Australia in the 1850's. The Eureka uprising was just starting to take shape on the goldfields of Ballarat, people flocked from all over the world to try their luck at panning for gold. Bushrangers and highway men were roaming the bush.

Young Mattie- Jane a nineteen year old girl, living on the goldfields of Ballarat is seeking a husband, to start a new adventure, a new life. She thinks that she will never be married as there are no possible suitors, that is until Benjamin Hall a twenty-one year old lad from New South Wales, who tickles Mattie's fancy..