The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife...

But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong.

Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years.

A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion.

The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose.