Based on the true story of the lone gunman who killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, in 1996. Nitram (Caleb Landry Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress (Essie Davis). However when that friendship meets its tragic end, Nitram begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most nihilistic and heinous of acts. Caleb Landry Jones won the Best Actor at Cannes, and the film was nominated for the Palme D'Or.