It's a story of "Dot Campbell", a district nurse working in a rural community that is struggling to survive after years of drought. She sees the misery, heartbreak and devastation first hand, and has to pick up the pieces, when decent hardworking people take to suicide to escape from the pressures of life on the land, and no one appears to care.
Dot finds it a complete change from city life, the people are different, the language is different, even the food is different. It takes her quite a while to adjust to how things are done in the bush. What she is to find will change her life forever.