In hospital, memories of childhood surface in Joyce's mind. Taka visits and notices the change in her-now she seems weak and vulnerable. The accident seems weak and vulnerable. The accident seems to have given Joyce a new outlook on life and she asks Taka to return. She recovers rapidly; Takes her for a swim, helping her overcome a post-accident fear of water. The swim ends in romance. Later, they talk; she confides in him about her childhood, which she has never really told anyone before-how life was happy with her grandfather in Zambia, then she was uprooted to Australia by her mother. There, the sea became a safe haven from the world outside. Later, she focused on work and study rather than people. A letter arrives from her recently deceased grandfather, Bernard Chiluba, who has left all his possessions to her.