A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Keywords: artist , australia , based-on-novel-or-book , cold-turkey , drawing-and-painting , heroin , junkie , lovers , marriage , mental-breakdown , methadone-programme , recovering-addict , sex-work