It is 1894 and drought and depression are biting hard. Thomas Landerville is a small landholder caught between a crippling mortgage and a parched property that can no longer support his flock.
His wife Isabelle is a resourceful outback woman.
Home alone withher children, she sees an old swagman pushing a loaded wheelbarrow towards her homestead.
Little does she know how Solly will change her life.