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00:00:00All I've been longing with me
00:00:03All I've been longing with me
00:00:03All I've been longing with you
00:00:07All I've been longing with me
00:00:14Bastards.
00:00:16Good day, Mina.
00:00:18Sergeant.
00:00:24Good day, Jacob.
00:00:25Sergeant Stewart.
00:00:27So, 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. Present 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 pass?
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.
00:01:58Ma'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 yet, Mr...
00:02:05Williams.
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...
00:02:19Well, no, ma'am.
00:02:20I, uh...
00:02:21I just work for Amina.
00:02:22Uh...
00:02:23I'm sorry.
00:02:24I forgot.
00:02:25Partnership would be illegal, wouldn't it?
00:02:32Thank you for shielding me from the police.
00:02:42Would you excuse me?
00:02:51What is it?
00:02:54My 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.
00:03:07Not to mention flirt with the customers.
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, Sami Asmin, upstairs, hmm?
00:03:55Go, brush your teeth, get your books.
00:03:57Okay.
00:03:59Off.
00:04:19He said yes, we can go.
00:04:22Where?
00:04:23Out for lunch, to the location café.
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.
00:04:49I'm so sorry.
00:04:54I'm so sorry.
00:04:55I'm sorry, thank you, don't miss.
00:04:58Please eat.
00:05:02They have staff to do that.
00:05:12Good morning, ladies.
00:05:14Good morning.
00:05:15Our special today is lamb reedy,
00:05:17and 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.
00:05:41I'll send some over,
00:05:43and 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 four?
00:06:25I told you they're 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.
00:06:33There's a big shop underneath.
00:06:35Who will walk in it?
00:06:36I will.
00:06:37And your mother?
00:06:38And we'll have a boy to help us.
00:06:40And we'll have a night watchman to guard the place at night.
00:07:00Shall we leave?
00:07:03Let's go.
00:07:33Let's go.
00:07:37Let's go.
00:07:47Let's go.
00:07:50Let's go.
00:07:51Let's go.
00:07:52Let's go.
00:07:56Let's go.
00:07:58Let's go.
00:08:09Let's go.
00:08:17Let's go.
00:08:20Let's go.
00:08:21Let's go.
00:08:44Let's go.
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?
00:10:04Here, 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.
00:10:26Here, love.
00:10:28Have a nice cup of tea.
00:10:30Thank 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.
00:10:53Or any time.
00:10:57Where's the boy?
00:10:58Robert.
00:11:01He'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?
00:12:05Homework.
00:12:05Good.
00:12:06Good.
00:12:11Do it, then.
00:12:13I don't have any homo.
00:12:14Why not?
00:12:15He's only five.
00:12:17She doesn't get to 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.
00:13:04All these Africans, that's a problem with this country.
00:13:09Too many black people.
00:13:11You should come home, my son.
00:13:13It is a better life.
00:13:15How will Amina find a good husband here?
00:13:18There are plenty of families when she's ready.
00:13:20Of course she's ready.
00:13:22Where is she anyway?
00:13:25She couldn't come.
00:13:27Working?
00:13:27Did you say she's working?
00:13:29Where is she working?
00:13:32Cape Town.
00:13:35The girl needs to be brought back to a decent way of living.
00:13:39Why is she working?
00:13:40What is she doing?
00:13:44She must mix more.
00:13:45I know her family, the Ali's.
00:13:48Do you know them?
00:13:49Yes, we'll have them for dinner on Sunday.
00:13:53Your son never lets us invite anyone.
00:14:00Amina will never come.
00:14:02It is Amina's duty to be where we tell her.
00:14:05She will come.
00:14:13Amina!
00:14:14You're late.
00:14:15They're here already.
00:14:16Hurry up inside.
00:14:17Who's here?
00:14:18Where are you going?
00:14:20Inside?
00:14:21Like this.
00:14:22Like this.
00:14:23Mum, this is who I am.
00:14:25What else do you want me to wear?
00:14:46I'll help you serve the food.
