Ascension

At 17:00 every day, Andrew, a middle-aged man, drives home from work through Melbourne’s outer suburbs in peak-hour traffic. Occasionally, he offers a lift home to a younger colleague, David. Over a year, their tentative small talk gives way to a warm friendship and open conversation within the confines of the vehicle, incrementally revealing their lives.

Haunted by his past, a man searches for forgiveness.

Confined for days to her apartment in a high-rise building in inner-city Melbourne while studying for university exams, Fei Fei, a graduate student from Shanghai, breaks from her routine and descends to the outside below.

A young man who goes door to door in search of an automotive apprenticeship spends his free time kicking up dust doing donuts with his buddies on the outskirts of Melbourne.