Deborah Morgan is caught in a tangle of possessive love. Only child of a lovers’ marriage, she quickly realises that her parents have no time for her and can only look on, a wistful outsider to their all-embracing love. When she follows sheepfarmer Patrick Prover to Australia in 1922 she hopes to start a new life among his family, but she soon sees that she is an outsider there too, and old Mrs Prover’s love for her son will admit no third party.
Deborah runs away to Melbourne to the only other man she knows in Australia. With no money to leave Australia she returns in desperation to Patrick and a loveless marriage and waits for her son to be born, a son into whom she pours all the love she never had, and over whose life she keeps jealous guard…
