In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture and finds himself with writer’;;;;;s block when required to do a B-movie wrestling script, the only relief coming from a traveling salesman living next door.
Sybylla (Judy Davis), a headstrong, free-spirited girl growing up in late 19th century Australia, dreams of becoming a famous writer. When the man she loves proposes, Sybylla must choose between romance an the brilliant career she craves.
The film tells a story of unlucky burglar who experiences a bad circumstance when he takes a couple and their annoying relatives hostage. What will he do to deal with problems for survival?
Events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre on Tasmania in an attempt to understand why and how the atrocity occurred.