When they needed hope, he gave them great expectations.

As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.

Cast

Hugh Laurie

Mr. Watts

X

Xzannjah Matsi

Matilda

H

Healesville Joel

Dolores Naimo

Eka Darville

Pip

Kerry Fox

Mrs. Watts

Florence Korokoro

Grace Watts

Tapiwa Soropa

Startop

M

Marcellin Ampa'oi

Joseph Naimo

James Gaylyn

Magwitch