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THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME

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Tracey is bored, looking for a purpose to her life. Cleaning up after the death of her grandmother, she discovers a photograph of a young, handsome lighthorseman. By a process of elimination, she identifies him as her great-great grandfather. She sets out to track down this ANZAC, this family hero, and discovers that he was killed in Palestine in 1919. Why? What was he doing there? As Tracey discovers, sometimes it's best to let sleeping dogs lie...

  • non-realist drama
  • 90
  • 5 total
  • 3 female identifying, 2 male identifying
  • culturally and linguistically diverse
  • 18+
  • adult
  • Australian Script Centre


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Alfred

Male | Teen | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 24

EXTRACT: Funny I never imagined I'd ever kill anyone... didn't give it a thought, not even when they gave me a rifle and taught me bayonet drill. I knew people'd probably try to kill me, and I wanted to see what I'd do then. I worried about that, not being killed, but how I'd go, you know.


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