Born in the outback, schooled on the verandah, disciplined by the frontline... In the unforgiving outback, hardship is a way of life. Matty, his best mates Sammy and Jack, and his beloved mare, Cedar, grow up chasing adventure. Some days, it feels like their childhood will never end. But that all changes when the war explodes and the boys are torn apart. Thrust into the frontline, Matty and Cedar must overcome the brutal realities of the battlefield, before returning home older and wiser, only to take a journey of discovery and be given a purpose he had never imagined.
