Dirt Music (2019) - full transcript

Hey. Hey.

Who'd leave you all tied up, eh?
Handsome fella like you.

Shit.

You're a bit crazy,
aren't you?

Bugger it.

- I can pour my own.
- Yeah, you can pour it

- all over the kitchen and I get to clean it up.
- Ow!

- Don't hit your brother, Josh.
- He doesn't mind, Georgie.

- I do mind.
- I'm going to trust your brother on that one, Josh. Stop it.

Hello?

We're bringing in the big one.



We've got more crays
than we can bloody crate.

Even had to empty the hold.

Well, that's great.

Would you get Beaver
on the docks?

We're going to need
probably three vans.

Maybe four.

Good on you, Jimbo!

Hey, Boris, tie it off.

That's it, just there.

Jim Buckridge,
the catch of the year!

- Yogi.
- Good on you, Jim-Jim, mate.

Cheers, Jimbo!

Yogi. Ava.

You want a red or a white?



Hi.

Buckridge! Buckridge!

Buckridge!

- Cheers.
- Hey, Georgie.

- Get off!
- Fuck off, mate.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Your husband, he just earned
a nurse's annual salary.

You know I used to be a nurse.

- I do.
- And that he's not my husband.

You know, you're the only one

that wants to talk to me,
Beaver.

You know, you're the only one
not smiling.

You know that, don't you,
Georgie?

Is that right?

I mean, in this town,
if a Buckridge catches a whale,

you slap on a smile
and you appreciate it.

But you're not from this town,
are you?

I'm going for a slash.

"The large ships never pass by
without stopping.

"On a small island
in a gigantic sea,

Ari feels like he..."

He got off late.

Excited for you, I reckon.

I took upwards
of 70 grand today.

Maybe 80.

That's great.

Yeah.

Well, shut the talkers up,
anyway.

Talkers?

Yeah, those that talk.

And what are those that talk
saying?

Oh, the usual White Point shit,
you know.

I've lost my touch,
Father was better...

Yeah, some of them
even talk about you.

I'm drunk.
I'm going to go to bed.

I hoped I'd see you again too!

Hello. Good catch?

Funny time to be out fishing.

Don't worry.
I won't tell anyone I saw you.

You'd better hope
no one else sees you, though.

Right.

You do speak, then?

I thought you were hurt.

I thought you were a body.

I am a body.

You shouldn't leave your dog
tied up.

It keeps him safe.

Hmm.

Morning.

Bit of a swim?

Swimming in the dark
on this coast?

I wouldn't do it.

Jim...

we should probably talk.

No, everything's fine.

Don't overthink it.

Oh, come on.

Hello, again.

Just choked and cut out.

I've nearly killed the battery
turning it over.

Injectors, maybe.

Don't know.

It's a computerized something.

You know how these cars get.

I'm not good with computers.

Me neither.

You call your service?

No reception, not out here.

Hey.

Are you having
some kind of party?

I guess I could run you in
to White Point.

That'd be brave.

Where'd you sell your catch?

The city? Because that's
where I'm heading.

I can't tow your car.

Bust my transmission.

I'm not fussed about the car.

You're busy.

You've got your party
to organize.

I'm not having a party.

You get going.

Can't leave you
on the side of the road.

Not in this heat.

I got reason to fear you?

Not that I know of.

Fine.

You talked me into it.

What's he called?

Doesn't have a name.

He doesn't have a name?

No.

I need to sort something
at my house.

It's on the way.

There's shade over there.

Don't have any paracetamol,
do you?

Rain water.

Shit-free.

It's cooler inside.

I'll just be a few minutes.

Thanks.

You're staying here.

Big reader?

Passes the time.

Who do you read, then?

Steinbeck, I'll bet.

And Hemingway, obviously.

Conrad?
I see you have a set.

What about women writers?
You like any women?

You live at White Point?

I do, but you're changing
the subject.

- Teacher?
- Fuck, no.

Nurse.

Ex-nurse.

Why'd you guess teacher?

Books.

Your old man is an exporter
or a fisherman?

You needn't worry.

I'm not a very loyal fishwife.

Jim Buckridge.

