‘Lonely mouth is a Japanese expression. It means, you feel like you want to eat something, but you don’t know what it is…Maybe there is no right thing. Maybe you don’t need anything at all.’

Matilda and Lara are half-sisters who share an unreliable mother and a chaotic past. Lara, ten years younger than Matilda, is a model, living and working in Paris – for her, life is expansive, carefree, beautiful. Matilda’s life is in Sydney and solitary, contained, ordered.

When Lara’s father, the erratic Angus Dante, comes back to make amends, Matilda’s compartmentalised life goes seriously awry. As everything blows apart, Matilda is forced to come to a reckoning with who she is, and how to satisfy the hunger she wants to deny.

Thursday 5 June 2025 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Bookoccino, 66 Old Barrenjoey Road, Avalon Beach NSW 2107