Women of the Sun

Season

1981

Australia

7.9

Four separate stories focusing on the lives and struggles of Aboriginal Australians, particularly the women folk right through Australia's history.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Alinta, the Flame

The lives of the Nyari people are completely disrupted when two convicts are washed up on the beach of their tribal lands.

S1 • E2

Maydina, the Shadow

Maydina and Biri escape from the seal hunters who enslaved them. Their intent is to escape back to their traditional lands, but they quickly learn that these lands have been settled and their people have now scattered.

S1 • E3

Nerida Anderson, 1939

Nerida is a young, rebellious woman who returns to the government mission where her family lives, after spending several years in the city. She is shocked by the conditions and attempts to motivate her people to improve them.

S1 • E4

Lo-Arna, 1981

Ann Cutler is the 18-year-old adopted daughter of middle-class parents in an Australian country town. She has been told that she is French-Polynesian and that there is no record of her birth parents beyond knowledge of their nationality. The truth is that she is born of her adoptive father, Doug Cutler, and an Aboriginal woman called Alice Wilson, who lives locally. A land dispute with the indigenous community where Alice lives brings her back in contact with Ann's father, who is responsible for representing the issue to the local government. Alice states her wish to be reunited with Ann, whose Aboriginal name is Lo-Arna, forcing Doug Cutler to reveal the truth to Ann. Ann's trusting relationship with her parents changes dramatically when the situation is explained to her. She feels conflicted and insecure, and attempts to resolve her emotional turmoil by establishing contact with Alice. Ann drives to Alice's home, but when she arrives there she finds the situation too confronting and turns to leave. Alice chases after Ann's car as she drives away. The film ends when Ann stops the car to finally meet her birth mother.

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Women of the Sun

Season

1981

Australia

7.9

Episode List

Alinta, the Flame

Maydina, the Shadow

Nerida Anderson, 1939

Lo-Arna, 1981

Similar Titles

Brides of Christ

Wildside

The Luminaries

Water Rats

The Battlers

Women of the Sun

Season

1981

Australia

7.9

Episode List

Alinta, the Flame

Maydina, the Shadow

Nerida Anderson, 1939

Lo-Arna, 1981

Similar Titles

Brides of Christ

Wildside

The Luminaries

Water Rats

The Battlers