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'Kevin Saunders is a builder in a small NSW country town.

'He has chosen to remain single but recently has been writing to a number of Filipina pen-pals and has asked one of them to marry him.

'[...] 'Mail Order Bride' tells the story of the struggle Kevin (played by Ray Meagher) and his wife Ampy (Chariot Ortez) have to maintain their marriage.

'The people of the town are racist and sexist, and Ampy soon finds herself caught between two cultures, having sympathy for the Aboriginals but wanting to be accepted as white.

'She suffers severe culture shock and chronic isolation and when violence erupts in the town, her aboriginal [sic] friend Iris (Justine Saunders) tells Ampy that the time has come for her to decide which side she is on.

'But for Ampy, the choice has already been made.'

Source:

'Final move of series', The Canberra Times, 27 August 1984, p.1.