In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.

• Paper Bark Films Pty. Ltd.
• RMB Productions
• Geoffrey Rush
• Judy Davis
• Charlotte Rampling
• Alexandra Schepisi
• Helen Morse
• John Gaden
• Robyn Nevin
• Colin Friels