Richard Aidey

But just talking, there's this lovely little passage of crossing by ferry over to Mossman, which is just beautifully done.

And she talks about Balmoral.

She talks about going to Whale Beach and Tamarama.

And there's a sort of the pleasures of Sydney, the sort of sensuality of the city.

You just get little glimpses of it.

It's beautifully done.

Oh, this is sort of an extraordinary moment in Lisa's life, really, because she's taken to Magda's glorious apartment, and not glorious in the way that a real estate agent would talk about it now, but

where it would be water-sealing glass right next to the water.

But with a bit of a view, with loads of books, with wooden floors, with this husband, this Hungarian husband, Stefan, who is warm and welcoming and kind of funny all at once as soon as she meets him.

And they have lunch and the lunch, of course, is unlike anything that Lisa's ever had before.

Yes, it's all been procured from the Good Deli up at Cromwell Junction with the black bread and the good ham and the cream cheese, if it is very fresh.

and she's she's never encountered this before and of course it's delightful and then a guest arrives who's also coming to lunch i think i'm right in saying that's when that happens and although this man doesn't have a big impact on well he has an immediate impact on young lisa but he has a bigger impact on someone else a bit later on and

It's just, I think her senses are kind of overwhelmed and you can see her world kind of opening up just over the course of this lunchtime.

There's that sense of people, new Australians they would have been called back then, refos they called.

Continentals.

Continentals coming here but with energy and ambition.

Because you get that through Rudy, who's another character as well.

They've survived what they've survived and they've fled what they've fled.

And why not make some money?

Yeah, but I think it isn't sentimental.