In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, shes found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girls morality. The students parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jareds cracking under the pressure.
1997
HD
90min
Australia
English
Steven Vidler
Laurence Breuls
Simon Lyndon
Rebecca Smart
Jeanette Cronin
Chris Haywood
Justine Clarke
Essie Davis
Jessica Napier
Linda Cropper
based on play or musical
based on true story
coming of age
mysterious death
surfing
gang rape
father figure
breast cancer
toxic masculinity
beach party
