This really captured my interest because it is a story of the experiences of our Maori people but I find it rather fragmented and does not go into the details of what happened to these women. It would have been better as a series describing more and connecting the timelines.
As it is. It is very poignant but not deep enough. It was just scratching the surface and does not explain so many things and leaves me with so many questions. Like why did Mata become homeless when she had a job?
Their life stories are poorly explained and more like raptured memoirs in a dream like state and does not capture the essences of their hurt loss of connection. The cousins alienation from one another and their separation from their land. Maybe a more personal narrative focused more on the total lifestory of one of the girls. It was just too short.
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