A young runaway falls prey to the city's darkest vice market - a youth worker on a visiting outreach bus becomes fixated with saving him.
Acting
Keegan Joyce's hollow-eyed silence speaks entire backstories.
Direction
Ettinger-Epstein's documentary background bleeds into every cramped frame.
Cinematography
The outreach bus as mobile purgatory — genius spatial storytelling.
Director
Sascha Ettinger-Epstein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Sydney's Kings Cross red-light district using actual outreach workers as extras.
Keegan Joyce was 19 playing younger; his theater background informed the character's performative survival tactics.