I think it’s clear as day that their world is falling apart behind the scenes.
The bubble they have been living in all these years has popped and now they have 1 child not attending school, the mother who claimed recently that she has been having thoughts of unaliving herself, now desperate and crying for her deceased father who has been gone for more than a decade, where is her own mother? Where is her 4 sisters and brothers? Aunts, uncles? Cousins? Friends? Same goes for the gnome pedalo of a father he only gets more desperate as he clings on to his 1 cash cow he has left to milk in a bid to keep his big house and fancy cars. You can see the panic and desperation in his eyes. The realisation has dawned on him that it is an impossible lifestyle to sustain. And when they are left with nothing, where are his own parents, sisters, brothers? Friends? Nowhere to be seen. Neither parents will have anybody to lean on for support because their actions and holier than thou attitude have pushed everyone away.
It seems although we have had various family members and ‘friends’ shown in the past, they have become scarce. Their behaviour has deterred and broken apart relationships and so here you have Anna wailing for her father who was a respected academic professional and if we’re still alive he would have kicked some sense into her by now. These people have no one left to lean on for support because it’s all their own doing. They are like a repellent. The one friendship she has is an immature codependent friendship formed by two emotionally and mentally unstable people and is the type of friendship to come crashing down hard. Anna and jotato marriage is empty and while they keep up appearances now, there is no way they will be able to keep that up for the rest of their lives. I can’t imagine anything worse than growing old with a partner who I fell out of love with decades ago.
I fear we may have to cover our eyes upon watching this train wreck go down over the coming few years. I fear for the children.