Bright year-old Nika lives with her hardworking father and her troubled sister Vesna 20 in a colourless suburb of Melbourne. Grieving after the loss of her mother, Nika would give anything to be closer with Vesna, who, like their father, is lost in struggles of her own. When Nika discovers Vesna is pregnant, she throws herself into preparations for the arrival of the newborn, hoping that Vesna could eventually become a mother not only for the baby but for her. Soon after the baby is born, Vesna disappears. Nika must offer to the baby the warmth, affection and love she longs for herself. Woven through this story are the textures, dreams and feelings of my childhood. Or rather, of the early years when I suddenly started to feel much older than I really was, in a family where the parental roles were reversed and the boundaries blurred. It took me decades to realize that this early maturity was only a shield. I am drawn to explore the tenuous nature of these early coping mechanisms. In Vesna we see suburban, working class Melbourne through the eyes of Nika, a year-old Slovenian, at the moment when childhood is cut short.


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