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To break the cycle of poverty Winifred's father takes part in a land grab and books a passage for his family to head to Australia, work the land and strike it rich. Arriving in Australia they discover that the land grant is covered with a prison of prickly pear and is worthless. Her father spirals into depression and alcoholism. From a skivvy in a bawdy house to a loveless marriage, Winifred battles almost insurmountable odds to maintain her dignity and sanity, finding solace as she creates fictitious scenarios to ease her hardship. At the age of twenty-six, she is forced to abandon her four small children. Finding work in a hotel bar, she meets and falls in love with Ali, an Indian man. She bears him three children and the small family travels to outback Australia where they run a camel line...