Fictionalized treatment of yet another monstrous government program from the 40's and 50's. Social service agencies in England took children away from poor parents and shipped them en masse to Australia where they were placed in orphans' homes and badly mistreated. They told the parents the children had been adopted by good people; the children were told their parents were dead. The rationale seems to have been some sort of slum-clearance idea, giving the kids a better chance in life, etc.
This film follows a British social worker as she tries to deal with this humanitarian mess forty years later...with no help from either state.
It's enough to make you want to quit the race...the human race.
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