Director: Dylan River
A break from juvenile detention sets two mismatched teenagers loose across the Australian outback in this coming-of-age comedy-drama, and neither of them planned on the other's company.
What is Thou Shalt Not Steal about?
Robyn, a headstrong Aboriginal teenager, slips out of a detention facility and finds herself paired with Gidge, an awkward and well-meaning boy from her small central desert community. Neither particularly wants the other's company, but circumstance keeps pushing them together as they cross vast, unforgiving outback terrain. Along the way the pair collide with police, family ties, and the everyday realities of life in remote Australia, all handled with a mix of dry humor and genuine tension. The journey becomes less about the destination and more about what each of them is running from, and what they might be running toward.
Cast & crew
Noah Taylor and Miranda Otto lead the supporting cast, with Will McDonald and Sherry-Lee Watson playing the two young leads whose reluctant partnership drives the story forward from the first episode onward and gives the whole series its offbeat, unpredictable energy.
Context & significance
Directed by Dylan River, the series is set in Australia's central desert and draws on the rhythms of remote Aboriginal community life for its setting and its humor. It blends comedy and drama in roughly equal measure, leaning on a road-movie structure — two strangers, one long journey — to explore family, identity, and the pull between staying put and leaving everything behind. The remote desert landscape functions almost as a third character, shaping how far the pair can run and how quickly their choices catch up with them.
Where & how to watch
The series is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose whichever fits how they like to watch. This page is free to read; watching the episodes themselves just needs a K-Time account and a login, part of a Farsi-first streaming experience built for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere, wherever in the world they happen to be watching from.