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The film is based on a true story: In the 1950s, the British government conducted a series of nuclear tests at a site called Maralinga on the outskirts of South Australia. Medical evidence, witness accounts and archival documents subsequently revealed that the tests exposed armed forces personnel and indigenous Australians to nuclear fallout that damaged their health and shortened their lifespans. This eventually led to a major inquiry, the McClelland Royal Commission, which reported in 1985. The inquiry received much publicity and eventually led to an agreement with the UK to fund the rehabilitation of the test sites. The fictional plot of the film begins after the inquiry. Harvey Denton (Colin Friels) learns that the death of his cameraman father was not an accident, but was linked to some top-secret film footage he had shot three decades earlier. Denton travels to the Australian outback, where he stumbles upon a government conspiracy…