Inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal and Irish Australian families, Moffatt created a trilogy in which characters are haunted by the past.

It tells the story of a young Indigenous Australian boy haunted by the ghost of an American GI who drowned in the swamp around which much of this segment takes place.

The film follows the young boy as he observes and interacts with white settlers who are building a cinema on top of the swamp, while simultaneously holding a caretaker position to his two younger siblings, experiencing abuse at the hands of adults in his family, and having episodic interactions with the ghost of the American GI.

In the desolate plains of outback Queensland, Ruby (played by Moffatt herself) and her family are haunted by invisible trains which run on a track beside their house.

When her son Bebe and his love, Minnie, leave their community to escape opposition to their marriage, Imelda follows them to a small town in north Queensland.

Creating and sharing stories is a way to make sense of the world, and both encourages and reflects connections between the past and the present, and people and places.

Through the process of telling us their stories, each of the narrators in beDevil recount shared tales, a sort of modern folklore.

[4] Tracey Moffatt approached Tony Buckley to produce as she was impressed by the films he had made, especially The Night, the Prowler (1978).

[6] Bedevil was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival,[7] before general release on 28 October 1993.

[citation needed] Despite good reviews from critics, the film was a box office flop, grossing $27,300.