In 1929 Arthur Upfield (Robert Menzies), Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, his friend, stockman Snowy Rowles (Luke Ford), put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930s and captapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.