A personal, a humanistic and a political film that echoes Australia's growing concern over the treatment of refugees, especially children, in detention centres. The documentary chronicles an exceptional 'average' family who decide to help on a small level by writing to Ali - a 15 year-old Afghan boy without any family detained at Port Hedland. Clara Law and her husband Eddie Fong travel across Australia with the family to visit Ali and chronicle their ongoing three-year struggle to grant him some freedom.

“Throughout the years as an immigrant living in Australia, I have reflected often on this new country. In the year 2001, I felt the country was heading in a very negative direction. In 2002, around October, I read an article in the newspaper written by a doctor on her story with an asylum seeker, a young boy from Afghanistan. I was very moved by the story and felt that I had to do something. Originally I had intended to make the story into a feature/drama film. However, as I became more involved, I considered making a fiction, but I realised that the authenticity would be lost. There was also an urgency and immediacy to the subject and that was why in the middle of 2003 I simply put down what I was doing, went ahead and shot this essay film with a DV camera and funded it with my husband and myself. As word spread, I got a lot of support from my community. Everyone who worked on the film, did so on a pro bono basis, with the sound studio and post-production house lending us their equipment and support on a hundred percent discount.”—Clara Law