Medical cases turn to murder cases in this hit Australian series. Haunted by searing memories of World War II, and by the heartbreaking loss of his secret Chinese wife and daughter, Dr. Blake returns to his Australian hometown in 1959 to continue his late father's practice and serve as the town's chief medical officer. His search for his wife and daughter has sharpened his sense of the sometimes fine line between the truth and a lie, and between natural and unnatural death.