 Richard Sawyer wants to start taking tourists horse-riding in the outback and he has hired a man to take care of the horses. What he doesn t know is that the man, Don Brodie, has taken his daughter with him. Amy is a bit mentally retarded and Sawyer thinks that she will make the tourists feel uncomfortable so he fires Don. When Don and Amy is camping Don gets bit by a snake and he has to drive to town without finding Amy. When the people in the town find out that she is out there on her own they organize a search. The problem is that Amy has promised her father to never ever talk to strangers so she hides from them. When Sawyer sees her he falls and hurt his head and leg. The others find his horse without him and start looking for him too. Finally constable Larry O Connor, who is the only one Amy trusts and recognize, finds Amy and she shows him Sawyer. Sawyer rehire Don Brodie because he s grateful that Amy didn t just leave him there to die.