When young Annie Shearer (Lilly LaTorre) meets a stray dog named Runt (Squid) the two become inseparable.
They live in the dry Western Australian town of Upson Downs where rain hasn’t fallen in over a year. All the water in the district has been stolen upriver and stored in a dam constructed by Earl Robert-Barren (Jack Thompson) on his property, and he has made it his business to buy up every property in the district as they go broke from drought.
