As a battle rages in the Bougainville province of Papua New Guinea, a young girl is captivated by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the area. In 1991, a conflict over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore Bougainville island apart. Hugh Laurie's "Popeye" gives Charles Dickens' Great Expectations as an escape to the children in Matilda's fourteen-year-old village. However, fiction can have dangerous implications on a war-torn island.
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As a battle rages in the Bougainville province of Papua New Guinea, a young girl is captivated by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the area. In 1991, a conflict over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore Bougainville island apart. Hugh Laurie's "Popeye" gives Charles Dickens' Great Expectations as an escape to the children in Matilda's fourteen-year-old village. However, fiction can have dangerous implications on a war-torn island.
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