Western Australia, 1931. Three Indigenous girls are forcibly taken from their family and deposited on a mission school far from home. One day, ordered to empty the latrine bucket, they instead make a run for it, and the rain covers their tracks. David Gulpilil is extraordinary as the tracker on their tail, a trooper whose own daughter is detained at the school, while Kenneth Branagh plays Mr. Neville, determined to force assimilation. But the stars are Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, and Laura Monaghan, each giving remarkably unaffected and very moving performances. Haunting and enraging; almost a quarter century since its release, this film is as relevant as ever.