Actor: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil
Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-white, half-Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are fourteen, ten, and eight) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For several days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government's "Chief Protector of Aborigines", A.O. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view, and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive?
- Aboriginal, English Language:
- tt0252444 IMDB code:
- 31 Jan 2003 Released:
- 2018-12-17 16:44:57 Date Updated:
- Doris Pilkington (book), Christine Olsen (screenplay)Writer:
- Phillip NoyceDirector:
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