Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor

When foreign correspondent Tony Maniaty goes back to Timor for the first time since he fled for his life thirty years before, he discovers a land of ghosts – some he left behind, and some he’s brought with him.
He’s there to watch five young actors play out the last days of five friends of his – men who were murdered by the Indonesian army in one of the most infamous incidents (and cover-ups) in Australian foreign affairs. He’s also there to talk to some friends who survived – Gusmao, Ramos-Horta – people he knew as guerillas and who now run the country.
When he arrives, past and present, fiction and fact begin to overlap…