This screenplay, written by one of the real eyewitnesses to Harold Holt's mysterious disappearance, is fiction, or is it?
As a young medical student, the narrator, Mike Compton, accompanied the Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, to the beach and witnessed his death by drowning.
Now a middle-aged doctor on holiday in China, Mike catches a passing glimpse of a very old European man whom he is sure is Holt.
Mike's search for this man takes us through a post-modernist exploration of truth, lies, love, and infidelity set against the myths and conspiracy theories surrounding Harold Holt's disappearance - in particular the strange story that Prime Minister Holt had been a communist spy about to be unmasked, and was smuggled away by submarine to safety in China.
The truth Mike finds is as unexpected as it is moving.
Friday, October 17, 2008
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