Film

So Close to Home

8.0200352mDrama

Director: Jessica Hobbs
Year: 2003

It takes a stranger to show you what it means to belong

Maggie, a professional woman dutifully paying a visit to her overbearing mother in Sydney, encounters a 14-year-old Kosovan girl on the train. Strangely propelled by the girl's isolation, she embarks on a mission to reunite her with her mother in a refugee detention centre, but gradually discovers that it is in fact the young stranger who is showing her how to reconcile with her own mother.

Top cast

Kerry Fox

Maggie

Gillian Jones

Ramona

Arbenita Fejzullahu

Azra

Bethany Jenkins

Young Ramona's Sister

Mark McCann

Guard

Eleanor Munro

Young Ramona

Directed by

Jessica Hobbs

Written by

Madeleine Blackwell

Produced by

Martin Williams, Samantha Jennings