While on their Australia camping holiday London couple, Ben and Ingrid, encounter a hiccup when Ben suffers a nasty reaction to a scorpion bite. At the hospital he is diagnosed with a debilitating underlying illness and they're forced to modify their itinerary, no longer able to pick up casual work. They drive from Canberra towards the West until they encounter car trouble and are forced to camp in an isolated outback region. Ingrid is shocked to discover that Ben has disappeared overnight and she calls the police. Because of the remoteness they're unable to help and she is forced to locate a distant uncle who lives hundreds of miles away on a run-down farm. This lonely old man welcomes her and they form a bond. Living in hope that Ben will surface she stays and becomes a carer for her uncle. Weeks later he dies and had made her his beneficiary. She loves her new life and this opportunity that has been given to her. A neighbour takes a special interest in her, but this brings unsettling influences when she finds she'd made a jealous enemy who is prepared to drive her away. With no money to make the farm work she is forced to re-think her ambitions - go back home to the harsh British winter or find a way to make her new farm workable? And what of Ben? Will she ever see him again?