After damaging his car while driving to Sydney, schoolteacher John Grant's stopover in the mining town of Bundanyabba takes several dramatic turns when he gambles his money away and is pitted against several sinister townspeople.

When a member of the pig-hunting party he has been forced to join turns up dead, John Grant must make a difficult choice - flee to Sydney, or discover the truth of the murder, Bundanyabba and himself.

When a member of the pig-hunting party he has been forced to join turns up dead, John Grant must make a difficult choice - flee to Sydney, or discover the truth of the murder, Bundanyabba and himself.

When a member of the pig-hunting party he has been forced to join turns up dead, John Grant must make a difficult choice - flee to Sydney, or discover the truth of the murder, Bundanyabba and himself.