A romantic historical story of hope and understanding.
 
Hugh O’Neill arrives in Australia as a 20-year-old carrying an ancient curse he could never be free of in his own country.
 
On the beautiful South Coast of the Illawarra Region below Sydney, circumstances draw the young Irish immigrant into a world ancient in custom, yet so very new and refreshing to him.
 
Merindah, a Dhurawal woman, is wild and free, able to live comfortably between her own ancient set of beliefs and the authority and power of the new settlers.
 
Can she and the other Wise Women break an old Irish curse?