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Quinlan, a highly decorated and respected policeman, suffers from clinical depression. Quinlan's depression stems both from his work (primarily the extensive police corruption he sees around him) and his private life (primarily the fact that his wife wanted him to take bribes so so their lifestyle could improve).

Quinlan partners with his closest friend, the corrupt Detective Sergeant Frank Church, to work to bring down the corrupt officers from within the system. Working with a reporter and an officer from Internal Affairs, Quinlan exposes the corrupt officers to the press, even though he himself will be caught up (as a double agent) in the wave of arrests and sent to jail for corruption.

Set during a twenty-four-hour period, this harrowing psychological thriller concerns Renate Simmons, an agoraphobic woman facing the breakup of her marriage. After enduring nine years with her hard-drinking psychiatrist husband David, she decides that she has to leave. Terrified of leaving the security of her home and of being on her own, Renate is seemingly trapped. Although David initially appears to agree that their marriage should end, Renate gradually becomes aware that he has been playing psychological and sadistic games with her, and does not intend to let her leave at all. The tension escalates as Renate begins to see how he has deliberately manipulated her psyche over the years in order to hold on to her and subsequently realises that she is in danger. She eventually gains the strength she needs to break free, but not before a final terrifying confrontation with her increasingly unhinged husband.

'In the gem fields of central Queensland, knockabout young miners Mike and Johnny (Colin Friels and Harry Hopkins) borrow heavily to take on a claim-jumping newcomer (Dennis Miller) who has money and muscle. Help arrives from an unlikely source – a city doctor (Norman Kaye) and his family, passing though on holiday, and a lonely pilot (Simon Chilvers), who sells them a plane. They band together against the enemy, but Mike and Johnny argue over strategy and the doctor’s adventurous daughter (Lisa Peers).'

Source: Australian Screen.