Pride and Prejudice in the Victorian wheat belt of the 1890s. Black comedy about a young woman's attempt to resist the worlds of men and money. Phoeba Crupp is a young woman who lives with her parents and sister on a small farm near Geelong. Her father is an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city in order to establish a vineyard, a decision her mother bitterly - and frequently - resents. While her sister makes a play for the local squatter's son, Phoeba is content with the co