![]() I was happy then, it was early summer and at night our backyard smelt like the country, and then, as it always happens, everything began to heave and change … But now Martin was unhappy and to my shame I wasn't concerned with kindness. He slept very still in my bed, jumped up with the kids in the early morning, and somehow put up with my crankiness and fits of wandering heart. He was as much a part of our household as any outsider could have been. ![]() There was Martin teetering on the dizzy edge of smack like so many others that summer. ![]() It wasn't as if I didn't already have someone to love. (then after titles and Nora, swimming at the baths, agrees to go down the coast to the bay with Javo and Martin): Sometimes, long afterwards, it's possible to look back and see the beginning of things, the point at which you'd already plunged in, while at the time you thought you were only testing the water with your toe … Opening voice over by the character Nora during head credits: Inner city Melbourne in the late 1970s, early 1980s. ![]()
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