Burdekin Heartbeats

Floods and droughts challenge the Doolan family, Irish immigrants to the Burdekin District of Queensland.

When the headstrong couple, Shauna Doolan and Mark McIvor, fall in love on board the ship to Queensland, they dicver reconciling difference generate a stormy sea. A shipboard romance may be a fleeting thing, but it can have a lasting impact on the lives of those involved.

When two brothers fall in love with the same woman, strong current swirl beneath the surface. James McIvor learns how a glimpse of beauty may remain with someone for a lifetime.

Within moths of their arrival in the new country, a husband and father along with his two brothers are drawn into the vortex of a world war. Nobody returns from such a horror unscathed. If they return at all.