Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.
Mel Gibson
as Guy Hamilton
Sigourney Weaver
as Jill Bryant
Linda Hunt
as Billy Kwan
Michael Murphy
as Pete Curtis
Bill Kerr
as Colonel Henderson
Noel Ferrier
as Wally O'Sullivan
Bembol Roco
as Kumar
Paul Sonkkila
as Kevin Condon
Domingo Landicho
as Hartono
Kuh Ledesma
as Tiger Lily
Hermino De Guzman
as Immigration Officer
Ali Nur
as Ali
