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Title: The Retirement Plan
Runtime: 12 min
Country: Australia
Director: John Erasmus
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: December, 2024
Synopsis: Chloe is a young mother trying to live a normal life in the middle of the Victorian suburbs. With a laid off husband and an out of control daughter who takes after her own wild streak, her plan to set up her flailing family for life is to write a tell all book about her seedy past with the undercover police force. However on the day of her daughter’s birthday she has to contend with worlds colliding as her role as domestic mother comes into conflict with her past as a hardened undercover cop.