Nicole, Dassi and Elly Sapper are three young girls growing up in an Ultra-Orthodox community in Melbourne. In their parents’ eyes they will do as all young women do: find husbands, have children and continue the traditions of their insular faith. In 2008 that expectation is shattered when allegations surface that the sisters were abused by their headmistress Malka Leifer. With a PR disaster on their hands, the school board spirits Leifer away to Israel, setting in motion a decade and a half of anger, frustration and determination to bring Leifer back to face her crimes. During their campaign, Nicole, Dassi and Elly uncover an astonishing web of secrecy, international entanglements, legal manoeuvring and political corruption. After a decade on the lam, Leifer is finally forced back to Australia, charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse. The sisters are elated, but now have to grapple with, indeed pay, the price of being a victim seeking justice. They do so not just for themselves, but to forge a path for others too.
Adam Kamien is a career journalist with a background in print and radio, transferring his investigative skills to the world of documentary filmmaking. His reporting on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, as well as the high-profile abuse case that rocked Melbourne Jewish school Yeshivah College, led him to investigate the scandal at the Adass Israel school. For the past three years he has worked closely with the victims in the case, who have fought to have their alleged abuser, former principal Malka Leifer, extradited from Israel. His other documentary project Speedway has attracted investment from Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Commission and will premiere as the Opening Weekend Gala film at the 2023 Adelaide Film Festival.
