11975-1996 The Lebanese Civil War forces around 30,000 Muslims and Christians to flee their homeland and join an exodus to Australia to start new lives. The immigrants work menial jobs to survive. Their children, growing up in Sydney, experience violent racism but fight back and forge their place in Australian society. Just as the Lebanese Australian community becomes established, the first Gulf War puts the Lebanese Australian community directly in the firing line of anti-Arab sentiment. At the same time a dangerous new phenomenon, Lebanese Australian organised crime predicated on violence and fear engulfs the community.