Anthem registers the pulse of the nation in a country unable to reconcile its past and uncertain of its future. With no easy answers, it asks the urgent question of who we are now — does Australia really sing with one voice?

Five plays are intertwined in one in this story of fringe dwellers living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly without work, and politically disengaged, they work at survival.

Fred Schepisi's film, The Devil's Playground, is an intimate portrait of a thirteen-year-old boy and the Brothers, living within the confines of a Catholic seminary.