Alice Springs is the scene of an enchanting date with destiny. Great planetary forces are at work, drawing people to a total eclipse of the sun - An unorthodox hero seeking the love of his life, a central Australian tour gone wrong, a young romantic lost in the desert, a rogue road train and a young woman having fantasies about killing her drop-kick of a husband...
Cinematography
The Red Centre has never looked more otherworldly and vast.
Acting
Erik Thomson carries wounded hope like nobody's business.
Writing
Interwoven stories that actually connect by the end, miraculously.

Director
Kate Dennis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for Australian TV, this captures a specific early-2000s era of outback tourism drama before Wolf Creek ruined the genre for everyone.
The 2002 total solar eclipse over South Australia was real; this fictionalizes the chaos of thousands of eclipse chasers descending on tiny towns.
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