December Boys

“After that summer nothing would be the same.”

Four orphans at a convent in the Australian outback have watched the younger boys leave with new parents, year after year, until they stop expecting it to happen to them. Then the Reverend Mother sends them to the coast for a summer holiday, where Maps (Daniel Radcliffe) and the others meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who could be the parents they never had. Rod Hardy follows the boys through the sunlit days of the holiday as each tries to be the one chosen.