Mystery Road (2013) on Netflix
Outside Winton in Queensland, a truck driver comes upon a teenage Aboriginal girl's body, Julie Mason, in a culvert beneath the road. Detective Jay Swan returns home to work the case.
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Plot summary
Outside the town of Winton, Queensland, a truck driver comes upon the body of Julie Mason, a teenage Aboriginal girl, in a culvert under the road. Jay Swan, an Aboriginal detective newly returned from city training, takes the case. He learns Julie exchanged sex with truck drivers for money, and that her friend Tarni Williams will not speak to him. A boy gives him Julie's phone, which holds messages to Crystal, his teenage daughter. Jay searches a farm nearby and meets its owner, Sam Bailey. He hears that another teenage Aboriginal girl disappeared earlier.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mystery Road (2013)
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- Mystery Road was one of the rare foreign films screened at the 2014 Pyongyang International Film Festival in North Korea.
