James Fraser

The very best of Australian screen talent combine to recreate the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. Seventeen directors from diverse artistic backgrounds each direct a chapter from the novel, with a star-studded cast that includes Cate Blanchett. Linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.

In the late 1960s four orphans leave their orphanage for a holiday by the sea on the South Australian coast. When rumour gets out that two of the seaside residents are looking to adopt one of the orphans, friendships are tested.

An Australian farmer travels to Turkey to search for his three sons, who all went missing during the bloody Battle of Gallipoli in 1919.