AustLit

Released the same year as Death in Brunswick, with which it is often compared, Nirvana Street Murder is a tragi-comedy which similarly deals with the issues of multi-cultural relationships, inner-city life, romance and being on the wrong side of the law.

The narrative follows Luke and Boady O'Hagan, brothers who live together in a seedy section of Melbourne. While in all respects a model citizen, Luke's clandestine romance with a Greek-Australian teacher is seemingly his only act of defiance. Her conservative and traditional parents would be horrified to know that she was seriously considering marriage to a non-Greek. Boady, on the other hand, deals in drugs and likes to live on the edge. When one of his deals goes wrong, all three of them, along with Boady's pregnant girlfriend, are forced into hiding.