After his mother abandons him without leaving a trace, Pete a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy, lives with his elderly grandfather Old Jagamarra. Home is the drive-in cinema in the outback town of Wyndham. When it is threatened with demolition, Pete sees his world in jeopardy and sets off to talk the construction company into letting it stand. He is joined by his friend Kalmain, who has his own reasons for leaving town. Together the boys travel through the vast, deserted, beautiful and tough Kimberley country; when they get lost in the bush, Pete has to remember some of the old Aboriginal bush skills his grandfather taught him for them to survive.
