Lou 2010 Living in rural New South Wales, working class single mother Rhia Emily Barclay is struggling to evade debt collectors and raise three young daughters The eldest, and hardened beyond her years, Lou Lily Bell Tindley blames Rhia for the departure of her father, who walked out ten months ago and hasnt been seen since Mother daughter relations hit bottom when Rhia takes in Doyle Sir John Hurt, her father in law, who is in the beginning stages of Alzheimers Disease Doyle turns Lous initial hostility around with exciting tales of his South Seas adventures But coursing deepest in his mind are fractured memories of Annie, his late wife Before long, Doyle sees Annie in Lou and imagines he is courting her all over again