It is 1945, the war drags bitterly on and it feels like the rains will never come again. All the local, able-bodied young men, including Jack, the husband Kate barely knows, have enlisted and Kate’s father is struggling with his debts and his wounds from the Great War.
A scorned bank manager, snobbish neighbours and a distant husband expect Kate to fail and give up her home but over the course of a dry, desperate year she finds within herself reserves of strength and rebellion that she could never have expected.
This is the gripping story of one woman’s fight to save her home and a passionate tribute to Australia’s landscape and its people…
