Elizabeth Harrington (Juene Pritchard), is a woman of social standing in the colonial settlement in Sydney and the object of affection for redcoat Captain McEwan (Martin Phelan). When she learns that female convicts are being subjected to sexual and physical abuse, she frees them and escapes with them, into the dense bushland of the Hawkesbury River. Despite having no survival skills the women learn to live in the wild with each other - free of patriarchy - a new way of living.
