hundred men of the Australian 2/2 Independent Company in Portuguese Timor, now Timor-Leste, was unique and its toll on the Timorese people was inestimable. Timorese deaths during the remaining four years of the war have been estimated at 40,000. The video was made about the history of East Timor and about the work of the Mary MacKillop East Timor Mission there as one Australian response to the situation of the Timorese people.