The movie follows a celebrated author who receives a threaten from her best friend and muse, he warns her that he will expose the dark secret behind her first novel's provenance. But she will do her best to ensure her reputation. An incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal is going to start.
This stupendously pretentious Australian drama is so one-of-a-kind awful, making another would just kill its chances of unwittingly becoming a cult/camp classic.
A mostly engrossing mystery-thriller anchored by terrific performances by Rachael Blake and Susie Porter, though in the end it's a little unmoored by its own unnecessary tricksiness.
...the plotline unfolds with such a lack of clarity that it is hard to know what The Second saying about the sexual power, or disempowerment, of teen girls.
