Set in pre-World War II Australia, Lady Sarah Ashley of England travels to Australia to force her philandering husband to sell his faltering cattle station. When her husband is murdered, she inherits the property and comes under the protection of The Drover, a rough and tumble cattle-driver who helps protect her property against greedy English cattle barons. As the unlikely pair attempt tot drive 2000 head of cattle across hundred of miles of treacherous Australian outback, their adventures are many - culminating in the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese. Also starring Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Essie Davis and Max Cullen.