Danny Malloy, a tough street kid from Brooklyn, is about to face the biggest test of his life..in the Australian outback. After a hasty departure from the U.S. where he was in trouble with the law, Danny confronts his father, a down and out drug smuggler, who abandoned him as a young boy ten years earlier. Upon Danny's arrival at his father's remote ranch his bitter recriminations eventually bring him into conflict with a willful but alluring half sister and his beautiful step mother. But this is only the beginning to a nightmarish ordeal that includes encounters with aboriginal mysticism and ruthless Australian gangsters. Nothing in America has prepared Danny for what he must face in Australia's outback.