Professor David Lurie's life falls apart after he has an impulsive affair with one of his students. Forced to resign from the university he escapes to his daughter's farm. The relationship is tested when they both become victims of a vicious attack. Based on the Booker Prize winning novel by J.M. Coetzee.
A vivid and comic portrayal of a migrant mother and daughter surviving life in a dusty Australian town in the 1960s.