Narelle Portanier

10人兄妹の末娘として生まれたミシェル・ペインは生後間もなく母を亡くすが、残された家族と助け合いながら育つ。ペイン家は調教師の父(サム・ニール)、そして兄妹のほとんどが騎手という競馬一家で、ミシェルも思春期を迎えるころには騎手を目指すように。やがてデビューを飾るミシェル(テリーサ・パーマー)だったが、落馬によって騎手生命にも関わる大けがを負ってしまう。

Young, charismatic, and hardworking, Sparra Farrell seems to be sailing into a happy, respectable life. He has a solid job and an adorable fiancée named Paula, and already owns a modest house in the country outside Melbourne. The only odd thing is that Sparra says precious little about his past — but that past is about to catch up with him, and wrest control of his present.

In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.