Monique Fisher

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.

An overworked midwife, hollowed by an unspoken personal tragedy, is haunted by waking nightmares of an eerie presence that creeps from the shadowy bushland into the home where she lost everything.

Melbourne. 1999. Christmas time! In this darkly comic thriller, a career-crazed journalist dredges up the sordid secrets of an infamous socialite after her mysterious disappearance.