Tara June Winch, a respected aboriginal author, wrote the novel ‘Swallow the Air’. When May’s mother dies, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. When May’s mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. Their loss leaves them both looking for their place in a world that doesn’t seem to want them. While Billy takes his own path, May sets off to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, but it is the people she meets, that teach her where she belongs within the aboriginal culture.
