Boy Swallows Universe
In 1980s Brisbane, a precocious boy and his selectively mute brother embark on a suburban odyssey of love, redemption and retribution after their family is torn apart by a drug lord. The show takes place within a gritty, working-class suburb of Brisbane during the mid-1980s. It centers on a sharp-witted adolescent living with a silent, poetic older brother, a mother struggling with severe addiction, and a stepfather involved in the local drug trade. Their chaotic home life is watched over by an eccentric, notorious old convict with a history of legendary prison escapes. When the family unit is violently torn apart and the mother is imprisoned, the young protagonist is thrust into a perilous journey of survival, loyalty, and retribution. Driven by an urgent desire to save his mother from ultimate ruin and track down his missing stepfather, the boy plunges deep into Queensland's dangerous