"(Man sings in Indigenous language)" "(Man speaks in Indigenous language)" "(Sings in Indigenous language)" "(Chuckles)" "Home, this way." " We off track." "( Phone ringing)" "(Gasps)" "(Phone ringing)" "Mum?" "!" "( Dial tone)" "Oh." " I'm sick of your stories." " This is the place where me and Mum gonna live." " This is my country right here." " You live in the past, Jubi." " When Mum come back, we're gonna open up a big restaurant." "( Jagamarra chuckles)" "(Jagamarra speaks in Indigenous language and chuckles)" "See?" " Look here." "  Kitchen." " ( Chuckles)" " Lounge room." " ( Chuckles)" "PETE;" "TV." " Hey, it not open yet till Mum comes back." " She is coming back!" "  She's not coming back." "  She is." " She is not." " I can look after myself." " More than you, more than the old ways, more than your Dreamtime bullshit." " I'm not going anywhere with you." "( Sings in Indigenous language)" "(Motor whirs)" "(Simulates laser blasts)" "(Gasps)" " Got something to show you." "  What?" " Come on, hurry up." "  I'm gonna show you." "  What are you gonna show me?" "  Come on." "  No, just tell me first, but." " Is it far?" " You'll see when we get there." " KALMAINI Who's that?" " Come on, let's go." " Come on, brother, race me." " Overtake me." " Overtake me." " You the fastest fella in town." " KALMAIN:" "You fat." " PETE:" "You ugly." "( Both speak indistinctly)" "PETE:" "Lumpy." " KALMAIN:" "Ugly jaw." "  You got hairy legs." "  You got balls and that." "( Both speak indistinctly) (Laughter)" "Here, look." "( Pete simulates engine rumbling)" "Somebody been camping here or what?" " What does this say?" "' Thursten Thrumveld'." " Probably dead." "( Simulates engine rumbling)" "" (Growls) - (Laughs)" "Whom!" " You right on top?" " Well, hold on." "( Simulates horn sounding)" "I'm putting on some air-conditioning now." "( Simulates acceleration)" "You right there?" "( Clattering)" "Look what I've found." " Whoa, whoa." " Squeeze a little bit." " Whoa." "( Gas hisses)" "Got it." "( Sniffs)" "You gotta light?" " Whoa." " Oh." " Whoa." " Gimme the lighter." " Light yours, light yours." "( Glass shatters)" "BOTH:" "Whoa!" " Just like in the movies." " Come on, let's go." "( Horn sounds)" "Come on." " What now?" " Come to pick you up from work." " Mum's gonna kill you, Kalmain, you're meant to be home." " Just tell her we were with you all afternoon." "  Aye, sis?" "  No." " PETE:" "Aye, Mrs Joffe." " MRS JOFFE:" "Hey." " No." " Hello." " How's that grandfather of yours?" " Jubi is alright." " Hey... here." " Trying to fatten me up, are you?" " Hasn't worked yet." " KALMAI N:" "Where's M um'?" " Hey, Mum." "( Child speaks indistinctly)" "ROSALIE:" "Callum... out!" " Oi, Callum!" " Where's my smoke?" " Where?" " Where?" " BOY"." " Oh, no, another mob's coming." "( Sighs)" "(Chain rattles, metal door opens)" "(Sighs) Kalmain Grady, you've got a knack." " We'll have to charge you this time." " Malicious damage, public nuisance - that about sums you up, mate." "( Footsteps, chain rattles)" "You're lucky your grandfather is such a respected man." " This time we're gonna let you off with a warning." " Come on." "( Sighs)" "(Pete simulates laser blasts) (Motor whirs)" "Whoosh!" "( Laughter)" "(Chatter)" "MAN:" "Like Clint Eastwood." " MAN:" "Yeah." " Kirk Douglas, he another good actor." "  Glenn Ford." "  Yeah." " What do you know, young fella?" " Everything." " More than you." " You watch them DVD?" " Yeah." " Oh, he no good that DVD... but when he gets scratched, he stop one place." " He no good, that DVD." " Not like that old-time... movie projector... where he go round and round like a windmill." " He show 'em picture proper and he never stop." "  Old-time picture." "  Yeah." " He never stopped there, lived a long time." " That old one, he never stopped when he go round like a windmill." " JAGAMARRA:" "Pete!" " Wake up!" "( Speaks in Indigenous language)" "Get up!" " What's going on, Jubi?" " Jubi?" " Do you want this?" " I'm sorry, Jubi." " I'm sorry I was bad, aye?" " What are they gonna do to this place?" " MAN:" "Didn't you read the notice?" " Building a holding pen for the equipment." " The big stuff doesn't come in till Monday." " Today's Friday." " Gives you the weekend to get your stuff sorted." " But come Monday, you gotta be gone." " Jubi, please, stop them." " Jubi?" "  This is my home!" "  Not anymore, little man." " We can't leave," "Me and Mum gonna turn it into a restaurant." "  Aye, no fighting." " Quit." "  But this is our place." " Mum told me." " This is my real home." "' H'... 