The Darkside is a collection of ghost stories told by indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Some of Australia’s well-known actors, including Bryan Brown and Deborah Mailman, narrate the stories.

The stories are about out-of-body experiences; people who see children and relatives who aren’t there; a woman who sees an old wrinkled, legless woman crawling around the walls of her bedroom; a woman who loses several members of her family after playing with a Ouija board; and a girl who hears her grandmother’s voice telling her that her niece is about to die.

Romaine Moreton tells a particularly moving story. While researching at the National Film and Sound Archive she discovered that the building used to be the Australian Institute of Anatomy. Her story is illustrated with archival footage of anthropological scientists physically studying Aboriginal people, measuring their heads and doing other bizarre investigations. Many indigenous peoples’ bodies were dissected at the Institute, and their skeletons were left in the basement. This is also shown on archival footage. Moreton believes that they are not at rest and need to be returned to country.