After her mother dies, Tess Silverman travels to Drover's Run, the rural cattle property in South Australia where she spent the first years of her life, to reconnect with her only remaining family: her father Jack and her sister Claire, whom she hasn't seen in 20 years since her mother left Jack and moved to the city, taking Tess with her. Tess arrives in a complex situation and finds herself meeting an adoring father but a hostile sister whom she no longer knows and who resents her sudden arrival and even quicker ability to win over Jack, something she herself has never been able to accomplish. Tess is content to keep her visit short and continue to Venice to get on with her life, but Jack's sudden death forces Tess and Claire to overcome their differences and the many obstacles in the way of realizing Jack's dream of running Drover's Run together.