"Josie!" "Put the music back on, we have to finish." "She's going to marry an Australian... and they'll feed their children fish and chips." "You are very fortunate, Patrizia." "Are you going to let your daughter run around like a gypsy?" "You're not too old to be slapped, you know." "If I had McDonalds here, you'd always be hungry." "I was taught to speak English before your mother was born." "How you cannot be like Roberto, I never understand." "Look at your hair." "Who do you belong to?" "You misinterpret everything." "What did I do to deserve a grand-daughter and a daughter... who talk to me like I'm a dog on the street?" "I am an old woman and I deserve respect." "Go and get me my tablets." "You've given me a headache already!" "You are cursed this way because of Christina." "All the curses come from the mother." "So that's why Mama's life turned out the way it has... because of her mother." "Go home, Josie." "I do not want you here." "Michael Andretti!" "Josie, show Michael to the salone." "Come in, Come in." "Did you know Christina had a daughter?" "Josie!" "Where you going?" "I don't know who she took after." "Happy Easter!" "Excuse me, Everyone." "Look who's here!" "Can you believe this is my little Christina?" "You remember Josie?" "Marcus Sandford taught us to make this salad." "I bet she had a passionate affair with Marcus Sandford." "Don't be silly." "She was a married woman." "He was good to us during the war, that's all." "We cried so much when our men were interned." "Is Ricardo dead or alive?" "Maybe he ate my pasta Patrizia?" "Signore Sandford, he just did!" "Thats why English, we speak well!" "All the time, I would say," ""Christina, do not go near that maleducato." "He's on the drugs!"" "The police were always there" "And this poor mother was on her tablets" "In front of my eyes and I didn't see." "Why him?" "Why disgrace me with Pia Andretti's son?" "Of all people!" "Go get my photo album on the dresser." "Look Josie, a gypsy." "Look!" "Me at 17." "Christina." "And you." "Triplets!" "My Mama would say, "Katia, you are a gypsy out of control... who would want you?"" "But the men still came." "Five men came to ask me for my hand in marriage, when I was your age." "Every week, "Marry me, Katia Torello, marry me"." "But it was my father who chose Francesco." "This was taken on the boat." "I was dancing!" "And the men!" "The way they look at me." "I was most beautiful than all." "Some of the men even said," ""Forget Francesco, run away with me!"" "I was very very lonely in Australia." "I was in a place Josie, where I did not belong." "And every day there were people who say to me with that look," ""Katia Alibrandi, you do not belong."" "I can make this exactly the same, Josie." "Exactly." "This is material from your glory box." "What chance do you have of marriage when the devil's cursed your life?" "Are you going to help me with my hair?" "Where you going?" "To parents and teachers night?" "I don't want that name mentioned in this house." "Who is this man, Presilio?" "Does he know about you?" "Know what?" "Am I sick, mama?" "I don't like it, when you go out and neglect your daughter." "I'm an old woman, I'm tired of fighting." "And I'm a young woman, I'm tired of being old." "People will talk, it'll be me that suffers." "I understand, Christina." "None of you care that it's me who suffers." "None of you." "Year after year, every Christmas Francesco would go away to work." "And leave me all by myself in the bush." "I was in danger." "Snakes on the floor Josie." "No tiles, just dirt!" "I met him in the post office." "I opened a letter from Patrizia, who was still living in Sicilia." "Josie, my Mama and Papa are dead." "Influenza." "I began to cry, screaming, pulling my hair." "On the floor, crying. "Why?" "Why?"" "Those poor Australiani look at me like I'm a crazy woman." "Nobody moved." "Then someone picked me up off the floor and carried me out the back." "He spoke to me in English and I cried to him in Italian... but we understood each other." "I never stopped being sad that I lost this Australian friend." "It was destiny for your friend, to die this way." "When you were born, Francesco said," "That I was never to see you and Christina." "But nothing would stop me from seeing my bambola." "And I could see that, this baby would be the one to stop the curse." "Do you want me to do your hair now?" "You don't understand what it was like... to live with a man who treats you like farm animals." "I did my duty." "I stayed with him." "That was my penance." "Do you think he didn't know?" "Of course he knew." "He couldn't give me children." "He asked me this 17 years after I married him and I put up with his disgusting ways." "Thinking it was me all the time." "Me, failing." "So you know what I did?" "I hit him." "I despised him." "I had lost so much." "It was not like being with Francesco who used me for 2 minutes" "this man, he undressed me careful." "Careful!" "As if I was special." "In my marriage bed, Josie." "And he loved... he loved me." "He begged me... but I couldn't disgrace my family." "What would happen to my daughter?" "Do you think the Italians would let her play with their children... or the Australians would accept her?" "You must believe me, Josie." "Everything, every single thing I did was for Christina." "I did everything to protect her." "To keep her safe from the Devil." "and the Devil, he lived next door." "and got in through a hole in the fence." "I see Marcus every time I look at Christina." "In my heart, I've had only one husband." "Who I left behind in Queensland." "when I was pregnant." "If I didn't... my daughters life would be worth nothing." "Oh God." "Let my daughter understand that my sin was her curse." "No." "Never." "Never tell Christina."