A husband and wife argue over their mounting financial debts and the escalating violence in their neighborhood. Pa presents brochures for emigration as a way to provide a safer future for their children, while Ma expresses her fear of leaving the only home she has ever known.
MA: To keep you outta bloody jail! We’re drowning in debt.
PA: We’re near done with the back tax. Ten pound a month for three bloody years. This is the time to think about making a new start.
MA: I know nothin else but Belfast.
PA: Exactly. There’s a whole world out there. We can give these boys a b
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