Pete's Journey : A Friendship Across Cultures

A young boy encounters a Japanese POW in a WW2 internment camp and experiences a culture vastly different to his own. He begins a journey involving three vastly different cultures and encounters the hardships of war. His simple world revolves around living with the animals and people of the river, into which the Japanese POW escapes, and a mutual trust and respect develops into a common set of values between three vastly different people, and the growth of a young boy into a man. With his friend, an elderly Indigenous man, and friend of his family, the three exchange secret cultural experiences, until the trio is broken by death and the end of the war. The basis of the friendship is mutual trust, and respect for the differences between them.