A washed-up Irish boxer named Kid Snow is finally faced with a chance to redeem himself when he is offered a rematch against the man he fought a decade prior, on a night that changed his life forever. When he meets single mother Sunny, he is forced to contemplate a future beyond boxing.

In Prospect Bay, a remote outpost on the South Australian coast, two communities, the Goonyas and the Nungas, come together on the one field they have in common, the football field. But the underlying racism and class warfare threatens to make the team's greatest victories irrelevant. This holds particularly true for Blacky, a white teen who is more interested in books than sport, and his best friend, Dumby, the Aboriginal star of the team.

卡迪那（艾米丽·巴克雷 Emily Barclay 饰）经历了一场非常失败的婚姻，如今独自抚养着年幼的孩子，和父亲过着相依为命的生活。卡迪那生命中唯一重要的人就是她的弟弟丹尼（Laurence Breuls 饰），然而，因为一场谋杀案，丹尼被判入狱，面临着终身监禁的沉重审判。 为了给弟弟上诉，卡迪那需要一大笔钱，可是，卡迪那的父亲对自己的女儿毫无关心，而母亲也早已经弃她而去，生活里没有任何的人能够帮助她，除了她的情人。于是，卡迪那制定了一个精妙的计划，她将目标放到了父亲拥有的一大笔遗产上，她希望能够利用自己的情人将父亲杀死。