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(water boiling)

(indistinct chatter)

(Sienna sighing) I'm never drinking again.

Why were you up so early?

I couldn't sleep.

Yeah, you’re probably still a bit shaken from yesterday.

You used to be such a strong swimmer.

-(indistinct whispering) -Out of practice, I guess.

(Sienna) And as for you... you were about to jump in and rescue her.

-(chuckling) -She didn't need me.

No, but it’s the thought that counts.

(dramatic music)

Thank you.

Where are you going?

(dramatic music)

Themba?

Themba?

(chickens clucking)

(Lindiwe) Mmh.

(sinister music)

(swing creaking)

(Sienna) Yola?

I don't understand where she's gone.

(Dirk) She just needs a bit of space. Don't worry about her, she's fine.

(Sienna) I do worry about her. I can't help it.

(Dirk) She's going to be fine, so we have to go.

-I'm going to be late for work. -(Sienna) Okay.

(birds chirping)

-(door closing) -(car engine starting)

(sinister music)

(sinister drumming music)

(girl) Yoli?

(suspense music)

(wind chimes clanging)

(wind howling)

(swing creaking)

(dramatic music)

(girl) Yoli?

(ominous music)

(water running)

(loud whirring)

(Lindiwe)

(Themba)

(Themba)

This is safer for the both of us.

(sinister music)

(water splattering)

(indistinct rattling)

(loud whirring)

(wind howling)

(dramatic music)

(sombre music)

(dramatic music)

(Yola) Too dark?

Clara.

(dramatic music)

(Sienna) Open up Mom.

There you go.

I met someone, Mom.

It's really nice.

Well, he's different. So...

Don't look at me like that. I think you'd like him.

You would.

He's a gentleman...

So... did Yola come visit yet?

Come on, one more.

You look tired today, maybe you never get some sleep.

Okay, come. Give this to me.

Okay, keep it.

See you soon.

(tense music)

Are you leaving?

What is it to you?

I'm sorry.

-I was wrong. -(motorcycle approaching)

-I made a mistake. -That makes the both of us.

(motorcycle engine turning off)

-(Yola) What's wrong? -(Themba) Not your problem.

Just pay the man, would you?

Do you know him?

I owe some money to some dangerous people.

How much?

(Themba) Enough to buy a gravestone.

I can help.

I mean, I can lend you the money. Consider it a down payment

-on the land claim. -You can't buy me.

I'm not your dog, Yolanda.

That land belongs to my forefathers. It's Lazarus who has to decide.

I saw him.

Where?

In the dam.

He was under the water.

-He was under the water? -Yes, he was under the water.

He dragged me under.

-(motorcycle engine starting) -He grabbed my under!

(dramatic music)

Okay.

(dramatic guitar music)

(tense music)

(Rudy inaudible)

(dramatic guitar music)

(loud banging)

(Innocentia) Lindiwe?

What are you doing?

(Lindiwe) I forgot my combination.

(Innocentia) But this is not yours.

27?

"All the children go to heaven". Remember?

(dramatic music)

Of course, thank you.

-(indistinct chatter) -(cooling fan scraping/whirring)

(Yola clearing throat)

Clara.

This is you, right?

(dramatic music)

(Yola) What did my father do?

I found this in the caves.

You need to tell me what happened there.

What did my father do?

(Clara moaning)

Clara?

-Don't do that, just... -(Clara moaning)

I just need you to tell me what...

-(Clara crying) -No, no, no, don't do that. Just...

What did my father do to you? Clara, please. Just...

What did my father do to you? Just all I need you to tell me.

(Nel) Yolanda.

This woman has been traumatised enough.

(Yola) I just need to talk to her. I just need to know...

Why is Clara here and why was she admitted?

(Nel) Ben? Ben? 10mgs of Ketamine immediately.

(Yola) Please, that's all I need to know.

(Nel) Can you please calm down, you’re upsetting my patients.

(Yola) Well, I am one of your patients.

-Or at least I was. -(Clara shrieking)

Can we please discuss this somewhere else.

(Clara crying) No.

(dramatic music)

(Yola) What were you treating me for?

Why was I put on anti-depressants so young?

(Nel) You were suffering from chronic enuresis?

-Yeah, what does that mean? -(Nel) Bed wetting.

You couldn't stop. But that's hardly surprising

considering what you and your sister went through.

This has got nothing to do with my mother.

(Nel) She tried to gas you all.

Killed your sister.

Now, the human mind is very good at repressing trauma,

but doesn't just go away.

-I want to see my file. -(Nel) That is not possible.

