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After a night out, three Aboriginal girls fail to hail down a cab and are forced to walk home. Robyn Davis (Rarriwuy Hick) takes a shortcut and is sexually assaulted. Her father, Aaron (Wayne Blair) sees her distress, and after swearing him to secrecy, she tells him what happened. Even though he's a cop, he agrees, but his decision will have consequences down the track.

Two burglaries in the same street seem to be targeting homes without dogs, so Derek, father of two young children, purchases a German Shepherd. Across the street, a heavily pregnant Evonne has her father Ernie, a retired army sergeant, to stay, and he installs new security. But Ernie's terrible nightmares and screaming cause Derek's dog Toby to bark. This wakes Ernie's neighbours, Jimmy and Susie, and their new baby.

High achieving 35-year-old Aboriginal woman Mattie has just received a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. She races to share the news with her estranged white father Jack who she hasn't seen in 19 years. She wants to gloat. She wants to thank him for leaving her Aboriginal mother Patricia and herself when she was ten years old: a decision that had a huge impact on both their lives. She has succeeded without him. But when she makes the call, his older brother Richard (Steve Bisley) answers the phone. He tells her Jack died two days earlier.