During the Gold Rush, miner George Willis loses his unfaithful wife in a rock fall on Mount Sunraise and takes to the bush.

He rescues a girl, Hope Stuart, from a flood and nurses her back to health in his hut.

When he brings her back to her father he discovers that an old enemy, Arthur Greerson, has accused him of murder.

[15][16] (Longford would direct the third Australasian Films movie, The Pioneers.

[20][21] According to the Sunday Mail "The cast has been well chosen, and as in the case of Peter Vernon's Silence, the utmost care and skill are shown in the sequences, the cinematography, and the action.