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00:00:00All I've learned is to ...
00:00:03What?
00:00:14Bastards.
00:00:16Good day, Mina.
00:00:18Sergeant.
00:00:23Good day, Jacob.
00:00:25Sergeant Stuart.
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.
00:00:53We all know it's an offence for blacks to eat in the same place.
00:00:58There are no whites here, present company excluded.
00:01:02There's non-blacks, then.
00:01:04This 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 going 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, well, no, ma'am.
00:02:20I, uh, I just work for Amina.
00:02:22Oh, I'm sorry.
00:02:24I forgot a partnership would be illegal, wouldn't it?
00:02:31Thank 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.
00:03:28I'm not so old.
00:03:30Milk?
00:03:36Hola, are you coffee?
00:03:38Get 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.
00:03:46Is it right to mama?
00:03:52Okay, Sam, Yasmin, upstairs, hmm?
00:03:55Go, brush your teeth, get your book.
00:03:57Get back.
00:03:59Off.
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.
00:04:46Good morning.
00:04:52I'm so sorry.
00:04:54I'm in love.
00:04:56I'm sorry.
00:04:57Thank you, Douglas.
00:04:58Please leave.
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 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 donut 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, and I promise I try not to drop them this time.
00:05:49She thinks a lot of herself.
00:05:51She thinks a lot of herself.
00:05:52Maybe she should.
00:05:53She owns a business, and she's one of us.
00:05:55No, she's not.
00:05:57No, 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 full?
00:06:25I told you Deluxe in the country.
00:06:26You'll like it there.
00:06:28Do 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.
00:06:35We'll work in it.
00:06:36I will.
00:06:37And your mother, and we'll have a boy to help us, and we'll have a night watchman to guard
00:06:41the place at night.
00:06:45I'm sorry.
00:07:00Shall we leave?
00:07:31I'll be right back.
00:08:10We need to work hard.
00:08:12That's all.
00:08:17I'm sorry.
00:08:21I'm sorry.
00:08:29I'm sorry.
00:08:32I'm sorry.
00:08:33I'm sorry.
00:08:34I'm sorry.
00:08:35I'm sorry.
00:08:36I'm sorry.
00:08:36I'm sorry.
00:08:36I'm sorry.
00:08:36I'm sorry.
00:08:37I'm sorry.
00:08:38I'm sorry.
00:08:40I'm sorry.
00:08:50Ā¶Ā¶
00:09:27She would have been proud of you.
00:09:46Ā¶Ā¶
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? Shall 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. Your sister-in-law's there.
00:10:26Here, love.
00:10:27Have a nice cup of tea.
00:10:29Thank you, Mrs. Benjamin.
00:10:31He's not one for a chat, 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.
00:10:57I don't know who you are.
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?
00:11:06Has 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.
00:11:35Come and see me.
00:11:49Sit 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, Omar.
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 have a beautiful baby girl.
00:12:40Oh.
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?
00:13:31Cape 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.
00:13:47The Alis.
00:13:48Do you know them?
00:13:49Yes.
00:13:50We'll have them for dinner.
00:13:51On 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.
00:14:24This is who I am.
00:14:25This 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?
00:15:08Why isn't anybody eating?
00:15:09Things 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 at all?
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, Rahmat.
00:16:10The one in Paris.
00:16:13Who told you that?
00:16:15Farah?
00:16:18She's coming with her, uh, husband.
00:16:23I'm going to go to sleep.
00:16:24You watch the shop.
00:16:41Yeah, it's time for me.
00:16:44The two I have children.
00:16:44Are you wrong with her?
00:16:45I don't understand.
00:16:45I'm going to search.Š°Ń
00:16:45Are
00:16:46you wild no more? How
00:16:52are you? I
00:16:53don't understand. TheGrancor
00:17:15Come and help me here, he'll be here any minute now, and you're not particular Omaris.
00:17:22Not as much as he likes to think.
00:17:30They're here. I'm cooking!
00:17:39Bobby? Well, where is she? She's gone to the hotel to meet James.
00:17:44That's a stupid thing to do. Are they trying to get caught? They shouldn't even be here.
00:17:49His father's dying. So what?
00:17:52He'll be dead in a week and they'll be in jail. Do they think the police care?
00:17:55Which hotel is he staying at? At 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.
00:18:24Iris must be such a nightmare to get used to.
00:18:27I meant that it wasn't home, at first. For either of us.
00:18:31But then I realized that there were no gossiping neighbors, no 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. Finally.
