AustLit

A comedy of errors, Plead Guilty, Get a Bond explores the issue of how inaccessible a non-Aboriginal judicial system can be when applied to Aboriginal culture. Amy Winthrop is a young Aboriginal woman who has been charged with wounding her husband Freddie during a domestic argument. Everyone appears to expect her to simply plead guilty and receive a good behaviour bond. Her newly appointed and inexperienced Legal Aid Lawyer, Colin McKenzie, is outraged by this expectation, however, and persuades Amy to plead her innocence.