It's 1931 in Western Australia. The government has a policy, which includes taking half caste children away from their mothers and sending them to native centers to be re-educated and used as servants for whites.
A.O Neville is the Governments official leader of the placements of the half caste chrilden.
When the fourteen year-old aboriginal girl Molly Craig is taken from her mother in Jigalong with her eight year-old sister Daisy Kadibill and their ten year-old cousin Gracie Fields to the distant Moore River Native Center, they run away trying to return to the tribe in the desert. They are chased by the skilled tracker Moodoo and the police under the command of Neville, and have to survive to their long journey back home. The three girls get help from an English man and another half caste woman. The half caste woman is a slave for an English couple. She let them sleep in her bed, but they get cu by the English couple. The English couple calls A.O Neville. Molly, Daisy and Gracie may again flee.
Molly uses the 3,000 kilometer long rabbit-proof fence which runs to Jigalong to navigate her way home. On the long way home, Gracie gets tired and wants to go back. She walks away from Molly and Daisy. Gracie regrets that she walked away, but gets caught and send back.
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