'...Yeah, should get yourself a dog. Never know when you might need one. Around here. Can't trust strangers.'

There is something disturbing about Clarry Johnson; and something even more disturbing about his teenage daughter, Ellie, who daily pushes a pram with a doll in it up and down the dirt road.

Shane's father has bought the old bush school next to Clarrie's neglected orchard, but it is an eerie place and it has a history that only Shane's dog, Caddy, can unearth.