Juniper Drama

Sam (George Ferrier) returns home to rural New Zealand from boarding school for the holidays to find that his wheelchair-bound English grandmother, Ruth (Charlotte Rampling) has moved in. An ex-war photographer with a lust for life and a love of the bottle, Ruth is something of a handful and 17-year-old Sam soon finds himself confronted by her alcoholic wit and arrogance. Their relationship goes from awkward to violent, and when Sam finds himself stranded with her and her nurse for the duration of the school holidays, a battle for supremacy ensues with neither of the strong-willed characters backing down.