Set in 1940s Australia, an Aboriginal orphan arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Cate Blanchett) in this spiritual thriller from Warwick Thornton. Warwick Thornton’s mesmerising story of spirituality and survival finds a young Aboriginal boy (Aswan Reid) left in the middle of the night at a remote outback monastery run by Cate Blanchett’s rule-breaking nun, Sister Eileen. Taking him in, the seemingly kindly nun calms the unnamed “new boy” and he soon forms connections with Sister Mum (Deborah Mailman) and the farm manager George (Wayne Blair). With an attempt at bullying quashed, he finds an uneasy place with the other orphans at the monastery.