welcome to gurage. >> anthony: thank you. she was here just last year. bezunesh and de facto grandmother owl welcome us. when visitors come, everything starts with coffee. traditionally, it's served here with a bit of salt, not sugar. thank you -- that's good. maya's story differs from marcus' in a lot of ways. it was not disease or famine or poverty that drove her and her brother petros to europe and a new life. it was the brutal reality of politics. so, who is your father? >> maya: my dad was my hero and everyone's hero in this -- i mean everyone, but my brother could explain a little bit more. >> petros: he was a local chief and also a member of the supreme, or the highest court, you can say. during the haile selassie period he was engaged in more >> anthony: in 1974 emperor haile selassie was deposed and the very unpleasant general mengistu and a hard-lying communist regime called the derg took over the country. as in mao's china, all agricultural property was taken over by the state and broken up into small parcels. >> petros: everything what my fat