"What's the country coming to? Losing our homes, our jobs, that's one thing, but to lose our respect for each other, to stoop to this level to survive – it's… it's primitive!" Meghan Manley is the middle child of five, and her family are quite content living on their farm in 1931 Australia. But when they are forced to leave and join hundreds of others on the road, looking for work, they are faced with both the best and worst of humanity. At sixteen Meghan is not sure how to take this new life of desperation and uncertainty. Her friendships, beliefs and sense of self are tested, but nothing more so than her own character, pivoted on one of the hardest things of all – the need to forgive.