In Among Giants , another English romance in which freedom and security play footsie , the rover is a an Australian climbah named Gerry ( Rachel Griffiths ) who joins up with a cowboylike crew of daredevil painters led by Pete Postlethwaite 's Ray--they have 15 miles of mammoth electric towers to coat in a mere three months .
The crew of painters is given more than a year to paint the electric towers .