A Home of Our Own Page #7

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- Where?

- She's in the house.

- Lynn?

Lynn!

Lynn!

Lynn.

Lynn!

Lynn!

(coughing)

- Mama, I couldn't find the money jar.

- Are you okay?

- Gotta find it.

(fire roaring)

(sirens blaring)

- [Shayne] By the time they got there,

there was nothing the firemen could do.

I even remember the way they'd put it:

"the structure was fully consumed."

I think the less you have,

the more it hurts when you lose it,

and that fire hurt a lot.

(slow, forlorn music)

- Murray.

- Sorry, mama.

I'm so sorry.

- Oh, honey.

It's not your fault.

- I just burned down our house.

- Oh, listen.

It was an accident.

It was an accident, honey,

it's nobody's fault.

Oh, baby.

It's nobody's fault.

Come on.

- Save the nails.

- (laughing) Oh, Lynn,

everything's gonna be all right.

We can start over. (laughs)

Everything's gonna be all

buttoned up and beautiful.

- [Shayne] Bullshit!

Nothing's gonna be all right.

You're always saying that,

"buttoned up and beautiful."

Don't tell them that if they're good,

everything will work out.

It doesn't work that way.

"Buttoned up and beautiful"?

You're always saying that!

And we believe it, and it hurts us

every time we have to hear it from you.

Don't lie to them.

- I don't know what to say to you, Shayne.

I don't know what you wanna hear.

I guess you want a different

family, a different life.

Well, it ain't gonna happen.

This is what you got.

You think I don't want something more?

Life isn't fair, buddy.

Sometimes it's just goddamn lousy.

You wanna go back to Los Angeles?

Go on.

We'll manage without you.

You don't have to be the

man of the house anymore.

We'll manage just fine.

I managed without your dad.

I don't know how the hell

I did that, but I did it.

We'll manage without a lot of things.

Go on, get the hell out of here.

- Mama.

- [Faye] Mr. Moon! Mr. Moon!

- [Mr. Moon] Come on, pull up over here.

Mrs. Lacey, I know you don't take charity.

You'll be getting a bill.

Let's go, let's go, everybody.

- Mr. Munimura, I can't accept this.

I can't owe people. I can't.

- We're gonna do it no

matter what you say, Frances.

It's gonna be okay.

Let's go to work!

- Thank you so much.

- [Faye] Mama. Mama.

- [Annie] Mama.

- Look at all the pretty

toys you got, my goodness.

(hammering, tapping)

I don't know, do you think

it should it go over there a little bit?

(hammering)

- [Mr. King] Watch the fingers.

(hammering, pounding)

- [Shayne] So mama let them build it,

but just to where it was before the fire.

After that, it took us six

months to finish our house

and four years to pay everyone back.

Okay, Mr. Moon, come on, Ma.

Get everybody, all right guys, I'm coming.

I took a picture the day we moved back in.

This camera was borrowed, too.

Now I'll tell you something

else that's really true,

but you probably won't believe it.

I've never been back to L.A.

And I still live in Hankston, Idaho.

Whatever tore us apart,

building that house brought us together

forever.

We...

We're the Lacey tribe.

(mellow orchestral music)

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