Screenplay
Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), una aristócrata inglesa, se ha pasado la vida persiguiendo la perfección superficial, pero un matrimonio sin amor y sin hijos le ha privado de cualquier cosa importante que no sea su cuadra de caballos. Convencida de que su marido le es infiel, la empecinada Sarah viaja desde Londres hasta el remoto reducto tropical de Darwin (Australia) para enfrentarse a él. Su reacio guía a través del inmenso e inmisericorde terreno del territorio septentrional es Drover (Hugh Jackman), un ganadero tan tosco y basto como refinada es Sarah. Su profunda antipatía mutua se ve aminorada por la tragedia cuando Sarah, de repente, se halla cuidando a un encantador y joven huérfano llamado Nullah (Brandon Walters), un muchacho mestizo a la deriva en una sociedad segregada que le trata como un paria.
Novel
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
Screenplay
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
Director
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
