Immigration Museum

This guide to the Immigration Museum in Melbourne follows a young woman named Cuc and her husband Huu Minh, who in May 1978 boarded a disguised fishing boat crowded with thirty-four people on a Vietnamese river, ran out of water within two days, and were finally spotted by a Malaysian navy ship after eight days adrift. It traces their five weeks in a refugee camp on Pulau Tengah, where Cuc sold her wedding ring for a red suitcase, and their arrival at a migrant hostel in Melbourne. You're standing where customs officers once weighed cargo off ships at Queen's Wharf.