In a remote Outback outpost, an Anglo lawman and an Aboriginal community leader join forces to avert disaster after a sacred site is desecrated by a deputy and his married white lover. Though the sheriff is beholden to the law of the "white fella," the local tribes demand "payback," achieved in... [More]

In a remote Outback outpost, an Anglo lawman and an Aboriginal community leader join forces to avert disaster after a sacred site is desecrated by a deputy and his married white lover. Though the sheriff is beholden to the law of the "white fella," the local tribes demand "payback," achieved in a bloody ritual. A surprisingly sensitive treatment of Australia's fragile ethnic ecosystem and the conflict between modernity and tribal tradition. [Less]