Syvällä australian metsissä kaveriporukka tutkii luolaverkostoa kun trooppinen myrsky yllättää heidät. Kun nouseva tulvavesi vangitsee joukkion maan uumeniin herää pinnan alta pimeydestä jotain vielä kohtalokkaampaa – verenhimoisia tappajakrokotiileja.

Kolme australialaislomalaista suuntaa oppaansa kanssa syrjäiselle suolle kalaretkelle. Krokotiili hyökkää ryhmän veneen kimppuun ja tämän seurauksena opas menettää henkensä. Krokotiili ei kuitenkaan tyydy yhteen saaliseen vaan jatkaa metsästystään.

Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren’s mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.

Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.

On June 21 2007, the Howard Federal Government launched an intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. It was one of the most dramatic policy shifts in the history of Aboriginal affairs. Relentless media attention focuses on ideological arguments for and against the Intervention, while the voices of those affected by the policy are rarely heard. For this film more than 40 Alice Springs town camp residents were interviewed in depth over the course of eight months to find out the answer to the question - is it working?