A child without a past - a mother without a future - a story about love.
Overview
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
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Director, Novel, Screenplay
Status Released
Original Language English
Budget -
Revenue -
Keywords
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- refugee camp
- war crimes
- despair
- bath tub
- family history
- alienation
- alcoholism
- unwillingly pregnant
- dam
- domestic abuse
- citizenship
- heirloom
- single father
- archive footage
- rabbit hunting
- broken heart
- tasmania
- emptiness
- ghosts of the past
- slovenia
- peaches
- war refugees
- baked beans
- loss of smell
- knead
Content Score
82
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