The Time of Gold and Shackles. Australian Adventures

It could have just been a simple love story of two young people — one of many. But a crime has been committed in Alice's house, for which Henry is accused. Despite the lack of evidence, he is sent to... hard labor in Australia, where large-scale colonization is taking place and the "gold rush" is igniting. Alice never believed in the guilt of her beloved. But what can a fragile, tender girl do when she is in England and he is in distant Australia? However, she is ready to follow her loved one to the ends of the earth. What can Australia in the 19th century offer? Hard labor of the convicts, unexpected events that give hope for the future, the tough daily life of gold diggers, the farmers' belief in a better fate, the resistance of the natives who are being pushed from their ancestral lands. On this small continent, thousands of people with different goals in life and such dissimilar ways of achieving them have gathered. Australia is a land of hopes. Will it justify this slogan? Is there a place for love in this dangerous world?