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Lena is a fair-skinned teenage girl with a dark-skinned mother in an isolated town. She rejects the Indigenous family which surrounds her and longs for the love of her Irish father. Vaughn, a dark-skinned teenage boy lives in an isolated prison camp. He is angry at the white world that surrounds him and lashes out when provoked. Incarceration has made him old before his time and has separated him from the love of his family. These two hardened young souls escape from their worlds and hitchhike together towards Sydney in a struggle for purpose, identity and love.
Five people come together on a dusty, desolate cotton field. Angry at the world and each other, racial tensions are ignited as Leroy, Mick, Amy and Vance work alongside each other in the heat of the day. Ruby, Leroy's mother, is the only one who notices the uneasy sky forcing the elements to change. When a violent dust storm awakes, racial differences must be put aside as the five weather the storm together. Australia's history, black and white, is revealed as the storm unearths the secrets that lie beneath the surface of the land.
A teenage couple are leaving the mission on their way to a new life. As they walk to the bus stop they discuss their reasons for leaving, but ultimately they choose different paths and must confront their separate futures.
There was no more terrible part of our 19th century than the herding together of broken tribes under authority into settlements and institutions as substitute homes. For the Gamilaroi people of MacIntyre River it began in 1912 with the formulation of Euroba Reserve on the northern border of NSW. Through the eyes of three generations of women we follow these people over the last 90 years on a journey of survival against oppression and loss of culture.
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