A broke single mum meets her new neighbor: a witch with zero patience for poverty.
In the public housing commission estate of Pendle Vale, a single mum and her daughter do it tough, until one day a witch decides to change their fortune.
Acting
Tasia Zalar's exhausted desperation is devastatingly real.
Production
Pendle Vale's bleak authenticity — no Hollywood poverty porn here.
Director
Rob Braslin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pendle Vale is a real housing commission estate in Melbourne's outer suburbs, ground zero for Australia's class divide conversations. The film weaponizes this specificity.
The witch never explains her motives — the film trusts you to recognize mutual exploitation between two desperate women with zero power otherwise.
US
AU
