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00:00:00.
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.
00:03:15Oh!
00:03:20Come.icture.
00:03:28No! Hm?
00:03:30Milk?
00:03:36We're
00:03:38coming in
00:03:38and get ready for school, both of you. Thank God we're
00:03:41moving out 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 far?
00:06:25I told you, Deloves in the country.
00:06:26You 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.
00:06:33A big shop underneath.
00:06:35We'll 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.
00:06:42We'll be right back in the night.
00:06:45I'll be right back in the night.
00:06:56We'll get you, Deloves.
00:06:57You'll be right back in the night.
00:07:00Shall we leave?
00:08:10We need to work hard.
00:08:12That's all.
00:09:27She would have been proud of you.
00:09:47Hello, Brian.
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.
00:10:05It 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.
00:10:21I 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.
00:10:29Thank you, Mrs. Benjamin.
00:10:31He's not one for a jet, is he?
00:10:34No.
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 homework.
00:12:14Why not?
00:12:15She'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'll have a beautiful baby girl.
00:12:40Oh, my God.
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?
00:13:28Did 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 Alis.
00:13:48Do you know them?
00:13:49Yes.
00:13:50We'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.
00:14:53They 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.
00:15:06But what about the cat?
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.
00:16:00All of us?
00:16:03Do you remember when this came?
00:16:05Two weeks ago.
00:16:07It's from my sister, Rehmat.
00:16:09The 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.
00:16:24I'll keep you...
00:16:24I'll keep you...
00:16:24I'll watch the shop.
00:16:46I'll keep you...
00:17:15I'll be here any minute now, and 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!
00:17:35Bobby.
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.
00:18:22Took 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.
00:18:28At 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 was 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, Miriam, 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, I, I should stay and help.
00:19:41Uh, uh, Bobby, you go up.
00:19:42I'll take care of the children.
00:19:43Hmm.
00:19:45Farah can make us tea.
00:20:05Woohoo!
00:20:07Yeah, sure.
00:20:09Ha ha ha!
00:20:11Yo!
00:20:12Go, go, go, go!
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 curly hair?
00:20:40Are you saying that she's part black?
00:20:43That's her grandmother, Begum.
00:20:45The 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-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.
00:21:45Uh, 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.
00:22:12It'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, I 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 there frying now.
00:22:44Amina, this 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?
00:23:02When 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
00:23:30Hello?
00:23:32That'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 when she starts working.
00:23:48And there's fig jam in the fridge.
00:23:49Yeah?
00:23:50Come.
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.
00:24:11Bye.
00:24:50I brought you some food
00:24:55Thank you
00:24:57It smells delicious
00:24:59I wish I could cook so well
00:25:01But 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
00:25:10What 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
00:25:40I'm just a housewife
00:25:41And a mother
00:25:42And doesn't a housewife
00:25:44Have thoughts and feelings and wishes
00:25:45Just like everyone else
00:25:50You were the first person
00:25:52To smile at me at the cafe
00:25:55In eight days
00:26:00I counted
00:26:00Is it?
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.
00:26:57I used to read a lot.
00:27:01Please, keep it then.
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.
00:27:22No, I don't.
00:27:22No, no.
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 brother's place the dalo is delicious do you want some more no no I would like to
00:28:24clean up though it's hot water in the bathroom come
00:29:12what are you doing
00:29:19I couldn't sleep me neither
00:29:25let me get you some tea I'll make the tea with you
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 seven 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 protests
00:30:09there were sticks and guns and policemen I was
00:30:14terrified I 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
00:30:41it's not usual
00:30:44no but 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
00:31:10the 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 with 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
00:31:56they realized it wasn't her husband's
00:31:59what 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
00:32:46hold him up so I can kiss him
00:33:07I can't imagine losing a child like that
00:33:10it broke her
00:33:14she didn't have one choice to make
00:33:16her whole life
00:33:18and for as long as I can remember
00:33:20she 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
00:33:31she always warned me about her
00:33:37um, um, Miriam
00:33:42um, um, Miriam
00:33:43uh, um, uh, Miriam
00:33:43um, uh, Miriam
00:33:46nothing
00:33:48you should go
00:33:49the baby needs you
00:33:50you should go
00:33:51uh, Miriam
00:33:58you should go
00:33:58uh, Miriam
00:34:01uh, Miriam
00:34:14Sam!