- Fuck.
- If I was gonna say something,

you don't think I'd have
said something by now?

Your old man is Jim Buckridge.

I haven't married him.

What do you want with Perth?

I got a room booked.

I need a few days away.

So you're running from him.

I'm helping you... run away.

You think that's dangerous,
try stealing from his plate.

You do know what'll happen
if they catch you?

All I'm saying is, why not take
up something less dangerous...

like bomb disposal?

Hands shake.

What?

Don't have the hands
for bomb disposal.

You coming in?

I'll buy you a beer.
I owe you one.

Thanks.
I've got to be somewhere.

I don't want to spoil
your plans,

but I think this is one-way.

Guess you're stuck.

Weird old day,
that's all I was thinking.

Weird old fucking life,
to be honest.

Let's hope they've got
decent beer.

None of that Belgian shit.

What?

We still have our clothes on.

I don't know your name.

I'm Georgie.
Georgie Jutland.

Lu.

Lu Fox.

Pleased to meet you, Georgie.

Very bloody pleased,
I hope.

I've heard of you.

What you heard?

You're in some sort of band.

You're a muso, right?

Don't play anymore.

No?

Don't even listen.

And that's all
you heard, is it?

That's what the Foxes
are famous for.

No.

I heard what happened to you...

and your family.

Let's have that beer.

I promised you a beer,
didn't I?

The fridge is over there.

Hey.

You're worried
about your dog?

He's not my dog.

You're worried your fish
will have melted?

They're crays.

And technically...

they're not my fish to melt.

♪ Come down off your throne ♪

♪ And leave your body alone ♪

♪ Somebody must change ♪

♪ You are the reason
I've been waiting so long ♪

♪ Somebody holds the key ♪

♪ But I'm near the end ♪

♪ And I just ain't
got the time ♪

♪ And I'm wasted ♪

♪ And I can't find
My way home ♪

I saw God today.

Did you, now?

It was him, all right.

- How'd he seem?
- What?

What'd he look like?

A dot.

A dot in a circle, sort of.

When I close my eye
and poke it with my thumb,

he floats across the sky.

Right into the sun, even.

No one else can go on the sun,
right?

Are you playing tonight?

White Point.
Your dad's booking.

- Am I coming, Dad?
- You got school tomorrow, Bird.

Well, she can come
if she wants to.

♪ Come down on your own ♪

♪ And leave your body alone... ♪

They'll cook quicker
if you chop them.

I just needed a breather.

It won't happen again.

You sound like an employee.

I was worried,
that's all.

Did you get what you wanted
on your breather?

I think so.

When Debbie got
her diagnosis,

she took off for a few days.

Didn't say anything,
she just up and went.

I'm not sick, Jim.

No, I didn't think you were.

And I'm not Debbie.

Yeah, I know you're not.

♪ I will put ♪

♪ My ship in order ♪

Is that a good idea?

I just wanted to remember
what you look like right now.

You got to go home, you know.

For both our sakes.

I don't understand what
you're doing living like this.

I did think about
going north.

The last funeral,
I came back...

burned all my papers,
licenses, any ID.

I wish I'd burned
everything.

I already felt like a ghost.

Figured, why not become one?

So now you poach
other people's fish,

read man books
and don't listen to music.

Come on.

I've got somewhere
to show you.

I should have worn shoes.

You want a piggyback?

Come on.

Gonna get up or not?

Oh!

Aah!

Hi.

Your dog slobbered on me.

Good boy. He likes you.

Used to come here a lot.

Bird loved it.

She said once,
"This is my place."

Sort of declared,

"This is my country."

Bird's your...?

Niece.

She was my niece.

Didn't used to be illegal,
what I do.

Then suddenly everyone's
paying everyone

for bits of paper that tell us

the Foxes can't
go fishing no more.

So we farmed melons.

Weren't any good at that,
so we played music.

You ever heard of a place
called Coronation Gulf?

Chain of islands up north,
way out in the Timor Sea.

Far north.

I got stuck on one
of the islands once.

Are you a sailor, then?

If I was a sailor,

I wouldn't have got stuck
on a sandbank for two days.

But the place?

