"Beneath the clouds"- the search of belonging

In Ivan Sen's "Beneath Clouds" the search of belonging is explored in the story of two teenagers in rural Australia. "Beneath Clouds" is about two teenagers who meet up on the road to Sydney. One is a volatile Aboriginal who has escaped from a youth detention centre in order to visit his dying mother; the other is a schoolgirl of Aboriginal descent seeking her long-absent Irish father. At first Vaughn and Lena struggle to find …

…that drives her to break her boundaries. Living in a remote town, like Lena and Vaughn do, causes many people to feel insignificant and wanting to belong to the bigger picture. In secluded parts of Australia many feel depressed and useless. In "beneath Clouds" Ivan Sen tries to show the extremes by breaking the boundaries of 2 teenagers lives and showing what would happen if they actually went out and tried to search for something more.