In WW1 nurse Alicia Kelly helps transform emergency medicine at the front line; Pompey Elliot breaks the stalemate of trench warfare. Charles Kingsford Smith is first to fly across the Pacific. Despite the Great Depression, Australians build the ambitious, elegant Sydney Harbour Bridge; racehorse Phar Lap carries the hopes of the nation. At war again, a young woman scientist helps turn the tide in the Pacific.
