![Wake in Fright](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/cIzWTls4jOzZHL1WzFZY3epPlnG.jpg)
A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.