Within these pages, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways
of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven - year - old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant is on the war - path through the rebel squats
of 1960s Brixton; a Mississippi housewife decides to make the
ultimate sacrifice to save her
son from small - town ignorance; a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search
of her destiny; and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.