Kate and her brother, Pete, had always been happy on their family's homestead in Australian but now they are being forced to sell it; after their mother was killed in a plane crash, their father had drunk himself to death leaving them heavily in debt. Their neighbour, Matt Thornton, wishes to buy the property, but Kate deeply resents him because he had been the pilot of the plane in which their mother died. But, finally, Kate is forced to confront her real feelings about Matt...