An Australian Miniseries Drama that follows a woman (Nicole Kidman) trying to find her father and soon finds herself imprisoned.
The show also features Denholm Elliott, Hugo Weaving, Joy Smithers, Norman Kaye, Noah Taylor, Gerda Nicolson, and Pauline Chan.
It aired from November 5 to November 7, 1989.
Tropes for the series:
- Bring My Brown Pants: Mandy wets herself as she faces the firing squad.
- Holiday in Cambodia: Kat is held in the titular prison.
- Kangaroo Court: Kat's trial for heroin trafficking takes place largely offscreen but it is implied to be this - in spite of a fair bit of evidence corroborating her story about Arkie Ragan, it is not enough to save her from conviction and the death penaltly.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Hal Stanton's deepest regret is that, during World War II, he informed on a plan by Allied troops to escape a Japanese-run prison in Thailand, on the basis that, if the breakout succeeded, the Japanese would have executed dozens of the remaining prisoners. Making it worse is that the war would have ended before any reprisals could have been carried out. Hal's second chance comes over 40 years later when his long-lost daughter is being held in the same prison awaiting the death penalty for drug trafficking charges, and he is able to help her escape through the same tunnels that the prisoners had planned to use.
- Tagline: "From the captivity of her childhood, the ultimate prison awaits".
