Marjane's Frame 3: The Soup

Frame 3: The Soup It was November 1984, Marjane now stayed in Austria and beginning her new life. Before she came, Marjane had the idea of leaving a religious country, Iran in the Middle East, to be free. She imagined herself to be loved and accepted by her mother’s best friend, Zozo as if she was her own daughter. She had a family of her own, Shirin, their daughter and Houshang, her husband. But found out that Zozo did not want her after all, she often complained that her home was too small for all of them. So she decided to find a new home for Marjane, Zozo left her at a boarding house run by nuns. Marjane had only been in Vienna for eleven days. When she arrived at the airport, Zozo and her daughter, Shirin. She had known Shirin
Her room was small and she shared it with a girl name Lucia, she didn’t know what she looks like but only knew her name. The only place that she was allowed to go shopping is at Aldi, which is a supermarket, Sister also told Marjane the directions to get there. Marjane went to her bedroom and thought about life, how she is now a real independent woman and had to do her own things without depending on anyone else doing it for her. So she heading straight to the supermarket to buy groceries like one. It has been four years since she had seen a well stock store. Marjane went to the scented detergents aisle, in Iran, they didn’t sell these in the country anymore. So she decided to fill her cart will all kinds and bought two boxes of pasta, then she headed back to the house. While lying in bed, Lucia had finally shown up. They both sat down and got to know each other for a bit, shared some snacks after that, Lucia taught Marjane some German. Lucia asked Marjane if she wants to go to the TV room in German, so that’s what they did. Everyone was watching a movie but Marjane didn’t understand anything, so she left. Before leaving, she whispers to Lucia that she was leaving but she was into the movie that Lucia didn’t hear