In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....

A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls and endeavor to protect the girls from their rivals, who intend to kidnap them while the two men deliver a herd of horses.