British writer and presenter Simon Reeve travels across the southern continent. In the first part, he departs from the red center of Australia, to cross the hot desert to the southern wine regions and from there travel west to Perth. In the second part of his journey, he moves into the sparsely populated and rugged north, moving from west to east, arriving at the Great Barrier Reef. He concludes his journey by descending to the east coast, towards the megacities of Sydney and Melbourne.