Set in
Altona (suburban
Melbourne), it is about a 30-something couple, Ross and Natalie, and their children Ruby and Louis, after Natalie suffers a ruptured
brain aneurysm and is advised not to have sex for 12 months. Watt has said that after her first film
Look Both Ways, she wanted to make a film "without a sex scene":
My Year Without Sex received strongly favourable reviews, and was touted by
The Sydney Morning Herald as "possibly the best" Australian film of 2009, as well as "the most accomplished" local film of 2009 by
The Age. As with
Look Both Ways,
My Year Without Sex deals with the impact that serious
illness has on individuals and relationships. The two films are reportedly part of a "proposed
trilogy". This film was the last film by
Sarah Watt, about two years before she died of
bone and
breast cancer. ==Box office==