Each family, each individual, perceives fate and destiny in their own way. To begin with this draws lines between people and the characters define themselves against each other. As the years and the failures and the pain and the despair mount up, the families face a stark choice - to let it overwhelm them or to find some common ground. A love discovered, the birth of a child and the realisation that the difficulty of …showed first 75 words of 419 total…

…showed last 75 words of 419 total…people. He has faith in us. That we are capable of, and in need of, love - and that we find it together. Cloudstreet is his masterpiece. It brings faith in the natural and the supernatural together. It says life is hard and rich and that the divisions we create are illusions. It's a call to us to look, to see, to hope and to believe. To say, 'I'm going to give it another go'.