Cirrus@Austlit

'Seventeen extraordinary Australian directors respond to the hauntingly beautiful collection of short stories by Tim Winton. Spanning almost 30 years, these stories provide windows into the lives of men and women in the small coastal town of Angelus. Linking and overlapping, the stories create a stunning and disturbing portrait of a small coastal community in Western Australia. As befits the title of the film, the stories are preoccupied with the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people's lives. Relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.'

Source: Screen Australia

'Vic helps his mother Carol at work, cleaning homes and is shocked to discover she has been fired and accused of stealing, something Vic knows to be untrue. Vic struggles to understand his mother's refusal to fight back and, even more so, her insistence on finishing the work and refusing payment.'

Source: The Turning website (http://www.theturningmovie.com.au/#!/on_her_knees/). (Sighted: 6/12/2013)

'Returning home through the scrub after a night out two teenage girls seek respite from the stifling heat. Fuelled by cheap alcohol and teenage hormones they make their way to an isolated fire-water tank, lured by the promise of cool water. Once inside the tank the intimate mood takes a dangerous turn when they discover they are trapped with no way out.'

Source: http://thekiss.net.au/ (Sighted 23/05/2011).