When Major Patrick Duffy's beautiful wife Catherine leaves him for another, he is propelled out of his Sydney Macintosh home and into yet another bloody war. However, the battlefields of Africa, fighting the Boers, bring him in contact with one he thought long dead and lost to him.Back in Australia, the mysterious Michael O'Flynn mentors Patrick's youngest son, Alex, and takes him on a journey to his Queensland property, Glen View. But will the terrible curse that has inextricably linked the Duffys and Macintoshes for generations ensure that no true happiness can ever come to them?
