After her mother's death, Rani Ashiramsi must leave her home in Bombay and join her father in the African village of Saringal. There she loses her heart to sugar cane plantation manager Willem Dewar - but Willem is married and when Rani discovers she is pregnant, she has no option but to make a new life for herself and her child. Graeme Carruthers comes to Rani's rescue, offering a marriage of convenience and a new life in Australia on his family's sugar cane farm. The birth of her son, Davin, helps to heal Rani's broken heart and she hopes to find happiness with Graeme in Queensland's cane valley. But there is one big cloud on the horizon - Eddie O'Roarke and his determination to buy up every cane farm in the area and become king of cane valley. So when Davin grows up and falls in love with O'Roarke's daughter Moira, it's more than Eddie's temper that catches fire ...
