This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart. Meggie tries to forget Ralph by marrying dashing stockman Luke O'Neill, but she and Ralph are soon reunited, with tragic consequences for them both...
"The day that I first saw you at the Gilly station, you smiled at me, then you said my name. Then you touched me. And since that day, I have somehow known, though I never saw you again, that my last thought this side of the grave would be of you. And there’s nothing I can do to change it. Do you know how terrifying it is, that power you have over me? -Meggie"