Sam Lindsay provides a unique take on life in Australia as seen through the eyes of a naive young Belfast boy in the 1880s and later. With limited education he struggles to learn about life and survival as a would-be swaggie in the Australian Outback only 20 years after the Burke and Wills expedition, a tragedy that made a huge impression on young Sam. Finding work wherever he can, Sam is in turn a grocer's assistant, cattle driver, hawker, manager...