An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.

A small town, on State Highway 1, where nothing ever happens...then Rex Devlin dies in a suspicious car wreck and a mysterious stranger moves into the Temuka Hotel. Why is one of the world's biggest multinational corporations so desperate to buy a dowdy little backwater petrol station? Has Oscar Devlin really come all the way home from Los Angeles to sort out his meager inheritance, or is it Frankie he's come to see?

A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.