A murder mystery unearths the untold story of Chinese miners in the Australian gold rush.
In the 1850s Australian gold rush, Europeans, Americans and Chinese all race to make their fortunes. Wei Shing, the charming and diplomatic headman of the Chinese camp, keeps a thousand diggers organised — while quietly enriching himself.
Everything shifts when a murdered European woman is found, her death seemingly linked to the Chinese camp. With tensions already high, Shing knows that blame falling on the Chinese could prove catastrophic.
As he scrambles to hide the connection and uncover the truth, Shing is drawn into a web of secrets involving a widowed newspaper owner, a young Indigenous tracker, and forces determined to seize control.