The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a de The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim... 电影讲述某矿业公司在澳大利亚内陆沙地采矿在一次堪探过程中被当地土著用静坐方式阻止土著说脚下是绿蚂蚁做梦的地方如果吵醒了它们它们就会出来毁灭人类采矿公司当然如听天书然而土著视死如归的信仰力量不可小视于是公司高层邀请土著代表进城谈判许诺给土著利益结果土著代表喜欢上了一架绿色的小型运输机于是公司买下飞机并替土著修建了一条飞机跑道飞机飞来了为防止被土著点火引燃汽油被抽走只留了一点飞机只是公司示好的礼物官司还是诉至联邦法院在法庭上虽然法官能够尊重土著的文化听取他们讲述的传说然而裁判依据是英联邦法律土著被判败诉沉默的土著坐在跑道边其中两个土著人坐上飞机竟然起动飞机飞翔而后消失在地平线警察来寻找难以找到有两个异邦土著来访以歌为话说一只绿蚂蚁飞到他们那里结果翅膀断了公司地质学家Lance Hackett在整个事件过程中心态发生变化最后决定离开公司在沙漠里成为一个环保主义者电影至此结束详情