Laura Pike

Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.

Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama. The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day smugglers, their family business is transporting drugs into Australia and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands.

The world has been left in ruins following the outbreak of a terrifying disease. Deep in the Australian countryside, a group of survivors are locked in a constant struggle to stay alive.

When a former football star who witnesses a murder in his hometown goes public, a trail of destruction ensues, unearthing secrets that will tear the town apart.

How long should you wait for the life you expected and imagined to turn up? How long is too long and should one wait at all? Angela, Beth, Peter and Adam each have a life: one is living it, one is desperately chasing it, and another has woken up to it while the other is still trying to figure it out. In Autumn is a film about walking out on the fears and self imposed life sentences that prevent us from living full and genuine lives.