Episode 21

Vivian had no inkling that she was going to join the league of village widows, sooner than expected.

She had always seen the widows from a distance and had always pitied them, wondering how it felt to lose one's joy. Nothing beyond that. Nothing really intimate had ever transpired between her and the widows. It had never occurred to Rose, even for a minute, to ask Mirian Rose and Abigail what pains they

suffered, what anguish and what pressure they had gone through. What grief? What distress? But there sat Rose alone now, all by herself, right at the back of her house, a widow through and through,...