Elizabeth and Gordon Tregowarth begin their married life on Duffield Station in Skippers Canyon, New Zealand in 1887. When tragedy strikes Elizabeth's life spirals into an unimaginable horror. The story jumps a hundred years to the current owners of Duffield Station and follows their life on the station.

A chance discovery by a visitor to the farm creates a link to the past. This helps to unravel the mysteries of the tragedy that Elizabeth and Gordon suffered hundred years earlier.