Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.

Noah Taylor
as Danny Embling

Loene Carmen
as Freya Olsen

Ben Mendelsohn
as Trevor Leishman

Graeme Blundell
as Nils Olson

Lynette Curran
as Anne Olson

Malcolm Robertson
as Bruce Embling

Judi Farr
as Sheila Embling

Tim Robertson
as Bob Leishman

Bruce Spence
as Jonah

Harold Hopkins
as Tom Alcock