'l'..." " Mainstay...?" " .." " Constructions." "  What's going on?" "  They're kicking us out." " Can they do that?" " MRS JOFFE:" "Mm." " Mainstay Constructions." " Well, if they're not in the book, then they must be in the city." " Kalmain, where are you?" "!" " Kalmain, where are you?" "!" " MAN:" "Hey, Kalmain, where are you?" "( Chuckling)" "You right, Uncle?" " Yeah, I'm right." " Do you know who own the place where me and Jubi stay?" " That's my country." " That's where you're living now, my mother's country." " Em Kama way'?" " Whitefella way, city mob." " They know that business." " But where are that mob?" " Easy." " If you head on this road, take you to town." " You'll be there in two days if you're lucky." " Thank you, Uncle." " Thank you." " Kalmain, where are you?" " Here." " What's wrong?" " Your dad?" " Nah." " They're kicking us out." " Who?" " The owner" " Mainstay Constructions." " I thought you said your mum owned that place." " Mm." " Yeah." " Well, you could stay with us, aye?" " I just need to find the owners, talk to them, tell 'em to stop." " Tell 'em Mum's gonna make something out of the old place." " She'll be wild once she knows what's happening." " She'll come back for sure." " It'll be great." " Everyone will come." " I only got three days to stop them." " OK." " I'll get my stuff." " KALMAIN:" "I can't see." "  Hey, look out." "  Hey." "( Shrieks)" "Keep on your side." " I'm covered in bites." " We should've camped in there." " So, what - follow this road and in two days we get there?" "( Clicks tongue)" "I'm starving." " Have you ever been to the city?" " No, but Mum has." " I reckon the city camp." " Best video games in the world, I heard." "( Horn sounds)" "(Horn sounds)" "(Air hisses)" " Oh!" " Not now." "( Sighs)" "(Ghostly whispering)" "Come on, Kalmain, don't be giving up." " Come." " Come help." " Come on, boy." " Wanna get out of here?" " How far?" "!" " What, you buggered already?" " We only got up till Monday." "( Giggles)" "This is the way, aye?" " Blackfella-style." " No houses, no shops, traditional." " You're mad." " What, don't you wanna be a real blackfella?" " What, like you?" " I'm gonna go out bush, live old-style." " I mean it." " Bush tucker, bush medicine." "  What do you know about that?" "  Plenty." " Where'd you learn about fixing tyres like that, anyway?" " Mate, I used to shoot a .22" "with my uncle." " I'd be fine." " You got no .22 round here." " You'd have to make a spear." "( Giggles)" "Oh, cops." " So?" "  You go on." "  What?" " You go on without me." " Wait there, boy." " Kalmain!" " What's going on?" "!" " Come on, they're gonna catch us." " Come on." " Wait." " COP:" "Look at this, Sarge." " We gotta get away from the road." " Stop!" " Come on." " Why are they chasing us?" " I'm meant to be home." " Gotta see magistrate on Monday." " We gotta go back." " No!" " They're taking me away to boys' home." " Hey, wait." " So what's your mum studying anyway?" "  Hospitality." "  What's that?" " I don't know." "  So she gonna get a job or what?" "  Yeah, that's why she there." " What you gonna do when the cops get you?" " They ain't gonna get me." " I'll go out bush... become a stockman, do rodeo someplace." " You should go back." " For what, go to boys' home?" " Maybe not." " Magistrate might let you go." " Nah." " I'm a Grady." " If anything happens, they come looking for me." " You alright." " CORINE:" "I'll go into town, aye?" " See if they been there." " They probably just gone fishing." " Oh." "  Oh, close." "  Oh, see?" " Nearly got him." "( Ghostly whispering)" "Sugar fly, look." " What are you doing?" "  Help me, boy." "  Huh?" " Do you wanna go old-style or what?" " Oh, right there." " Here." "( Insect buzzing)" "Don't lose it." " Where is it?" " There it is!" " Faster." " Hurry up!" "( Ghostly whispering)" "(Insect buzzing)" "(Buzzing gets louder)" "(Approaching footsteps)" "Aye, boy." " Sugar bag!" "( Insects