When newly badged Detective Dave Burrows arrives in the West Australian goldsfield town of Barrabine тАУ a town where prospectors live by their own tough rules тАУ it's exactly where he wants to be. But Melinda, his wife of two weeks, is devastated at leaving behind her family, friends and career. As Dave investigates reports of mysterious late-night trespassing, a missing person, and guns being drawn on strangers, he must navigate his way in a town where prospectors live by their own rules and find a way to keep his marriage from falling apart.