John Hawkins, legendary surgeon to the far-flung desert communitites of Australia's arid Red Centre. John Hawkins, adventurer, cinematographer; obsessed by the roaring rivers of Tasmania, Australia's rain-drenched state. Remote, unmapped and dangerous, the rivers were virtually unknown. The most beautiful, the most treacherous, was the Franklin. Against the background of one of the last great wilderness adventures, HAWKIN'S RIVERS also documents one of the great environmental dilemmas of our age - and one nation's attempts to solve it.