Children of Australia’s founding convicts grow up in a unique environment. On the one hand, convicts labour in chains under lash-wielding redcoats. On the other, immigrant farmers strive to carve out a living, reluctant convicts the only available labour.

Adam seeks his father knowing only that he ‘went bush’ to live with aborigines. Kept from him was that his father, a convict bolter, had been killed by redcoats in a frontier skirmish.

The sorry hand of fate most-times visits only hardships on a developing community, yet occasionally some pawns in the game of life find Lady Luck lends a hand. The odds, for Adam, fall a little each way.