Niall Cullen wants a better life for his family. They're gripped by the Great Depression and times are tough. But the move from Scotland to New South Wales, Australia is harder than expected and the experience is strange and unfamiliar - the culture shock, the language, the enormous distances, the people. And soon war is declared. Spread across a strange country and a war-torn continent, A Family at War' is the tragic story of one family's endurance.