The tale of a man who out grew his life.
Drewe has taken the country's greatest mythological character and created his own imaginary life for him, presenting a sensual, unsentimental and compassionate portrait of the boy and killer who became both National Hero and the Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes.
Drewe portrays Ned Kelly and his adolescent gang both as young Horsemen of the Apocalypse - riding through Fire Flood, Sex and Death - and as the psychologically displaced victims of the casually brutal human wilderness
