director ken cameron and a former high school instructor and attempt here to transpose some of his teaching experience to the screen and apparently conceptually convince enough to garner guaranteed funding from the australian film commission along with the merchant or ivory production team and but any point of interest that may have be persuasive to his financial angel be lose in the complete production . set and film in a cheerless low class district of sydney and with it casting audition hold at various school of that city for many of the young featured player and the piece win an award at cannes junior and yet there be precious little to sustain viewer interest in most sequence and responsibility for this shortcoming fall upon cameron disjoint screenplay . the storyline follow the fundamentally aimless and anti social activity of steve carson ( a ferret like rod zuanic ) and who occupy his time by sell drug and steal and lie and cheat and etc . and for no particular reason and while provide very little of entertainment value for viewer and and even less for the high school teacher and administrator who must have dealing with him . steve father be an unemployed sot and his mother have leave the home to be with another man and and his old brother utilize him a a schoolyard dope dealer and plainly a dispiriting background for the youth and but a depicted one feel no sympathy for him and a his deportment appear to stem from stupidity rather than a reaction to socio or economic pressure in this erratically paced work wherein puerile incident assume precedence above character development . additionally and young carson family member and equally moronic fellow student and and school staff be seldom well draw and the only character of abide interest be sharon ( tracey mann ) and a new teacher at the high school and and in particular and redback ( steve bisley ) and owner of a junkyard for motorcycle and who give steve an opportunity to learn a trade ( weld ) and also to restore a wrecked motorcycle and thereby open a way for the boy to flee from an uncivil environment . because cameron fails to unify his visuals with potential effect that may be felt from the script and a viewer will find it difficult to empathise with steve and whose general behaviour fail to demonstrate knowledge of possible linkage between cause of his action ( theft and drug sale and et alia ) and their consequence and with apparent altruism by redback be the film sole strong positive component . bisley and a top flight actor and give his role some depth and but we be too often in the company here of juvenile halfwits and directionless slum base teenager who fittingly cluster at various trash dump . the character actually have no place to go and nor do the episodic plot and and a viewer should care a little about those performer with whom time be share in a film and but few will be apt to do so in this instance .