Synopsis

Set in Central Australia in the 1940s, Aboriginal worker Jacob learns about the birth of his son while being out bush, fencing. When he returns from his work four months later he's in for a surprise.

He returns to his Aboriginal wife and looks at his son for the first time—he has white skin.

Angry he turns away and rejects his boy. But his anger turns to love when he learns that "it wasn't her choice" to conceive this child.

He returns just in time to rescue his son from an ant's nest where his mother has put him in desperation.

Jacob points subtle yet powerfully to the widespread practice in those days of white farmers abusing their Indigenous employees.