A getaway driver is forced by a detective to catch incriminating conversation from the crew that raised him, in order to gain a lighter sentence for himself.

Intent on dispensing their own brutal form of justice, two ordinary men abduct a felon who committed a horrific crime many years before.

Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend John Gilbert. Reforming the gang, they soon become the most wanted men in Australian history.