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While the Men are Away

2023 · 1 season · 8 episodes · Returning Series · SBS

Drama

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While the men are away fighting in WWII, two Women’s Land Army recruits join an Italian immigrant, her Indigenous domestic, and their draft-dodging farmhand to run the family farm – but can the improbable freedom and kinship they find survive beyond the war?

Episodes

  • S01E01Get Behind The Girl He Left Behind!2023-09-2726m

    In 1940s Australia, the men are off fighting in WWII and Frankie finds herself in charge of her farm. She decides to enlist the help of two city dwellers to keep it running.

  • S01E02Furrowing the Führer's Brow2023-09-2726m

    All hands are needed as an insect infestation threatens the apple crop; Frankie tries to secure pesticide, but runs into a series of obstacles.

  • S01E03God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It!2023-10-0427m

    The group discovers that their internal baggage is as powerful as the patriarchy at blocking the road to their true selves.

  • S01E04She Talked! This Happened!2023-10-0427m

    The gang are faced with a profound moral issue that clashes with their attitudes, and realise they will have to let go of the things that no longer serve them to be able to survive.

  • S01E05Come And Join The Victory Harvest!2023-10-1129m

    Outside forces threaten the group's new-found bond, testing their strength and threatening to split them apart.

  • S01E06Catch Him With His Panzers Down!2023-10-1128m

    The group gains insight into a classic coercive tool of the patriarchy and uses it, only to discover that the repercussions for using are brutal.

  • S01E07We've Always Despised Them, Now We Must Smash Them!2023-10-1827m

    The group experiences life without friction, getting a taste of what life could be like and, when it comes under threat, realizing that it's worth fighting for.

  • S01E08We Took the Hill, Come and Help Us Keep It!2023-10-1827m

    As the war creeps closer, the group struggles to hold onto their collective dream. They're all forever changed by their time together and the knowledge that they're not alone.

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