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.
00:18:59We have no time for ideals these days.
00:19:02We have to be practical. Get 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.
00:19:28Um, 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 should stay and help.
00:19:41Ah, Babi, you go. I'll take care of the children.
00:19:44Farah can make us tea.
00:20:04Let's go.
00:20:05Woohoo!
00:20:07Yeah, sure.
00:20:11Go, go, go, go, go!
00:20:16Is that the Heartjin girl?
00:20:18She's young.
00:20:19And she owns this place, huh?
00:20:21With a partner.
00:20:22Imagine, at her age.
00:20:24She would be the partner for business and a good business too.
00:20:27Sunday's always her busiest day.
00:20:28I 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...
00:20:37with 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-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 wanted ten pence per thing, eh?
00:21:43I'd like to serve someone over here, please.
00:21:57I'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.
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, this 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, 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.
00:22:57If 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
00:23:30Hello?
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
00:23:42Thank you, Robert
00:23:44Robert, give the young lady some chapatis and some tea when she starts working
00:23:47And there's fig jam in the fridge
00:23:49Yeah, come
00:23:57Good morning
00:23:59Hello
00:23:59Oh, say hello to the lady
00:24:02Hello, ma'am
00:24:06Come on
00:24:11Bye
00:24:11Bye
00:24:12Hello, ma'am
00:24:24Hello, ma'am
00:24:51I... I brought you some food.
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.
00:25:10Your mother's right.
00:25:10What will you do when you get married?
00:25:13I don't know. I 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.
00:26:00I counted.
00:26:17I progression.
00:26:22I listened.
00:26:22I gave to my wife a while later.
00:26:24I was two.
00:26:26How did you know me now?
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.
00:27:24I want to know.
00:27:25I can't.
00:27:38I want to know.
00:27:40I love you.
00:27:44I want to know.
00:27:46I want to know.
00:27:47I want to know.
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
00:28:11usually he stays at his sister in brother's place
00:28:20the dhalo 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
00:29:27i'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
00:30:08there was protests there were sticks and guns and policemen i was terrified
00:30:15i was there protesting the ghetto bill i 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
00:30:41it'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 the 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
00:31:55they realized it wasn't her husband's
00:31:59what did they do to her
00:32:04Salah!
00:32:08Salah!
00:32:09Salah!
00:32:10Salah!
00:32:11Salah!
00:32:11Salah!
00:32:11Salah!
00:32:12Salah!
00:32:13Salah!
00:32:17Salah!
00:32:21They put you on a train to Durban
00:32:24to get the boat to Bombay
00:32:27Salah!
00:32:44Hold him up, hold him up so I can kiss him, please, please, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:32:54no, no, no, stop, no, stop, no, stop, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:33:05no, no, I can't imagine losing a child like that.
00:33:12It broke her. She didn't have one choice to make her whole life, and for as long as I can
00:33:20remember,
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.
00:33:39Um, uh, Miriam.
00:33:43Yes?
00:33:47I think you should go. The baby needs you.
00:34:14Sam?
00:34:15Yes, Miriam?
00:34:16I think Miriam, we should be against the garden.
00:34:19Are you ready for school?
00:34:22Ah, did you eat?
00:34:24Miriam 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. 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?
00:35:12Isn't it?
00:35:12That 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.
00:35:32Poetry.
00:35:33Poetry.
00:35:33At this time of night.
00:35:37I'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, yet my soul drew back.
00:36:12Guilty of dust and sin, but quick-eyed love.
00:36:16But 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.
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.
00:37:48Let's go.
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!
00:37:58Please stop!
00:38:01No!
00:38:02We'll bring you back later.
00:38:04More tomorrow.
00:38:05Whenever 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!
00:39:08I 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 the 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?
00:40:08Some nice clothes. French 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.
00:40:34Who is the best?
00:40:48Oh, my God.
00:40:51I don't know.
00:40:54Like, oh, my God.
00:40:57You're supposed to feel as cold.
00:40:57You're supposed to let me know.
00:40:57But I have to do nothing inź·130ée.
00:40:59I have to.
00:41:00It's stupidå here.
00:41:01It's stupidå here.
00:41:04We're supposed to dress.
00:41:10Jacob?
00:41:11Sergeant.
00:41:12We're looking for an Indian woman.
00:41:15Indians is all we get in here, but 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'm not as young as I used to be.
00:41:39I know she's here.
00:41:41Who?
00:41:50Open this up.
00:41:53Go on, go on, go on!
