A true tale of the shame of a nation's founding when mostly inept personnel were chosen to accompany petty-crime-convicts to an unknown destination, to found a settlement.

This story of Australia's white settlement empties the vacuum-cleaners with which modern Australians are at last cleaning under the carpet where, for generations, the dust of truth was swept.

From his first days at Sydney Cove, Adam lives the shame of a nation's founding. The Aborigine too, faced with the dreaded realisation that his heritage is crumbling, finds his securities shattered.