Romulus, My Father (2007)

Romulus, My Father 2007 Raimond Gaita 1946 comes of age in Frogmore, Victoria in the early 1960s His parents are immigrants his Romanian father farms his German mother, Christina, estranged from Romulus, is in Melbourne Romulus is near despair when she takes up with the brother of his best friend, who suggests he send for a new wife from back home For Rai, poverty, bruises, and the mysterious ways of adults compete with his longing for a stable home and his own incipient puberty Love and madness lie in the same bed As an old woman tells Rai, Sometimes what you reckon and what you get aint the same thing