Dates and Times Myrtle Dunnage (Kate Winslet) has come back to her hometown in the Australian outback, and the town isn’t happy to see her. Forced into exile as a girl 25 years ago, her status as the only witness to a boy’s murder meant that the people of Dungatar had done their best to forget her entirely. And upon her return she finds her childhood home dilapidated and her mother, Molly (Judy Davis), in a terrible mental state. Myrtle (now calling herself Tilly) has spent the last quarter century learning haute couture fashion in Paris, London and Milan. Back in town, her incredible sense of style and talent in dressmaking gives her the chance she needs to reconnect with the people of her village. She makes an ally of the local police chief (Hugo Weaving), sparks a relationship with the handsome Teddy (Liam Hemsworth), and slowly begins the work that truly brought her back — investigating the truth of the tragic death that drove her away and, she believes, has cursed her. Who remembers what happened? And how can she convince them to tell her the story of that fateful night that she herself never knew? Funny, sweet, but unflinching in its vision of how people relate to their own personal histories, The Dressmaker reminds the viewer that the past is a foreign country, and they do things differently there. How do you escape the black hole of your own past, having crossed back over the threshold? And can friendship and love change your destiny?