Walkabout

The story

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.

• #tribe
• #outback
• #hunter
• #picnic
• #based on novel or book
• #rite of passage
• #wilderness
• #teenage girl
• #camel
• #survival
• #suicide
• #australian aboriginal