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Set in Western Australia during the 1930s, the film begins in the remote town of Jigalong where three children, sisters Molly 14, and Daisy, 8, live with their mother and grandmother, and Gracie,10-12, their cousin. The town lies along the northern part of Australia's rabbit-proof fence, which runs for several thousand miles.
Thousands of miles away, the "protector" of Western Australian Aborigines, A.O. Neville, signs an order to relocate the three girls to his re-education camp. The children are referred to by Neville as "half-castes", having one white and one black parent. Neville's reasoning is that the Aboriginal peoples of Australia are a danger to themselves and must be bred out of existence. The children are forcibly taken from Jigalong to the camp at Moore River to the south. Half-castes of a certain age live at the camps and are taught to become servants for the whites living in Australia.
Molly, Gracie, and Daisy return to Jigalong and escape the camp. An Aboriginal tracker, Moodoo, is called in to find them. However, the girls are well-versed in disguising their tracks. They evade Moodoo several times, receiving aid from strangers in the harsh Australian country they travel to. They eventually find the rabbit-proof fence, knowing they can follow it north to Jigalong. Neville soon figures out their motive and sends Moodoo and a local constable, Riggs, after them.
However, though he is an experienced tracker, Moodoo cannot find them. Neville spreads the word that Gracie's mother is waiting for her in the town of Wiluna who finds their way to a man who "helps" the girls, who then tells Gracie about her mother and that they can get to Wiluna by train, causing her to later break off from the group and attempting to go to Wiluna by train. Molly and Daisy soon walk after her, finding her at a train depot. They are not reunited, however, as Riggs appears, and Gracie is re-captured. Knowing they are helpless to aid her, Molly and Daisy continue on.
After several more weeks of following the fence, eluding their trackers, and trekking through a vast expanse of open desert, the two sisters arrive close to Jigalong; it is implied that their mother and grandmother guided them there through ritual chanting. Though Riggs is waiting there, the town's women have been chanting heavily in the brush, a ritual that Riggs seems frightened of. As he moves through the brush looking for the girls, he encounters two women, Molly's and Daisy's mother, and grandmother, one, their mother, brandishing a sharpened stick. Riggs is frightened away, and Molly and Daisy find their family.
The epilogue of the film shows recent footage of Molly and Daisy. Molly explains that Gracie had died by then; that she had never got to go back to Jigalong. Molly also states that she had two daughters taken from her and that she successfully escaped with one, Annabelle, in much the same manner as in her childhood; she walked the length of the fence back home. But Annabelle, when she was 3 years old, was taken away, much like her mother. Molly never saw her again. In closing, Molly says that she and Daisy "...Will never go back to Moore River. Never." which was caused by the stolen generation.