00:34:15Yasmin!
00:34:16Look up!
00:34:17I can't eat.
00:34:17We should be in the garden.
00:34:19Yeah.
00:34:20Are you ready for school?
00:34:22Ah, did you eat?
00:34:24Yes.
00:34:24Yeah, I mean I 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.
00:34:37Okay, 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.
00:34:52Okay.
00:34:58I hope I didn't worry you with all my strange ideas and stories last night.
00:35:05No.
00:35:06You 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.
00:35:19What 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?
00:35:43What did you say?
00:35:47Nothing.
00:36:08Love bad me welcome.
00:36:10It my soul drew back guilty of dust and sin.
00:36:14But quick-eyed love, observing me grow slack from my first entrance in, drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning if
00:36:24I lacked anything.
00:36:26A guest, I answered, worthy to be here. Love said, you shall be he.
00:36:34Afternoon. We need to ask you some questions.
00:36:37My husband is not here, he just left.
00:36:39Yeah, must have just missed it.
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.
00:37:24Listen, 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.
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.
00:37:53No!
00:37:55Have you ever been to a police station, young lady?
00:37:57No!
00:37:58No!
00:37:59No!
00:38:01No!
00:38:02No!
00:38:03No!
00:38:03No!
00:38:03No!
00:38:14We'll bring you back later.
00:38:16Where 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!
00:38:30maassa eetatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatataatatatat
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?
00:39:33Thank 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.
00:39:57What 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.
00:40:15You'll be the next.
00:40:17For 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.
00:41:02Come on, oh, Lily.
00:41:10Jacob?
00:41:11Sergeant.
00:41:12We're looking for an Indian woman.
00:41:15Indians 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.
00:42:05That's why I keep it locked.
00:42:08Those 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 we've been out!
00:42:23Dinking quid!
00:42:24Dinking quid!
00:42:38Dinking quid!
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.
00:42:51I could have closed you down any time, couldn't I?
00:42:57Yes.
00:42:58So?
00:43:00Was 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 gone down the truck.
00:43:29What happened?
00:43:30My lights have gone.
00:43:32They put very careful 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?
00:43:54Careful. How is he?
00:43:56Dead, I hope.
00:44:03Just look at the... both lights.
00:44:06That should fit.
00:44:07You're again?
00:44:08Let's try it.
00:44:11Come on, Mike.
00:44:14Come on, Mike.
00:44:16Come on, Mike.
00:44:17Give me hope.
00:44:29Are you okay?
00:44:31I'm fine.
00:44:33Are you okay?
00:44:45I'm fine.
00:44:46Let...
00:44:47Let... let... let... let me help you.
00:44:49Let...
00:44:51I don't need your help!
00:45:08Don't need your help.
00:45:15Come on, Mike.
00:45:21They need her.
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
00:46:49you
00:46:50oh
00:46:50oh
00:46:51books
00:46:52You forgot them yes until somebody reminded me
00:47:21Robert take this take it to the post office
00:47:44You can say that again. Hey boy, get me some water
00:47:53Coyon you understand English do you there's a jug over there
00:47:58Listen I'm the employee here and 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
00:48:09That'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
00:48:34Oh no, don'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
00:48:56There's no return address
00:48:57No, perhaps it's from a secret paramoy
00:49:06I'd better get back
00:49:09I'll see you soon
00:49:12Jacob
00:49:14Be sure that you do
00:49:28This came for you today
00:49:32Thank you
00:49:36It's not my mother's handwriting
00:49:59She's not going to work all the time
00:50:01This 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
00:50:19Won't you have some tea?
