Two strangers, one motel room, fifteen minutes that'll wreck your whole week.
Tucked away in a forgotten and isolated motel, a 'lad' meets a returning soldier coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. The brief encounter is a soft collision of two characters both lost and trying to find themselves within each other.
Acting
Webber's trembling stillness—PTSD without a single flashback.
Direction
Lee lets the motel walls breathe; every silence is a scream.
Director
Andrew Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a 2014 wave of Australian shorts exploring queer masculinity through rural isolation and military trauma.
The title names the soldier, but the film belongs to John—the civilian who wanted to fix what can't be fixed.
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