Disgraced ex-cop Ted Conkaffey is falsely accused of a disturbing crime. He escapes to the wilds of Far North Queensland and becomes entangled with an eccentric private investigator.

Gifted psychiatric nurse Nik Katira is the most stable person at Wakefield mental health unit in the Blue Mountains of Australia. As his own sanity suddenly starts to slip, he finds himself questioning the line between reality and madness.