This story is based on fact. It tells of a family who lived in Scotland's Glasgow at the turn of the 20th Century. Poverty-stricken and living in the most deplorable conditions, as was the lot of their class, they delt with their situation with determination and courage. From this family emerges Meg. At age sixteen, she is destined to raise her nine siblings, on the death of her mother. Seeking a better life for one of her children, she sends her sixteen-year-old son to work in Australia's bushland. She, at forty-nine, her husband, at fifty and other members follow. Thrust into the Australian...