The ‘Conversation’

During a road trip through rural Australia, a young girl gradually uncovers a startling truth: her mother is looting houses that have been abandoned due to a rapidly approaching bushfire.

Months after a distant volcanic eruption, a cloud of ash continues to loom over northern Australia. With the region plunged into an eternal night, its inhabitants flee south. Trapped inside an apartment, two brothers care for their ailing grandmother – one longing to flee, the other clinging to what remains.

On a remote cattle farm in rural Australia, an Argentine farmhand calls his son back home, masking the grim reality of being trapped on the property after his passport was confiscated.