Mostly scrub or thick trees,

mangroves, boab trees,
crocs,

fish, birds...

no humans.

- None?
- Complete peace.

So isolated
it could kill me.

That kind of isolation's
good to have

once in a while,
you know?

And there was this moment,
when the tides changed,

that the whole ocean
came alive.

This big, heaving,
living thing

that makes you feel so small
you might not even exist.

My point is,

I get why Bird liked it here.

Because that's my place.

My country.

What are we doing?

Hanging out.

What do you think
we're doing?

We're not teenagers.

How do adults do it, then?

You still fucking him?

You want me to stop?

Done. You got me.

You haven't lived in White Point
long enough, you know that?

- Hey, Georgie?
- Yeah.

We're going to need an ambulance
on the jetty in half an hour.

And can you find us
a new deckie?

Boris is out of it.

He's got blood from asshole
to breakfast.

- Is he conscious?
- Don't use the radio.

I've only pulled two lines.

Don't need a pack
of nature's gentlemen

pillaging me pots, all right?

Okay.

- Head injury.
- Up he goes.

There you go, Boris.

There you go, mate.

Here. The pupils on him.

You fucked up, Boris, eh?

- Yeah.
- What can I do?

Well, I don't know, love.
What can you do?

You should probably
keep him warm

in case he goes into shock.

We got this, Georgie, eh?

Boris, can you hear me, Boris?

Hey? You fucked yourself.

Hey, who's up?

Yup.

Is that the best you could find?

All right, kid,
what are you waiting for,

a printed fucking invitation?
Come on, get on.

Hey, don't die, Boris.

And then he tried to tell me
he could run faster than me,

but we had a race
and I easily beat him.

Well, I hope you made him
feel okay about that.

I beat him. He is never going
to feel okay about that.

How was it?

Pots might as well
have been pillaged.

- That bad?
- Yeah.

And Boris?

Oh, he needed a few stitches,
but he was never pretty.

I'm a nurse, Jim.

I could have helped
with Boris.

Yeah, well, you did.
You got Yogi and Ava.

- Jim.
- I called you, didn't I, to sort it out?

You do that as a favor.

Well, you've got your life,
I've got mine.

That's how it works,
doesn't it?

Fuck you,
Jim Buckridge.

You vicious bastard!

- Hey, what state are you in?
- Have you hurt him?

- Hey, hey!
- Did you hurt him?

What have you done?

What have you done to him?!

I've fucking done nothing!

What did you do, eh?
What did you do?

As soon as he touched you,

his hands should have
fucking burned.

- Fuck you!
- Yeah?

Go in the spare room
and sober up, for fuck's sake.

I've got a fucking machine!

I don't understand a word
you're saying, love.

Georgie, I've got
a fucking machine.

I think she thinks there's
too much oil in your clothes.

She doesn't want to fuck up
your machine.

Yeah, but if I fuck up my
machine, I'll fix my machine.

I'm a mechanic.
I'm a mechanic!

I didn't know
you'd met someone.

Haven't you heard them
laughing at me yet?

- No.
- Yeah.

Proper love match.

I need a car, Beaver.

Now, why would I do
something stupid like that?

Because I'll pay you.

One car, one night.
That's all I need.

Now, you promise to return this,
Georgie, by morning.

I'm the one
taking the risk here.

If he notices or even knows...

I know.

I can see you!

I can fucking see you!

Lu?

Lu.

This alcohol?

Darkie brewed it.

Fuck.

Trust me, Lu Fox.

How'd you meet him?
Jim.

You want me to talk about Jim?

I want to understand.

Understand what?

Why you'd want him and me.

I ended up in this resort
in Bali.

Jim was there.

I didn't know it at the time,

but it was the first holiday
he'd had without his wife.

Debbie.

I saw him on the beach
with his kids.

Started playing with them.

Things just happened.

Maybe I just settled
for something

rather than nothing.

He said you should have realized
what it meant to touch me,

as if I was his property or...

Bird was alive for a while.

After the...

Did you know that?

On machines.

They kept shoving
all these forms at me.

I didn't want to do it.

And I stayed and stayed.

It's like I got tired,
you know?

