Beneath Clouds (2002)

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Although I've been wanting to watch this for awhile I have also been putting if off and now that I've watched I have no idea why. It's not like the acting was anything to write home about but the story was good, depressing but good. It might even be a possible tear jerker or perhaps that was just me.

Description: Lena is a fair-skinned girl of mixed race, who lives with her Aboriginal mother and brother in a small isolated country town. She longs for the Irish father she never really knew and one day when her home life feels set to implode, she ups and leaves, hitting the road with little money, a backpack and a photo of her dad. Vaughn is a minimum-security prisoner in country western NSW. He is a teenage indigenous boy who spends all of his time in the plantation pine forest in the prison. Like many young Aboriginal men, he is hardened by his anger at the world. He is disconnected from his family, but news of his mother's illness pr Lena is a fair-skinned girl of mixed race, who lives with her Aboriginal mother and brother in a small isolated country town. She longs for the Irish father she never really knew and one day when her home life feels set to implode, she ups and leaves, hitting the road with little money, a backpack and a photo of her dad.

Vaughn is a minimum-security prisoner in country western NSW. He is a teenage indigenous boy who spends all of his time in the plantation pine forest in the prison. Like many young Aboriginal men, he is hardened by his anger at the world. He is disconnected from his family, but news of his mother's illness prompts him to breakout of prison in the hope of reaching her before it is too late.

Vaughn meets Lena at a truck stop on the road to Sydney. Initially both are suspicious and wary of the other, but their journey, mostly by foot and the odd lift, brings each of them closer to their search of purpose, identity and love. ... (more) (less)