Apartheid South Africa 1982.
An unexpected windfall for her eighteenth birthday gives Kara Butler the opportunity to escape her miserable home life and start somewhere else afresh. She randomly picks Bretherton, a small sleepy seaside town where nothing much happens. But soon her life becomes tangled up with a brain-damaged co-worker, a manipulative married doctor and his agoraphobic wife and Kara's life is set to change forever. Obsession, lust, betrayal and murder enter the fray, which will leave you wondering just who is the real victim in this riveting tale which was inspired by a true story.
When I was a child I was fascinated by a story dominating the news headlines about a young girl who murdered her lover's wife with a pair of scissors. I always wondered what would make someone do something like that. In Defective, I thought it would be fascinating to explore a young girl's relationship with an older man, and look at what the motivations on both sides would be.
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