Satellite Boy

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Home, this way.

We off track.

Mum?!

Oh.

I'm sick of your stories.

This is the place where

me and Mum gonna live.

This is my country right here.

You live in the past, Jubi.

When Mum come back,

we're gonna open up a big restaurant.

See? Look here.

Kitchen.

Lounge room.

TV.

Hey, it not open yet

till Mum comes back.

She is coming back!

- She's not coming back.

- She is.

She is not.

I can look after myself.

More than you,

more than the old ways,

more than your Dreamtime bullshit.

I'm not going anywhere with you.

- Got something to show you.

- What?

Come on, hurry up.

- I'm gonna show you.

- What are you gonna show me?

- Come on.

- No, just tell me first, but.

Is it far?

You'll see when we get there.

Who's that?

Come on, let's go.

Come on, brother, race me.

Overtake me. Overtake me.

You the fastest fella in town.

- You fat.

- You ugly.

- Lumpy.

- Ugly jaw.

- You got hairy legs.

- You got balls and that.

Here, look.

Somebody been camping here or what?

What does this say?

'Thursten Thrumveld'. Probably dead.

Whom!

You right on top?

Well, hold on.

I'm putting on some

air-conditioning now.

You right there?

Look what I've found.

Whoa, whoa.

Squeeze a little bit.

Whoa.

Got it.

You gotta light?

Whoa. Oh.

Whoa. Gimme the lighter.

Light yours, light yours.

Whoa!

Just like in the movies.

Come on, let's go.

Come on.

What now?

Come to pick you up from work.

Mum's gonna kill you, Kalmain,

you're meant to be home.

Just tell her we were with you

all afternoon.

- Aye, sis?

- No.

- Aye, Mrs Joffe.

- Hey.

No.

Hello.

How's that grandfather of yours?

Jubi is alright.

Hey... here.

Trying to fatten me up, are you?

Hasn't worked yet.

Where's Mum?

Hey, Mum.

Callum... out!

Oi, Callum!

Where's my smoke?

Where? Where?

Oh, no,

another mob's coming.

Kalmain Grady,

you've got a knack.

We'll have to charge you this time.

Malicious damage, public nuisance -

that about sums you up, mate.

You're lucky your grandfather

is such a respected man.

This time we're gonna

let you off with a warning.

Come on.

Whoosh!

- Like Clint Eastwood.

- Yeah.

Kirk Douglas,

he another good actor.

- Glenn Ford.

- Yeah.

What do you know, young fella?

Everything. More than you.

You watch them DVD?

Yeah.

Oh, he no good that DVD...

but when he gets scratched,

he stop one place.

He no good, that DVD.

Not like that old-time...

movie projector...

where he go round and round

like a windmill.

He show 'em picture proper

and he never stop.

- Old-time picture.

- Yeah.

He never stopped there,

lived a long time.

That old one, he never stopped

when he go round like a windmill.

Pete! Wake up!

Get up!

What's going on, Jubi?

Jubi?

Do you want this?

I'm sorry, Jubi.

I'm sorry I was bad, aye?

What are they gonna do

to this place?

Didn't you read the notice?

Building a holding pen

for the equipment.

The big stuff doesn't come in

till Monday. Today's Friday.

Gives you the weekend

to get your stuff sorted.

But come Monday, you gotta be gone.

Jubi, please, stop them.

Jubi?

- This is my home!

- Not anymore, little man.

We can't leave,

Me and Mum gonna

turn it into a restaurant.

- Aye, no fighting. Quit.

- But this is our place.

Mum told me.

This is my real home.

'H'... 'l'...

- Mainstay...?

- ..Constructions.

- What's going on?

- They're kicking us out.

Can they do that?

Mm. Mainstay Constructions.

Well, if they're not in the book,

then they must be in the city.

Kalmain, where are you?!

Kalmain, where are you?!

Hey, Kalmain, where are you?

You right, Uncle?

Yeah, I'm right.

Do you know who own the place

where me and Jubi stay?

That's my country.

That's where you're living now,

my mother's country.

Em Kama way?

Whitefella way, city mob.

They know that business.

But where are that mob?

Easy. If you head on this road,

take you to town.

You'll be there in two days

if you're lucky.

Thank you, Uncle.

Thank you.

Kalmain, where are you?

Here.

What's wrong? Your dad?

Nah.

They're kicking us out.

Who?

The owner - Mainstay Constructions.

I thought you said your mum

owned that place.

Mm. Yeah.

Well, you could stay with us, aye?

I just need to find the owners,

talk to them, tell 'em to stop.

Tell 'em Mum's gonna make

something out of the old place.

She'll be wild once she knows

what's happening.

She'll come back for sure.

It'll be great. Everyone will come.

I only got three days to stop them.

OK. I'll get my stuff.

I can't see.

- Hey, look out.

- Hey.

Keep on your side.

I'm covered in bites.

We should've camped in there.

So, what - follow this road

and in two days we get there?

I'm starving.

Have you ever been to the city?

No, but Mum has.

I reckon the city camp.

Best video games in the world, I heard.

Oh! Not now.

Come on, Kalmain, don't be giving up.

Come. Come help.

Come on, boy. Wanna get out of here?

How far?!

What, you buggered already?

We only got up till Monday.

This is the way, aye?

Blackfella-style.

No houses, no shops, traditional.

You're mad.

What, don't you wanna be

a real blackfella?

What, like you?

I'm gonna go out bush, live old-style.

I mean it.

Bush tucker, bush medicine.

- What do you know about that?

- Plenty.

Where'd you learn about

fixing tyres like that, anyway?

Mate, I used to shoot a .22

with my uncle. I'd be fine.

You got no .22 round here.

You'd have to make a spear.

Oh, cops.

So?

- You go on.

- What?

You go on without me.

Wait there, boy.

Kalmain!

What's going on?!

Come on, they're gonna catch us.

Come on.

Wait.

Look at this, Sarge.

We gotta get away from the road.

Stop!

Come on.

Why are they chasing us?

I'm meant to be home.

Gotta see magistrate on Monday.

We gotta go back.

No! They're taking me away

to boys' home.

Hey, wait.

So what's your mum studying anyway?

- Hospitality.

- What's that?

I don't know.

- So she gonna get a job or what?

- Yeah, that's why she there.

What you gonna do

when the cops get you?

They ain't gonna get me.

I'll go out bush...

become a stockman,

do rodeo someplace.

You should go back.

For what, go to boys' home?

Maybe not.

Magistrate might let you go.

Nah. I'm a Grady.

If anything happens,

they come looking for me.

You alright.

I'll go into town, aye?

See if they been there.

They probably just gone fishing.

Oh.

- Oh, close.

- Oh, see? Nearly got him.

Sugar fly, look.

What are you doing?

- Help me, boy.

- Huh?

Do you wanna go old-style or what?

Oh, right there.

Here.

Don't lose it. Where is it?

There it is!

Faster. Hurry up!

Aye, boy. Sugar bag!

Wait there.

We off track.

Right up here.

How do you know that?

See?

Come on, boy.

We should stay here, aye?

You don't know where we are.

No food, no water - nothing.

Hey!

Hm?

Ah.

Let's go.

Jubi says 'If you walk country,

country will look after you.'

Now you wanna listen to him.

Fixing the tyre, sugar bag -

that's all him,

that's what he been taught me.

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