Beyond The Shores Of Australia

I’m sure most of you can remember a time in your childhood when, that all-consuming sense of panic set in after losing hold of your mother’s hand in a department store, and you feared you’d be hopelessly lost, never to be found again. For a five-year-old boy named Saroo Brierley, that childhood nightmare became his reality. His gripping story is now showing on the big screen in the highly-acclaimed motion picture, “Lion.”

We learn in the film that young Saroo, while scavenging for food in a train station in India, is separated from his older brother. After a frantic search for his sibling, he boards an empty train, falls asleep and, unaware, is transported more than a thousand miles to…