FROM the moment eight-year-old Nica is introduced, orphaned and sent to the Sunnycreek Orphanage, audiences can sense the melodrama looming on the horizon. Fast forward to her teenage years, Nica is adopted by Anna and Norman alongside the brooding and perpetually misunderstood Rigel.
The film sets up a tale of torment, love and redemption, but executes it with all the subtlety of a high school talent show reenactment of Romeo and Juliet.
