"(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)"