Reg Evans was an English actor who appeared in "A Cry in the Dark," "Gallipoli," and "The Echo of Thunder."
Charlie loses his desire to live after the death of his wife. His son Boots becomes frustrated at his father. They decide to go fishing thousands of kilometres away in Cape York, picking up a hitchhiker along the way.
In the 1830s in Tasmania, Aboriginal woman Manganinnie survives a raid that claims the life of her husband. In the company of a lost girl named Joanna, she searches for her people.