pilkington, doris

Three Aboriginal girls, forcibly removed from their families in 1931 in accordance with government policy, and placed in camps where they were to be trained to work as domestics for white families, escape their captors and set out on a 1,500-mile journey across Australia, determined to return to their homes. Based on a true story.

Presents the true account of three young aboriginal girls who were taken from their homes in Southwestern Australia and brought to the Moore River Native Settlement in 1931 in order to be assimilated into white culture, and their desperate struggle across over 1,000 miles of desert to reach their home.