Four episodes about Aboriginal women over time. In episode 1, the lives of the Nyari people are disrupted when two English convicts wash up on their beach. In episode 2, Maydina and her daughter escape from seal hunters. In episode 3, Nerida returns to her family at the mission after years away. In episode 4, Ann discovers that she is not adopted, but the child of her "adoptive father" and a local Aboriginal woman.