
Claire and Tess are half-sisters who are separated when Tess' mom leaves their father, Jack, when the girls are little. Twenty years later, Jack is dead and Claire is struggling to run the ranch on her own. Tess, now aliented from Claire, returns because she needs a place to stay. But she's soon drafted to help her older sibling and the other women running the ranch: housekeeper Meg, her daughter Jodi, local resident Becky and later, friends Stevie and Kate.

Alex and Rob have an incident at the truck stop. The matriarch of the family leaves for Drovers Run.

As a raging dust storm approaches, Stevie battles to save a life.

Alex inhales toxic fumes; Jodi advises Meg about relationships.

Stevie bumps heads with Sandra; Stevie helps Sandra through a crisis.