Artist and sculptor Gerard Havekes uses his sharp eye for detail to weave a descriptive narrative of rundown 1950's post-war Sydney.

Abdul Amjah served the Australian Navy in the Pacific during the war but gets expelled, although he has a British passport and an Australian family.

In 1944, Russian-born Stefania Sochan and her mum get transported first to Auschwitz and then to Bergen Belsen. She survives and comes to Australia in 1950.

Father Luciano Rocchi helps Australia with the tough social and assimilation transition that came with the surge of migrants.

Hungarian Jew Robert Sandy survives the war and establishes a thriving grocery business in the capital city of Budapest.

Nina Tory gets exiled from Siberia, where she gave birth to her daughter Helen Macris in 1947.