I'll Call Australia Home: excerpt

The opening of I'll Call Australia Home introduces two refugee families with warmth and clarity. Constance’s story – bringing her extended family from Uganda to rural NSW – sits alongside the Karen family’s journey from a Thai refugee camp. The framing sets up an intriguing contrast between two very different journeys and how each family rebuilds life in a new country. A gentle score and empathetic voice-over promise emotional depth, rather than reducing refugee issues to impersonal statistics and sound bites. Yet it leaves us wondering: what obstacles will these families face as hope collides with the realities of resettlement?