An emotional 90s queer family saga about secrets, memory, and coming of age.
Some families are held together by what they say. Others are defined by what they leave in the dark.
Melbourne, 1979. Terry is a young idealist on the cusp of a brilliant legal career when his world fractures. Left adrift by a sudden, devastating disappearance, he faces a crisis that threatens to ruin his future before it even begins—until his younger sister, Rose, steps up to the plate. With a single, life-altering choice to protect him, Rose’s own life will transform overnight.
Melbourne, 1996. For eighteen-year-old Lucas, survival means navigating a series of minefields at home and beyond. He is hopelessly entangled with his childhood best friend, Daniel, but they are caught in a volatile cycle of intense closeness and devastating, absolute silence—driven by a secret shame that threatens to tear them apart.
In their final school year, life for everyone around them is reaching a breaking point. There is no escaping the past, not even for Lucas, who is about to head off on a long-planned backpacking trip to Europe with Daniel. Except they’re not on speaking terms. Trapped under a heavy cloud of tension, the air in this family is running out. Whether in Melbourne, Sydney, or a biting European winter, everyone is going to have to face what they left in the dark.
Spanning two decades, Replace The Sky is a passionate, emotionally raw, and richly layered LGBTQ+ family saga. Moving from the political rallies of late-70s Melbourne to the haunting beauty of a 90s European winter, it is a tender exploration of the heavy price of identity, the intoxicating freedom of escape, and the profound truth that you can come of age at any age.
