out
00:32:46hold him out so i can kiss him
00:32:48please
00:32:49please
00:32:49no no no no No stop stop no
00:32:58no no no no stop
00:33:00no stop
00:33:00no no
00:33:02no hundreds back on her
00:33:11It broke her.
00:33:14She didn't have one choice to make her whole life.
00:33:18And for as long as I can remember,
00:33:21she always warned me about the dangers of being oppressed in a marriage.
00:33:26Is that why you haven't gotten married?
00:33:30That's not the only reason.
00:33:39Um, um, Miriam.
00:33:43Yes?
00:33:46Nothing.
00:33:48You should go. The baby needs you.
00:34:14Sam?
00:34:15Yes, Miriam?
00:34:16I'm here, Miriam. We should be in the garden.
00:34:19Yeah.
00:34:20Are you ready for school?
00:34:22Ah, did you eat?
00:34:23Yes, Miriam gave us some breakfast.
00:34:28There you go.
00:34:29Okay.
00:34:31I never imagined I'd be so domesticated.
00:34:34I never imagined anything else.
00:34:37Okay, please. You ready for school?
00:34:39Come on.
00:34:41Have a good day.
00:34:47Can I make you some breakfast?
00:34:50Uh, perhaps later. I'm going to start work.
00:34:58I hope I didn't worry you with all my strange ideas and stories last night.
00:35:05No, you made me think, and that's supposed to be a good thing.
00:35:11Isn't it?
00:35:12That depends on who you ask.
00:35:13Okay.
00:35:18What are you doing?
00:35:23Reading.
00:35:24I can see that.
00:35:26Reading what?
00:35:28Poetry.
00:35:31Poetry.
00:35:32At this time of night.
00:35:36I'm tired.
00:35:39I was busy in Cape Town today.
00:35:42With her?
00:35:44What did you say?
00:35:47Nothing.
00:36:07Love bade me welcome.
00:36:10Yet my soul drew back.
00:36:12Guilty of dust and sin.
00:36:15But quick-eyed love.
00:36:17Observing me grow slack from my first entrance in, drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning if I lacked anything.
00:36:26A guest, I answered, worthy to be here.
00:36:29Love said, you shall be he.
00:36:34Afternoon.
00:36:35We need to ask you some questions.
00:36:37My husband is not here.
00:36:38He just left.
00:36:39Yeah.
00:36:39You must have just missed him.
00:36:41Robert, get these gentlemen a drink.
00:36:46It's a good shop you have here.
00:36:51Is your sister-in-law here?
00:36:54My brother-in-law and his wife stay in town.
00:37:00We're looking for Remat, Winston.
00:37:02And we know she's staying with you.
00:37:05They're not here.
00:37:08So you know where they are.
00:37:23Listen.
00:37:25You'll be in a pile of shit if you help them.
00:37:29What have they done?
00:37:32Have you heard of the prohibition of mixed marriages act of 1949?
00:37:36It's there for a reason.
00:37:39To stop this depravity.
00:37:43It's against nature what these people are doing.
00:37:48I'm from school.
00:37:49No, you can't.
00:37:50Yes, we can.
00:37:51They may be withholding valuable information.
00:37:55Have you ever been to a police station, young lady?
00:37:57No!
00:37:58Please stop!
00:38:01No!
00:38:02We'll bring you back later.
00:38:04More tomorrow, whenever we get time.
00:38:07No!
00:38:07I'll tell you where they are.
00:38:08Too late!
00:38:13So, when are they?
00:38:16When are they?
00:38:18It came down.
00:38:22They're my brother-in-law's.
00:38:25You know, if you're lying, I'll beat you and your children and your baby!
00:38:36Oh, I hope you're running.
00:38:43I'm with you!
00:38:44Oh, my dear!
00:38:46Oh, no.
00:38:51Oh, my dear!
00:38:54Oh, God.
00:38:57Oh, hello.
00:38:57Oh, oh, my dear!
00:39:08I need help. The police are after us.
00:39:11We can't.
00:39:12Amina, you have to.
00:39:14We can't help you. I'm sorry.
00:39:19Please, please.
00:39:20I understand. It's just...
00:39:22I don't know what to do.
00:39:24If we help you into another customer, someone won't break when the police start threatening.
00:39:29Are you sure?