00:14:49I don't see why people say that our girls are too modern.
00:14:52They may want to go out for a while and find out things for themselves.
00:14:56But I think our girls always find it best to stay at home in the end.
00:15:02Doesn't Amina work anymore then?
00:15:04Only now and then.
00:15:05But what about the cafe?
00:15:06Why isn't anybody eating?
00:15:08Things have been so busy at the garage lately.
00:15:12I don't have time to stop for one minute.
00:15:16Sometimes I wish Amina was helping me again.
00:15:19Then how many children would you like, Amina?
00:15:22Oh, um, I don't know.
00:15:24I suppose two or three would be nice.
00:15:28Do you want only boys?
00:15:29What would make you think I'd want boys tall?
00:15:31What rubbish?
00:15:32Everybody wants a boy.
00:15:33Everybody.
00:15:34Well, I'm not everybody.
00:15:36And I wouldn't care if I had a boy or a girl as long as a child was healthy and
00:15:39happy.
00:15:40Nothing else really matters, does it?
00:15:43I think she's right.
00:15:44I think it's time for dessert.
00:15:57We're going to Cape Town on the weekend.
00:15:59All of us?
00:16:03Do you remember when this came?
00:16:05Two weeks ago.
00:16:07It's from my sister, Rehmat.
00:16:10The one in Paris.
00:16:13Who told you that?
00:16:15Farah.
00:16:18She's coming with her husband.
00:16:23I'm going to go to sleep.
00:16:24You watch the shop.
00:17:15Come and help me here.
00:17:17They'll be here any minute now.
00:17:19And you're not particular Omaris.
00:17:22Not as much as he likes to think.
00:17:30They're here.
00:17:31I'm cooking!
00:17:33Bye.
00:17:35Bobby.
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.
00:18:02I 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.
00:18:25Iris 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.
00:18:51And there's a time where that seemed impossible.
00:18:54Aren't you afraid?
00:18:55Of 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.
00:19:29Um.
00:19:30Miriam.
00:19:30Why 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.
00:19:36On my school breaks.
00:19:39I should stay and help.
00:19:41You go.
00:19:42I'll take care of the children.
00:19:44Para can make us tea.
00:19:57Go.
00:19:59I'm fine.
00:20:09Go.
00:20:10Go.
00:20:13Go.
00:20:13Go.
00:20:14Go.
00:20:15Go.
00:20:16She's a urgent girl. She's young. And she owns this place, huh?
00:20:21But a partner.
00:20:22Imagine, at her age. To 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... with such curly hair?
00:20:40Are you saying that she's part of black?
00:20:43That's her grandmother. Began.
00:20:45The child is Amina's mother.
00:20:47There was a big scandal. She 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-India.
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.
00:21:21You want a 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.
00:22:10It'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, and 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.
00:22:41Good.
00:22:41I'll send some over.
00:22:42They're frying now.
00:22:43Amina,
00:22:44this gentleman here is looking for someone to help build him a garden.
00:22:47You want it, or you know someone who would?
00:22:49I want a vegetable garden behind my house,
00:22:52back 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.
00:22:57If you want me to do it, I can.
00:23:00Can you come early?
00:23:01How about seven?
00:23:02When we're far apart
00:23:07Don't you know I'll close my eyes
00:23:15And I'll see you
00:23:18With my heart
00:23:32Oh, that's the patch 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
00:23:47And there's fig jam in the fridge.
00:23:49Yeah?
00:23:50Come.
00:23:57Good morning.
00:23:59Hello.
00:24:01Say hello to the lady.
00:24:03Hello, ma'am.
00:24:06Come on.
00:24:10Bye.
00:24:12Bye.
00:24:23Bye.
00:24:25Bye.
00:24:29Bye.
00:24:50I... I brought you some food.
00:24:57It smells delicious.
00:25:00I wish I could cook so well.
00:25:01But you work in a cafe.
00:25:03All Jacob's recipes.
00:25:07Well, then you should learn.
