Cirrus@Austlit

'Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place – middens of twisted iron, rusty wire, piles of sun-baked trash. They’re exhausted, traumatised, desperate now. But as a refuge, this is the most promising place they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.

'Problem is, they’re not alone.

'So begins a searing, propulsive journey through a life whose central challenge is not simply a matter of survival, but of how to maintain human decency as everyone around you falls ever further into barbarism.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Six years on and John is still hurting at the death of his brother Charlie. Now its time for John to make the right choices.' (Production summary)

'Tommy avoiding life through drugs and alcohol is sentenced to 1000 hours of community service in a disability home. The characters he meets force him to confront the very thing he has run from.'

Source: Screen Australia.

'In the Australian desert two people from two vastly different worlds accidentally save each other and fall in love, and then just as accidentally almost destroy each other.'

Source: Screen Australia.

'Ray finds himself serving two years for manslaughter by the same government he served and fought for. He is sent to a prison built by the original convicts. From the day that he arrives, he is given special attention. He is pushed mentally and physically. He has to learn how to navigate his way around the internal politics and turf wars that exist inside the prison just to survive.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 13/2/2014)

'Young Lebanese Australian John (George Basha) comes home from jail to live with his widowed mother (Doris Younane) and wild younger brother Charlie (Firass Dirani), who is still at school.

'Having learned his lesson the hard way, he struggles to stop Charlie from making the mistakes that he made. When he finds out Charlie has become involved in drug dealing, he intervenes, inadvertently putting the family in peril.

'Meanwhile John finds that assimilating into white Australian society is less than straightforward when he starts dating a young Caucasian woman called Sydney (Clare Bowen), whose parents are against her seeing a man from his ethnic background.'

Source: Australian Screen. (Sighted: 29/8/2013)