Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. When Harry March, an ill-tempered and bitter man returning from the Western Front, arrives in town, Sam is sent out with his family to help renovate Harry’s outpost. His relationship with Sam quickly deteriorates, and culminates in a violent shootout, where Sam kills Harry in an attempt to save his own life. Sam, now a wanted criminal for the murder of a white man, is forced to flee into the deadly outback with his wife. A hunting party led by Sergeant Fletcher is formed to track him down, but the details of the story soon start to surface and locals begin to question the justice behind this manhunt. Helmed by Australian director and screenwriter Warwick Thornton, Sweet Country is western-like drama with a compelling story of an indigenous man who has to survive through severe racism of the time.