Will has managed (somewhat improbably) to educate Tom to a higher level than she would have achieved in school, and both are physically healthy and strong. For one thing, they both insist that the camp they live in, albeit illegal, is as efficient and comfortable a home as they need. The local officials deem Will ( Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) homeless, but the word doesn’t really describe their situation. The film deviates substantially in its plot, and its new title offers an intriguing commentary on its protagonists’ precarious situation: combining a mantra of wildlife conservation with an imperative for fugitives to avoid arrest. The film is loosely based on Peter Rock’s 2009 novel My Abandonment, which was itself inspired by newspaper reports of an off-grid father and daughter discovered in the same way. When a jogger spots their camp, however, the police arrive with sniffer dogs that Tom and Will can’t outrun, and they are forcibly evicted. The opening scenes reveal the practicalities of their hideaway home – building a fire, boiling eggs, patching the tarpaulins that provide shelter from the insistent rain, practising drills to avoid detection.
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