In the wake of World War II, over 150,000 Greeks emigrated to Australia. In their new home, they tried to keep their connections to Greece alive. In the 1950's and 60's, thousands of Greek men in Australia married Greek women from "back home," through arranged marriages. Young Greek brides, many of...
In Lesbos in 1965, Eleni Theodorou boards a ship bound for Australia, to marry a man she has never met. And so the adventure begins: factories, modern morals, racist attacks, in a foreign place that "needs struggle, but also love".
Narrator: Eleni Tzanni
Researcher: Panagitsa Xenitelli
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