In Another Life is the story of William Daley, a young, gay lawyer who starts out his career in an old-fashioned legal firm in Borac—a small struggling town in country Victoria. Despite an inauspicious start to working under the cantankerous senior partner, Colin Budd, William gradually establishes himself, before becoming entangled in a web of sexual abuse and corruption involving the local mayor, who is his largest client, and the local police. William deals with the matter with distinction, before becoming the target of similar allegations himself. In Another Life is a story of sex, sexuality, coming out, the abuse of power, social problems facing country towns, and trying to make it in life.