Joanne: What are your plans for the holidays?
Evelyn: Nothing. I’ll stay at home and rest.
Joanne: You must be exhausted after the past few weeks
Evelyn: It’s been hectic
Joanne: I’m going back home.
Evelyn: To France?
Joanne: Yes. Not that I want to go…
Evelyn: Why? You always liked spending Christmas with your family.
Joanne: I did. But my parents separated a few months ago
Joanne: It is still pretty tense…
Evelyn: I’m sorry to hear that
Joanne: My dad left my mum for his secretary
Joanne: Such a cliché 
Joanne: My mum is devastated
Joanne: So I’m basically going to cheer her up 
Joanne: It’s really hard for her now
Joanne: For me it’s also not easy
Evelyn: I can imagine!
Evelyn: If you want to bring your mum over here we could spend Christmas together.
Joanne: Thanks, that’s really sweet. But I don’t think she’s in a condition for that. She’s been very depressive lately. 
Joanne is going to go back home to France for the holidays. She's going to cheer her mum up because her parents separated a few months ago. Evelyn offers Joanne to spend Christmas together if she brings her mum over here. 