
S01E01 The Circumstances in Which They Come
Four strangers' lives collide at an immigration detention centre: a woman escaping a cult, a refugee, a father leaving a job, and a bureaucrat on the verge of scandal.
A peaceful protest turns chaotic as detainees break out of Barton and Clare struggles with the fallout. Cam discovers Janice is harbouring the escapees and Ameer tries to keep the secret of how he made it to Australia.
Four strangers — a flight attendant escaping a suburban cult, an Afghan refugee fleeing persecution, a young Australian father escaping a dead-end job, and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal — are stuck in an immigration detention center in the Australian desert. Inspired by true events.