Recently released from a girl's training centre, 17 YO Peg Jessup returns to her home town in rural Victoria.
Not wanting to be sent back, and unwilling to be pushed around, Peg decides to straighten out her drunken whore of an aunt. In the process, she learns things about her aunt's relationship to dangerous men, and oddities about her own origins.
When the men, who have operated a criminal enterprise for over thirty years, realise that her aunt had kept secrets from them, Peg and her aunt become targets.
This story is set in the 1970s.