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Inside an old farm building, a German immigrant woman is singing to a child the songs of Schumann, of her homeland. She hears the sounds of strange whisperings in a language that is foreign to her: handfuls of pebbles scattering off the tin roof, footsteps running in the darkness and the building throb of didgeridoo. Very gradually we come to realise that the child she sings to, is not her own, nor a foundling, but a child her husband has fathered on one of the nameless women outside and taken from her. The child she holds is a result of rape, and the woman keening outside is its mother. |
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