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"If there's anything I've learnt in making this film, it's that I think the best thing anyone can do in their life is tell their story. Good, bad or indifferent," says Adrian Russell Wills.
Wills and his co-director and co-writer, Gillian Moody, have two powerful stories, but share one unique experience.
Moody, a Wodi Wodi woman, and Wills, a Wonnarua man, both grew up in white families.
As adopted Aboriginal children raised in affluent areas of Sydney's northern beaches in the late 1970s, they were both disconnected from Country and culture throughout their childhood.