Backsliding (film)

He and Alison are devoted to the idea of staying in God's good graces, so they have moved to a remote power station in central Australia, far from anywhere.

Into this possibly idyllic arrangement comes a rootless young man who the power company has hired on to be the station's handyman.

Tensions escalate between the men as their conflicting values rub up against one another[1] Documentary filmmaker Simon Target got the idea of making the film when he was stuck in a property in far west Queensland for two weeks waiting for the mail plane to take him home.

The manager of the property took a dislike to his Englishness and chased him around with a rifle in a game he called "hunt the Pom".

The director was helped in raising funds by his brother, who worked in film finance in London.