Tom Russell

On the run after committing a violent crime, an ex-con takes his ten-year old son on a survival trek through the punishing Australian outback.

Blindsided with anguish after her husband's sudden death, Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg) struggles to make sense of life without him and care for her four young children. Then, eight-year-old Simone becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house.

Two estranged teens begrudgingly find themselves walking home together on Halloween 1997, embarking on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears.