In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a journey across the Outback. (94 mins.)
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Rating: 7.4/10 (26,231 votes) Director: Phillip Noyce Writer: Doris Pilkington (book), Christine Olsen (screenplay) Stars: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil Runtime: 94 min Rated: PG Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History Released: 31 Jan 2003 |
| Plot: 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? | |
