[citation needed] One of the stories, Michael, written and directed by Peter Weir,[2] went on to receive the AFI Award for Best Film.
[1][5] The episode starts with close-quarter battle scenes near Sydney Harbour, where radical Youth Quake rebels are fighting against soldiers.
[1][6] Toula lives in a row house in Sydney (within the Greek community) with her parents, grandmother, and younger brother Stavros, all of whom arrived in Australia 4.5 years ago.
Assimina has an Australian boyfriend, a university student named Rick, but she is unable to tell anyone except Toula about him—rumours however reach her brother Nick, which leads to a physical altercation in the house.
Easter arrives, and the community celebrates a midnight mass with candles in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sophia in Paddington, and the family head off home together.
The three segments in the trilogy had "relatively little thematic or stylistic connection", apart from what might be called an ulterior, "issue-based" motive to draw lessons about life in Australia, and a desire to patch together a feature film by using a portmanteau structure.