The Goddess of 1967

• Rose Byrne as BG (Blind Girl)
• Rikiya Kurokawa as JM (Japanese Man)
• Elise McCredie as Marie
• Nicholas Hope as Grandpa
• Tina Bursill as Esther
• Tim Richards as Drummer Boy

JM (Rikiya Kurokawa), a rich IT worker and computer hacker, lives in a clinical Tokyo apartment and rarely speaks to his live-in girlfriend. After tracing, online, a perfectly restored 1967 model Citroën DS (or 'Goddess') in Australia, JM abandons his job and flies out to purchase the car, which he thinks can fill the emptiness in his life.

Once in Australia, JM finds the home where the car is located and meets BG (Rose Byrne), a blind and emotionally unstable young woman. She lets him test drive the car, and tells him that she can take him to its real owner, a five-day drive away in the outback and JM agrees. BG abandons the child at a service station, instructing her not to trust anyone, after calling the police to pick the girl up.

As the pair journey into the outback, flashbacks reveal their backstories. JM became wealthy after a friend gave him the computer password to a major bank. The friend was then killed in a road accident and JM's infatuation with the car is an attempt to fill the emotional void created by his friend's death and the barren life he leads in Tokyo.

Flashbacks reveal BG was sexually assaulted three years earlier by a boxer from a travelling circus, upon which BG escaped into the bush where she was protected by wild dingoes. As a child, she was also sexually abused by her grandfather (Nicholas Hope) – who is actually her blood father – and traumatised by her deeply religious mother (Elise McCredie). Unbeknownst to JM, BG's grandfather is the owner of the car and she is leading JM to him in order to kill the old man.

In the course of their journey, the pair become friends and, eventually lovers. BG locates her grandfather and confronts him, but having reconciled her past during the trip and found someone who genuinely cares for her, she decides not to kill him. The film ends with BG and JM travelling off together in the Citroën, both having come to terms with their past.

The budget for the film was around AUD$3m. The film was shot in Tokyo and in and around Lightning Ridge in New South Wales, Australia in late 1999.

The song from the dance scene between BG and JM is "Walk-Don't Run" (the 1964 version) by The Ventures. The song is not included on the film's soundtrack, which contains the score by Jen Anderson.

The Goddess of 1967 grossed $103,449 at the box office in Australia.^[3]