Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.

Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.

Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.

As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.

At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.

Married couple Edward and Flora explore their dreams and desires, primarily Edward's fears of the unknown, of aging, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity.

Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for 'a night out' with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.

Brothers Kain and Rattler Sutherland live on a Northern Territory station. The unstable Kain clashes with the more laid-back Rattler over several issues - money, treatment of local Blacks, cattle, but most of all, their Aboriginal housemaid, Kaita, whom Kain is convinced Rattler has impregnated.

In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman - isn't he?

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.