Rabbit-Proof Fence is a film set in 1930's Australia, in the rather small town of Jigalong. Molly and Daisy, who are sisters, are 14 and 8 years old, respectively.
The film begins with Mr. Neville coming to the girls' village and informing them that they must be relocated. Because of the rhyme and his wishes to move them away, the girls call him Mr. Devil. The new place that the girls must go to is an internment camp in the Moore River Valley.
Mr. Neville is consistently rude to the children because of their race - one of their parents was white, while the other was Native Australian. It is Neville's firm belief that Native Australians are a nuisance, and therefore must be contained like animals.
The girls are taken to the camp, where they are told they will be taught a career. Although it could be considered a career, they are educated in laboring and will likely be house servants when they grow older.
One day, the girls, along with some friends that they had made at the camp, decide to run away and go back to Jigalong. Seeing that the sky is about to rain, they know that it is now or never - it doesn't usually rain, and the water will wash away their tracks. The girls do escape, and the "tracker" for the internment camp, Moodoo, tries to find them.
The friend that the girls had brought along was Gracie, who is informed by someone in a community (that was informed Neville) that her mother is waiting for her in a nearby town. Gracie decides to leave the other girls to take a train to get to her mother, but is recaptured by the camp, as this whole thing was a trap.
Molly and Daisy, meanwhile, are more fortunate. They are able to escape Neville's search, and return to Jigalong. Neville decides that enough time, money, and effort has already been spent, so officially ends the search for them.
