Stranded

Claudia is seventeen. She has no school and no job. Her mother died a year ago. The household has come apart since then. Her father will not get off the couch. Her younger sister Penny refuses to go to school. The two of them are forever at each other. Then two more children are dumped on the family. Claudia gets away from the crowd in the house. She moves into the car her mother left behind. She plans to fix it and drive off. Where she is going is the warm coast up north. Meanwhile she takes a liking to a boy who works at the supermarket. Emma Lung and Emily Browning appear in the fifty two minute film, an Australian production Stuart McDonald finished in 2006.