Essie’s living a quiet life in suburban Melbourne. She suffered
severe postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, and her husband
and mother have been on edge since the birth of her second. Cracks are starting
to show, and when a mysterious woman named Isabelle moves into the neighborhood,
Essie becomes fascinated with her and goes a little Single White Female.
Isabelle seems to be looking for a missing child, and thinks Essie might be
involved. There’s some side plot drama with two other neighbors, Ange and Fran,
(affairs, cuckolding, etc.) that help round out the narrative a bit, but the
main, and weird, story is between Essie and Isabelle. It’s not quite full-on
suspense, but the twist is interesting and it makes you question the limits and
boundaries of human memory. Can we really forget that we did something terrible
in a traumatic and psychotic state?
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