First Assistant Editor
Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.
First Assistant Editor
Film sobre las relaciones humanas y familiares, la superstición, el miedo y los esfuerzos para conservar el amor en un mundo que no se puede controlar. El debut de Campion constituye un estudio de caracteres femeninos más bien desequilibrados.