When rebellious 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must confront the realities of their changing relationship to one another, and to their daughter…
Direction
Sue Brooks frames the mundane like it's about to explode.
Acting
Radha Mitchell's slow-burn resentment is masterclass.
Cinematography
The wheatbelt becomes a character—flat, vast, indifferent.
Director
Sue Brooks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brooks deliberately subverts the Australian road movie—no redemptive outback epiphany here, just suburban sprawl and dead ends.
The film's fragmented structure mirrors Grace's own narrative control; by the end, we're not sure whose story we believed.
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