 Colin is Australia's most successful screenwriter (like Williamson), but currently down on his luck.He doesn't want to make what he perceives as a "movie of the week" about Tony Sanzari and an amusement park hijacking that is offered to him by his agent, Elaine Ross, but a story about the coastwatchers of World War II, because his uncle was one, and it was Australia's great contribution to the war.His wife, Kate, is a book editor and wants to publish a novel by Aboriginal writer Kath Mitchell titled "Black Rage", but her publisher, Ian Wall, says "Blacks don't sell books."