00:25:08So my mother tells me.
00:25:10Your 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 show.
00:25:26Oh.
00:25:36I just want to know you better.
00:25:39I'm, uh...
00:25:40I'm just a housewife and a mother.
00:25:43And doesn't a housewife have thoughts and feelings and wishes just like everyone else?
00:25:47Yes.
00:25:50You were the first person to smile at me at the cafe.
00:25:55In eight days.
00:25:59I counted.
00:26:04I counted.
00:26:20I looked into my head.
00:26:21I went to a housewife and a wife.
00:26:22I was like...
00:26:22I was like, I'm gonna try.
00:26:23I found a place in the housewife's housewife.
00:26:23And I found my wife.
00:26:29I was a lawyer.
00:26:29I'll be a lawyer.
00:26:34Oh, God.
00:26:36I'm like, I'm like a lawyer.
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.
00:27:02Please, 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.
00:28:03If you're going to stay, you should come inside.
00:28:08Your husband's not back yet.
00:28:10He works late in Cape Town.
00:28:12Usually he stays at his sister and brother's place.
00:28:20The dal is delicious.
00:28:22Do you want some more?
00:28:23No, no, I would like to clean up, though.
00:28:26It's hot water in the bathroom.
00:28:27Come.
00:28:28Come.
00:28:30Come.
00:28:33Come.
00:28:33Come.
00:29:12What are you doing?
00:29:19I couldn't sleep.
00:29:21Me neither.
00:29:24Let me get you some tea.
00:29:27I'll make the tea medium.
00:29:28I'll make the tea.
00:29:33Miriam 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.
00:30:02Me too.
00:30:04Our first evening off of the boat from India and we walked straight into the Indian Congress.
00:30:08Protests.
00:30:09There were sticks and guns and policemen.
00:30:11And I was terrified.
00:30:15I was there, protesting the ghetto bill.
00:30:18I 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.
00:30:32Do you ever think about getting married and having children instead?
00:30:36Yes, that word instead I don't like.
00:30:39I can't a woman do both if she wants to?
00:30:42It's not usual.
00:30:43No.
00:30:44But neither am I and neither are you.
00:30:50How did you learn to think like this?
00:30:54My grandmother.
00:30:55My mother's mother.
00:30:57Picture 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.
00:31:11The 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.
00:31:59And what did they do to her?
00:32:04Salo!
00:32:21They put you on a train to Durban
00:32:24to get the boat to Bombay.
00:32:43Hold him up.
00:32:45Hold him up.
00:32:46Hold him up so I can kiss him.
00:32:48Please.
00:32:49Please.
00:32:49No!
00:32:50No!
00:32:52No!
00:32:53No, stop!
00:32:53Stop it!
00:32:54No!
00:32:55No!
00:32:56No!
00:32:57No!
00:32:58No!
00:32:59Stop!
00:33:00No!
00:33:01Stop!
00:33:02No!
00:33:03No!
00:33:04No!
00:33:08I can't imagine losing a child like that.
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.
00:33:37Um, uh, Miriam.
00:33:43Yes?
00:33:46Nothing.
00:33:48You should go. The baby needs you.
00:34:15Sam? Yes, Miriam?
00:34:16Look up.
00:34:17I'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?
00:34:24Yeah, Miriam gave us some breakfast.
00:34:28There you go.
00:34:30Okay.
00:34:31I never imagined I'd be so domesticated.
00:34:34I never imagined anything else.
00:34:36Okay, please.
00:34:38You 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, isn't it?
00:35:11That depends on who you ask.
00:35:18What are you doing?
00:35:23Reading.
00:35:24I can see that.
00:35:26Reading what?
00:35:29Poetry.
00:35:31Poetry.
00:35:32Poetry.
00:35:33At this time of night...
00:35:37tired.
00:35:39I was busy in Cape Town today.
00:35:42What's that?
00:35:43What did you say?
00:35:47Nothing.
