Jessie Brewster, a na ve, thirty-year-old farmer from the Australian bush, travels to the city for the first time in his life, where he quickly becomes educated in the ways of city living. Robbed of all his worldly possessions by a prostitute, he finds himself a job as a 'courier', which leads him into Sydney's sordid underworld around the docks.Jessie unwittingly finds himself in the company a rich, spoilt, obnoxious sixteen-year-old girl called...