Introduction music is of traditional aboriginal culture.
Hawk is symbolic in journey. Shown in beginning of movie, looked at as a sense of freedom. Reigned spirit bird, claimed to look after you.
Girls first physical journey starts with removal of girls from jigalong. Caged like animals in the back of train, with not enough room to stand, and little to move. Emotionally draining .
Journey girls embark on is completely out of there control
Girls have an early start to hunting when grandmother explains how u have to be careful on where running, will destroy tracts. Molly has good hunting sense.
Mr Neville in attempt to erase the coloured population, isolates them form the rest of the population, in order to continue cross breeding and stamp out traces of the coloured origin.
Arrival at Moore River is welcomed buy a nun dressed all in white, which in aboriginal culture is symbolic for a ghost. Girls are startled.
Girls watch the tracker bring back a run-away, and watch the repercussions. Her hair cut off. Followed by a beating and isolation in a locked box.
Molly notices a storm coming, she grabs Gracie and daisy and so the second journey begins. (Uses the storm to advantage, as water will wash away there tracks. )
Molly creates diversions, puts Daisy's bag in the bush and walks in the water to mislead tracker.
Relief is upon the girls as they run into 2 aboriginal men and some tips are given to them about the trackers success reputation. Meat and matches are also given to the girls.
Journey continues Molly caught stealing eggs, more tips are given to stray away from the rabbit proof fence as it is manned.
Molly thinks back to what the fence worker had told them about how the fence leads from top of Australia to Bottom. She then discovers the route home. Using this to advantage they begin to follow the fence.
Molly grips the fence and thinks, at the same time her mother is at the other end grabbing it ...