[2][3][4] Joe Hart, a private investigator, is sent to Queensland on assignment following a bomb explosion.
He becomes involved with a bootleg music racket, a prostitute, the anti-nuclear movement and various other criminals.
[1] Academic and writer Susan Dermody said she regarded the film as "a loving but usually floundering essay of the detective film noir, with strange elements in it that seem to have seeped over from early Eisenstcin...
The most interesting moments arc those that seem about to make use of the undersides of Brisbane in all its seedy, subtropical splendour as a special new landscape of the noir detective story, but the knots of story keep pulling away from this possibility before it really happens.
"[6] According to academic Susan Ward, "While the film has been lauded for its cinematic flair, the film has a convoluted plot line with many subplots ending up on the cutting room floor, but like Australian Dream, it is a testimony to the level of cooperation and commitment by local crews, to work on features that gave them the opportunity to showcase their creative skills.