AustLit

In 1931, Walter Russell, a Canadian airman, flies into an Inuit village in Canada to map the area. He meets a boy, Avik, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and offers to take him to Montreal to receive medical treatment. At the hospital, Avik meets and falls in love with Albertine, a girl of mixed French Canadian and First Nation heritage, with whom his life will be forever linked. Spanning decades and distance, through war and adversity, their star-crossed relationship becomes a grand romantic adventure of never-ending intensity.

Set in a government unemployment-compensation office, Compo explores the conflict between optimism and ideology as it rubs up against the cold harsh reality of everyday life. Paul Harper is a university graduate with all sorts of wonderful notions as to how to better the lot of his fellow men. When he takes a public service position and dispenses 'compo' to the laid-off and the fired, he begins to take issue with the bureaucracy and poor management attending his job. Before long, his idealism has been hammered into plodding conformity ... or has it?

'About a young man's futile attempt to publish a trendy magazine in Carlton.'

Source: Screen Australia.