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Suite 391, 11 Randle StreetSurry Hills NSW 2010
p. www.mn8.com/bigallatonce,02 9318 1191f. 02 9705 0527
BIG ALL AT ONCE intimately follows three different 18-year-olds now, as they are spat out of the uniformity of high school and struggle to piece together their adult identities, their own way.
A father and his two sons undertake the task of winter maintenance at the local swimming pool complex. The vast array of empty pools hint at the loneliness of the eldest boy. His younger brother, powerless to change the situation, immerses himself in his imagination.
A boy struggles to understand his strange silent father - an immigrant who has become an emotional refugee in his own home.
On 14 May, 2002 Hetty Vickers invited loved ones to assist in taking her own life. Unfortunately something went awry...
Maggie, a professional woman dutifully paying a visit to her overbearing mother in Sydney, encounters a 14-year-old Kosovan girl on the train. Strangely propelled by the girl's isolation, she embarks on a mission to reunite her with her mother in a refugee detention centre, but gradually discovers that it is in fact the young stranger who is showing her how to reconcile with her own mother.
A haunting suspenseful tale about finding connections in the strangest places.