They wore me down.

Signed them, and like that...
she was gone.

Sounds like mercy to me.

It was convenience.

Music will undo you,
because it makes you forget.

It takes you somewhere else.

Whatever's been done to you,
whatever you do to yourself,

it's not allowed,
you know?

You're not getting
that convenience.

It's too convenient.

I'm a burning,
screaming wreck.

And I'll always be one.

But I knew what it meant
to touch you.

Beaver?

Beaver? I've got your car.

Are you awake?

Hey, call your sister.

Call your sister. She's been
trying to get ahold of you.

So you're just here
to pass a message on?

Where have you been?
With him?

That is no fucking business
of yours.

Georgie, whatever you think
happened, it fucking didn't.

You're an animal.

Georgie...

Stay away from me.

Georgie, your mum's dead.

I'm sorry.

Call your sister.

♪ I will put ♪

♪ My ship in order ♪

♪ And I will set her ♪

♪ To the sea ♪

Sorry, Bird.

The thing is...

you've always been a pussy
when it came to the women.

- Leave him alone, Darkie.
- I'm not saying I'm any better.

Women make no home safer.

They twist any brain.

You want me to twist
your brain?

Give it a go.

Bird?

Bird?

Hi, Uncle Derek.

- Drink?
- No.

Yes.

Vodka martini.

Pool man found her.

- How long was she...?
- Twelve hours.

Oh, it's too horrible.

How are you, sis?

Underdressed.

It's been too long, Jude.

It has been too long,
hasn't it?

- I didn't mean...
- Yeah, I know.

We grow up and we go to live
abroad and then on boats,

and then with fishermen
who don't like our family.

- Jim likes you.
- Does he?

Dad's coming over.

Shit.

And he's got that look
on his face.

Georgina.

Learned counsel.

Mm.

Good Lord.

That's some tan.

You got a bit of color there
yourself.

Well, we get out on the boat
to Rottnest most weekends.

You still get out?

Think my sailing days
are behind me.

Turned 40, you know.

I loved watching you
on the water,

pushing yourself
to the limit.

You even sailed to Indonesia.

You brought her?

My wife?
Yes, I did, Georgie.

You brought your wife
to your ex-wife's funeral.

She's not coming to the funeral,
but I didn't think

there was any harm
in bringing her here today.

Seeing you girls,
you know, seeing you...

she always said
you had her smile.

Oh, God, I can see it now.

Freshwater Bay, 1972.

- Dad, don't.
- Some university bash.

- Dad, please.
- She had a mauve cashmere sweater.

I'm not reminiscing with you.

- Her hair flying in the wind,
- Stop!

- like Faye Dunaway.
- I said, stop.

- I just want you to understand.
- I refuse to understand.

That's a very pleasing way
to live your life, isn't it?

Did you know it was 12 hours?

No one found her for 12 hours.

Well, you weren't there either,
Georgie.

Shared guilt's still guilt, Dad.

- Well, I'm upset too.
- Didn't say upset.

- Did I say upset?
- Come on, Georgie, let's...

- Doesn't this all feel wrong?
- Let's keep this civilized.

And why the fuck would we want
to keep it civilized?

Hey, what do you think
you're doing?

♪ Long afloat
on shipless oceans ♪

♪ I did all my best to smile ♪

♪ Till your singing eyes
and fingers ♪

♪ Drew me loving to your isle ♪

♪ And you sang ♪

♪ Sail to me ♪

♪ Sail to me ♪

Heading up
the Great Northern Highway.

That's it.

♪ Here I am ♪

♪ Here I am ♪

♪ Waiting to hold you ♪

♪ Did I dream ♪

♪ You dreamed about me? ♪

♪ Were you here ♪

- ♪ When I was forced out? ♪
- Lu?

♪ Now my foolish boat
Is leaning ♪

Lu?

♪ Broken, lovelorn,
on your rocks ♪

♪ For you sing ♪

♪ Touch me not ♪

♪ Touch me not ♪

♪ Come back tomorrow ♪

♪ Oh, my heart ♪

♪ Oh, my heart ♪

♪ Shies from the sorrow ♪

Did you go back for him?

