is of an arranged marriage between the children of Italian immigrants in Melbourne. The deal is struck in 1953, when Robert is a young boy and Angela is an infant in a crib. Twenty-one years later, and despite the fact Angela has a boyfriend, everyone expects the arrangement to be kept.
There's a stigma attached to arranged marriages that she thinks is a little misplaced. "A lot of families back then thought that they would know better for their children, and in a lot of cases they most likely did. It's made for some very happy marriages."– played as adults by Antoniette Iesue and Daniel Berini – at least start from a place of mutual attraction, even if life sends them down different paths before the arrangement forces them back together.
"They have certainly made a great economic template out of the failure of marriage, haven't they," she says bitterly. "My whole experience was pathetic, it was preposterous, it was just ridiculous." Asked to respond, Carr said: "We were both too young for marriage, way too inexperienced, victims of circumstance with success.