The forest is dying, and with it the last colony of the rarest animals on earth. Only one person can save them, but she's got problems of her own... After her father is killed, fourteen year old Anna Nelson escapes to Tasmania to be with her godfather, the enigmatic zoologist Peter Bamford. Pete has a secret project in the forest beyond his lonely cabin, but he won't tell her what it is. Only when he disappears, leaving Anna alone, does she realise...