Meet Les
(Alexander Bertrand)
Thrust headlong into the cruel, dark heart of seedy Sydney, Les yearns to return to the haven of his beloved bush. However, try as he might, he powerless to resist the lure of the Emerald City’s seductive charms, awash as it is with colourful racing identities, hardened crims, bent politicians and flashy wannabes. It’s a world of booze, blondes, bagmen, orbiting around Bondi Beach of the 1980s. And in no time at all, the big, red-headed, broad-shouldered, gnarled-handed, lantern-jawed former Queensland meat worker is in way too deep...
With an innate, canny ability to capitalise on people’s naive, simplistic assumptions about him, Les is able to disarm them with his laconic sense of humour, cleverly disguising the fact that he’s an opportunistic operator who has a…