Steven Vidler

On the unforgiving Australian frontier, American Ben is intent on building a life with Alice, the gorgeous daughter of a local rancher. Although Ben is in love with the girl, he faces some competition from local cowboy Jack. When Alice's father dies, and an unscrupulous creditor plots to seize her family's land, Ben leaps to her defense, an act that could lead to their marriage or his funeral.

The steamy story of an unfulfilled woman's sexual awakening and quest for liberty unfolds within a stifling marriage in a disapproving town in 1939.

A group of Germans living in the UK, including assimilated citizens and Jewish refugees, is shipped to an Australian POW camp at the start of WWII.