30-something couple Kelly and Craig are enjoying their Christmas break. Deeply in love and seemingly carefree, it’s soon apparent that there is one unspoken concern…
Kelly (Miranda Tapsell) is Aboriginal and Craig (Richard Davies) is white, and Craig never seems to register the racism Kelly experiences.
When they hit a kangaroo and are forced to look after her joey, Kelly’s grievances come to the surface. The joey becomes a metaphor for the baby Kelly and Craig might have; how will Craig protect his Aboriginal child from something he can’t see?
Summer Love is an anthology series in which eight very different sets of people rent the same holiday house and encounter some incarnation of love. Summer Love harnesses the collision between the dreamy enchantment of the beach and the clumsy reality of humans on holiday.
Funny and uplifting, the series captures the anonymity, the possibility, the escape that we all feel on vacation – alongside the sunburn and the sand in the sheets. The house, hanging over the ocean, is the portal for love – to be discovered, or recovered, or let go.
Production credit: A Gristmill Production. Major production investment from Screen Australia in association with VicScreen, the ABC and Kinetic Content. Episode 2 written by Miranda Tapsell and James Colley. Produced by: Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope. Associate Producer: Louisa Kors. Executive Producers: Robyn Butler, Wayne Hope and Greg Sitch. ABC Executive Producer: Todd Abbott. Kinetic Content Executive Producers: Chris Coelen and Melissa Myers.
