Cassie Tongue

In rural Australia, a drought moves out of the ground and into your bones. It’s a shrivelling of resources: if you live and work on the land, it dictates the shape of your existence. If the farm needs change, your life must shape to address it or you’re facing not only ecological crisis but also financial ruin. No one knows this better than Ray (Colin Friels) and Floss (Kerry Armstrong), whose family farm on sunburnt country has been suffering. As Into the Shimmering World begins, they’re looki…