00:39:32Thank you for the sake.
00:39:43You were supposed to tell us.
00:39:50In front of my husband.
00:39:52Was I supposed to tell you while she could hear me?
00:39:55Hiding upstairs.
00:39:56Yes. What kind of state police don't even search the house?
00:40:04Where are they now?
00:40:09Some nice clothes.
00:40:10French labels.
00:40:13We'll find them.
00:40:14You'll be the next.
00:40:16For helping them.
00:40:22I'm not stupid.
00:40:26But there is someone around you who is.
00:40:31And it won't be the first time she's in trouble with the two of you.
00:40:59Stop that bloody noise!
00:41:01I wish it did more.
00:41:03No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:41:10Jacob?
00:41:11Sergeant.
00:41:12We're looking for an Indian woman.
00:41:16Indians is all we get in here.
00:41:17But you're welcome to have a look around.
00:41:20Where's Amina?
00:41:21She's having a nap.
00:41:22She'll be taking over from me shortly.
00:41:24I, um, I'm not as young as I used to be.
00:41:39I know she's here.
00:41:41Who?
00:41:50Open this up.
00:41:52Come, come, come!
00:41:54Open it!
00:42:01What's all that?
00:42:02Stock for the cafe.
00:42:05That's why I keep it locked.
00:42:07Those coffers would steal anything.
00:42:13Tell me where she is.
00:42:17I really don't know who you're talking about.
00:42:19You and I both know that I've had some women in here.
00:42:22It's time you've been out!
00:42:23Dinking quick!
00:42:24Dinking quick!
00:42:27Dinking quick!
00:42:33Dinking quick!
00:42:37Dinking quick!
00:42:38Dinking quick!
00:42:42Dinking quick!
00:42:42Hey.
00:42:44Yours is the only place in town where your cafe workers eat alongside Indians.
00:42:48Would you get away with it?
00:42:50Yes.
00:42:50I could have closed you down any time, couldn't I?
00:42:57Yes.
00:42:58So?
00:43:01Was she here?
00:43:03No.
00:43:05Where is she?
00:43:06I really don't know.
00:43:10I'm sorry.
00:43:20Who's that?
00:43:21If it's the police, then I'll deal with them this time.
00:43:27Someone's in here.
00:43:28I've got them in the truck.
00:43:29What happened?
00:43:30My lights have gone.
00:43:32They put money carefully walking in the outbuilding.
00:43:34Right in my way.
00:43:35Thought it was just the one side he caught, but both my lights have gone.
00:43:38We might have one of those.
00:43:40Miriam?
00:43:41Thanks.
00:43:49Ah, here's the right one.
00:43:50How is he?
00:43:53Who?
00:43:54Garfun.
00:43:55How is he?
00:43:56Dead, I hope.
00:44:03Just look at the boat lights.
00:44:06That should fit.
00:44:08You're a gun.
00:44:08Let's try it.
00:44:10Come on, Mike.
00:44:16One light can get me up.
00:44:29Are you okay?
00:44:31I'm fine.
00:44:39Where are you?
00:44:42I can help.
00:44:47Let me help you.
00:44:50Let's...
00:44:51I don't need your help!
00:45:09Don't need your help.
00:45:22Don't need your help.
00:45:45I don't need your help.
00:45:48Don't need your help.
00:45:51Don't need your help.
00:45:52Don't need your help.
00:45:53I love you.
00:46:04Your place is here with me, not with those coffers.
00:46:49Oh, you found it.
00:46:51Books, madam.
00:46:52You forgot them?
00:46:53Yes, until somebody reminded me.
00:47:21Robert, take this.
00:47:22Take it to the post office.
00:47:43Good morning, Jacob.
00:47:44Morning, Madeline.
00:47:46Walmart today, isn't it?
00:47:47You can say that again.
00:47:49Hey, boy.
00:47:50Get me some water.
00:47:53Coyon, you understand English, do you?
00:47:55There's a jug over there.
00:47:58Listen, I'm the employee here, and I'll get you the water if you are incapable of getting
00:48:04it yourself.
00:48:08What's the matter with you, lady?
00:48:10That'll be sixpence for the stamps.
00:48:29We're all of us losing our dignity as human beings in this place, aren't we?
00:48:32Some of us more quickly than others.
00:48:35Oh, no.
