A couple, Louise (Angie Milliken) and Ben Coleman (Mark Owen-Taylor), discover their eight-year-old daughter, Samantha (Loren Hewett), has leukaemia. But this is not the only case of cancer in this small country town in the cotton belt, where clouds of chemicals hang over the town and contaminate the water. The couple confronts government departments, chemical companies and the cotton growers.<ref name="scott"/>