What happens when your father dies and you fly across to lay him at rest and find his estate is a spectacular mess of hoarded junk, bank debts, lost paperwork and rundown properties in a mining town gone bust?

What happens when your father dies and you are the oldest child and the sole executor of his will?

I Had a Father in Karratha tracks Annette Trevitt’s two-and-a-half-year epic undertaking of cleaning up her father’s mess in Karratha, Western Australia.

A fly-in fly-out marathon as she holds together her life with her teenage son in Melbourne.