In searching for him, they discover a sick man on the road, Mr. Carmody (Oscar Peters) and reluctantly decide to help him to the nearest town rather than keep looking for Bertie.
On the road, Thomas comes across Bertie in one of the towns and ambushes his camp one night, beating him severely and trying to recover their stolen money.
Twin Rivers began production in 2001 as a self-financed short film, written by Matthew Holmes and Pete Court.
It was originally conceived as a snapshot of young Australian men living on the roads in the Depression and was inspired by the true life accounts of Matthew Holmes' great-grandmother Alice Norton.
The script later expanded into a 60 min feature when South Australian author Meredith Resce joined the project as a co-writer and Associate Producer.
The unfinished project caught the attention of South Australian director Rolf De Heer (Bad Boy Bubby, Ten Canoes, The Tracker) and his long-time sound collaborator James Currie.
The Mallee Regions of the South Australian Murray-lands was chosen to represent the flat desert landscape of the Hay Plains.
The sheep station was located at Melrose a small township at the foot of Mount Remarkable, part of the Lower Flinders Ranges.
Many locals in the Melrose area offered properties, shearing sheds and buildings to the production that still looked faithful to the 1930s era.
The historical village Old Tailem Town outside Murray Bridge was chosen to represent the township of Riverton and also provided many interiors, such as shops and pubs.
[citation needed] Graeme Tuckett at Dominion Post scored it 4 out of 4 and called it "a quietly brilliant and entirely unexpected film (it's) the best thing playing in town this week.