The story follows the recovery of senior theatre nurse Bev Anderson 's career is ruined after she has an affair with surgeon she worked with at a major hospital. His well-connected wife excuses her husband but uses her power to ruin any opportunity for Bev to continue her promising career in the city. Scratching out a living selling medical supplies. With growing bills and her mother's death she sinks into deep depression. A close friend gets her an interview for a nurse paramedic position in a remote part of Australia. Unsure but desperate she accepts the offer and moves to the bush where she finds a new world open to her, There's many changes and adventures that she never expected to find let alone the chance of romance that she had put out of her mind. The story follows her path to understanding the people and their way of life as well as the many challenges they face.