Stormy Weather

In a tiny town in northwest Victoria in 1955, the year before the introduction of television will spell the end to their way of life, a troupe of vaudeville artists arrives to give a performance. Over the course of a day of interminable rain, we see the exhausted hopes and secret dreams of the Prospero-like, endlessly scribbling ringmaster; the Calibanic, malicious-yet-innocent rabbiter obsessed with a beautiful, pale English girl and her saxophone; and the weeping, middle-aged soprano. Their stories and others -- of illusions fostered and shattered, desires met and denied -- are bound together by the magical, transformative power of art.