MOVIE · 2002

Rabbit-Proof Fence

ActionAdventureDocumentaryDramaWar94 min

In 1931 Australia, three Aboriginal girls are taken from their families under government policy and sent to a settlement where they’re to be trained as domestic servants. Everlyn Sampi is Molly, the oldest of the three, who escapes with her younger sister Daisy (Tianna Sansbury) and their cousin Gracie (Laura Monaghan) and sets out across the Australian Outback to get back home. Following the line of the rabbit-proof fence, the girls move through harsh country with authorities searching for them, as the film ties their trek to the machinery of forced assimilation behind it.