By this River

11-year-old Keira compulsively steals from pregnant women at her local aquatic centre, seeking the connections missing from her everyday life.

Lonely police officer Georgie becomes fascinated by a queer couple she observes at the beach, recognising their soft intimacy as something missing from her own emotionally arid heterosexual relationship. Time slows eerily and soothing touches and sounds grow sinister as her fixation becomes charged with hungry sensuality.

On an isolated property, a teenage boy must help his mother escape his fanatical stepfather, testing his loyalties and ideas about the outside world.