When young adoptee June (Tahlia Sturzaker) arrives at an isolated estate, she falls under the care of renowned pianist Anna (Sophie Lowe), whose elegant world conceals unsettling rituals and carefully buried secrets. As the intermittent arrival of quietly menacing visitors deepens the estate's unease, June uncovers a terrible bargain hidden beneath opulence and artistic brilliance. Marking the feature debut of a compelling new creative team emerging from South Australia's Film Lab: New Voices initiative,

Lucrum is an intimate chamber piece that transforms familiar domestic spaces into a landscape of mounting dread. Accompanied by haunting piano music, painterly imagery and a timeless aesthetic, this meticulously composed work of folk horror exposes the insatiable forces that can lurk beneath refinement, privilege and legacy.