A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
With help from a new friend (Keisha Castle-Hughes), a misfit (Danielle Catanzariti) at a fancy private school secretly enrolls at a public school as a foreign exchange student.
Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. His diaries hint at corruption, and she also receives hints and veiled threats which support her suspicions. Rosie puzzles about who he was, and about her early life and relationship to him.
The harsh Australian drought has all but decimated the livelihood and the lives of a small farming family, when one day a mysterious object turns up on their farm and they lives are changed forever...
