Charlie's Country

Charlie, an Aboriginal man who lives in Arnhem Land paints tree barks and fishes barramundi fish, all the while feeling out of place in an Australia which is no longer his.<ref name="janehoward">Jane Howard, [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2013/oct/15/charlies-country-adelaide-review Charlie's Country review — slow indictment of a colonialist relationship], ''The Guardian'', 15 October 2013</ref> He laments the loss of his culture in modern Australia. After his spear is confiscated by the police, who think it is a weapon, he decides to leave his urban Aboriginal community and go back to the bush, his "Mother Country."<ref name="janehoward"/> He falls ill and is rushed to the hospital in Darwin, Northern Territory.<ref name="janehoward"/> He discharges himself, then befriends an Aboriginal woman and buys alcohol illegally for other Aboriginals, and he gets arrested.<ref name="janehoward"/> As a result, he is sent to prison.<ref name="janehoward"/> When he gets out, he agrees to pass on traditional dances from his generation to young Aboriginal boys, fearing the loss of their cultural identity.