Lithgow

Hamish McCallum fought in the battle of Waterloo; one of the Gordon Highlanders. Wounded, he survived, only to fall victim to the economic and social upheavals sweeping Scotland in the nineteenth century. His son, Dougal, takes his young family to seek a life in the new world.

Lithgow is a portrait of free settlers coming to Australia in the mid nineteenth century. It brings to life the turmoil that drove them from their homes, and the harshness of the new land awaiting them. It shows how, in trying to build a new life, they recreated the old one