'In The Plains, David Easteal’s astonishing feature debut, we are invited to virtually take a place in the back seat of the car of the protagonist, a middle-aged lawyer named Andrew Rakowski, a real-life person, playing himself in the film. Over the course of a year, we will watch him driving down the same road, from his workplace, in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, towards home, occasionally offering a lift to his younger colleague David. ' (Introduction)
