Wake in Fright

John Grant is a middle-class schoolteacher who feels disgruntled because of the onerous terms of a financial bond that he signed with the government in return for receiving a tertiary education. The bond has forced him to accept a post at a tiny school at Tiboonda, a remote township in the arid outback. Grant plans on going to Sydney to be reunited with his girlfriend Robyn, but first he must travel by train to the nearby mining town of Bundanyabba – known by the locals as "The Yabba" - in order to catch a Sydney-bound flight. While drinking, Grant becomes friends