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When Rose is arrested for assaulting a girl at her high school, the eighteen year old is given one last chance to turn her life around. Sentenced to community service at a local boxing gym, she meets Cathy, a rough, old school trainer, who reluctantly takes the wayward teen under her wing. For Ila, it seems everyday she deals with her brother's troubles with the law, her father's depression and her mother's constant pressure to succeed in her studies. But she has one escape from the struggles of living up to her immigrant parent's expectations, martial arts. It is her passion and her path. The…mehr

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When Rose is arrested for assaulting a girl at her high school, the eighteen year old is given one last chance to turn her life around. Sentenced to community service at a local boxing gym, she meets Cathy, a rough, old school trainer, who reluctantly takes the wayward teen under her wing. For Ila, it seems everyday she deals with her brother's troubles with the law, her father's depression and her mother's constant pressure to succeed in her studies. But she has one escape from the struggles of living up to her immigrant parent's expectations, martial arts. It is her passion and her path. The two are about to embark on a journey that will ultimately bring them together and entwine their lives. The world is their battleground, and life is their opponent.
Autorenporträt
Stefan is a Melbourne writer exploring tense, atmospheric worlds of familial pain. His debut young adult horror novella Beyond the Boundary Fence, available on Amazon, was called "a chilling read" that "evokes solitary loneliness." Stefan has worked professionally as an actor or writer in film, television, stage and novels for over a decade. He has appeared in TV shows Underbelly, Winners & Losers and Gallipoli, and wrote and co-hosted the Stefan and Craig show on Triple M Brisbane. His one-man shows featuring classic horror stories received rave reviews in the 2013 and 2014 Melbourne Fringe Festival, "The audience was breathless" - The Age "Utterly inspired, miss it at your peril!" - Arts Hub