-Why not? -(Nel) You were a minor,

-it’s restricted. -Yeah, I'm no longer a minor. Am I?

You seem quite agitated.

I'm fine.

(Nel) I believe you've run out of medication.

Your family are very worried about you.

Now, you shouldn't stop your medication so suddenly.

It's very dangerous.

You should wean yourself off. Otherwise,

you could be prone to all kinds of unmanageable feelings.

I'll give you something that will help,

take the edge off.

Thank you.

We all have your best interests at heart.

(Yola) Hm.

(dramatic music)

(Yola) Hi.

-(Constable) Can I help you? -I need to speak to someone.

Sisi.

I'm someone.

-A female officer. -(Constable chuckling)

We don't have those here.

(Yola) Well, can I speak to the person in charge then?

(Dirk) Able, I found the figures of the...

(tense music)

(Lindiwe) It's nice and warm.

-Come, let me get you out of this. -(Clara) Mm-mm.

-Clara? -No!

Okay, okay, you can climb in with your clothes.

Warm water is good for you.

Let me wash your hair, hm? You'll feel better.

Come.

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

(school girls) # Jacob and Yola # # sitting in a tree #

# K-I-S-S-I-N-G #

# Jacob and Yola # # sitting in a tree #

-(ambient sound distorting) -# K-I-S-S-I-N-G #

-(ambient sound returning) -(indistinct chatter/laughter)

What did you say?

(water gurgling)

What did you say about me?!

(Allegra) Sorry, what?

(Yola) Do you think that's funny?

I heard what you said about me.

(dramatic music)

Who told you?

(Althea) Who told us what?

What stop playing games with me. Who told you?

(Bernoldus) Yola. Yola. Yola, hey.

Hey ladies. Hello.

(Bernoldus) What's going on?

(Allegra) This chick thinks we were talking about her.

(Bernoldus speaking Afrikaans)

-I am not crazy! I am not crazy! -(Bernoldus) Yola.

-Yola. Yolanda. No. -I am not crazy!

-I am not crazy! -Go home! Yolanda.

I am not crazy. Leave me!

Don't touch me!

Don't touch me.

(Bernoldus) Yola.

-Not cool. -They were taunting me!

They're kids, for G**'s sake.

(Yola) You were the one that told me I have to know how to listen.

(dramatic music)

Yola!

(Lindiwe chuckling)

(Innocentia) Lindiwe?

(Lindiwe humming)

(Innocentia) What are you doing?

Lindi?

(Lindiwe humming)

-(Dirk) Hi. -(Sienna) Hi.

Uh, I saw Yola today. She came by my work.

-What? The station? -(Dirk) Yeah.

Why? What did you want?

-She wanted to open a case. -(Sienna) Arg, no, man.

I've been through this with her already.

-What? She told you? -(Sienna) Yes.

There's no ways my dad was murdered. It was an accident.

(Dirk) No, it's not that. She, um,

What?

She wanted to speak to a female officer.

(Sienna) Why?

(Dirk) Look, your sister, is she okay? Could she make something up?

-Like what? I don't understand. -Like...

Like a sexual allegation. Could she make something up about..?

What are you saying? Just..?

Okay, something happened last night, but it was nothing. It was...

It was something.

Okay, Dirk, just stop talking in circles. Tell me what happened.

-(Dirk sighing) -(dramatic music)

Get her out of that damn bath,

dry her and give her medication as instructed!

-Get out of my way. -(Lindiwe humming)

(tense music)

(Nel) I said move out of my way!

(Lindiwe groaning/growling)

-(Clara moaning) -(Innocentia) Come, Clara.

(Lindiwe growling)

(tense music)

Nurse Zita, what has gotten into you?

(Lindiwe growling/grunting)

(Nel grunting/groaning)

(tense music)

(Nel muffled grunting/groaning)

(indistinct chatter)

I think my father interfered with me.

You mean..?

My sister, probably too.

Maybe some of the girls from the school.

Are you sure about that?

(stammering) I'm not saying that, you know, it's just...

It comes back in bits and pieces.

Just flashes.

Here are these.

(water gurgling)

I found a peephole in the ceiling,

from the attic into Sienna’s room.

(indistinct whirring)

(Bernoldus) Yola, I...

I feel I wouldn't be saying this loudly.

Just think about truth. Just think about perception.

He was G**. And you...

You're the girl that... You hear voices in taps.

The house is trying to tell me something.

Okay, but to me it's not that self-evident. Okay?

You don't believe me?

No. No. No.

What do you mean?

In this town, I'm the one person who believes you.

But I hide in plain sight.

I know a little something, about something.

