Monkey Grip is set in Melbourne in the mid 1970s in the a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. It explores the complications of love, desire and freedom. Monkey Grip tells the story of Nora who is single with a young child but still wants to live the life of a young artist. Nora has a stable job as a teacher, but she lives in an inner-city shared house, part of a bohemia of students, musicians, and actors and junkies. She is drawn into an affair with Javo, a heroin addict, and struggles to overcome the complications of love in order to regain control of her life. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate relationship. Nora's addiction is romantic love; Javo's is hard drugs. The harder they pull away, the tighter the monkey grip.
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