- James Gibson is an ex-con who has spent his life in and out of prison. One day, his life turns around when he settles down, meets the love of his life and has a child with her, but an unforeseeable tragedy strikes and his life is never the same.
- 1919. After fighting in WWI as a sniper Travis, now a Policeman in the vast empty spaces of northern Australia, loses control of an operation that results in the massacre of an Indigenous tribe. After his superiors insist on burying the truth Travis leaves in disgust, only to be forced back twelve years later to hunt d…