The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40’s , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman’s liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70’s.

Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into his own destruction.