- You're late bringing that back.
- Do you know where he is?

- Tell me where he is.
- Melon boy?

Did you go back for him when
I was burying my mother?

- Of course I didn't.
- Promise you didn't help him?

Jim didn't do anything either,
Georgie.

At least you both
got your stories straight.

Hey, he wasn't too happy
that someone did.

He's trying to find out who actually
did it, to tell you the truth.

Besides, someone coming back
for seconds? Couldn't happen.

So maybe if melon boy's gone,
it's because he wanted to go.

Hey.

You fill her up,
I'll get food, eh?

Yeah.

It's artificial.

I'm a fucking peg leg.

I'm starting up
a pharmacy.

You all right, mate?

You don't look good.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Think I drunk too much.

♪ You walked in my house
last night ♪

♪ Couldn't help but notice ♪

♪ A light that was long gone
still burning strong ♪

♪ You were sitting ♪

♪ Your fingers like fuses ♪

♪ Your eyes were cinnamon ♪

♪ You said you'd stand ♪

♪ For every known abuse ♪

♪ That was ever threatened ♪

♪ To anyone but you ♪

♪ Why should I know better
by now ♪

♪ When I'm old enough not to? ♪

♪ While every line ♪

♪ Speaks the language of love ♪

♪ It never held the meaning
I was thinking of ♪

♪ And I can't decide ♪

♪ Over right or wrong ♪

♪ I guess sometimes
you need the place ♪

♪ Where you belong ♪

♪ Where you
belong ♪

♪ Where I belong,
where I belong ♪

♪ Where I belong ♪

- Lu, he's going to kill him.
- What?

Darkie. He's going
at Jim Buckridge.

What the fuck did you do,
Darkie?

What are you doing,
you mad bastard?

You need to relax, mate.

Get up, kid. Get up.
Come on.

You fucked him.

- Not now, Darkie.
- No, don't, don't...

- Let's get in the car and go home, okay, mate?
- Fuck you.

Fuck you.

♪ Like a snake calling
on the phone ♪

♪ I've got no time
to be alone ♪

Oh, shit.

Darkie, this isn't smart.

- Darkie!
- Seat belt.

Come on...

♪ Make me down
a pallet on your floor ♪

♪ Make me down a pallet
on your floor ♪

♪ Make me down a pallet
soft and low ♪

♪ When I'm broke
and I got nowhere to go ♪

♪ Been hanging around with some
good-time friends of mine ♪

No, not that good.

♪ Hanging around with some
good-time friends of mine ♪

♪ Oh, they treat me ♪

♪ So very nice and kind ♪

♪ When I've got
a dollar and a dime ♪

Yeah, Lu.

♪ We're in blues
everywhere I see ♪

♪ We're in blues
everywhere I see ♪

♪ We're in blues,
honey, everywhere I see... ♪

♪ Make me down... ♪

What are you doing, Lu?

I counted at least 15 mistakes.

Do you think you can do better?

Of course I can.

♪ I will put ♪

♪ My ship in order ♪

♪ And I will set her ♪

♪ To the sea ♪

♪ And I will sail ♪

♪ To yonder harbor ♪

♪ To see if my love ♪

♪ Minds on me ♪

♪ Then slowly,
slowly rose she up ♪

♪ And slowly,
slowly came she down ♪

♪ But before she had ♪

♪ The door unlocked ♪

♪ Her true love had ♪

♪ Both come and gone ♪

I counted 16 mistakes.

Bugger off!

Go on.

You can go now.

If you're looking for trouble,
he's not here.

You scared him off
too good for that.

No, Beaver told me he left.

So you're here standing outside
keeping vigil for me...?

Yogi did it.

- Yogi?
- Yeah. Yeah, and Ava.

And a gaggle of his cousins.

Buckridge name probably
means as much to Yogi and Ava

as it does to me.

The Buckridge name?

I'm not saying I have no
responsibility for what Yogi did.

Truth is, I've probably got
less responsibility

than what you've got.

And as for him...-
ah, Foxes...

always where you don't
want them.

- Always have been.
- You knew them well, then?

I never went after you, Georgie.
I didn't even see you.

