[1][2] Joe Brennan, an ex-serviceman, returns home to Coogee after World War II.

He gets a job as a milkman and intends to make enough money to marry his girlfriend Connie.

He accidentally kills a man while defending local gangster Bill Pepper and is persuaded to hide the body.

[3] The Sydney Morning Herald wrote "The details are exact.

On the other hand there are a number of characters who never emerge as more than routine and conventional figures.