Short description
Heath Ledger is passionate aspiring poet and heroine addict and Abbie Cornish his bright young artist girlfriend in the Australian drama that follows them as they ride the addiction until they inevitably bottom out. Geoffrey Rush co-stars as their hop-head father figure, a college chemist who whips up his own fixes in the lab. Luke Davies adapts his own novel in collaboration with director Neil Armfield
Long description
This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.