What does it mean to be without a past? To have your connection to history taken away?

During the 20th Century, hundreds of thousands of children—some Australian born, some migrants—were placed in institutions or out-of-home care in Australia.

In 2009, then Prime Minister Keven Rudd made a formal apology to these Forgotten Australians, and pledged to stop it from happening again.

In their new show Sleeplessness, Kaz Therese explores what it means to be one of those familes and tells the story of their past through the fragments of history that remain.