sentences:  In 2008, Rowland co-wrote and directed the one-hour ABC, RTÉ, BBC drama "The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce".Set in 1824 Van Diemen's Land, "The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce" tells the true story of an escape from the notorious British prison Sarah Island by eight convicts.Its Gothic narrative plots their privation and descent into cannibalism, through to the execution of the sole survivor, Alexander Pearce, for the murder of Thomas Cox.