See that bird high in the sky? It glides, its free. You too, can feel free like that bird.
In 1869, in their house in Brisbane, seven-year-old Chas, the youngest of three, meets Joe, eleven, a boy of Irish and Aboriginal origin. Chas and Joe go to school together, and roam the open plains with the horse Chas has gotten for his twelfth birthday. Then life takes its course. One day Joe, now thirty-years-old, is brutally murdered. Chas is heartbroken and falls into depression. But life goes on. Chas, adventurous, gets involved in the buffalo hunt, building houses, and breeding horses, and leases land with his friends.
Embarking on a new adventure he goes to the East Indies, sells the horns and hides, and the horses that are grazing on his land, then starts building houses for the army. He falls in love, marries, and start a family, and becomes a man of note. But his wife dies young, and feeling lonely, he becomes involved with the sister, and produces more children. Then World War II breaks out, and he and two of his sons are captured.
In this story, A Dot on the Horizon, spans more than seventy years, and depicts the weal and woe of family life and the political climate during that time.