-America has John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath', England has Marina Lewycka's 'A tale of Two Caravans', now Australia has 'The Ghost of Old Tom Joad'-. A beekeeper gets murdered, and an ex-con's marijuana crop goes missing. All that remains are ashes... A thousand kilometres away and several months across time we learn that a ghost is responsible for a bar fight that lands an innocent backpacker in jail. This sets off a sequence of events that ties together people and places. But will the murderer still get away with his hideous crime? Following the Australian harvest trail we travel to...