Outback Australia in the mid-1800s.<br /> <br />When rich, domineering squatter Angus McAlpin is murdered, the obvious suspect is the penniless artist, Herbert Lindsey – who wants to marry his daughter, Flora.<br /> <br />McAlpin may have proclaimed that Flora would marry Herbert 'only over his dead body' – and Herbert's bloodstained knife and handkerchief were found near the murder scene – but the artist denies any wrongdoing.<br /> <br...
