Falk steps on the grit below his boots, crackling and crunching through a bone-dry watering hole where he and his teenage friends once splashed. The setting is introduced early: “Kiewarra, Regional Australia, 324 Days Since Rain” and the waterlessness drips in and out of every scene. I missed the signs” implying there must have been a suicide. He tells Falk that Karen was vaguely upset about her husband Luke and worried about money.
Falk goes to Karen Hadler’s workplace and chats with principal Scott Whitlam played by John Polson. Gerry and Barb have theories about the wheat crop failing and problems with people borrowing money. They believe their son did not kill his family. Luke’s parents, Gerry and Barb Hadler, played by Bruce Spence and Julia Blake, ask Falk for help. Falk senses that Raco is a newbie “first responder,” and takes him under his wing.
The bodies of the Hadler family are found by Sergeant Greg Raco played by Keir O’Donnell. Needless to say, the welcome mat is not rolled out for Aaron Falk. Flashbacks show a teenage Falk hanging with his three friends, Luke, Ellie, and Gretchen. Falk is reluctant to return to his hometown due to allegations in the drowning death years ago of his teenage friend Ellie Deacon played by BeBe Bettencourt. You need to be here for the funeral.” The “funeral” is for Falk’s teenage friend, Luke Hadler, his wife Karen and son Billy who have died in an apparent murder-suicide. Investigator Aaron Falk played by Eric Bana gets a note. The Dry is a 2020 film adaptation of the Mystery Crime Thriller debut novel by Jane Harper published in 2016.
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