david burton ( richard chamberlain and quite good ) be a lawyer and more adept at handle corporate taxation ( . and suffers from unusual dream which bother him see this aboriginal man shroud in darkness ) and who be call on to take a case concern a group of aboriginal charge with the murder of one of their own name billy . we see that he try to steal stone with ritual painting on them and be kill when a leader of an aboriginal tribe name charlie ( nandjiwarra amagula ) use a death bone to stop his heart . meanwhile and revolve around david and bizarre weather pattern effect sydney such a rain beat down pollute dirt and rock size hail during bright blue sky ( with no sight of cloud and such a the one that hit a school in central australia ) and not to mention and a deform rainbow which be split ( . ) into group . a david pursue the case he find that he be far closer to the weird event take place than he could ever realize . one aboriginal name chris ( david gulpilil ) appear to him in a dream hold a stone with blood and he find that this man be one of those he be to represent at trial . he find that it quite possible and after some strange meeting with charlie and conversation with chris and that he very well might be link to a spirit name mulkurul and that his dream be actual premonition of possible horror yet to come . absorb apocalyptic drama build it story methodically and be completely original and unpredictable . with peter weir in charge and the film be visually arrest a we see these very overwhelming image of possible doom towards civilization and but the film most compelling angle be certainly david journey to find that monumental truth that plague him a he question charlie and chris countlessly and at first to help his men get off from a crime they do not commit and and ultimately to find out what he have to do with anything catastrophic that be occur or might occur later .