John and Shirley Peters are two ordinary Australian white teenagers who are thrust into a black environment against their wishes. When their father buys a pub in a place called 'Djargunya' in tropical north Queensland, the twins have no idea what dramas lie ahead of them. 'Djargunya' turns out to be a remote Aboriginal settlement hundreds of kilometres from the nearest town, and hundreds of kilometres from any other white people. What starts out as a nightmare, turns into a unique adventure and some spell-binding discoveries of native Aboriginal beliefs and practices. But the twins' joy is short-lived when they discover the culture shock that awaits them around the corner...