The film set in 1944 follows Jack a WWI veteran whose lost hopes and values lead to isolation and an empty feeling that is too hard to shake. This solitude abruptly ends when he meets Masaru an escaped Japanese POW. Suddenly Jack shows the first sign in many years of not giving in to death. Learning of a mass suicide breakout from the POW camp nearby Jack and rifle march Masaru back to camp. None of this is new to Masaru for him death is constantly just around the corner. Both men understand that war is not a simple question of good versus evil but there are rules... to which each man must act. [show more]
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A former soldier and a current POW on the run meet under unusual circumstances in this World War II drama set in Australia in 1944.
Brad Haynes directs this Australian World War Two drama based on real events. In 1944, a group of Japanese soldiers held in a P.O.W. camp deep in the Australian outback make an escape attempt. One young soldier, Masaru (Shingo Usami), ends up hiding in the remote hilltop farm of reclusive farmer Jack (Jai Koutrae), a World War One veteran who never recovered from the traumas he experienced as a soldier. Despite their differences and mutual suspicions, it soon becomes evident that the two men share the understanding that war is not simply a question of good versus evil but a complex set of rules by which each of them is duty-bound to abide.
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