Monika Thomas

Sally gave her son Sam up for adoption 20 years ago and when they reunite, they fall passionately in love with devastating consequences.

A mysterious young drifter arrives in Melbourne and takes up residence in a boarding house. Over the next year, she struggles to adapt to the new place, while negotiating her relationships with the people around her.

Emily is a recovering cancer survivor of three years. Faced with her fear of getting sick again, her best friend Nina plans a weekend away. Six friends venture out to a country holiday house to party over a weekend. Cut off from the rest of the world they soon learn the inhabitants are unsettling red neck individuals who terrorize and humiliate travelers. At the same time a para-normal monster seen as the faceless man haunts the house pushing the friends to their limits.

In this hybrid-documentary, a diverse cast of young queer people retell five stories from Melbourne’s queer community to create a snapshot of our collective history.