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.
00:42:08Those 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 you've been out!
00:42:23Dinky Quinn!
00:42:24I'll tell you how I'll try.
00:42:30You'll be able to get half an hour and get around what you can do.
00:42:42Hey.
00:42:42Hey, yours 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, was she here?
00:43:03No.
00:43:04Where is she?
00:43:06I really don't know.
00:43:10I'm sorry.
00:43:20What is 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?
00:43:54Careful.
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.
00:44:08You like him?
00:44:08Yes.
00:44:08Try it.
00:44:10Come on, Mike.
00:44:16One light can get me up.
00:44:30Are you okay?
00:44:31Are you okay?
00:44:37I'm fine.
00:44:39Where are you?
00:44:42I can help.
00:44:43I 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.
00:45:41Don't need your help.
00:45:45Don't need your help.
00:45:52Don't need your help.
00:46:04Your place is here with me, not with those coffers.
00:46:49Oh, you found it.
00:46:52Books, 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.
00:52:04I've died forever.
00:52:16I'm dying.
00:52:16I'm dying.
00:52:17I'm dying.
00:52:18I died.
00:52:27But I had this rather than a walk in the carriage.
00:52:27I could barely even see them.
00:52:28I've got a walk in my house.
00:52:28I'm dying.
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.
00:54:52I 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.
00:55:15For 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.
00:55:36I loved you.
00:55:38I want to change back into my own clothes.
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.
00:56:37Jacob?
00:56:38Mm-hmm?
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 going to do the cooking?
00:57:00Don't worry.
00:57:02I've already thought of that.
00:57:04I'm going to get myself.
00:57:06I'm a infant for you.
00:57:09I'm a baby.
00:57:13I'm a baby.
00:57:15I'm a baby.
00:57:34Well, you're just passing through.
00:57:37No offense to your fair town, but I...
00:57:40It's okay.
00:57:41I don't think anybody just passes through.
00:57:44I came to see you.
00:57:46Will you have some tea?
00:57:48Cold drink?
00:57:49I want to talk to you about the cafe.
00:57:53Thinking about something new, Indian food, maybe a few days a week.
00:57:57It's a good idea.
00:58:00I want you to cook for the cafe.
00:58:02Me?
00:58:07You haven't even had my cooking.
00:58:09I ate here, remember?
00:58:11Potato curry and dal.
00:58:19Besides, I couldn't do it.
00:58:22Why not?
00:58:23Because I have to take care of the shop.
00:58:28We'd pay you well.
00:58:31My children.
00:58:33Okay, then we'll make it one morning a week to start with.
00:58:41My husband wouldn't like it.
00:58:43I'm offering the job to you, not your husband.
00:58:47You surprised me.
00:58:50I 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 guard?
00:59:09How could you know?
00:59:11There were only two people, myself and my husband.
00:59:17Three.
00:59:18I know this government would like us to think they're savages.
00:59:22But Africans can speak as well as we can.
00:59:41I know this, my husband would like us to think they're going to help us to think we're going to
00:59:51help us.
00:59:54My wife doesn't need to work.
00:59:57Look, I'm sorry, it's not a question of need.
00:59:59No!
01:00:03My wife doesn't know how to drive.
01:00:05I've told her time and again to take lessons,
01:00:08but she doesn't want to.
01:00:10If only she had.
01:00:11Oh, but I teach driving myself.
01:00:14Miriam, 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
01:00:26I should learn how to drive for some time now.
01:00:30Good.
01:00:32Then it's settled.
01:00:34I'll see you next week.
01:00:53Why 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.
01:01:25What happened?
01:01:27The market's closed.
01:01:29Closed?
01:01:30Why closed?
01:01:32They have action by the blacks.
01:01:35Bloody blacks?
01:01:37Nice.
01:01:48No.
01:01:50No.
01:01:52No.
01:01:53No.
01:01:55No.
01:02:20ORGAN PLAYS
01:02:46Fylla? Fylla?
01:02:49Fylla?
01:02:52Everything okay?
01:02:52My God!
01:02:53Bye!
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.
01:03:09I also finished early today.
01:03:11Demonstration.
01:03:15Family okay?
01:03:32Are you ready for me?
01:03:34Who else is going to teach me how to drive?
01:03:36Okay?
01:03:54I knew.
01:03:55I knew I'd be worried.
01:04:04That's all right.
01:04:05I knew he'd have no idea.
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 that 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
01:05:40so
01:05:42so
01:05:44so
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 property.
