To its indigenous people, Trouwerner (Tasmania), was the world. They lived there according to the seasons and ancient traditions, as their ancestors had done for countless generations.

Then the island was discovered by Europeans. It became 'Van Diemen's Land', and everything changed.

Through the life of one man and his kin, this series of 16 short stories explores the impact of invasion on the aboriginal Tasmanians from the first sighting of a sail in 1792 to their internment on Flinder's Island in 1835.