00:36:08Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back, guilty of dust and sin, but could quick hide
00:36:15love, observing me grow slack from my first entrance in, drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
00:36:23if I lacked anything. A guest, I answered, worthy to be here. Love said, you shall be he.
00:36:34Afternoon. We need to ask you some questions. My husband is not here, he just left. Yeah,
00:36:40must have just missed him. Robert, get these gentlemen a drink.
00:36:46It's a good shop you have here. Thank you. Is 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, and we know she's staying with you.
00:37:05They're not here. So you know where they are.
00:37:24Listen. You'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. To stop this depravity. It'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. They may be withholding valuable information.
00:37:53No!
00:37:55Have you ever been to a police station, young lady?
00:37:57No!
00:38:03We'll bring you back later. We'll do, Marta, whenever we get time.
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!
00:38:41I'll beat you and your children and your children and their children and their children and their children and their
00:38:50children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and
00:38:50their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children
00:38:50and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their
00:38:50children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and
00:38:50their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children
00:38:50and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their
00:38:50children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and
00:38:50their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children
00:38:50and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their
00:38:51children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and their children and
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 will 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.
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.
00:41:38I know she's here.
00:41:41Who?
00:41:50Open this up.
00:41:53Go on, go on, go on!
00:41:54Open it!
00:42:01What's all that?
00:42:03Stock for the cafe.
00:42:06That's why I keep it locked.
00:42:07Those caffers 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 quid!
00:42:24Dink.
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.
00:43:22It'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?
00:43:40Thanks.
00:43:48Ah, 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...
00:44:04both lights.
00:44:06That should fit.
00:44:07You reckon?
00:44:08Let's try it.
00:44:11Come on, Mike.
00:44:16Come on, Mike.
00:44:17Give me a hug.
00:44:30Are 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!
00:45:08I don't need you.
00:45:19I don't need you.
00:45:41where were you I thought I'd left the washing out
00:46:04your place is here with me not with those coffers
00:46:49oh
00:46:49oh
00:46:49oh
00:46:50oh
00:46:51books madam you forgot them
00:46:53yes until somebody reminded me
00:46:55yes
00:46:55yes
00:46:57yes
00:46:58yes
00:46:59yes
00:47:00yes
00:47:01yes
00:47:02yes
00:47:20yes
00:47:21yes
00:47:21let's go take this take it to the post office
00:47:23there you are
00:47:43morning Jacob
00:47:44morning madeline
00:47:46Walmart today, isn't it?
00:47:47You can say that again.
00:47:49Hey, boy, get 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,
00:48:00and I'll get you the water
00:48:03if you are incapable of getting it 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
00:48:30as human beings in this place, aren't we?
00:48:33Some of us more quickly than others.
00:48:35I know.
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 Harjian.
00:48:50Yeah, there'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, uh...
00:49:07I'd better get back.
00:49:09I'll see you soon.
00:49:10I'll see you soon.
00:49:12Jacob.
00:49:14Be 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.
00:50:10They've come to give their reply.
00:50:13Even my mother must realise it's going to be no.
00:50:16Oh, oh, oh.
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.
00:50:36Ma, just...
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...
00:50:48Take her some tea.
00:51:05Ma...
00:51:08Ma...
00:51:10Ma...
00:51:10Dinner is ready.
00:51:18Ma...
00:51:19Your tea is ready.
00:51:19He must be ice-cold.
00:51:25I don't have time to go driving around the countryside
00:51:28for some old woman we didn't even know.
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.
00:51:49.
00:51:50.
00:51:51.
00:51:51.
00:51:51.
00:51:52.
00:51:55.
00:51:56.
00:52:26So, let's go.
00:52:32Auntie, is Aminah here? I'd like to offer my condolences.
00:52:39She's in the next room.
00:52:41Please see if she will join us.
00:53:07I'm reading your book.
00:53:09I'd forgotten. I even had them.
00:53:11I didn't know you knew my parents.
00:53:13I don't.
00:53:14We came to see you.
00:53:16The murderess.
00:53:18Apparently, 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.
