Anne McCue’s atmospheric guitars and Larrakia man Eddie Kitching’s haunting didge provide a plaintive backdrop to a macabre tale that began with a monstrous act.

An age-old story from the Top End, the mythical Poinciana Woman was a beautiful young Aboriginal woman who was raped by soldiers, became pregnant and took her life near a Poinciana tree,

Anne McCue’s atmospheric guitars and Larrakia man Eddie Kitching’s haunting didge provide a plaintive backdrop to a macabre tale that began with a monstrous act.

An age-old story from the Top End, the mythical Poinciana Woman was a beautiful young Aboriginal woman who was raped by soldiers, became pregnant and took her life near a Poinciana tree, as she couldn't return to her people.

"The sun sinks into the ocean below the cliffs at East Point reserve, and the shadows of the Poinciana trees spread like dark talons over the road. Just as the curlew begins its eerie night song, the scream of a woman tears through the humid air. Out of the shadows she moves, black hair plastered to her face, her hands grasping for blood. Men's blood."