Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Australian government's refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia. The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young, New South Wales; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton, New South Wales, in the Hunter Region.
A 19-year-old Australian has a fateful encounter with an Afghan refugee in his hometown in rural New South Wales.
Hal falls in love with Randa, but the world around them is about to get much more complicated.
Hal decides to introduce Randa to the Brackley crowd, but their reaction is not what he anticipated.
Hal and Randa are forbidden from seeing each other in the wake of 9/11. Hal devises a plan as Randa deals with the threat of deportation.
