Dirty Laundry

At seventeen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between an era of women's liberation and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'.From the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in a Brisbane Watch House before being sent to work in a notorious Magdalene laundry.Comitted to the Holy Cross home for unwed mothers in Woolowin, Lily's son was taken from her in the labour ward and put up for adoption. She promised him: 'I will see you again, little one. I will see you again.'