The film takes place in Australia in the middle of the 1950s, when the country's farmlands were being overrun by a plague of rabbits, and it shows a long, hot summer as seen through the eyes and overactive imagination of a young girl named Celia. Fear of communism was in the air at the time. Celia's life has been turned upside down by the loss of her cherished grandmother, and as a result, she now finds herself caught between the cruel games and rituals of her youth and the confusing world of adults. During the night, she is haunted by terrible creatures, but during the day, those imagined terrors become entangled with the mundane and cruelty of the adult world, which leads to disastrous and surprising outcomes.
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The film takes place in Australia in the middle of the 1950s, when the country's farmlands were being overrun by a plague of rabbits, and it shows a long, hot summer as seen through the eyes and overactive imagination of a young girl named Celia. Fear of communism was in the air at the time. Celia's life has been turned upside down by the loss of her cherished grandmother, and as a result, she now finds herself caught between the cruel games and rituals of her youth and the confusing world of adults. During the night, she is haunted by terrible creatures, but during the day, those imagined terrors become entangled with the mundane and cruelty of the adult world, which leads to disastrous and surprising outcomes.
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