"When Ingrid LeFebour woke up on a concrete slab, covered in a sheet in the morgue on the remote Indonesian island of Nias in 1976, she had no idea how she got there. Nor did anyone else know her fate some believed she had died in bizarre circumstances. LeFebour's disappearance features prominently in the film Point of Change, which chronicles the discovery of Nias by Australian surfers in the 1970s and the often dubious consequences for the local community."
"It was a bit bizarre, actually, when I found out, LeFebour says. All of a sudden there's people calling me; it was a bit overwhelming. After the screening, people came up to me and everybody wanted pictures with me, and they told me, you're a legend', but that was all news to me. The extraordinary story began nearly 50 years ago, when LeFebour travelled to Nias from Perth as an 18-year-old backpacker"
Ingrid LeFebour awoke on a morgue slab on Nias in 1976 with no memory of how she arrived and with others assuming she had died. Her disappearance became tied to the arrival of Australian surfers at Lagundri Bay and the broader consequences of that discovery for the local community. A film about the surfers' discovery and its effects prompted a Fremantle screening that LeFebour unexpectedly attended, where she encountered widespread public fascination. LeFebour had traveled to Nias at 18 with her boyfriend Stuart to join earlier visitors and remained when others left as malaria afflicted the camp.
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