Under the pretense of obtaining a picnic, a geologist attempts to shoot at them and chooses 6-year-old kid and his daughter into the Australian outback. If he fails, he turns the weapon on himselfand the 2 city-bred kiddies must contend with harsh wilderness . They are rescued with a chance encounter with an Aborigine boy that shows them at the procedure underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life, and how to live.