- Tells of the conflicts facing Al 'The Bomb' Dawson, a rising Aboriginal boxer preparing to make a challenge for the championship.
- Al 'The Bomb' Dawson is caught between his Aboriginal friends, fight promoters, and students campaigning for Aboriginal rights. Unable to resolve the conflicting forces around him, Al walks away from all of them, in the process losing the chance for a shot at the world welterweight title fight. One moment he's hitch-hiking with a mate, the next he's gone. Featuring some fine performances, the film's greatest asset is its unflinching and unsentimental gaze on the difficulties Aboriginal people must face in Australian society.—Paul Gerard Kennedy
- Tells of the conflicts facing Al 'The Bomb' Dawson, a rising Aboriginal boxer preparing to make a challenge for the championship. Despite his trainer's efforts to keep him free from distractions, Al finds a girlfriend among a group of activist University students who use him for an Aboriginal rights campaign. At the same time, his own people criticise him for turning his back on his kin for the sake of a shot at the world welterweight title.
- An Aboriginal boxer has to choose between his promising career as boxer, his fellow Aboriginals and students campaigning for Aboriginal rights.—Archie Moore <ar.moore@student.qut.edu.au>
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