At last, Lanne is coming home. The last ‘full-blooded’ Aboriginal man of Lutrawita/Tasmania, a terrible distinction to bear in Australia’s ongoing story of genocide, died in 1869. His body was mutilated then stolen and sent to a foreign land to be made a scientific exhibit in the British Museum.

Over a century later, it is Palawa man Boyd (Luke Carroll) who will guide Lanne up in a closed ceremony to join the sky mob. Where they’re waiting for him, where he belongs. A caretaker of reappropriated land, a proud husband to Nala and a father to be, Boyd takes his duties towards land, family and culture very seriously. In an open starlit clearing of Jacob Nash’s elegant design and Chloe Ogilvie’s gently shifting natural light, we see him build with great care and bone-like tree limbs the pyre where Lanne will make his final journey.

Luke Carroll in a career-defining stage role as Boyd in Nathan Maynard’s At What Cost? Photo © Brett Boardman

But something is stalking the edges of Boyd’s mind, something rumbling like the ghost of the tractor that tried to drive his family from the place...