Walkabout

Synopsis

When their emotionally deranged geologist father drives them into the Australian Outback, attempts to shoot them, and immolates himself with his car, a teenage English schoolgirl and her young brother are stranded in the harsh, sunbaked desert, saved from thirst and starvation by an Indigenous teenage boy on his spiritual walkabout who teaches them bush survival. Nicolas Roeg and Edward Bond's Cannes-competing visual masterpiece starring Jenny Agutter and David Gulpilil with John Barry's score.