buzzing)" "(Gasps) Wait there." " We off track." " Right up here." " How do you know that?" " See?" " ( Blows raspberry) - (Chuckles)" "Come on, boy." "( Speaks indistinctly)" "We should stay here, aye?" " You don't know where we are." " No food, no water - nothing." " He'!" "" " Hm'?" " Ah." "( Ghostly whispering) - (Gasps)" "Let's go." "( Sharp breath)" "(Waves breaking)" "(Heavy breathing)" "(Ghostly whispering)" "(Sighs)" "Jubi says 'If you walk country, country will look after you.'" " Now you wanna listen to him." " Fixing the tyre, sugar bag - that's all him, that's what he been taught me." " Come on, boy." "( Man sings in Indigenous language)" "POLICEMAN:" "We searched the road and everywhere we thought they could've been." " We just can?" " find them." "( Singing continues)" "See him?" " Aye?" " Aye?" "( Banging)" "Whoo-hoo!" " I'm a real space cowboy." " You're crazy." " Kalm, get up." "( Gasping)" "(Gasping)" "Country looking after us." " I'm gonna be an astronaut when I'm big... cruise to stars, cruise to space." " What, no restaurant?" " I thought you were saving the cinema for you and your mum." " We're dead, cuz." " Real blackfella?" " I'm hopeless." " No, we alright." "( Fire crackling)" "(Ghostly whispering)" "(Ghostly whispering)" "(Ghostly whispering)" "(Wails)" "(Cries out)" "(Strong breeze)" "(Whistles)" "(Ghostly whispering)" "Couldn't sleep." " Nightmares." " Come on, we gotta try." " It's Monday." "( Wind whistling)" "(Grunts and groans)" "(Wheezes)" "PETE"." " What is it like to be in country?" " ( Jagamarra whispers)" " Stars." " ( Jagamarra whispers)" " Fire." " ( Jagamarra whispers)" " Alive." " Come on now... get up, boy." " Get up!" " Come on, brother." "( Means)" "(Get up, b0)'" "Please, Kalmain, you're strong." " If you don't get up, we're gonna die." " Country helping us, we'll be right." "  Get up' boy ' (Moans)" "(Ghostly whispering)" "Come on." " See?" " Country saved us." "( Both giggle)" "Are you coming or what?" "( Sighs)" "I can't swim." "( Gasps for air)" "(Wheezes)" "Come on." " Thought you was in a hurry." " Sorry." " For what?" " You're a proper-deadly blackfella." " Good swimmer anyway." " Here, catch one." "( Clang)" "(Simulates machine gunfire)" "Over here!" " The front door was open." "( Gasping) Oh, chicken." " PETE:" "Kalmain!" " What?" " Nothin'." " Biggest bed, aye?" "( Both chuckle)" "(Vehicle approaching)" "Kalm!" "  I'm not going back home." "  Why not?" " Why would I go back to that dump anyway?" " Where you go?" " I got plans." " I'm gonna keep going - I'm not stupid." " What does that mean?" " Your mum left, she's not coming back." " Everyone knows it but you." " She is coming back!" " She promised." "  What do you know anyway?" "  She doesn't care about you." " That's why she left in the first place - she doesn't want you." " At least she's not a useless pisshead." " She got a brain, she gonna be something." "  Shut up!" "" ( Gasps)" "PETE:" "Whoa." " Don't need a spear now." "  Where you get that from?" "  House back there." " No-one can make me go back now." " I'm gonna be a bandit." " Is it loaded?" " Course it is." " You're gonna blow your balls off." " Yeah, 'cause mine's bigger than yours." " Here." "( Ghostly whispering)" "Here, you take it." " Come on." " Come on." " Where's this Mainstay mob, anyway?" " In town." " Come on, boy." "( Car horn)" "(Chatter)" "Hey, Uncle?" " We looking for Mainstay Constructions." " Oh, that's the mining mob." " They're back out here on this road out here." " Come on." " Thank you, Uncle." "( Gasping)" "(Horn sounds)" "That's the mine office up there." "  Excuse me." " ( Man speaks on radio)" " Hello!" " MAN:" "Yeah, no worries." " Excuse me." " Aye?" " Excuse me, mate." " Man, what's wrong with you?" " What do you want?" "  Can I talk with the manager?" "  No." " What are you doing here anyway?" "( Horn sounds)" " Stay right there." " Mate, head down to the second pit." " We're nearly there." " There." " Come on." "  We made it, bala." "  That's the manager office there." " Let's go." " What the bloody hell do you think you're doing here?" "  It's dangerous." "  You the manager?" "( Scoffs) As if." " Come on, you gotta go out to the gate, boys." " You know who own the place - the cinema