When Jessica Robinson inherits the ancestral farm, Whistling Gums, her dying mother warns her emphatically never to go there. But how can Jessica resist when the farm has been calling her all her life.
Ignoring her mother's insistence, she climbs the gate and enters a world where she feels she really belongs, thrusting her family into a dangerous series of events that threatens them all.
As Jessica's persona changes with each joyful visit she makes to the farm, her best friend, Leesa Bradden, begins to unravel Jessica's family secrets to save her and her baby son, Jade, before time runs out. But how can she fight something so powerful, something that has lingered so long waiting for Jessica and Jade, and does she really want to when she learns of the cruel, cruel history of Whistling Gums.