The Fringe Dwellers by cinematographer: Don McAlpine- This link opens in a new window
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Call Number: FRIN
Publication Date: 1986
Trilby Comeaway is an Aboriginal teenager living in a squalid shantytown with her extended family who are divided between those more assimilated into the white world, like Trilby and her sister, a nurse, Noonah and an older generation still attuned to the mythology of their culture. A quietly ambitious girl, Trilby persuades her mother, Mollie, to move into a prosperous white neighborhood somewhat beyond their means but to Trilby's dismay, the entire extended family moves with them. With the white locals freely expressing their distaste for the new neighbours and Trilby's relationship with boyfriend Phil resulting in an unwanted pregnancy, things are not turning out how Trilby had imagined.