screen where me and Jubi stay?" " Come on, we're working here." " Go the office there." "  Make sure you get there." " Run!" "  Oi, oi!" " Stop!" " Stop!" " MAN;" "Oi!" " KALMAIN:" "Stay there." " Don't do it!" " No!" " Bra!" " Bra, stop!" "  What are you doing?" " Go." "  No." "  Run!" "  Don't do it." " Kalmain!" "( Gunshot)" "And in the East Kimberley, an update on an incident at Waterford Mine involving two young boys from a remote community." " Mine officials have declined to comment on how two young boys remained undetected in a blasting area." " According to witnesses..." "MAN:" "Mate, you gotta look for Pete." "  He comes whenever he like to." " REPORTER: "with a firearm." " His mum's there." " The firearm was discharged during the incident, but no injuries were recorded." " The two young boys, previously listed as 'missing', are in police custody." " The boys claimed their home was being bulldozed by a mining company." " The media outcry has stopped all work at the old cinema." "( Showers running)" "Tough little buggers." "( Phone ringing)" "(Phone ringing)" "Mum!" "( Gasps) Hey!" " He's coming with me." " He just got lost." " Come on, sweetheart." " POLICEMAN:" "He's headed for Boys' Home." " You're right, bala." " I'll be right." " I'll come visit you anytime." " We famous, bro." " We on TV." " You a hero now." " Hey... friends forever." " Family forever." "  Forever." "  Forever." " Come on, little man." " MUM:" "What flavour?" " BOTH:" "Mulberry..." "with a berry on the top." "( Chuckles)" "Look what I found." " Jubi said you get seashell in the desert." "  I didn't believe him at first." "( Coins chink)" "Can you hear the ocean?" "( Waves breaking)" "You need a new shin." "  It goes well with your shoes." "  It don't fit me." " You look handsome." " You look like new boy now, see?" " So how's Jubi?" " Yeah, Jubi's alright - yarning up, sitting round the campfire." " Jubi teach me to walk across the desert - me and Kalmain." " If it wasn't for him... me and Kalmain would've been dead." " Mum, I just want you, me, Jubi to be back together." " Aye, Mum?" " What were you thinking, sweetheart?" " Come on, let's go." " Well, I'm still doing this course, Pete." " Hospitality." " Ah, hospitality didn't work out so well." " I'm doing a different course - beautician course." " What about our barra shack, our cafe?" " Well, it's an amazing dream, Pete, but..." "I've got an even better idea." " Let's go to Perth." " It's a big city with traffic lights, proper houses, big shopping centres." " I can go shopping there." " Hey, we both can go shopping." " What about Jubi - he comin'?" " Jubi, he'll be right where he is." "( Urinating)" "(Toilet flushing)" "(Man sings in Indigenous language)" "(Traditional instrumentation)" "(Jagamana whispers in Indigenous language)" "(Singing and whispering continues)" "Stop the car." " Stop the car!" " Stop the car, Mum." " Stop the car!" "  Stop the car, Dave." "  What?" "!" "  Stop the bloody car!" "  Stop the car!" "  What is it now?" "  Easy, right?" " I wanna go back to Jubi." " I hated leaving you." " You know that, aye?" " You was here the whole time." " Why didn't you call me, come for a visit, aye?" " Listen, Pete, I can take us to Perth, get us a nice house, give us a proper life." " You can have everything you want, any toys." " New bike, video games - anything." " Jubi don't need all that." " He got feeling for country." " Every day you was gone, he look after me with his old ways, stories..." " He'll be fine with his old ways." "  His old ways saved my life." " But, sweetheart, I wanna live in the city." " I need you to come with me... please?" " You go be a beautician in the city." " That's what you want, aye?" " That'll make you happy." " It's OK, Mum - you got your dreams, I got my dreams." " I'm sorry." " Drop me back into town, aye?" " Jubi!" " I missed you, Jubi." "( Chuckles) Oh!" " I missed you, Jubi." "( Both sob)" "(Jubi sobs)" "I missed you, Jubi." "( Man cries out)" "(Men cry out)" "(Men cry out)" "(Chanting)" "Which way are we going now?" " Go back country." " Country." "( Speaks in Indigenous language)" "(Chuckles)" "(Speaks in Indigenous language)" "Yeah, go back country." " ( Speaks in Indigenous language) - (Clicks tongue)"