Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car, a woman lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. She has £100 in her pocket but no identification. Memories come back to her - a murder trial, a life in prison - but with each jab of morphine the memories begin to shift.
Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Taking her hero Harry Crawford's advice, she runs away.
Sydney, 1917. A burned woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Nobody knows who she is, until a tailor's apprentice tells police that his mother went missing that very same weekend, and his stepfather, Harry Crawford, is not who he seems to be...