The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Name: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Director: Richard Flanagan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1998
Rating: 2.8
Cast: Kerry Fox, Kristof Kaczmarek, Evelyn Krape, Rosie Flanagan, Essie Davis

"A child without a past - a mother without a future - a story about love."

2.8/10

1998

1h 33m

Drama

Overview

Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.