During a violent storm in the Victorian Highlands, a mother (Goodall) tells her frightened daughter (Daemion) a fable about a great silver brumby who must find its place among its kind, while one man (Crowe), living in the wilderness, is determined to capture the brumby and tame it. Based on Elyne Mitchell's novel of the same name.
A mother tells her daughter a fable about the prince of the brumbies, brumby being a term for the feral horses of Australia, who must find its place among its kind, while one man makes it his mission to capture it and tame it.