Picnic at Hanging Rock

The film is set at Appleyard College, a girls' private school, near the town of Woodend, Victoria, Australia, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Miranda, Irma, Marion, Marion and Edith are exploring Hanging Rock, a geological formation. The group is observed several minutes later by a young Englishman, Michael Fitzhubert, who is lunching at the Rock with his uncle Colonel and aunt, and valet Albert. Edith, who watches them, screams and flees down the Rock in terror. The distraught and hysterical party eventually returns to the College, where Mlle. de