Dan, an introverted police officer in a small country town, begins to unravel after he fails to follow police protocol when dealing with an incident involving his childhood friend Steve. The next day, Steve's body is found in the bush, buried in a shallow grave. Unfit to work and haunted by guilt, Dan spirals. When his pet rooster is killed by a fox, Dan lets go of the fragile tether he has on his sanity and retreats to camp out in the forest where Steve was found. After a chance encounter with an eccentric hermit living amongst the trees, Dan suspects that this man may have been the last person to see Steve alive. As Dan seeks answers, an unusual bond forms between the two men over games of table tennis. But all is not as it seems when Dan discovers that the hermit may have been responsible for a terrible act of violence.
Thursday 22nd February
101 min
MA15+
Hugo Weaving, John Waters, Phoenix Raei, Robert Menzies, Rhys Mitchell
Mark Leonard Winter
Drama
Pentridge Cinema, Palace Balwyn, The Chauvel Cinema, Palace James St, Palace Electric Cinema