John Pilger examines what happened to Aboriginal Australians after British colonization, arguing that the settlers' claim that land belonged only to those who farmed it justified dispossessing people who had lived there for tens of thousands of years. No treaty was ever signed, and no British law protected Aboriginal land or lives, a gap Pilger traces through archival footage and interviews with Aboriginal activists and elders. The film moves through the twentieth century's flashpoints in that history: forced removals, the fight for land rights, and the political campaigns that finally put Aboriginal resistance in front of a national audience. Pilger, working as reporter and narrator, favors direct testimony over voiceover explanation, letting the people who lived through dispossession describe it themselves. The film treats the silence around this history as itself part of the story, showing how thoroughly the resistance was left out of Australia's official account of its own past. It closes on the fight for recognition as unfinished business, not a settled chapter.