Jim Craig is eighteen years old, and cannot return to his mountain home
until he has proven himself a man. Jessica Harrison is the beautiful,
impetuous daughter of the wealthy cattleman whose £1000 colt runs off to
join the brumby mob. And then there is the stallion, leader of the
brumbies for almost twenty years, ranging free and proud in the
mountains, whose very existence is like a dark thread running through
the lives of so many people.