The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998)

Based on Richard Flanagan's acclaimed novel, THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING is about the dark underbelly of Australia and the difficulty of adjusting to life in a new country.
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja’s distraught father (Jacek Koman) 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 (Kerry Fox) returns to Tasmania’s highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together