Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

• Bazmark
• 20th Century Fox
• Nicole Kidman
• Hugh Jackman
• Essie Davis
• David Wenham
• Bryan Brown
• David Gulpilil
• John Jarratt
• Shea Adams