A white man, Thomas Craig, had a secret affair with an Aboriginal woman traditionally called Maude and a little girl Molly became a result of their short-lasting relationships. Unfortunately for her, Molly’s close resemblance to her father turned out to be the bane of her existence. Other Aboriginal children teased her and even tried to beat her, but the girl was brave enough to resist them. The situation became much better as soon as her younger cousins – also children of mixed race – started living with Molly’s family, she finally had friends to spend her time with. When it seemed that Molly’s life – finally – became a good one, everything changed.
The government decided that it would be better to separate children of mixed race from the white people and the Aboriginals; as the result they founded the settlement for children like Molly to prepare them for work in houses of the white people. The day the girls were taken away was a heart-wrenching one. The women were crying and beating themselves to express their sorrow, blood and tears were everywhere. The whole journey took them a lot of time and when they reached the settlement, they found a lot of children like them.
That was a terrible life, without any chance to see their families and speak their native languages ever again. They spent their just one day when Molly made up her mind to run away. The girl remembered that her father once told her that the fence stretched through the whole country. The length of their journey was 1,600 kilometers and each step was filled with pain and fear. They were so hungry, so tired from sleeping in the holes in the ground, so scared of trackers that the younger girls were almost ready to give up. It was Molly who made them to move forward, it was she who hunted, fought with wild cats to provide herself and her cousins with food. Finally, they managed to reached Jigalong, their home and no one dared to send them back.
