Rabbit Proof Fence

Product Description

During the most part of the early to mid 20th century, Australia's government policy was that mixed race Aboriginal children would be better off being brought up as white & so forcefully removed them from their homes to be trained as domestic servants. This film follows the true story of 3 such children; cousins Molly, Gracie & Daisy, who in 1931 found themselves being taken from their parents, sent to an institution & forced to forget their family & culture. However, Molly leads her 2 cousins in a daring escape across 1, 500 miles of outback with no water & only the fence erected across the country to stop the epidemic of rabbits as a guide. Kenneth Branagh plays the government official charged with the return of the girls & the story is based on the book by Doris Pilkington, the neice of Daisy.