Amir and his son flee the violent streets of Kabul only to encounter another type of persecution in Australia.
Cyprus 1974: A Greek-Cypriot family flees invading Turkish forces and takes refuge in an abandoned palace, where they are found by a young Turkish-Cypriot army conscript. Shot on location around the United Nations Green Line in Lefkosia, Cyprus - the world's last divided capital.
Steve Barker is a veteran police officer struggling to find any self-respect or connection with his young family. An encounter with a drug-addled Aboriginal, his wife's infidelities and a friend's dark secret forces Steve into a crisis of conscience and warps his previously straight-edged moral code completely out of shape. In the tradition of Serpico and Blue Murder, SPIKE UP offers a sobering meditation on police ethics and responsibility; and examines the power of institutional evil to permeate the individual.
An ex-prostitute Nina is lured back in to her old life by two over sexed and overbearing out-of-towners. Upon deciding that she can no longer sell herself as she once did, Nina must escape her newfound clients and her past.