Episode 2 - Far and Wide

EPISODE 2 - FAR AND WIDE

From the series: Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed
Created by David Brown
30 minute dramedy - Episode 2 of 10 - Real-time narrative

LOGLINE
As the night stretches on in Mayoonderie, parallel lives bump, collide, and converge. In the span of a single tense and chaotic evening, Macca and Dayne kill time at the bus shelter, Martin’s estimation visit spirals into diabetic drama, and the women of Mayoonderie deliver spoken-word fury at a bridal doe-show nobody asked for, but everyone remembers.

SYNOPSIS
The episode unfolds in continuous real-time, beginning moments after Episode 1 ends. It’s still the same night. The night Dayne fled the servo, Macca was dumped from the train, Martin tries to estimate, and Ginny’s bridal pub event is about to descend into Tupperware chaos.

Dayne is killing time in the bus shelter with stolen servo goods when Macca appears out of the darkness. Their initial exchange is wary, power-tested and awkward but gradually, humour, shared isolation, and swigs of Jim Beam begin to build a tentative camaraderie. Macca gives Dayne a new name, “Deadly Dayne”. It’s a flicker of male mentorship grounded in realism, not sentimentality.

At the same time, Martin, the anxious young estimator arrives for what should be a routine job. But he finds himself waist-deep in a hoarder’s lounge room, trying to extract templated inventory sheets from under Yonni, a diabetic elder, while Sharday, a precocious 11 year old plays nurse, counsellor, and carer. What starts off bureaucratic quickly becomes urgent as Yonni crashes into a sugar low and Martin lands on a handful of used syringes. The only way out is through, and by the time the tea is poured, Martin is part of this strange family’s rhythm.

Back in town, Nay’s bridal doe-show rages on. Ginny, Yolanda and Nay serve feminist spoken word, crass confessions, and riot-grrrl-inspired dance routines to a stunned pub audience. These women know their town, and they know its men. They’re not looking for applause just a chance to speak the truth and belt it out loud.

Elsewhere, Cherry’s Tupperware party preparations begin in the worst way possible: with Gary and Gyppo tossing Domingo out of his wheelchair and onto the lounge.

By episode’s end, it’s still the same night. Dayne and Macca sit side by side, drinking from scavenged cans, the loot laid bare. Not quite friends, not quite strangers but for this moment, in this time, something is shared.

KEY THEMES
Chronological pressure: Everything is happening now. There’s no safety net of time to dilute tension only the choices made in the moment.
Disrupted caregiving: From Sharday’s fierce autonomy to Macca’s reluctant mentorship, care emerges in forms outside the system.
Masculinity & performance: The episode explores performative vs. authentic masculinity, often through comic or tragic disarmament.
Small town feminism: The women assert their agency; loud, messy, and glorious, even as they’re ignored, ridiculed, or underestimated.