Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully and brother Pete.
Acting
Mendelsohn's magnetic, wounded swagger before he went Hollywood
Cinematography
Kiama's moody coastline as a character itself

Director
David Caesar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in the actual South Coast towns mentioned — Kiama locals still point out locations.
Part of a brief early-2000s wave of 'ocker noir' that tried to do for working-class Australia what Chopper did for crime — but gentler, sadder.