00:48:36Don't you believe that for a second?
00:48:38It's men like him who lose the most.
00:48:42Perhaps.
00:48:45I've got a parcel here for you.
00:48:47Rather for young Miss Harjan.
00:48:50Here.
00:48:51There's no other post.
00:48:55There's no return address.
00:48:57No.
00:48:59Perhaps it's from a secret paramoy.
00:49:06I'd better get back.
00:49:09I'll see you soon.
00:49:13Jacob, be sure that you do.
00:49:28This came for you today.
00:49:36It's not my mother's handwriting.
00:49:59She's not going to work all the time.
00:50:02This is so difficult because he's too young.
00:50:07What are you doing?
00:50:08It's the Ali's.
00:50:09They've come to give their reply.
00:50:13Even my mother must realise there's going to be no.
00:50:16Mom.
00:50:17Mom.
00:50:18Mom.
00:50:19Won't you have some tea?
00:50:21Send that girl to me at once.
00:50:24Who, Amina?
00:50:25Of course.
00:50:26She needs discipline now.
00:50:29Send me the doctor.
00:50:31I'm dying.
00:50:33She'll be fine.
00:50:34She'll be fine.
00:50:35Mom.
00:50:36Just...
00:50:40Just take her some tea.
00:50:42But she's dying.
00:50:43She's been claiming her imminent death for 30 years.
00:50:47Please, just take her some tea.
00:51:04Mom.
00:51:07Mom.
00:51:10Mom.
00:51:11Dinner is ready.
00:51:18Mom.
00:51:19Mom.
00:51:19Your tea must be ice cold.
00:51:25I don't have time to go driving around the countryside for some old woman we didn't even know.
00:51:30Mom.
00:51:31That family don't mix with any of us.
00:51:33Yet when it suits them, they expect all of us to just come running?
00:51:35I don't expect it.
00:51:37I don't owe those people anything!
00:51:38Yes, you do.
00:51:40Amina Harjan saved your sister.
00:51:44After Farah betrayed her.
00:52:05So.
00:52:18I'm going to goå
.
00:52:18I'm going to go.
00:52:19One time.
00:52:24Make sure you go.
00:52:24And you have to go.
00:52:24That three days are long.
00:52:27You're going to start.
00:52:27You know you're going to stop.
00:52:28And you're going to get to the other side.
00:52:28You're going to stop, man.
00:52:28Yep, I'm going to go.
00:52:29The other side is fine.
00:52:29I'm thinking.
00:52:29I'm thinking.
00:52:33Aunty, is Amina here? I'd like to offer my condolences.
00:52:39She's in the next room. Please see if she will join us.
00:53:07I'm reading your book. I'd forgotten. I even had them and...
00:53:11I didn't know you knew my parents. I don't. We came to see you.
00:53:16The murderess. Apparently my work and my trousers caused a heart attack.
00:53:27I can't tell whether you approve of my clothes or not.
00:53:36They're nice.
00:53:39It's a nice outfit.
00:53:42I mean that. You look nice in it.
00:53:46So you prefer me in traditional clothes? No.
00:53:50You look very nice in this. But you don't look like yourself.
00:53:56I don't feel like myself.
00:53:59But I have to please a person who, God rest her soul, is not even able to see me.
00:54:11It sounds silly when you put it like that.
00:54:13It is silly. But no one else seems to think so.
00:54:21It doesn't matter what people think.
00:54:25Doesn't it?
00:54:27Why did you get married?
00:54:29Did you fall in love and know you wanted to be with him for the rest of your life?
00:54:35No.
00:54:38He saw me a few times and proposed and my family accepted.
00:54:45And that's what you want to hear, isn't it?
00:54:47That it never occurred to me to question it.
00:54:50It occurs to me to question it.
00:54:52What?
00:54:53I know.
00:54:59What happened to your face?
00:55:01Nothing.
00:55:10Your mother wants to see you downstairs.
00:55:12My husband wants to see you too. To thank you.
00:55:16For what?
00:55:17For Raymoth.
00:55:19Anyone would have done the same.
00:55:21I didn't.
00:55:23Did they hurt you?
00:55:26The police?
00:55:28They were taking my children away.
00:55:31Then you did the right thing.
00:55:36Come.
00:55:38I want to change back into my own cloth.
