‘Waterstreet’ is a feature length documentary examining the fall of one of Australia’s highest-profile criminal barristers, Charles Waterstreet.
Three years in the making, the documentary explores in often shockingly intimate detail, Waterstreet’s decline from an in-demand criminal barrister precipitated by allegations of improper conduct, bankruptcy and the inevitable toll of a life lived to ‘excess – but never further’.
Without prospect or the security of the structures that previously insulated him, broke, disgraced and estranged from friends and family, Waterstreet is forced to embark on a journey of self-discovery and atonement that will push him to the very limits of sanity, to confront his own mortality and atone for past mistakes in one last effort to stay relevant– and survive – a society that is at odds with everything he once knew.