خلاصه داستان : در حالیکه خشونت و جنگ یکی از مناطق گینه نو را درمی نوردد، دختری جوان شیفته کتاب آروزهای بزرک "چارلز دیکنز" که توسط تنها مرد سفید پوست دهکده در مدرسه خوانده شده می شود و...

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. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive “Popeye” (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matilda’s tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.