THE PEARL
The Top End of Australia—a tropical paradise filled with beauty. Wonder. Danger.
For two young boys growing up, the remote beaches and aqua waters of the Northern Territory provide a playground of adventure. So it is for half-Aboriginal Jarrah Yindi and his best friend Luke Lawson, who spend their summers diving for pearls and dodging Old Salty, a man-eating crocodile, under the stormy summer skies of Darwin.
And as the boys grow older, their friendship gradually becomes a need to be together, and slowly something more blossoms.
But for two teenage boys, falling in love is very different to understanding love.
As they teeter on the brink of manhood, as life beyond school looms like a summer storm—at once exciting and terrifying—will life tear the two friends apart?
Or will love keep them together forever?
For Jad and Luke it was a summer of love; of sweltering thunderstorms and salty fresh oysters; of afternoons spent diving naked through the warm tropical waters, and nights spent laying on the wet sand wrapped in each others’ arms beneath the southern stars. But if the two young men were certain of anything other than their love for each other—it was that summer couldn’t last forever.
As Jad begins his medical studies in faraway Sydney, Luke joins the Royal Flying Doctors as a pilot, attending to medical emergencies in remote outback Australia.
But will the temptations of the city, the allure of a handsome new friend, and his dream of becoming a doctor tear Jad away from Luke forever?
Or will the beautiful but harsh Australian Outback decide the fate of the two young friends and lovers?
