1. Federal agent Allen received a funeral invitation from his hometown for his childhood friend Luke and his wife and children. This is a human tragedy, his childhood friend Luke committed suicide after allegedly killing his wife and children. Allen was very hesitant to go back to the funeral. It took courage for him to go back to his hometown, but he saw a note from Luke's old father that read "Luke and you are lying, come to the funeral". This note opened up the dusty past, and made Allen finally make up his mind to return to his hometown after 20 years of absence.
2. Alan's hometown is in a remote area of Australia, a small town called "Kiwara", which is suffering from drought, and it has not rained for almost a whole year. It wasn't easy for Alan to go home this time. On the one hand, he was on a mission to investigate the real cause of death of his good friend Luke's family, and on the other hand, there was a murder that happened to him twenty years ago, which haunted him like a nightmare. He has been for many years, and he can't wait to unravel this mystery when he comes home this time. But he doesn't like to go back to his hometown. He understands that compared with the drought, what is more terrifying is the dryness of people's hearts here.
3. The funeral of Luke and his wife and children cast a sad color on the town. There has been no rain for a long time, the rivers of the past have long dried up, the lakes of the past have become deserts, and everything has been changed. Compared with 20 years ago, the people in the town have become more indifferent. They distrust and hate each other. Their hearts dry up, wither and become alienated and closed. The town is full of terrible lies. Everyone except Luke's mother believed that Luke killed his wife and children, even Luke's father. He told Ellen that he had always known that the day that poor girl Ellie drowned many years ago, "Luke and you were both lying", you didn't hit the rabbit, he saw Luke coming from the river. Luke's old father even suspected that Luke might have killed the poor girl Ellie that day.
4. Ellie's death changed Ellen's life. Ellie can be said to be Ellen's first love, and he experienced the sweetness of the first kiss on Ellie. Ellie's bizarre death also made Allen bear sins that did not belong to him. For this reason, he lied. For this reason, he and his father left their hometown and left here in an extremely disgraceful manner. Ellie's death mystery haunts him all his life, and he needs to solve it. This is also the most important reason for Luke to return to his hometown.
5. The story of four friends. Luke, Gretchen, Ellie, and Allen, the four childhood sweethearts, are not two couples, but Luke has two girlfriends, Ellie and Gretchen, and the introverted Ellen is just playing soy sauce. of. In a flashback at the beginning of the film, Luke holds Gretchen and makes fun of Ellie being jealous. After that, Luke bullied Ellie and nearly drowned her, and Ellen just watched. Ellie couldn't stand this kind of triangular relationship, a game of two women and one man, and had a big quarrel with Luke, and it was Luke who chased out to explain, while Allen and Gretchen were stunned. Gretchen said later that she was always only Luke's second option, with Ellie in the front and Karen in the back. The day Ellie died, it started with a big quarrel with Luke, and then entered the classroom and gave Ellen a kiss, which was a bit pissed off. According to Gretchen, she went on a date with Luke later that day and saw Ellie walking towards the river but ignored her and Ellie drowned. This is something Gretchen has been guilty of for many years, and it is Luke's heart disease. Luke felt that Ellie was stimulated to die for him that day, so he panicked and ran to Ellen's house and confessed to him that he beat rabbits together. Luke is not trying to help Alan, but to excuse himself. If the police knew that he was dating two girls at the same time, that he was dating Gretchen alone that day, he deliberately ignored Ellie who was running to the river and deliberately provoked her. Then he is the biggest suspect. Luke and Gretchen both hid it.
6. Allen suspects that everyone in the town may be a murderer, and everyone in the town is also wary of Allen. Everyone here seems to have little secrets that no one knows. Allen has always suspected that Luke killed his wife and children. He bullied Ellie and almost drowned her vividly. He has a tendency to violence since he was a child. Allen asked the doctor about Luke's mental state at the time, but the doctor was also indifferent to Allen. Allen later suspects Jamie, the farmer, because he and Luke were "rabbit-fighting" on the day of the incident, the exact same lie he had made twenty years ago. Once a lie begins, it cannot end, and over time, it becomes a habit. As a result, Jamie and the doctor were secretly messing around on the day of the incident. They had their own little secrets, so they lied. Allen doubts Grant because his name appears on a piece of paper that Luke's wife wrote before she died. Grant and Jamie also fought each other, because of the land issue, the two of them and Luke's farm were linked together, and they all had motives to kill. Ellen even suspected Gretchen, that Gretchen's son was Luke's illegitimate son, and that she murdered for love. In the end, the mystery was revealed, but the murderer was the principal who was quite friendly to him, a poor gambler, for a mere 70,000 yuan.
7. The story doesn't end there. Ellie's death twenty years ago also revealed the mystery. Gretchen has made it clear long ago that everyone has a share in Ellie's death. Terrible family of origin, Luke playing with her feelings, Gretchen jealous of her, indifferent to any people in the town who didn't give her any help. Because of the piece of paper on her body, people blame Ellen for Ellie's death, because it's easier, because it makes it easier for them to accept it.
8. This is a world without love, this is a dry town, Luke solves the mystery but falls into heavy sadness, he is also a liar, he also does not trust everyone, he is as dry as the town . The film comes to an abrupt end, and it all comes down to the sad and beautiful theme song at the end of the credits.
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