Haunted by the disappearance of her twin brother in Hong Kong, photographer Anna Frasier travels home to Sydney. Beginning a photographic study of fossilised shells she meets Seth LaMarque, a blind palaeontologist, and his sister Rachel, a solicitor working with the homeless.
As Anna's work progresses she finds herself more and more involved in Seth's and Rachel's lives. But even as she is drawn into their worlds, her brother's absence binds her to a past she can neither escape nor resolve until she returns to Hong Kong to find him.
Set just over a decade from now, 'The Deep Field' evokes a world much like the present, yet subtly and unsettlingly different. At once steely and compassionate, it weaves elements of photography, philosophy and science together into a meditation of love, time and loss.
A story that is at once beautiful, poetic and startlingly original.
