Walkabout

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.

• australia
• suicide
• sibling relationship
• based on novel or book
• hunter
• picnic
• wilderness
• camel
• tribe
• coming of age
• flashback
• survival
• teenage girl
• death
• outback
• geologist
• rite of passage
• australian aboriginal