The blonde and light-skinned Lena (Danielle Hall) lives with her Aboriginal mother, whose abuse has led Lena to violently reject every element of her ethnic heritage. Running away to Sydney in an effort to find her long absent Irish father, Lena encounters Vaughn (Damian Pitt), a young Aboriginal man on the run from a prison farm. As the two uneasy companions hit the road together, they find in each other an inverted reflection: Lena, unwilling to reconcile her appearance with her ethnic identity, and Vaughn, unable to overcome the prejudice elicited by the colour of his skin. An intimate, quietly attentive film, making compelling use of silence and interrupted by staccato moments of sudden violence, Beneath Clouds was one of a group of films in the nineties and early aughts that began to expand the definition of First Peoples cinema by linking it to mainstream genre tropes derived from the western and the road movie. "Beneath Clouds strikes a chord in Indigenous and non-Indigenous minds and hearts by subtly revealing something all of us should remember: we each have the power of choice" (Bird Runningwater, Sundance Film Festival).