Stoic matriarch Fee, her devoted husband, Paddy, and their headstrong daughter, Maggie, experience joy, sadness and magnificent triumph in the cruel Australian outback. Amid the unpredictability of family life, it is love that is their unifying thread, but love, also, that is shadowed by forbidden passions. For Maggie loves Father Ralph devBricassart, a man who wields enormous power within the Catholic Church....