Lucky Country

The Australian federation is one year old. 12 year old Tom loves and worships his father, a man who has dragged his family to an isolated cabin in the bush with an evangelical dream: to farm the god-given land. But the dream has died. Tom's older sister has begun to question not only the dream, but her father's sanity. When three men arrive on horseback, ex-soldiers from the Boer War, they are cautiously welcomed. But one of them has a secret: he has gold. When Tom realises that the gold has poisoned all around him, the cabin becomes a psychological battleground, and he is forced to choose between the ideals of his father and the basic, brutal laws of survival.