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Friday, March 17, 1989	Arrival in Johannesburg
Saturday, March 18, 1989	Despair emerges at Hope Road
Sunday, March 19, 1989	Can I help?
Tuesday, March 21, 1989	Practical help goes a long way
Wednesday, March 22, 1989	Laura prepares for first nose operation
Friday, March 24, 1989	Fresh air, water and sunshine helps
Monday, March 27, 1989	Laura is admitted to hospital for nose operation
Tuesday, March 28, 1989	NSW Rape Crisis Centre comes to the rescue
Wednesday, March 29, 1989	Laura's operation is a success
Thursday, March 30, 1989	Meeting the police in charge of the investigation
Friday, March 31, 1989	Has there been a police cover-up?
Sunday, April 2, 1989	Laura recuperates
Monday, April 3, 1989	Trying to encourage Laura to move to Australia
Tuesday, April 4, 1989	Should we drop the police investigation?
Wednesday, April 5, 1989	Things keep getting worse
Friday, April 7, 1989	Check-up after Laura's nose operation
Sunday, April 9, 1989	Filming gets creative juices flowing
Monday, April 10, 1989	Hospital continues to amaze me
Friday, April 28, 1989	Off to Cape Town for 10 days rest
Saturday, September 30, 1989	Laura agrees to leave South Africa
Thursday, November 30, 1989	Laura enters black hole of depression in Australia
Wednesday, July 1, 1992	Looking back on three years of trauma
Wednesday, May 31, 1995	Laura moves to Lismore, New South Wales
Thursday, February 1, 2001	I propose returning to South Africa to make a film
Thursday, March 1, 2001	Australian Film Commission and NSW FTO fund the film
Friday, August 31, 2001	Returning dissatisfied from South Africa
Monday, July 22, 2002	Post-film recovery begins
Monday, September 23, 2002	Back to South Africa again
Tuesday, September 24, 2002	Meeting Tony, the sound recordist
Wednesday, September 25, 2002	We start filming
Thursday, September 26, 2002	Hope that the case will be re-opened
Friday, September 27, 2002	Meeting with the South African Broadcasting Commission (SABC)
Sunday, September 29, 2002	Visiting Michael and his daughters
Monday, September 30, 2002	Charlene Smith puts me in touch with private investigator
Tuesday, October 1, 2002	Production gets underway
Wednesday, October 2, 2002	Laura's case gets re-opened
Friday, October 4, 2002	The investigation gets underway
Saturday, October 5, 2002	Filming starts
Monday, October 7, 2002	Behind the barbed wire
Thursday, October 10, 2002	Annual spring bomb scare
Saturday, October 12, 2002	Meeting Glory at the survivors' lunch
Sunday, October 13, 2002	Laura's identifies suspect in interview
Wednesday, October 16, 2002	Filming the police at work
Thursday, October 17, 2002	Glory's petition
Tuesday, October 22, 2002	Meeting the elusive Jan van der Mescht
Friday, October 25, 2002	Protest in Alexandra
Monday, October 28, 2002	Meeting with Andre Neethling
Wednesday, October 30, 2002	Setting up the meeting with Laura's attacker
Saturday, November 2, 2002	Bongani's play
Saturday, November 2, 2002	A lucky break
Sunday, November 3, 2002	Meeting Myra
Friday, November 8, 2002	Confronting Laura's attacker
Saturday, November 9, 2002	The day after the confrontation
Monday, November 11, 2002	Telling the police about the confrontation
Monday, November 18, 2002	The perpetrator comes up with an alibi
Tuesday, November 19, 2002	Lisa Vetten
Wednesday, November 20, 2002	Trying to get a meeting with Mandela
Saturday, November 23, 2002	The three hour argument with Michael
Monday, November 25, 2002	Handing over the petition to the President's office
Saturday, November 30, 2002	Men's march
Thursday, December 5, 2002	John Miles offers to help
Friday, December 6, 2002	Time to head home to Australia
Friday, July 4, 2003	The very first screening of the film

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