Chas and Joe share a strong bond. However, Joe dies young. Although heart-broken, Chas gets on with his life; he becomes a farmhand on a large station. One day he meets a couple of hunters, joins them, and becomes a buffalo hunter. After a couple of years he travels to Indonesia with a friend where he meets interesting people. He starts building houses and sells the horns and hides his friends in Australia send him and becomes successful. But this achievement does not give him fulfilment. So he starts a new challenge and makes a lot of money, marries a beautiful, much younger woman he adores and has children. She dies young too. By now Chas has become an old man, war breaks out. He is still thinking of his brother Joe.