After a violent clash with the New South Wales police, convicted cattle thief Francis Clarke takes to the road and becomes the infamous and unstoppable bushranger Frank Gardiner. Inspector Sir Frederick Pottinger is sent in to bring him to justice, and will stop at nothing to see his Gardiner and his gang bought to justice. Gardiner enlists the help of a fractured young stockman named Ben Hall into his gang to carry out the largest gold heist in the British Empire. When Gardiner begins a forbidden affair with Ben Hall’s married sister-in-law Kitty, he chooses to give up his life of crime and elope with his new lover. However, the law is never far behind… and Gardiner’s dark past follows him for the rest of his days.