Late at night. An empty street. A white man stops an Asian student. Fifty-six years later, another white man stops another student. Different men from different worlds. The same gnawing fear. Two plays. One story.

In the isolated community of Wala Wala, Senior Constable Ray Lorkin struggles to keep an uneasy peace between Aboriginal tradition and the law he is sworn to uphold. But when a local man dies in mysterious circumstances, Ray decides he can no longer do things 'blackfella way'.