I probably wouldn't
have even noticed you

if you hadn't come bounding
up the beach

that day to play with the kids.

You fucked me the second day.

You know what you saw in me?

A ready-made family.
A gap to fill.

I thought you were
in the business

of filling it permanently.

I don't know.
I can deal with that.

The boys, the boys...

the boys, they've lost
their mother,

and now you're walking out
on them.

I'm not walking out on them,
Jim.

I'm walking out on you.

Well, they don't
see it like that.

That's why I'm saying,
come home.

We can work it out again.

How much to the plateau?

A thousand bucks.

You're keen.

You don't have to pay today,
you know.

I want to go today.

- Coming back when?
- One way.

You got an HF radio?

No.

Are you in trouble, son?

Only if you can't
fly a plane.

Are you stopping on the plateau?

Of course you aren't.

Where are you headed?

Suppose I'll be
coming back for you.

One way or another.

Don't think I haven't seen
others like you before.

Always ends the same.

You want me to give
anyone a message?

No.

I didn't even get your name.

Buckridge.

- Science fella?
- Who's there?

From the government?

- No.
- Lawyer fella?

Why would a lawyer come here?

Oh, you'd be surprised.

Mine boy?
Station boy?

No.

Well, you're sure not
a black fella.

Where are you from?

White Point.

You know where you're headed?

You don't want to tell me that,
I can respect that.

But you won't make anywhere
before light.

Better off come and camp with us
for tonight.

This is my countryman, Axle.

This is Lu Fox.

Yeah, you see him.

You see him good.

Get that billy on, brah.

He likes to strum,
but he gets disappointed.

I could tune it for him.

Gentleman wants
to tune your guitar, Axle.

Can you play?
Play.

I'll tune it so you can play it.

No, you play.

I don't.

Man wants you to play,
I'd play something, Lu,

if you don't want this fella
humbugging you all night.

Play.

♪ Welcome, stranger,
to the show ♪

♪ I'm the one who should
be lying low ♪

♪ Saw the knives out ♪

♪ Turned my back ♪

♪ Heard the train coming ♪

♪ Stayed right on the track ♪

♪ In the middle ♪

♪ In the middle ♪

♪ The middle of a dream ♪

♪ I lost my shirt ♪

♪ I pawned my rings ♪

♪ I done all
the dumb things ♪

Jeez, I haven't
heard that in a while.

My brother's favorite.

♪ And I will put ♪

♪ My ship in order ♪

♪ And I will set ♪

♪ Her out to sea ♪

♪ And I will sail ♪

♪ To yonder harbor ♪

♪ See what my love ♪

♪ Minds on me ♪

Go to sleep, Bird.

I don't want to sleep.

Then shut your eyes and
pretend, like normal kids do.

I don't want to be normal.

Darkie?

Darkie?

Sal.

Bird.

No, Bird, no.

I'm going to get some help.

I'm going to get
some help.

I'll get some...

Used to be able to walk
everywhere out here.

Now you need a boat.

So take mine.

Well, Menzies said you don't
even know where you're going.

I think you need it
more than I do.

- Hey, Georgie! Hey.
- Hey, Georgie.

How are you going?

You want to try?
Try and get some food?

- Mm.
- Good?

Mm-hm.

Here.

Dad, I caught 22 crabs.

Twenty-two, did you?

And only 14 of them bit me.

Yeah, I'm just here
to rustle them home.

Well, we cooked some crabs
if you want one.

What are you up to this time,
Georgie, do you know?

I don't want to promise them
something you can't deliver on.

They'll get over me.
That's what I needed to check.

They'll be fine.

Okay, so, what?

This is goodbye, then?

I believe you.

I believe you didn't
hurt him.

All right, but you're
still going.

I've been thinking about Mum
a lot lately.

One time, they were all
dressed up for dinner.

Mum was wearing this
tight pink dress.

Backless, you know?

So beautiful.

And Dad says,

"Lights on, nobody home,

but such pretty lights."

I wouldn't talk about you
like that.

I can't do unhappy.

Where are you going?

You going to go
looking for him?

As soon as I know
where to start.

