December, 1948.
Kitty Wheeler is a member of themWomen Police, responsible for ‘upholding the moral virtue’ of Adelaide’s at times unruly and amorous citizens. Patrolling Somerton Beach one night, Kitty and her partner spot a man leaning against the sea wall, apparently drunk. It’s late, they’re tired, and they leave him to sleep it off………..
It turns out that the man is dead, his identity unknown, and Kitty has missed a career-making opportunity. In the following months, the case of the Somerton Man grips first Adelaide, then Australia, as bizarre clues point towards international espionage, Eastern mysticism or salacious scandal. Kitty, preoccupied with the case, joins the investigation wherever she can, although the men are firmly in charge - and her boyfriend Peter wants to settle,down.
Kitty longs to solve the case, but she must decide whether she wants husband and family, or a career - in 1940s Australia, she can’t have both.
