Silver City

Director Turkiewicz was 3 years old when she came with her parents from war-torn Poland to settle in Australia's Polish community, so there is more than a little autobiography in the screenplay she wrote with Keneally. Dobrowolska and Kants are on a train in the early 1960s. They have not seen each other for years and begin to reminisce about their early lives together. Flash back 15 years. The two meet and fall in love. Kants is a young ex-law student who is already married to Jemison, but he is passionate about Dobrowolska and leaves his spouse. They are living in a barracks at the camp where they are being processed. Even though they are now in a free land, the ...