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.
01:07:12There's Bobby.
01:07:14I'll be seeing you.
01:07:17You heard me.
01:07:19Come on, Bobby.
01:07:23Come, 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.
01:07:47Do 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.
01:08:29But lately I've been wondering whether it's worth going after certain people,
01:08:36no 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, 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.
01:09:48Did you?
01:09:53Why did you come?
01:10:07I can't.
01:10:11I'm married and...
01:10:14you're a woman.
01:10:16Those are not good reasons.
01:10:20They are my reasons.
01:10:22And they matter to me.
01:10:26Don't you care for me?
01:10:36Of course I care for you.
01:10:39Amina, please.
01:10:40Please.
01:10:43What am I doing to you?
01:10:48What am I doing to you?
01:10:50What am I doing to you?
01:10:53Every time I look at you,
01:10:55I want you to stay.
01:11:01Remember?
01:11:01What am I doing to you?
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.
01:11:38I'm not afraid of you.
01:11:41Will you just imagine?
01:11:43Just for now.
01:11:47Just for now.
01:11:48Please, Mom.
01:11:53Nothing exists except for you.
01:11:57And me.
01:12:02Don't try to find you.
01:12:02Just for now.
01:12:26Do we need to go to her?
01:12:31No.
01:12:37What happens now?
01:12:42Does this drive innocence just continue?
01:12:51Come away with me.
01:12:54I have three children.
01:12:56Hmm?
01:12:57Well, never leave.
01:12:58I would never ask you to leave the children.
01:13:00We could, um...
01:13:02We 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'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, Miriam.
01:13:23It can be done, Miriam.
01:13:27Not for me.
01:13:31No way, Miriam.
01:13:37I don't know what it means.
01:13:38No way, Miriam.
01:13:40Yes?
01:13:43No way, Miriam.
01:13:45No way, Miriam?
01:13:45No way, Miriam.
01:13:46No way.
01:13:47It's all the time.
01:13:47No way, Miriam.
01:13:49No way.
01:13:51Oh, no way.
01:13:51Oh, no way.
01:13:54No way, Miriam.
01:13:54Oh, no way, is it.
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. Who 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.
01:15:43Okay.
01:15:57Good morning.
01:16:05Cheers.
01:16:06Cheers.
01:16:06Cheers.
01:16:08Cheers.
01:16:09Cheers.
01:16:10Cheers.
01:16:11Cheers.
01:16:11Cheers.
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, I thought that, um...
01:16:27You 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 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.
01:17:48That's why I try to avoid them.
01:17:50No, they don't even.
01:17:52No, they don't even call me.
01:18:10It's horrible.
01:18:12No, they don't.
01:18:14No, they don't even call me.
01:18:19I'm sorry.
01:18:19Terribly sorry about what happened
01:18:23I'm ashamed to say that I was afraid of that young policeman and what he might do to you if
01:18:27he suspected
01:18:30They'd only have thrown me in jail if they'd guessed check him come inside. I'll make us some supper. I
01:18:39Can't
01:18:44I hope you understand
01:18:51Understand I am sorry
01:18:56I'll I want to drive you home. No
01:19:04Goodbye Madeleine
01:19:11I
01:19:20I
01:19:36So you're running away no, I just need some time. I just need some time away to think
01:19:40Dad
01:19:46Do you need money no, thank you
01:19:56You shouldn't go I wish you know where to find you
01:20:15Oh
01:20:21Did you have your driving lesson today no
01:20:28Good
01:20:31That's over then no, I have to learn how to drive
01:20:36I'm going to work you work
01:20:39Yeah
01:20:41I
01:20:42Still work here and I will work at the cafe for two mornings a week
01:20:50I
01:20:51You don't need to work
01:20:53I do
01:20:55It's just for two mornings. Just let me learn how to drive you 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 tell me what you're thinking
01:21:22It's okay
01:21:25It's all right my love everything's okay. Go back to sleep
01:21:30It's all right
01:21:47I
01:21:48Don't like it if 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
01:22:12You'll have to find a better way to speak to me
01:22:26Not again
01:22:48I
01:22:49May 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.
01:23:30Come on, then.
01:23:33I'm Miriam.
01:24:00I'm Miriam.
01:24:03I'm Miriam.
01:24:10I'm Miriam.
01:24:20Would you draw a timeline across my face?
01:24:27You could read my palm.
01:24:31Would you share with me your remaining grace?
01:24:36Like the last few drops of a bomb.
01:24:41Would 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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