Lonely mouth. Jacqueline Maley. 2025.

Matilda and Lara are half-sisters who share an unreliable mother and a chaotic past. In every other way, though, they are very different.

Lara, ten years younger, is a model, living and working in Paris - for her, life is expansive, carefree, beautiful. Matilda's life, in contrast, is solitary, contained, ordered. She works in one of Sydney's buzziest restaurants, Bocca, and has an unrequited crush on her boss, celebrity chef Colson. If she's careful - and she always is - she can keep everything in its proper place. Hold the balance berween hunger and satiation.

But when Lara's father, the erratic Angus Dante, comes back into the sisters' lives to make amends for past misdeeds, Matilda's compartmentalised life goes seriously awry. As everything blows apart, Matilda is forced to come to a reckoning with who she is, and how to satisfy the hunger she wants to deny.