Seven children wander the streets in an urban odyssey over one day and night. But not all will find their way home. Katrina and Trisha are two street-smart girls, with sharp tongues and attitude. When they wag school and are caught shoplifting, the cops make sure they leave knowing they've got nothing, that they're worth nothing. Having recently fled his mother's cloying love, Roo is now living on the street. But when he finds himself shooting a porn film he realises he's not so tough and just wants to go home. Unfairly accused of stealing his mother's money, Daniel... decides he may as well stage a real theft. But the outcome of his actions is not the one he expects. Brother and sister, Orton and Stacey, must flee the mother they love in order to survive. And James is the most lost of all; a young Aboriginal man with no place in the white or black world.As each child moves deeper into peril, a mother's scream pierces the night and we know that a life has been lost. Dawn breaks, and it's the same day but now we experience the journey from the viewpoint of the five mothers. Over-wrought Tanya wrongly accuses her son of theft. Deeply religious Gina has a premonition that her missing son is dead. With little to look forward to, but much to reflect upon, Laurel must acknowledge that she kept a child from his rightful mother. Lonely Bianca loses her winning streak but finds comfort from a stranger. And Rhonda, tough yet achingly vulnerable, lets the children she loves go because she believes they are safer without her. Over the course of their respective journeys we understand that they are as lost and defenceless as the children they care for. And by night's end, one of them must face her worst nightmare. [show more]
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Australian drama from director Ana Kokkinos which examines the fraught relationship between a number of mothers and their children. The action of the film occurs in two distinct phases. The first follows the seven children over the course of a single day as they attempt to make it on their own in the unforgiving environment of the urban streets; the second follows the various mothers on the same day as, stricken with worry, they attempt to track down their missing children. Gina (Victoria Haralabidou), who has deeply held religious convictions, is haunted by the belief that her son has been killed; Tanya (Deborra-Lee Furness), caring but overbearing, threatens to make things worse with her child by accusing him of stealing; while Rhonda (Frances O'Connor) is forced to face the agonising truth that, though she loves them deeply, her children may be better off without her.
This release follows seven children as they wander the streets in an urban odyssey over one day and night in order to find their way home. As daylight dawns, the viewpoint changes and we follow the story from the side of the mothers as they pray for the safety of their children.
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