Easter 2000. As a quarter of a million people prepare to march around the country in an unprecedented show of support for Reconciliation, Jay Swan and Mary Allen attempt to forge a new life together in a fading timber town still mired in racism and denial. With the trial of his father’s murderer now concluded, Jay has promised to put his pain behind him and join Mary on her mother’s Country as they care for Mary’s niece, Anya, and await the birth of their first child. It doesn’t take long, though, for the majesty of the surrounding forests and the deep lake that shimmers at the heart of the town, to take on gothic dimensions…