If I were you, I'd leave this the hell alone.

(dramatic music)

Maybe...

it was just me.

(whispering) But it's not.

Nothing good will come of it.

You know, this town, look at it. Look at.. Look at those people.

It's civilised. They have tea. They eat cake

It's perfect on the outside.

The surface is calm, it's friendly.

But underneath, there's a lot going on.

It's been that way for centuries.

People do not want that to change.

(whispering) Sometimes change is good, Nola.

(tense music)

Even if it's difficult.

(cellphone vibrating)

She did what?

I'm on my way.

I'm on my way.

(Nel) Your aunt attacked me. She tried to drown me in the bath.

(Themba) No, that's impossible. She'll never do that.

(Nel) We have it on camera.

(tense music)

-Why's she tide up? -For her own safety, and ours.

(ominous music)

Ma Lindi.

(Nel) When she comes around.

Tell her, she no longer has a job here.

She broke my glasses.

(ominous music)

(indistinct whispering)

(Yola) Sorry for interrupting.

It's not me you should be apologising to, it's Allegra.

-They were taunting me. -About what?!

You can't go around attacking my girls!

I need to speak to you.

-Allegra keep an eye please. -Yes, ma'am.

(Yola) Do you remember when I was a child, I was put on antidepressants?

(Dora) Yes.

(Yola) When?

After Kristi died.

(Yola) That's what he also said.

-(Dora) Who did? -Doctor Nel.

He said he put me on antidepressants after Kristi died.

Because I was wetting my bed.

(Dora) Your father had to put plastic

safety sheets over the mattress to protect it.

How was he?

You know, as a dad with...

Sienna and I.

He loved you both, very much.

And you loved him very much.

You used to say, you couldn't wait to grow up to marry him.

(Dora laughing)

Isn't that a bit odd?

(Dora) Father's are their daughter's first love, they set the example.

(Yola) Why did he open a girl's school on the farm?

(Dora) Yoli?

You know why.

To protect them, so they wouldn't have to walk into town.

Right?

-Ja. -(Dora) Listen I...

I can't do this right now. I have to get back.

So I'll come by the house after school, okay?

(melancholy music)

(Qaqamba)

(Themba)

(Qaqamba)

I thought you fixed her.

(Themba)

(sinister music)

(Max) Rudolph!

(Rudy) Hi.

You hear the one about the new detective and your girlfriend?

Should I have?

Yeah well, I saw them at the nursery together.

Very close.

What you going to cool all day? I know it hurts.

Why are you here Max? You wanna pick at the scab?

No, look I did some research. Okay, very interesting guy.

Turns out he had to leave Warmbath. Stalking his ex girlfriend,

and the new girlfriend.

-What? -Yeah.

Had to leave town, can't go back. Get his job back.

Well, that interesting, but why are you telling me this?

Because she's Jacobs daughter.

She's one of us.

I don't think we should let an outsider inside her.

You are what you eat, though.

(Yola) Just look at this Aunty Dora.

This half fish, half woman.

(Dora) It's the local myth.

-It's Mamlambo, right? -Yes.

So how about these?

This woman with the tattoo on her back.

I mean they are very intimate.

Was she his lover?

Well, he was very handsome.

I don't know.

Okay, what about the polaroids? Are the school children?

They're the girls from my school, and I took these photos.

They were the models for his paintings.

(Yola) Okay, but what about Clara?

I mean, she's in Fort Vannenburg. What happened to her?

What are you saying?

I found a peephole.

I found a peephole directly into Sienna's bedroom.

I mean, how do you explain that?

-That is a hole in the ceiling. -It's a peephole Aunty Dora.

-Into his daughter’s bedroom. -I've heard enough.

He was my brother.

And your father.

Have some respect.

(melancholy music)

He came into my room.

Singing my name.

He made me touch him.

I remember now.

And do you remember what happened in this kitchen?

Do you?

-What do you mean? -I do.

I remember coming home from church,

with your father.

I know I remember the smell of gas.

And I remember him pushing against the door.

And finding his daughter against it.

Don't.

(Dora) Blue in the face.

And I remember him, weeping.

And laying his daughters on the grass next to each other.

He loved you so much.

Which is more than your mother can say.

She is sick.

-She is evil. -(water running)

(sinister music)

(groaning)

(yelling)

(ominous music)

(Qaqamba) Themba?

(ominous music)

(Lindiwe roaring)

(gasping/panting)

You two are the daughters I never had.

And I love you both so much.

And he loves you both so much.

I'm sorry.

Come and give me hug.

(Dora chuckling)

(ominous music)