00:53:44You look nice in it.
00:53:46So you prefer me in traditional clothes?
00:53:48No.
00:53:50You look very nice in this.
00:53:53But 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.
00:54:15But no one else seems to think so.
00:54:21Doesn'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 explained.
00:54:44I accept it.
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.
00:54:52I know.
00:54:59What happened to your face?
00:55:02Nothing.
00:55:10Your mother wants to see you downstairs.
00:55:12My husband wants to see you, too.
00:55:15To 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.
00:55:40Come.
00:55:55I want to change back into my own cloth.
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 me.
00:56:37Jacob?
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.
00:56:46All sorts of things.
00:56:49Samosas.
00:56:50Biryanis.
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 going to do the cooking?
00:57:00Don't worry.
00:57:02I've already thought of that.
00:57:04I've already thought of that.
00:57:11I want to change again.
00:57:12If we are concerned to make a proper Indian curry, that is safe.
00:57:14I'll be willing to like a musician.
00:57:16Do you know the best?
00:57:17I'll be just out of this.
00:57:17Be okay.
00:57:19If you can take the OUT of this thing.
00:57:23Be okay.
00:57:24Believe it will us know.
00:57:26I'll be included.
00:57:34were you just passing through no offense to your fair town but i it's okay i don't think anybody
00:57:42just passes through i came to see you will you have some tea cold drink i want to talk to
00:57:50you
00:57:51about the cafe thinking about something new indian food maybe a few days a week
00:57:56it's a good idea i want you to cook for the cafe me
00:58:07you haven't even had my cooking i ate here remember potato curry and dal
00:58:19besides i couldn't do it
00:58:22why not because i have to take care of the shop
00:58:28we'd pay you well
00:58:31my children okay then we'll make it one morning a week to start with
00:58:41my husband wouldn't like it i'm offering the job to you not your husband
00:58:47you surprised me thought you had a fearless streak
00:58:55how would you know whether i have a fearless streak or not
00:59:03wasn't it you who went out in the middle of the night to help an african who was hit by
00:59:06a car
00:59:09how could you know there were only two people myself and my husband
00:59:18three i know this government would like us to think they're savages but africans can speak as well as we
00:59:24can
00:59:39have been busy no i came to see if miriam would go for the cafe
00:59:47what did you say i said that i have to mind the shop and the children
00:59:54my wife doesn't need to work
01:00:03i've told her time and again to take lessons but she doesn't want to
01:00:10if only she had
01:00:11oh but i teach driving myself miriam if you want me to come for a couple of hours a week
01:00:18i'd be happy to come teach you
01:00:20thank you yes i'd like that
01:00:23my husband has been telling me i should learn how to drive for some time now
01:00:31good then it's settled i'll see you next week
01:00:54why did you do that you know eggs are expensive
01:00:57you have a long day in cape town
01:01:01i may be staying the night
01:01:18you're early
01:01:22very early
01:01:24what happened the markets closed closed why closed they have action by the blacks
01:01:35they have action by the blacks bloody blacks
01:02:46Paula?
01:02:48Paula?
01:02:49Bye?
01:02:51Everything okay?
01:02:53My God!
01:02:54Bye!
01:02:54Hi.
01:02:56Were you just going to surprise us like this?
01:02:58How good to see you.
01:03:00How did you know Sadru was back?
01:03:03I finished early today, so I thought I'd stop in to say hello.
01:03:08I also finished early today.
01:03:11Demonstration.
01:03:12Oh.
01:03:15Family, you okay?
01:03:32Are you ready for me?
01:03:34Who else is going to teach me how to drive?
01:03:36Bye.
01:03:37Bye.
01:03:48Bye.
01:03:52Bye.
01:03:53Bye.
01:03:55Bye.
01:03:56Bye.
01:04:11Okay. Let's start with the pedals first. This is the gas pedal, the accelerator, and this
01:04:19is the brake. Right. And this is the...
01:04:22Touch. Do you know how to drive?
