Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste 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 14, 10, and 8) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly’s lead. For 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?
Release Date: 31 January 2003Runtime: 94 min
Stars:
- Celine O'Leary
- David Gulpilil
- Deborah Mailman
- Everlyn Sampi
- Garry McDonald
- Jason Clarke
- Kate Roberts
- Kenneth Branagh
- Laura Monaghan
- Lorna Lesley
- Myarn Lawford
- Natasha Wanganeen
- Ningali Lawford
- Roy Billing
- Tianna Sansbury
Director: Phillip Noyce
