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In 1975, when Papua New Guinea (PNG) began self-rule, Maria Seeto’s husband insisted it would be safer for his multi-cultural family to migrate to Brisbane, Australia. A devastated Maria felt this meant any return to PNG would be impossible. Now it’s 2010, and now she’s in PNG, reunited with her brother, and dying. Too late she realises she is still caught somewhere between. Is her homeland in Australia with her family, or in PNG, a place that no longer fits her recall? The tragedy is that Maria is the only surviving member of the Seeto family who can narrate their cultural history in PNG, but instead of doing so, she remains silent to hide the truth about her biological relationships to her so-called sons. However, her imminent death means not only will the undocumented history of their Chinese-Mixed Race heritage be lost, but also the secrets she fought to keep hidden will be revealed with potential to shatter her family. This is Maria’s story and it’s a story that crosses five generations of one family told through personal perspectives of moments when private events have been entwined within a larger PNG history that has been affected by wars, eruptions, military occupation, migration, cultural exclusion, and by the changing nature of PNG itself. Will the impact of Maria’s death shatter any hope of family unity or can the present-day Seeto family both in Australia and PNG find enough threads of a disappearing history to rebuild a cultural identity that satisfies their need to explain who they are and where they have come from?
