Film

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

A child without a past - a mother without a future - a story about love.

2.8

1h 33m

1998

“A child without a past - a mother without a future - a story about love.”

Synopsis

Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.

Director

Richard Flanagan

Drama

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)war crimesrefugee campdespairbath tubfamily historyheirloomalienationalcoholismunwillingly pregnantdamdomestic abuse