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A troubled journey through the byways and back alleys of a mind out of balance. Sister Marie Fenche is a woman on the verge of collapse. Barely able to distinguish reality from fantasy, Marie's life is thrown into turmoil when she awakens one morning, alone in a room with a corpse in the bathtub. Is she being set up or did she kill the man herself? The truth is not even Marie knows for sure.
Frank Bannister is about to have a very long night. A writer of violent horror stories, Frank is alone, depressed, and one step from full blown alcoholism. Late one dark and stormy night his existence is disturbed when two eccentric exotic dancers arrive on his doorstep. Alternatively seductive and sinister, the beautiful women promise to make all of Frank's dreams come true. They prove to be as good as their word. Only problem is, Frank is a man with very dark dreams indeed.
Melbourne 1949: Private eye Jack Mitchum is a good man in a dirty town. When the beautiful and wealthy Valerie Richmond requests Jack investigate her philandering husband, Jack instead becomes witness to his murder. Identified at the scene, Jack has only days to prove his innocence before he takes the fall. His investigation takes him deep into Melbourne’s seedy underground. A world of shady bars, wild women and rampant violence. Jack has to play rough and dirty just to stay alive as he learns that in this world, ONLY THE YOUNG DIE GOOD.
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