A Page of Madness is the story of a retired sailor who has taken a job as a janitor in a lunatic asylum to look after his insane wife, locked away after attempting to drown their child. In the raging fires of American retaliation against Japan during WWII, much of the nation's cinematic history was destroyed. Rarely seen in Australia, A Page Of Madness only survived the war because the original negative was stored in a rice barrel in the director's country home. A dizzying portrait of an insane asylum boasting an expressionistic aesthetic akin to The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and elliptical editing that recalled Sergei Eisenstein's finest work, A Page Of Madness is widely credited as one of the finest examples of international experimental cinema.