D. Shirley Barrett | Romance/ Period Drama | Aus | 2010

Meredith, thirty and unmarried, arrives at a remote lighthouse island with her uncle, the new head keeper. Bad weather and misadventure leave her marooned with only the sullen and withdrawn assistant keeper Fleet for companionship. A tender, faltering courtship ensues…

The year is 1928, and the setting is South Solitary Island, a remote lighthouse island, bleak, rainy and directly in the path of the Roaring Forties. Meredith Appleton, 33, arrives with her uncle, George Wadsworth, the replacement Head Keeper. Desperate for companionship she lurches into a relationship with Stanley the married assistant keeper. But this just leads to his hurried departure and following the untimely demise of her uncle, Meredith is left alone with the very unforthcoming Fleet.

South Solitary is a gentle comic romance about the great human need for companionship.

Starring: Miranda Otto, Marton Csokas, Barry Otto, Essie Davis and Rohan Nichol

Presented in collaboration with FOSSIL (Friends of South Solitary Island Lighthouse)

Geoff Handicott and Jim Smith

The Sea Shanty Men