In northern Australia prior to World War II, an English aristocratinherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattlebarons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with arough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds ofmiles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face thebombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attackedPearl Harbor only months earlier.