FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Dramatic red sunrise. Montage of Bangkok shots, country landscape, floating market, Grand Palace. Aircraft coming in to land in Sydney. Thai student Preeyan in airport arrivals, with Australian officials. Preeyan talking to fellow Indonesian, Yanti with toddler. Yenti and child leaving in taxi, husband arrives looking for her. Yanti alighting taxi in suburban street, rings doorbell of house. CU transistor radio, interiors of mini bus, Preeyan looking out at Sydney streets. GS Yanti climbing through window of house, rips pictures of semi-nude women from wall. Husband Ric arrives, greets Yanti and son, introduces them to friend. Preeyan arriving at boarding house, introduced to landlady by man carrying bags, shown to room. VS furnishings and signs around room. Quicktime clip available.

Indonesian household, family and friend around dinner table. Yanti goes to empty room, places full Muslim dress over clothes and prays on rug. Toddler at table, father, Ric playing guitar, singing. Preeyan in boarding house eating sausages, interaction with fellow boarders, aggressive Australian man. Telephone conversation, Lawrence arrives at boarding house, shown to room. Preeyan and others in lounge room watch television. Preeyan at library shelves at University of NSW. Lawrence in discussion with Students Union. Telephone conversation between Preeyan and Yanti. Preeyan and Lawrence in car with Yanti, Ric and son. Preeyan and Lawrence being dropped at house, Lawrence speaking to man in Chinese and leaving. Chinese people gambling, playing mah jong and other games. Chinese student, Lawrence in mah jong game. Chinese man smoking. Lawrence and Preeyan having meal in boarding house. Preeyan listening to Lawrence making telephone call, Lawrence inviting Preeyan to concert. Quicktime clip available.

Entrance to concert, poster on door. Lawrence and friend Ric attend council committee meeting, Preeyan and others in background. Lawrence talking to social worker, introduces Preeyan. Pan of concert audience clapping, television camera setting up, introduction to international student concert, Ric's wife Yanti and child watching on television. Boarding house landlady also watching. Zoom into Television with Ric on stage with others. VS of concert, audience and Thai dancers. CU Chinese and Thai students Lawrence and Preeyan kiss in back of taxi then again upstairs in boarding house. Lawrence looking at himself in mirror, photograph of another woman. Preeyan lying awake in bed. Preeyan distracted in university lecture. Lawrence talking to Department of Foreign Affairs social worker Miss Emerson about money problems, family in Hong Kong and his arranged marriage. Quicktime clip available.

WS campus of University of NSW as Preeyan and Miss Emerson walk together and chat. Indonesian family, Ric, Yanti and toddler son packing. Ric answers telephone, talks to Lawrence ringing from phone booth. Miss Emerson and Preeyan having coffee and discussing Preeyan's life in University of NSW bar. Indonesian family, Ric, Yanti and toddler son departing in train from Central railway station, waving to group of foreign students. Students leaving platform including Lawrence and Preeyan. CUs Lawrence and Preeyan looking at each other as they watch television then talking. VS train through countryside. Carriage interiors with Ric playing guitar to family then joined by Aboriginal man who also plays guitar and sings. Quicktime clip available.

Lawrence and Preeyan on dance floor at Asia Club dance at University of NSW. Ric, Yanti and son at bush barbecue near Leeton, rural NSW chatting to Australian people in male and female groups. Offered a lift in car, VS car through countryside, driver distracted, crashes with car at junction. VS aftermath of crash, ambulance arriving and using crowbar to free unconscious Yanti. Yanti lifted onto stretcher, Ric quickly examined. Ambulance carrying Indonesian family arriving at hospital with unconscious woman Yanti on stretcher. VS entering hospital and Yanti being examined. Yanti in hospital bed. Quicktime clip available.

Ric making telephone call to friend in Lawrence, talks to landlady. Students Lawrence and Preeyan arriving by taxi to Buddhist wedding. Tilt up multi storey building. VS wedding ceremony and rituals, VS Lawrence and Preeyan watching. Couple chatting with guests at reception. Ric on telephone to hospital and waiting by phone until Lawrence calls, VS conversing. Chinese and Thai students, Lawrence and Preeyan asleep together on night train. Train arrives at Leeton station. Couple greeted by Indonesian student friend, Ric with toddler son. Preeyan in kitchen with men, talking and feeding baby at table. Ric answering telephone. Quicktime clip available.

Ric visiting wife Yanti in hospital. Preeyan on lounge folding nappies joined by Lawrence who talks about his parent's imminent arrival. MS couple kissing. Couple playing in park with toddler. Graduation ceremony at University of New South Wales, officials and academics entering hall, chancellor making speech. Various shots of audience including Chinese and Indonesian families and students. Lawrence receiving degree. VS after ceremony of Lawrence introducing parents to social worker Miss Emerson and landlady. Preeyan, excluded, walks alone through campus crying. Quicktime clip available.