Leonard Szymczak

Kookaburra's Last Laugh Leonard Szymczak

While Sydney, Australia prepares for the 2000 Olympics with its brash Down Under flair, the neurotic psychologist, Dr. Peter Pinowski, attends a transformational retreat in the Blue Mountains. He hopes to "Find the Way Home," as the seminar's brochure promises. Instead, he hurtles headlong into his own personal Olympics when he takes the road less traveled and gets lost in the Australian bush. Terrified, he hears the eerie laughter of a kookaburra, which, according to Aboriginal tradition, wakes humans from their dreams. The laughing bird calls him to confront his personal demons, face his alcoholic father, and treat wacky clients in a counseling program, more psycho than therapy. All this, while establishing a relationship with Celeste, a massage therapist who desires Peter as well as the local rugby team.



Can Peter stand tall like a champion and find the way home, or will the kookaburra have the last laugh?