Heidi and Joe go to a hotel room where Heidi seduces him.

Award-winning coming-of-age drama in which Heidi is a sixteen-year-old Australian girl whose reckless sexuality gets her into trouble at home. Caught in a compromising situation by her mother, she takes to the road. In the snowy ski town of Lake Jindabyne, she meets Joe, a handsome farm owner's son to whom she is instantly attracted. As their tenuous relationship deepens, it grows more conflicted, exposing their mutual insecurities and leading to near-disaster for both. Though generous and caring, Heidi's manipulative and scarily impulsive behavior threatens to repel the people she cares for the most, forcing her to confront her volatile young self.