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Young Iranian refugee Morteza Poorvadi and family detained at Australia's Woomera centre for 4 years, enduring horrific events that shattered his innocence due to asylum seeker policies, leaving him psychologically scarred.

Based on true events by Morteza Poorvadi, a young, 15-year-old refugee, fleeing Iran with his family and arriving at Woomera detention centre in Australia. The tragic and horrific events that took place while being detained over 4-years, destroying his innocence and adolescence and leaving him emotionally and psychologically damaged because of the ruthless Australian political regimes and asylum seeker policies of the year 2000 and on.—Simon Elrahi

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  • Drama
Release date Feb 6, 1987
Countries of origin Australia

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