Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left... 　　译文(2): 《惊醒》讲述的是约翰 · 格兰特的故事，他是一位结拜教师，来到内陆贫瘠的矿业小镇 Bundayabba，计划在那里过夜，然后搭乘飞机前往悉尼。但是他的一夜延长到五夜，他一头扎向自己的毁灭。当酒精引起的迷雾散去，受过教育的约翰 · 格兰特就不复存在了。取而代之的是一个自我厌恶的人在一个荒凉的荒地，肮脏的红眼睛，坐在一棵树，看着一把步枪与一颗子弹离开..。