The film featured many well known Australian actors of the period, including Gerard Kennedy, Carmen Duncan, and starred Judy Morris It was one of a series of TV movies Robert Bruning made for Channel 7.
[4] A psychiatric prison escapee, Elliot, and his partner, David decide to kidnap a baby and hold it for a $500,000 ransom.
They chase after her to Sydney's Central Railway Station, where David is killed by a train while looking for Tessa.
The cast included Queenie Ashton who said "It isn't a big role, but as things are at the moment I need the work.
"[5] The Age wrote that "this handsome telefilm had almost everything on its side – from Russell Boyd's poetic photography and Peter Maxwell's direction to the assured acting of such principals as Gerard Kennedy and Carmen Duncan.