In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....

Having returned from the high seas after dodging the fiancé his greedy father wanted him to marry, Richard Allen crosses paths with his furious fiancé and must flee with her on an ocean voyage once the furious Earl of Manford learns his son is still alive.