Bille Eltringham

A fussy Australian geologist reluctantly agrees to take a visiting Japanese businessman on a tour of mining sites in the Outback, sparking an unlikely romance - and a jarring event that guarantees nothing will be the same!

Two diametrically opposed strangers are thrust together as they journey into the Australian desert.

Two diametrically opposed strangers are thrust together as they journey into the Australian desert.

Spike and Heaton are the unlikeliest pair. Taciturn, competent, unreadable, Heaton is someone we are instinctively afraid of. In contrast, his sidekick Spike is manic, child-like, unstoppable: someone we are instinctively afraid for. But when Spike commits a terrible crime, Heaton stands by him. There begins a chase across a vast Northern landscape of moors, rivers and dark woods, the increasingly exhausted fugitives being hunted not by the police but by a posse of farmers intent on revenge. No ordinary chase film, This is Not a Love Song is a love story trapped inside the body of a thriller.