In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.
Home alone for the weekend, Xavier enlists the help of his friend Sean to bury a dead fox that he found drowned at the bottom of his dad’s near-empty pool. Realising that the hole he’s dug is too shallow, Xavier suggests they burn it instead, but Sean takes issue with the plan and the two friends come to blows.
Bob has scheduled his own death in eight days. Now he must make peace with his family, the love of his life and himself.
