Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made. The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time.

Peek into the life of Dujuan, a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy growing up in Alice Springs, Australia.  He is a child-healer and a good hunter and speaks three languages. Yet he is failing in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare authorities and the police. As he veers perilously close to incarceration, his family fights to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education.