An intensely personal and autobiographical observation of the Melbourne artistic community of which director Tim Burstall was a part in the mid-1960s, Two Thousand Weeks is one of the first feature films of the modern era in Australian cinema.
The narrative concerns Will Gardener, a Melbourne journalist at a crossroads in his life. He wants to be a novelist, but he has a wife and two kids to support and at the same time finds himself struggling with the Australian cultural wasteland. His world begins to career into a series of crises as he finds himself having to choose between his mistress (who is about to leave for London with or without him) and family (including his father, who is dying in hospital). To make matters worse, an old university friend, Noel Oakshot, is returning in triumph from London, where he has become a darling of the media.
