A film-poem made after Gerald Murnane’s short story ‘The Battle of Acosta Nu’ (1985), about the aftermath of a failed Paraguayan socialist colony founded in 1912 called New Australia. Murnane’s unnamed narrator, a displaced Australian descendent living in Paraguay, is beset by his son’s dire physical illness. His concern for his son’s life is matched only by his own mental fixation to communicate the secret meaning of his true homeland from which he can never return to. Landscape with Sick Child searches for a new set of audiovisual signs that unravels this psychogeographic illness, embodied only when landscape is set against landscape and brought together by rhythmic passages of reverberating, disparate sounds and images.