In 1986 Margaret Humphreys a Nottingham social worker investigated a woman's claim that aged four she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government At first incredulous Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg Up to 150000 children some as young as three years old had been deported from children's homes in Britain & shipped off to a 'new life' in distant parts of the Empire right up until as recently as 1970 Many were told that their parents were dead & parents were told that their children had been adopted In fact for many children it was to be a life of horrendous physical & sexual abuse far away from everything they knew Margaret & her team reunited thousands of families before it was too late brought authorities to account & worldwide attention to an outrageous miscarriage of justice