Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car.
Acting
Melissa Jaffer commits harder than this budget deserved.
Production
Gloriously period-specific suburban Australian aesthetic.
Writing
Actually asks: what if the government was competent-ish?
Director
Robert Marchand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Australian family sci-fi in the late 80s-early 90s, when local content quotas demanded wholesome alternatives to American imports.
Melissa Jaffer later played Noranti in Farscape—apparently Australia's go-to for eccentric alien-adjacent grandmothers.
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