01:04:25Then why would I ask for lessons if I knew how to drive?
01:04:28I don't know. Maybe you wanted to see me.
01:04:33You're right. I don't know how to drive, but my husband showed me all the pedals once
01:04:40when he tried to teach me how to learn. There's only three, so it's not difficult.
01:04:48Do you know the gears still?
01:04:53No.
01:04:54No. I'll show you.
01:05:02Is Madam inside?
01:05:04No, she's having a driving lesson, sir.
01:05:08There you are. See?
01:05:10Mm-hmm.
01:05:10Let's go.
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, 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.
01:07:46Do 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,
01:08:01but not to sit and eat with her.
01:08:07You could bring her here.
01:08:12Think of something.
01:08:16I 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,
01:08:35no matter how strongly you feel about them.
01:08:37You, 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.
01:10:26Don't you care for me?
01:10:36Of course I care for you.
01:10:39Amina, 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.
01:11:28You can trust me.
01:11:31I'm not afraid of you.
01:11:33I'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.
01:12:04You can see her.
01:12:05Please, Mom.
01:12:05Please, Mom.
01:12:26Do we need to go to her?
01:12:31No.
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 move away from here, Miriam, and I'll look after you and the children.
01:13:08Amina?
01:13:11Amina, please.
01:13:12Miriam, 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.
01:13:22Amina.
01:13:25Not for me.
01:13:54Come on.
01:13:55I had won them.
01:14:01I had saved him.
01:14:21You're over there with the truth,
01:14:39Oh, Jacob.
01:14:41You need a hand.
01:14:43Oh, 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?
01:15:15This 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.
01:15:40Better to be safe than sorry.
01:15:41Quite.
01:15:42All right, all right.
01:15:43Good night.
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, I'm sorry. I thought that, um, you come.
01:16:28I thought that you were Doris or one of the girls.
01:16:32Just me.
01:16:40Can I get you something to eat? Some tea?
01:16:44No, no, I'm fine.
01:16:47No, we just, we haven't heard from you for three weeks,
01:16:50and you're...
01:16:52So your mother's worried,
01:16:54and I just came to check to see you're okay.
01:16:59I'm fine.
01:17:01Good.
01:17:06Things have been, um...
01:17:11It'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 you.
01:17:21They wouldn't like us to miss out.
01:17:26Only this time people are...
01:17:30I mean, the people are talking about her, not just you.
01:17:35They know her as well.
01:17:36They 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.
01:18:17You're welcome.
01:18:17I'm sorry.
01:18:19I'm so terribly sorry about what happened.
01:18:23I'm ashamed to say that I was afraid of that young policeman,
01:18:26and what he might do to you if he suspected.
01:18:28It's all right.
01:18:30They'd only have thrown me in jail if they'd guessed.
01:18:33Jacob, come inside.
01:18:35I'll make us some supper I can't I hope you understand yes I understand I am sorry
01:18:56I want to drive you home no
01:19:03good-bye Madeline
01:19:05good-bye chicken
01:19:12good-bye
01:19:36so you're running away no I just need some time I just need some time away to think
01:19:46do you need money no thank you
01:19:57you shouldn't go
01:20:02I wish you know where to find you
01:20:23did you have your driving lesson today
01:20:28no good that's over then no I have to learn how to drive
01:20:36if I'm going to work you work here
01:20:41and I will still work here and I will work at the cafe for two mornings a week
01:20:50you don't need to work
01:20:53I do it's just for two mornings just 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 go 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
01:21:59it never has been
01:22:03I just didn't know what to tell you until now
01:22:11you'll have to find a better way to speak to him
01:22:26not again
01:22:48I may still need some lessons
01:22:54you drove all the way from Dillow
01:22:57do you still have that vacancy
01:23:02two days a week
01:23:14if it works out
01:23:16even more
01:23:29come on then
01:23:34come on then
01:23:34I'm Miriam
01:24:20Would you draw a timeline across my face
01:24:26You could read my palm
01:24:30Would you share with me your 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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