Television > Documentary

In December 2001 Australian David Hicks was picked up in Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance, handed over to the US military, and moved to a naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for interrogation.

He has been held there - in a small cage - ever since. Labelled an “unlawful combatant” by US President George Bush, Hicks has been denied a fair hearing in a civil court and is still to face a Military Tribunal.

So how did a 26 year-old former stockman from Adelaide end up a Taliban fighter? Terry Hicks, David’s father, sets out to answer this question as he traces his son’s journey from Adelaide to Japan and on to the war in Kosovo where he first became interested in Islam.

Travelling deep into Taliban country, through Pakistan and into the deserts of Afghanistan, Terry meets a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who knew his son well; and later comes face to face with the man who captured David.

Terry’s crusade to achieve justice for his son, to understand his motivations – relayed through eloquent letters sent by David to his family – and subsequent incarceration is a poignant insight into the plight of Australia’s most controversial political prisoner.