Henry Smith, a Senior Immigration Officer has been murdered. His funeral is attended by a mysterious woman of extraordinary beauty who tosses an object into the open grave. Also there is Smith's assistant, Susan Harvey who stands to inherit his art collection worth millions, and Colin Jackson who is dating Smith's daughter and is also a suspect in an international drug investigation. Henry Smith had been under investigation by Internal Affairs for granting permanent residency to asylum seekers even though they didn't meet the criteria and one of these had been his close friend Ivan Renowicz....

Rose Good's family from Ukraine and Poland endured all the horrors of the war in Eastern Europe and ended up in a Displaced Persons' Camp in Germany, one family among millions of lost people after WW11. Rose was born in that camp, her father died while she was still a baby. After years of being moved around camps in Europe, Rose and her mother were able to make it to Australia and lived in another series of camps until Scheyville - the last of the camps.