♪ The wind as it moves ♪

♪ On our shadows ♪

♪ We packed up and left ♪

♪ The only thing worth missing
that I kept ♪

♪ Are the memories that stay ♪

♪ You smile in the valley
that day ♪

♪ Your heart,
it shines on mine ♪

♪ Half the time I'm here ♪

♪ If I could love you ♪

♪ Your heart,
it shines on mine ♪

♪ Half the time
it's clear ♪

♪ I could have loved you ♪

♪ Whenever you get
where you're going ♪

♪ You know I don't have
your love tied ♪

♪ We were running
in the night ♪

♪ And you're not
the chasing type ♪

♪ And I'm not the one
you liked ♪

♪ Your heart,
it shines on mine ♪

♪ Half the time I'm here ♪

♪ If I could love you ♪

♪ Your heart,
it shines on mine ♪

♪ Half the time
it's clear ♪

♪ I could have loved you ♪

- What's going on?
- We're packing.

- To go where?
- Good question.

They're just going
to my sister's.

They're very excited about it.
She's got sheep and cows, dogs.

You're sending them away?

Yeah, just till
it's settled.

Till what's settled?

Oh, Boris can skipper the boat,
see how he does.

And what are you
going to do, Jim?

Well, if you're gonna go
and look for him, so am I.

Your handwriting?

Postmark is Cape Leveque.
That's where to start.

How long have you had this?
This is time I've lost.

- He could be anywhere by now.
- I know that area.

I've got cousins who live there.

You want to find him,
you're going to need me,

or are you too pigheaded
to realize that?

♪ I will put my ship in order ♪

♪ And I will set her
out to sea ♪

♪ And I will sail... ♪

Ow! Oh!

Can I get you a drink?

Sir?
Madam?

He'll have a whiskey.

I'll have a white wine.

Always learning
something about you.

Well, what do you think
you know about me now?

You're scared of flying.

Oh, thank you very much.

So you think
he's in the Coronation Gulf?

I know he's in
the Coronation Gulf.

You realize how big the gulf is,
don't you?

Could take some time.

Hello. Look familiar?

Not to me.

No, no, no.

Have you seen this man?

We've all been trying
to work this guy out.

You his sister?

Or his missus?
Fuck, are you Mrs. Buckridge?

Buckridge?

Can you take me
where you left him?

He wasn't stopping
where I left him.

Heading out to the gulf,
I reckon.

You're not coming.

Not to the islands.

Yeah, I got you where
I needed to get you.

You'll use a guide that
I've set up for you out there.

He's good.
He's a fisherman mainly,

but he knows the islands
pretty well.

What's this about, Jim?

Whatever's in that tight
head of yours,

it might be better
to say it.

Yeah, you might not be right
about that.

I need to know
why you're here.

Um...

well, Debbie was sick.

She was badly sick.
And I was, um...

I was...

Look, I'm not even going to try
and excuse it,

but she came to me,
it wasn't the other way around.

Who?

Sal.

Sal Fox.
Darkie's wife.

I don't know how he found out,
but he...

spat in my face,
then he took a knife to me.

Fucking no one takes
a fucking knife to me.

And, you know, I just...

I just wanted to scare him
a little, you know,

give him a scare, but...

we were both pretty drunk,
and, um...

when he left the bar,
I followed him and his family.

And he wasn't as in control
of his vehicle as I was of mine,

and he, um...

well, he flipped it.

Flipped it on the, um...

one of the roads
outside of town.

And Beaver, Beaver was there.
Beaver was going, "Fuck, fuck!"

And, um...

And there was this body there.

There was a body had just,
you know,

been thrown out of the car
and was just lying on the road.

And Beaver was going, "We got to get
out of here. You're over the limit, Jim.

You don't want to ruin
your life over this."

Yeah, and we did.

And, um...

when I heard that...

When I heard that
that little girl...

When I heard that
that little girl

could have lived if we'd, um...

We drove away anyway.

We've got some bad weather
on the way.

Yeah, I seen.

White Point?

Shit. I know it.

Had me head kicked in
at the pub when I was 19.

You in fishing, then?

Something like that.

And now you're here.