00:55:55Why should you take that risk?
00:55:57Because I hate apartheid.
00:56:01Because I hate aggressive policemen.
00:56:04I wish I could be more like you.
00:56:18Be careful what you wish for.
00:56:22Me and you.
00:56:37Jacob?
00:56:38Hmm?
00:56:38I have an idea.
00:56:40You haven't had a bad one yet.
00:56:42What is it?
00:56:45Indian food.
00:56:47All sorts of things.
00:56:49Samosas, biryanis.
00:56:51Okay.
00:56:53But you know, our girls don't know the first thing about making a proper Indian curry.
00:56:58So who's gonna do the cooking?
00:57:00Don't worry.
00:57:02I've already thought of that.
00:57:04Oh no, you're not going to die.
00:57:06I don't know the food.
00:57:09You're not going to die.
00:57:12Oh no.
00:57:13I'm not going to die.
00:57:17What is it?
00:57:20You're not going to die.
00:57:23I'm not going to die.
00:57:26I'm not going to die.
00:57:29Most of the food will be like...
00:57:29They're too cold.
00:57:31Oh no.
00:57:33Oh no, they're so cold.
00:57:33Oh no, it's so cold.
00:57:33You're not going to die.
00:57:33were you just passing through no offense to you they're down today it's okay I
00:57:41don't think anybody just passes through I came to see you will you have some tea
00:57:47cold drink I want to talk to you about the cafe thinking about something new
00:57:54Indian food maybe a few days a week it's a good idea I want you to cook for the
00:58:01cafe me you haven't even had my cooking I ate here remember potato curry and dal
00:58:19besides I couldn't do it why not because I have to take care of the shop we'd pay you
00:58:29well my children okay then we'll make it one morning a week to start with my
00:58:41husband wouldn't like it I'm offering the job to you not your husband you surprised
00:58:51me thought you had a fearless streak how would you know whether I have a fearless streak or not
00:59:03wasn't it you who went out to the middle of the night to help an African who was hit by
00:59:06a car
00:59:17three I know this government would like us to think they're savages but Africans can speak as well as we
00:59:39again has it been busy no I came to see if Miriam would go to the cafe what did you
00:59:48say I said that I
00:59:50have to mind the shop and the children my wife doesn't need to work look I'm sorry it's not a
00:59:58question of need no my wife doesn't know how to drive I've told her time and again to take lessons
01:00:08but
01:00:08she doesn't want to if only she had oh but I teach driving myself Miriam if you want me to
01:00:16come for a
01:00:17couple of hours a week be happy to come teach you thank you yes I'd like that my husband is
01:00:25been
01:00:26telling me I should learn how to drive for some time now good then it's settled I'll see you next
01:00:35week
01:00:54why did you do that you know eggs are expensive you have a long day in Cape Town maybe staying
01:01:02the night
01:01:17you're early
01:01:22very early what happened the markets closed closed why closed
01:01:32they have action by the blacks bloody blacks
01:02:04so
01:02:08and
01:02:23so
01:02:25you
01:02:29und Locked
01:02:31Come here, Dad!
01:02:46Father?
01:02:48Father?
01:02:49Bye?
01:02:52Everything okay?
01:02:53My God!
01:02:53Bye!
01:02:56Were you just going to surprise us like this?
01:02:58How good to see you.
01:02:59How did you know Sadru was back?
01:03:03I finished early today,
01:03:05so I thought I'd stop in to say hello.
01:03:09I also finished early today.
01:03:11Demonstration.
01:03:15Family, you okay?
01:03:32Are you ready for me?
01:03:34Who else is going to teach me how to drive?
01:03:41I'm here.
01:03:46You okay?
01:03:50I'm here.
01:03:52I'm here, dude.
01:03:53I got him to hang around.
01:03:53Oh, man.
01:03:53Maybe he's coming out.
01:03:53I got a phone call.
01:03:53I got him.
01:04:04I'm here.
01:04:12okay let's start with the pedals first this is the gas pedal the accelerator yeah and this is
01:04:19the brake right and this is Dutch you know how to drive no why would I ask for lessons if
01:04:27I knew
01:04:27how to drive I don't know maybe I wanted to see me I don't know how to drive but my
01:04:37husband showed
01:04:39me all the pedals once when he tried to teach me how to learn there's only three so it's not
01:04:46difficult
01:04:48do you know the gear is still no I'll show you
01:05:03is madam inside no she's having a driving license sir
01:05:10oh
01:05:52We were having a driving lesson.
