(Anna and Joseph are leaving the large town square where a bloody massacre has just occurred. Her Highness, The Queen has sent her army to quell the peoples' many protests and many men, women and children have died.) "Our neighbors, our countrymen lie dead in the street, while our Queen our Queen's army fights us and kills us like butchered animals," Joseph struggles to tell his wife, Anna. "We'll go home Joseph We'll live to fight another day," she tells him, trying to calm him down. "Come Joseph. Let's hurry Please " The two make their way down the long narrow cobblestone alley way with the sides of many tall buildings on both sides of them. "You're limping Joseph," she says, looking at him worriedly. "Come, lean on me, but please let's hurry before we run into trouble." Going through back alleys and dark corridors Joseph and Anna make it safely to their home, that is dimly lit with only a few small windows to let in the light. Joseph tells her desperately, crying, "Our Queen Maria Theresa threatens to starve us to keep us docile then charges nearly half of our grain production for her taxes. They kidnap our children to work in their spinning mills making cloth by day and turning them into whores by night. We can't even worship the God of our fathers, Anna." "Hush, Joseph. Not now. We don't need to talk about it any further right now." Suddenly Anna is shaken by a loud pounding on her neighbors door, soon followed by shrieks of terror, as she rushes to the small window to watch to see what's going on. "No No Bring him back " Anna's neighbor, a woman, is crouching down on the ground in emotional pain, crying, while a second man is holding her husband, struggling to free to himself. "Your family is being declared unfit and your child is being declared an orphan and must come with us." A rough looking man lies, as a third man is roughly forcing the boy with him. "Joseph " Anna whispers. "Three men are taking the neighbor boy, claiming Karolina and Pavel are unfit to raise him." Joseph sits up in his chair, "We know the neighbors well, Anna. Never before have two more capable mother and father raised children so well," he tells her loudly.