00:50:21Send that girl to me at once
00:50:24Who, Amina?
00:50:25Of course
00:50:25She needs discipline now
00:50:29Send me the doctor
00:50:31I'm dying
00:50:33She'll be fine
00:50:35Ma, 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
00:50:46Please, just
00:50:48Take her some tea
00:51:04Ma
00:51:07Ma
00:51:09Ma
00:51:09Dinner is ready
00:51:18Ma
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
00:51:31That 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
00:51:39Amina Harjan saved your sister
00:51:44After farah betrayed her
00:52:23airlinerTV
00:52:33How could she be
00:52:34That was too long?
00:52:37Going back in the morning
00:52:38Dar Ред
00:52:38Um, she's in the next room.
00:52:40Okay, I'll take it.
00:52:42Please see if she will join us.
00:52:44Mm.
00:53:07I'm reading your book.
00:53:09I'd forgotten. I even had them, and...
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.
00:53:36The nice.
00:53:39It's the 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.
00:53:56And I 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.
00:54:21Does it 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.
00:54:49Well, it occurs to me to question it.
00:54:52I 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.
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.
00:55:37I want to change back into my own cloth.
00:55:55Why should you take that risk?
00:55:58Because 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.
00:57:04In other words.
00:57:06I would really want to do something.
00:57:07You can have some wine.
00:57:09I don't have some wine.
00:57:11But you have tea, mama and water.
00:57:18You got her.
00:57:23Maybe we're in a shade.
00:57:25My weather was like nothing.
00:57:28But you don't have tea.
00:57:31Well here's a joke.
00:57:33COM coisa
00:57:33were you just passing through no offense to your fair town today it's okay I don't
00:57:41think anybody just passes through I came to see you will you have some tea cold
00:57:48drink I want to talk to you about the cafe thinking about something new Indian
00:57:55food maybe a few days a week it'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 why not because I have to take care of the shop we'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 you surprised me
00:58:55how would you know whether I have a fearless streak or not wasn't it you who went out to the
00:59:04middle of
00:59:04the night to help an African who was hit by a car how could you know there were only two
00:59:12people 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
00:59:39as they've been busy no I came to see if Miriam would go to the cafe what did you say
00:59:48I said that I have to mind the shop and the children
00:59:54my wife doesn't need to work look I'm sorry it's not a question of need no
01:00:03my wife doesn't know how to drive I've told her time and again to take lessons but she doesn't want
01:00:09to if only she had oh but I teach driving myself Miriam if you want me to come for a
01:00:17couple of hours a
01:00:17week be happy to come teach you thank you yes I'd like that my husband is been telling me I
01:00:27should
01:00:27learn how to drive for some time now good then it's settled I'll see you next week
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
01:01:18you're early very early what happened the markets closed closed why closed they have action by the blacks
01:01:34bloody blacks
01:01:51you know eggs
01:02:31¶¶
01:02:42¶¶
01:02:46¶¶
01:02:48Paula?
01:02:49Bye?
01:02:52Everything okay?
01:02:53My God! Bye!
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... I 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.
01:03:12Oh.
01:03:15Family okay?
01:03:32Are you ready for me?
01:03:34Who else is going to teach me how to drive?
01:03:36I'm going to be nothing.
01:03:47Which is what you went for?
01:03:51I'm sorry.
01:03:52I want to go down and take the fire.
01:03:53Well...
01:03:54I'm sorry.
01:03:55Oh, I'm sorry.
01:03:58But you're not going to be there...
01:03:59What are you going to do?
01:04:02I'm sorry.
01:04:04I'm sorry.
01:04:06But what I was going to do,
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
01:05:19so
01:05:27so
01:05:28so
01:05:31so
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 Emilia.
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.
01:07:33It 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,
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
01:08:19by their rooms.
01:08:21I do not want to end my life alone because of them.
