Set in 1910, Walmatjarri, a tribal aborigine of the Australian Central Desert Wongi people, has abducted a young maiden from another tribe and fled into the outback scrubland. The youthful black warrior faces danger daily. With the prospect of being pursued by the tribesman to whom her parents had promised the girl in marriage, he must always stay on the move. The white man police also want him for an earlier incident in which he inflicted pay-back punishment on two Laverton town ruffians.

After surviving the harsh desert environment, Walmatjarri and his young companion, Loma, are taken in by the husband and wife owners of a sheep station. What began as an idyllic interval in their short lifetime turned into a tragedy which again had Walmatjarri on the run from the police.

The traumatic events he experienced saw Walmatjarri transform from a happy-go-lucky fresh-faced warrior to a broken shell of a man. Then, with nothing but fierce vengeance on his mind, he set about extracting tribal pay-back punishment on the members of a shearing team who had caused him unimaginable grief.

Two police troopers and their aboriginal black-tracker assistants are assigned to track him down and bring him to justice. Could Walmatjarri utilise his bushcraft skills to elude the pursuing police party?

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