A novelist and her teenage son face their own unique challenges over the course of a day, finding recognition and respect difficult to come by in small-town Australia.
Nooreh is an eight-year-old girl who lives in a Kashmiri village on the India-Pakistan border. One night she discovers that the frequent gun battles that rage near her home only happen when she sleeps and stop when she’s awake.
A lonely, gay 13-year-old reflects on his complicated love for his volatile sister, the night she humiliated him, and her disappearance from their small, Southern town.