'Our Sunshine' is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life.
Taking the country's greatest mythological character and creating his own imaginary life for him, Drew presents an unsentimental, compassionate and sensual portrait of the boy and killer who became both the National Hero and the Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes.
Succeeding in turning myth to funny, savage, commonplace and back again, Drewe portrays Ned Kelly and his adolescent gang both as young Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the psychologically displaced victims of the casually brutal human wilderness.
Drewe not only gets inside the boy and man who thereafter embodied Australians' best and worst perceptions of themselves, but shows the crazy instability of the early days which created the Australian legend.
