A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.

A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.

爱斯基摩人因自然环境的变化下，他们生活开始改变。有一日两个白人叫布朗及大牙到来，将他们打猎得来的狐皮偷走，令到族长古马和儿子（阿加谷）不和。阿加谷更错手杀死有朗。其后，阿加谷同他的爱人伊芝玉逃离古马及族人。阿加谷从商店老板之中，鬼知警方展开调查布朗被杀事件。警方来到，下令古马及他的族人交出凶手。后来更没收他们的维生工具。另一边，阿加谷因被一只狐袭击，令他遍体鳞伤．．．

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 alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...