When a slippery Sydney film producer discovers he needs to attach a movie star to to finally make it big, he coerces his estranged father into a cross country road trip to find an elusive actor.
James Gibson is an ex-con who has spent his life in and out of prison. One day, his life turns around when he settles down, meets the love of his life and has a child with her, but an unforeseeable tragedy strikes and his life is never the same.
The film is about the early years of famed children’s author Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) when she experienced something that was a “combination of both miracle and calamity that came to shape her entire life.”