You know, for a couple of years,
pilots have been saying

they've seen a black fella
up here.

But those pilots like a story,

and there must be 2,000 islands
out there,

so there's no way of proving
he isn't out there somewhere.

It is native land,
isn't it?

Yeah, and you couldn't fill
a Japanese car

with the amount of black fellas
still have the bush skills

to survive in this wilderness.

And of that carload,
most of them would be too old

to walk or see anymore.

What are you saying?

I'm saying, you certain
you want to look?

Could be his corpse we find.

Do you want to dance?

No.

Where are we looking
tomorrow?

Your guess is as good as mine,
Georgie.

Well, we're done for the day.

One more.

I want to find him too, Georgie.

Your man promised me double
if I did.

But that tide's
about to turn against us,

and I'm not for dying
out here.

Oh, shit.

He's here.

He doesn't want to be found.

- He was here.
- Could have been an animal.

Lu!

Lu!

I want to help you!

Lu!

Come back to me!

Lu!

Go to sleep, Bird.

I don't want to sleep.

Lu!

Shut your eyes and pretend
like normal kids do.

Lu!

Don't want to be normal.

Lu!

No sign of him.

Bad news, I'm afraid.

Pilot just radioed.

Storm's coming in quicker
than they thought.

It's going to develop
into a tropical cyclone.

He wants to get us out tomorrow.

- Just leave me here.
- Can't do that.

Why?

Because that'd be murder.

What'll happen to him?

I'm not going to lie to you,
Georgie.

I don't want you to lie.

He'll die.

And he knows it.

♪ Make me down a pallet
on your floor ♪

You're just leaving that
to the animals, are you?

♪ Make me down a pallet
on your floor ♪

♪ Make me down a pallet
soft and low ♪

♪ When I'm broke
and I got nowhere to go ♪

♪ ...around with some good-time
friends of mine ♪

♪ I drew her close ♪

♪ Up to the window ♪

♪ To listen what ♪

♪ My love did say ♪

♪ Then slowly, slowly ♪

♪ Rose she up ♪

♪ And slowly, slowly ♪

♪ Came she down ♪

♪ But before she had ♪

♪ The door unlocked ♪

♪ Her true love had ♪

♪ Both come and gone ♪

I counted 16 mistakes.

Bugger off.

Go on. You can go now.

Here!

Here!

Here!

I'm fucking here!

Here!

Here!

Is it you?

Is it really you?

Yeah.

It's me.

♪ Well, I'm as puzzled
as the oyster ♪

♪ Well, I'm as troubled ♪

♪ As the tide ♪

♪ Should I stand amid
your breakers? ♪

♪ Should I lie with death
my bride? ♪

♪ Hear me sing ♪

♪ Swim to me ♪

♪ Swim to me ♪

♪ Let me enfold you ♪

♪ Here I am ♪

♪ Here I am ♪

♪ Waiting to hold you ♪

♪ I've been walking
for years now ♪

♪ Trying to find a reason ♪

♪ Walking these dirt tracks ♪

♪ Trying to find my season ♪

♪ Whoa, love ♪

♪ Where did you come from? ♪

♪ Whoa, love ♪

♪ You gave me
what I needed ♪

♪ Whoa, you did ♪

♪ You gave me what I needed ♪

♪ Whoa, you did ♪

♪ You gave me what I needed ♪

♪ Whoa, you did ♪

♪ You gave me what I needed ♪

♪ Needed ♪

♪ There's a place
where I want to go ♪

♪ I could search
the whole world, you know ♪

♪ Ooh, there's a new earth
somewhere ♪

♪ They call the promised land ♪

♪ You gave me what I needed ♪

♪ Whoa, you did ♪

♪ You gave me what I needed ♪

♪ Whoa, you did ♪

♪ You gave me what I needed ♪

♪ Whoa, you did ♪

♪ You gave me what I needed ♪

♪ Needed ♪

♪ Storm clouds are gathering ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I found my way back to you ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I've been wandering slowly ♪

♪ You were the only one
for me ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ You gave me what I needed ♪

♪ Whoa, you did ♪

♪ You gave me what I needed ♪

♪ Whoa, you did ♪