Cinema Australia's video: SHIT Trailer

SHIT is a psychological drama which unfolds over one long night of incarceration in a bleak holding cell. Caged for hours on end, Billy, Bobby and Sam reveal their stories. Stories of a life time of violence, of abuse, of institutionalisation, told with unsentimental, sometimes comical, often gut-wrenching insight. They’ve done something terrible but all they’ve got to do is keep it together, to keep their mouths zipped. Sam has fallen apart and become a liability, the weak link. Billy and Bobby spend the night trying to hold tight, keeping them solid, a complete three, but life has finally caught up with them. Earlier in the night they’d gone out to a party. The party turned sour. Billy deliberately caused a woman to be beaten to a pulp. Down in the mouth, they travel home. On the train they encounter a group of young men who laugh at them. They also encounter a young woman who is everything they’ve never been and they fixate on her. They follow her. There is no doubt they intend her harm. They are incarcerated and face a night of isolation and fear of what will become of them. They’re right, they think, they’ll be fine, they think, no-one will discover they’ve committed a dreadful crime. They will stay together. Because what they fear most is to be separated. SHIT is directed by Susie Dee and Trudy Hellier and written by Patricia Cornelius.