
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.

The girls take a trip to sell their cattle; a love triangle blooms; Grace tells Marcus about Ingrid.

Drovers' future is in doubt; The girls pull out all the stops to shear through the night to try and save the farm and their futures.

The music Phil wrote for Moira finally gets performed; Taylor and Patrick are anxious about Noisy giving birth to puppies, Stevie becomes quite attracted to a new male vet.

Ingrid becomes more anxious about Paul's presence, and it affects her work; Marcus, Ben and the girls realize Paul's true side so they start making a plan to get rid of him for good.