Cirrus@Austlit

'An animated interpretation of T.S. Eliot's poem, 'Ash Wednesday', that prefaces Tim Winton's story collection, depicting the beach bonfire party at Massacre Point, the spearing of sharks and burning kites, referenced in several chapters of The Turning.'

Source: The Turning website (http://www.theturningmovie.com.au/#!/ash_wednesday/)

'After flunking their exams and finishing high school, disillusioned best friends Lenny and Biggie flee up the coast in an old Kombi to escape the drudgery of the local meatworks. Their bonds of mateship are tested when a female hitchhiker and free spliff are brought into the equation.'

Source: The Turning website (http://www.theturningmovie.com.au/#!/big_world/)

'Vic Lang's sexual awakening begins when a girl with a missing ring finger gives him his first kiss.'

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

'A High School music teacher, David, hears a story on the news that causes him slip out of the house without a word to his wife and drive all night to his hometown, to face a secret from his past.'

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

'Gail Lang tries to understand her husband's lingering adolescent obsession with Strawberry Alison, a girl with a large red birthmark on her face. Going through a box of Vic's memorabilia, Gail begins to wonder whether she too was just some "damaged goods" that her husband wanted to rescue.'

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

'After the death of his wife, Peter Dyson moves back to his hometown of Angelus with his son, Ricky. Trying to settle in to his new life proves difficult when his ex-girlfriend, a recovering addict, reaches out to him, stirring up memories of their toxic relationship.'

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

'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)

'Brakey is in love with his neighbour, Agnes. He watches her, following her on her nightly spear fishing trips, trying to understand her withdrawn behaviour and troubled home life. He gets his first real insight into how deep Agnes' pain runs on the night of a terrifying incident.'

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

'Rae lives in a trailer park with her husband Max, and two young daughters. When Sherry and Dan temporarily move into the park, Sherry and Rae develop a friendship. When Rae learns that they are born again Christians, she begins to wonder whether Jesus might be the answer to her problems too.'

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

'On a fishing trip at the beach, brothers Frank and Max are playing in the sand dunes. Sibling rivalry turns nasty when Max plays a dangerous trick on his brother.'

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

'Footy legend Frank flees the media controversy over his mid-game quitting of the sport. Returning to his hometown of White Point, he finds his brother Max out in the surf. Out on the waves together, the brothers finally address the weight they have been carrying around their whole lives, the weight that ended Frank's footy career.'

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

'A portrait of Vic Lang's younger years. His peculiar habits, social anxieties and fixation on his father's rifle.'

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

'Carol Lang joins Vic and Gail for Christmas Day. They are invited to their relatives for lunch and end up at the wrong house in the wrong swimming pool. They experience brings Gail and Carol together after many years of strained relations.'

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

'Vic Lang journeys to find his estranged father to tell him that Carol, Vic's mother, is dying. When he locates his father in an old isolated shack in the outback, he is struck by the love he still feels for him, and is finally able to ask his father about his youth, when his father was a policeman in Angelus, and about why he suddenly disappeared from their lives.'

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

'Bob Lang has been drinking to deal with the stress of his new-job in the Angelus police force and the expectation on him to turn a blind eye to the corruption within it. When he is called out late to a job to locate a hiker who has gone missing in the mountains, Bob finds himself trapped in the fog with a young female cadet reporter and a desperate need to reveal the intimidation and foul-play rife within the police force.'

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

'Boner McPharlin's reputation has reached mythical status in town. The subject of rumours and gossip, he is the man everybody has heard the stories of, but no one really knows.'

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

'A young girl with a crush on Vic Lang plucks up the courage to sit next to him on the train.'

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

'Gail and Vic travel to see their friends in the country. In the car, Gail admits to having had an affair and struggles with Vic's lack of reaction. When Fenn offers Vic a shotgun to shoot at clay pigeons, something Vic has not done since he was a young man, he is strangely freed from the ghosts of his past.'

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