Nick Maclaine

An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.

In the not-so-distant future, all Australians work from home. They strap into their Sensory and Communication Masks (ScoMo) and peddle all day long, ignoring their overheating world outside. All but one. Mags is a janitor. She goes from home-to-home fixing, cleaning, and feeding the workers who are unaware of her presence. Her only company is her taxidermied dog, Malvern. But one day, Mags finds one of the workers dead on the job and her entire world begins to collapse.

The epic story of Australia and the First World War is revealed through the lives of five Australians and their transformative journeys through conflict on the battlefront and on the home front.