Cattle and horses are Adam's life; have been since he was eleven. Life is severe for a lonely part aboriginal lad left with his aged grandmother in a small far western Queensland town with no prospects and no money. After a brutal bashing from a drunken relative, Adam saddled up an old partly lame horse his dad left behind and rode 30 miles in the arid heat to join his father's droving plant. The tough, single minded resolution he displayed became his hallmark. Since that day he has spent seventeen years in a saddle, pushing cattle.