The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
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Paddy Parker
Ed Anderson
Rick Anderson
Michael Parker
Amelia Hamilton
Miss Gregory
Tom
John Hamilton
Jennifer Hamilton
Heidi
Henry
Uncle Harold
Aboriginal Elder #2 (as Steve 'Mullawalla' Dodd)
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