01:05:54I'm not finished yet.
01:05:57Get out of the truck.
01:06:03Miriam, we'll finish another time.
01:06:12How was your day?
01:06:14What?
01:06:15How was your day?
01:06:16Not good.
01:06:17Oh, sorry to hear that, but things could get better.
01:06:35I want to talk to you.
01:06:39Where's Robert?
01:06:41Inside probably.
01:06:42I was angry with him earlier.
01:06:45Why were you angry with all of us?
01:06:49I should be angry with you.
01:06:55It's finished.
01:06:58I won't be seeing her anymore.
01:07:02Why did you do it, Omar?
01:07:07I don't know.
01:07:17You heard me.
01:07:22Come, come, come.
01:07:25Go, go, go, go.
01:07:32It won't be a stylish marriage.
01:07:36We can't afford a carriage.
01:07:39I've asked Madeline to have dinner with me.
01:07:43She accepted.
01:07:47Do you know what you're doing?
01:07:48I believe I do, yes.
01:07:50Where will you take her for dinner?
01:07:55I'm not fit to take her anywhere, am I?
01:07:59Only good enough to serve her a plate of food, but not to sit and eat with her.
01:08:07You could bring her here.
01:08:12Think of something.
01:08:15I have lived my entire life in this place by their rules.
01:08:21I do not want to end my life alone because of them.
01:08:26I know.
01:08:28I know, but lately I've been wondering whether it's worth going after certain people, no matter how strongly you feel
01:08:37about them.
01:08:38You, more than anyone, has taught me that it is worth it.
01:08:45Don't start changing now, Amina.
01:09:06Hello.
01:09:09Hello, Robert.
01:09:10Yes.
01:09:11Are you ready?
01:09:27Robert.
01:09:29Take care of the shop, please.
01:09:43You didn't come to give me a driving lesson, did you?
01:09:53Why did you come?
01:10:07I can't.
01:10:11I'm married, and you're a woman.
01:10:16Those are not good reasons.
01:10:20They are my reasons, and they matter to me.
01:10:23I can't.
01:10:24I can't.
01:10:24I can't.
01:10:25I can't.
01:10:26Don't you care for me?
01:10:36Of course, I care for you.
01:10:38I-Mina, please.
01:10:43What am I doing to you?
01:10:52Every time I look at you, I want you to stay forever.
01:11:20Will you do something for me?
01:11:24Close your eyes.
01:11:28I can trust you.
01:11:31I'm not afraid of you.
01:11:41Will you just imagine, just for now, just for now?
01:11:48Please, Mom, and then nothing exists except for you and me.
01:12:27Do you need to go to her?
01:12:30No.
01:12:36What happens now?
01:12:42Does this drive innocence just continue?
01:12:51Come away with me.
01:12:54I have three children.
01:12:56We'll never leave.
01:12:58I would never ask you to leave the children.
01:13:00We could, um, we could move.
01:13:03We could move away from here, Miriam, and I'll look after you and the children.
01:13:07Miriam.
01:13:08Amina.
01:13:11Amina, please.
01:13:12Miriam.
01:13:13I know, I know that you'd think that I don't know what I'm talking about.
01:13:16But I've lived this way, Miriam.
01:13:18I've lived my own way, my whole life, and it can be done.
01:13:21It can be done, Miriam.
01:13:22It can be done.
01:13:22Meena?
01:13:26Not for me.
01:13:28I don't know.
01:14:06I don't know.
01:14:38I don't know.
01:14:39Ah, Jacob.
01:14:41You need a hand.
01:14:42Ah, you wouldn't mind.
01:14:43I'm struggling with this lock.
01:14:45Here, let me do it.
01:14:50Hello?
01:14:52Hello?
01:14:54Police here, ma'am.
01:14:55Postmistress here, sir.
01:14:57Oh, you're right.
01:14:58I was driving by and I saw the door ajar.
01:15:01Oh, I'm fine, thank you.
01:15:02Just locking up.
01:15:04Sorry to trouble you.
01:15:05No trouble.
01:15:10Who's there?
