01x03 - Heart Acre

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Transgender.

That's what it's called.

That's me.

Basically, when babies are

born, they're assigned a gender

based on what the doctors

think they look like.

For trans people, that gender

doesn't match who we are.

And for many who want or

are able to, we transition.

It's coming out, hair and clothes,

maybe have surgeries, take hormones.

That's why I look really different.

I take testosterone.

You can save your fancy language.

I don't understand.

And I don't care.

Where are you going?

Dad.

Dad, we need to talk about this.

10 years you've been gone,

and now you wanna talk.

I thought

maybe you didn't know

maybe you changed your number.

And you send flowers, so you knew.

You knew

and you didn't come home.

I can't even say how sorry I am.

Don't tell me.

There's your mum.

You tell her.

Would you deliberately call a cheese

Camem-bert?

Hell no. I know better than that.

But you don't but

you'd mispronounce Opoho.

No, it's not mispronounced.

That's my hometown, Marcus.

Well, it is but if I told

you how it was pronounced, right?

Well, it's a bit late

now, dear. I'm 83 soon.

But but but why's it too late now?

Oh, because that's my that's my home,

that's my birthplace.

It's my region, my no.

No, and no disrespect to anybody.

But, Mary well, it is disrespect,

'cos then you are being

wilfully ignorant. You are.

No, like hell I am.

Well, you but you're

deliberately pronouncing

So

Yeah.

How long, do you think?

I mean, uh

You can stay.

Whoa.

No way.

Yeah, I guess it's

a little bit different.

Your mum, uh

She kept your room exactly

the same. She wanted

She wanted to keep it that way.

I'm, um I'm staying with Anahera.

It's really hard for me, being here.

It's hard for you?

You know what

at least you can come in

for a bloody cup of tea.

It's not locked.

Oh, hey, man.

If you're looking for

Gerald, he went up the way.

Hey, Jem.

Oh, sorry. Do we know each other?

Uh, yeah.

Oh, you were you were at the,

uh the council meeting today.

Uh, and high school.

Sorry. Sorry, man. A long time ago.

We, uh

We used to be a c

actually used to be a couple.

A couple of what?

I'm, um I'm Gerald's kid.

What?

Holy sh*t.

Yeah. Name's Caz now.

Wait, so you're, um you're a

A guy, yep.

We

I'm I'm so sorry. This is f*ck'

really confusing. I'm

not doing this right.

I shouldn't have come here.

I'm gonna I'm gonna go.

Sweet as.

It's real good.

- Hello?

- Shelley from Rūrangi Auto.

- You brought in the Nissan, yeah?

- Yeah.

It's gonna be at least a

week to get the parts in.

OK.

And it's gonna cost you about

a grand. She's pretty stuffed.

- Can I get back to you?

- Sure.

I just won't order anything

till I hear from you.

- All right?

- Yeah, whatever.

Hey, mate.

Do you know how much this fella

spent on phosphates last year?

I don't live here.

I seen you waving to him on

the way to work every day.

Oh, here we go.

Tweedledee and Tweedle-stupid.

- Ladies.

- How's it going?

Oh, slowly.

- How are you?

- Good, good.

- Not softly slowly.

- Oh, slowly.

Haz, what happened today?

Hey.

Hey.

I'm sorry about today.

Yeah, whatever.

I mean

Oh, f*ck me.

Already did.

Sorry. At least you're talking to me.

Oh, your old man?

Yeah.

Hey, he'll

he'll come around.

I guess.

Man, I can't get over your voice.

Magic of testosterone.

Mate, I don't know what that is.

Yeah, don't worry about it.

Uh

See you like your beer now.

- I always liked my beer.

- Yeah, right.

I'm, uh

Hey, uh, I'm

I'm gonna get a pint.

And I thought maybe maybe you

want another one or something.

Um

Yeah, OK.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

Cool.

Yeah, I'll I'll go get it.

Sorry. Pull. Pull. Clo yeah.

Three. Wait, wait, wait.

- Are you even gonna go, or ?

- I am gonna go. Here we go.

Three, two, one, go!

- I reckon I was close.

- No, I was closer.

Mrs Rawlings' class.

- Mrs Rawlings?

- Yeah.

Why do you wanna see Mrs Rawlings?

I dunno. 'Cos she was funky.

She always had weird decorations.

Your jacket.

Thank you.

Lead the way. Let's see if you remember.

- I don't actually remember.

- OK. It's this way.

Yeah, right. That way.

f*ck, remember when we

had to hand in our books

- at the end of class?

- Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

- What?

- Finish calculations.

This is the maths class.

Don't tell me it's

Miss Girr. Yeah, I know.

What an appropriate name

for such an angry lady.

- Whoa.

- I'm fine.

- You should stop drinking.

- Me stop drinking?

Do you understand all of it?

I'm not really

- on my game.

- No, no, no.

I think I get it. Like

Gender it's

it's complicated.

Ooh yeah.

You

You were never exactly girly.

- Yeah, nah.

- Nah, I mean, your mum tried.

Oh f*ck.

sh*t.

Sorry about your mum.

Yeah.

It's what I liked about you.

Well, one of the things.

You weren't like the other girls.

That's because I wasn't one.

Yeah.

I guess not.

I think it's 'cos we could,

like, talk about stuff,

you know, easy, like mates.

And

you know

other things.

Some stuff.

What?

We could talk about some stuff.

You know, when you left

I

I got pretty messed up.

- f*ck. Jem

- Nah, nah.

I I get it.

It's

We had all these plans.

I loved you.

- That was never the problem.

- Then why'd you leave?

Because if I'd stayed, I would've

What?

What?

I'd be dead.

You know, I thought this would be weird.

But it's not.

Yeah.

You look good.

- Not too bad yourself.

- Oh, yeah?

Bit scrawny, maybe.

What?

I'm no, I lift.

OK? I lift on the farm.

I think your eyesight isn't

as good as it used to be.

You see, this this is au naturel.

OK? Ooh.

Allow me.

Yeah.

This is way too heavy for you.

Piss off.

Whoa.

I didn't, um

- Didn't like?

- Yeah. No! I

I don't know.

You you're, like, the same

but not.

Yeah.

I ca I c I can't.

I don't

I have to go.

Yeah.

Yeah, I I have to go.