The Beatties, one of Melbourne's most notoriously lawless clans stretching back to the 1960's. Now their youngest is dead, and Melbourne holds its breath, waiting for the payback it knows is coming. With her husband in jail it is the formidable Ronnie Beattie who must carry the battle to police and ultimately to the criminal heartland itself. But someone is planning the biggest hold-up in Australia's history and no-one not even the Beattie family is allowed to get in the way.