01:15:14This is Jacob.
01:15:15The section where you're standing is for whites only.
01:15:18He was just helping me lock up.
01:15:20He shouldn't be there.
01:15:21Who is he anyway?
01:15:23He's my driver.
01:15:34Why doesn't your driver keep the keys?
01:15:36Because I prefer to keep them myself.
01:15:38Yeah, I know what you mean.
01:15:40Compared to be safe than sorry.
01:15:41Quite.
01:15:42All right.
01:16:12I thought I told you not to disturb me.
01:16:16Yes, but that was when you were six years old, no?
01:16:22Dad.
01:16:24I'm sorry.
01:16:25I thought that, um, you come.
01:16:27I thought that you were Doris or one of the girls.
01:16:32Just me.
01:16:40Can I get you something to eat?
01:16:42Some tea?
01:16:44No, no, I'm fine.
01:16:47No, we just, we haven't heard from you for three weeks and you're...
01:16:52So your mother's worried and I just came to check to see you're okay.
01:16:59I'm fine.
01:17:01Good.
01:17:06Things have been, um, it's hard to explain.
01:17:12No need.
01:17:15You see, people like to make sure your mother and I know everything that is happening with
01:17:19you.
01:17:21They wouldn't like us to miss out.
01:17:26Only this time people are, I mean, the people are talking about her, not just you.
01:17:35They know her as well.
01:17:36No, they have no right.
01:17:38It's only because she's friends with me that they make any assumptions.
01:17:43Don't people have anything better to do?
01:17:45No, they don't.
01:17:48That's why I try to avoid them.
01:17:50You hear it.
01:17:52Take this out.
01:17:56Sure.
01:18:18Jacob, I'm so terribly sorry about what happened, I'm ashamed to say that I was afraid
01:18:24of that young policeman and what he might do to you if he's suspected, it's alright, they'd only have thrown
01:18:31me in jail if they'd guessed, Jacob, come inside, I'll make us some supper, I can't, I hope you understand,
01:18:48yes, I understand, I am sorry,
01:18:57I'll, I want to drive you home, no, goodbye, Madeline,
01:19:11Goodbye, Jacob, goodbye
01:19:36So you're running away?
01:19:37No, I just need some time.
01:19:39I just need some time away to think, Dad.
01:19:42Ah.
01:19:47Do you need money?
01:19:48No.
01:19:57You shouldn't go.
01:20:02I wish you know where to find you.
01:20:16Oh, what a day.
01:20:23Did you have your driving lesson today?
01:20:26No.
01:20:28Good.
01:20:31That's over then.
01:20:32No.
01:20:34I have to learn how to drive if I'm going to work.
01:20:38You work here.
01:20:41And I will still work here.
01:20:44And I will work at the cafe for two mornings a week.
01:20:50You don't need to work.
01:20:53I do.
01:20:55It's just for two mornings.
01:20:56Just let me learn how to drive.
01:20:58You will not be my wife and work.
01:21:01Do you want to divorce me?
01:21:04What about the children?
01:21:07What is it, Omar?
01:21:09Tell me what you're thinking.
01:21:22It's okay.
01:21:25It's all right, my love.
01:21:27Everything's okay.
01:21:27Go back to sleep.
01:21:30It's all right.
01:21:47I don't like it.
01:21:50If I don't like it, that should be enough.
01:21:56It's not enough.
01:21:57It's not enough.
01:21:59It never has been.
01:22:03I just didn't know what to tell you until now.
01:22:10No!
01:22:11You'll have to find a better way to speak to me.
01:22:26Not again.
01:22:48I may still need some lessons.
01:22:54You drove all the way from Delo.
01:22:57Do you still have that vacancy?
01:23:02Two days a week?
01:23:14If it works out, even more.
01:23:28Come on, then.
01:23:34I'm Miriam.
01:23:54When I was in my mind.
01:23:54But I can never get one more line.
01:23:57Let me do it, Omar.
01:24:05I'm Miriam.
01:24:20I have to find a better way to find a better way to work.
01:24:24Across my face
01:24:26You could read my palm
01:24:30Would you share with me
01:24:33Your remaining grace
01:24:36Like the last few drops of a bomb
01:24:41Would you speak in voice of fire and ice
01:24:47Crush their words with a stone
01:24:50Would you dare to move
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