In the heat of obsession, love wasn't in the script

For indie director Jessa Daniels, it’s her best script yet—a raw period drama about a mail-order bride trapped in a loveless marriage in the late nineteenth century in colonial Australia.

For tabloid darling, Lydia Harding, it’s a chance to become a serious actor again.

But under the suffocating heat on a remote banana plantation in the Daintree rainforest, tempers fracture and obsessions turn dangerous. As the isolation takes hold, the script begins to bleed into reality. When the line between performance and truth disintegrates, the cast and crew find themselves trapped between the world they’re creating and the one they can no longer control.

Love wasn’t in the script for Jessa and Lydia, but it might be the only real thing left.