Anzac Girls

The ANZAC girls arrive in Egypt just after the outbreak of World War One and soon realise that war is not quite the “splendid adventure” they initially thought.

Overcoming intense hardship and trauma on the Greek Island of Lemnos, Olive and Grace care for the injured troops from the botched August Offensive. In Egypt, Elsie has to fight to stay at the British Hospital in Alexandria in order to save the life of her seriously wounded husband Syd.

In Egypt, Alice and Elsie are confronted by the heart-wrenching reality of love during wartime, which reaches a breaking point for Elsie when she is forced to choose between her husband, Syd and her role abroad in the AANS. Whilst enduring the horrific conditions on Lemnos, Olive faces her greatest test of faith and resolve.

After being seconded to a British hospital in France, the girls come face-to-face with the snobbery of the British nursing staff, inciting them to reflect on their own national identity. Meanwhile, Alice (Georgia Flood) is forced to deal with the emotional brutality of war as Harry (Dustin Clare) is killed at Fromelles.

Alice (Georgia Flood) struggles to accept that Harry may have been killed; Hilda (Antonia Prebble) discovers an aptitude for anaesthetics; Olive (Anna McGahan) is proposed to by Pat; and Elsie (Laura Brent) returns to the war as part of the Croix Rouge.

Alice (Georgia Flood), Hilda (Antonia Prebble) and Elsie (Laura Brent) all find themselves mere kilometres from the front, the possibility of death edging ever closer, while the war seems like it will never end.