'Exile and The Kingdom' is part of a series from Snakewood Films. "In the Language of this country, the name of this river is Yarnda Nyirra~Na, 'Sun Mirror'. This is the story of the people who belong to the river, and the forces that took them away". With these words Roger Solomon begins the story of his people's connection to country, their suffering and their hope. Made with the Yindjibarndi, Ngarluma, Banyjima and Gurrama people of Roebourne, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Exile and The Kingdom is the first complete account in Australian film history of the experiences of a single group of Aboriginal people from pre-colonial time to the present. The film argues that the relentless removal of the Yindjibarndi/Ngarluma people from their hinterland estates into coastal ghettos has led to the community's current problems. It makes the connection between Aborigines in chains in the nineteenth century and Aborigines in prisons today so providing a deeper understanding of how the abuses and denials of the past inform the present. However, as the film moves us through the period of British colonisation, unearthing appalling facts about slavery and the violent rule of pearling and pastoral overlords, to the excesses of the 1960s mining boom and problems with alcohol, it never allows the viewer to forget the significance and influence of spiritual homelands-the bedrock upon which Yindjibarndi/Ngarluma tribal Law is based. Using a poetic mix of historical recreation, compelling argument, testimony, creation story and song, the film never deviates from its intention to let the tribal people tell their own story.