In 1978, Tom Lewis appeared in the Australian feature film, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith. The life of the character he played was hauntinly close to his own, a young, restless man of mixed heritage, struggling for a foothold on the edge of two cultures. Tom's mother is a traditional Indigenous woman of Southern Arnhem land, His father a Welsh stockman who he never really knew. Yellow Fella is a journey across the land and into Tom's past, as he attemppts to find the resting place of his father and confront his inner feelings of love and identity.