In the 50s and 60s, within the context of grinding poverty following WWII, 259 boys and 51 girls were sent from Malta to Catholic institutions in Western Australia and South Australia. These children were sent into a world of child slave-labour, under the pretext that they were being taught trade skills. Some of these Maltese children endured horrific sexual and violent abuse particularly in Tardun, a middle-of-nowhere outpost in Western Australia where the Congregation of the Christian Brothers held absolute power. All this is now the subject of a new film directed by Dery Sultana, which will premier this coming Friday, on 10th March at 7:00pm at Eden Cinemas.