Ride On Stranger: Kylie TennantShannon Hicks, unwanted as a child, tries to find where she belongs. Set during the Marxist movement of the 1930s, Tennant evocatively and convincingly paints Sydney as a city on the brink of revolution. Shannon seems destined to be alone and independent yet she is the one on whom everyone depends. The ever changing landscape Shannon finds herself in breeds discontent and restlessness.