Picnic at Hanging Rock

Overview

Hester Appleyard purchases an isolated mansion out in the Australian bush to transform into a school for young ladies, a few months later, Appleyard College is a success. On Valentine’s Day, 1900, when students and staff go for a picnic to Hanging Rock, three of the school’s star students and their governess mysteriously vanish. Their disappearance leaves a devastating impact on the students and staff of Appleyard College, their enigmatic and formidable headmistress and the township at large. Theories abound, secrets are exposed and hysteria sets in, until eventually, the lives of our characters unravel.