影片讲述了在澳大利亚的一个小镇上，一个普通的家庭在圣诞前夕发生的一些啼笑皆非的故事。温馨的故事，感人的家人欢聚的场面为为电影带来了不一样的感觉。

Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alco…