A small group of committed Australians have made it their mission to find the asylum seekers Australia rejected. For five years Phil Glendenning has been traveling the globe in search of rejected asylum seekers. To date he and his colleagues from the small social justice agency he runs have tracked down over 250 returnees in 22 countries. What they've found is truly disturbing.

A Well-Founded Fear is the story of Glendenning's search for asylum seekers on a recent trip to Afghanistan and the Middle East. In Afghanistan he meets a group of Hazara men who all spent time in detention on Nauru, the Pacific Island Australia paid to detain asylum seekers offshore. When the Taliban was kicked out of Government in late 2001 Australian authorities told them their homeland was now safe. But Phil learns of at least 9 Afghan deportees who were killed when they were sent back. He also learns Australia has been deporting people to Syria on short-term visas who aren't Syrian. When their Syrian visas run out they must go into hiding. Equally disturbing is evidence that Australia has been knowingly using false passports to deport people.

The future of many of the deportees Phil meets is now uncertain.