The Sound of One Hand Clapping
A child without a past - a mother without a future - a story about love.
Film19981h 33m
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- Director
- Richard Flanagan
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1998-04-22
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
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Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
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