In Hopetoun, WA, the Jerdacuttup Mine is attracting families from all around the globe with the promise of making them millions. It's a beautifully rugged beachside town, but the developers can't keep up. For the wives and children of the hardworking miners, it's one hell of a culture shock. Three women are drawn together in friendship and open the Boomtime CafAc, where we learn that what goes on behind the closed front doors of the new housing estates is often far from what it seems. Miranda is married to the mine's General Manager, but his greed threatens to tear the town apart when he attempts to move old Lil from her land. Jasmine is desperately unhappy in her marriage - all she has left in common with Tom is a desire to have children, but even that seems destined to fail, and she can't hide her attraction to a handsome local surfer. And Brigid is struggling to keep her family afloat and her husband's crippling debts a secret from the rest of the gossippy townsfolk. For a while it seems these women have stumbled across a place that can heal them, but the stronger they become together, the more their marriages seem destined to fall apart.