1918. Anna Sinclair is a war widow, mother and nurse who has fled her home in Edinburgh. She is working under an assumed name in the tropical frontier town of Cairns, Australia, hoping the law will not catch up with her.
She dreams of building a new life - and a modern hospital - but has to deal with the demons of her soldier-lover, and fight the medical and business establishment who see no such place for a young woman.Now, danger threatens as her dark secret closes in.