In Australia's 1930s, the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet the youngest son Rowland - an artist - has a talent for scandal. Even with the unemployed lining the streets, Rowland lives in a sheltered world of wealth, culture and impeccable tailoring with the family fortune indulging his artistic passions and friends - a poet, a painter and a brazen sculptress. Mounting political tensions fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution. Rowland Sinclair is indifferent to the politics, until a brutal murder exposes an extraordinary and treasonous conspiracy.