1870AD
ARTHUR PHILLIP: Captain British Navy, First Governor of New South Wales. A fine seaman and fair minded administrator he sails with 11 ships and 400 unruly people from England to successfully establish the first English settlement in Australia. BENNELONG: Original Australian. A highly intelligent and clever elder of his tribe, Bennelong has learnt the English ways and becomes friends with the Arthur Philip interceding between the two colliding cultures. MARY BRYANT: Thief, convict, escapee. Strong willed and fearless she leads a party of eight New South Welsh convicts in a desperate escape to Timor in an open boat.