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While the Men Are Away

Produced by Arcadia

Creators: Alexandra Burke, Kim Wilson, Monica Zanetti
Executive Producers: Alexandra Burke, Kim Wilson, Elissa Down, Julie Eckersley
Producer: Lisa Shaunessy
Writers: Kim Wilson, Magda Wozniak, Enoch Mailangi, Monica Zanetti, Sam Icklow, Jada Alberts
Directors: Elissa Down, Monica Zanetti

Aired: Sept 27 - Oct 18, 2023 (SBS)

While the men are away fighting in WWII, two Women’s Land Army recruits join an Italian immigrant, her Indigenous domestic, and their draft-dodging farmhand to run the family farm — but can the improbable freedom and kinship they find survive beyond the war? (8x30min)