The raw personal accounts of three Maltese brothers who faced physical and sexual abuse in the 1960s when seeking a better life in Australia will be explored in a new documentary.

Everyone in Malta knows someone or has a family member who emigrated to Australia in the 1960s – but for many Maltese youths, separated from their poor families, the journey down under was a journey to hell. And Who Would You Tell?, by Dery Sultana, shines a light on one particular family’s story.

“Fifty years on, Raphael, Peter and Manny reflect on their stolen childhood and how the sexual, emotional and physical abuse they experienced shaped their entire life.”

“Through interviews and archive material we will be transported back through their memories of abuse, homesickness and severed family ties. Their story unravels the historic failure of a scheme backed by two governments and the broken promises of the Catholic Organisation that received them.”