to be interned as an enemy of the state, and plans on travelling to Portuguese Timor where she will make radio broadcasts back to Australia, trying to convince people that their views on the war are wrong. Alfie's anti-semitic views have intensified, and she is immensely hostile to Rifkah. During a trip to the coast, to be reunited with Father Glascock, the group come across Japanese forces again. Glascock is captured, and Alfie and Fergus engage in an aerial battle with a Japanese seaplane. However their plane blows up during the confrontation, and both are killed. While exploring, Savitra and Prindy come across a group of Aboriginal men conducting secret business. They reject Prindy because he is with his wife. Jeremy attempts to convince the teenagers that they need to be careful. Since Savitra is a woman, she cannot view these rituals, and since she is not Indigenous she will not be entirely trusted by Prindy's people. One night, Bobwirridirridi takes Prindy into the bush, to finally conduct the initiation rituals with members of the tribe. Prindy undergoes a number of trials, including circumcision. Savitra has not listened to advice, and she follows him. She is captured by the members of the tribe and brutally killed as punishment. When the girl does not come back to camp, Jeremy follows. He meets Bobwirridirridi, who tells him not to interfere in Indigenous business. Despite his own professed beliefs in self-determination, Jeremy cannot stop himself from intervening. He arrives at the ritual as Prindy is being attacked by spears and having to fight them off with a boomerang. Jeremy's arrival distracts Prindy, who misses one of the spears and is killed. Jeremy chases the Aboriginal men with his rifle and is ultimately speared by Bobwirridirridi. The two men take Prindy's body to a cave, where Jeremy also dies. Rifkah is the only survivor left, and she joins a nomadic Aboriginal tribe to survive until she is finally reunited with Nanago, and both women survive the war. In an epilogue set in 1974, we learn that after the War, much of the area was bought by corporations and mining trusts, or used for military purposes by the Americans. Although Indigenous Australians are given citizenship and welfare, they continue to be treated as second class citizens. Rifkah ends up marrying Pat Hannaford, who has lost an arm, a leg, and an eye in the War,