Synopsis

In 1930s Australia, a group of Aboriginal Kids escape their cruel white masters and journey across the sweet country of Central Australia to reunite with their estranged mother Pansy.

Set three years after Sweet Country, Wolfram continues the story of Philomac, now 17 and still living under the watchful eye of his ill-tempered master Mick Kennedy.

After meeting Max and Kid, Philomac decides to free himself and the siblings from the white men’s brutality by running away into desert country. Along the way they are assisted by a pioneering family of Chinese Australian miners Jimmi and Wang Wei, who help reunite the children with Pansy.

This is my family’s story. My great grandmother and her daughters worked the Hatches Creek mines for whitefellas. Now a truth will come out and it’s called "Wolfram".

— Warwick Thornton ^[1]