During World War II, a man travels throughout a rural community delivering telegrams to farming families, informing them that their husband or son has been killed in action.

Set in 1999 in Australia, a career-driven journalist unearths the obscene secrets of a famous socialite after a mysterious disappearance.

World War I Australian cavalrymen fight the Germans and the Turks, ending in a charge at Beersheba.

Some of Australia's most well known faces trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.