Liz Price, a young divorced financial consultant, turns over in bed and goes back to sleep after her married lover and business partner, Dave Wyatt gets up to go home to his wife. But Wyatt never makes it home, he is gunned down outside his door. Liz finds herself plunged into a web of intrigue and murder.

Ort Flack is 12 years old and lives with his mother and his sister Tegwyn in the Australian outback. The three of them also have to take care of their old grandma and their paralyzed father. It is not easy for one mother to take care of everybody. But one day a mysterious stranger, Henry, comes to their desolate house to help them...