01:08:26I know.
01:08:28I know.
01:08:29But lately I've been wondering
01:08:32whether it's worth going after certain people,
01:08:35no matter how strongly you feel about them.
01:08:38You, more than anyone,
01:08:41has taught me that it is worth it.
01:08:45Don't start changing now, Amina.
01:09:06Hello.
01:09:09Hello.
01:09:10Hello, Robert.
01:09:10Yes.
01:09:11Are you ready?
01:09:29Robert, take 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.
01:10:12I'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.
01:10:43What am I doing to you?
01:10:48What 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?
01:11:46Just for now.
01:11:48Please, mom and dad.
01:11:53Nothing exists except for you and me.
01:12:26I've been waiting for you.
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.
01:12:55Hmm? We'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,
01:13:05and I'll look after you and the children.
01:13:08Amina?
01:13:11Amina, please.
01:13:12Miriam, I know that you would think
01:13:14that 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.
01:13:22Miriam.
01:13:25Not for me.
01:13:28And me.
01:13:54I'll get there, Miriam.
01:14:39Oh, Jacob.
01:14:41You need a hand.
01:14:42Oh, you wouldn't mind. I'm struggling with this lock.
01:14:45Here, let me do it.
01:14:50Hello?
01:14:52Hello?
01:14:54Fleece 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. Just locking up.
01:15:03Sorry 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.
01:15:40Better to be safe than sorry.
01:15:41Quite.
01:15:42All right.
01:16:11I 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, I thought that, um...
01:16:27You come.
01:16:28I thought that you were Doris or one of the girls.
01:16:32No, just me.
01:16:40Can I get you something to eat? Some tea?
01:16:44No, no, I'm fine.
01:16:47No, 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.
01:17:06Good.
01:17:07Things 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.
01:17:36No, 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.
01:17:47No, they don't.
01:17:48That's why I try to avoid them.
01:18:06No, they don't.
01:18:06They don't have anything in this world.
01:18:07No, they don't have anything.
01:18:07No, they don't have anything to be able to cook for.
01:18:19I can't take care of them now.
01:18:20sorry about what happened I'm ashamed to say that I was afraid of that young
01:18:25policeman and what he might do to you if he suspected it's all right
01:18:30they'd only have thrown me in jail if they'd guessed check it come inside I'll
01:18:35make us some supper I can't
01:18:42I hope you understand yes I understand I am sorry
01:18:55I want to drive you home no
01:19:03goodbye Madeleine
01:19:36so you're running away no I just need some time I just need some time
01:19:39a way to think dad
01:19:46okay do you need money no thank you
01:19:57you shouldn't go
01:20:02I wish you know where to find you
01:20:17what a day
01:20:23did you have your driving lesson today no good that's over then no I have to learn how to drive
01:20:50you don't need to work I do it's just for two mornings just let me learn how to drive you
01:20:58will not be my wife and work do you want to divorce me what about the children
01:21:07what is it Omar tell me what you're thinking
01:21:22it's okay it's all right my love everything's okay go back to sleep it's all right
01:21:47I don't like it
01:21:50I don't like it if I don't like it that should be enough
01:21:56it's not enough it never has been
01:22:03I just didn't know what to tell you until now
01:22:10you're a family
01:22:11you'll have to find a better way to speak
01:22:21Wait.
01:22:25Not again.
01:22:48I may still need some lessons.
01:22:54You drove all the way from Delos.
01:22:57Do you still have that vacancy?
01:23:02Two days a week?
01:23:13Well, if it works out, even more.
01:23:29Come on, then.
01:23:34I'm Miriam.
01:24:07I'm Miriam.
01:24:20Would you draw a timeline across my face?
01:24:26You could read my palm.
01:24:31Would you share with me your remaining grace?
01:24:36Like the last few drops of a bomb.
01:24:40Would you speak in voice of fire and ice?
01:24:47Crush their words with a stone.
01:24:51Would you dare to move?
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