A critique, homage, future vision and intimate portrait of mundane, marvellous Melbourne. A city of silence and shadows. Performance artist Leigh Bowery bursts out of Sunshine. Past and present pains arrive in trams. Ghost signs. Football. A young woman opens an all-girl garage in the 20s. A policeman's suitcase. Bats. A walking clock. A hundred years of screams. A convivial House of Bricks. Poetry. Stories past, true and new. Cassandra Atherton Peter Bakowski Kevin Brophy Gaylene Carbis Anne Connor Geoffrey Dobbs Helen Elliott Peter Ellyard Nick Gadd Antoni Jach R.J. King Carol Middleton Patricia Poppenbeek Jane Price Chris Ringrose Sue Robertson Phillip Siggins Heather Slutzkin Kaushal Srivastava Loretta Smith Jane Sullivan Alan Wearne Lea Weaver Chris Wheat