Top Of The Lake

The stark opening, a girl walking into a frozen lake, evokes Scandinavian mysteries, but the voices and landscape reveal Campion's New Zealand. Strong women struggle with sexual assault, dubious parentage and violence in the past and in its dark present, doubting lovers and enemies; Campion slowly builds a complex battle of innocents against the perverse world of patriarchy and drug dealing. A world of wild, explosive men, reflective, powerful women and beautiful but treacherous nature.