Five children in the Australian outback, Helen, John, and Snow Thompson (Helen Grieve, Morris Unicomb and Nicky Yardley), an English visitor Michael (Michael Yardley) and an Aboriginal called Neza (Neza Saunders), ride their horses from school every day.
But at the end of the
last school day before Christmas, they decide to take a short cut along a
forbidden path, and they soon come across two strangers.
One of the men, Long
Bill (Chips Rafferty) give them money and makes them promise not to mention to
anyone they had seen them.
The two men are horse
thieves and are later joined by a third, and together they intent to steal a
mare called Lucy belonging to sheep farmer Mr. Thompson.
When the disappearance
of Lucy and her foal is discovered next morning, the children believe they know
who the culprits are, so they tell Mrs. Thompson they're going camping in the
bush, while in fact they plan to find the thieves and rescue Lucy and the foal
and return with them to the farm.
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