This is based upon a true story which provides very important insights regarding issues that people researching Australian immigration generally fail to consider. Only "the returning" - those who lived as part of her masses - have tasted the truth. The tourist, the traveling business man, the visiting scholar see her as the truckdriver sees the highway - in passing, only in passing - an expanse of beauty, wet or dry according to the season. They ask questions of Australian people who give them prideful answers - the answers they want to hear. Times have changed since this struggle took place, yet the surprises revealed within this account remain.