HE AIN'T HEAVY follows 30-year-old JADE (Leila George) who has sacrificed the better part of her life to rescue her little brother MAX (Sam Corlett) from drug addiction. In desperation, unbeknownst to their ever-forgiving mother BEV (Greta Scacchi), Jade locks him inside the vacant rural home left by their grandparents in an attempt to "get him clean". But when Bev arrives, a shocking discovery leads them all to reevaluate their own lives.